写一篇文章字数是不是主要的？
绝不是。
我常常看一些古文，发现但凡那些长篇累牍的文章，几乎没有多少人去看。辛弃疾的《美芹十论》如此精辟，字数也算是言简意赅，但是又有多少人读过呢？反倒不如“床前明月光”那般家喻户晓。
更何况当下那些字数远远超过古人所作的学术论文，估计只能给研究生们看，而很难走入大众的视野里。
现代文的特点在于通俗易懂，既然是通俗，就应当让大众接受。《道德经》之所以流传至今，除了其重要的思想价值，还在于它只有五千余字。倘若老子当年一口气写了五百万字的哲学著作，估计很难有人去看，看了估计也记不住。
Is the number of words important in writing an article?
By no means.
I often read some ancient articles and find that few people read those long articles. Xin Qiji’s “ten treatises on Mei Qin” is so incisive, but how many people have read it? On the contrary, it is not as well-known as “the moonlight in front of the bed.”
What’s more, the current academic papers whose number of words is far more than ancient. But it only be shown to professor, it’s so difficult to enter the vision of the public’s field.
The characteristic of modern writing is that it is easy to understand. Since it is popular, it should be accepted by the public. “Dao De Jing” has been spread so far is that it has only 5000 words. If Lao zi had written five million words of philosophical works at one time, it would be difficult for anyone to read this book. Of course, it will be very hard to remember.
那么，一篇文章最重要的是什么呢？
立意。
有什么想要表达的，就简要写下来，如果专门为了凑字数，而写大量的注水文，反而是对读者的不尊重。故而，笔者当自己对于一个立意有很多想法的时候，就完全可以写上千字，一点也不觉得困难；而当自己的立意很简单，也就只能写个三四百字，甚至写一首小诗罢了。
而最关键的地方在于，你的立意有没有取得广大读者的认同，这才是衡量一个作品生命力的核心所在。
So what’s the most important thing about an article?
Conception.
If you want to express something, just write it down briefly. If you write a lot of notes for the purpose of counting words, it will be disrespectful to the readers. Therefore, when I have a lot of ideas about one conception, I can write thousands of words, and it’s not difficult at all; when my conception is very simple, I can only write three or four hundred words.
The most important thing is whether your idea has been recognized by the majority of readers, which is the core of the vitality of our articles.
这最后的一篇反思也完成了，算是“慎终如始”了吧。在此感谢大家支持。
This last piece of reflection has been completed, thank you everyone.
2021.4.4