Literary Master 1983

Chapter 219 Teacher Yu’s Lecture Hall
The students said they would listen to Teacher Yu, but Teacher Yu was too overbearing.

Even while collecting donations,... Hakiche, to what extent do you want to push Liu Xinwu?
Meeting you will be a shadow in his life.

Yu Qie wrote the four words "Hangzhou Conference" on the blackboard.

Then, two bars were passed over, one bar said "Reader" and the other bar said "Author".

He added two more zeros and said, “This is the conclusion we reached at the Hangzhou meeting. No one reads or writes this kind of literature.”

"0 is of course an exaggeration, but the negative momentum is obvious. Some of you were participants in the Hangzhou meeting and should be very familiar with our situation at the time."

"More than 100 writers and editors from all over the country discussed for four days and four nights, and they thought of everything, even Huo Qubing and sex reassignment surgery... But even so, no one is interested in scar literature. This is the current situation."

Yu Qie shook his head and said, "This is the last time I will mention this kind of literature. I will not explain it again in the future. The reason I mentioned it today is that some comrades come from places far away from big cities and may not have paid attention to the latest literary trends."

"After you finish the course, each of you will have to hand in an article. If you choose the wrong direction at the beginning, you will waste half a year, so I have to say this in advance!"

Then, Yu Qie left an assignment, asking all young writers to think about why the "returning writers" were not able to create more excellent works after their return.

"get out of class is over!" Yu Qie left in a leisurely manner.

Seeing him riding a Bridgestone bicycle back home, Yu Hua couldn't help but sigh: "Yu Qie is paid so much for his writing, but he still rides a bicycle! I don't know where this bicycle is from, and the tires are full of cracks! Did he sell his Japanese motorcycle just to donate more money? Yu Qie is really great!"

"Teacher Yu also has a Japanese motorcycle?" a young man wearing glasses asked in surprise.

"That's right. He bought a high-end Japanese motorcycle a while ago. Even his helmet is foreign. He looks like a fighter pilot from the United States!"

Yu Hua vividly described Yu Qie's motorcycle riding: "He put the manuscript he had just written in his pocket, and drove to the door of October magazine, and then he stopped. The entire editorial department came out to watch, especially the girls who graduated from Yenching Normal University. Their eyes lit up..."

Everyone was fascinated by what they heard.

Driving a good car and writing good articles are simply the best things in life. Yu Qie also has the highest academic qualifications among the crowd, no wonder he was hired as an assistant teacher by the Faculty of Arts despite his young age.

Yenching Normal University?

A young man wearing glasses stretched out his hand to Yu Hua: "Hello, comrade, my name is Su Tong, and I have been reading Yu Qie's novels."

"My name is Yu Hua, nice to meet you. I also read Yu Qi's novels." Yu Hua also stretched out his hand.

They looked at each other, and suddenly, Su Tong remembered: "Yu Hua, have you ever published an article in October? The article "Going Away at the Age of Eighteen" was written by you!"

"I wrote it!" Yu Hua felt so awesome and asked Su Tong, "What article did you write?"

"I have written some poems, but they are not very famous."

"So where do you work?"

"I graduated from Yenching Normal University and am currently the editor of Zhongshan magazine."

Depend on!
College Students!
I really hate college students!
Is it my fault that I can’t get into college?

They were not the only ones who asked each other about the situation. In the following days, the students got to know each other's background through self-introductions, visiting each other, etc.

This literature academy itself is a place for junior and mid-level writers to "further their studies", so the levels of the students vary. Some have already become famous editors of major literary magazines and come from literary families, and they are here to add luster to their work. Some have just emerged from small local magazines and are indeed here to broaden their horizons.

And some people, like Yu Qie, have already stepped onto the podium.

The Institute of Literature was established shortly after the founding of the People's Republic of China. At that time, the inheritance was orderly, with the old leading the middle and the middle leading the new. However, after several twists and turns, it was finally disbanded. It has not been opened for decades since then. The qualifications and length of service of the writers have all been cleared and they have to start all over again, but literature is still developing. The three generations of writers, old, middle and young, have survived together until the server was reopened a few years ago, so they competed on the same stage and re-ran the dungeon. At this time, the version has been adjusted. Eventually, when the advanced training class was reopened, a monster like Yu Qie was born, who has completed decades of work for others in a few years.

Balizhuang Nanli is the address of the School of Literature and the dormitory of the advanced training class. The students eat and live here. This place is great. There are novels to read every day. It is simply heaven.

During this period, they kept hearing about Yu Qie's fundraising efforts everywhere, and they could see the fundraising amount for "Operation Spring Rain" in the newspapers every day.

The latest news is that the amount of funds raised has reached nearly 200,000 yuan. This is mainly the situation around Beijing, and the fundraising in various parts of the country is still being counted. The Economic Information Daily is very concerned about the fundraising situation. They predict that major cities will eventually raise 1 million yuan this year.

This proves that this approach is feasible. One million can meet the demand for newborns in several cities that year.

Yu Qie certainly cannot really take charge of all the newborn vaccines in the country for ten years - if he can accomplish this task alone, then what is the role of the government?
"Poliomyelitis" has gradually become a disease well known to the public from a niche medical term, because in "Little Shoes", Yu Qie's portrayal of Ali's family is too simple and sincere, and in the end Ali's sister may face the risk of paralysis.

For a time, many hospitals had parents asking whether their children had received polio vaccinations. Almost all families living in cities received a positive answer.

Families in rural areas often received disappointing answers, as the gap between urban and rural areas was very large at that time.

There was a student named Kong Qingxi in the Chinese Department of Yanda Class of 83. He was from a rural area in Heilongjiang Province and became a professor of Chinese Department of Yanda many years later. He recalled that when he was young, "I went over several mountains with my father to eat spicy noodles in the city, and then came back over the mountains. When we were almost home, I suddenly remembered that I didn't have noodle soup, and I insisted on going back to drink noodle soup..."

My father said, "The noodle soup has been poured out long ago!"

Kong Qingxi burst into tears! Many years later, he still couldn't forget that bowl of oily noodle soup. It was difficult to get expensive polio vaccines in such areas.

Therefore, the money Yu Qie has raised so far is far from enough. More efforts and a greater impact are needed.

The students said, "If Teacher Yu can win a major literature award, I think it will be possible. The central government will have to work hard for this matter, and every newspaper will have to write about Yu Qie winning the Japanese literature award."

But will the Japanese really give the grand prize to the Chinese?

Xinhua News Agency reported: "Whether Yu Qie can win a Japanese literary award or not, it does not affect the value of his novels. The fact that he received a literary nomination has already proved his ability."

"He proved that there are a group of literary creators in China who can keep up with international standards. Less than ten years after the reform and opening up, this is undoubtedly a shot in the arm and a reassurance for literary and art workers across the country. Because ducks know first when the river water warms in spring, the cultural field is often the first and fastest to perceive changes and also to produce changes."

This statement may seem encouraging, but in fact it is just an excuse.

From December last year to mid-February now, the newspapers and TV stations often broadcast news about the Akutagawa Ryunosuke Award. What is the winning rate of Yuqie?
Sometimes, if the Chinese win the China-Japan Go Challenge, the program will turn to the live analysis of Go. Many viewers have never played Go in their lives, but they enjoy watching it. As long as the Chinese can beat the Japanese, no matter who it is, whether it is the Jingwu Chen Zhen in the hit drama in 84 or the novelist Yu Qie in reality, they support it. Yoshiyuki Rie and Shimada Masahiko have become familiar names to many Chinese people. The life stories of these two Japanese have been dug up. One of them comes from a family of stage plays and has been influenced by them since childhood. The other is called the little prince of Japanese literature because of his handsome appearance. He is proficient in multiple languages ​​and has a high academic degree, just like Yu Qie in the mainland. Their high school, their junior high school...all have been introduced to China. I am afraid that their friends do not know them as well as some Chinese.

The media relished talking about Yu Che's opponents' impressions of China, Yu Che, and literature, and gave these people great respect, as if they were literary giants who had dominated Japan for many years.

The Chinese Go team that went to Japan to compete was also asked if they had heard of these two Japanese?

The person being asked was Jiang Zhujiu.

Jiang Zhujiu answered honestly: "I don't read novels, I haven't heard of them."

Jiang Zhujiu is really ignorant!

The reporter then asked the Japanese chess player Kobayashi Koichi. Kobayashi kept saying, "They are not as well-known as me in Japan."

In fact, apart from Japanese literature lovers, these two Japanese writers are not even as famous as Matsunaga Jihei, who wrote reports for Yu Qie. At least Matsunaga Jihei often writes columns in the Asahi Shimbun, a newspaper subscribed by one-sixth of the people in Japan.

The accompanying reporter was very dissatisfied and went to ask Nie Weiping again.

Nie Weiping was very sensible. He praised the two Japanese writers to the skies, saying that their novels could be read in major bookstores in Japan and that they were idols among the younger generation.

The news was sent back to China, and the public was worried, wondering whether Yu Qie could really win the grand prize.

Yu Qie’s enemies were too powerful, and Japanese literature was too xenophobic. What kind of suppression and grievances would he face when he went to Japan?

Yu Qie came to the advanced training class of the School of Literature again and continued to give lectures on the assignments he gave last time.

"The returning writers mainly refer to the writers from the 1950s and 1960s. They reduced or gave up literary creation in the past 20 years and returned to the literary world in the past few years. But why are there no movements from the returning writers after their return? This is the homework I left in my last class."

Yu Qie read out the answers given by the students in class:
"The creation is rather conservative, and no new ideas are introduced... Well, this one is good. You passed. Who wrote it?"

Su Tong stood up and said, "Teacher Yu, this is my answer."

"Your analysis is very good. There is a saying that 'after we turn 30, we always repeat the stories before we turn 30'. This is especially true for novelists. Many returning writers lived in the Republic of China or even the Qing Dynasty when they were young. There were wars everywhere and people were living in poverty... Although we were poor after the founding of the People's Republic of China, we had basic security and development, which was very different from the Republic of China. The requirements for literary creation in the new era were also different, so many writers couldn't keep up."

Here, Yu Qie introduced two well-known famous writers. One is Shu Qingchun, who wrote "Camel Xiangzi". In addition to "Teahouse", he also created many works after the founding of the People's Republic of China, especially many short stories, but they never made any waves again.

Another example is Cao Yu, whose major representative works appeared before he was 40. Many of his later works also had little influence.

Then, Yu Qie read out some people's answers. They came from Wang Anyi and others.

“Exploring new literary forms… no problem!”

"It was influenced by the trend of the times... At that time, it was advocated that literature should be created for the masses, and creation should pay attention to class nature and standpoint. This was also different from the original writing."

"..."

Everyone's answers were read out one by one. If they were similar to the previous answers, Yu Qie would briefly mention them. If there were new ideas, Yu Qie would add a comment of his own.

Finally, he read out everyone's homework and gave everyone high praise.

"But," Yu Qie said, "if all of the above are correct, then these unfavorable factors should have disappeared in recent years. Why do returning writers still rarely produce influential works?"

"Aren't they allowed to write? Aren't they allowed to publish?"

Yu Qie shook his head, "Obviously not."

His guidance and actions were so smooth that many people understood what he meant: the reason why the old writers "disappeared" was because they were no longer good enough, it was that simple, they couldn't write as well as the emerging novelists!
Yu Qie is bragging about himself!

The students felt their blood boiling and rushing to their heads! They had never seen a teacher with this style before, he was so unique!
Yu Hua’s eyes widened and he thought to himself: Yu Qie is so awesome, this advanced training class is full of “returning writers” except for him, but he said they were not good enough in the first two classes.

Wang Anyi, the female writer who did not know Yu Qie at the Hangzhou meeting, suddenly held her chin and stared at Teacher Yu on the stage.

Suddenly, Su Tong heard someone talking in a low voice! This person was talking with gnashing teeth: "That's it! Yu Qie, you have to do it! Kill those old writers, I hate them so much..."

Who is speaking?
How can you say these things?
Su Tong was shocked. He looked around and finally locked his target on a young man with a fat face and eyes narrowed into a line.

Su Tong reached out and patted the man, and asked him, "What are you talking about?"

The man turned pale and said, "Comrade, I didn't say anything!"

You're not talking? Who else is talking besides you?
Su Tong thought to herself: If you don’t admit it, then I’ll pretend I don’t know.

Su Tong waved at the man: "My name is Su Tong, you are Guan Moye, right? I have read your works, "Transparent Carrot" is very good!"

Guan Moye glanced at him and said nothing at the time. After a while, he passed a note over: "Thank you for knowing me. My name is Guan Moye. I know you too. You are the person with the most friends in our class."

Why didn't this person speak, but wrote a note instead? He was so confused.

Su Tong didn't think much about it, because Yu Qie had already reached the end of the class. Yu Qie smiled and said, "During this class, many people still have misunderstandings. They think that I am bragging and that I think I am great."

"However, what I'm talking about is an objective phenomenon. Writers have their own peak creative period, which often occurs in their youth and middle age. I'm not just talking about myself. Do you realize that? I'm talking about you as well."

Yu Qie quietly scanned the people below the stage. Many students did not dare to look him in the eye and lowered their heads. Suddenly, Yu Qie's voice was exceptionally calm, but to some people it made their hearts skip a beat!
Because Yu Qie said: "You will surpass your predecessors and stand on the podium in the future. This will happen soon, maybe in the next six months."

Su Tong was stunned for a moment, and then couldn't help clenching her fists. The man named Guan Moye was obviously also very excited. Yu Hua sat up straight, as if this would make him taller.

In this advanced literature class, everyone remembered Yu Qie's words.

(End of this chapter)