"Alright, it's okay, sit down. Li Xiang snatched the microphone from the children who didn't plan to shut up, and thanked the friends and book friends who came to the scene.

Lu Hua finally stopped doing his job, stopped chasing Dou Dou to ask this and that, and began to host the on-site press conference.

"Li Xiang has a very touching short story called "Lonely", which is about a lonely old man, and now this book "The Old Man and the Sea" is also about an old man, what kind of symbol is the old man in your writing? Do you prefer to tell stories with a more non-mainstream protagonist? For example, cats, such as old people. Lu Hua asked.

Everyone at the scene looked at Li Xiang, everyone knew that Lu Hua's "Loneliness" was an ultra-short essay, but the feelings contained in it were extremely abundant, and the final ending made people cry.

Today, the protagonist of this "The Old Man and the Sea" is still an old man, and since he has to fight with the sea, the protagonist is set as an old man in the twilight, which makes people wonder.

Dou Dou, who was sitting on the sofa and shaking her feet, also raised a little face, and looked at her elephant brother cutely, and the little monkey brother was asking him! She planned to help if the elephant couldn't answer.

It's a pity that Li Xiang didn't give her a chance to play, and said: "The old man in "Lonely" and the old man in "The Old Man and the Sea" are different symbols. In "The Old Man and the Sea", the old man is a symbolic symbol. ”

"When a person reaches old age, his life has come to the twilight of his life, and the old man in his twilight often loses a lot of things, such as the spirit of struggle, such as the spirit of never admitting defeat and so on. ”

Lu Hua interjected: "So the old man in "The Old Man and the Sea" often dreams of lions, what is the symbolic meaning of the lion?"

Li Xiang: "The lion symbolizes strength, symbolizing the fighting spirit of the old man in pursuit of strength and courage. When an old man who should have enjoyed his old age bravely fought against the sea, this spirit is even more commendable. ”

A huge illustration suddenly appeared on the big screen on the stage, and there was an immediate uproar on the scene.

I saw that under the gray-blue hue, a huge and ferocious fish in the deep sea seemed to be about to pierce the big screen and rush out, which frightened Li Lauren's children.

She sat at the other end of the sofa, closest to the big screen, this fierce big fish seemed to come to her to settle accounts, which scared her so much that she realized that she avoided it, and fell into the sofa, her hands and feet fluttered twice and failed to get up, and Li Xiang, who couldn't look at it, pushed her before sitting up again.

Scare the baby to death!

Dou Dou stared at this illustration angrily, and then glared at Lu Hua, they are all big sharks released by this little monkey brother!

This is not a big shark, but a tuna caught by the old man.

This tuna was fierce and frightened with a sharp spike, with a hook in its mouth, a thick and tight thread, and a small boat connected to the sea!

The small boat and the huge tuna appear to be extremely incongruous, and it seems that they may be overturned by the tuna at any time, and the picture is full of tension.

In this quiet gray-blue illustration, there is a sentence that says: A man can be destroyed, but not defeated.

Lu Hua asked again: "Li Xiang, how to understand this sentence?"

This sentence can be said to be the essence of the whole book, and the whole story is to illustrate this sentence.

After Lu Hua finished asking, he winked at Dou Dou, who was glaring at him fiercely, and received a cold snort.

Lauren Li retracted her gaze arrogantly, and looked up at her elephant brother with a little face.

Li Xiang: "There is a concept called limit. ”

"The so-called limit is to approach the limit of a person. What do we often call failure? Failure to achieve the desired goal is a failure in the traditional concept. However, there is a type of person who is born close to failure, and often fails a lot of the time. ”

"These are people who constantly challenge their own limits, they struggle with fate, and they often have to taste the bitter fruits of failure. ”

"I don't think it's a failure, in my opinion, the real failures are those who lay down their arms and give in to the limits, and these are the losers. ”

"Only those who are content with their own limits are always 'victors', and such 'victors' always win only because their opponents have already surrendered, or rather, they have not entered the struggle at all. ”

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Li Xiang's words won bursts of applause from the scene, Dou Dou didn't know how to feel it, and he also applauded stupidly, and looked at Li Elephant with admiration, and he didn't know what he said Kitten, Puppy and Piggy, anyway, she didn't understand.

Now everyone applauds Li Daxiang! It seems that she doesn't need the help of the young lady, Dou Dou couldn't help but feel relieved, a little thirsty, looked at the crowd at the scene, felt that no one paid attention to her, covered her ears and stole the bell, jumped off the sofa, snorted from the side close to the big screen, and slipped off the stage, like a sneaking little mouse.

"Sister~~~" Shi Shi had been waiting there for a long time, always worried that her sister Dou Dou would be brought back by the pigeon and thrown out.

Fortunately, her sister ran back by herself, she was very worried just now, and she has been paying attention to the situation on the stage, once she finds that something is wrong, she has to rush up and beg the pigeon to give her face, not to fight the sinus.

The teacher was so bold that Dou Dou ran to the stage and spoke, admiring and excited, but she didn't dare to do this. Now, she's going to interview her family's Dou Dou.

The two sisters got together and chatted excitedly, one seemed to have done an extremely great thing, and the other seemed to be extremely brainless. Dou Dou is bragging to his teacher, and his sister also thinks that his sister is great, so he dares to go on stage.

On the stage, Lu Hua and Li Xiang chatted briefly for a while, and then invited Mr. Deng Boxiao to come on stage to say a few words.

As the chairman of the Shengjing Writers Association and the vice chairman of the National Writers Association, Deng Boxiao's qualifications are very high, and he has not attended other people's book launches for a long time.

Li Xiang gave him a trial copy of this book very early, not only him, but also those old gentlemen from the Shengjing Writers Association, so they had time to read and taste the book.

With the "lessons from the past" of "I Am a Cat", everyone has great expectations for Li Xiang's second book, and the facts have not disappointed them.

Not only did it not disappoint, but it was full of amazement.

Different from the playful and witty and sharp of "I Am a Cat", "The Old Man and the Sea" is more mellow and deep, like a drama of the times, majestic and convincing.

Deng Boxiao said to the end: "I have three different stages of impression of Li Xiang, the first time I saw his article, it was "Love Life", at that time I thought Li Xiang was an outstanding young writer. ”

There was an uproar at the scene, and it was really rare to say such words from Deng Boxiao's mouth, and his evaluation of Li Xiang was very high.

Later, I watched his "I Am a Cat", which refreshed my impression of him, and I felt that Li Xiang was the best young writer in China in the decade before and after. ”

"Now, I have watched "The Old Man and the Sea", and I feel that Li Xiang's future is limitless, and he will be a great contemporary Chinese writer. ”