Back to 80: My literary life.

Chapter 694 Chapter 693 "The Battle between the Two Kings" and "The Resonance of the Two Zhangs"

He attended the "Literature Seminar of the 1990s" held by the China Writers Association in Hangzhou this year in accordance with the arrangement of the Provincial Writers Association. In addition to famous domestic writers, literary theorists, and editors-in-chief of major magazines, leaders of provincial writers associations also attended.

The "Four Horsemen" of the Qin Province Writers Association all turned out, including Chen Zhongshi, Lu Yao, Jia Pingwa and Fang Minghua.

Although Fang Minghua was reluctant to travel all the way to Hangzhou, a city hotter than Xijing, for a meeting in such a hot day, he had no reason to refuse since it was arranged by the Writers Association.

There is another reason. Zhao Hongjun in Shanghai called me a few days ago and said, "Didn't you ask me to help you keep an eye out for old houses when you came to Shanghai last year? Now there is a house for sale. Come and take a look when you have time."

In this case, Fang Minghua decided to go to the meeting first, and then go to Shanghai to look at houses after the meeting. After all, Hangzhou is not far from Shanghai.

The train is running in Jiangnan.

Unlike the northern plains, the fields outside are planted with green rice, one after another, looking full of summer.

The four-seater is a soft sleeper - according to regulations, department-level cadres can enjoy soft sleeper treatment when traveling on business, so of course everyone will not be too harsh on themselves.

Not to mention that the soft sleeper beds are larger than the hard sleeper beds, and each room has four people and a door, so it is private and safe to chat.

A few people looked at the summer scenery of Jiangnan outside the window, drank the special Longjing tea that Fang Minghua brought from home, and chatted.

"Hey, don't you know? I heard that this seminar has a very important topic, which is the discussion of humanistic spirit."

The person who spoke was Jia Pingwa.

He sat on the lower bunk with a cigarette in his hand.

Three of the four people were heavy smokers, so Fang Minghua had to endure it silently. Fortunately, although he didn't smoke, he was not sensitive to the smell of cigarettes like women.

He is now lying on the upper bunk with headphones on, listening to a new song. It is the song "Alian", which is known as one of the "Four Village Beauties" in the 1990s. It was sung by Dai Jun and it sounds quite tasteful now.

While listening and humming, he suddenly heard Jia Pingwa from the lower bunk utter these words. He immediately took off his headphones and turned over to look at him.

"Brother Jia, isn't this item on the agenda for this meeting?"

"It was added temporarily. I heard that many writers called for further discussion at this meeting, and the leaders of the Writers Association agreed."

What the hell!

It’s that great discussion about humanistic spirit again!
The great discussion on humanistic spirit that began in the second half of 93 has been going on for two years and there seems to be no sign of abating. In fact, it is showing signs of intensifying. Some scholars outside the humanities community have also begun to join in.

The famous economist Fan Gang also joined the discussion. In the China Reading Newspaper, there was a big headline: "Economists speak on humanistic spirit." Among these economists, there were those who basically agreed, those who analyzed, and those who criticized. There were all kinds of voices.

Of course, the most famous in the past two years are the "dispute between the two Wangs" (Wang Meng and Wang Binbin) and the "resonance between the two Zhangs" (Zhang Chengzhi and Zhang Wei), which are particularly attractive voices in the chorus of discussion on humanistic spirit.

"The resonance of the two Zhangs" refers to the article "Using the Pen as a Flag" published by writer Zhang Chengzhi in "October" in 1993, and the article "The Habit of Resistance" published by Zhang Wei in "Wenhui Daily" on March 1993, 3. They both expressed dissatisfaction and worry about the current state of literature, and advocated raising the spiritual banner and promoting ideals and beliefs.

After that, Zhang Chengzhi published articles such as "How to Tear Up Business Cards", "Clean Spirit", and "Tear Up Your Business Card", and Zhang Wei published "The Journey of Anger and Anger", "Night Thoughts", and "Soliloquy", etc. At the same time, writers such as Han Shaogong and Li Rui also published articles in response. This group of writers discussed "moral idealism" and caused a strong response in the intellectual community.

But Wang Meng is unique.

Wang Meng disagrees with those young scholars' criticism of Wang Shuo! Wang Meng published an article titled "Avoiding the Sublime" in "Reading" in 93 to defend the "Wang Shuo phenomenon". Later, Wang Meng criticized the "Humanistic Spirit Discussion".

Wang Binbin is a doctor of literature from Fudan University. After graduation, he returned to the Nanjing Military Region because of his military status. He worked in the Art Creation Office of the Military Region Political Department and was one of the scholars who first participated in the discussion of humanistic spirit. After seeing the article written by Wang Meng, he immediately wrote an article titled "Too Smart Writer" to criticize Wang Meng.

Wang Meng responded with another article, "Black Horse and Black Colt". Wang Binbin was not to be outdone and simply called himself "Black Colt Studio" and published two articles in a row to refute with more intense words.

Writer Liu Xinwu, who was once Wang Meng's subordinate and good friend, published an article titled "The Annihilation of Gao Changhong" in the second issue of Contemporary Writers Review this year, "advising certain young people not to repeat Gao Changhong's mistakes and become famous by scolding celebrities.

"Wang Binbin immediately wrote an article in the China Reading Newspaper to refute Liu Xinwu.

Fang Minghua read these publicly published articles and, to put it bluntly, they initially explored the humanistic spirit, but in the end they had deviated from the academic scope and turned into a dispute of personal feelings.

Originally the matter was over, but Wang Shuo, either because he was unwilling to be lonely or because he could not get over the humiliation, published an article titled "Scholar Wang Shuo Talks about Literary Situations" on page 4 of "Cultural Guide" in the spring of this year, accusing Wang Binbin, Zhang Chengzhi, Zhang Wei and others, causing the "Two Wangs Dispute" that had been calming down to be stirred up again.

The literary world suddenly became lively again.

Holding this literary seminar in this atmosphere, there must be someone who wants to bring up this topic at the meeting.

But Fang Minghua really doesn't like to talk about this.

Both parties are influential figures in the literary world. Who can convince whom?

Of course, it is a good thing to discuss this issue in depth, but the most feared thing is that it turns into a verbal dispute between the two sides, and they act on impulse and oppose just for the sake of opposing.

This is the final result of the "Battle between Two Kings".

Now Fang Minghua heard Jia Pingwa say this, and Chen Zhongshi, smoking his Bashan cigar, also sighed: "It seems that this meeting is full of gunpowder."

"I don't think it matters whether it's strong or not. Just say it!" Jia Pingwa said with a smile.

Lu Yao and Chen Zhongshi, who were sitting on the lower bunk, looked at each other.

It seems that Jia Pingwa will be in the spotlight at the meeting.

The year before last, when the great humanities discussion began, young scholars gathered their firepower to attack Wang Shuo. Jia Pingwa was eager to try and prepare to avenge Wang Shuo's insult.

But Fang Minghua persuaded him, saying that your novel "Wasted City" is also considered "spiritual pollution" by those young scholars. Once you open your mouth, aren't you just shielding Wang Shuo and attracting fire?
He held back.

Two years later, the book "Wasted City" was not only a best-seller in China, but had also been translated into English and French and published abroad. Jia Pingwa also made a lot of money from royalties.

Taking this opportunity, it's time to take revenge!

"Minghua."

Chen Zhongshi suddenly thought of Fang Minghua who was lying on the upper bunk. When he looked up, he found that he was lying on the bed listening to music with headphones on again.

(End of this chapter)