Yan Lianke is known as "the most explosive writer in China at present", not only because his two novellas won the first and second Lu Xun Literature Awards respectively, but also his novels, "Shou Huo" are all famous in the literary world. Aroused great repercussions, "Shou Huo" recently won the third Lao She Literature Award.When I met Yan Lianke, he was negotiating with a sponsor from the United States about aiding AIDS villages in Henan. His next novel was going to be written about AIDS villages, and he would donate part of the prize money from the Lao She Literature Prize to the AIDS villages. .Watching him driving in a hurry, it makes people feel that there is still a lot of energy in him, which will bring shock waves to the literary world one after another.Yan Lianke has a kind of respect for Mr. Lao She. He said: "Although Lao She and we are not of the same age, Mr. Lao She's noble character, especially his love and understanding for ordinary people at the bottom, are very worthy of our reference and learning. Only with such a great heart and great love can it be possible to write noble novels, and only then can the sanctity of literature be revealed. Our love for the world, and our care and understanding for the low-level people need sacred literature to Express." His award-winning novel "Shouhuo" describes a village on the edge of society. Under the leadership of an unimaginable county magistrate, he experienced an unimaginable extreme experience of "classic entrepreneurship", revealing the complicated The essence and origin of social life.The judges believed that its overall grasp of the special historical period was both real, vivid and unexpected, and the work's pursuit of depth made it a well-deserved excellent work, a "history of national spirit" in a special historical period.Talking about "Shouhuo", Yan Lianke believes that "Shouhuo" first expresses the tense relationship between the hardworking people and the real society, and secondly, it expresses the writer's anxiety and confusion in the process of modernization. "I admire and even worship the three words 'toiling people'. These three words have become more and more clearly the core of my writing, and may even become the entire core of my future writing."

Yan Lianke feels that the memories of childhood and youth are very important to a writer. He has written about military and rural themes, and the rural ones are the ones he is most comfortable with.People leave that piece of land, but they have an inextricable connection with that piece of land.His mother, sister, and brother are all still in the countryside. He goes back two or three times a year and listens to the old mother's nagging. This year, she may be nagging on the topic of last year, but if you listen carefully, you will benefit a lot from the aftertaste. .He loves this land, where there is love there is hatred, because you love it, you will see more ugly, shallow, short-sighted and even hateful things, "A writer cannot write without love and hate Great works", he said, so he prefers works with "bloody", painful and passionate works, and his own works are such works.

For each novel, Yan Lianke painstakingly finds a suitable form for it. He believes that each story has a potential best way to tell it, just like equipping a watch with parts. Every watch has the most appropriate parts. It depends on whether you look for it or not, and whether you can find it.He said: "Marquez told me what is the truth of the novel. At the beginning, he wrote that gypsies walked around the streets with magnets. Come out. This is the truth of the novel. No matter the novel is true or false, what comes from your heart is true." He especially emphasized the importance of imagination to a writer: "Imagination involves the vitality of a writer. In the past, some writers had Rich life experience, but can only write one novel, and when writing the second novel, there is a suspicion of repetition, stories, ideas, details, and scenes are repeated in all directions. Great writers like Tolstoy, write,, , each one is not repeated. A writer with vitality is also a writer with rich imagination."

Yan Lianke has been in Beijing for nearly 10 years. He studied in military art and then worked. I asked him: "Is it possible to write works on urban subjects?" He smiled and said in Mandarin with a strong Henan accent: "I'm afraid I can't write ."