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How to evaluate the level of a writer, everyone has a ruler in their hearts, even if the writer with low literary achievements is the best in the eyes of his fans.
Wang Shuo
Wang Shuo has bombarded most Chinese writers, and he commented on Jia Pingwa's "Waste Capital": "'Waste Capital' is completely a toilet thing, he is really decadent to the point of boredom, don't pretend to be 'everyone'." ”
Wang Shuo said writer Ma Yuan: Ma Yuan is really not good, which gives me the feeling of hero shortness of breath. He didn't dare to stick to his own path, and then wanted to compromise with reality, and there was nowhere to compromise, which was an embarrassing situation. But there is a writer who is often praised even by people as picky as Wang Shuo, and the evaluation in the writer's circle is also consistently high, and even the Nobel Prize winner Mo Yan worships him as an idol, which shows how powerful his influence is!
Chen Danqing
He is considered by fans to be the most noble and elegant among mortal writers, Mo Yan said that he is a "person who can think and live to understand", Chen Danqing said that he is "the world's first chat master", Wang Shuo said that he is the essence of the beijing in these decades, he is the writer Acheng.
02 Idols
In the literary world of the 1980s, the storm suddenly changed, and the writer Ah Cheng published "The King of Chess", a short 30,000-word novella, which immediately shook the Chinese literary world, and for a time all the young people who read books read the name of Ah Cheng.
Among these readers, mo yan, a freshman who had just been admitted to the People's Liberation Army Art Academy, was excited to see The novel, and Mo Yan was impressed by Acheng's writing, so he set the goal of learning from idols, and began to read a lot of works and learn to write.
Mo
While watching "The King of Chess", Mo Yan chanted, "How can I not write such a text", including that even after he won the Nobel Prize in Literature, he often praised his idol Acheng on different occasions.
After the publication of "The King of Chess" and the publication of the novel, Wang Meng wrote an article highly praising the novel, pointing out that it was "a tribute to human wisdom, attention, energy and potential" in that special era.
03 Chess King
The protagonist of the story of "The King of Chess" is called Wang Shengsheng, nicknamed "Chess Nerd", a chess genius, who is crazy about chess. "Eating" and "chess" are not the few pursuits in his life, but these two pursuits are not excessive, "eating" only to eat, "chess" only to relieve worries.
Chess King Wang Life
In the narrative of "The King of Chess", there is a great Taoist legacy. Ah Cheng felt that in a special era where there was almost no way to go, people could still enter the level of aesthetic pleasure and spiritual pleasure because of their skills, and the spiritual house could hardly be deserted and a place of free redemption. This is the ancient style of Taoism and Zen, leisurely in the chaotic world.
Zhiqing chess king wang all his life, after going to the countryside to join the team, is still obsessed with playing chess, this is the only way for his spiritual world to gain freedom, he does not have a chess board, can play blind chess with people, can play with the old man who collects the rags for three days, although only won one game but is also happy, you can also single out nine chess players at the same time. This is quite a bit of Jin Yong's pen, an unknown little person, who has entered the eyes of the Luotuo gaoren, and has been uniquely endowed, and has cultivated into a legend of rare learning and domination of martial arts.
Wang Sheng played blind chess
"The posture of Wang's life has not changed, he is still holding his hands on his knees, his eyes are level, as if he is looking at the far and far distance, and it is like staring at the extremely near and extremely close, the thin shoulders are carrying wide clothes, the soil is not clean, the east is together, the west is together, the throat knot takes a long time to move... I pointed to the water bowl, and he took it, and was about to drink it, when a game number reported the chess move. He held the bowl high and flat, the water not moving. He looked at the edge of the bowl, returned the chess move, and slowly brought the bowl to his mouth. At this time, the next game number reported the chess move, he fixed his mouth on the side of the bowl, half a ring, returned the chess move, only to swallow a mouthful of water, 'grunt' a sound, the voice is terrible, there are tears in his eyes... I handed the bowl over again, and he raised his palm to stop me and went back into his world. ”
This is a scene of Acheng's "Chess King" dueling with the nine masters.
Ah Cheng's article also contains the spirit of tradition, and the chess nerd finally reached the realm of the Taoist "nothing". When dueling against the Nine Masters, the chess nerd's eyes looked straight ahead, and the thousands of people around him seemed to have disappeared, and he was like a meditator, and the old monk settled down, entering a realm of selflessness in which heaven and man were one.
04 Acheng
Wang Zhaoqian, editor of the People's Literature Publishing House, said that the 1980s were an era of brilliant stars for writers. Before that, Mo Yan was a librarian, Yu Hua was a dentist, Su Tong was a college student, Wang Shuo was a salesman at a pharmaceutical company, and Ah Cheng was a young man who went to the countryside to return to the city.
A city
Acheng, named Zhong Acheng, was born in Beijing in 1949, his father is the famous film aesthetic theorist Zhong Yitang in the 1950s, for the introduction of Acheng, the Internet said:
"At the age of twelve or thirteen, he had already read the works of Cao Xueqin, Luo Guanzhong, Shi Nai'an, Tolstoy, Balzac, Dostoevsky, Hugo and other famous Chinese and foreign artists, and after returning to Beijing in 1979, he helped his father Zhong Yitang to write "Film Aesthetics", during which he studied Marx's "Capital", Hegel's "Aesthetics", "I Ching", Confucianism, Taoism, Zen Buddhism, etc. with his father..."
There is a saying circulating in the literary circles: "Reading Chinese literature cannot avoid Acheng.".
Many years later, someone asked Ah Cheng to talk about the creation of "The King of Chess". In fact, he said, it was just a random work. I didn't expend too much energy at all. Once he and a few editors got together to eat shabu lamb. After eating the lamb, wiping his mouth, and lighting a cigarette, he told a story of playing chess to help everyone.
After the story was told, everyone clapped their hands and said that if it was written as a story, it would look good. It only took Ah Cheng three or four days to complete the creation. I didn't expect it to cause a stir. According to Zhong Acheng's wife later, the creation of "The Chess King" Ah Cheng did not even take four days.
Since then, Acheng has successively published articles "Tree King" and "Child King", and the "Three Kings" novel has become a literary classic in the 80s, and after these novels were published in Taiwan, they also triggered the "mainland fever". After "The King of Chess" shook the country, it was also remade by Xu Ke into a movie and won numerous awards, and in 1991, the film of the same name "The King of Chess" was released and was a great success. The film was selected as the closing film of the Hong Kong International Film Festival, for which Leung Ka Fai won the Best Actor at the 12th Hong Kong Film Awards. Mr. Leung said it was one of his most satisfying films. However, for the media interview, Ah Cheng was not impressed, saying: Writers and best-selling authors are two different things.
"The King of Chess" is a story of ordinary people, and it is not easy to write the story of ordinary people interestingly. But Ah Cheng did it, and this is where he shines.
Ah Cheng lives a worldly life, but he lives a transparent life. He pays attention to doing what he likes to do, he said: "In the life of a person, he may wish to look east and west, and may as well have the courage to idle." Because of this, his writing always has a unique charm. Because of the incomparable freedom of mind, the attitude of the article is also correspondingly uninhibited, random hair, not into the flow but can flow endlessly, the literati are the best, so that the pen and ink swing everywhere.
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