One beautiful day, a shower came in the middle of the night.

The next morning, the weather was cool, and the mountain soil was still damp and wet.

In the bamboo forest, dozens of straw futons are scattered in a patchwork. The descendants of the Xu family, as well as the monks of the temple, constantly brought pen, ink, paper, inkstone and other items, and also built mud stoves in the bamboo forest, boiled mountain springs and prepared tea sets.

The literati walked into the bamboo forest in twos and threes, sitting cross-legged on the futon, and even the middle mean was invited to participate in the meeting.

Yu Peichen took a pen and a shorthand book, and sat next to Zhou Hexuan, who was responsible for recording the content of today's meeting. Of course, this work was also carried out by Ta Kung Pao reporters - there were so many people that one recorder was obviously too busy.

Ruan Lingyu also came, and in the face of many cultural scholars, the big star deeply felt his insignificance. She didn't even dare to sit in the circle, but sat at the outermost distance with Zhang Zhaohe, Zhang Youyi and other family members.

Among all of them, Zhou Hexuan and Hu Shi have the highest prestige, and they are naturally sitting in the innermost. When everyone arrived, Zhou Hexuan smiled and said, "Brother Shizhi, you can preside over it." ”

"You are the leader of the world's literary world, and I will not trespass." Hu Shi said modestly.

Su Xuelin used to be Xu Zhimo's fan sister, but now she is obsessed with Zhou Hexuan again, she smiled and echoed: "Mr. Zhou, you don't have to excuse yourself, today's literary meeting must be presided over by you." ”

Lin Huiyin also smiled: "Mingcheng is what everyone expects, please don't refuse." ”

Ling Shuhua and Lin Hui were in the same mood because of the situation, and they specially sang the opposite tune: "I think, since this literary meeting is because of Shima, it is better to let Shima come to ......"

"Ahem," Chen Xiying hurriedly interrupted his wife's speech and said, "Mr. Zhou, please." ”

Ling Shuhua complained in a low voice, "What are you doing? ”

Chen Xiying reproached: "Everyone said that Zhou Hexuan should preside over the cultural meeting, but you are against it alone, do you want to make everyone unhappy?" ”

"Humph!" Ling Shuhua snorted coldly and stopped talking. She just couldn't get used to Lin Hui, and if Lin Hui was in favor, she would oppose it, and she didn't have other messy ideas.

Zhang Jiazhu said impatiently: "Brother Mingcheng, you can start quickly." The sun has risen high, and if it continues to be long-winded, it will heat people to death again. ”

Everyone echoed and asked Zhou Hexuan to hurry up and announce the start of the meeting.

Zhou Hexuan can only be as good as flowing, he said: "Then I will be respectful rather than obey my fate." All of you here are well-known people in the cultural and artistic circles, so let's talk about literary creation first. The most striking thing in the Chinese literary scene this year is the popularity of the new genre 'sketch', and we will start talking about 'sketch'. Everyone's free to speak! ”

(Note: Sketch style is a style of writing that is short in length, concise in writing, and briefly describes meaningful things or people in life.) The difference between it and traditional literature is not in the length, but in the focus on the "present", omitting the "past" and "future", which has a strong sense of impact and vividness. ）

Hu Shi followed up and said: "I still know a lot about the 'sketch style', which appeared during the May Fourth Movement. At that time, the 'sketch style' had not yet developed as well as it is today, and most of them could only be regarded as essays and essays, mainly from the hands of young people who had just stepped into the literary world. ”

Su Xuelin said with a smile: "I am the young man in Mr. Shizhi's mouth. At that time, the forced marriage at home was very strong, and I was unwilling to succumb to the arranged marriage, so I left Anqing with Huang Ying (Lu Yin) and quietly went to the North Women's Division to study. At that time, the Beijing Women's Teacher was really a university scholar, including Mr. Hu Shi, Mr. Li Dazhao, Mr. Zhou Zuoren, and Mr. Chen Hengzhe. The first short story I created was a 'sketch style', and now that I think about it, it's really embarrassing, so what is it, at best, it's a passable essay. ”

Su Xuelin deliberately did not mention Lu Xun, this hatred is deep enough.

Yu Dafu estimated that it was uncomfortable to sit cross-legged, one leg continued to be crossed, the other leg was changed to an upright position, and his arm was on his knee and said: "At the beginning, the creation focused on dissecting the psychology of the individual and describing the experience of the individual. However, in the past few years, it has begun to turn to depicting collectives and groups, and the 'sketch style' has also developed in this direction. The creation of 'collectivization', 'collectivization' and 'group portrait' has become the trend of the times. A large part of the reason why 'sketches' have become popular is that they can carry this kind of creative task. ”

Shen Congwen added with a smile: "Although Mr. Yu is right, from the perspective of ordinary authors, I think the rise of 'sketching' is mainly due to its market. More and more journals need to publish short works, as long as you create a qualified 'sketch', you will definitely be able to get the manuscript fee. This is not the case with long-form and traditional short stories, which are not easy to publish and are easy to be banned by the authorities. In this case, most ordinary authors will naturally choose the form of 'sketch', because it is quick to make money and has no risk. ”

This was true enough to elicit the tacit laughter of everyone.

Wang Wenbo asked, "What do you think of Mr. Zhou?" ”

"I agree with all the gentlemen, but," Zhou Hexuan said, his tone suddenly became stronger, "I think the real reason for the popularity of 'sketching' is that the background and purpose of literary creation have changed. ”

"Please be honest and honest." Lin Huiyin said with a smile.

Zhou Hexuan elaborated: "The goal of the May Fourth New Culture Movement is to overthrow the old culture and old ideas and spread the new culture and new ideas. The 'School of Life', represented by Mr. Lu Xun, focuses on describing social realities and is a critique of old culture and ideas; The 'life school' represented by Mr. Yu Dafu yearns for self-emancipation and the realization of personal value, which is the pursuit of new culture and new ideas. These two schools seem to be incompatible, but in fact, their creative goals are the same, except that one seeks to 'break the old' and the other seeks to 'establish the new'. ”

Everyone nodded slightly, obviously agreeing with Zhou Hexuan's statement.

Zhou Hexuan continued: "And now, the warlord melee has basically ended, the new culture and new ideas have also taken root in the hearts of the people, and the May Fourth New Culture Movement has achieved phased success. Therefore, after 1927, the creative goals of Chinese writers began to change, and at first they opposed dictatorship and pursued democracy. It was not until the outbreak of the September 18 Incident that the main contradiction in Chinese society turned from the inside out into a contradiction between China and Japan. Therefore, the goal of our current literary creation should be to 'pursue democracy' and 'defend the homeland and the country'. To understand this, let's go back and look at the current popular 'sketch style', is most of it related to two goals? ”

"This is a commanding statement, it is really wonderful!" Xu Zhimo, who had not spoken, suddenly clapped his hands in admiration.

Ling Shuhua nodded subconsciously and said, "Mr. Zhou has a point. ”

Chen Xiying smiled: "I like this kind of rational analysis. ”

Chen Mengjia, a poet of the Crescent School, said: "Not only that, but poetry is also developing towards these two goals. A few years ago, most of the poems were lyric poems, but in the past two years, a large number of narrative poems have emerged, and many of them are related to the anti-Japanese resistance. 'Sketch style' is very suitable for depicting scenes, depicting groups in a specific context, to put it bluntly, it is convenient to narrate and reflect the times. I believe that in the future, there will be more narrative poems and narratives, and the creation of poetry and narratives will be biased towards 'sketches'! ”

Chen Mengjia's words come from his personal experience, two years ago in Shanghai, Chinese soldiers and Japanese invaders fought in the snow at Jijiaqiao, and he took the initiative to go to the front line to comfort and treat the wounded soldiers.

Chen Mengjia saw the brave soldiers rushing to kill in the rain of bullets, the wounded soldiers dyed bloody, some soldiers still maintained an aiming posture when they died, and the fields were full of new graves of anti-war soldiers. He felt so shocked that he wrote the tragic poem "On the Battlefield of Fuzaobang" in front of the graves of the soldiers, transforming from a romantic poet to a realistic poet.

As Chen Mengjia said, poets used to like to express their feelings purely and let themselves go. With the approach of the Japanese invaders, more and more narrative poems have appeared in the past two years, expressing emotional thoughts through the description of real events.