An article made "Meiwen" not beautiful, and "Harvest" was not received
On April 13, 2024, Harvest magazine reprinted an article published in Meiwen on its platform: "Father's Last Tears", written by Ding Fan. As a result, attentive readers found that there were many errors in this article. Some are typos, such as writing "還業" as "wanton industry", and "not a problem" as "no longer talking". There are also many words missing, such as "he only says one sentence categorically".
Photo from "Harvest"
There are also common sense mistakes, such as "reading Soviet novels and foreign novels", excluding the Soviet Union from foreign countries, and "reinstating the college entrance examination in 1973". There are so many obvious errors in just such an article. But "Meiwen" didn't find it, and "Harvest" didn't find it, so it appeared again and again. Moreover, this article is also a "special recommendation" of the 4th issue of "Meiwen" in 2024.
Note that such an error did not appear in a certain self-media article, but from a literary journal specializing in writing work, which is a professional organization with a first-instance, second-instance and third-instance system. But if someone reads it carefully, most of these mistakes will be discovered and corrected. Unfortunately, these mistakes have occurred anyway.
At the beginning of the year, "Harvest" followed "People's Literature" and teamed up with Dong Yuhui to achieve amazing turnover. Therefore, it is logical that "Harvest" has won more attention. But this is obviously a double-edged sword, the more attention you pay to it, the more problems you find. Therefore, this requires "Harvest" to be cautious and treat this wave of hard-won traffic.
According to reports, the author of this "beautiful article" is not small. is also a professor, and the vice chairman of the Jiangsu Writers Association, and a lot of titles. Then why did he write such an article? Didn't he read it himself? And then he submitted it? After submitting it, the editor didn't read it again, and then it was published publicly? The green light along the way was cool, but the problem also appeared.
The picture is from "Meiwen"
Such a "specially recommended" article made "Meiwen" not beautiful, and also made the reprinted "Harvest" unsuccessful. It's a lose-lose, or even a lose-three result, which is very regrettable indeed. How can we prevent such problems from recurring? Then we still have to set up a few red lights, wait a minute, and take a look, and the three-instance system must still be conscientiously implemented.
Literary journals and Dong Yuhui's two collaborations, many people feel that the spring of literature has come. But obviously it's not that simple, even if spring comes, it will be cold at every turn, and it will be so cold that you shiver. Literary journals must do a good job of practicing their internal skills and improving the quality of their works in order to withstand wave after wave of cold waves.
Therefore, from another point of view, "Harvest" still has a harvest this time, that is, we must recognize our own responsibilities, take on the mission of literary development, strictly control them, implement them layer by layer, and minimize mistakes. If "Harvest", as well as other literary publications such as "Meiwen", can realize this, it will be considered literary luck.
I'm afraid that once this matter passes, I will forget it in a blink of an eye, what I should do, how I should do it. That is, ten or a hundred Dong Yuhui, and they can't save literature (in fact, Dong Yuhui can't save literature at all). After all, when a reader gets a publication full of loopholes, who has the patience to endure it again and again?
Note: "Harvest" deleted the article yesterday, but "Meiwen" probably has no choice, it is black and white, and it cannot be deleted.