Mo Yan

The 57-year-old Mo Yan won the Nobel Prize for Literature. Because of the prestige brought by the Nobel Prize itself, Mo Yan has become a busy man. The whole Chinese people were shocked. Mo Yan was the first Chinese winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature. Although China's pure literature has fallen into disrepute in the modern era of fast food, the emergence of Mo Yan has undoubtedly set off another huge wave of pure literature. ?

Some people have raised questions about why a writer like Mo Yan has achieved such international fame, but before that, most people in China had never heard of him. I haven't heard that Mo Yan has achieved any great achievements. Is he another neglected talent? This is the label that people put on various identities. Before this, Mo Yan's works had long been valued in the Chinese literary circle and won the Mao Dun Literature Award. It was only after Mo Yan won the Nobel Prize for Literature that Chinese people Set your sights on him.

Mo Yan once wrote a limerick that mocked this phenomenon of "following the trend" and "looking up to" the so-called "powerful label". In modern society, personality and appearance are labels for people, abilities are labels for people, and education is also a label for people. Harvard University is a very powerful academic label, and students there are proud to be from Harvard University. In 2014, when Mo Yan was invited to visit Harvard University, he saw an interesting phenomenon.

There is a bronze statue of founder John Harvard in Harvard University. People who visit Harvard University like to touch the left foot of the bronze statue because it is said that his left foot can bring good luck. . Mo Yan frowned when he saw that there were more than a dozen people queuing up, waiting to "touch their feet" and take pictures. Moreover, the paint on the left foot of the bronze statue had been touched off, exposing the copper-yellow metal inside. He felt this and wrote a limerick like the picture below.

In June 2017, Mo Yan delivered a speech at the graduation ceremony of Shantou University. Li Ka-shing was the director of Shantou University at the time, so he was naturally in the audience. As soon as Mo Yan took the stage, he made a shocking statement: Jack Ma and Bill Gates are nothing special. The students in the audience all thought he was going to brag. They didn't know what kind of medicine he was selling, and they all looked at each other in confusion. Mo Yan quickly showed off his limerick as an explanation of his point.

The students all understood that it was humorous irony and burst out laughing. But only Li Ka-shing in the audience truly understood the meaning of this sentence and applauded silently. It turns out that Mo Yan is not only satirizing the hypocritical people who make a fool of themselves, but also educating students that heroes do not ask where they come from.

Bill Gates, once the richest man in the world, was originally a student at Harvard University, but he started his own business before finishing college, tearing off the label of Harvard University. Jack Ma's experience was not all smooth sailing. When he was young, he took the college entrance examination three times in a row, but still did not meet the score line. In the end, he was able to study at Hangzhou Normal University by excelling in English.

Mo Yan educates students that Shantou University does not sound as famous as Harvard University, but with the same persistence and the same hard work, they will become talents. Li Ka-shing had a deep understanding of this. In 1939, when he was just entering junior high school at the age of 11, he was forced to drop out of school because of the war. His subsequent doctorate degrees were all obtained after he became famous. During this period, he persisted in studying and struggling for his dreams, and he was fully aware of the setbacks and pressures he endured.

Similarly, Mo Yan also dropped out of school when he was in the fifth grade of elementary school. However, he always insisted on his dream of literature. He came back from work every day to grab time to read and write, which made him what he is today. His master's degree in literature is also He got it after he already had quite a few works.