Only by immersing oneself in the hot era can one write first-class works on site

2023-09-25

The second Wang Meng Youth Writers Support Program · Annual Selected Writers has recently been announced, with Xue Chaowei, Datou Ma, and San San selected. Wang Meng inspires young writers to consider writing as a long-term career. They should have an appreciative attitude and a flexible grasp of life, as well as a spirit of competition and hard work, and dare to face the challenges and problems in life. In 1956, Wang Meng, a young man under the age of 22, published a short story titled "New Young People from the Organization Department" in "People's Literature". The work faced the problem directly, exposed the harm of bureaucracy to the revolutionary cause, and sparked intense discussions from various sectors of society. In his octogenarian years, Wang Meng deeply expressed his hope to young writers that they not only appreciate life, but also compete with it and face its challenges head-on, which is meaningful. As Lu Xun once said in his book "Hot Wind · Random Feelings Record 41", "May all Chinese youth break free from the cold air and just move forward without listening to the words of the self deprecating." Contemporary young people face challenges that are completely different from those of Wang Meng's youth. However, for capable, ambitious, and visionary young people, setbacks and difficulties in real life are not terrifying. As long as they liberate their minds and have the courage to work hard, they can still achieve their dreams. Scholar Zhang Jiang believes that "some classic literary and artistic works can travel through time and space and have eternal value. The formation of this eternal value is not because the works are detached from their own era, on the contrary, excellent literary and artistic works always take root in their own era first, and then can be appreciated by people of different eras, thus possessing eternity." For young writers with pursuit, competitive consciousness, and forward-looking spirit, Efforts should be made to integrate into the current era, deeply understand social life, and keenly grasp the opportunities of young people's times, in order to serve as a shining example for an era. Only in this way can we capture the most shocking literary scene in the profound and extensive life, and make the work have eternal value. Chen Cang, a writer born in the 1970s in Shanghai and winner of the Lu Xun Literature Award, wrote eight series of "Entering the City", including "Father Entering the City", "Daughter Entering the City", "Wheat Entering the City", "Fool Entering the City", "Mi Xi Entering the City", "Little Sister Entering the City", "Pig Entering the City", and "Shadow Entering the City". The author focuses on the joys and sorrows experienced by farmers in their daily lives to enter and integrate into the city, and keenly captures the pain points in China's urbanization process, Providing spiritual sketches for a generation of urbanites, thus endowing the work with multiple literary, historical, and sociological values. Fu Yuehui, a post-80s writer born in Baoshan, Yunnan, starts his novel "Chewing Iron Scraps" from daily life, depicting the life choices of urban white-collar workers, "996" programmers, and graduating college students represented by Hou Che, Lu Guanyu, and Gao Jinhan. He depicts their choices in emotional crisis, workplace difficulties, and financial temptation, revealing the possible ways for young people to break free from the secular world and reach the spiritual shore. Due to their infinite proximity to the times and life, and their depth into the inner layers of people's lives, these works can accurately grasp the pulse of the times, giving them a distinct sense of the times and a profound ideological connotation.

Edit:GuoGuo    Responsible editor:FangZhiYou

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