On the afternoon of March 19, the novel "Zebra", published by the People's Literature Publishing House, held its first readers' meeting in Beijing. Ji Thirteen, CEO of Fruit Shell Network, and Ji Yaya, deputy editor-in-chief of October Magazine, met with readers at the press conference with best-selling author Fu Zhen to chat about women, literature, marriage and other topics.
The scene of the new book launch
I don't want to be a goddess, and I don't want to be a good wife and mother
"Zebra" is based on some of Fu Zhen's real experiences. At the press conference, Fu Zhen took the lead in sincerely sharing his experience. She has traveled to Thailand to receive help from assisted reproductive technologies because of several congenital miscarriages. The journey in Thailand and the arduous process of childbirth made Fu Zhen decide that "if one day I can calmly face the pain of the past, I will personally pull the knife out of my chest." "Zebra" with a heavy volume of more than 300,000 words, fully writes the situation of women from all walks of life in marriage, family, workplace, and personal choice, and can also be seen as Fu Zhen's healing work.
When talking about the topic of women's anxiety, Fu Zhen believes that women do not have a stable, clear, mainstream gender perception like men. "Now that the traditional image of women has collapsed, we don't want to be goddesses, we don't want to be good wives and mothers, and we don't want to be hot moms or superhuman mothers, but new cognition has not yet been established." In the midst of this chaos and division, we become more anxious. ”
Best-selling author Fu Zhen
But Fu Zhen also said that if you look at it from another perspective, women have a stronger ability to adapt because of this. "From a more positive point of view, we can grow for life. Because there will always be external events or changes in the concept of the times to shake our outlook on life. We adjust ourselves and grow into more complex and deeper people. ”
There is still too much neglect of women in the world
Ji Thirteen, CEO of Guohu Network, usually pays great attention to women's topics and analyzes this topic from a technical point of view on the spot. For example, Ji Thirteen said that the protective clothing of medical staff looks very fat, in part because of size problems. The minimum size of the international standard protective clothing S is 165 cm, and a woman under 160 cm in height wears it, and the brim of the hat may cover her eyes and it will be inconvenient to walk. The entire world of protective clothing is designed according to male standards.
"When design only needs to have one standard, people tend to unconsciously substitute male characters. The world is still full of a lot of inadvertent neglect of women. ”
In the face of childbearing, the situation of all women is common
Ji Yaya, a doctor of literature at Peking University and deputy editor of October magazine, analyzed Zebra from a professional perspective. She praised it as a surprising, mixed, and rich work. "Even the most ambitious novelist rarely does this, and there are so many ideas in a fictional text that can still touch me."
Zebra contains considerations of the institution of marriage, observations of death, reflections on redemption and negativity. In order to deal with the huge and complicated content, the writer deliberately designed two contrasting contrast groups, Allen, a 40-year-old female journalist from the United Kingdom, and Yu Jie, who came from a province in China and had the task of passing on the inheritance and eventually committed suicide in a foreign country.
Ji Yaya pointed out that in the topic of women's writing, Fu Zhen noticed that different categories of women faced different and similar situations when giving birth. "No matter where we give birth, whether we give birth in the field, or in a clinic in Bangkok that uses medical means and can enjoy medical guidance services, when you face the moment of childbirth, you are helpless, you are talking to yourself, and this situation is common."
Where does contemporary women's anxiety come from? How to deal with this anxiety? Jiya also gave her answer: "Our anxiety comes from the fact that the work is not the work of creation, but the work of making a living." When women are faced with breastfeeding duties, they also lose access to the means of production. But one day, you can take this anxiety as another creation, and that anxiety becomes a kind of nourishment, that is, writing itself. That's what writing is all about. ”
Nandu reporter Huang Qian