Today, let's review Yang Shuo's "Lychee Honey".
This old text was once controversial, and some people commented: "If you want to be literary but not literary, if you want to be new and not innovative, if you want to be spiritual, you want to be spiritual, and the whole text is flattering, childish and bloody, and makes people vomit." ”
Maybe it's because some of the sentences personify bees too obviously and are too didactic.
For example, Lao Liang praised the bees in the article: "They never fight, they don't care about anything, they still continue to work, continue to make honey, and work hard all day and month." ”
For example, the author's lyricism: "Bees are brewing honey and brewing life;Not for yourself, but for humanity to brew the sweetest life. Bees are small;How noble are bees!”
If the article is too far-fetched, it is indeed unpleasant. The article, in general, is like the level of a high school student.
But questioning the level of writing can't take away the enormous influence of this text, and nowadays, when I see honey, I think of this old text.
Yang Shuo is actually a very talented writer, because the social environment at that time could not really play, he could only write such a hymn style prose, to be honest, in the same kind of prose, Yang Shuo's prose is already good.
Yang Shuo was later criticized, one of the crimes of saying that the worship of the queen bee by the worker bees in "Lychee Honey" was an allusion to a certain leader, and it is rumored that on August 1, 1968, Yang Shuo took an overdose of sleeping pills and "cut himself off from the people".
I hope that when he dies, he will become a hard-working little bee ......