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Liu Zhenyun: The joke itself is serious and one step further

Qilu Evening News Qilu One Point reporter Shi Wenjing

Recently, Beijing Yangtze River New Century did a live broadcast event, inviting the famous writer Liu Zhenyun and the famous screenwriter and writer Song Fangjin, well-known psychological expert Qing Yin to chat about the topic of "double speed life". At the same time, Liu Zhenyun's new work "One Day and Three Autumns" published this year has also become the focus of the topic because of the topic of life epiphany.

Liu Zhenyun: The joke itself is serious and one step further

Song Fangjin revealed that he embarked on the road of writing with Liu Zhenyun as his teacher, and even exposed a "fierce material" in the live broadcast room - "One Day and Three Autumns" printed several "preemptive trial books" before the official publication, Song Fangjin sent a circle of friends after receiving it, and this book attracted the attention of stand-up comedian and screenwriter Li Shi:

Li Yan said how can there be a joke telling? Am I not telling jokes best now? I was angry. He said that Mr. Liu's preemptive trial book he also wanted to read. I asked our editor to send him a copy, and he posted in the circle of friends every day, and the scenes he read every day were all scenes with some jokes in the book. That day I posted another message in the circle of friends, I said this is a structuralist structure, he left me a message below, what does he call structuralism? I was scared to see him, I thought he was throwing a stalk at me, shaking the baggage, and I also gave him back in the way of shaking the baggage. I said that the term Li Shi is realism, and from Li Shi to Li Shi is always called structuralism. After answering, he replied very sincerely: "Teacher Song, I am not joking with you, I really want to know why this "One Day, Three Autumns" is structuralist? What's going on? As soon as I saw that this joke teller became serious, I also became serious, and I said that this problem cannot be told to you by me, and one day we can ask Teacher Liu Zhenyun for advice and let Teacher Liu Zhenyun talk about it. ”

Liu Zhenyun replied with a smile: "Teacher Li Is indeed one of the best people who tell jokes, there will be no more than three such people, the other is Teacher Song, you, and the other is me (laughs). What is a joke? The joke itself is serious and one step further. The discussion between the two of you has gone from joke to seriousness, and then from seriousness to joke. If the joke is just a joke, the content of the joke must not be high; just as the background of comedy must be tragedy, and the background of tragedy must be comedy. ”

Liu Zhenyun: The joke itself is serious and one step further

Song Fangjin said: "I am a screenwriter, people know that I am through variety shows, I have lived myself into a joke." Teacher Liu often said that the core of comedy is tragedy, and the core of tragedy is comedy. In my case, the core of the tragedy is the screenwriter. ”

Referring to "One Day and Three Autumns", Song Fangjin also said that the more he reached the end of the year, the busier Teacher Liu Zhenyun became. According to teacher Song Fangjin, at present, Liu Zhenyun has won a lot of money in the list of major good books at the end of the year, according to his understanding, he has won 6 awards including the Year-end Selection of Various Books such as Douban Annual Good Book and Blade Book Award. Song Fangjin jokingly said that he did not see Teacher Liu at the award ceremony of some awards, because he was either at the award ceremony or on the way to the award ceremony. At this event, teacher Liu Zhenyun posted a video taken on his douyin, starting from Xinxiang in the morning, going to Beijing in the afternoon, doing activities in the evening, and then going to the next city the next day. Liu Zhenyun and his "One Day, Three Autumns" were unexpectedly busy as 2021 drew to an end.

Liu Zhenyun: The joke itself is serious and one step further

The question raised by many young readers of the host Qingyin Generation: Life has involuntarily opened the double speed mode with the times, how can it land smoothly? Song Fangjin again quoted Liu Zhenyun's aphorism in reply. He said that one year on the plane, Lu Jinbo, a publisher who was in a critical period of his life, asked his peer Liu Zhenyun how he would go on the next road, and Liu Zhenyun put forward a nine-character proverb for him: "Take the right path, do not be bypassed, and are not in a hurry." Lu Jinbo obviously understood these nine words, so there was a later fruit and wheat market.

These nine words continued to resonate with readers in the comment area on the day of the live broadcast, and were constantly brushed up. "Take the right path, don't be sidelined, don't be in a hurry", this should be the best guidance for the times of double speed or even any era of life.

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