If you walk in the library or bookstore in Ankang, there is basically a column of Shaanxi writers, including Chen, Lu Yao, Jia Pingwa, and, but you rarely see Ye Guangcen's name.
This is of course understandable. She is not a native writer in Shaanxi, but a Beijinger who has lived and worked in Shaanxi for more than 50 years.
Yesterday afternoon, I attended her literature sharing meeting. The theme is "when a person is mature, literature is mature". I like this sentence very much and want to hear the writer's writing experience. After dinner with friends, I hurried to Hantang Bookstore in the cold wind and heavy rain, waiting for the sharing meeting to begin.
The transformation of the book city in the Han and Tang Dynasties took on a new look. The readers are in groups of three or five, the tea is overflowing, and the outdoor phoenix tree is falling more and more stormy. The sharing meeting began in such an environment of "the wind is rustling and the rain is rustling".
Ye Guangcen, a writer, talked about his life experience from the beginning. He came to Xi from Beijing in his twenties and worked in the clinic of Yellow River Factory. Shaanxi people must be familiar with the Yellow River Factory. At that time, the Yellow River TV was a household name.
Later, because of her outstanding writing style, she became a reporter, joined the writers' association, and then went deep into local towns and villages to explore history and culture, and wrote works such as Qingmuchuan and Old County, all of which were inseparable from her own life experience.
When talking about Qingmuchuan's hard creative experience, she said that the clouds are light and the wind is light, as if the times have changed, and everything has long been less concerned.
Now, at the age of 70, she has turned to writing children's works such as Uncle Mouse got up late and Flower Cat went home, which is really cute. She said that her work is not a change, but another extension of writing.
The guest star Han played a joke on her ancestral name Ye Rush. Ye Guangcen also admitted that he had 14 children, seven men and seven women, ranking sixth among women. She also made no secret of the rumors about her relationship with Empress Dowager Cixi. Just a distant relative, not as mysterious as the rumor.
Subsequently, several predecessors in Shaanxi literature, calligraphy and painting, and the host industry commented on Ye's works respectively, and also talked about their own views.
Ye Guangqin was born in Gege and likes cheongsam and elegant clothes. The guest said that the style of earrings she wears every day matches her clothes. He is good at cooking braised beef and other Beijing dishes, and likes the poems of "family" Nalan Xingde. She is also a writer with a poetic life.
There are still 8 minutes before the sharing session ends, and the guests will give the audience two places to ask questions. The first one was given to a standing girl, Ye Mi, who read many of her works and asked some questions about them.
I raised my hand when the girl said that, and finally I was lucky enough to give me a chance. I mentioned that I am Cang Yuan of Ye Jia, and then I asked two questions.
The first one: how to balance new media writing and traditional writing?
The second: when people are familiar, the characters will be familiar, while modern mobile phones are popular and indifferent. How to make people familiar and then familiar with the text?
Writer Ye did not directly face my first question. For the second question, she systematically and completely talked about the three viewpoints of "being a man first, being literary second, and persisting in the third".
Of course, this is the answer I want. I am very happy to get Ye Guangcen's signature book "Flower Cat Going to the House" presented by Han and Tang Bookstore.
After the sharing meeting, it is still cold outside and my heart is warm enough. In fact, we all know what the answer is, but everyone may need a kind of affirmation and encouragement.
As a young man, the road to growth needs a spiritual mentor to introduce you. As a writer, we should learn from other people's creative techniques and writing attitudes. As a recent graduate of the workplace, the social environment is materialistic, and being a man is more important than writing.
When people are ripe, my other understanding is that when people's realm is ripe, the words will naturally be ripe.
Writing, like being a man, has long obstacles, love and expectation.