Fictitious solution

Today, I saw an "old news" two months ago on the Internet. Hu, Minister of Propaganda Department of Shanxi Coalfield Geology Bureau and member of Shanxi Writers Association, created a wordless gobbledygook, which caused great controversy. The title of this novel is. The full text has only 14 punctuation marks and no text content. The full text is divided into five parts, namely ①:? ②:! ③"'……'"④(、) 《,》⑤; -After the article was published in Liberation Daily on July 17, it was immediately reprinted by many media, such as Guangming Daily, China Youth Daily and other well-known national media, and this wordless novel was also reprinted, even offering a reward of140,000 for finding the decipherer of the novel.

What is a novel? I don't think I should ask such a retarded question. People who can read probably know what a novel is. However, different people have different meanings. For example, Balzac said that novels are the secret history of a nation, Proust said that novels are silent sons, and Han Shaogong made novels into a park with many entrances and exits. Readers can come in or go out from any door. You have experienced and felt this park, which is enough. In the view of Hu, a Shaanxi writer who created a wordless gobbledygook, a novel can also be a few simple punctuation marks.

Literature is the art of language, and novel, as a literary genre, should not be divorced from the category of language art, so novel is also art, and as art, you should follow his laws. If you don't follow its inherent laws, you just engage in postmodernism and surrealism for grandstanding. I wonder if this person is possessed? Literary creation is a very serious job, and carefully honing language is the most basic quality that a good literary work should have. The ancients paid attention to the refinement of words and sentences. Jia Dao, a poet in the Tang Dynasty, is famous for his acerbic tone. Because the exclamation of "two sentences took three years, and a lyric shed tears" became a literary story, and it was also circulated because of the "scrutiny" of Han Yu's horse head. Any great literary work is written by the author with painstaking efforts, which requires hard work. People also call literary creation pen farming. What is ploughing? It is very hard work for farmers to plow the land with plowshares. Literary creation is the same as ploughing, the only difference is that they plough with thoughts and pens.

Let's take a look at Hu's masterpiece, a first-class writer in Shaanxi Province. According to him, the full text of the novel has only 14 punctuation marks, which tells a touching love story with repeated climaxes and touching twists and turns. Please forgive my stupidity first. I have read this novel for half an hour, but my mind is still in a mess. I don't know where he is touching or what kind of love story he is telling. I don't know what he said about orgasms. As for the twists and turns of the plot, I am even more confused. Anyone who has studied Introduction to Literature knows that a work or novel is not literature but a text if it has no readers. Literature exists in the form of activities. M·H· abrams, a contemporary American scholar of literature and art, believes that literature, as an activity, always consists of four elements: works, artists, the world (nature, life) and appreciators, which constitute a flowing process. Hu's wordless gobbledygook, I think no one knows what he is writing except himself. Since his text can't communicate with readers, that is, it can't be accepted by readers, then the final text is still text, and readers are still readers. The two are irrelevant. In this sense, I don't think this is literature.

Hu also said that this wordless novel is only a preliminary demonstration of the achievements of China's writing reform, and that one day, words composed of punctuation marks will replace square characters. I think he is dreaming. China's Chinese characters are a miracle of the world. They evolved step by step from Oracle Bone Inscriptions to today's simplified characters, which lasted for thousands of years. This is the crystallization of China people's wisdom, and Chinese characters also play a very important role in all language systems in the world today. As the most effective tool to convey information in people's lives, Chinese characters have been proved by history. It's not that Chinese characters are not good. Punctuation marks are used to break sentences and only play an auxiliary role in conveying information to Chinese characters. They cannot replace Chinese characters at all. The direction of Chinese character reform should be to find simplified Chinese characters, but punctuation is definitely not replaceable. Hu claimed that one day, Chinese characters composed of punctuation marks will replace square characters. This reminds me that in primitive society, people used knots to take notes. How simple it is! Without Chinese characters, a rope can solve all problems. Every Chinese character has its own specific meaning. When Chinese characters with different meanings are combined together, they can convey accurate information. However, the number of punctuation marks is limited. If you want to express a complex message, I don't know what combination of these limited punctuation marks is needed to express it accurately. Just like his wordless gobbledygook, although he blew it up, none of us could understand it except himself, which caused great obstacles to the transmission of information. If you want to use punctuation marks instead of Chinese characters, there is still a problem of pronunciation. It must form syllables in order to be used as a language tool for communication in people's lives. If he gives each punctuation a pronunciation, what's the point of replacing Chinese characters? I don't think he wants to take the text reform in a simple direction, but it is more complicated. Therefore, I think Hu might as well visit Oracle Bone Inscriptions, or advocate tying knots to keep records.

As for the innovation in literary creation, Hu is not an innovator, or it should not be the direction of literary innovation. I remembered a joke that was widely circulated on the Internet. In other words, if you want to become famous by writing online, you should write articles that others can't understand except yourself, and others will think you are knowledgeable and profound. This is not a level of pretending to be deep and grandstanding, just like Hu's practice. Bai Juyi, a great poet in the Tang Dynasty, read a new work to an illiterate old lady at the entrance of the village for the first time. The old lady couldn't understand it, so he took it back and revised it, thinking it was not a good poem. The novel written by Hu Da is said to be a love story. We could have written this love story in Chinese characters, but it is not a profound academic theory. Why is it so profound? Moreover, in the end, the novel should be interpreted in Chinese characters, which he thinks is backward. He didn't slap himself. What is this? There is a famous saying in Si Kongtu's poem: "No words, romantic." I think Hu Da writers may have misunderstood the true meaning of this sentence, thinking that writing a wordless gobbledygook without Chinese characters would be an affair. Writing a novel with punctuation marks instead of words is undoubtedly taking punctuation marks as an image text. Is this innovation? Go and see Oracle Bone Inscriptions. People in China began to use it thousands of years ago. Painting can have the same effect, which is not innovation at all. Perhaps the writer Hu was influenced by the Irish writer James Joyce's Ulysses, and he wanted to make a blockbuster. In the eighteenth chapter of Ulysses, Molly's dozens of pages of monologues without punctuation marks have become the classics of the world literary world. Do Hu Da writers use it against their will? Do you want your work to go down in history like Ulysses? And all I saw was a grandstanding clown.

Jiang Yan said this in the Biography of Southern History: "Swallowing is a five-color pen in the bosom, which is given to you. Later, there was no beautiful sentence in poetry, and people called it the most. " Jiang Yan was a famous writer in the Southern and Northern Dynasties. He grew up lonely and poor, but he studied hard. His article was well written and was praised by people at that time. His "Hate Fu" and "Bie Fu" are recognized as excellent works. Later, he was valued by Xiao Daocheng, the king of Qi, and Xiao Hu, the king of Qi, and became a doctor of Guanglu. From then on, Jiang Yan was unwilling to make further progress, and his articles became more and more retrogressive in his later years. Legend has it that Jiang Yan dreamed that Zhang Jingyang asked him for a silk lent to him, and Jiang Yan returned the remaining feet in his arms to Zhang Jingyang. I dreamed that Guo Pu asked him for a pen, and Jiang Yan gave Guo Pu a multicolored pen. From then on, Jiang Yan's articles were not as good as before, and there were no good sentences in his poems. It is said that Jiang Yan's talent has run out. This is what people often say that Jiang Lang is at his wit's end. Guo Pu asked him for a pen, and there are allusions. It is said that he stayed in this heaped-up mountain for one night after his arrival. In the dream, a handsome man claimed that Guo Pu gave him a multicolored pen. When he woke up, he found a pen in his pocket. From then on, he began to think and write like a god. This is the origin of dream pen gives birth to flowers. Minister of Propaganda Department of Shanxi Coalfield Geology Bureau, member of Shanxi Writers Association. He has created and published eight works, including essays, novels and reportage. He is a Hu Da writer, with about 3 million words. I don't know if the 3 million words he created before are the genius of Jiang Yan, and I have never seen his 3 million words "immortal works". However, if his 3 million words are true, Jiang Yan is self-aware. Knowing that he couldn't write, he simply stopped writing. Knowing that writing is also writing some rubbish, he closed his pen and stopped writing. But we, a Hu Da writer, have no such self-knowledge. We always want to play a little trick to attract others' attention, lest others forget us.

I have always said that the current literary world is impetuous, and few writers really settle down to create. There is no one who has spent his whole life writing a novel like Cao Xueqin. Therefore, there are no masters in our time. Impetuousness and quick success are the true portrayal of today's literary world, and Hu Da writers are an example. Anything is done for fame and fortune. Body writing, lower body writing and chest writing are more avant-garde, but how many real fine novels are there in today's literary world? Publishing houses also publish many books every year, and bookstores also have all kinds of fancy bestsellers. In fact, they are just a false prosperity. They are weak, and they are a lot of writing rubbish driven by capital and fame. A true writer, when creating literature, looks at the world with his heart and feels the world with his soul. He won't be tempted by fame and fortune. Even if he is lonely and poor, he will stick to his principles and write practically. Hu Da writers even offered a reward of140,000 yuan to the decipherer of the novel, which was really newsworthy and easy to become famous, but it was obviously a gain. You might as well use this 140000 yuan to help out-of-school children in poor mountainous areas, which may gain some positive reputation and have some practical significance. Literary creation is a serious matter and should not be entertainment news. A true writer should shoulder his social responsibility. If you can't stand the loneliness of coding those Chinese characters and can't settle down to sit on that bench, then you can seal your pen and don't write, and you don't need to make people guess by making up these random codes. A novel like yours can only be written by a pupil who has attended the first grade of primary school. It can also be said that his novels have many meanings and stories. Why are you doing this? You don't want to entertain the public like FRJJ, do you? I hope you didn't defile the sacred name of writer.

If you want to continue to be a domestic writer in Hu Da, I hope you will be an honest writer and write down-to-earth instead of writing an article casually like your name Hu. If it is bright, it lights up like fireworks and then goes out. Finally, I will give you a passage from Wu Chenjun's Chapter 11 of Novel Skills: "Diligent language training is what a good novelist has been doing all his life. Novel creation must first learn to make things clear, express the meaning clearly, and use the perseverance of dancers to train our feelings about words. " I hope this passage will be helpful to your future novel creation, and don't engage in these wordless gobbledygook and boring gibberish.