Literature can connect you and me, connect society and the individual, connect the vast world and independent life.
On the evening of September 8, "Harvest" x Harvest App jointly launched the online literary comic talk activity "Boundless Literature Night" to talk about the times, life, culture and literature. This is also a new attempt of "unbounded" by the 65-year-old "Harvest".
In the past, traditional literary journals such as Harvest could only appear in the public eye through offline space. This time, the online WeChat video number was selected as the broadcast carrier, focusing on the literary theme through the vertical screen live broadcast program, taking the wisdom of the writer as the narrative carrier, using the popular and cool presentation method of young people, triggering emotional resonance with folk music, and also trying to subvert the traditional forms of stalls, lectures, forums and other forms, and deeply echoing the emotional needs of young people at present in a new way of presentation.
"Harvest" joined hands with the drunkard for the first time, "moved" the conversation place to the winemaking workshop of the Xiangxi liquor, the aroma of books and wine blended, and in the postmodern industrial-style factory, a "drunken beauty" rambling conversation began.
Live warmly
The first question of the long talk was first thrown to Cheng Yongxin and Yu Hua by peng Min, the host of the general series, to open the first chapter.
When it comes to the nothingness in life, Yu Hua thinks so: Nothingness is also one of our necessities in life. Weakness, weakness, weakness in life is a virtue. If one has no sense of fear, no weakness, it is difficult for human beings to move forward. The same goes for nothingness. Reality is often oppressive to all people, and at this time nothingness can help us to get rid of it and then return to reality. "When this emotion comes out, it's important how you deal with it, as long as it doesn't pervade in your heart, as long as it's under control, just like we have inflammation, which somehow fights for our health." There must be some inflammation in life, and nothingness is an inflammation. ”
Near the end, Peng Min asked such a question for many young people living in big cities: We want to know how to love, how to get rid of loneliness, how to become a free person, how to build our own world? Yu Hua's answer was to the point: "It's very simple, you just have to love others in the way you love yourself." ”
Echoes of reality
Although the small world of literature is as beautiful as a paradise, a realistic shore is always waiting for us to return.
Liang Xiaosheng felt that in ancient and modern China and abroad, people who have not experienced the difficulties, tribulations, and ups and downs of life are almost non-existent. He changed the outlook on life of Lu Xun, who had once encouraged himself, and encouraged everyone: First, we must survive, second, we must develop, and third, we must have a future. Survival is not survival; Development is not a luxury; Having a future is not having ambitions. "I especially understand the kinds of wandering and stress that young people face today, although they are different from our experiences in form, but they also have weight on their shoulders. But sometimes what you choose, you have to be responsible for the results of your own choices. If the result is bitter, it must be like the line in "The World", which is chosen by oneself and chewed. ”
Li Jingze thought about the power of literature from this. "Why literature? Many works of literature are often not showing you the happiness of others. The characters are going through all kinds of hardships and tribulations. In a sense, developing our ability to feel the pain and hardship of others so that we will not be trapped here forever. Therefore, this famous critic also put forward more profound requirements for writers: if a writer cannot be good at understanding the psychology of others, the situation of others, and the difficulties of others, such a writer is probably a pale writer in this era.
Liang Xiaosheng also believes that the responsibilities of reading and creating are not the same. "When I wasn't creating, when I wasn't a writer, reading was about finding a harbor where my mind was relatively relaxed. Creation must face society and face reality. Even if you write historical themes, you must refer to society and history and express your own view of history. ”
Script of Destiny
If literature is the poetry of ordinary people, then how can we obtain the poetry of life?
Bi Feiyu began his own thinking from a famous quote by Flaubert: All the beauty of nature, all the poetry, depends on the writer to support it. "Poetry is what human beings themselves have given to the details of human existence, environment, habitation, and life. In this sense, poetry is acquired, not natural, but a higher feeling and higher cognition about life formed through the accumulation of culture. ...... The so-called poetry in life is that you find or establish yourself in life, and poetry will appear. This is the poetry you have created yourself. ”
The point of confusion of the host Peng Min is: how to use the poetry in life to fight against fate against the nothingness in life? Su Tong used one of his short stories, "The Head of the White Snow Pig", to go deep and simple: in a negative sense, if you only use the so-called poetry to fight against nothingness, it will only make life more nihilistic. "Without the eyes of love, poetry is invisible."
There was also a small accident on the day of the long talk event: Shuang Xuetao, a male writer who was also scheduled to talk with Diane after the 80s, was injured because of playing football, so the fourth chapter of "The Script of Destiny" once again invited Back Bi Feiyu, who "personally tore the script of fate". Fate magically reunited him and his "little niece" Diane again and again. "You can't say that it is the result of my efforts, nor can you say that it is the result of her efforts, this is the finger of the god of fate of literature made a small fluctuation, which led to such a show that we are at this moment, very storytelling." 」
A gift of literature
In the post-pandemic era, the uncertainties of life have been greatly strengthened. Such a breathing space is like a literary work, giving our lives an anchor, giving uncertain lives relatively certain spiritual coordinates. At this point, the night is dark, and the topic becomes gentle. Jia Zhangke recalled the imposing sentence "The water of the Yellow River comes from heaven", "From heaven, for a child, this strange imagination is a gift, teaching us to imagine." From this, he firmly believes that maintaining a literary thinking ability and thinking method is very important for everyone, "because understanding anything requires putting yourself in the shoes of others, and you can be objective, you can only be from multiple angles, and you can think positively and negatively." Our reaction to an event should not be a uniform action, we should expound and understand a thing from different angles, and the scale of rhetoric is also very important. I think that's why literature is particularly needed in this era. ”
Alai recalls with emotion the reading time of his youth, his youth, "It is expanding you, it is enriching you, it is turning you into another person." ”
A world without boundaries
The last chapter has to do with "Unbounded". Born in 1984, the leopard first talked about mobility. "I think in our generation, movement is the final number. Everyone sees the opportunity for wealth in the flow, sees the opportunity for change in the social ladder, and uses the flow as an opportunity. Our generation can easily feel nothing if it is not mobile. "Even if the body is framed and restricted," at least literature may be a drone that allows you to look down at a low altitude, see the ravine next to the rice field with a border, see the highway next to it, the distant mountains, the sky. I don't have high expectations for literature, but I think I can at least look at life again at a low altitude. ”
Han Shaogong believes that a writer cannot be too pure. "What is pure literature, I also have a skeptical attitude. Our ancient China is not pure literature, it is all miscellaneous literature. Isn't the history written by Sima Qian literature? Isn't the philosophy written by Zhuangzi literature? As the saying goes, literature has no boundaries, it is not only bounded, but also narrower and narrower, becoming a very simple requirement of Wenqing, which is not good. I hope that an author will not only read literature, but preferably read miscellaneous books and do some miscellaneous work. ”
The rambling also invited two domestic folk musicians with a deep humanistic atmosphere, Zhou Yunpeng and Zhang Qianqian. They may sing quietly and quietly, or they may be vast and desolate. The hidden inner strength is both reassuring and heart-wrenching.
The heart is like a wilderness, and literature has no boundaries.
(Fu Kan)