Chapter 37 15. Young Writers (3)

The Youth League Committee happily approved my creative leave.I still remember Wang Jialiu, who was the deputy secretary of the Youth League Committee at that time, and later the deputy secretary of the Beijing Municipal Committee of the Communist Party of China and the vice president of the Central Party School, when he saw my official letter from the Writers Association, he said: "The Writers Association is amazing!" The title of the association is very bluffing. In the spring of 1956, I was invited to attend the first meeting of young creators jointly held by the Writers Association and the League Central Committee.I had a taste of a dream come true.Afraid of pride, the conference is not called young writers, only authors.But all the participants are still as if they became immortal after getting angry.I suddenly became a young writer in this way. I am really lucky and ashamed. There is only one "Little Douer", and I can only feel ashamed.I think of the dazzling Lu Xun's book "To Young Writers" and Gorky's book of the same name.The conference arranged for us to stay in the Zhengyangmen Hotel, and the heating was so hot that I couldn't sleep.I do feel the "burning bad" taste...

The meeting was held in the form of short training courses, and Mao Dun, Lao She, Zhou Yang, Chen Huangmei, etc. all gave us lectures.Mao Gong talked about the appearance of characters, and Lao She talked about language.When Zhou Yang talked about literary thought, he seemed to prefer to put some distance away from the writers. As soon as he came up, he said: "You are thinking in images, but I am thinking in logic, hahaha..." He smiled triumphantly.It may be because I was the deputy secretary of the Youth League Committee in the district at that time, and I was valued by the meeting organizers, and I was arranged to be the team leader. The orientation of others, but only self-ashamedness is left. "Little Douer" is far from wonderful, but Song Xiaoping, who wrote such a beautiful children's literature novel, is only a participant in the meeting.

At this meeting, young writers frequently uttered these words. One is "fa", which doesn't mean getting rich in today's sense, but refers to publication.This immediately appears to be superior to others. Whoever's so and so works are not published, it is failure, bad luck, and Jiang Lang's future is bleak.The second word is collection, because most of the participants are writing short works. Whoever manages to collect his short works and publish them in a book will be much more successful than just printing them in newspapers and periodicals.The third word is to join the association, like Liu Shaotang, who has already joined the Writers Association as a member, and it is much better than me writing something and then coming to the meeting.

Because of "Little Douer", I was in the children's literature group, and I had the opportunity to admire Shao Yanxiang's demeanor. He wrote "The Sweet Water Well Digged by Chairman Mao", which can be regarded as children's literature.He appears to be the deputy head of the Beijing delegation.He was wearing a beige windbreaker, and he liked to stand by the car door when he was in the car.I think his posture resembles Pushkin. I am intoxicated by Pushkin's "Evgeny Onegin". I believe that Shao will be able to write works like Pushkin. at this meeting.I also had the opportunity to see Liu Shaotang wearing wide-brimmed dark-rimmed glasses. He often smoked a cigarette and spoke in a rough voice.He could talk about (publishing) contracts and remuneration without any scruples. At that time, he was keen to write China's "Whetstone Farm" like Panfilov in the Soviet Union.This novel is famous for its huge volume, one after another, but at least in China, few people have read it.It is said that Brother Liu still proposed at the meeting that he would rather lose ten years of life, and publish the work a week earlier.At the group meeting, I heard old poet Zang Kejia criticize Liu Shaotang for dropping out of school (Peking University) to engage in professional creation.First, Liu was admitted to the Chinese Department of Peking University and was praised by the whole country.Later, it was impossible for him to study with peace of mind, so he was transferred to the newspaper by Comrade Wu Yikeng, director of the literature and art department of China Youth Daily, to be "raised".I also met writers such as Zheng Wenguang, Liu Houming, and Ke Yan in the children's literature group, and had happy gatherings with them from time to time.Wen Guang is an overseas Chinese who has returned to China. He has some strength and has a cook at home. We have been able to improve our lives with him more than once for seminars and even reading works aloud.What a joy!

During the meeting, Premier Zhou met with everyone and danced with them in the lobby of the Beijing Hotel.This is an unprecedented record of a generation of young writers who are proud of their horseshoes, and it is almost the last sunshine file with hasty dance steps and scorching writing. The conference organized an event where the participants met with the city's literary youth.I met a middle-level leader of the Youth League Committee who organized this event, and I realized that the well-known young writers such as Liu Shaotang, whom I admired, in the eyes of some of my colleagues and some league cadres, had ideological problems and lack of political development, and urgently needed to be rectified. Rescue and rehabilitate alternative youths——I did not cherish my cadre qualifications and identity.And from the mouths of Liu and others, I also know how frivolous they are, they despise and loathe young people who love literature wholeheartedly, but may not have the potential to achieve success.He said to another young writer in rather unfriendly words: "You just poke him! Deny him! Don't talk to him!" In the end, I couldn't fully get along with them.As soon as I came up, I was caught in the middle.