Recently, some media found that Jia Qianqian, the daughter of The famous Shaanxi writer Jia Pingwa, who had previously caused controversy over the style of poetry, appeared in the list of members to be developed in 2022 announced by the China Writers Association.
On August 17, the China Writers Association announced the list of members to be developed in 2022, among the 994 members to be developed, including Long Pingping, screenwriter of the TV series "The Age of Awakening" and author of the novel of the same name, well-known directors Jia Zhangke and Xu Haofeng, famous playwright Liu Heping, and online literary writers Zheng Yi (pen name Concern is Chaos), Meng Xing (returning to the truth), Ren He (talking elbow) and so on.
China Writers Association 2022 Membership Development Announcement. Source: Screenshot of the web page
According to the Beiqing Daily, Jia Qianqian, the daughter of the famous Shaanxi writer Jia Pingwa, also appeared on the list. Born in 1979, Jia Qianqian published his self-selected poetry collection "The Hundredth Night" in early 2018, which collected more than 130 outstanding poems created over the years; In March 2020, the poetry collection "Inland Lake in the Coconut" was published.
At the beginning of last year, an article titled "Tang Xiaolin: Jia Qianqian's Explosion of Popularity, Highlighting the Chaos in the Poetry World" became popular, and also pushed the poet Jia Qianqian and his father Jia Pingwo on the hot search.
On January 28 last year, the WeChat public account "Literary Freedom Talk" published an article titled "Tang Xiaolin: Jia Qianqian's Explosion of Popularity, Highlighting the Chaos in the Poetry World".
Author Tang Xiaolin criticized Jia's shallow poems as "enter key branch writing", "The most significant feature of this kind of boiled water-like 'shallow body' poetry is to treat boredom as interesting and divide nonsense into lines - as if it is the product of pressing the enter key all the way." ”
According to the article, the nature of Jia Qianqian's poetry is "perverted, filthy, obscene, and mediocre" and "it is not so much writing poetry as it is wantonly trashing and desecrating poetry in the name of poetry." The polluting, contagious and destructive nature of its writing is undoubtedly a rare poison to contemporary poetry." The article gives examples of poems such as the award-winning "Lang Lang":
The article gives an example of the award-winning poems such as "Lang Lang" The screenshot of the article "Tang Xiaolin: Jia Shallow And Red, Highlighting the Chaos in the Poetry World" is screenshotted
In the article, the author criticized "Jia's father-daughter relay race like singing harmony and praising each other", and questioned the fairness of Jia Qianqian's award, saying that "(2017) On December 26, 2017, Jia Qianqian won the poetry award of the second Shaanxi Youth Literature Award.... The organizers of this literary award are Yanhe Magazine and Shaanxi Youth Literature Association. The paradox is that the editor-in-chief of Yanhe magazine is Jia Qianqian's father, Jia Pingwa, and Jia Qianqian himself is the vice chairman of the Shaanxi Youth Literature Association. From this point of view, the 'referees' and 'athletes' of this award are from the same family - is it true that The Jia father and daughter are really for literature, and they do not shy away from their relatives? ”
In the article, the author criticized, "Jia's father and daughter sang harmony with each other like a relay race and praised each other"
In addition, the article states, "The reason why this kind of 'shallow body' poetry is sought after and suddenly became popular is because there are countless invisible hands that are turning clouds and rain, making waves... In some critics, literary criticism is like doing the business of human relations."
The author said, "In the preface to Jia Qianqian's poetry collection 'The Hundredth Night', Zhang Qinghua showed his praise of 'divine skills'", and then, "at the sharing meeting of Zhang Qinghua's Heidelberg Notes held in Xi'an, Jia Pingwo made a high-profile appearance for Zhang Qinghua."
The article argues, "In some critics, literary criticism is like doing the business of human relations."
This critical article then quickly ignited the public opinion field, netizens began to discuss what is the beauty of poetry, whether it is appropriate to appear in poetry, and even began to launch a "shallow body" imitation contest on the Internet, "shallow body" style plus the label of "Daughter of Jia Ping", so that the incident was further fermented. According to statistics, the number of Weibo topics read by "poems published by Jia Pingwa's daughter raises doubts" has reached 600 million.
However, in addition to the criticism of the "shallow body", many writers, scholars and netizens have put forward the opposite opinion, they believe that for poetry, there can be many subjective evaluation criteria, but the evaluation standard should be "on poetry", do not presuppose positions because of identity, if you just extract fragments and words in poetry to criticize, it is more like "black for black".
It has also been pointed out that Jia Qianqian's poetry is not entirely the style mentioned in the above article, such as this "Coconut" -
Some of the seawater is tied in coconuts
Become a quiet inland lake
It refuses to participate in the tie-dye of time
Like the object preposition in ancient texts
You can only stand with your hands hanging down
Look up at it
The Surging News contacted the author of the article, Tang Xiaolin, who said that he was concerned about online remarks, but it was not convenient to express personal opinions, and hoped that literature would be handed over to literature and let readers judge themselves. And Jia Qianqian and Jia Ping did not respond.
In the book "Inland Lake in coconuts", Jia Qianqian's introduction is "associate professor of the School of Literature of Northwest University, doctor of literature, student of the 32nd advanced research class of Lu Xun College of Literature, participated in the 35th Youth Poetry Society, and vice chairman of the Shaanxi Youth Literature Association." ”
Source: Screenshot of Northwestern University's official website
The reporter inquired on the official website of Northwest University and found that Jia Qianqian's main research direction is Chinese modern and contemporary literature and poetry, and he studied undergraduate in the Department of Chinese of Northwest University, a graduate student in the Department of Chinese of Shaanxi Normal University, and later a doctorate in the Department of Chinese of Northwest University. Since September 2018, he has been working in the School of Liberal Arts of Northwestern University.
The official website also introduces Jia Qianqian's main scientific research achievements in recent years, including the selection of "Selected Essays of Jia Pingwo" and the poetry collection "The Hundredth Night", as well as the project project "Research on the Correlation between Jia Pingwo Calligraphy and Painting and the Spirit of Literature and Art", the paper "The Speech and Meaning of Life - On Jia Pingwa's Calligraphy Creation", "Research on jia Pingwo Painting Art research under literary horizons", etc.
Sources | Observer Network synthesis