literature can connect you and me, society and individuals, and the vast world and independent life.
On the evening of September 8th, "Harvest" x Harvest App jointly launched an online literature talk event "Unbounded Literature Night" to talk about the times, life, culture and literature. This is also a new "unbounded" attempt by the 65-year-old "Harvest".
In the past, traditional literary journals like Harvest could only appear in the public eye through offline space. This time, the online WeChat video account was chosen as the broadcast carrier, focusing on literary themes through vertical screen live broadcasts, using the writer's wisdom as the narrative carrier, using the popular and cool presentation methods of young people, and using folk music to arouse 's emotional resonance , is also trying to subvert the traditional forms of stalls, lectures, forums, etc., and deeply echo the emotional needs of young people in a new way of presentation.
"Harvest" joined hands with Jiuguijiu for the first time, and "moved" the conversation to the brewing workshop of Xiangxi Jiuguijiu. This is on.
live warmly The first question of
's chat was first thrown by the total host Peng Min to Cheng Yongxin, Yu Hua, and opened the first chapter.
When talking about nothingness in life, Yu Hua thinks so: nothingness is also one of the necessities of our life. Weakness, weakness, cowardice in life is a virtue. If one has no sense of fear, no frailty, it is difficult for human beings to move forward. The same is true of nothingness. Reality is often oppressive to everyone. At this time, nothingness can help us get rid of it, and then return to reality. "When this emotion comes out, it's very important how you deal with it, as long as it doesn't permeate your heart, as long as it can be controlled, it's like we have inflammation, inflammation is a certain To a certain extent, we are fighting for our health. There must be some inflammation in life, and nothingness is a kind of inflammation.” As the end of
drew to a close, Peng Min asked many young people living in big cities such a question: We want to Know how to love, how to get out of loneliness, how to be a free person, how to build your own world? Yu Hua's answer can be said to be straight-forward: "It's very simple, you only need to love others the way you love yourself."
Resonance of reality
The small world of literature is beautiful like a peach garden, but a reality is always waiting for us to return sail.
Liang Xiaosheng thinks that there are almost no people who have not experienced the difficulties, tribulations, and ups and downs in life. He changed Lu Xun's outlook on life, which he had encouraged himself, to encourage everyone: first, survival, second, development, and third, future. To survive is not to live; to develop is not to be a luxury; to have a future is not to have ambitions. "I especially understand the various hesitations and pressures faced by young people today. Although the form is different from our experience, it is equally weighty when it falls on their shoulders. But sometimes what you choose, you have to treat yourself If the result is bitter, it has to be like the line in " The World " says, it is one's own choice, chewing and swallowing."
Li Jingze thinks about the power of literature from this. "Why should there be literature? Many literary works are often not showing you the happiness of others. The characters are going through all kinds of hardships and hardships. In a sense, cultivating our ability to feel the pain and hardship of others, so that we will not be forever. Trapped here." From this, the famous critic also put forward more profound requirements for the writer: if the writer is not good at understanding the psychology of others, the situation of others, and the difficulties of others, such a writer may This era is a pale writer.
Liang Xiaosheng also believes that reading and writing have different responsibilities. "When I'm not writing, when I'm not a writer, reading is to find a relatively relaxing haven for my soul. Writing must face the society and face reality. Even if I write about historical topics, I must also focus on the society. Make reference to history and express your own view of history."
The script of destiny
If we say that literature is the poetry of ordinary people, how can we obtain the poetry of life?
Bi Feiyu started his own thinking from a famous saying by Flaubert: all the beauty and poetry of nature depend on the writer to agree. "Poetry is what human beings themselves give to the details of human existence, environment, residence and life. In this sense, poetry is acquired, not natural, it is a high-level feeling about life formed after cultural accumulation. And advanced cognition.... The so-called poetry in life is that you find or establish yourself in life, and the poetry will appear. This is the poetry you created yourself.” The point of confusion for Peng Min, the host of
, is that : How to use the poetry in life to fight against fate and the nothingness in life? Su Tong used his short story "Pig's Head with Snow White" to explain the profound things in a simple way: in a negative sense, if you only use the so-called poetry to fight against nothingness, it will only make life more nothingness. "If you don't have the eyes of love, you can't see poetry." On the day of the
chat event, there was also a small accident: the male writer Shuang Xuetao , who was also born in the 1980s, was scheduled to talk with Di'an . Because he was injured playing football, the fourth chapter "The Script of Destiny" once again invited back Bi Feiyu, who "torn the script of destiny with his own hands". Fate has magically made him and his "little niece" Dean reunite again and again. "You can't say it's the result of my efforts, nor can it be said to be the result of her efforts. This is a small fluctuation in the finger of the god of destiny in literature, which led to a show like this, which is very storytelling."
The gift of literature
In the post-pandemic era, the uncertainties of life are greatly enhanced. Such a breathing space is like a work of literature, giving an anchor to our lives and relatively certain spiritual coordinates to an uncertain life. At this point, the night was dark, and the topic became gentle. Jia Zhangke recalled the majestic sentence "The water of the Yellow River comes from the sky", "It can come from the sky. For a child, this strange imagination is a gift that teaches us to imagine." Thus, He firmly believes that maintaining a literary thinking ability and thinking method is very important for everyone, "because to understand anything, you need to put yourself in the shoes, and you can be objective, have multiple perspectives, and think about problems from both sides. We The response to a thing should not be a unified action, we should explain and understand a thing from different angles, and the scale of rhetoric is also very important. I think this is the reason why literature is particularly needed in this era.”
Alai He recalled his reading time in his youth and youth full of emotion, "It is expanding you, it is enriching you, and it is turning you into another person." related. Dan Leopard, born in 1984, first talked about mobility. "I think in our generation, movement is the fixed number. Everyone sees opportunities for wealth in mobility, and sees opportunities for transformation on the social ladder, and regards mobility as an opportunity. If our generation does not move, it will be very easy. I feel empty." Even if the body is framed and restricted, "at least literature may be a drone that allows you to look down at a low altitude and see that the gully next to the rice field is framed, and you can see the highway and far away. Mountains, sky. I don't have high expectations for literature, but I think I can at least re-look at life from a low altitude."
Han Shaogong believes that a writer cannot be too pure. "I am also skeptical about pure literature. Our ancient China was not pure literature, but miscellaneous literature. Is the history written by Sima Qian not literature? Is the philosophy written by Zhuangzi not literature? As the saying goes, literature has no boundaries, Not only does it have boundaries, but it is getting narrower and narrower, and it has become a very simple demand for literary youth, which is not good. I hope that an author should not only read literature, but preferably read miscellaneous books and do some miscellaneous work.”
We invited two domestic folk musicians Zhou Yunpeng and Zhang Qianqian . They may sing in a low voice as quiet as this, or as distant, magnificent and desolate. That's hidden in the heartThe power is both reassuring and disturbing.
Heart is like a field, literature has no boundaries.
(Fu Kan)
