China News Service, Beijing, July 17 (Liu Yue) Some time ago, writer Mo Yan posted a video of a "boom" harvester wearing sunglasses on a social platform, with the text "I once again experienced the joy of opening a harvester."

Some netizens ridiculed: "My friends and I are stunned to see the Nobel Prize winner for literature one day soaring."

Screenshot of Mo Yan's WeChat public account

  Indeed, in the impression of many people, the literary giants who write books and speak are either serious and calm, or sensitive and melancholy, or elegant and gentle, with the unique self-confidence of intellectuals. The worried "Tian Sheweng" is not involved.

  The reality is just the opposite. Many literati are not only not rigid or bitter, but also have another side that we don't know about in private.

Mo Yan

Cold-faced joker joker

  As the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, Mo Yan's literary status need not be repeated.

The outside world always thinks that this is an unsmiling old man, but Mo Yan himself is actually an out-and-out cold-humored "duanzi".

Data map: Mo Yan listens to overseas translators speaking at the seminar.

Photo by China News Agency reporter He Junyi

  Because of his accent, some netizens left a message for him: "Does Teacher Mo Yan speak Mandarin?"

  Mo Yan from Shandong responded: "Of course it's Mandarin, but it's 'Gaopu', Gaomi Mandarin."

  When giving a speech at a university in Sweden, someone asked: "Mr. Mo Yan, are you happy?"

  Mo Yan said, "Are you from CCTV?"

  In the character interview, the host asked him: "What is the state you most wish for now?"

  Mo Yan said solemnly: "We end the interview."

  During the filming of the movie "Red Sorghum", the lead actor Jiang Wenyi accidentally kicked the thermos bottle at the screenwriter Mo Yan's house.

Mo Yan joked: "The only thermos in our family, which is an important property of the family, was kicked to pieces by Jiang Wen, and there was a loud bang. Then I immediately gave him a round, I said okay, we are this The movie will definitely explode and become a hit.”

  Many literati led by Lu Xun have made up various quotations and works, and Mo Yan is no exception.

Once, after a meal in Beijing, Mo Yan was deeply confessed by a woman.

The lady said, "Mr. Mo Yan, I would like to read a poem of yours to you, "If You Understand Me, How Good It Would Be"." Mo Yan recalled: "She read aloud with emotion and tears in her eyes. I was also very moved when I heard it. Later, when she finished reading, I said, how good it would be if I wrote it." This caused the audience to burst into laughter.

  As a friend who used to be in a dormitory, Yu Hua hurt Mo Yan without mercy.

He once said that there was a lawsuit against Mo Yan when his new book was published, because he wrote nearly 500,000 words in 43 days, and was criticized for being eager for quick success.

  "Later Mo Yan changed his tune, saying that I had an idea for 40 years, but this time I saw a version that was 20 years old. Anyway, Mo Yan has changed, and I'm used to it."

Yu Hua

comedian who leaves his grief to his readers

  It is said that things gather together, people are divided into groups, and Duan Zishou's friend is a comedian, so it is not surprising.

Data map: The opening ceremony of the first Luliang Literature Season was held in Jiajiazhuang, Fenyang, Shanxi Province, and the writer Yu Hua was present.

Photo by China News Agency reporter Wu Junjie

  Some readers said that they thought Yu Hua was a middle-aged man with a lot of hatred and hatred, and Yu Hua laughed heartily: "He also said that I was a middle-aged man, which surprised me, and some readers said, 'Oh my God, he's still here, I thought he was gone'."

  Different from the reasons that everyone thinks, such as "love of literature" and "conceived ideals", Yu Hua self-deprecated himself for abandoning medicine and pursuing literature in order to be "lazy".

When he was young, his dream was to find a job where he would never be woken up by an alarm clock: "Once I asked a man who worked in a cultural center why he was always on the street? He told me that this was his job, I thought to myself that I would love this kind of work.”

  So Yu Hua decided to write, hoping to enter the cultural center one day, and finally got what he wanted: "I was deliberately late for two hours when I went to work at the cultural center on the first day, but I found out that I was the first to arrive, I thought to myself. Right place."

  This surprised many readers who knew Yu Hua through "To Live". After all, "To Live" is a realistic work full of tragedy.

But who is Yu Hua?

The comedian who "leaves sadness to readers and happiness to himself" even spares "Alive".

  "Alive" sold 20 million copies. Xu Zidong once asked him about his royalties in private. Yu Hua joked: "I live by "Alive".

  During the interview, the host asked Yu Hua how much he rated "Alive", and he answered 9.4 points.

When the other party asked the reason, Yu Hua was serious: "The remaining 0.6 asked that Douban, they rated it 9.4, and I also rated it 9.4."

  Mo Yan, a "player", and Yu Hua, a "comedian", got together and unfortunately became Shi Tiesheng.

Once, a few people went to Shenyang to participate in an activity, and played football with the children at Shenyang College of Literature.

Seeing that they were going to lose horribly, they suddenly came up with a plan - to make Shi Tiesheng in a wheelchair the goalkeeper, and told him: "Just stay here and guard the door."

  After mentioning this incident, Yu Hua and Mo Yan couldn't stop laughing: "The children of Shenyang Academy of Arts did not dare to kick because they were afraid of kicking Tie Sheng, so we told them that if you kicked Shi Tiesheng, he might have been kicked to death by you. ."

Ji Xianlin

The Tucao Emperor who loves to write a diary

  Such a "serious and lively" style of painting is not exclusive to contemporary people. Among the literary circles of the last century, there are many figures with unruly temperaments, such as Ji Xianlin, a master of Chinese studies.

It's a pity that I didn't give birth to you. If Ji Xianlin and Yu Hua were the same age, they might become friends with each other. After all, he is a famous "Tucao Emperor".

Data map: In 2001, Ji Xianlin's home at Peking University.

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  Looking at Ji Xianlin's "Diary of Tsinghua Garden", you will find that the old man didn't seem to like everything when he was young, and liked to hit the bar.

  He will complain about the exam:

December 29, 1932

"It's totally unreasonable to skip the French test in the morning, and the result is a mess."

September 2, 1933

"I only felt the boredom of the exam more deeply today. Some fart and nonsense lecture notes for us to remember!"

March 13, 1934

"I didn't do anything meaningful - xx, these bastard professors, not only do they not know that they are discouraged, but they still take the test all day long. It's either you or me to take the test. What is the test of xxx?"

  Teacher, he wants to complain:

September 21, 1932

"I thought Lao Ye (Ye Gongchao) didn't go to work, but he went. I didn't go. I don't know what fart I put on."

October 28, 1932

"Two classes of Wu Shuke's classes in a row in the morning are really terrible. How could Wu Shuke graduate from Oxford? It's a big joke."

March 17, 1934

"I keep thinking about Ye Gongchao's attitude towards me last night - xx, as long as I write a good article, what kind of bird will I be afraid of?"

  He also complained to his classmates:

October 23, 1932

"My roommate Chen Zhaozhao, I really can't make this friend--no enthusiasm, no thought, a piece of dead wood, no vitality, nothing at all. Lu Baodong is a bastard, no taste."

March 2, 1934

"I had a very unpleasant thing this morning--Shi Honggao or something, just flipping through my manuscript paper. My 1934 "New Dream", he even shamelessly looked like it was really unreasonable !"

  The manuscript did not spit out:

September 11, 1932

"It rained again this morning. I went to the library to read the newspaper in the rain. My manuscript has not been posted yet, xx."

September 19, 1932

"The "Legend of Faust" I translated, I heard that it was published today, but it didn't. I'm really unhappy."

  Even the butt pains have to complain:

September 23, 1932

"I just go to work in the morning, and it hurts to sit down."

  He also bluntly said that he likes to see the thighs of female classmates:

December 21, 1932

"Watch the women's basketball match between Tsinghua University and the Affiliated High School. To be honest, watching women play basketball is not actually watching basketball, but looking at their thighs. The thighs of female students in the Affiliated High School are darker, and they only watch halftime and return."

  Netizens ridiculed one after another, it turns out that the master will also be like ordinary people, full of joys and sorrows, and it is vivid.

Qian Zhongshu

The "shit shoveling officer" who is keen to help cats fight

  Of course, Ji Xianlin is not the only one in the literary world with such a contrast. Qian Zhongshu, an alumnus of Tsinghua University who is equally famous with him, has a nonsensical hobby-he is keen to help cats fight.

Data map: The picture shows Qian Zhongshu (left) and Yang Jiang (right) visiting the famous female writer Bing Xin.

(File photo) Photo by China News Agency reporter Chen Gang

  If Ji Xianlin found out, he might have written this in his diary: "I saw Qian Zhongshu helping the cat fight twice in the morning, it was really terrible, how could this person graduate from Tsinghua University, what a big joke in the world. "

  At that time, Qian Zhongshu and his wife had a cat named "Hua Hua'er". He was very fond of this cat, and the cat was also a bit spoiled.

Yang Jiang once wrote in the prose "Hua Hua'er" that when cats go out to play, they usually find the most obedient Qian Zhongshu and ask him to open the door.

  Qian Zhongshu and Yang Jiang lived next door to Liang Sicheng and Lin Huiyin and his wife. Lin Huiyin also kept a cat called "The Focus of Love".

Because of his strong body, this cat often beats "Hua Hua'er" unilaterally. Now Qian Zhongshu is angry.

He deliberately prepared a long bamboo pole, and stared at it all day long. Once he found out the situation of the battle, he would get out of the bed and go to help "Hua Hua'er" fight.

  Regarding this matter, Yang Jiang described this in "The Three of Us": "We raised a very smart cat in Tsinghua University. Zhong Shu said that it has spirituality and is very precious. The cat grows up, and in the middle of the night, it is with other people. Zhong Shute had a long bamboo pole and leaned against the door. No matter how cold it was, when he heard the cat meowing, he hurried out of the hot bed, took the bamboo pole, and drove out to help his cat fight. "

  His wife, Yang Jiang, often persuaded him to say, "If you beat a cat, you should also look at the owner," but Qian Zhongshu disagreed.

He not only helped "Hua Hua'er" fight, but also wrote a work called "Cat" to find the scene, in which there is a witty saying: "If you beat a dog, you should see the owner's face, then, if you beat a cat, you should see the housewife's face. "

Lu Xun

The loyal "sweet party" who is addicted to sugar

  Most of the above-mentioned literary circles are regulars on the Chinese test papers, but the one most familiar to everyone must be Brother Xun who wrote "Social Opera", "Diary of a Madman" and "In Memory of Jun Liu Hezhen".

Data map of Beijing Luxun Museum.

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  It is said that liberal arts students have three fears: one is afraid of writing essays, two is afraid of classical Chinese, and three is afraid of Zhou Shuren.

And who would have thought that Mr. Lu Xun, who was cold-eyed in the textbook, was a "sweet party" who loved cookies in private?

  According to records, Lu Xun is very fond of sweets, from cream cake golden chicken cake to Japanese yokan sachima, he also specially wrote a "Snacks" to take stock of Shanghai's snacks: "Osmanthus white sugar Lunjiao cake, lard white sugar lotus heart porridge , Shrimp Wonton Noodles, Sesame Bananas, Nanyang Mangoes, Xilu Tangerines, Pumpkin Seed King, and candied fruit, olives, etc.”

  There is an anecdote about his addiction to sweets.

The student brought him a persimmon "sugar cube" for treating aphthous ulcers. He didn't know it was a medicine until he ate more than half of it, so he put away the rest.

In the middle of the night, I couldn't hold back, got up and ate more than half of it, and had a set of logic of my own: "Because I suddenly thought that there weren't many sores on the corners of my mouth, so I might as well eat a little while it's fresh."

  Perhaps food protection is an attribute engraved in the DNA of every foodie.

Lu Xun's favorite dim sum was always brought out to entertain guests, which made Lu Xun feel pain. He had an idea to replace the dim sum with peanuts, and named it "Peanut Policy": "I often have dim sum, and when a guest comes, I will invite him to eat dim sum... …I tend to eat thoroughly and leave nothing behind. Instead, I have a feeling of being “in the corner”. If I want to eat it, I have to go out and buy it. So I was very wary, so I had to change my policy. Of."

  If he were born today, Mr. Lu Xun would definitely be the "secret weapon" that the sweet party promised not to use first in the "Sweet and Salty War" on the Internet every year.

However, this secret weapon also has its weaknesses - although sweets are good, eating too much will hurt your teeth.

  Lu Xun has a history of 23 years of dental visits in his life, and has communicated closely with dentists 75 times, but after seeing his teeth, he will quietly buy sweets to comfort himself.

Therefore, at the age of 49, the only remaining 5 teeth of the fruit were also extracted due to disease.

  Such a "willful" old child can't help but make people laugh, and it's hard to think of the cold-hearted fighter in the textbook who "crossed his eyebrows and pointed his fingers at a thousand husbands, bowing his head and willing to be a bully."

  Zhang Dai once wrote in "Tao'an Dream Recollection": "People have no habit and can't be friends because they have no affection. People can't be friends with no faults because they don't have true qi." Indeed, it was shown to us in textbooks in the past. Although the image of the literary giants is "high and complete", there is also a sense of distance that will "feather and ascend to immortals".

Let readers understand their joys, sorrows and sorrows, and tap their more life-like and flesh-and-blood side, which can be regarded as a different perspective for appreciating works.

  So, will these imperfections bring the accomplished masters down from the "altar"?

  When "Tsinghua Garden Diary" was about to be published, the publisher asked Ji Xianlin if he wanted to delete some of the words that were too "freeing himself".

Ji Xianlin replied calmly: "I was not a saint 70 years ago, I am not a saint today, and I will not become a saint in the future."

  Real power is far greater than perfect power.

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