BEIJING, Oct. 4 (Xinhua) -- Recently, writer Yu Hua was on fire. He has written well-known works such as "Alive" and "Xu Sanguan Selling Blood", but this time he was pushed into the hot search because of his extraordinary humor:
I don't believe to see these hot searches: "Laughed to death by Yu Hua" "Yu Hua is a comedian who is delayed by writing"...
Infographic: Yu Hua. Photo by Zhong Xin
Some people asked, "Isn't he really talking about crosstalk?"; others recommended him to go to a talk show, "Surely it can be done". Many people did not expect that a writer with a very serious impression would be so interesting.
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Brush up on several popular videos about Yu Hua circulating on the Internet, and the painting style is indeed a bit funny.
There was an issue of Reader who invited Yu Hua. Yu Hua's parents are doctors, and they are particularly busy at work, so they lock him and his brother at home. The two men lay on the window and looked out at the view: from the second floor, they could see the vast fields.
He often went to play in the rice fields: because after the disaster, he had to find a place to hide, and when his father came to find someone, he cried, and the cry was to give his father a signal bomb to let him know where the direction was, "or he couldn't find me."
But the timing had to be grasped, and if he cried after he had passed, his father would not be able to hear it. This trick may not work again and again, because his father sometimes does not come to look for it, and Yu Hua has to go home by himself.
How long is the maximum time to lie in a rice paddy? "Asleep."
His father, a surgeon, also treated him, but it was a "tragic experience." His father wanted to punish him, and he felt that he could not hide in the rice field when he was old, so he pretended to be ill and said that his stomach hurt, "When I was a child, I had acting skills."
As a result, my father probably believed it. Waiting for the operating table, Yu Hua found that the joke had become bigger, and hurriedly remedied, "I don't hurt now, can you let me come down", but it was too late, and the appendix was cut off.
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Talking about how he embarked on the path of literature, Yu Hua's description also revealed a trace of humor.
He worked as a dentist. On the first day of work, I extracted my teeth. For this job, Yu Hua does not like it very much, and especially does not like to see other people's open mouths every day, because it is "the most scenic place in the world".
Infographic: Writer Yu Hua appears in the Lüliang Literature Season. Photo by Wu Junjie
After five years of tooth extraction, he really didn't want to pull it out again, especially wanted to go to the cultural center. Yu Hua once teased himself: Why later critics praised me for the simplicity of my language is because I know few words.
It doesn't matter if you don't have the foundation to write a novel, find a magazine to read first. He took "People's Literature" and studied it carefully, and it felt almost over, well, and began to write.
After starting literary creation, he cheekily submitted his works to important magazines first, and continued to invest in lower grades when rejected. Later, his article could be published, but the requirement was that the end of the work should be changed to "bright".
Yu Hua immediately agreed: As long as it can be published, I can give you light from beginning to end. A few years later, different magazines sent three letters of engagement at the same time, and he was very proud: from the submission of no one to the continuous appointment, that was the only moment when I felt famous.
In this way, with one work after another, Yu Hua became a well-known great writer.
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Speaking of which, the reason why many netizens feel that Yu Hua has some "contrasting cuteness" is not unrelated to his works. Some readers read books such as "Alive" or "Xu Sanguan Selling Blood" and give the key words "cruel" or "cold".
Someone has analyzed that this may be related to Yu Hua's childhood experience: his childhood is basically in the hospital. In addition, because there is no bathroom at home, it is necessary to go to the opposite bathroom.
Image source: Screenshot of the Reader video
Go through the morgue when going to the toilet. There is no door in the morgue, there is no door in the men's toilet, and there is no door in the women's toilet, recalling all this, Yu Hua humorously explained, "Why? You put on a wooden door, and you're carried away in the middle of the night and you go back to making furniture."
He was not afraid, and he was basically awakened every night by the cries of his bereaved relatives, and at a very young age he was able to distinguish between various cries.
Yu Hua once revealed that he took a nap in the morgue: it was very hot in the summer, and later he found that the morgue was particularly cool, and once he took a nap there without any sweat.
Growing up, he read a poem by Heine to the effect that "death is a cool night," and the mental activity at the time was as follows: That's how I felt about taking a nap in the morgue.
Combined with some of his works, some people say that Yu Hua precipitates the observation of life into the novel in a cold narrative way, and uses black humor to tell the unwillingness and suffering in life.
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However, this time Yu Hua's sense of humor has become a hot topic, so that many people can see the other side of him: dressed very casually, like to laugh when talking, do not chew words, do not hold a shelf, writers can also be so grounded.
Data map: Yu Hua Gao Kai photo
Some people have therefore gone through his books again and felt that they had experienced a lot of life philosophies: What is the meaning of living? Be able to see the reality clearly and dare to face the reality.
There are also people who see the power of life in his novels: people always have to go through setbacks and tribulations in their lives, and things are impermanent and difficult to do as people wish. But we still have to experience this, with hope, and always yearn for life.
After watching a work, after laughing and sighing, there are more valuable thoughts, perhaps, this is also what people have to do. (End)
Source: China News Network