Bravely love this vast and delicate world - an interview with representatives of female writers of the Tenth Generation

At the end of 2021, the early winter in Beijing is clear and bright, and the pennennial literary event kicks off, and the pointer slowly moves towards a new literary time. Nearly a thousand delegates from all over the country came to Beijing with their thoughts and practices on literature in the new era. Among them, female writers are undoubtedly a particularly iconic existence, a sincere face, a warm greeting, become the colorful color of this meeting, just like their works, ingenious, colorful, become an important component of the contemporary literary landscape.

For Qiao Ye, this is already her fourth time to participate in the composition of the congress, the four conferences just ran through her stage from youth to middle age, writing has also changed, people to middle age, the mentality is more calm and mature, writing is also in the stage of having a rut before and after, there are villages and shops before, and more and more deeply aware that life, human nature, and the world are so rich and abundant, and more efforts are made to explore and explore their own doubts and feel the moral difficulties. Her latest collection of novels, Seven Buckles, focuses on these middle-aged feelings. "Seven buttons" is a chinese medicine, in fact, it is a medicine of time. Time means vicissitudes, it means experience, it means hurt, it means refinement, and it also means healing. If the energy is strong enough, time means a gift.

Old friends and new acquaintances get together, and group photos are the highlight of it. "Writing is lonely labor, so quality communication is especially important to motivate each other effectively." Qiao Ye told me that the other day I sorted out the photos and turned to some of the group photos of the previous congresses, which was very emotional, and the most important of them was the group photos with writers and friends, especially with female writers. Some group photos are fixed with several people every time, and several times they will be opened, almost filmed into a miniature series. However, these photos are not just group photos? For them, this is the standing picture of literary life, gathering indescribably rich information, and confirming the warm friendship of the same way.

Xiao Qin, from Guizhou, is attending the Composition Congress for the first time, and literature has accompanied her for more than twenty years. She would like to talk to me about experiences such as collecting cow dung, straw and bamboo tubes around in the snowy winter and making thousands of large steamed buns in organic compost on vast fields. In the first month, when every household in the countryside is still immersed in the drunkenness of the post-holiday, they have braved the cold wind and thin snow all over the mountains to check the composting effect... These sound unique and romantic, but in reality they are heavy and cluttered and endless. It was literature that taught her to find seeds in the world, to preserve a keen female perspective on the vast wilderness to read and observe. Such experiences and reflections made her discover that human nature is a strange existence, and there are undercurrents and dreams growing under every ordinary life and ordinary faces. She said that after so many years, many people and things have passed away like water, but those inquiries with literary propositions have never stopped, "I like to explore the ambitions and ideals behind ordinary faces, and I prefer those ambitions like wild flowers blooming on the spring grassland, in fact, the so-called ambitions are just the responsibility and kindness of ordinary people, they are not brighter than the sun and the moon, but like the stars shining beautifully in the night sky, they make me believe even more, no matter where we are, calm or difficult, as long as we try to extend life, There will always be light illuminating. ”

Young writer Ma Xiaotao is the second time to participate in the Composition Congress, the last time was the Eighth Generation Meeting, in her recollection of the time she was very young, full of curiosity about the world, but also tried to cover up, pretending to be calm. I saw a lot of spirited old writers at the venue, and I was a little excited and a little skeptical about whether I would have such a long-term passion for literature. At the same time, she is very confident and considers herself very talented. Now ten years later, after experiencing setbacks and hardships in writing, she has more and more confirmed her deep love for literature, and has also worn away her reckless self-confidence, encouraging herself to regain her spirit in self-doubt again and again. Recently, she launched a short story called "More Interesting Things" - "For me, literature is still the most interesting thing, making me braver and more courageous to love this vast and delicate world, and also giving me precious sobriety." 」 I hope I can write something simple and ordinary, everything seems to be true, in line with the logic of daily life, under this premise, it is very interesting, full of health and vitality. ”

In the midst of the epidemic, everything has been marked with a special mark. At this congress, although Ma Xiaotao and his mother, who attended the meeting at the same time, were both representatives, they could only meet in different delegations and stations at the venue, which was quite a bit of the meaning of "the end of the world". Also because the conference implements closed-loop management, it is particularly luxurious to talk with old friends in the past, but this may become a special memory, so that everyone's thinking about literature has more special meaning.

From warm Shenzhen to cold Beijing, Wu Jun was particularly excited, she was very happy to participate in the Tenth Congress as a representative of Guangdong, and felt that this was not only an honor, but also a responsibility and mission. In the past two decades of creation, she has always focused on the joys and sorrows of ordinary people in Shenzhen, and strived to record the ups and downs of the times, to some extent, the Shenzhen narrative has become her literary system engineering, and continues to move forward. In her eyes, Shenzhen is the most special existence of the country's reform and opening up, which actively and far-reachingly affects the country's ideological emancipation, social change, and economic development, and also profoundly changes and affects the fate of individuals. In the face of complex social phenomena and changing and turbulent value conflicts, how to show the life of Shenzhen people, how to write this fiery land, and how to reflect the ability and confidence of understanding the world and perceiving life in works are a new topic for every writer.

Wu Jun believes that he is a beneficiary of reform and opening up and a beneficiary of literature. At present, Shenzhen is entering an unprecedented golden period of development, Shenzhen writers are born in the prosperous era of creation and growth, as a writer who has lived and worked in Shenzhen for many years, next, she will seriously study and comprehend the spirit of the conference, in the future creation, strive to go deep into life, constantly participate in social practice, synchronize with the times in thought, make continuous breakthroughs in themes, continuously innovate in technology, dig deep into the Shenzhen experience, jump out of the "little sorrow and joy around", go into the depths of practice, observe the people's lives, and express the people's voices. Strive to create literary works that embody care, morale and people's hearts.

Over the years, China's online literature has developed rapidly and has a strong momentum, and a group of online writers have created many excellent works, and Bandit Sicun is one of them. Five years ago, she had come to Beijing in the early winter to attend the Ninth Congress, and she was deeply impressed by the grand conference, wonderful speeches, and long-admired literary masters. Everything seems to be fresh in the memory, and the tenth generation will open again. In her view, the Writers' Congress is the most grand event for Chinese writers, and it is a great honor to be elected as a delegate, and as a member of the new literary and art community, this is a very precious opportunity, a responsibility, and an honor.

Online creation still has big ideals and pays attention to big propositions. She said that in China, there are thousands of writers, and it is fortunate that new literary and artistic groups, including online writers, were accepted by the masses and became a member of the literary world shortly after the birth. Since the reform and opening up, with the development of social economy, all kinds of literary works are more abundant, as an Internet power, our network literature has flourished and become a window for foreign cultural output and exchange, which is the fortunate that developed Internet technology gives network writers, and it is also the responsibility given by the times to network writers. At this meeting, she will work with the vast number of writers to study conscientiously and communicate in depth, and live up to the luck and heavy responsibility of being a representative.