Whether it is for literature lovers or professional literary researchers, Acheng can be called the name of the god of contemporary Chinese literature.
There are always many legends about Acheng, "jianghu". One of the words that describes him the most is the Fairy Wind Dao Bone, if you have seen Mr. Acheng, you will think that this description is also appropriate. Now, Mr. Acheng of the Xianfeng Dao Bone is about to launch the "Acheng Anthology", which is also the first time that Acheng's works have been published. These include the most famous "Chess King, Tree King, Child King", as well as "Everywhere", "Venice Diary", "Gossip and Gossip", "Common Sense and General Knowledge", as well as the latest two collections of essays and talks, "Out of the Cavity" and "Culture is Not MSG".
Last night, the Acheng Anthology held a new book launch dinner, and the publisher invited many cultural scholars and writers to attend. Mr. Acheng as the protagonist will naturally not be absent, but the banquet has been silent, only to listen to everyone to give various testimonials to his works. But at the end of the dinner, Mr. Acheng seemed to be a little interested, and talked to everyone about his many views on novels, the years in the countryside, and his writing career. Based on Mr. Acheng's on-site speech, the book reviewer jun sorted out the actual speech for everyone's reference.
What talked about the most, and what impressed people the most, was the "non-cooperation" attitude that Mr. Acheng talked about. Man and power are an eternal theme. Any person, even if it is extremely mainstream and politically correct, will always encounter moments of conflict with power, and in the face of such moments, what can a small individual do to maintain his own existence and ideas?
Acheng, formerly known as Zhong Acheng, was born in Beijing in 1949 and was originally from Jiangjin, Chongqing. He is generally considered to be an important representative writer of contemporary root-seeking novels. In addition to novels, he has written and adapted several plays. Representative works include "Chess King", "Tree King", "Child King" and so on.
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On "The Kid King":
It says "no cooperation"
Many friends have asked, what did you do when you wrote "The Child King"? In fact, nothing is done, it is something that was passed down by The Young People of that year. At that time, everyone rushed to the market, and they would ask each other, what do you have there (you can read)? People said I had a diary here. Then take a look at it too. Everyone has a thirst for reading, no books to read. So at that time, many people would write things, write them out, and everyone would pass them around and read them. Someone with similar experience to me, he watches "The Kid King", he will understand. No, you can't see it at all.
It's very simple, it's about who doesn't cooperate with whom. You called me, and I said I did. You say I can't do this, you tell me to get out, then I'll get out. I don't say I'm wronged, why did you tell me to get out of here. There is no (argument) of these things. It's just not cooperating with you. During the Cultural Revolution, this was a way to do it, safely, and to keep oneself. People who don't cooperate read this novel, and they think that the last person you wrote laughed, this is good. We don't walk with a frown, we walk with confidence.
Now after the 90s, the future of the post-00s, will they not encounter a time when they do not cooperate with the mainstream? Of course there is, and it's always there. This theme, the theme of human beings and power, is an eternal theme, not love. Love too, but not so alone. So it's talking about such an uncooperative subject that it still has to this day. "The Child King" has become an ancient book, but it still leaves a little bit, that is, you have a choice of mainstream power, what you can choose.
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About The Tree King:
Many connections are not logically clear
"Tree King" is a thing, originally in the United States, they said they wanted to change it to an animated movie. Then someone was a chicken thief and said, "Hey, you shouldn't show them the novel." I said that when the novel is published, it is who buys it and who reads it. He said that "Avatar," and there was a tree on every hill, and this was copied from you. I said it wasn't, I copied Yunnan. Yunnan is like this, no matter how he cuts it, he must keep a tree. If this tree is not left, people will be unstable, and they will think that something big will happen. My grandmother's house is from Baiyangdian, and during the Cultural Revolution, there was a niche on the ground over there, which was very small. In the past, when I planted land, I would worship the god of the land, but when I broke the four olds, I would tear them down. If this niche is gone, the hearts of the people in this area or in this village will change. In fact, when there was originally this niche, you may not pay attention to it at all, but once it is gone, your psychology is not stable and unstable.
Why? I don't know. A lot of things are such a connection, not a logical relationship that we can all say so clearly. You shake the whole tree, the tiles will fall, and finally the pillar will fall. Now say what to rebuild this, rebuild that, it is impossible. Rebuilding everything is about laying the foundation. Without a foundation, who dares to build a house, is not looking for collapse?
Cover of "Chess King, Tree King, Child King" in the new edition of "Acheng Anthology"
3 people are "encyclopedias" in life
To say that a person is an "encyclopedia" is, of course, to flatter a person, and I know that this is a good meaning. I remember when I was young, the elders around me, they were all encyclopedic people, why is there no such encyclopedic people now? This is a question that should be studied, not who is now an encyclopedia.
You go to see the courtyard before, someone is playing the guqin, there is a child in the outer courtyard, crying there. The old man "beeped" and took the guqin down and said to scrape it for him. He knew what was going on with this little child crying and how to cure him. If the aunt outside said she wouldn't scrape, the old man would stand up and shave it himself. Guqin and gua sha, ride? Not matched. If it is a professional book of guqin and a professional book of gua sha, these two books do not match. But in life, people are riding. Are you saying you only do one thing in your life? No, it won't. So "wild" I grew up thinking was a normal state.
If you want to survive, you have to learn more things early. You don't know what you'll be able to use in the future. I was in the countryside and was thinking about how to get out of here. I went to learn to cook, and I was a licensed cook. But at that time, there was still one less string. After being a cook, no one wanted me. Because I was not born well, people from bad backgrounds could not be cooks, for fear of poisoning. I thought of this after I finished my studies.
So life must be wild. This kind of wild, if set up, will be called an encyclopedic character. But actually, everybody is like that. So my question is, why aren't these people who know a lot of things, these people were there when I was younger.
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Talking about antique furniture:
The word pulp is a flood of sediment
When I was a child, I didn't come from a bad background, and I couldn't go out on the street to welcome the president and these characters. Whenever there was a parade, the teacher read the list. There were five or six students in our class who couldn't go. A few of us had a lot more time than the other students who could go. As soon as we left the school, it was a glass factory. There are a lot of old guys in there, and when they catch people, they like to tell you about porcelain. After we went, the old guys were like they had caught the treasure. They'll treat you like a human being, and when you arrive, they'll give you a stool to sit on and make you water. This is the treatment of adults. When you turn the page, just look up and they say, which one do you want? He's going to help you enough. Later, when I came back in the ninth year, I found that the sediment was overflowing, what kind of pulp, and the big door was open, and these words appeared again. The pulp is wrong now, the guy has already said that the pulp is the sap that seeps out of it, and it is what seeps out of it. Add it on the outside, it's called dirty stuff, and you have to wash it off. Now it's not, the things above are inside and out, nothing matters, they are all said to be pulp.
I used to learn the craft from carpenters. Generally speaking, the master must give the apprentice a dismount at the beginning, otherwise he will not be honest. Why do you say that you have to bring a urinal to the master, you can bring the master's pee bowl. Okay, you can endure as a human being. The master said, you have dismantled this stool. I think it must be just taking an axe and hitting it out. As a result, I couldn't move, only to find that it was a falcon inside. This falcon is very complex, and the more you shake this chair, the stronger it gets. China's old chairs are not afraid to shake. The more you shake, the stronger it becomes. Now the new stool you sit on your legs crossed, and one day it will fall apart because there is no falcon in it. After half a day of dismantling, the master was proud, saying that he had reached high school and would not even dismantle a chair.
From this you know the structure of the Chinese chair. One set is Buddhist, that is, lion legs, which are from Buddhism. It used to be an arhat, a chair made of lion legs, which came from India. Its inventors were Iranians. Lion's legs to the east are our Ming-style furniture, and to the west to England is their aristocratic furniture. Therefore, the spread area of lion leg culture is very large. China's own thing is the structure of the house, and this structure we have seen in "Han Xizai's Night Feast". During the Song Dynasty, the furniture falcon was grown. Why did it grow? In ancient times, for example, when we went to Nanshan in the afternoon to have a cup of tea, the ancients dismantled the stool, dismantled it, and carried it to Nanshan. Anything can be dismantled. When I got to Nanshan, I put up this stool and sat down. Therefore, the furniture of the Song Dynasty and the Ming Dynasty can be disassembled. By the time of the Qing Dynasty, there were fewer things that could be dismantled. Therefore, the furniture that can be dismantled, the furniture that can be dismantled and then pocketed up is good furniture. If you want to invest, invest in furniture like this. [Laughs]
Cover of "Common Sense and General Knowledge" in the new edition of the "Acheng Anthology"
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"You're not mainstream,
But you must always run into the mainstream."
When I was a child, I had a set of books by the American popular science writer Fang Long, Fang Long History, Fang Long Geography. I remember in the preface to the book On the History of Fang Long, Fang Long wrote about Napoleon, and many people scolded Napoleon. He said that he restored the monarchy and betrayed the French Revolution, but Fang Long wrote that if I was writing an article at this time, suddenly there was a copper horn on the street, and I went out to see that Napoleon's army was recruiting on the street. Then I would not hesitate to throw my pen on the table and run to join Napoleon's army.
What's the difference? What is the most appealing. Of course, children have to do what attracts you the most. The second is that he has already said in this preface that Napoleon had many problems, which is actually political correctness. But as soon as I heard the little trumpet, I didn't care if the political correctness was correct or incorrect, and I was going to go with the army of this man they were cursing. This touched me a lot. Fang Long's history and geography may be outdated, but his spirit is still there. He didn't hand it to anyone, I took it. He reminds me of the relationship between people and the mainstream.
Of course, there's something out of me. That is, I am not in the mainstream. Because of the changes in family politics, you are not mainstream. You are not a mainstream person, but you often encounter the mainstream. Including how you memorize those things in politics class. It's simple to say that you memorize those entries and put them in the answers. But there's actually political discrimination, not just your technology. He doesn't believe in your technology anymore. So you have one (conflict) with the mainstream. You're going to find something that I can, give me a little bit of nourishment, give me a little bit of thinking, and make me how to stand up to the mainstream. In fact, it is not cooperative. This thing also hurts me, I prefer to stay home, like this big and old people come here, meet people who can't beat eight rods, not my personality, (laughs) but the people who publish it want to make money.
This article is an exclusive article, compiled according to Acheng's on-site speech. Transcript: Beijing News reporter Zhang Ting, editor: go away, the picture comes from the network, unauthorized reproduction.