China News Service Client Beijing, August 24 (Reporter Shangguan Yun) Someone once said that Jia Pingwa is a symbol of contemporary Chinese literary circles.

He is well-known for his works such as "Three Records of Shangzhou", and now he still maintains a high frequency of creative rhythm.

　　In a recently published collection of essays, he shared his outlook on life and warned young people not to "lie down."

In Jia Pingwa’s view, life is very long, and I don’t know what will happen. If you deal with it calmly, there may be another positive solution.

Warn young people not to "lie down"

　　"Someone once said that my prose is better than the novel, but I was not convinced at that time." Jia Pingwa once said so a few years ago.

Writer Jia Pingwa.

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　　His novels are well-known to many readers, and his prose is known for its authentic emotions and simple and natural language, such as "To Mother".

The recently published collection of essays "Life Calm" still continues a similar style.

　　This is the companion chapter of "Walking Alone". He drew the cover with his own hands, selected 49 articles, shared his calm and optimistic outlook on life in the book, and warned young people to struggle at any age and not to "lie down."

　　He explained the name of the new book in this way: a person has to calmly complete the various life stages, having fun when he is a child, studying hard when he is a student, doing his job well after work, and living a good old age when he is old.

　　Or, in many cases, no matter what bad things, frustrations, or good things are encountered, there is actually no way to change. What can change is the attitude towards it.

In this way, you will know how to deal with sudden problems.

　　"In a long life, I don't know what will happen. In the process of accepting it, I have formed a more calm attitude. Maybe there will be another positive solution." He said.

　　Prose is Jia Pingwa's writing strength. As he grows older, Jia Pingwa's prose writing style has quietly changed a little.

　　"You can also extract some humorous sentences from works when you are young. When you get older, you have more personal experience. When you are old, you can use a different form and a different tone to express sadness and suffering. "He said.

　　But for these works, he treats these works equally, and he can’t say which one he likes best: writing when he is young is passionate, writing when he is old is less skillful, and more is the feeling of wisdom in life, “This is when you are young and old. The difference in writing afterwards."

Life experience is summed up by my own exploration

　　In previous works, Jia Pingwa has written about his father and mother, as well as a mixed life.

He has also been asked similar questions, "How do young people deal with anxiety?"

"Life Calm".

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　　In this regard, he actually discovered very early that some young people around him were particularly anxious and encountered a lot of problems, such as cars, houses, and marriages, and the pressure of survival seemed to be much greater than that of the past.

　　"I can understand pressure. But people have been struggling throughout their lives. When and where to say anything, there must be a way for the car to reach the mountain. As long as you keep moving forward and struggling, keep believing in yourself and be anxious. The corresponding word is calm."

　　After all, people are social people, and it is very difficult for anyone to live as they please.

In Jia Pingwa's eyes, life is short and painful, and dealing with interpersonal relationships is a very troublesome thing. Writing about daily life and life in novels is actually about the relationship between people.

　　"Others reason with you, you may not be able to realize it. Only when you stumble and walk along the way can you know what experience and lessons should be learned." He believes that the so-called life experience is summed up by yourself.

Fame does not equal success

　　Nowadays, without being disturbed, Jia Pingwa will come to the study at around 8 o'clock every morning, ready to start work, lunch is also very simple, a bowl of noodles or a bowl of dumplings, leaving a lot of time for writing, New Year’s Day The same is true.

　　Someone once asked him if he looked back, would he think he was a successful person?

Jia Pingwa feels that the score is clear about the two concepts. For example, if I go to another place, others will know you. This may be called fame.

But becoming famous does not mean success.

Jia Pingwa.

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　　"The more you get into something, the more you feel that you are indeed insignificant." Looking back on his experience of writing books for many years, he likened writing to a high jump. "It is more difficult to make breakthroughs in literature. Breaking through is like raising a centimeter or a few centimeters. It's too difficult."

　　He once thought that the current society is an era of constant impact and innovation, and the combination of the two, "Anything you do must have breakthroughs. Literature must have innovations and breakthroughs. If you don’t break through the readers, Will abandon you."

　　Jia Pingwa also knows a little about the short video live broadcasts and the trend of bringing goods to the cultural circle. "But I have to add that literary creation is a long-term thing after all. It is tangible, and sometimes it can’t cater to some fashion too much. Stuff."

　　"But everyone has their own way of living. For me, it's better to write my own work honestly first. As for how much I can sell, that is a matter of publication." Jia Pingwa explained.

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