Source: China Economic Network
"Hello friends passing by, would you like to stop and listen to me tell a story?" At 8:00 p.m. on April 23, with a kind greeting from Mo Yan, "Mo Yan's Wonderful Story Meeting" kicked off in the Douyin live broadcast room.
The live broadcast room that night was arranged like a fantasy park, and three guests sat around the case under the "big tree". In addition to Mo Yan, the other two guests were Xu Zechen, an award-winning writer of the Mao Dun Literature Award, and Jiang Nan, author of "The Chronicles of Kyushu". In the program, Mo Yan shared the creative story behind the new book "Mo Yan's Strange And Strange Story Collection". He also chatted with Xu Zechen and Jiang Nan about topics of concern to young people such as "anti-anxiety", "cat picking" and "hair loss". It is reported that the program lasted for 1.5 hours, and the cumulative number of viewers in the live broadcast room of the Douyin account @ Mo Yan exceeded 25 million.
The three writers started with creative inspiration. Mo Yan admits that all his creative inspiration comes from childhood. The cats I raised when I was a child, the stories told by my grandfather, the mysterious women who passed by on the road, the folklore that I heard on business trips... Stories that may have been hearsay or personal experiences are like pearls that string together his creative treasure trove.
Talking about which story in Mo Yan's Strange and Strange Story Collection is the most favorite, the three guests opened the conversation box. Mo Yan mentioned "Cat Affair Collection", laughingly saying that he "writes cats is better than all writers", and tells the strange experience of raising cats when he was a child; Xu Zechen commented that "The Woman with Flowers" is a divine article that can be encountered and unattainable; Jiang Nan said that there is no only answer to good novels.
In addition to exchanging literature, the three guests also chatted about life in the Douyin live broadcast room. Modern young people have a stressful life and are often overly anxious. Some netizens asked, "My 25-year-old boyfriend has begun to show signs of hair loss, how should I kindly remind him" "Wear a hat", "Mo-style" humorous answers triggered a burst of laughter on the scene. Xu Zechen suggested that the best way to alleviate anxiety is to read a book, and Jiang Nan suggested using a brain-opening way of thinking to give him comfort. Subsequently, the three of them opened their minds even more, and improvised a story about the new book in a one-person-sentence relay.
"Brother is not the brother of the year", "Don't complain about me, complain about the eyes to cry"... In the program, Mo Yan's golden sentences are frequently published, so that the audience can feel the humor of this literary "duanzi hand". Mo Yan said that being evaluated as "cute" by young people is an unexpected gain for people to reach their old age, "I am a childlike person in my bones."
With the deepening of communication, the topic of the three people on the stage has also shifted from the real world to the virtual time and space. At 8:55 p.m., Douyin virtual creator "Liu Yexi" appeared on the scene. Liu Yexi asked Mo Yan, "If the fantasy world is not the real world, why do humans need it?" Mo Yan believes that this is the biggest difference between humans and animals, "Human beings can use their imagination to go beyond the scope of their real life." Then Mo Yan opened his mind again, imagining that many years later, the reality and the virtual world would become one, "On the stage at that time, there could be real people with flesh and blood, and there could also be virtual people from other universes. ”
At the end of the show, the three writers were invited to recommend a book to the audience in the live broadcast room. Mo Yan recommended the Norwegian playwright Ibsen's "Enemy of the People", "The problems mentioned in the script more than 100 years ago are still important issues in today's society, and they are not outdated at all." Xu Zechen recommended "Journey to the West", one of the four famous works, believing that it is a great work that can recharge the imagination at any time. Jiang Nan voted for Mo Yan's new book, saying that it was a very good book to read and exceptionally magnificent.
It is reported that the "Mo Yan's Wonderful Story Meeting" is one of the sub-chapters of the "Fantastic Knowledge in Douyin" activity that opened on April 7. Douyin also launched sections such as "Learning Interest Classes" and "College Open Classes". Users can search for "wonderful knowledge" on Douyin to enter the activity page and learn the knowledge content they are interested in.
The "2021 Douyin Pan-Knowledge Content Data Report" shows that in the past year, the number of Douyin pan-knowledge content plays increased by 74% year-on-year, accounting for 20% of the total playback on the platform. The data shows that acquiring wonderfully useful knowledge at TikTok has become a new way of learning.