Chapter 436 The youngest director in history
“Now, I would like to invite Fang Minghua, vice chairman of the Qin Provincial Writers Association and editor-in-chief of Yanhe magazine, to come to the stage to speak.”
As the host of the meeting called his name, I Fang Minghua, wearing a suit, walked up to the podium with his manuscript.
Today, Fang Minghua was wearing a black Goldlion suit, a white shirt and a red tie, looking energetic.
Before leaving, Song Tangtang took Fang Minghua to the Tangcheng Building in Xijing to buy this. How could he not wear something more solemn for such an important occasion?
It looks good, and the price is not cheap.
688 yuan per set.
Fang Minghua also did not forget to tear off the labels on his cuffs. Unlike people in this era who wear decent suits without tearing off the labels for fear that others will not know it is a famous brand.
The title of Fang Minghua’s speech is also the title of the speech he gave at the Huashan Conference not long ago, "Ideological Trends and Spiritual Techniques—A Preliminary Study of New Realistic Novels."
Of course, time is limited, so the content is much more concise and profound.
The people sitting in the audience are all big figures in the literary world, so just grab some useful information.
“What the new realistic novels achieve is a double deviation, which not only deviates from traditional realism, but also deviates from “avant-garde” and “modern” avant-garde novels. It is the embodiment of realism in the 1920s and 1930s. Continuing, generally speaking, it still belongs to the broad category of realist literature, but it is undoubtedly more open and inclusive than traditional realism.” If you are not careful, the triviality and mediocrity of some works will weaken the broadness and profundity of your thoughts. This is something you should pay attention to when creating new realistic novels."
"We advocate new realistic novels and do not exclude pioneers. Genre novels and variant "modernist" novels are almost keeping pace with each other, showing their respective brilliance. Practice has once again proved that creative methods are vital as long as they are not dogmatically applied and mechanically imitated. They are the two driving forces for the advancement of Chinese novels. Only wheels."
Fang Minghua used very popular words to explain the characteristics of new realistic novels, writing techniques and issues that should be paid attention to, and also explained its relationship with avant-garde novels.
At the end he received warm applause.
Especially the literary bigwigs sitting in the front row. They are all masters of realistic writing. They feel depressed by the avant-garde writing that has become popular in the literary world in recent years.
Now someone finally says they want to return to realistic writing. How can they be unhappy?
It’s really thirty years in Hedong and thirty years in Hexi.
Although the realism we are talking about now is not the traditional realist writing they advocate.
The young man in front of me seems to be standing at the forefront of the wave of writing revolution
After the academic seminar in the morning, the last item in the afternoon was the election of four additional board members.
The host of the meeting briefly introduced the four candidates, including resumes and main works, and then entered the voting session.
When the results were calculated, the four young and middle-aged writers all received more than half of the votes and were co-opted as directors of the fourth session of the Writers Association Council.
Fang Minghua became the youngest director in history.
After the meeting, there was an interview with reporters. Fang Minghua was very experienced in dealing with reporters.
The answer is watertight.
“This is not only an honor, but also a responsibility. I will do my best to make due contributions to the prosperity of our country’s literary cause.”
“Promote new realistic novels and This does not mean denying avant-garde novels. I also said in my speech in the morning that these are equivalent to two wheels for the advancement of Chinese literature, one of which is indispensable."
The two-day Fourth Session of the Fourth Writers Association The council meeting ended successfully, and the next morning, the representatives returned to each province one after another.
Fang Minghua was not in a hurry to go back. He also wanted to visit Song Tangtang's grandparents.
Still living in the small courtyard behind the General Political Courtyard, my grandfather is almost eighty years old, but he looks energetic. Of course the grandson-in-law was welcome when he arrived, and the three of them sat in the small courtyard chatting.
Grandpa said: "Xiaohua, I watched the TV news this morning and saw your speech on the stage. You were very energetic in a suit."
"Suit Tangtang chose it for me.”
The grandfather laughed after hearing this: "My granddaughter is discerning! The son-in-law she is looking for is becoming more and more promising."
Is it more discerning in choosing clothes, or is it more discerning in finding a son-in-law?
Fang Minghua had no choice but to humbly say: "Actually, I am not the only one who spoke. In addition to me, there are three other lesbians who were newly elected as directors of the Writers Association."
"Then why did the TV news give you a speech? A close-up of China’s politics, you know?” Fang Minghua could only laugh at his grandfather’s rather humorous tone.
Had lunch at my grandpa’s house at noon. He did not plan to return to Xijing today. He also wanted to meet someone-Shi Tiiesheng.
Every time he comes to Yanjing, he has to visit it, and this time is no exception.
After leaving the General Political Courtyard, Fang Minghua bought three kilograms of apples from a nearby fruit stall, and then took the bus straight to Yonghegong Street.
When Fang Minghua rushed to the small courtyard where Shi Tiesheng lived, his wife Chen Ximi was not at home, and Shi Tiesheng was alone.
Shi Tiesheng was very happy to see Fang Minghua arriving.
“I saw your article “Ideological Trends and Spiritual Techniques—A Preliminary Exploration of New Realistic Novels” published in a literary newspaper some time ago. It was really well written, and many explanations made me enlightened.”
Shi Tiesheng said this not as a compliment. In terms of novel style, Shi Tiesheng also created works that fall into the category of realistic writing.
But Fang Minghua didn’t want to talk to him about literature today, but was concerned about his health.
"Tie Sheng, how is your health now?"
Hearing Fang Minghua ask this, Shi Tiesheng even smiled: "I went to the hospital for a review some time ago. Doctor, my The disease has reached the standard of clinical cure, and I basically feel nothing now.”
Clinical cure does not mean complete treatment, but that the disease will not progress further and there will be no clinical symptoms.
Fang Minghua also understood this. After hearing the advice, he said: "That's good, but you should also pay attention to it and listen to the doctor."
"Don't worry, I will pay attention. I still want to live for a few more years." , write something.”
Fang Minghua also laughed.
"Hey, Tie Sheng, I heard that you wrote a script for a movie called "Dream Season"" Fang Minghua asked, remembering something.
"Yes, it was the leader of the children's film studio who came to me and asked me to write a movie about students. I have never written a script before. It's just a joke." Shi Tiiesheng was very modest.
"Are you kidding? I heard that the response was very good after it was released." Fang Minghua said.
“That’s mainly because the director shot well.”
Fang Minghua had never heard of it before he came to this era, but he watched it in Xijing some time ago. It is a film that reflects the youth of middle school students. movie, I saw the cast list on the screen and realized that the screenwriter was actually Shi Tiiesheng.
The two were sitting in the narrow house, chatting wordlessly. Suddenly Shi Tiesheng said: "Minghua, have you heard of Shen Congwen? He passed away a few days ago."
(End of this chapter)