Text | Li Zhe
"Horizontal and vertical just take a little salary, but also 24 hours to make people call" "You see, start painting cakes again, if I believe, I'm afraid I'm going to cry and break my intestines" ... "Lin Daiyu crazy literature" has recently become popular. On Weibo, it has 130 million views and 53,000 discussants; on the video platform, topics such as "male version of Lin Daiyu's crazy literary copywriting" and "Lin Daiyu's crazy quotations" have stimulated netizens' desire to create and imitate.
However, some people say that "Lin Daiyu's crazy literature" is to show the sense of superiority by stepping on the classics under their feet, which is uncomfortable. I think this is inevitably some overreaction, and there is no need to be too harsh on enthusiastic netizens. If you imitate the classic lines of Lin Daiyu, you can destroy a "Dream of the Red Chamber", then "Dream of the Red Chamber" is inevitably too fragile. The reason why the classic is a classic is that its vitality is very strong.
Classics are neither meant to be wasted at will, nor are they meant to be shelved. As Tao Wei, editor of the Institute of Dream of the Red Chamber of the China Academy of Arts, said, the popularity of Daiyu's body, Lin Qi's body, and Daiyu's crazy body all reflect the capture and play of the sensitive, self-centered, straightforward and sharp personality characteristics of Lin Daiyu's image today, which is a very interesting phenomenon and fully reflects the influence of literary classics.
In other words, being able to learn and use the language of the characters in literary masterpieces at least shows that they have read this work and are more familiar with it in order to imitate it perfectly. The popularity of this "subculture" has invisibly enhanced the charm of classical literary works in contemporary times, objectively diverged the influence of literary classics, and promoted the inheritance and inheritance of traditional culture.
In fact, there are many similar phenomena, such as the use of Lu Xun's famous sayings and aphorisms, the deconstruction of Jin Yong's works and their protagonists; on the contrary, excessive mystification and sacralization of classics are actually a kind of harm to classics. Literature is used to read, and the best way to protect it is to provide conditions and guidance as much as possible, so that more people can read it, talk about it, and use it.
Huang Anjing, editor-in-chief of "Chewing Words", believes that this way of making sentences is to use the discourse data that everyone knows well or is "warmly welcomed" by society to create new discourse forms and express unique psychological feelings. "Whether it is the Zhiyin body, the Zhen Huan body or the Daiyu body, I think it is a positive way of speaking, and there is no need to be harsh."
Source TV series "Dream of the Red Chamber"
In fact, compared with those simple and rude spitting and accusations and insults, isn't this kind of cultural recollection and irony more worthy of acceptance? "Lin Daiyu Crazy Literature" can also be said to be a rebellion against the short and fast expression of the Internet to some extent. This kind of rebellion has the basis of popularization of education and the improvement of netizens' cultural literacy, and is also the embodiment of the overall progress of society.
Frankly speaking, among the four famous works, although the status of "Dream of the Red Chamber" is almost the first place without controversy, in terms of popularity, whether it is literary works or film and television works, its national familiarity is not as good as the other three. Even illiterate old people and children with incomplete literacy can relish "Journey to the West", but sitting together to discuss "Dream of the Red Chamber" requires a certain threshold.
Now, the popularity of these Lin Daiyu sentences, although they are not called literature, can be seen as a life-like application of "Dream of the Red Chamber". Today's young people are more stressed in life, especially the overtime workers and the examination and research families. They occasionally stop and need to relieve their pressure on social platforms, and the blunt spit is no longer enough, and borrowing classic literary works to express emotions is quietly popular.
What's not to like about that? The Internet is inherently lifelike, especially in the age of social media, which is not only full of a variety of goods, but also full of people's various emotions, emotions and moods. In the face of this richness and diversity, we should be open and inclusive, rather than negative sighing.
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Text: Li Zhe
Recitation: Wang Qian
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