Mo Yan didn t shut up, China has hope! Mo Yan gave Feng Gong a pseudonym "Shut up", not just funny

On June 2, the well-known writer Mo Yan said on his social media: The winter of the previous year, at a dinner party, I first met Teacher Feng Gong. "He held my hand and said that my novel was well written because of the good pseudonym; he said that he also wanted to write something recently, hoping that I could give him a pseudonym. I said, 'Shut up.'"

"Feng Gong first said 'Okay!', and after a burst of laughter, he said, 'Then how can I say my crosstalk!'"

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For this anecdote, many people regard it as funny jokes by cultural people - on the surface, this is true.

However, if this is just fun and funny, it may deviate from what Mo Yan said, and it will not be able to realize the meaning of Mo Yan not really "shut up" to the individual, society and the times!

Indeed, Mo Yan is the most controversial writer in contemporary China - especially in the current Internet era where everyone can speak. Mo Yan is not only loved by many people, but also sought after by professional cultural institutions and people. However, because of the content and form of his works, a group of critics such as Sima Nan and his followers "Mao Xinghuo" emerged on the Internet, and even called "fraudulents".

Mo Yan's works draw on the "magic realism" expression method of "Hundred Years of Solitude", which is obviously difficult for many Chinese people who are accustomed to reading the tradition of "realistic literature".

Mo Yan uses magical techniques to express reality, which makes people feel novelty and historical dislocation, and also allows Chinese writers like Mo Yan to use the possibility of transcending the social environment to express specific content, show special history, and burst out with more impactful ideas and art shocking and infectious!

Mo Yan also achieved great success - like his novel "Big Breasts and Big Buttocks", he won the first "Grand Literature Award"; the drama "Farewell My Concubine" won the "Chinese Cao Yu Literature Award Script Award".

And his drama "Our Jing Ke" won the only professional award in the Chinese drama art world - the "Golden Lion Award"; his novel "Fatisure of Life and Death" also won the second "Dream of Red Mansions Award" at the Hong Kong Baptist University.

Mo Yan's works have also gone to the world - he won the "Nino Prize" in Italy; and was awarded the honorary academician by the Regent Park College of Oxford University in the UK; in the end, Mo Yan won the world's most influential Nobel Prize in Literature, becoming the only first person in mainland China!

However, like the internet celebrity Sima Nan, this "traffic patriotic performing artist", he praised Mo Yan when Mo Yan just won the Nobel Prize; but since then, he became a "anti-Mo Yan person" like a chameleon. For example, after Mo Yan was invited to visit Japan, he wrote some essays related to Japan, but was bombarded by Sima Nan as "sty Japanese".

But it is quite sarcastic that after that, Sima Nan was also invited to visit Japan. He also wore Japanese kimonos, ate delicious food, drank flower wine, and sent pictures and texts to praise Japan - isn't this "only by setting fires, and Mo Yan is not allowed to light the lamp"?

, and the junior high school student who claimed to be Sima Nan as his teacher, became a "professional household who bites Mo Yan". His publications were basically related to criticizing Mo Yan. He even initiated the absurd behavior of going to the Beijing court and procuratorate to prosecute Mo Yan.

But fortunately, since the reform and opening up, our social environment has become increasingly relaxed and tolerant, and the sky of literature and art has also been able to grow up healthily.

The words and concepts such as "freedom, democracy, civilization" in the core socialist values ​​have also begun to be deeply rooted in people's hearts - but Mo Yan actually did not "shut up" as he said to Feng Gong. He still kept writing and left behind many touching works of art.

Obviously, as long as writers or anyone abide by laws and regulations, people should speak, and the sky will not collapse. We should give literary and artistic workers an environment for free creation, so that the literary and artistic spring will come with "a hundred schools of thought contend and a hundred flowers blooming".

There is not only the judgment criteria for literary or artistic works, but also the standards for artistic standards, readers' feelings, professional judgment, social influence, etc. - especially time, and only time is the best standard for judging the vitality of a work!

For example, recently, foreigners have recently published the 100 greatest novels in the world's history, and only one of them is selected. - I have to say that in the history of Chinese literature, there is indeed no other work that can be compared with "Dream of Red Mansions"!

However, when "Dream of Red Mansions" was just born, it was still a banned work! And it was even more despised by the rulers and the people at that time - but time can tell everything. In the course of history, this great work was able to see the light of day again and became the true pinnacle of Chinese literature!

Even now, for ordinary people, how many people have actually finished reading or understood "Dream of Red Mansions"? ——So, is it necessary to belittle its artistic value and spray manure ignorantly on it?

For example, on June 17, Professor Tang Xiaomin also said on his personal social media:

"I wrote a short article pointing out that Mo Yan has won many major awards at home and abroad. Some people said: 'We must look at the recognition of the general public. Without the recognition of the general public, no matter how many awards you get, it is bullshit!'"

"First of all, 'the general public' is an illusory word. Is it "big"? It cannot be verified at all. Taking a step back, even if a writer's works are recognized by the general public, they do not mean that they are of high level. It is not enough to recognize the general public alone, and they also need to be recognized by experts."

"Goethe once said: For literary works, the content is known to everyone, and only a few people can understand the meaning it contains, while the form is a mystery to most people.".

"To evaluate literary works, we need not only evaluate the content, but also evaluate the meaning and form of the work. The evaluation of these two aspects requires professional vision."

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Professor Tang's words are worthy of our deep consideration - it is not recognized by the so-called "general masses", but it must mean that it is a "great masterpiece"; and what ordinary people do not read or understand is a inferior work.

Even now, the cultural level of Chinese people has been greatly improved, there are still nearly 600 million people with junior high school education and below! ——The understanding and recognition of works is actually largely related to the overall education level, cultural level and ideological level of the people.

And in literary works, of course, there cannot be only the easy-to-understand "Sunny Sky" and "Golden Avenue" in special times. Obviously, there are innovative works like Mo Yan that can have more expressing content, expression techniques and rich ideas in the new era - this cannot be entirely determined by the so-called "mass" standard, and even determine the quality of the work, and even the life and death of literature and art!

However, what probably made Sima Nan and Mao Xinghuo the most crazy thing was that not only Mo Yan personally sent a congratulatory letter at the national level when he just won the Nobel Prize, he fully affirmed it.

Even though there are a large number of people who keep throwing feces at Mo Yan on the Internet, there are still invited people - Mo Yan at the highest level of the country's celebration not long ago!

This obviously proves that the recognition of Mo Yan at the national level can at least show that the country's objective shaping and scientific understanding of the literary and artistic environment has long been separated from the level of "literary and artistic are just political voice-transmission traditions" in the past.