Chapter 241 Wenyao Young General Fang
December 25, Yanjing Railway Station.
Fang Yan stood at the exit and spotted Feng Jicai in the crowd at a glance. After all, he was 1.92 meters tall and tall.
Wherever you go, you will feel like you stand out from the crowd.
“Teacher Feng!”
"Teacher Fang!"
Feng Jicai shook hands with him and said, "Why bother you to pick him up in person? It's an honor and an honor."
"Where, where, it should be, you are Tiening, Zilong’s friend is my friend.”
Fang Yan exchanged a few pleasantries and asked him to change his name to “Yanzi”.
The two then came to the guest house and put away their luggage. They did not go to the "October" editorial office immediately. Instead, they found a nearby state-owned restaurant and ordered four dishes and one meal for noon. Soup.
Eat and talk at the same time.
Feng Jicai said: "Zilong must have told you on the phone that I am here specifically to obtain Buddhist scriptures."
"To obtain Buddhist scriptures?"
Fang Yan said: “In today’s newspapers, many people accuse me of being deviant. It's totally wrong to accuse me of giving a platform to popular literature. Aren't you afraid that by reciting my sutra, you will recite it wrongly?"
Feng Jicai shook his head and said, "I don't think so. There are indeed people who oppose you, but There are people who support you, I am one!”
Then he put down his chopsticks and said, "I also feel that those who use popular literature to criticize you have not understood the true meaning of "The Great Master Huang Feihong". This is clearly a work that interprets Lingnan literature. Martial arts and martial arts are just the culture in it. Elements.”
“This is really what I said.”
The dialect said: "'It's great to have friends from far away.'"
"Haha!"
Looking at each other and smiling, Feng Jicai said that even if there was no such thing as "Lingnan Literature" Concept, I also like "Once Upon a Time in the Grandmaster" very much, and I won't dislike or reject it because it is popular literature.
Suddenly, he said, "Can Mo, do you know him?"
"I've heard about it."
Fang Yan nodded.
Can Mo is a martial arts novelist from Jinmen, known as the "Jin Yong of the Mainland". He has published "Shenzhou Lei" and "Wind and Dust Sword Cleansing Record" in magazines such as "Martial Arts" and "Legends of Modern and Ancient Times". , "Blood Splattered on the Mandarin Duck Tent", "The Soul-Chasing Flute and the Invisible Sword" and other works.
“I really like reading martial arts novels by Can Mo, Huanzhu Louzhu, Gong Baiyu, and Zheng Zhengyin.”
Feng Jicai said that Jinmen is an important martial arts town in the north!
In addition to martial arts, folk culture is also extremely prosperous.
Therefore, popular literature has been popular in Jinmen literary circles since the Republic of China, especially martial arts novels, such as "The Legend of Shushan Swordsman" by Huanzhu Louzhu, and "Stealing Fist" by Gong Baiyu.
Two of the five famous northern martial arts masters are from Jinmen.
“So, you also want to write a martial arts novel.”
Fang Yan raised his eyebrows.
"I want to write a regional work like your "The Grandmaster Huang Feihong", which belongs to the Jinmen Wulin. I want to write a bit of the spirit of the Jinmen men in it."
Feng Jicai said: "It is best to integrate into Jinmen's cross talk, opera, Pingju opera, Jingdong drums and other distinctive folk culture."
Fang Yan touched his chin and pondered for a long time:
"In that case, I have a suggestion."< br>
"Say."
"Jicai, since you have read my book, you must not be unfamiliar with the character 'Yan Zhendong', right?"
"Of course not, 'Yan Zhendong' Zhendong is the character who left the deepest impression on me besides Huang Feihong and Nalan Yuanshu. Tianjin Wei is a martial artist who goes south to make a living. Qigong and Braid Kung Fu..."
"To tell you the truth, I didn't originally plan to write Yan Zhendong to death, but I wanted him to wake up during the competition with Huang Feihong and finally change his evil ways and do good. , cut off your braids and join the army.”
“Yanzi, can you tell me more?”
Feng Jicai suddenly became interested and asked Fang Yan to elaborate.
Then, with your words and my words, following the ideas of "Yan Zhendong", we pieced together a Jinmen martial arts novel bit by bit.
In Tianjin Wei at the end of the Qing Dynasty and the beginning of the Republic of China, a fool who performed tricks on the street successively defeated gangsters and Japanese samurai with the 108 ancestral "Braid Kung Fu". He was famous in Tianjin and was called the "Magic Whip" .
However, facing the guns and artillery of the Eight-Power Allied Forces, Sha Er found that his ancestral braid skills were completely powerless. In the end, he made a decision that went against his ancestors, cut off his braids, and transformed the "divine whip" into a "divine whip". Gun". From then on, the ancestral braid skill was lost.
But at the same time, there was a sharpshooter in the Northern Expeditionary Army.
"Good! This story is good!"
Feng Jicai was immersed in it, "The backward braids have to be cut when it's time to cut them. The 'whip' is cut off, but the 'god' is kept."
Fang Yan saw him talking to himself and didn't bother him.
“To extend it further, when foreign literature is coming in force, all the ideological baggage that should be thrown away must be thrown away. The key to distinguishing between popular literature and serious literature is to make the 'god' of the Chinese traditional culture, I kept it.”
Feng Jicai was enlightened and inspired.
"It seems that you have a very clear idea." Fang Yan clapped his hands and congratulated repeatedly.
“Ashamed, without your advice, I really wouldn’t have thought of this.” Feng Jicai hesitated, “Yanzi, this story has an attraction for me. Can, can it? Leave it to me to write it?
“Of course, but I want this manuscript. ”
Fang Yan smiled.
"No problem!"
Feng Jicai agreed to the suggestion of being seconded to the editorial department of "October" to write, at least here, to write the outline of the novel first.
As for the title of the book, the two of them combined would call it "The Divine Whip".
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Just when Feng Jicai was dragged into the devil’s path by dialect and “complicit in the evil”, after "South Wind" published "Soul-Breaking Spear" and "Forging Swords", The serialization of "Heroes" began immediately, seamlessly.
Moreover, the front page of the newspaper was devoted to Fang Yan’s bold views on serious literature, pure literature and popular literature:
“There is no clear boundary between these three literary types. A work can be both Serious literature, but also popular, just like "Once Upon a Time in China"
For a time, it caused an uproar in the literary world.
Just in Jinmen, Feng Yunan saw the content reprinted in the "Jinmen Evening News" and felt that there was a layer of window paper that was pierced by the dialect.
I have always been frustrated in the field of pure literature and serious literature. The works I submitted either disappeared or only made a small splash. Maybe this is my upper limit.
I am afraid that I will never reach the height of Teacher Fang in my lifetime.
But now, dialect and "The Great Master Once Upon a Time" have guided him to a new path, historical martial arts novels!
Why not work hard on popular literature!
With this belief, as a member of the Folk Literature and Art Association, he turned his attention to the folk literature collected on the bookshelf.
I glanced at Pingjiang Buxiaosheng's "The Legend of Chivalrous Heroes" at a glance, and clearly remembered that there was a hero from Jinmen written in it.
That is, Fearless!
Feng Yunan named the new book he was going to write "The Hero of Jinmen Huo Yuanjia" after the dialect version of "The Great Master Huang Feihong".
When I think of it in general, I suddenly feel that the world is vast!
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Sichuan and Shu, mountain cities.
In the study, Nie Yunlan held the "Shancheng Daily", which reproduced various "anti-Tiangang" remarks and opinions in dialects.
The further down you look, the more turbulent your emotions become.
The creative desire that had been suppressed in my heart was gradually brought out bit by bit. Finally, I couldn't bear it anymore and opened the drawer.
There are several martial arts novels lying inside, namely "The Crane Startled Kunlun", "The Sword and the Golden Hairpin", "The Pearl of the Sword", "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" and "The Iron Cavalry Silver Vase", which is impressively " Crane and Iron Five Steps".
At the same time, there are also the manuscript of "Yu Jiao Long" and the booklet "Stories of Mountain City" below.
In the late 1970s, I sent my novel to "Mountain City Stories" for serialization in it. However, because martial arts novels were regarded as "pornographic novels" at that time, the serialization of "Yu Jiao Long" had to be terminated.
At present, the successful publication of "The Great Master Huang Feihong" and Dialect's views on "martial arts novels" have rekindled my old fighting spirit.
Nie Yunlan plans to send "Yu Jiao Long" to "Legends of Modern and Ancient Times" to re-publish it, fulfilling one of his long-cherished wishes.
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With the sales of "Flower City" exceeding 1.8 million copies nationwide, more and more writers, like Nie Yunlan and Feng Yunan, are using dialect as a bright light in literature. , began to "abandon the light and turn to darkness", fell into the devil's path, and supported Teacher Fang.
From the original scar literature, reflective literature, educated youth literature and other camps, they either switched to national and regional literature, or to the magical realism introduced by Teacher Fang and "October", or even simply defected to popular literature such as martial arts and love.
After all, Mr. Lu Xun wrote martial arts, Mr. Lao She wrote martial arts, and Fang Yan also wrote martial arts, and they all became great writers.
Writing martial arts by yourself does not necessarily mean you cannot become a great writer!
When I think of it in general, I suddenly feel that the world is vast!
With Diao Yan, the winner of the Mao Dun Literature Prize, as a "bad example", young writers have more or less lost their ideological baggage.
Anyway, if you are going to be scolded, you have to scold Teacher Fang first!
Anyway, if the sky falls, this tall guy will hold it up!
This is indeed the case.
Many conservative critics, editors and others saw that dialects had set off an "evil trend" in the literary world, dragging all good writers into the water and turning from the righteous path into the evil path.
To have the nerve to associate "martial arts" with "serious literature" is like associating basketball with chickens. It is simply shocking. Everyone is so excited that they roll up their sleeves and want to fight.
The traitor has jumped out on his own!
One is dialect! One is the editorial department of "Flower City"!
Destroy people tirelessly! Misleading people!
Even conservative literary critics were filled with righteous indignation and immediately wrote an article to denounce: "There are four major literary demons in China today. One is Qiong Yao who advocates a third party, and the other is Teresa Teng who sings pornographic songs. The third is Jin who just shouts and kills. Yong, the fourth is the dialect that cheers for the 'yellow literature' of popular novels..."
"And among the four, the remaining three are all from Hong Kong and Taiwan, so there is nothing to worry about. Only the dialect is the demon. The worst! The most harmful!”
"It can be called the 'demon of literature'!"
(End of this chapter)