Recently, the #莫言和余华的微信头像#登上热搜第一 has aroused the attention of netizens.
It turned out that Mo Yan's WeChat public account published a contribution by Yu Hua, and Mo Yan also attached a screenshot of the WeChat chat between the two in the article.
For a time, the WeChat avatars of the two great writers' "scribbled puppy" were hotly discussed~
In fact, Yu Hua responded to the hot search on the Internet that some netizens said that he looked like a "scribbled puppy" in July last year.
Teacher Yu Hua expressed her glad acceptance and responded humorously. "I think it's good, it's cute, so now that my hairstyle has changed, what do I do with them?"
But in the end, Yu Hua still gave up the ineffective struggle, because netizens had already discovered the truth - "It's not a matter of hairstyle, it's about looks, hahahahaha!"
Yu Hua not only accepted this setting, but when he gave a lecture at Yonsei University in South Korea, he also joked that the suit he wore was the suit worn by a scribbled puppy.
"I'm open to this image!"
Many people may not know that in recent years, Mr. Yu Hua has become the "top stream" in the eyes of many post-95s and post-00s.
That's right, it's not a little fresh meat or a boy group idol, it's Yu Hua, the great writer who wrote "Alive", "Xu Sanguan Selling Blood" and "Brothers".
Believe it or not, Yu Hua, who is almost 60 years old, held a signing meeting in South Korea, and most of the people at the scene were young people with colorful hair~~
Source: Xiaohongshu @一颗杂草呀
For the signing meeting, braving the snow and queuing up all night is the norm~
Source: Xiaohongshu @ Big White Fat @Judy Pig Pig @黄小仙儿
Drinking water was scalded, and in the eyes of fans: "It's so cute!" "Emojis"
(Left picture) source: Xiaohongshu @ tea goose sauce
The signing is so tired that the eyes are empty, and it can also be resonated with netizens
In fact, in everyone's impression, writers and scholars actually have a sense of distance for young people, even if they live in their own homes, they don't dare to go over to say hello, how come they "flock to Yu Hua"?
The answer from the vast majority of young people is probably because he is not only talented, but also interesting!
Many parents want their children to learn from Yu Hua and become great writers, or at least, be able to write good articles.
But in fact, while urging children to learn writing from Yu Hua, they should also learn his attitude towards life.
Yu Hua once said that in his opinion, the two most important qualities of a writer are the first is a sense of humor.
He obviously has this ability, humorous, brainy, unscrupulous, in Yu Hua's mouth, life is full of jokes, and every day is a happy day.
Over the years, Mr. Yu Hua can be said to be "each other" with his novels, in addition to novels, he has 10,000 ways to amuse everyone~~
Why did you become a writer? Yu Hua joked that it was because he didn't like to go to work.
Some people mistakenly think that Yu Hua is no longer there, but Mr. Yu doesn't mind at all, and he still learns and uses it~
Someone asked him why he gave his work "Alive" a score of 9.4,
As a result, Yu Hua said, I won't comment on Douban
Yu Hua's novel "The Mistake by the River" was adapted into a movie, and Yu Hua publicly expressed his deep disappointment!?
Just kidding
Teacher Yu Hua mischievously explained that the disappointment was not because the quality of the movie was not good, but because he could no longer sell the copyright after it was filmed~
Don't look at his empty eyes when he signs the sale, his brain is running rapidly~
Someone asked Yu Hua to sign a "get rich", Yu Hua: This class of young people is really good, with "ambitions"
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Fans wanted Yu Hua to give a message of "not going to work for the rest of your life", but Mr. Yu hurriedly added a backhand sentence "It's the same for working at home"~
Source: Xiaohongshu @ I am a
The reader wanted Yu Hua to write to wish himself a fortune, but Mr. Yu was worthy of being a writer, and directly changed the wish to an affirmative sentence: wrote "You will definitely get rich", which moved the reader to the point that it was not good~
Source: Xiaohongshu @ Plate has a plate
In fact, in Yu Hua's view, his humor is just playing with suffering.
As a child, Yu Hua, because his parents were both doctors, was busy with work, and rarely had time to spend with him, and his childhood was almost spent in a small room or hospital that was locked up.
Yu Hua rarely mentioned these things, even when he was young, he was accustomed to smelling formalin, seeing bloody scenes, and could wake up every night by the cries of life and death in the morgue...... These seemingly poignant experiences are reminded of Heine's poem in his description: "Death is a cool night."
Source: Variety show "Reader"
He doesn't talk about the long wait when he writes word by word on the desk day and night, doesn't talk about the moments when his inspiration runs out, and doesn't mention the loneliness of being rejected, he never pretends to be profound, but chooses to tell all these things in a ridiculous way.
When asked why "Alive" has been selling well, Yu Hua modestly joked that he wanted to thank generations of Chinese teachers for recommending this book to students, "The Chinese teachers who are now asking to read "Alive" have entered the third generation. "Thank you, Chinese teacher!"
Source: Zhongxin Video
He will "trample" on his friends, laughing in fifty steps and complaining about Mo Yan's love to cry,
looks like a "bad friend", in fact, friendship is very heavy in Mr. Yu Hua's heart.
After his friend Shi Tiesheng was paralyzed, he was depressed, and he once wrote in the book that because of his disability and sensitivity, even his family did not dare to mention the words running and jumping in front of him.
Only Yu Hua said to him: "Tie Sheng, let's go play football!" So, Yu Hua and Mo Yan and a group of friends carried Shi Tiesheng on a train trip, took him to play football, and accompanied him to relive his favorite sports.
Shi Tiesheng, who was supposed to be the cheerleader of the team, was forced to appear in a wheelchair as a goalkeeper because of Yu Hua's "tricks". "You're here for us, keep the ball. ”
Stetson once recalled this incident in his book, saying, "I was the worst but happiest goalkeeper. ”
This equality and respect gave Shi Tiesheng great encouragement. Literature and friendship allowed Shi Tiesheng to regain his life and face life with love from discouragement.
Yu Hua (back row, second from left) took a group photo with Shi Tiesheng and friends
This is true for his best friends, and it is also true for every ordinary person who is a stranger.
They don't always want to stand on a high ground and teach young people something just because they are well-known writers, but they will try to understand from the perspective of young people.
Look, this is the real connotation hidden behind Yu Hua's humor, heartwarming, down-to-earth, strong resonance, no chicken soup, anti-hypocrisy......
Fans say that this is a sincere writer who clearly understands the world, understands friends, understands every ordinary person, acknowledges the differences between people, and does not glorify the dilemma brought about by reality.
This is also the second trait of the writer that Yu Hua said: sympathy and pity!
This kind of sympathy and compassion, in another way of understanding, is to be good at "observing life and feeling life"!
In the preface to the new edition of "Alive" by Wheatfield Publishing House, Yu Hua once said: "When I read other people's works, sometimes it will affect my own attitude towards life, and the works I write myself will sometimes also affect my own attitude towards life." The blessings in "Alive" make me believe that life belongs to everyone's own feelings, not to anyone else's opinions. I think that's what I've been thanking for more than 20 years of writing. ”
Warmth is the bottom line that he has no way to retreat, and understanding is his protracted persistence, such a great writer can't help but love.
In addition to the sense of humor and observation, I finally supplemented it with two methods that Yu Hua taught his son to write:
1. Be good at discovering the sparkle of children's infinite imagination
Yu Hua once shared in his essay "The Stubbornness of the Son" that he was often attracted by the strange and special metaphors of his son Yu Haiguo.
Someone accidentally pinched Yu Haiguo's wrist, and he would say, "You pinched my veins." "
When Yu Haiguo was still in kindergarten, Yu Hua sometimes yelled at him suddenly, he thought that this sudden roar hurt him a lot, so he communicated with his father, "It's like holding a remote control and turning off the TV with a click, you will click to turn off my life." "
Yu Hua admits frankly, "After he started writing, his metaphors always shone in the middle of those typos and sick sentences. ”
In "Flying and Transfiguration", Yu Hua even mentioned, "Only when imagination and insight are perfectly combined can imagination in literature really appear, otherwise it is blind imagination, utopian fantasy and cranky thinking." "
2. Guide children to read more classic literature
Yu Hua, Su Tong, Xichuan and other writers once participated in a variety show "I Read on the Island" and shared a lot of ideas about children's reading.
Several writers have always emphasized that children should read more classics, and Yu Hua also shared on the show that his son's favorite ones when he was young were "Ultraman" and "Harry Potter", but after reading "The Count of Monte Cristo" and "The Three Musketeers" by Alexandre Dumas, he exclaimed, "It turns out that there are more wonderful books in the world than "Harry Potter". ”
By reading classic literature, children can gain a deep understanding of life, human nature, and the complexity and diversity of society.
But Yu Hua also emphasized that children's reading should be done step by step. "If you had read Dostoevsky to him first, he would have been disgusted with literature from then on. Yu Hua said.
For example, to read world classics, primary school students can read Alexandre Dumas; "The Red and the Black," "Madame Bovary," and "One Hundred Years of Solitude" can be read after junior high school; Tolstoy and Kafka are better off waiting until high school to read; and Gogol is suitable for reading after graduating from high school, because it is relatively boring.
As long as children start reading, they will have some insights, and after the accumulation of feelings, they will gradually form preliminary opinions, and once they have formed opinions, they will have the urge to share and express them.
This is the power of words, literature!
Text: Wang Jing
Editor: Mei Yan Yiyi
Review: Wu Wenqian
Partial reference material:
China Culture Daily "Drama [Alive] is Expected to Go to the World Yu Hua: Absolute Freedom of Adaptation", variety show "I Study on the Island", Chengdu Business Daily-Chengdu Children's Troupe "Want Children to Read Classics in the New Semester? Yu Hua Recommends Primary School Students Can Start with Dumas" and so on