Chapter 228 Introduce a Good Prose——Read Ye Zhicheng's "If I Were a Writer"

The editor of "Wenhui Monthly" came and talked with me for a long time in the sunny living room.We talked about prose first, and we talked a lot about writing and reading prose.Finally he got to the point and asked me to introduce a good prose in the "My Favorite Prose" column.This matter seems easy to say.Over the years, I have read a lot of prose, and there are many good ones.But it seems very difficult for me to introduce a good prose, because appreciating a work has a lot to do with the mood of the appreciator at the time and place.Readers with different ages, experiences, and emotions have different degrees of resonance with the works.At the same time, due to my limited mobility and never going out in recent years, I spend a lot of time reading, and a lot of books, newspapers and periodicals are delivered every day.I lost the habit of cutting newspapers again, because the things I kept in previous years have left me with a few deep scars after several disasters!

However, today I am reading "Not necessarily a good collection", which is self-deprecatingly called "Selected Works" by the three brothers and sisters of Comrade Ye Zhishan.There are many good articles in it, but there is one article in the "Page of Sincerity" that caught my attention, that is "If I Were a Writer".I wrote a poem sixty years ago with the same title, but my artistic conception is much narrower than his!I just want "my work" to make people "remember who wrote about this scene", "hear the 'sympathy' drumming in their hearts", "when my backlog of thoughts fall on paper ", "I'm about to shed happy tears."Comrade Zhicheng has to work hard to do something that is not easy to do today, that is, "I have myself in the works". He said "I...you...his works" all start with "your soul you The appearance of Baihua appears in front of the readers... Then, there is a real Baihua".He thought "it's me"

It means "writing like a person", that is, "you must strictly speak your own true words", "you must love, hate, and sing with all your heart and soul...to be true to what you see, hear, feel, and think. Give it to the readers completely; present my soul naked to the readers." This move is really easier said than done!Only "people have nothing to ask for" can be so brave.Nowadays, there are not no writers who tell lies, empty words, and big words.Comrade Sincerely, this prose resonates most resoundingly on my heartstrings! The editor of "Wenhui Monthly" politely asked me to "cut the ribbon" for the new column "My Favorite Prose". I have never cut the ribbon in my life, and I never dreamed that I would dare to cut the ribbon. I have never seen him—this article, so I resolutely cut this "color", and I am willing to introduce this good prose to young writers and readers from the bottom of my heart. December 5, 1984