Article First Publication Challenge Speaking of Mo Yan, many people are proud and even proud, these, that is just when the halo is around, any character who shines next to him, basically will get such courtesy, let's not talk about the literary world, let's talk about the Internet celebrity world, similar people abound, one is Dong Yuhui, before Dong Yuhui became famous, it was also in order to break the head to become popular, and then there is Xie Qingshuai, the story of a billionaire looking for relatives directly achieved him, compared to the popularity of these people, what I am more sought after is Mo Yan's literary creation road, which is really down-to-earth, step by step to grow up to something worth telling。
Mo Yan is a farmer from Shandong, more than a dozen people in the family, a large group of people are crowded in a family, 5 years old, Mo Yan began to fart and carry a small schoolbag to school, at that time going to school and now is not two different things, now there is a car pick-up, some parents ask for warmth, for fear that the little baby will be bullied here and there will be bullied, and now the children have a collective name, that is, the beast, but what the children of the past were like, let's not talk about wild dogs, use pawns to describe them, I think that's not an exaggeration. Anyway, in that era, hunger was the main theme, and Mo Yanna slowly grew up in such an environment.
He likes to read very much, and often borrows books to help others work, which is unimaginable now, would you go back to work as a cheap labor for others just because you want to read a book?Even if the beast is willing, the parents are not willing, but this matter, Mo Yan did it, anyway, whatever books people give, then he will read them, and thus cultivate his sense of culture. His composition level has also improved a lot, every time he takes a composition class, the teacher will focus on his composition and take it out for comments, this teacher can be regarded as a discerning person, and he can be regarded as a noble person on the road of Mo Yan's life.
Mo Yan spent his childhood on this simple literary journey, at the age of 12, Mo Yan reached the age of graduating from primary school, and at that time it was 1966, that is, the beginning of ***, and the disaster began to come, Mo Yan offended a teacher who was a poor peasant and was labeled as a rich middle peasant, and he was deprived of the right to go to middle school. Just imagine how much resentment people had against the rich at that time, this was the era when people did not suffer from poverty but suffered from inequality.
was closed to the road of further study, Mo Yan had to passively drop out of school, 12 years old, such a bright age, should have made life gorgeous, but Mo Yan then realized what it means to be warm and cold in the world, the previous teacher may have taught him what is warm, but the latter teacher, then directly splashed water on him and told him what it means to be cold. After dropping out of school, Mo Yan had no choice but to go to the People's Commune, which is what we often say now to enter the factory and screw it, but the age of 12 is too young after all, he can only herd cattle for the production team there, and then cut wheat with the adults, his best age, it is directly sprinkled on the field. That's the job, that's been 7 years.
7 years later, Mo Yan has also reached the age of 19, which is similar to the current age of high school transfer to college, but the opportunity is someone else's after all, and what is left to himself is to turn his back to the loess and face the sky, and this year, it happened to be 1973, Mo Yan also ushered in a turning point in his life in this year, he and the people in the same village went to dig the river, and after work, he came up with the idea of writing, which is the first challenge, but this challenge is too difficult for him, after all, he has to write a long story. Sure enough, because the project was rushed, his first feature ** "Jiaolai River" was strangled in the cradle.
God closed a door, and opened a window for him by the way, Mo Yan then went to the cotton processing factory, because he read a lot of books, because of his good writing, then it was logical to become the Chinese teacher of the night school for the workers in the factory, the first teacher warmed him, and the second teacher poured cold on him, and he may have been cultivated seven years later, he and the people in front of him are standing on the same starting line.
In the appointment of a Chinese teacher, he also saw a lot of little Mo Yan similar to those back then, and talked with them, but after talking, he found his narrowness, after all, these little Mo Yan's vision is not the same as he was at the beginning, people have ideals in their hearts, they know what a town is, and what Mo Yan knows, I am afraid that it is what an old cow is, what is a seedling. This is also an opportunity in his life, after all, from these discussions, he also came up with the idea that the world is so big that he also wants to see it.
At the age of 22, Mo Yan began to sign up for the army, and through this channel, he walked out of the countryside, but he was greeted by the teacher who poured cold water on him back then, and he was rejected a few times, but then, someone brought him the teacher's warm brazier, after all, he was admitted, he was assigned to a confidential unit as a logistics officer, and that person also had the title of Chinese teacher for factory night school employees. But it will be very difficult for this unit to join the party and promote it, especially for Mo Yan, a person with a bad resume who dropped out of school at the age of 12, but can he be blamed for this?To be honest, then it can't, here I felt a wave of dislike experience, he started the road of self-study, planning to apply for the university's computer major, but the reality was slapped in the face by reality, after all, there is no place to apply for the exam.
Depressed, depressed, not to explode in depression, just to die in depression, but fortunately, God gave him another lollipop, because his skills are there, and he used to be a Chinese teacher in a factory night school, and this time, he can be a teacher in an amateur school for the army here, which is also an encouragement for him. This kind of life lasted until two years later, when Mo Yan was 26 years old, and his youth made people feel very confused, he anxiously created "Mother's Story" and "Divorce", and began to submit manuscripts to enter the literary world, but what greeted him was a blow to the head, and his manuscripts were returned.
At the age of 27, Mo Yan compromised, "Divorce" After marriage, he was sent to a higher unit as an instructor, and the only way to be promoted within the system was to promote it, which was what he knew when he was a logistics officer, and the same anxiety was born from this, after all, he was here, and he still had to consider the things to be done, but there was an age limit for people to mention it, and it could not be more than twenty-four years old, Mo Yan was sorry to return to his hometown, he still wanted to carve out his own world through writing, after all, this, it has nothing to do with age。 Although he was full of enthusiasm, he wrote "Lotus Pond" to submit it, and it was closed again. Writing literature at the elementary school level was probably the biggest insult and ridicule he suffered at that time.
At the age of 28, there is no way, he still has to work in the training brigade and start again, this time it is different, he focuses his eyes and actions on the cultural publications within the system, so he has also become a political teacher. At the age of 29, Mo Yan's dry heart ushered in rain, and the journal editor replied and commented on his "Lotus Pond", and soon his first ** "Spring Night Rain Feifei" was published. In the same year, he also welcomed his baby daughter, which was a double happiness. At the age of 30, Mo Yan published a short story **, among which "Ugly Soldier" was favored by the leaders of the army, because of the work, Mo Yan was promoted, and was directly promoted from private to platoon level. That is, this year, his wish to see the world is so big that I can finally come true, and he was transferred to Beijing as a news officer, engaged in news reporting.
At the age of 31, Mo Yan still uses his works as a stepping stone, and the publication of "Folk**" has been affirmed by the writer Sun Li, and he has also begun to show his prominence in the literary world. At the age of 32, Mo Yan has published literary works as always, including a short story ** "Black Beach" won the annual decimal of "People's Liberation Army Literature and Art". This year, the Department of Literature of the People's Liberation Army Academy of Arts enrolled students for the first time, and Mo Yan went to sign up, but when he arrived, he asked, hey, the registration is closed, and this will not affect the opportunity to continue his studies at that time, after all, his reputation has risen more or less, and the writer Xu Huai, who was the director of the Literature Department at the time, saw his works, so he was given the green light and directly admitted him. After successfully passing the exam, Mo Yan also became a member of the Department of Military Arts and Literature, which can be regarded as a successful fulfillment of his wish to drop out of school at the age of 12 and have no way out.
It can be said that Mo Yan has been using his works as a stepping stone all the way. This is the most tangible path for a literati to success. It needs to rely on precipitation and accumulation, what happened to the level of primary school, it will not affect the reading of more than 10,000 volumes.
At the age of 33, Mo Yan's hard work ushered in more fruitful results, and the manuscript of "Transparent Carrot" was organized by the editorial department of "Chinese Writers" to organize a discussion dedicated to this, and in the same year, Mo Yan joined the Chinese Writers Association. Then, that is Mo Yan's series of open journeys, at the age of 34, Mo Yan's "Red Sorghum" was born, Zhang Yimou bought the copyright of its adaptation into a movie from him, and after the release of "Red Sorghum", it won the Golden Bear Award at the Berlin Film Festival. Mo Yan's works have thus entered the sight of the world literary circle.
This should be a good thing, but this person is also very popular, and Mo Yan's trouble followed, after all, his works also began to be criticized and questioned, and what people criticized and questioned was not his primary school level, and then his works were full of ugly and terrifying plots, and even a bit of a counter-cultural tendency. But how to say it, a literary work is also a literary work, it doesn't have to be brought back to reality, and the exaggerated plot part in it can also be understood, similar to Jin Yong and Gu Long's martial arts, so you say, which of our people in the rivers and lakes can learn to be like them?Is this also to be criticized as pragmatism?This can't be said, there are some horror movies, that is, they are created based on the text, and they are not fabricated out of thin air. Stories are not harmful, but what hurts us is how we look at them. If you don't like it, you can ignore it, just let it completely lose the market.
Not to mention, anyway, when he was 34 years old, Mo Yan began to get in touch with high-end writing groups, and then entered the creative graduate class jointly organized by Beijing Normal University and Lu Xun Academy of Literature, and met the big coffee Yu Hua.
At the age of 35, Mo Yan began to use his works to smash a broader path, he visited West Germany on behalf of a delegation of Chinese writers, and at the age of 36, he went to Hong Kong and visited the Chinese University of Hong Kong. At the age of 36, he regrouped and visited Singapore, Malaysia and other countries through routine operations, and built a platform for China to connect the world through literature.
At the age of 37, Mo Yan's works "Red Ears", "Patterns and Archetypes", and "Wine Country" came out one after another, a trilogy of a year, that can be said to be a prolific writer, but now with the current realistic works to look back on the past, that is criticized again, after all, things at the political level, that literary works are better not involved, similar to our current headline platform, politics, economy, military diplomacy, then you can't talk about it, you can talk about it, then you have to be certified first, you have to get qualifications first, otherwise others don't know who to find trouble.
38 years old, that's a very interesting time node, after all, this year, Mo Yan's "Buttocks and Beautiful Breasts" came out, this buttocks and beautiful breasts are also known as the focus of public criticism, but how to say this, the more explosive the discussion, the greater his reputation, Mo Yan's works are still flawed after all, except for this, there are other works that have won awards, that is, "The Sun Has Ears", the award and "Red Sorghum" Compared with a little bit, that is, the Silver Bear Award for Berlin films, it is also a good harvest. After that, our Master Mo Yan will start to seal the pen, maybe everyone's criticism of "Buttocks and Beautiful Breasts" will poke into his heart.
At the age of 42, Master Mo Yan began to retire from the army and went to work in "Procuratorate", which gradually got out of the psychological haze caused by the negative impact of "Plump Buttocks and Beautiful Breasts", but this work was published in Japan, and Master Mo Yan also went to Japan and gave them a series of speeches. At the age of 45, "Wine Country" was published in the United States, and Master Mo Yan went to the United States non-stop, and it was the same operation, so let's take a look, hey, he is so sought after outside, so should we also accept him?
Therefore, at the age of 46, he was hired as an adjunct professor at Shandong University. At the age of 48, Kenzaburo Oe, the Japanese literary circle, came to China, and Master Mo Yan accepted the meeting, which established a deep friendship between the two. At the age of 50, Master Mo Yan's "Buttocks and Beautiful Breasts" and "** were published in France one after another. At the age of 53, Master Mo Yan won the Italian International Literary Prize and received an honorary doctorate of letters in Hong Kong, and in the same year, he was hired as a visiting professor at Qingdao University of Technology and was elected as a member of the presidium at the Chinese Writers' Congress.
At the age of 55, Master Mo Yan was transferred to the Chinese Academy of Arts, and now everyone is beginning to truly realize his value, and then, it was also his highlight moment, at the age of 56, he won the "Newman Award for Chinese Literature" in the United States and gave a lecture at Stanford University. At the age of 58, Mo Yan went to the United States again and had conversations with many celebrities and writers, at the age of 59, he was elected vice chairman of the Chinese Writers Association, and in the same year, he also won the highest award in the Korean literary world, the "Wanhai Award".
At the age of 61, that is, in 2012, Master Mo Yan achieved an unprecedented achievement in the Chinese literary circle, that is, he won the Nobel Prize in Literature, and the world knew this Chinese. At the age of 62, Master Mo Yan was hired as a professor at Beijing Normal University, and now he is almost the business card of Chinese literature to the outside world. This Nobel Prize in Literature is really rare, it depends on the accumulation of bit by bit, among which there is a lot of praise, but more is criticized, but no matter what, anyway, we Chinese did win the Nobel Prize in Literature because of the existence of Master Mo Yan, which is also a veritable award and has outstanding significance for human society.
In 2023, our Master Mo Yan will also reach the age of 73, and the works that come out during this period will be sparse, looking at his magnificent life, it is particularly admirable and lamentable, after all, he is also a person who has been dropped out of school since he was 12 years old and slowly reached the current high position that no one else has ever stood in. Many of his works, in fact, you can find it from the ups and downs of his journey, can be understood, right?After all, this is really not easy, it can be said that he is a miracle in the literary world, although his books, I haven't read a single one, but his story, I did appreciate it, this spirit, that's what we should carry forward.
Now this difficulty, compared to that time, it seems that there is not much suffering, life, it is destined to be a journey of suffering, the best flowers must grow in the worst environment, so, forge ahead, as long as life continues, then the struggle will not stop.