Is Mu Xin's literary attainments overrated?

Mu Xin, whose real name is Sun Pu, was born in Wuzhen, Zhejiang Province on February 65438, 0927, and settled in the United States in 0982. He studies, paints and writes. He taught a group of China artists such as Chen Danqing and Cao Liwei in new york, and taught the history of world literature for five years.

Since 2006, under the recommendation of Chen Danqing, Mu Xin's works have been met with mainland readers one after another, and the reading circle even called 2006 "Muxin Year". On February 26th, Mu Xin passed away in Wuzhen. 100 many young readers came from all over the world to express their grief.

At the end of 20 12, on the occasion of the first anniversary of Mu Xin's death, Chen Danqing made public his speech notes 18 years ago, and entered five notes of his speech in new york into the computer one by one, and handed them over to Guangxi Normal University Press, which published a 1000-page "Literary Memoir". Recently, the press launched a special issue of Mu Xin Memorial. Some newspapers and periodicals also published Mu Xin's works, focusing on him. Some media called Mu Xin a "forgotten literary master".

At the same time, some scholars think that Mu Xin's influence is purely the result of Chen Danqing's wishful thinking, and the literary value of his works is not as high as mentioned, and even think that there is a "sour rot" phenomenon in his writing. Judging from the literary value, I think the evaluation of Mu Xin is too high now. Chen Danqing's evaluation of Mu Xin should be limited. From a linguistic point of view only, you can say so. However, it is entirely possible for another author to have both classical and modern vocabulary and knowledge in his works. The integration of classical knowledge elements into modern and contemporary things is from the perspective of words and vocabulary. However, from the literary point of view, Mu Xin's writing certainly does not have such a high status as "connecting the preceding with the following". "Literature" has its own requirements, and "language" is only the direct form of "literature". The expressive force of language is important, but the relationship among language structure, narrative structure and meaning system is an important measure of literary evaluation. Mu Xin is a painter. He is proficient in literature, history and philosophy, but this is not necessarily related to literature. It can't be said that his literary creation will be fine if his humanistic quality is good.