Author | Wang Yuanhui
A friend asked me why you started writing, and I couldn't answer for a while. Since I wrote a diary and reading notes when I was a child, and later wrote a journal in QQ space, I have been answering questions in Zhihu in recent years, and I don't know why I wrote, but I remembered the following story, which is how the famous writers Yu Hua, Mo Yan and Su Tong began to write.
The famous writer Yu Hua, once wrote a book - "Alive", which was adapted into a movie in 1994, directed by Zhang Yimou, starring Ge You and Gong Li, whether it is a novel or a movie, has won awards.
Yu Hua is a very thoughtful person, he once talked about why he embarked on the road of literary creation.
Yu Hua was originally a tooth extractor, working in a township health center in his local rural area, specializing in extracting teeth for people. He has not studied medicine, let alone extracted teeth, it can be said that he is not even a barefoot doctor, but he has to extract teeth on his first day of work.
His master, an old doctor in the health center, was in his seventies at the time, too old to extract his teeth. So he asked Yu Hua to see himself pulling his teeth, only looked at it once, and asked Yu Hua: "Do you understand?" Remember how to extract teeth? ”
Yu Hua said: "Remember. ”
The master said, "Okay, the next person is coming, you will pull it." ”
So, Yu Hua began to extract teeth on the first day of work.
After a while, the person who came to extract the tooth every day did not say anything, and as a result, Yu Hua was unhappy, and the doctor who extracted the tooth could not stand it. What is the reason?
It turned out that Yu Hua saw the staff of the cultural center in the county, the career establishment, these people did not have to go to work at all, in other words, if these people were in this health center where Yu Hua was, they did not have to extract teeth for others.
He worked an eight-hour shift at the clinic, pulled his teeth for eight hours, and people walked the streets for eight hours, so he asked people, "Why don't you go to work at the cultural center?" ”
The staff of the cultural center told Yu Hua that we are shopping at work, and we must understand social life, so that we can carry out cultural creation, carry out cultural activities, and how to understand staying in the cultural center all day.
Yu Hua then made up his mind to go to work in the cultural center, but Yu Hua thought to himself, I can't just pull teeth, and people don't want the skills of tooth extraction. So, he began to write novels, and as he wrote, people transferred him to the cultural center.
After being transferred to the cultural center, Yu Hua was deliberately two hours late for work on the first day, but when he arrived at the unit, he found that he was the first to arrive at the entire cultural center... Since then, Yu Hua has told herself: "My life has finally begun!" ”
Once, Yu Hua was invited by foreigners to participate in a literary forum, along with the famous writers Mo Yan and Su Tong.
People asked him to talk about how he got into the literary world, so he said the above paragraph. What he didn't expect was that after he said this, his colleague, Mo Yan, who had also won international awards, was also moved.
Mo Yan said that I used to be a sentry, and the shoes I wore were not good, and I didn't keep warm, so I wanted to change myself into a pair of boots that only a company commander could wear, so I started writing novels.
After both of them finished speaking, there was a writer next to them who couldn't sit still. Su Tong was so ashamed that he even tore up his speech on the spot.
Su Tong said that I was admitted to Beijing Normal University and majored in literature, so I wanted to devote myself to literary creation and contribute to China's literary cause. Originally, this was normal, from a science class, but Su Tong listened to the stories and speeches of the previous two, others pulled their teeth and had no shoes to wear, what am I?
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Hubian 1995, author Wang Yuanhui, a Z generation youth who insists on reading, occasionally chatting about history, addicted to learning every day can not extricate himself, if one day sends you a large paragraph of strange text, don't be surprised, it is just to share interesting facts with you.
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