Chapter 144 Inspiration from Jade Workers

Several years ago, in the jade carving room of an arts and crafts company, I saw a dozen machines for carving jade with electric grinders in the outside workshop, making soft noises, and the materials turning in the hands of the workers quickly The ground is ground into various beautiful images, and the working procedure is much faster after the machine is used. Entering the smaller workshop inside, several masters are drawing ideas.Holding pieces of jade in their hands, they looked at them repeatedly, pondered silently, and imagined the size, color, shape, and texture of the piece of jade in their hands, what it was most suitable for carving, and how to make the piece of jade. Jade becomes the most vivid and vivid image under their intentional deployment.

After seeing the finished product on the table, we couldn't help but admire it!For example, there is a piece of pure white jade, but there are two red dots of different sizes and shades inside. The jade carving master designed it to look like two Leghorn chickens, the big red dot becomes the rooster's comb, and the small one The light red crown on the hen's head, the rooster crowing loudly, and the hen bowing its head to peck, are really lifelike!By analogy, flowers, grass insects, and characters all do their best. At that time, I thought that we writers should also handle the materials we caught in this way.In the era of socialist construction, youth is full of vigor, miracles are springing up everywhere, and heroes are born in endless numbers. As long as a writer has a love for the new society and love for his work, he pays attention everywhere and digs everywhere. There are more jade stones on the mountain.The problem is how to turn it into colorful, diverse, ingenious, vivid, and inspiring works.

I know a famous writer who always carries a small notebook with him. When he sees a typical small action or hears a sentence or two of powerful and vivid dialogue, he immediately writes it down in the notebook for later Prepare for a rainy day.He has accumulated a lot of fragmentary materials, but not all of them are useful, because he writes large articles, and the things that cannot be involved, no matter how good they are, have to be cut off - I always feel that it is a pity. Now, we need works in all kinds of literary forms, especially small ones.Now, with a combination of work and rest, everyone has more time to read, but when reading long and cumbersome works, you can’t put them down, and you will always feel apologetic, unlike reading short articles. It is also for this reason that the People's Daily's revised articles are short, concise, morale-boosting, and knowledge-increasing.

Therefore, we hope that writers will be full of energy, not stick to one pattern, get the material, look at it, think about it, if it is suitable for writing one-act plays, then write one-act plays; if it is suitable for writing fairy tales, then write fairy tales; Fiction; it is suitable for writing short poems, so write short poems...don't keep it hidden away, wait for people to come together, and then go to battle together.In this way, fragmentary materials such as Xia Yun, shooting stars, and sparks that are deeply impressed in the writer's mind can also be sent to readers at any time, so that everyone can enjoy our touch and happiness together.

Of course, writers all have their own familiar and idiomatic literary forms, but this is not static. People who write articles are often generalists, and the problem lies in the material.Moreover, unaccustomed literary forms will also gain taste through experimentation, which will lead to later handyness, both sides, "intentional planting of flowers", but at the same time, it may as well "unintentional planting of willows", until the green leaves are shaded, only then will I know that labor is never enough. In vain. Our era is an era when a hundred flowers bloom. We not only want peonies and chrysanthemums that are full of acres and stretch as far as the eye can see, but also violets under the trees and dandelions on the grass. There is no one in the world who does not love flowers, but everyone’s hobbies They are not the same, and our responsibility is not only to allow readers to be eclectic, but also to get what they need.