Chapter 74 foreign moon

A young foreign scholar studying Chinese literature in Taipei said in a lecture that after carefully studying the famous Chinese literary work "Dream of Red Mansions", he deeply felt that the writing skills of Chinese literati are very superb. Compared with the literary works of various Western countries, it can be said that Western literature does not have any writing skills. The words of this young foreign scholar who speaks fluent Chinese gave me a lot of shock and sympathy.The reason is that among the many famous western literary works that I have read in the past, apart from the difference in basic cultural thoughts, some divergent plots can be forgiven, but for some of the writing skills of western literary works, regardless of In terms of layout, structure, landscape, and character creation and rendering, I always feel that there is nothing to recommend. At the same time, some lengthy descriptions are too cumbersome. On the contrary, it is not as good as many ancient Chinese novels and modern writers. The works are brilliant.However, for a long time, because we have had prophets and authoritative attitudes, we have continued to praise all Western literary works, as if all of them are classics, which has caused us to have a new understanding of ourselves. Self-doubt, even if you don’t follow blindly, but you are a little short of breath, you can’t help but always have a question mark in your heart. Is it true that the works of Chinese writers are not as good as those of foreigners?But after listening to the speech of this foreign young scholar, I was shocked, and I had a sudden feeling, and it has been circling in my heart.

Recently, our publishers have been competing to publish the works of famous Western authors. For example, there are many kinds of collections of works by Nobel Prize-winning writers, and each has a different selection; there are also collections of works by individual foreign authors.Although I have read some of these works sporadically, in order to get something out of them, I still read them very carefully.As a result, I got the impression that although some works have good writing skills, there are also many works that are not so clear, and even in terms of depth of thought, they may not be so profound.If we compare the works of many writers in our country today, we can say that they are not so incompetent.

Unfortunately, our group of writers seems to be covered in an opaque and unventilated oxygen tent. We can’t see through, and the oxygen we can enjoy is also very limited. We can only breathe each other in such a tent. Even this bit of oxygen becomes dirty, so how can it be refreshed? A progressive economy really needs progressive people, and the formation of human temperament lies in the development of culture, and cultural construction must have specific and feasible methods, not just a slogan, especially not to belittle oneself.How to meet our writers and carry forward our works is the starting point of cultural construction!