Jin Yucheng, born in Shanghai in 1952, is currently the executive deputy editor of Shanghai Literature, and began to write in 1985, and his representative works include "Blossoming Flowers", "Lost River", "Bowl", "Light Cold", "Looking Back" and so on.
Tall, quiet and wise, Jin Yucheng shows the elegance of shanghai's old-school people. Before his "Blossoms" came out, more people knew Jin Yucheng as a dedicated and friendly editor.
Jin Yucheng's writing is slow and humble, like a long wait. His 2012 long Shanghainese novel "Blossoms", which is intertwined with the old and the new, elegant and customary, backward and roundabout ways to advance, with the softness and tenacity of The Shanghainese language, resisting the clichés in the discourse trend. Through his narration, the trivialities of one piece of clothing and one meal have all become emotional; The mediocrity of the city and the world also implies meaning; The calm restoration of the daily world is more direct and the secret place can be sparse. His writing has a traditional face of the script, and the spiritual blood of avant-garde literature runs through and flows through his bones. He brings together traditional resources, dialect narratives, and modern spirits, creating a new paradigm for how the novel tells about Chinese life.
Jin Yucheng's "Blossoms" seems to be written in the alley cooking smoke, ordinary men and women, but deeply hidden in Shanghai's past and present dynasty, history and humanities. What cannot be ignored is that it fully reveals the texture and taste of Shanghai, a bustling city, which directly brings about the rewriting of Shanghai's territory. As soon as the book came out, the praise was overwhelming, and it won numerous awards, and successively won the first China Good Book, the top of the Chinese Novel Society Novel Ranking, the Cultural China Annual Character Award Novelist Award, the "Five Ones" Project Award, the Sohu Lu Xun Cultural Award Annual Novel Award, the Shi Nai'an Literature Award, the Chinese Literature and Media Award Of the Year Novelist Award, etc.; In 2015, he won the 9th Mao Dun Literature Award, which made it the top of the Chinese literary scene.
E.B. White says that the meaning of the great city is that whoever expects solitude or privacy, New York will give him such eccentric rewards, and it is because of generosity that the walls of the city accommodate many of these people. Shanghai's ambiguity and secrecy make people confused, as if the closed zipper, can not see the laws and details of this huge space, only in turbulent times, the zipper suddenly opened, take a look at the inner pocket of "Blossoms", and then it will slowly close.
Jin Yucheng believes: "The city is the cradle and hometown of literature, and it has infected generations of Chinese writers since the last century. They generally write about the countryside in the city. In the near future, I feel that Chinese literature will also turn to urban writing, and the author will take the city as his hometown, which is also the inevitable process of urbanization. Urban themes are also the key to opening literary horizons. ”
Jin Yucheng said: "I hope that what "Blossoms" brings to the reader is the life in the novel and the vitality of language, although I use the old story and the language itself, but they are new and different from other ways. ”
When it comes to Jin Yucheng's works, we have to think of Mr. Yongxin, the main programmer of Harvest magazine, who said: "Blossoms" is a lightning bolt that crossed the sky of Chinese literature in 2012. It established a museum of human relations related to the South and to the city. It tests our awareness and loyalty to literature.
As Wang Chunlin, a judge of the 9th Mao Dun Literature Award at that time, gave an evaluation of the work: Speaking of Shanghai narrative, since the prevalence of vernacular novels, until Jin Yucheng's "Blossoms" came out, there are about 4 writers who can never be bypassed, according to the chronological arrangement, they are Han Bangqing, Zhang Ailing, Wang Anyi, and Jin Yucheng.
Among the mainstream writers of contemporary Chinese cities, there have been a large number of outstanding creators such as Wang Anyi of the "Shanghai School", Chi Li of the "Wuhan School", Liu Xinwu of the "Beijing School", Jiang Zilong of the "Tianjin School", and Jia Pingwo of the "Xi'an School", and each of them has a systematic system and distinctive characteristics.
I believe that Jin Yucheng's "Blossoms" and other works will be passed on; At the same time, he also firmly believes that he will have new products beyond the Style of Shanghai School presented to the world.
Author: Yang Jie