Chapter 30: Counterattack
In Beijing, at the "Children's Magazine" office, several young editors gathered together with "Sprout" and muttered quietly, and with a burst of familiar footsteps, these editors dispersed like frightened birds, returned to their workstations, and sat down in a posture of serious work.
Another older editor snorted, slowly got up and took out a somewhat torn copy of "Sprout" from his drawer, walked quickly, and followed Sun Yunxiao, who had just come in, into the editor-in-chief's room, "Editor-in-chief Sun, can you take a look at this article?"
"Oh, it's "Sprout" that just came out, right?" Sun Yunxiao's face was a little tired, he didn't expect that the things that had been in the past six or seven years had been dug up again, which made him a little embarrassed, "Someone called me last night to tell me, and I have read the original text." ”
"Editor-in-Chief Sun, young people nowadays are really not like words, you were for their good at the beginning. The old editor was indignant, and in his opinion, this article was not only a refutation of Sun Yunxiao, but also a sign that the children did not listen to discipline.
If nothing else, let's just say that last night, his child took out this magazine and asked him if it was true, which made him angry for a while and grabbed the magazine directly.
In the process of snatching, the magazine was torn, and the child went back to his room in a fit of anger and locked the door, and did not even come out to eat dinner.
"Yes, there were some exaggerations in the original article, but literary works, derived from life and higher than life, this method is also to better educate children, the gap between us and developed countries such as Europe, America and Japan is too big, how can we do it if we don't work hard to catch up?" Sun Yunxiao sighed, and there was a deep grievance between his eyebrows.
"Besides, didn't I rewrite and clarify it later?" This article caused a huge controversy at the beginning of its publication, and the problems written in Chen Yu'an's article were pointed out, so Sun Yunxiao immediately changed the article, deleting or modifying those exaggerated parts.
But he ignored that the deleted article was not widely circulated, but the original version with exaggerated content became a good material for many older generations of educators and parents and teachers to teach their children, and it is unknown what role he played in this.
"Yes, editor-in-chief, you can't just leave this matter alone, you have to stand up and refute this article. The old editor waved the magazine in his hand vigorously and said, "As long as you agree, I will immediately contact the contracted writers of our magazine and ask them to write articles to refute them." ”
This matter is now not just a matter of Sun Yunxiao and Chen Yu'an, he has regarded this article as a challenge to the new generation of authors to the older generation of literary and art workers, if this turmoil is not suppressed, the influence and prestige of these people will be rapidly reduced.
"There are indeed some problems in the field of children's magazines now, and some magazines are unscrupulous in order to sell and produce a bunch of sensationalist articles to attract the attention of readers, which is very unhealthy. Contrary to "Sprout", "Children's Magazine" has been declining again and again because of its conservative behavior, although this does not affect Sun Yunxiao's income and status, but it makes him lose his face, and now that this incident has happened, he finally can't sit still.
"Then go and contact those contracted writers, just say that we want to get an essay about post-80s writers, and let them talk about their views on post-80s writers. Sun Yunxiao pondered for a moment and said.
"Okay, it's a good thing that there are newcomers in the literary world, but the old-timers also have to urge them not to go the wrong way. The old editor understood what Sun Yunxiao meant, and it was a little embarrassing to directly pull someone to help him speak, but it was much more convenient to transfer the contradiction to the contradiction between the new generation of writers and the old-timers.
"Hmph, they can't say that they have entered the literary world. "Can you even be called a writer without joining the writers' association? Can you be called a writer without a compilation? It's just fooling some ignorant children.
Chen Yu'an's article is very unkind, there must be a lot of old-timers who don't like him, and the hot sales of "Triple Gate" have also made many writers angry, a hairy boy born in the 80s doesn't know that the so-called novel can sell two million copies?
Looking at the masterpieces that I have painstakingly worked on and changed manuscripts, and which are still in the dusty position in the most corner of the bookstore? Now that young people's appreciation of literature is really getting worse and worse, this situation must change.
So the old editor made a phone call, hit it off with these writers of the older generation, and criticized the articles of Chen Yu'an, Han Han and others flying like snowflakes to the major media.
The turmoil set off by Chen Yu'an is constantly fermenting and expanding, and many media are pondering how to get involved in this controversy, and now they are naturally overjoyed to receive so many manuscripts, and then look at the signatures of the manuscripts, many of them are old writers who have been famous for a long time, so they chose to publish without hesitation.
Soon, the first batch of articles refuting Chen Yu'an were published and appeared in various media.
"Recently, a friend talked to me about the problem of post-80s writers, and I took the time to find some works to read, such as Han Han's "Triple Gate", such as Yang Willy, who made a lot of noise a few days ago......."
"From a literary point of view, post-80s writing is not literary writing as a whole, at best it can only be regarded as literary ticket writing, the so-called ticket friend is a borrowed word, used to show that the post-80s writers can not actually be regarded as real writers, but mainly lovers of literary creation; they love writing now, so they come to write, and it is difficult to say what will happen in the future, because most of them are still students now, and whether they will continue to write and love literature after graduation, it is not necessarily, at least at present, it is still unknown。 ”
"Their works have occasional merits in words, but they are far from real literature in terms of ideology, and it is undoubtedly a kind of sadness and a kind of abandonment for them to accommodate a commercial orientation. ”
"The root of this kind of problem lies in the cultural environment, and how to improve the social environment and the cultural atmosphere is a problem that writers with a true conscience should consider and should bear......
Such views appeared in various newspapers and magazines, refuting the post-80s writers as useless, and many articles explaining and refuting Chen Yu'an for Sun Yunxiao were also mixed in these articles.
In this way, this turmoil has changed from the personal confrontation between Chen Yuan and Sun Yunxiao to a collective war between the older generation of writers and post-80s writers.
In the discussion forum under the banyan tree, the turmoil is followed almost every day, and many people are brewing their own articles, ready to refute them.