Yu Hua does not live only by "Alive".
I started queuing at 3 a.m. and waited for 9 hours to get my autograph...
Do you think it's chasing which celebrity idol?
No, this is the scene of chasing Yu Hua.
Not long ago, Yu Hua held a signing party in South Korea, and many young people rushed to the scene early, and even queued up all night just to get autographs.
You must know that in South Korea, "Alive" sold 100,000 copies, "Xu Sanguan Sells Blood" sold 250,000 copies, and was adapted into a movie, it is not difficult to imagine that Yu Hua can have so many Korean book fans!
Writers are not often exposed like stars, and they have a certain sense of distance from the public, but Yu Hua can get along with young people at home and abroad, why?
The first reason, according to the words of netizens, Yu Hua is "a comedian who was delayed by writing".
Just looking at the appearance, he has a nickname "scrawled puppy" given by fans, this is not black him, do you guys look like it?
In the face of this nickname, he was not disgusted, and this time he admitted it in public at Yonsei University in South Korea, and expressed his acceptance.
At the signing party, Yu Hua's expression when drinking water was scalded was cut into an emoji by fans and went viral, saying that it was a realistic version of "Alive";
The expression of "numbly forced to work" when signing the signature made many workers feel that they saw themselves;
Signing for fans who are queuing up one by one is also full of conditions, causing the big guys to post little red books to "complain".
For example, a fan asked Yu Hua to sign a "sudden rich", and he signed an "ambition";
For example, the fan was admitted to graduate school and asked Yu Hua to sign a "fortune", but he didn't seem to hear the second half of the sentence, and only signed a "study well";
For example, fans want Yu Hua to sign "don't work for a lifetime", but he wants to add "it's the same to work at home".
Is Yu Hua really not deliberately teasing fans?
Where would you think that Yu Hua, who has a serious appearance, is actually such an interesting person, and this sense of contrast is rare on writers, or rarely so exposed.
And the second reason why Yu Hua is liked by young people is authenticity.
When once asked "why write", Yu Hua said: I want to sleep in, I don't want to go to work...
Realistic enough!
Yu Hua is right, he has failed the college entrance examination twice, had to follow his parents, worked as a dentist in a health center, and extracted tens of thousands of teeth in five years.
At that time, he saw that the staff of the cultural center could actually walk around the street every day, so he was envious and secretly gave birth to the heart to work in the cultural center.
"My whole life shouldn't have been spent like this. I should change my destiny. To change one's destiny is to write. ”
It's not easy to go from dentist to writer. Yu Hua began with punctuation and article syntax, read and wrote a lot while working as a dentist, and finally succeeded in publishing his first novel five years after being repeatedly rejected.
Yu Hua is optimistic, and in those days when he was constantly rejected, he now said it like a joke: "My manuscript has been to more cities than I have been to in my life."
When he entered the cultural center as he wished, on the first day of work, Yu Hua was deliberately 2 hours late, but he was the first to arrive, and he thought: "This place has come to the right place"!
In the face of many people's comments on the simplicity of the language in his works, Yu Hua said: "Because I know few words."
When asked how to evaluate Mo Yan's "Life and Death Fatigue", Yu Hua said: "The first feeling is jealousy."
It's not a true friend who can't say such things!
The third reason why it is highly sought after by young people is that Yu Hua is very empathetic to young people.
Recalling that Li Jiaqi said in the live broadcast room that fans could not afford Hua Xizi's eyebrow pencil, whether it was when he did not work hard, Yu Hua did not think so, he knew that young people are working hard, but the times have changed:
"If someone comes and tells you that you have to work hard, that you have to be self-motivated and you will be well rewarded, that's chicken soup, not a fact."
When others said that young people are not motivated and like incense, Yu Hua said: "I think it is also a kind of motivation."
When others praise suffering as a virtue, Yu Hua says, "Suffering is suffering."
How can people who can write about suffering in their works not understand suffering, but Yu Hua is happy outside of his works and wants to bring this happiness to more people.
He understands that each generation lives in a different context, and never takes the advantage of the dividends of the times as his own skill, nor will he arbitrarily advise young people because of his identity as a passer-by, but uses the influence of works and writers to heal everyone as much as possible.
Even if you don't live in the same era as him, you can still be struck by his words.
With the development of the Internet, Yu Hua walked in front of the text, which also allowed netizens to see that he had portrayed so many suffering characters in the past, and it was so interesting in reality.
Coupled with the characteristics of "comedian", truthfulness, and empathy for young people, it is no wonder that he can be popular all over the Internet and is deeply loved by young people.
In recent years, Yu Hua has also been called the "top" on the Internet, and in the face of everyone's liking, he can see it clearly: "I still rely on my own works."