Chen Chongzheng: Ten years of narrative poems

Chen Chongzheng

In 2012, I started writing with the original name "Chen Chongzheng". Before that, I tried a lot of names, which can actually be understood as the net name; the so -called net name is how easy it is for people to remember. At that time, the Internet was called surfing the Internet, and everyone was tide. However, the "post -80s" generation of writers were originally rolled up by the three waves of three waves of "campus literature", "youth literature", "online literature", and were rolled up. Essence In 2013, I was invited to participate in the fifteenth anniversary of the new concept composition. Guo Jingming walked into the venue. Most of the authors of the new concepts in the audience were middle school students. They all stood up and looked around. If you remember correctly, the writer Sun Ganlu was talking on the stage at that time. He just finished the second point and was about to start the third point. Seeing this scene, Mr. Sun said with a smile, then I won't talk about Speaking on the stage.

In 2015, I went to Shanghai again, and saw the director of the new concept composition contest. Teacher Li Qigang. On the dinner table, he talked about the decline of youth literature and the publication of the publications. I know the warmth and warmth. Fortunately, many years ago, I have quietly bid farewell to youth literature, and understand that the time of a youth magazine on the campus cannot come back. That is, in 2014, I entered the publishing industry from the teacher industry. I read the manuscript every day, changed the wrong words, studied knowledge payment, and pondered how to make publishers stand on the wind in the context of the integration of new and old media. Domestic literature journals generally usher in a good day of rising fees, probably at this time. Prior to this, the manuscript fee of literary journals is generally low, and its operations are facing difficulties, and they have been in a low position for years. Since the fall of 2014, the literary journals have ushered in a wave of rising fees. The editor of the line literature can be a generous manuscript. Through a literary journal with a strict screening mechanism, the writer has received a little more manuscript fee, which has indeed brought the heat required to grow in literary creation. Now when you look back, you can probably understand that a curve belonging to literature has quietly shifted in recent years.

I always think that the writer's attention to the manuscript fee is never a vulgar thing. On the contrary, pretending that it is the most vulgar to pretend that it is not the manuscript fee. In the same way with the growth of manuscript fees, there is also a way to collect the manuscript fee. Ten years ago, most of the manuscript fees were issued from the post office. The green withdrawal notice. In order not to waste time, I made enough to go to the post office together. At that time, in Dongguan, from the urban area to the town, the post office was often overcrowded. Foreigners who came to work with me were old and young people who came to work in Guangdong. Or an important holiday, they came to the post office to send money and send the package. The team's movement was very slow. The staff on the counter on the counter repeatedly asked the address and carefully checked, because the wrong address could not receive anything. I crowded in the crowd, and always seemed to be out of place: they came to send money, and I came to withdraw money. No one likes to line up, but now I think of such a hot scene, but I miss it.

It is not easy to queue up to pick up, but it is difficult to submit. At that time, I was often withdrawn, and the mailbox submitted every time I was in the sea. So a friend told me a secret, that is, the printed manuscript is more likely to be seen by the editor of the publication, because the publishing editor prefers to read paper manuscripts and read the manuscript on the computer to hurt his eyes. Therefore, there are so many years, I believe and execute this approach, seriously print the manuscript, put it in the envelope, put it on the stamp, check the address of the publication, and then send it to the post office. No echo, other publications are sent every two months. Later, I had WeChat, and I became friends with many editors. Once I drank a letter of retreat from the "gain", the writer Fu Yuehui told me that the words on the envelope were written by him. At that time, he was still a student. In an internship in the editorial department. Now there are only a few old -fashioned magazines that require paper submission, and most of the literary journals use mailboxes to receive manuscripts. The mailbox's manuscript is really messy, and the solemnity of paper manuscripts is missing. But in an era of scanning code, envelopes and letter paper are eventually disappearing.

In 2012, I was 29 years old and taught in a middle school by the Songshan Lake in Dongguan. That year, Mo Yan won the Nobel Prize in Literature. After discussing with colleagues in the Chinese Team, I made several posters and posted it to the school's promotional column to introduce Mo Yan and his Gao Mi Northeast Township. That night, when the moon was empty, we drank the little wine and talked about literature. In those days, the teachers of mathematics and chemicals knew that I was writing novels, and I didn't know why I was more polite to me. It seemed that there was only one Mo Yan between me and the Nobel Prize in Literature. Unfortunately, I was assigned to a class with poor grades. In the calculation of the average class score, there was no rhetoric. I started to look at this comfortable and crisis life, and then came to Guangzhou from Dongguan in 2014 to start a more rush of journey. Perhaps after more years, the passage of the years will take away the gully of life, but for those who live in a moment, we can only live in the gully and cannot jump out of thin air. At that time, I encountered great difficulties in my life. Things such as my family were sick. In the end, I gritted my teeth and told myself that if I could not add the operation, then the multiplication of life. No one wants to live as an inspirational story, but life is always invincible.

From the author of "Huacheng" to becoming an editor, I am undoubtedly lucky. In the years of Huacheng Publishing House, my life was busy, and there was no leisure of Songshan Lake, but the experience of literary editors made me better see clearly. All corners of literature. Although the more the paragraphs in the literary world, the more people and things will not like, but literature is always good. It is a window facing the moon, giving everyone in hope for everyone. I like all novel things. It is also very happy to see the change of "from 0 to 1" in the new media of "Huacheng". It is a difficult process from scratch, but I have paid a lot of time that should have belonged to creation. In my friend's words: "Don't pound your website every day, write two more novels." But at that time, I thought that such a large publishing house, one less literary editor is irrelevant, but one more online platform may be more. A breakout hope. So after coming to "Guangzhou Literature and Art", I never doubt the direction of the digitalization of the journal, but it is more rational to treat many things. After all, writing is a business, and the editor is a career. Indeed, if you return to the place of writing, I am a rustic countryside in the soil, and it may be more pragmatic. In other words, I have never been the same as the migrant workers who lined up in the post office at that time. If there are any differences, then the writer may be more inclined to occupy time, cross the gulf of life, and complete the ambition of the fictional real name. Yes, if a writer does not have the ambition to occupy time, what is the difference between salted fish? Moreover, I am in the Guangdong -Hong Kong -Macao Greater Bay Area, and it is constantly summoning new literature. In 2018, many people's eyes looked south of the south, praising the great achievements of reform and opening up. At the same time, they also began to reflect on the coordinates of literature in the context of economic steeping. Some critics have suggested that the possibility of re -evaluation in literature south of the south. Everyone quickly formed a consensus, reintegrating what southern literature was south of the south, and thinking about the stock and increment of literature south of the South, what characteristics and commonality. Therefore, the "New Southern Writing" mentioned was originally to cover up and re -establish new coordinates. For a long time, the south of literature has often been in the south of the river, and south of the south has been a barren land since ancient times, and it is a place where literati have been degraded. It has been more than 40 years of reform and opening up. It is time to refresh the screen and take a look at the literary ecology of New South. If you consider the South China Sea, the coordinates of culture will be different. The ocean seems to have nothing on the map, but in reality it is turbulent, and it is full of various stories in history. For example, my hometown Chaozhou has a mighty history. How many Chaozhou people are discussing life among the stormy waves. Therefore, from this perspective, the entire Lingnan, with the Guangdong -Hong Kong -Macao Greater Bay Area as the core, should be in the geographical center of the Chinese writing circle. It is the hinterland of culture, not a marginal land, and it should not be an exile. It is not the end of the journey, but the beginning of the restart. The proposal of "New South" hopes that more writing can be seen again. It tries to tell everyone that in the new era, it should not look at Chinese literature with old eyes, but should have an international perspective. New South is the forefront of China. There are the latest technology, the latest lifestyle, a vigorous economy, colorful cultural landscapes, and various reforms. Different people are here to live and die here.

In the process of discussing the writing of New Southern, I found that such a concept will also in turn act on the creation of writers. For example, for the subject matter such as ocean, Lingnan, and science fiction, New Southern writers gradually have new consciousness. Maybe it takes time to know a lot. For example, myself, from the writing of Lingdong Witch, stared at technology and future, and recently I am interested in the story of the sea. Writing is indeed a voyage of arduous voyages. The unknown theme has some kind of magic, tempting writers, and torture the writer. In the past ten years, I have fictional Bihe World, from Banbu Village to Beauty City, and various characters live on this invisible land. They whispered late at night. Their voice was like the late autumn. Confidence often makes me stunned, so that I will continue to shock between my arrogance and inferiority.

In a blink of an eye, I am almost 40 years old. When I was young, I felt 40 years old. At the age of 25, I built a folder in the computer called "Chen Chongzheng's forty years old" and prepared to use the great works that I had to complete in my life. Now guessing the good intentions at that time, probably worried that their people would live in a joke. In the eyes of a arrogant young man, the 40 -year -old man should complete a huge book, and then go to the clothes. Back to Yin Mountain Forest. But now, I am wondering that on the 40th birthday, I shamelessly renamed this folder as "Chen Chongzheng fifty years old" so that I had the courage to continue writing.

Content source: Literature and Art News on September 21, 2022

WeChat editor: Lu Yimeng

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