Literary Master 1983

Chapter 112 Who am I and why am I here?
But Yu Qie has different creations.

Wang Meng likes Tchaikovsky, and Lin Yaoji and his students all follow Tchaikovsky's style of performance. Wang Meng couldn't help but participate in this game of changing the ending.

"Let's three write a note together, take it out and look at it together, and see how we can arrange the ideas of the prototype of the novel."

"Can everyone agree?"

"it is good!!"

Lin Yaoji and violinist Hu Kun from the Central Conservatory of Music were here. They were very interested in how the writers from Yenching would set the tone for their artistic lives. Not only that, the entire Central Conservatory of Music symphony orchestra did not leave, and many professors, students and musicians noticed this place.

They all wanted to know what the arrangement would be.

There are so few people in China who write about elements of Western music, and even fewer who have the potential to become famous for their work.

In December 1976, the world-class conductor Seiji Ozawa visited Yanjing and Shanghai for a week. His arrival created a whirlwind for the symphony orchestra. Many people recalled that "the students in the conducting department were no longer willing to wave their batons in a rigid manner, but could not help but imitate Seiji Ozawa..."

"Many students in the Chinese music department report to transfer to another department to study piano, violin, cello...anything, as long as it is related to symphony."

Four years later, China produced its first violinist to win an international competition, and the first pianist was even ahead. The Chinese were getting in touch with symphony music and were enthusiastically interpreting this Western art with Eastern grace.

Indeed, in China, the vast majority of workers and farmers have never heard a symphony. They will never be exposed to this expensive art in their lifetime, but have they really never appreciated it?

Of course not.

The theme song of "Lianbo" which plays on time at 16 o'clock every night is almost familiar to ordinary Chinese people. Although it is only seconds long, it has become an unrepeatable classic.

It was performed by a national symphony orchestra. Decades later, and into the future, generations will hear the same music. It is absolutely part of China's memory.

The answers were thrown out one by one:

Liu Xinwu's idea was that the protagonist should have his own bumps and chips on the violin, the so-called scars. He used this broken violin to play flawed music, but he insisted on playing.

Wang Meng’s idea is that when the protagonist plays the violin, the past events are constantly flashed back and forth in those few minutes with great density, just like Wang Meng’s previous novel "The Sound of Spring" - the readers understand what happened in the story through the protagonist’s "self-recollection".

Yu Qie knew what would happen in the future, so his idea was that since there were children, workers, farmers and violinists, and the story took place in a train station, he might as well add the roar of a locomotive, a new train arriving at the station and about to depart - this locomotive was the first electric locomotive designed and manufactured in China by absorbing foreign technology.

Dongfanghong-1.

Wang Meng asked: "Why did you write about a locomotive called Dongfanghong-1?"

Yu Qie said: "It took more than ten years and a lot of experiments to study this locomotive, which condensed the efforts of countless people... It is just like Liu Xiaochun's history of learning the piano. It started from abroad, but in the end he played the piano for workers and farmers to listen to. The locomotive will also carry these people to a new era."

To a new era?

Good, what a great Dongfanghong-1!
Lin Yaoji from the Central Conservatory of Music and violinist Hu Kun were there. They felt an unexpected shock in their chests and were overwhelmed by such a wonderful idea.

There is a connection between the locomotive and the violin!

"Go, go find Teacher Yu." Professor Lin Yaoji pushed his disciple.

Hu Kun trotted over to Yu Qie and held out his hand: "Teacher Yu, you wrote this person too highly, too well... How can I be worthy of him?"

Hu Kun was about to cry!

In the entire auditorium of the Central Conservatory of Music, everyone looked at Yu Che quietly, and then suddenly applauded. This was very rare, as the musicians performing on the stage applauded the audience; but this was not surprising, because Yu Che wrote a good article for them.

The research paper "Latin American Realism" was submitted to "Foreign Literature Research", and the editor-in-chief of the magazine is Xu Chi, who is the author of "Goldbach's Conjecture". If it weren't for this person, the mathematician Chen Jingrun would never have been so popular!
Before this article was published, Chen Jingrun, who was known for his eccentric personality, was not well-known even in the mathematics circle; after this article was published, one billion people knew his name, countless letters flew to Chen Jingrun's residence, and even eccentricity became a noble virtue!

"Is this a new "Goldbach's Conjecture"? " Although the novel is not a reportage, many people present could not help but think of this article.

Wang Meng said excitedly: "It is worthy of your work, and your writing is the most positive. We say that the author's story arrangement often reflects the original thoughts of the person. 'New reality' is a new category in the literary world, and you are a new writer, you really bring a new trend."

He asked Liu Xinwu: "What do you think?"

Liu Xinwu was stunned and speechless for a moment.

The ending he wrote was the personal sublimation of the protagonist, but Yu Qie regarded the violinist "Liu Xiaochun" as the shadow of many people - they learned Western technology and then brought these things to their hometown and gave back to their compatriots and parents.

Is it reform literature?

Is Liu Xiaochun the embodiment of the ancient earth? Is this person running towards the future? Or is this stream of consciousness literature?
Because Yu Qie also contains many flashbacks.

Or, is it scar text?

No, it really isn't. On Liu Xiaochun's piano learning journey, there were certainly "scars" left by the times. He witnessed huge differences and torture of other people's humanity, but many people helped him. Liu Xiaochun was not defeated. He chose for whom to play music.

This is not just any kind of literature; this is the literature written by Yu Che.

At this moment, Liu Xinwu had a nauseous feeling. It was not that the ending of "Together with You" was not well arranged, but that it was too good, which made his own writing seem very bad. Under such a direct comparison, he was so stressed that he wanted to vomit.

When it comes to the quality of an article, what could be more direct than the feedback from readers?

Professor Lin Yaoji said loudly: "Today, several writers came. I originally thought it was a very ordinary day, because every time we perform, we will meet outstanding comrades from all walks of life who come to watch. Wang Meng is our old friend, and I often see him in the audience... But there are very few who write about our hearts and speak our minds."

Wang Meng rubbed the back of his head and complained: "I have also written good novels about music..."

"——I personally propose to applaud the three of them. They have surpassed and interpreted our art with their art. Today is the first time I have come into contact with the beauty of words and their exquisite arrangements... It is no less than our symphony, but it is performed and conducted by one person."

What about Hu Kun? He excitedly took off his violin and wanted to play a piece for Yu Qie. He had just clamped the violin on his chest when other musicians returned to the stage and played the Violin Concerto in D Major.

Although this piece of music is called an "impossible piece of music", that is only true for ordinary musicians. As for these most elite musicians, they have memorized it by heart and can cooperate skillfully without the need for a conductor.

The support sparked by "Together with You" is not over yet.

The conductor on the stage suddenly jumped down from the stage and handed the baton to Yu Qie, "You do it!" Everyone burst into laughter, and the musicians suppressed their emotions and played the music based on their experience.

The passionate music sounded, magnificent and majestic.

They didn't need a conductor at all, but they still habitually looked at Yu Qie who was holding the baton. Of course, Yu Qie also laughed. It was just writing an article, why make a fuss?

Yu Qie shrugged, trying to calm everyone down, but the symphony orchestra deliberately played even louder. They were so excited and wanted to express their love for the piece so much that even the author himself couldn't stop them.

Wang Meng looked at Yu Qie infatuatedly: He was really full of vigor and vitality when he was young.

I'm afraid it was the same situation when Cao Yu wrote Thunderstorm at the age of 22. At that time, his play was published in Literary Quarterly, which shook the drama world like a thunderclap. Feudalism, class, love... so many complex elements were written by a senior student at Shuimu University.

No wonder Ba Lao used "Thunderstorm" to talk about Yu Qie. In the dialogue in the "Ta Kung Pao", could it be that he only thought of this person?

Then, Wang Meng began to regret bringing Liu Xinwu along.

This is truly a heart-wrenching feeling. Every time the string is pulled, it feels like cutting the heart, which is extremely painful. Just thinking about it is unbearable, let alone someone with a very sensitive personality.

Yu Qie saw that Liu Xinwu looked like he had lost his soul, his mouth was pursed, and he was about to cry. This kind of pressure was indeed beyond the limit of what most people could bear.

Why are you crying?

"I apologize!"

Liu Xinwu looked at Yu Qie and said, "I apologize to you! You are amazing. It is indeed my shortsightedness that I never thought there would be such a person. If I had known this before, I would have definitely admired him. Now I can neither admire him nor let it go, because I am also a novelist."

Wang Meng thought that Yu Qie would forgive him, as being graceful is an elegant thing.

But no, Yu Qie said: "I won't write an article to scold you, but I won't accept an apology either."

"Why don't you scold me?"

"I had no place to vent my anger before, but now it's not worth it for me to scold."

"So what do you want?"

"You were suppressing me as an editor at that time. As long as you were in People's Literature, I would definitely not submit my work to it."

The atmosphere suddenly dropped to freezing point. Wang Meng was still there. The young man was really too angry. He just wanted to say a few words to ease the situation... "Yu Qie, there's no need to make it like this."

But the reason why Liu Xinwu was able to write "Class Teacher" and the reason why he was able to retire at the right time later was because he knew how to judge the situation.

In front of Wang Meng's shocked eyes, he said: "I can transfer to another magazine. I didn't see that you were a talented writer... This is indeed a stain on my life."

(End of this chapter)