In the 80s, the literary craze swept across China, and Harvest, as China's first-class pure literature journal, had a circulation of one million copies per issue. Such a strange phenomenon, even Ba Jin is quite worried, as an old publisher with a lot of experience in running periodicals, he knows that this phenomenon is not normal, the streets are full of your magazines, this is a very terrible thing. That's why Ba Jin once said, "1 million copies is too high, I'd rather print less."

In fact, the reason why Harvest magazine can have such a huge circulation has its deeper connotation. The barrenness and scarcity of spiritual life in the 70s led to an extremely strong thirst for knowledge and literature, and then the reform and opening up. The change of the system cannot be accomplished overnight, but the ban on literature only requires an order, so it is understandable why a purely literary journal like "Harvest" has a circulation of millions, which is actually a reason that demand exceeds supply. However, for Govern, such an era of reading, writing, and creating is the era he really yearns for!

On September 1, 1983, bookstores and bookstalls across the country put the new issue of Harvest magazine on their most conspicuous counters.

Countless readers flocked to the counter to pay for such a thick magazine, or to read it in a hurry, or to take it home to share with family and friends.

These readers are of different ages and identities, including young people, middle-aged people, old people, civil servants dressed in serious and serious clothes, in-service soldiers who walk in a serious way, and middle-aged women carrying baskets of vegetables. There are old people with drooping old hair and white hair holding crutches, and there are also young people who look like ruffians in fashionable clothes...... But no matter who it was, they didn't hesitate to take money out of their pockets to buy this "Harvest". Maybe they don't even want to buy a bottle of soda when they're thirsty. Maybe they usually think about the difference of a few cents when they buy groceries, but at this moment, they all take money from their pockets neatly, as if the money to buy magazines is not their own but picked up from the road.

Ten years of catastrophe and ten years of silence have made countless people thirst for ideas and art. Therefore, once the floodgates of reform and opening up are opened, the flood of literature is like a surging river, and the unstoppable water makes everyone intoxicated, and this is the status quo of literature in China in the 80s!

Such a familiar and natural scene that Govin had seen in the Xinhua bookstore, the largest in Shanghai. That was when the "Generation" he inadvertently plagiarized after crossing over was published in Harvest magazine, and he was standing not far from the counter of Harvest magazine in the bookstore, nervous and apprehensive.

But now standing here again. When he saw this familiar scene again, Govyn's heart was not nervous or apprehensive, he was only calm and confident. More than half a year of study and more than half a year of training have made him confident enough in himself, and he believes that his works are good enough. He believes that his work can conquer readers.

Isn't the nearly month of dormancy by Ba Jin's side just continuing to energize? It's not just to enrich yourself. In order to break through?

Now it's finally time to start exploding! "Taoist Tower" is just the beginning!

Thinking of this, Govin couldn't help but clench his right hand, and then turned around with a resolute face and left the bookshelf full of "Harvest" magazines.

In front of the shelves full of Harvest magazine behind Gowen, many readers who wanted to read the magazine for the first time found a familiar name when they looked through the catalog, their eyes lit up, and they quickly flipped to page 54. I read it quietly.

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Newspapers and magazines began to reprint Gawain's "Taoist Tower" in September's "Harvest", and literary criticism articles about "Taoist Tower" began to appear in various columns.

Govyn's "The Tower of the Taoist" refreshes the general pattern of prose narrative. He stands at the height of history, based on vivid and touching historical materials and pretensions. Use scholarly expressions to examine and reflect on human civilization, especially national culture. The article has profound meaning, elegant language, and high appreciation value.

-- Wen Wei Po

As a newspaper with a long history under the direct leadership of the Shanghai Municipal Committee of the Communist Party of China, Wen Wei Po had an extremely wide readership in China in the 80s, and was a large-scale comprehensive daily newspaper with great popularity in China. Its sub-editions of "Weekly Lectures", "On the Garden", "Xuelin", "Literature and Art", "Book Yuan" and other columns have always had a high reputation. And on September 3, the "100 Literary and Artistic Schools" column of the sub-edition of "Wen Wei Po" unexpectedly invited Ms. Bingxin, a well-known prose master in China, to write a literary review to analyze Gewen's "Taoist Tower", which really surprised everyone.

When it comes to Mr. Bingxin, almost all readers will say "Childhood", "Laughter", "Little Orange Lantern" ......, she is one of the most well-known female writers in China, the first essay "Laughter" was published with its fresh and elegant style to capture the hearts of all readers, and is known as the first essay with the most aesthetic value after the May Fourth Movement.

is such an old-timer and writer who is loved by the majority of readers and suddenly stands up to evaluate this essay of Gowen, and you can imagine how huge the sensation is!

"Comrade Govyn's article is associated with foreign invasions and national catastrophes from the cultural relics of the Mogao Grottoes," wrote a young poet, who looked back at the bleak sunset in the western sky as a convoy of ox carts full of boxes was about to set off that evening. There, the wounds of an ancient people are dripping blood". Not only a few boxes of cultural relics were transported, but the author clearly saw the elf of a nation, culture, scarred and bloodstained under the bayonets of the great powers, and a tall cultural giant in pain and groaning in front of the times.

Through the form of integrating the rivers and mountains of the motherland, national emotions and Chinese culture in this essay, we will see that there is a deeper cultural meaning, that is, the essence and core of Chinese culture - nationalism and patriotism.

"I even wanted to kneel down to him and whisper to him", "Please wait, wait a minute...... "It's hard here, it's hard there, I can only let it stop in the desert and cry...... We seem to see the author's pure heart, full of cherishing national culture and deep feelings for the motherland, and his poignant begging and calling not only to preserve the cultural heritage of Mogao Grottoes, but also to contain more profound patriotic connotations.

Govyn's "Taoist Tower" not only has a strong sense of life and nationality, but also has a more historical sense. The sense of history in his "culture" is not a rigid depiction of the past, but a long river that regards history as an endless river, and uses culture to closely connect the past and the present. For him, culture is like a rolling wave full of vigorous vitality, pushing the Chinese nation forward bravely. ……”

In July 1980, the Central Committee put forward a new slogan for literary and artistic workers in the new period, that literature and art should serve the people and socialism, which changed the attitude of "literature and art serving politics" in the past. As a result, the literary and artistic circles and the literary circles began to compete for a hundred flowers, and the literary world was once again full of vitality and flourished. Scar Literature, Reflective Literature, Reform Literature, Hazy Poetry...... New ideas, new concepts, and new theories emerged one after another, and began to stir up in China's literary circles.

Only prose, only prose has maintained the pattern for many years, and has not gotten rid of the inherent barriers, which is conceivable for the prose everyone's Bingxin, the depression and pessimism in his heart can be imagined.

Finally, in the September issue of Harvest magazine, Bingxin saw an essay that surprised her.

A "Taoist Tower" finally got rid of the barriers of prose in the past 40 years, and came out of the aesthetic norms of small family such as "small experience", "small ornaments" and "small philosophy", and established a truly tall and independent main image. This is exactly the breakthrough prose that Bing Xin has been looking forward to for a long time, a huge innovation, a pure, noble, and detached from low-level taste.

So Mr. Bingxin, who was in an excited mood, after calling her younger brother, Ba Jin, to learn some about the situation of Gowen, the author of this "Taoist Tower", picked up the pen and wrote this review article happily.

Establishing a heart for the motherland, establishing a life for the people, continuing the study for the literary world, and opening peace for the newcomers, this is not Ba Jin's business alone, and who of the older generation is unwilling to do it!

At the end of this literary review, Bingxin went on to write-

The distinct sense of subjectivity in "Taoist Tower" certainly comes from the writer's profound knowledge of literature and history and good literary talent, but if he only relies on these, he can only write a nostalgic work of mourning in the style of a bookbag, and will never permeate a "spiritual dojo" between heaven and earth. Therefore, a truly pure sense of subjectivity requires insight into history, anxiety about reality, persistence in the future, determination in life, and perception of the entire human culture.

Comrade Govin has carried out extremely deep care for the real history from a higher level, and the joy, worry, gratification, and distress are closely related to history, reality and the future, and are closely related to the nobility and humility, profundity and vanity in the current situation, thus constituting the three-dimensional subjective consciousness of the multi-dimensional structure of prose, which has pushed contemporary prose to a new milestone with its rich, lofty and pure characteristics, and is worthy of learning and emitting by all our prose writers!

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