He is a national first-class writer, the famous novel "Endless Treasure" and "Wujiang Introduction" came from his pen; he is a well-known drama and film screenwriter, the wonderful "Guangling Jie" and "Shanghai King" were born out of his rich imaginary world; his novel works have won the "Overseas Influence of Chinese Books" annual TOP10, the drama works have been performed in international theater festivals such as Avignon in France and Cheongju in South Korea. He is Pompeii, a unique strength literati in China.
Pompeii did not appear to be as condescending as the titles he held, on the contrary, he was a sincere and pragmatic and down-to-earth literary and artistic worker. He meticulously crafted his work, crafting every word with a craftsman's heart and giving back to his readers. He is humble, practical, has a strong sense of responsibility in the industry, he not only cares about the needs of readers, pays attention to the development of society, but also has independent views and expectations for the industry and the academic community, paves the way for the future of the industry with his own actions, realizes the expectations in his heart step by step, and takes root in the vast land.
Pictured: Pompeii and his novel "Wujiang Yin"
Pompeii, who worked in literature and art, also had little-known military experience. He graduated from the PLA Foreign Chinese College in his early years, served as a staff officer of the PLA General Staff, and has long been engaged in the study of international issues, and has published influential treatises such as "China and the United Nations". With a background in English and American literature, this experience of working in the military ultimately shaped his unique knowledge structure and broad international vision. After transferring from the army, he worked in the film and television industry for a time, supervising tv series such as "The King of Western Songs" and publishing books such as "People's Dreams: 20th Century Film Masterpieces".
Pompeii has worked and lived in Shenzhen for many years, and his reading cultivation in both China and the West has made him the editor-in-chief of the Reading Weekly of Shenzhen Special Economic Zone News for a long time, and has served as a member of the Expert Steering Committee of Shenzhen Reading Month, a judge of "Book City Selection" and "Top Ten Good Books of the Year". Now he is already a national first-class writer, drama and film screenwriter, a member of the Chinese Writers Association and a professional writer of the Guangzhou Academy of Literature and Art Creation. The change of identity has made him have a deeper understanding and idea of readers, the industry and society on the occasion of the annual reading activity month.
Pompeii believes that every year during the reading month, when he faced many enthusiastic readers, he felt the contradiction between the huge production of books, especially long-form literary works, and the limited reading time of readers. Nowadays, the number of novels published and published in China every year has reached nearly 10,000, which does not include a large number of online literary works. Pompeii said that from a quantitative point of view, there are too many literary works. At the same time, people can also feel that there are still not many works that can be retained, shouted, and spread. In this case, the writer should realize that the more works the better, and not to be too limited to their own empiricist writing ideas. For writers, there should be another kind of self-discipline, that is, a high-quality creative standard, an aesthetic height that looks at world literature. For Pompeii himself, he practiced this self-discipline into his daily creation, "I advocate that it is better to write less and to make every work as strict as possible perfect." He hopes that other fellow writers can also pursue and practice this kind of industry self-discipline, create more works that can be circulated for a long time, and make the literary industry more prosperous.
In addition to starting from his own perspective as an author, Pompeii also pays great attention to the reader's reading psychology and the choice state of the market. From the perspective of the relationship between the author and the reader, he believes that the reader also needs to have a standard of reading, the standard of selecting books and the standard of aesthetics. In the face of the abundant and massive choices in today's literary market, the time and cost of each reader are quite limited, so the establishment of this reader standard requires some industry experts, book critics and reading month activities to guide and drive. If the reader group can establish a unique and high-quality aesthetic and selection standard, then the reader will be more rational and effective in the process of selecting works and reading books.
The reason why Pompeii emphasizes that both authors and readers need to have their own standards is because with the mutual cooperation of the two standards, reading and creation can form an efficient and benign interaction, promote the continuous optimization of the production of works in the industry, and eventually make reading a positive and healthy activity that can really bring the greatest spiritual value. This is precisely his ultimate pursuit of this industry, the most perfect relationship between readers and authors, and he is also using his own strength to gradually draw this idealized blueprint into shape.