1. When I first started writing novels, I liked to write the dialogues of the characters beautifully, poetically, philosophically and sometimes even mysteriously. Mr. Shen Congwen said to me, "You are fighting with two clever skulls!" What he means is that it doesn't sound like a real person. Tolstoy said: "People can't speak with epigrams."
2. Whenever home appears in my memory like a concept, its color is deep.
I wake up in the singing of birds every day. I heard birds chirping from my dream until I woke up. I can hear several familiar cries, which are called every day, as if they were on that fixed branch every day.
I think language has content. Language is the noumenon of the novel, not external, not just form, but skill. Explore an author's temperament, his thoughts (his attitude towards life, not his thoughts). We must start with the language and always immerse ourselves in the author's language. Language is cultural. The language of the work embodies all the cultural qualities of the author. The beauty of language lies not in one sentence, but in the relationship between sentences. Bao Shicheng's evaluation of Wang Xizhi's ci seems to be unfair, but it is related to the old man's bearing young grandchildren and looking forward to family ties. So much for a good language. Language is like a tree. The sap on the branches flows, one branch shakes and a hundred branches shakes. Language, like water, cannot be cut. The language of the work is an organic whole.
Imperial academy is now the seat of the Capital Library. The old foundation of the Capital Library is the Beijing Library in Maohutong, which is the original public library-a library established at the initiative of Mr. Lu Xun, who once praised and donated books; I moved to the Temple of Heaven before, and moved here because of the cramped location of the Temple of Heaven. In addition to the original Mao Hutong and the newly bought ones after the founding of the People's Republic of China, the collections of the Capital Library are mainly those of the former Comte School and the French Library. Among them, the most distinctive and abundant collection in China is the folk songs of drum lyrics.
The building built by my grandfather when he was young was gray-blue and brown. I grew up in this kind of stability and loneliness. It is good for primroses to bloom before this background. You won't get that much powder. Although primroses are rare in our place, they may not be, unlike Kunming.
7. She asked me some questions. One of them is, why is there always water in my novels? Even without water, there is a feeling of water. "
8. The librarian is a great person. He doesn't have an accurate commute time. Sometimes we go early, he hasn't come yet, and the door isn't open, so we wait outside. He came, ignored him, opened the door, walked into the reading room, set the hour hand of a wall clock on the wall "Kerala" to eight o'clock, then went to work and began to borrow books. The library is upstairs. Dig a rectangular hole in the floor and hang a rectangular board from the hole with a rope. The borrower opens a book borrowing form-the administrator calls the book borrowing form a "flying child", while Kunming people call all the small pieces of paper a "flying child", and the invoices, parcels and tickets for food are all called "flying children"-the administrator takes a look at it, puts it on the wooden pallet, tugs at the bell next to it, and "clangs". -There may be pulleys on it. After a while, the bell rang and wooden pallet tied it down again. Here comes the book you want.
Brief introduction of Wang Zengqi:
Wang Zengqi (1920.3.5 ~1997.5.16), a native of Gaoyou, Jiangsu Province, is a famous writer, essayist and dramatist in the history of contemporary literature in China, and a representative of Beijing School writers. He graduated from National Southwest Associated University in his early years and has served as a middle school teacher, cadre of Beijing Federation of Literary and Art Circles, editor-in-chief of Beijing Literature and Art and editorial board of Beijing Peking Opera Theatre. He has made great achievements in the creation of short stories. He is the author of Novels, Novels and Proses, and also his father (father and son have been brothers for many years). Most of his works are included in the complete works of Wang Zengqi. Known as "lyrical humanist, the last pure scholar in China and the last scholar-bureaucrat in China."
2. Good words and sentences in Wang Zengqi's prose I once said in a speech that Gui Youguang is good at writing ordinary people in a light style. This meaning was actually said by the ancients a long time ago. Huang Lizhou &; lt； Copy &; gt； Volume 3&; lt； Epitaph of Zhang Jie's mother Ye Ruren. As the saying goes, "people who read Zhenchuan characters as women are deeply in love. Every time they see one or two details, they make people want to cry, covering all the details from ancient times to the present, but this touching spirit will last forever."
"Gui Youguang's famous works are&; lt； Brief introduction to events >, & Xuanzhi of Ji Xiang; & amplt； Cold flower burial record &; gt； These are the only articles that have influenced me. Gui Youguang is ideologically orthodox, and I'm really not interested in his big articles about learning and Taoism. I once thought: how can an orthodox school with pedantic thoughts write such beautiful lyric prose full of human feelings? I haven't figured this out yet.
He is really "writing unintentionally", writing as if he were talking about household words. His structure is tortuous. Without structure, his language is closer to spoken language, and there is no trace of the connection between narrative language and character language. His < Ji Xiang's Xuanzhi &; gt； There is a loquat tree in the yard, which was planted when my wife died. Now it is as elegant as architecture. "
"It is a well-known ending in ancient Chinese prose, which contains a lot of sadness and idleness.
"People are different, pursue different things, and have different interests. Du Fu can't be elegant for Li Bai, and Li Bai can't be depressed for Du Fu. Su Dongpo's lyrics should be sung by a great man in Kansai: "The River of No Return", and Liu Yiqing's lyrics should be thirteen. Four girls sang "Where is the hangover tonight, and where is the waning moon in Yang Liuan? "China's ci can be divided into two categories: bold and graceful and other styles. Comrade Mao Dun once said with emotion: Few people write beautiful articles now. Ten years of catastrophe, no one mentioned the word style. I work in the "model group", and Jiang Qing stipulates: "Write the river of no return, don't let the small bridge flow." As a person who can only write small bridges and flowing water, I have to sing empty rhetoric for ten years. _ _ _ _ The above is taken from < Talking about Style >
“& amplt； Border town It angered some theoretical critics and literary historians because Shen Congwen did not write according to their requirements and their prescribed patterns. "
"The first charge is&; lt； Border town In response to such criticism, Shen Congwen made a challenging reply: "You know that you want a work with" thoughts ","blood "and" tears ",and you want a work to express these things in story development, character language and even the cover and catalogue of a book. What you want is easy to do, but I can't give you this. I am serious. " 。"
"The second cost, with the first, means &; lt； Border town It is a paradise divorced from real life,&; lt； The lost city. Is it realism or romanticism? & amplt； Border town Have you idealized real life? This is a very confusing question.
"Why is this novel called Border Town? This is a question worth thinking about. &; lt； Border town This is not only a geographical concept, but also a concept of time and culture.
“& amplt； Border town This is the opposite of a big city, and this is China's "another place, another thing". "
"Border Town is a nostalgic work, a kind of nostalgia with regret. Border Town is a tender work, but there is a deep sense of tragedy behind it. It can be said that Border Town is both realistic and romantic &; lt； Border town Our life is both real and idealistic. This is an idealized reality.
"Why is romanticism? Why idealize? Because I want to keep something beautiful and eternal, let it last forever and benefit future generations. "