On novels and others

The novel is a literary genre that focuses on the portrayal of characters and reflects social life through a complete storyline and specific environmental description.

Chinese novels lasted for thousands of years, with the peak of the four major novels in the late Ming and early Qing Dynasty. Lu Xun, Ba Jin, Mao Dun, Yu Dafu and Xu Zhimo were the outstanding representatives of the May 4th Movement, which brought another prosperity of Chinese novels. At that time, Mao Dun founded the novel monthly, and the novel monthly continues to this day, it can be seen that the novel is loved by the public and has a strong vitality.

Masters such as Ba Jin and Mao Dun all have their own trilogy, not Lu Xun, Lao she, Xu Zhimo and Yu Dafu, but their works are also monuments and are handed down from generation to generation.

Novels, like other works, are also inseparable from life, which is the source of all literary and artistic creation.

The era of Cao Xueqin was the era of the decline of feudal society, and the rise and fall of the four families was a microcosm of the Qing Dynasty. If Cao Xueqin had not lived in that era and family, there would not have been a Dream of Red Mansions. Of course, the author's talent is another thing (we'll talk about it later). Similarly, Ba Jin's "home", "spring", "autumn" before liberation and "random thoughts" after liberation are also inseparable from life. Lu Xun is the backbone of Chinese literature. living in a semi-feudal and semi-colonial society riddled with holes, Lu Xun saw the darkness of society and people's struggles, and it was only with "Sister Xianglin" and "Kong Yiji" that he had the "cry" of looking for poems from Dao Cong.

The novel is inseparable from the unique characterization and compelling storyline. Environmental description naturally puts the characters in a typical environment to demonstrate its social significance and human nature. It is the people who want a new country that must first write a novel of a new country.

Ingenious conception, exquisite language, exquisite description and incisive argumentation are undoubtedly the four wheels that support a good novel. To reach such a state, it is really difficult for a beginner to climb up from under the well.

Ingenious conception is the key to the success of a novel, it is like doing a project, regardless of the size of the project, always make a plan first, with an effect picture and a rough outline. The frame is fixed, and then fill in the material. Its greatest advantage is that it can be made up in accordance with common sense, which leaves the author with a wide range of free imagination and room to spread. As Lu Xun said: the model of the character, never dedicated to a person, often the mouth in Zhejiang, the face in Beijing, clothes in Shanxi, is a patchwork role. In any excellent novel, there are unforgettable typical characters. People can refract life and reality through these artistic models. The ingenious conception of O'Henry and the suspense setting of Japanese mystery novels are more fascinating and intriguing.

The exquisite language Mr. Zheng Jiuzhi has explained very clearly, which is the basic essentials that all beginners should master. Language is the external expression of your writing skills. A person, even if you are full of experience, you do not speak to people with good words, without expressiveness and sense of humor, it is difficult to show the most beautiful side to each other and the reader. The difference between a novel and other literary works is that it portrays characters through language, infects readers, resonates with readers, and is abstract, while abstract things require kung fu outside the poem. The ancients'"strangers on the mulberry" wrote Luo Fu Mei, not with beautiful words, but with the traveler to see Luo compress, under the burden to stroke the mustache. When the teenager saw Luo compress, he took off his hat and wore a bridle. The tiller forgets his plow and the hoe forgets his hoe to set off the beauty of Luo's compress.

The exquisite description runs through the details, and the story can be made up, but the details cannot be made up. The character's gesture, a glance and a smile, all reflect the character of the character, portrayed well, the character will be lifelike standing in front of you. For example, when Zhou Libo told Guo Quanhai in the Storm, the author only focused on the murder of his father and his being deceived by the landlord. Guo Quanhai began to appear on the stage, and the author wrote the details of his lightly subduing a horse without a halter, showing Guo's bold, bright and clever character. After liberation, Liang Haoran, another representative of local literature, described that although the family of the old middle-aged farmer Qin Ai was rich, he was afraid that others would come to his house to borrow food, so he carried an empty pocket around the street early. When asked, he said that the family could not open the pot and find a place to borrow food. As a result, an old middle-aged peasant was turned upside down behind closed doors, with an extremely selfish face on paper. In his short story "A load of Water", through the detailed description of how many steps the blind man takes from home to the well platform, and then accurately standing on the edge of the well, people can convincingly see things that a discerning person does not need to pay attention to at all. As the saying goes, there is nothing in everyone's heart. The sparrow opens the screen and shows the beauty of each feather to everyone. This is the victory of the details.

An incisive argument. The novel is not produced out of thin air, it must have the mark of the author's life and emotional sustenance. Discussion can not only be written in the front, but also on the side. Just the right discussion can be said to be the finishing touch, while too much discussion is suspected of taking the lead.

Writing a novel is a bit like the relationship between a road and a car. Do you fix the road before you buy a car, or do you buy a car before you build the road? A little inspiration, some stories, no skills, no embellishments began to write, as a result, messed up the rules, made a four do not look like, the expert laughed, the layman looked at a loss, he still can not put it down. Wait until you learn to write, when will you learn it?

The expression of the novel varies from person to person, but it remains the same. If you look across Chengling and test into a peak, you can see that there are a variety of things in the past. The reason why you can't know the true face of Lushan Mountain is because you are in the middle of these mountains. As the saying goes, it will not be difficult, but for experts, laughing and scolding will become an article, and it is a masterpiece to use it easily. For beginners, just as they are full of words and don't know how to say it, they don't know what to do after writing. Although it is not like Cao Xueqin to add and delete five times in ten years, he will ponder over and over again like Jia Dao, and after a lot of effort, he still can't come up with his hand and can't get on the stage. There are only two reasons: first, from personal talent to cultural accumulation, you are not the material for writing novels at all; second, everything has a process, from ignorance to knowledge, from little to much, that is, from the realm of freedom to the realm of necessity, as Chairman Mao said.

The novel criticism is the driving force of the development and prosperity of the novel. Without the novel criticism, the literary world of the novel will break a wing and cannot fly. And well-intentioned comments are undoubtedly a guide for beginners and a boost for those who come first. But such a line is very difficult to master, as long as it is well-intentioned, do not care about the weight of the tone, the improper use of words; the thought of playing, there is no utilitarianism, everything is relieved. Support and stick killing are not desirable, and letting a hundred flowers blossom and a hundred schools of thought contend is undoubtedly applicable to the Qingteng Literature Network. I remember that soon after, a young friend wrote an article in which Mo Yan deserved the Nobel Prize. I did not know the importance of following a few words: in China, there is no number of Mo Yan in terms of literary achievements. I do not believe in foreign bullshit awards. Later, I thought that the author may also be a beginner and has the right to express his ideas. If I want to get some encouragement and recognition, how can I post like that on impulse? Later, I looked for this post and disappeared. I felt very guilty all the time. I apologize here. At this point, I always told myself, if there is no say and evaluation, send a smiling face and send a bouquet of flowers.

It is only natural for a layman to speak layman's words. See laughter. Quan commemorates the 73 anniversary of Chairman Mao's speech at the Yenan Symposium on Literature and Art.

Original author: Castle Peak