Mu Tao's award is indeed a happy event and a major event for the Xi'an Federation of Literary and Art Circles. It is also a happy event and a major event in Xi'an.

Of course, it is also a happy event and a major event in our province. In an interview with a newspaper reporter, I said that the significance of Mu Tao's award is not only the book "The Previous Atmosphere", of course, but also this book, and two messages are conveyed through this award, one is that the book itself is well written.

Another one is also very good for "Meiwen", which is a kind of praise for "Meiwen" for a long time to make a kind of orientation for today's prose.

After the Lu Xun Literature Award was announced, there were also criticisms on the Internet, and none of these criticisms involved Mu Tao. Mu Tao won the award, I think it is well deserved.

Most of the articles in "The Previous Ethos" have been published in journals before. This book says that prose is also prose, and that essays are essays, and in my mind, it is a kind of prose, and personally, I appreciate this kind.

Take the current definition of prose essays, it can be said that prose is also essays, that is, miscellaneous essays.

Mu Tao's articles contain his concepts, his wisdom, and his thoughts on specific issues.

People generally think that Mu Tao is an editor, in addition to being an editor, he is also a particularly good writer.

At first, Mu Tao was dug up from Hebei, completely because of his writing talent, and he felt that this person's articles were well written, so he dug this person over, and his prose was found in the first few issues of "Meiwen".

When the editorial department of "Meiwen" was formed, the editors were all dug up in this way, and they all dug up because the articles were well written, but when they dug Mu Tao, the cost was relatively large, and they were dug from other provinces.

If they hadn't been dug up, these people would have become famous writers in China long ago. Of course, after I came, my main task was to be an editor, but at the same time, I was also writing, and the editorial department of "Meiwen" was composed of a group of writers.

The reason why Mu Tao was able to become the executive editor-in-chief later was because he loved his editorial work. Strictly speaking, he didn't write many literary works, but his ability to appreciate the works, as well as his organizational skills, I think is very outstanding and outstanding, plus his literary taste, appreciation ability, and editing ability.

said that he was the executive editor-in-chief, but in fact, he was more editor-in-chief than the editor-in-chief over the years, and he always assigned jobs to the editor-in-chief. Mu Tao is the editor-in-chief, and I am the editor-in-chief on the cover.

In recent years, in the literary world, for example, in the world of novels, there have been many revolutionary elements. Since the 80s, if you don't publish something for two or three years, if you don't write anything, people will forget about you.

There are often famous essayists in the prose world, but few know the masterpieces, which were famous decades ago and are still famous decades later, which is a lack of revolutionary elements in the prose world.

At that time, "Meiwen" proposed

"Great prose" is to make a revolution in the prose world. When it was proposed, there were different opinions and opinions, but after decades, it was basically unified, and the concept is used everywhere.

In Mu Tao's book "The Previous Atmosphere", most of the articles are about compiling "Meiwen", and he is speaking in front of the national prose circles, and his starting point is basically this.

As far as I know, it is not that he wrote these articles for the sake of publishing a book, but that he wrote them from the perspective of his work, focusing on some specific issues of prose creation, and how to compile "Meiwen" well, and write articles with practical things.

Prose is actually a practical thing, and it is necessary to write better if it is practical. But there is indeed his opinion, knowledge, and talent in the article.

There are so many prose now, but Mu Tao's works are interesting to watch today, interesting to read tomorrow, and interesting to read the day after tomorrow.

There is a tradition in prose that the hundred schools of thought in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, including Lao Tzu and Confucius, including later Buddhist classics, are all spoken in short things, which are particularly interesting.

Until the later essays in the Ming and Qing dynasties, the articles written by Youguang, Zhang Dai, and Qian Qianyi were all about the world.

Until now, Qian Zhongshu, Zhang Zhongxing, and Dong Qiao, these people are also good at writing short essays.

I think miscellaneous theory is the highest level, but the articles written by the people I just mentioned in their later years are all chatter, but they are full of wisdom, not lyrical.

Of course, Mu Tao's book cannot be compared with those people in history, but the articles written by Mu Tao are not talking about the world, but there are also talks about the world and life, but he is more limited to literary history and expresses some of his own views in the current literary world.

But this is enough, in this era, in the current prose world, I think it is enough, and it is not easy to produce such a person.

I think it's very good to hold this celebration now, it turns out that Xi'an City doesn't attach much importance to this, and I think there can be more such meetings in the future.

Everyone here is Mu Tao's friends, and they all know his talent and his temper. Some people may still have opinions about Mu Tao, I think this person has a strong personality, but he is really talented.

From the aspect of caring for talents, I will say one more point, we must let go and ask him to get it, because obedient people are good for a while, but in the long run, it is actually not good for people who use them.

After Mu Tao won the award, I told him that it didn't matter to Mu Tao whether he won the award or not, and the prose world knew that Mu Tao was talented and well-written.

The award is like a person who has lived together for many years, and he is in his 50s, and he has reissued a marriage certificate.

Jia Pingwa