#Reading##Mo Yan ##写作 #
In addition to talent, rich experience, and repeated writing and ink, a lot of reading is also one of the necessary elements and lessons for becoming a writer or writer. Mo Yan, from childhood to adulthood, never famous to famous, has always been a love of reading.
<h1 class = "pgc-h-arrow-right" >, Childhood Reading: Reading by the Eye and Reading by the Ear</h1>
(1) Reading by the eye
When he was a child, Mo Yan "sold his labor force" — that is, by exchanging work for reading, miraculously "finished reading the dozen books in several surrounding villages."
For example, the first "idle book" he read, "Fengshen Yanyi", which was an heirloom of a classmate. He grinded like a donkey for others for a morning, in exchange for the opportunity to read it, and could not take it, only on the spot... With such a "divine operation", he read the "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", "Water Margin", "Ru Lin WaiShi" and other family collections in the Eight Villages of Ten Miles and Eight Villages - its strength lies in its fast reading speed and deep memory.
After that, he also read many Chinese and foreign novels published before the "Cultural Revolution", such as "Bitter Cauliflower", "Song of Youth", "Breaking Dawn", "Sanjia Lane", "How Steel is Made" and Lu Xun's works.
He also read the "Literature and History Class" in the textbook of Big Brother Middle School.
He studied Chinese medicine with his grandfather for a while, and he also read some medical books and memorized "Medicinal Properties" and "Linhu Pulse Tips".
He read the Xinhua Dictionary and read it over and over again until he read it thoroughly—the "tool" was already in his chest.
(2) Reading by the ear
In addition to reading with his eyes, in his own words he also "reads with his ears." His grandparents, grandfather, uncle and aunt, and many elderly people in the village have the ability and desire to tell stories, and he does not listen to them tell stories, such as human chicken love, demons and ghosts, thieves and bandits, prostitutes, big-hearted people and so on.
He even listened to young people and children tell stories; with his ears, he also listened to the sounds of nature, the flood gushing, the frogs chirping in unison, all of which made him "shudder and think."
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One of the reference books
<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" >2. Reading of troops: including reading of academic qualifications, teaching and collections</h1>
(1) Reading of academic qualifications
Just joined the army, in order to prepare for the Zhengzhou Institute of Engineering and Technology (electronic computer terminal maintenance major), Mo Yan self-taught, reviewed the relevant middle and high school courses... Although the quota was later cancelled, he solidified his basic cultural level. Later, he also participated in the self-study examination for the basic majors of party and government cadres, and finally graduated from a college.
The most complete classroom study was done in the Literature Department of the People's Liberation Army Academy of Arts; at that time, he was able to create while studying.
The "flashy" classroom study was his two years in the graduate class of Lu Xun College of Literature, from which he became a "Master of Arts".
(2) Teaching reading
After adjusting the Baoding Training Brigade, Mo Yan had gathered secrecy officers, political instructors, and librarians in one!
For the sake of teaching, he temporarily "badly read" philosophy, political economy, scientific socialism, modern Chinese history, the history of the Communist Party of China, and other teaching-related textbooks and books, such as Aischi's "Dialectical Materialism and Historical Materialism", Marx's "Capital", and Hegel's "Logic".
The leaders of the troops who had heard him talk about "productive forces and relations of production" enthusiastically affirmed that he was "not at a low level, needs to be standardized, and in time, the future is immeasurable."
(3) Reading of the collection
In Huang County, where he joined the army, he once read all the ancient and modern Chinese and foreign masterpieces in the county library through the relationship of comrades-in-arms - there was no need to "exchange work for reading".
During his time as a librarian in the army, he went through the more than 3,000 books in the library near the water.
Reference Book No. 2
<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" > third, the reading of creation</h1>
When he joined the army, Mo Yan took his mother on the road with the 4 thick volumes of the Compendium of the General History of China that his mother bought for him with the money from the sale of wedding jewelry. It can be said that his path of literary creation began with this set of literary books in the non-strict sense (historians believe that "historical works are a literary work"). The land of Qilu is thick in history, and there is also a lot of history in the stories of the fathers; liking history and studying history is both ancestral and ancestral training for Mo Yan, a descendant of Guan Zhong.
After becoming a writer, Mo Yan specially read the book of Pu Songling, a "fellow countryman" 300 miles away from his home, to verify the stories of ghosts and demons he heard in his childhood.
He read Zweig's Letter from a Strange Woman and made his debut novel, Spring Night Rain.
He did not finish reading Yasunari Kawabata's "Snow Country", and he wrote "White Dog Swing Frame" under the stimulation of it.
He studied Latin American magic realism and French new novel works, and under the inspiration of Márquez's "One Hundred Years of Solitude" and Faulkner's "Noise and Turmoil", he deepened his creations and produced a series of excellent works such as "Red Sorghum".
In addition to the famous novels, he also systematically and comprehensively read literature and literary theory books, and studied the new trends of foreign literature.
Reference Book No. 3
<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" > fourth, the reading-loving Mo Yan, the contemporary Kuang Heng</h1>
In the Han Dynasty, there were those who did not know the literature, and their families were rich in both wealth and books. Kuang Heng took the initiative to go to the Wen family and asked to work for him, but did not repay. Mr. Unknown is very strange: Why? Heng said: No, to read your family's book! While working for you, let me read your family's collection. The above-mentioned practice of "exchanging work for reading" is too similar to this, and it is almost like "copying and copying".
In a very similar place to Kuang Heng, there is also the "borrowed light" night reading. Kuang Heng's "chiseling the wall to borrow light" (also known as "leading light through the wall") borrows the candlelight of the neighbor's house, and Mo Yan borrows his own light, so don't be embarrassed.
According to Liang Shoutai's article "Tenacity, Diligence, Rebellion - Mo Yan's Personality and Psychological Qualities": "In his early years of studying at home, he stepped on the threshold every night to borrow the dim light on the wall to read, and for a long time, he actually grinded the threshold out of a deep groove. ("How Miracles Happened: A Collection of Mo Yan's Research Essays") Hard work is real hard work! But there are many unclear and puzzling points in this description:
Stepping on it means standing – the posture is definitely uncomfortable.
Stepping on the threshold means that the door (should not be the door) cannot be closed - affecting the normal life order of the family, especially in winter; in addition, stepping on the threshold in the countryside is also taboo, Shandong is not this exquisite?
Wall lights, wall lights? By the door or above the door? Since there is electricity... It is estimated that I can't afford to buy a table lamp.
In fact, it is not important to discuss these things, and it is not very meaningful.
The story of Mo Yan's reading should be far more than just the above. Just as reading is not about how much, but about refinement, understanding, and application, the story of reading is not about how much, it is enough to know its approximation, enough to enlighten later.
If in general, about 20% of a person's knowledge comes from formal school classrooms, and about 80% comes from social practice and self-improvement, then Mo Yan's proportion should be adjusted to at least 10% and 90%.
Some people have done survey statistics: more than half of the 293 foreign writers listed are not highly educated; among the 600 famous Chinese and foreign writers, 90% have not passed the class of the university Chinese department! Obviously, Mo Yan is not a special case, but it has become an example and a precedent.
Photographed at the Gaomi Moyan Literature Museum