On June 7, Jiang Fangzhou was on the hot search because she was questioned as "pro-Japanese", and her travelogue "Tokyo One Year" written in 2017 was also pointed out by many netizens as inappropriate, and many angry readers brushed the book with one or two stars on Douban. Some readers left a message: "I didn't look at it, just identify the pseudo-army." ”
Jiang Fangzhou became famous as a teenager and published the first at the age of 9
An essay, "Opening the Skylight," was called "The Genius Girl." In 21 years, she published a total of 15 books, of which the lowest rating was only 5.7.
Very early on, Jiang Fangzhou realized that he might not be a genius: "Under my various views, I hide blankness and emptiness. ”
She also hated the spotlight, saying: "The famous sentence early has hurt a lot of people." ”
But the aura of "genius girl" still allows her to enjoy preferential treatment, giving her a superior life that ordinary people cannot have.
Perhaps unable to give up such an aura, last year she published a new book, "Walking with the Only One Who Knows Why The Stars Shine", and said on Weibo: "My fifteenth book is almost finished, and I am not far from the real work." ”
As a result, a month later, her Weibo was attacked, and netizens scolded her: "It's despicable!"
As soon as Jiang Fangzhou was born, her mother, Shang Ailan, was worried that she had an intellectual disability, so she and the other children in the delivery room were put together to test their reactions to things.
The other children were quite normal, and Jiang Fangzhou "looked at the sky with both eyes and did not cry or move." Shang Ailan felt bad in her heart, and had been carefully observing Jiang Fangzhou's intelligence until she was 1 year old.
Shang Ailan is a Chinese teacher, and once in ten minutes between classes, she asked Jiang Fangzhou to make a set of test papers, and Jiang Fangzhou scored full marks. Shang Ailan instantly had confidence in Jiang Fangzhou and decided to cultivate her daughter's "intellectual confidence" and make her believe that she was a smart person.
In order to achieve this, Shang Ailan never said in front of others: "My children are stupid. ”
When Jiang Fangzhou was 5 years old, under Shang Ailan's "Devil Training Method", he already knew a lot of words, and Shang Ailan gave all the cartoons that children read to others, and began to let Jiang Fangzhou read "adult books", the first was Sanmao's "The Story of the Sahara", the second was "The Complete Works of Liu Yong", and also tried to show Jiang Fangzhou "The Complete Works of Kafka", but Jiang Fanglan really couldn't understand it, and Shang Ailan took back Kafka and took out other novel biographies.
Shang Ailan believes: "The level of reading determines the level of cognition. If the reading is too low-minded, the cultivated reader is too low-minded. ”
< Shang Ailan and baby Jiang Fangzhou >
This year, Jiang Fangzhou had not yet attended elementary school.
Two years later, Shang Ailan assigned Jiang Fangzhou a new task, not only to read, but also to write. On the weekend, Shang Ailan gave Jiang Fangzhou, who was alone at home, a pen and paper, and said, "You write oh, write well yourself." It was cold, Jiang Fangzhou did not remember from bed, Shang Ailan still said to her: "You write." Jiang Fangzhou shouted desperately in the bed: "Where I write, you stipulate it!" ”
Shang Ailan said: "Before I come back, I must write here." ”
During the summer vacation, Shang Ailan heard that a 9-year-old child in the United States had co-written a book with his father, and was determined to let Jiang Fangzhou follow suit, so she lied to her daughter and said: "Every child must publish a book after graduating from primary school, which is stipulated by the national government." ”
Jiang Fangzhou's first article was written in a mess, but Shang Ailan felt hopeful, and she calculated: "Collect an egg a week, how much will you accumulate after five years?" - More than enough to put together a book. ”
Under the supervision of Shang Ailan, Jiang Fangzhou kept writing, and when she was bored with writing, she asked: "Can it be published in the end?" I've written so much, haven't I written enough? Shang Ailan replied: "Surely it will be published, I promise you." ”
It was indeed published. When Jiang Fangzhou was 9 years old, Shang Ailan contacted the publishing house to give her her her first book, called "Open the Skylight". "Open the Skylight" contains a total of 67 articles, two of which were written by Shang Ailan, mainly to introduce the writing situation of Jiang Fangzhou, shang Ailan wrote: "She has hardly had any difficulty in writing. ”
The other 65 articles, according to Shang Ailan, are the works of Jiang Fangzhou. Many of these short stories are not short of golden sentences. For example, in the first article" "Kissing the King", Jiang Fangzhou wrote: "I think there is too much LOVE in this world, but my mother said that there is too little LOVE." ”
In Discovery, Jiang Fangzhou wrote: "A life ascended to heaven, and a meteor fell on the ground." ”
There is a story in "Open the Skylight" called "Sales", which tells the story of Jiang Fangzhou's experience of selling electric writing boards. At the end of the story, Jiang Fangzhou wrote: "Whoever mentions sales in the future will be anxious with whomever I want." Mother Shang Ailan said next to her: "It is impossible, if a person wants to have a career, he can't do without selling himself all his life." ”
In 2001, after the publication of "Open the Skylight", it quickly attracted the attention of the media, and the publicity of the book focused on the "9-year-old talented girl", and soon, the book was listed by the Hunan Provincial Education Commission as a quality education book for primary and secondary school students. Since August, Jiang Fangzhou has been invited by major media to set up columns in newspapers. Talk to people about sports, movies, essays, everything.
In this process, Jiang Fangzhou and his mother Shang Ailan did not rest, non-stop in writing new books, the day after the first book signed the contract, Jiang Fangzhou began to write her first novel "Is Developing", in 2002 she published two books in succession, one is "Pre-Adolescence", mainly about the interesting things that happened to her fifth grade and classmates, the other is called "All Look at Me", recording small stories in life, the first page of the book, Jiang Fangzhou himself wrote: "I have piles of 'interesting'. ”
Jiang Fangzhou, who < junior high school, >
At that time, the editor of the supplement of the Southern Metropolis Daily gave a preface to Jiang Fangzhou's "All Look at Me", which read:
"What could be more frustrating than a thirteen-year-old girl who has worked so hard to appreciate a little bit of a secret of words that I have worked so hard to grasp today, or even better than I have done it myself?"
Shang Ailan also seized the time to publish a book called "Jiang Fangzhou's Composition Revolution", the slogan of the book is: "A wise interpretation of the path to success of a writing genius." The book mainly focuses on how Shang Ailan raised her daughter Jiang Fangzhou.
Some people questioned Shang Ailan's eagerness to make quick gains, and Shang Ailan responded: "How about writing a book without publishing it?" Just like the rice made is not allowed to be eaten, is it necessary to wait until it is steamed to call a good meal? ”
Under the impetus of his mother Shang Ailan and the pursuit of the media, Jiang Fangzhou wrote books faster and faster, participated in more and more activities, and even held several different titles.
From 2003 to 2004, the Beijing News, the Southern Metropolis Daily, the Zhengzhou Evening News, and the Changchun Alley Newspaper all invited Jiang Fangzhou to set up a column in the newspaper, and in 2005, Jiang Fangzhou was elected chairman of the China Young Writers Association, and in the same year, as a "special student", he was admitted to the First Affiliated Middle School of the Chinese Normal School in Wuhan.
Jiang Fangzhou, who was studying in high school at Huashi No. 1 Affiliated High School, was not idle and took the time to publish two books.
But Jiang Fangzhou is not happy, she and the classmates around the relationship is not good, there is no friend, for this matter, Jiang Fangzhou and her mother Shang Ailan quarreled, the result of Shang Ailan said: "Happiness is not important, it is important to do things."
< Shang Ailan and Jiang Fangzhou >
Jiang Fangzhou's high school career is no different from that of ordinary high school students, but there is a difference when he takes the college entrance examination. In 2008, when Jiang Fangzhou was 18 years old, she was admitted to Tsinghua University with a score of 60.
At the same time, Guangzhou's "New Weekly" also sent an invitation letter to Jiang Fangzhou, asking her to be the chief writer of the magazine. During his college years, Jiang Fangzhou wrote a large number of essays, essays, current reviews, and book reviews, and in the year of graduation in 2013, Jiang Fangzhou collected them into a book entitled "I Admit That I Have Not Experienced Vicissitudes". The book's rating on Douban was 7.1 points, and the short comment with the most likes wrote:
"The incessant quotations throughout the book make it sad to read, like a storyteller stringing up a lot of irrelevant passages with crappy string words."
Jiang Fangzhou commented that her book was "full of bad reviews", but she did not expect that this was her highest-rated book.
When I was in college, Jiang Fangzhou was in Beijing and Shang Ailan was in Hubei, and the two either talked on the phone for two hours or video for three hours a day. Jiang Fangzhou said in an interview: "It still feels like there is a long umbilical cord that connects us and turns us into a very unpleasant relationship of dependence. ”
But after graduating from college, Jiang Fangzhou still let his mother retire early and come to Beijing to live with him.
Jiang Fangzhou because of the fame is too big, often have to go outside to socialize, once went home late, Shang Ailan said: "I watched a Taiwanese variety show, there is a female artist who raised a deaf dog, the female artist is curious about what the dog does at home every day, she installed a remote camera, and found that after she went to work every day, the dog has been lying on the ground on all fours, with the door above her head, so that you can feel the owner go home for the first time." I'm the dog. ”
Jiang Fangzhou felt sad when he heard this, so he went home every day for dinner. Even if she is relatively silent with her mother, she will not be left alone at home. Sometimes a friend comes to the house, and Shang Ailan puts it down after cooking, "like just throwing a pot of dog food."
Shang Ailan got up very early in the morning and opened her eyes at six or seven o'clock, and she often took advantage of this time to look at Jiang Fangzhou's mobile phone. "Don't miss every message and circle of friends in the group." Put your phone back in when you're done, and go back to sleep. Sometimes Jiang Fangzhou was awake, just watching Shang Ailan look at his mobile phone, and neither of them spoke.
In the four years of college, Jiang Fangzhou did not write a novel, one of the reasons was that she wanted to try to live a real life, but in the end she failed: "You are always isolated from life, you can never devote yourself to life, I even think this is not a kind of fate." 」 ”
In order to write, Jiang Fangzhou often went to the café at 8 o'clock in the morning and returned home in the evening because he wanted to avoid his mother.
A year after graduating, she tried to write a novel called "The End of the Story Was Already Written at the Beginning", but unfortunately, the score was still a fiasco: 6.5. The title with the highest praise on Douban is called:
"A book that you have to force yourself desperately to see the fifth book and ultimately fail to read due to physical discomfort."
At the end of his previous book, I Confess That I Have Not Experienced the Vicissitudes, Chiang Quotes Flaubert: "I believe that the art of literature does not involve personal feelings, and I do not want love, nor do I want hatred, pity, or anger." ”
Perhaps when writing novels, Jiang Fangzhou did the same, and she was reluctant to express herself personally. Readers may also see it, and leave a message: "The good feelings for Jiang Fangzhou have been exhausted." ”
Jiang Fangzhou was not convinced. In order to write a novel, Jiang Fangzhou went to visit his "black powder" Dr. Huang, who once left a message for Jiang Fangzhou: "Jiang Fangzhou should be paired with Xu Zhiyuan." Jiang Fangzhou was not convinced, took the initiative to pay attention to Dr. Huang, and the two chatted on Weibo and became friends.
Jiang Fangzhou had to send him his novel to read, and finally Dr. Huang said, "That torture I was at that time." The characters are not right, the words are also wrong, the things she writes are not in your life, but she is describing life, a very awkward state. ”
In order to prove that he has the talent to write novels, Jiang Fangzhou also went to meet with the editor-in-chief of a publishing house, and the other party said more directly: "Give up, you don't have any talent for writing novels." ”
Jiang Fangzhou blushed, and for half a day she said, "You believe me, I am sure I can write a good novel." ”
At this time, her mother, Shang Ailan, also published a book called "Composition Lesson". Jiang Fangzhou did not participate too much, nor did the monk Ailan communicate too much about the content. Even when both of them are writing, they deliberately avoid it, because "a family space cannot accommodate two artists, and the narrow space will always bump into each other's inflated souls." ”
Before Jiang Fangzhou became famous, her mother, Shang Ailan, was also a novelist, and she once won the first prize for novels in the first online original literature competition "Under the Banyan Tree". The judges of that year were Wang Anyi, Jia Pingwa and Yu Hua.
After her mother's focus was on Jiang Fangzhou, she never wrote a novel again, and Jiang Fangzhou, who grew up, did not write good works.
After the publication of the novel "The End of the Story Has Long Been Written at the Beginning", Jiang Fangzhou fell into self-doubt for a period of time.
"Whenever people say I don't have a work, the anxiety goes deeper."
In 2015, "at the invitation of the Japan Foundation for International Exchange," Jiang Fangzhou decided to temporarily give up his existing life and go to Tokyo to live alone for a year.
She gave the example of Goethe: Goethe, a civil servant, left everything at the age of 37 and went to Italy to write. "Italy saved him, saved him from the gears of fate of a vassal-like civil servant." Jiang Fangzhou felt that maybe Tokyo could save itself.
The difference is that Goethe created his greatest work in Italy, Faust, but Jiang Fangzhou did not get real inspiration in Japan, and she only had 46 diaries. Most of them are what she has seen and heard in Japan, her feelings of traveling to various attractions with her parents, some ideas about living alone and comments on Japanese folklore, but most of the content, like the essays written by Jiang Fangzhou in the past, has a large number of quotations and paraphrasing the stories of others.
One reader even wrote a review: "From < Tokyo's Annual > List."
But the more ruthless comment was written: "The flow account of living for one year is used to sell money, and it is too cheap to think." ”
< Jiang Fangzhou > in Japan
After writing it, it sold well, and Jiang Fangzhou did not expect that the book would bring her more controversy four years later.
After returning to China, Jiang Fangzhou slowed down the speed of his book writing and began to participate in talk shows and variety shows instead. The most famous is the "Round Table Pie" with Dou Wentao, Liang Wendao, Ma Weidu and others, but unfortunately her evaluation in the show is not very good. There is even a question in zhihu: "How can we make Dou Wentao of the Round Table Sect stop inviting Jiang Fangzhou?" ”
< Jiang Fangzhou > in "Round Table Pie"
Maybe he was scolded too much, and Jiang Fangzhou sometimes wanted to say something in his heart. At the beginning of 2018, she was on a hot search, because on the variety show "Strange Flower Conference", she rarely analyzed her "flattering personality":
"I've found that I haven't had a supposedly authentic relationship with anyone. I began to wonder if I had lived the right life for the first 20+odd years. ”
Dissecting oneself can indeed influence behavior. In the same year, Jiang Fangzhou did a brave thing. In July 2018, a girl posted an article on Weibo titled "Zhang Wen, Please Stop Your Harm", accusing Zhang Wen, former editorial director of Universal and editorial board member of China News Weekly, for rape. After the article was sent, Jiang Fangzhou forwarded it, saying, "I have also been sexually harassed by this person, go to jail, scum!" ”
Because of Jiang Fangzhou's forwarding, this matter caused an uproar on the Internet, Zhang Wen posted an article saying: "Jiang Fangzhou has had many boyfriends", trying to splash dirty water, the result was hammered more thoroughly, and the whole network was blocked.
Jiang Fangzhou bravely said the truth once, and for the only time in so many years, she got a positive evaluation from most netizens.
On June 7, 2021, Jiang Fangzhou was on the hot search again. Japan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs has published a list of its affiliated "International Exchange Funds." In 2008, a visit to Japan was launched for individuals with strong influence in public opinion and the media in China. Jiang Fangzhou is on the list.
Some netizens said that whoever participated was doing propaganda for Japan.
Two days later, Chinese Foreign Ministry Wang Wenbin responded to the matter: "In the nearly half century since the normalization of diplomatic relations between China and Japan, there have been countless personnel exchanges between the two sides promoted by the support of the government, which have made positive contributions to the development of bilateral relations. ”
Jiang Fangzhou sent a microblog, saying: "I respect netizens who speak out for the country, and I believe that misunderstandings will always pass." ”
Some netizens said: "Write with peace of mind, ignore them." ”
But the comment that received higher likes was: "The imperial army has sent you certifications or put aside this academic exchange?" ”
Jiang Fangzhou no longer replied, a week later, she posted an article on her public account "You ask me why I am afraid of you", the content after clicking on it was to promote her new program, and did not specifically explain the storm this time, but she analyzed the writer Kafka and wrote: "All my life I have lived in two kinds of fear: fear of loneliness, fear of getting along with people." ”
Writing at the age of 7, writing at the age of 9, and growing up wearing a halo all the way, Jiang Fangzhou was not happy.
When I was in high school, once Shang Ailan carried milk and fruit and took a train to visit her for a long time, but Jiang Fangzhou lost his temper with his mother: "You hurt me, you turned me into such a person." ”
Shang Ailan was overwhelmed and cried with her.
A year later, Jiang Fangzhou wrote in "Trial of Childhood":
"For the false childhood, I still have a vivid sense of touch; for the real childhood, I don't know."
When Jiang Fangzhou was 30 years old, the situation changed.
Shang Ailan did not care whether Jiang Fangzhou had the talent to write, nor did she care whether she could write a good novel, her most concerned question was: "Why toss?" Why not get married and have children in a hurry? Jiang Fangzhou came to menstruation, and Shang Ailan said, "Hey, there is one less egg." ”
"Then I'll just grab someone tomorrow and get married!" Jiang Fangzhou couldn't help but reply like this. But Shang Ailan will still quarrel with Jiang Fangzhou every few days because of marriage and love issues.
Jiang Fangzhou was already tired, but he did not dare to say. Which path to choose is the right one, she herself is not clear.
A few years ago, Jiang Fangzhou read the story of a marathon runner. He trained day after day to get good results, but only finished third at the Olympics.
The marathon runner ended up with his life at home, leaving behind a last word: "I'm tired and can't run anymore." ”
Jiang Fangzhou wrote the story in her book, and she thought to herself: "I hope that one day I can bravely shout to my heart: 'I can't run anymore.'" ’”
But in the end, she didn't say it to anyone.
Some references:
[1] "Open the Skylight", Jiang Fangzhou
[2] "Jiang Fangzhou's Composition Revolution", Shang Ailan
[3] "I Admit I Haven't Gone Through the Vicissitudes", Jiang Fangzhou
[4] A Year in Tokyo, Ark Chiang
[5], "Jiang Fangzhou: A Courageous Word in the Heart", a character
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Author | Few forks