[Explanation] Alai, a Tibetan writer who came out of Aba Prefecture in Sichuan Province, has always aimed his poetic brushstrokes at the landscape of his hometown, recording and writing the cultural stories of the Chinese nation from the unique perspective of a cultural person.
What influence has Western writing experience brought to contemporary Chinese writers?
Why did Alai publicly state at Peking University that "the writing experience from Spanish, French, and German must ultimately be presented in Chinese characters"?
Recently, Alai, vice-chairman of the Chinese Writers Association, accepted an exclusive interview with China News Agency's "East and West Questions".
[Subtitles] Why are there still so many people in contemporary China who are learning and understanding oracle bone inscriptions?
[Concurrent] Alai, Vice Chairman of the Chinese Writers Association
Because of culture and civilization, if we use the analogy to be a big river, oracle bone inscriptions are tracing the source of Chinese culture and Chinese civilization, because we are the only people who created writing, that is, naming everything we know, and summarizing and summarizing after naming. .
We talk about knowing the world, establishing concepts about this world, and establishing our ideological system and knowledge system for understanding this world, all of which originated from here.
So seeing the big river is not only the moment when it flows into the sea, we should be interested in more sources.
【Subtitle】Chinese literature has a long history, but the language of literature is relatively weak.
What are the reasons behind these differences?
[Concurrent] Alai, Vice Chairman of the Chinese Writers Association
The biggest intention is to express people. The core of literature is people, people's will, and people's emotions. In the past, classical literature made it clear that poetry expresses will and poetry.
Poetry is to express this ideological aspiration. Of course, this aspiration is not the aspirational spirit that is narrowly understood today. It has this meaning, but it is broader than this.
At the same time, it is said that poetry is related to emotions, or that it is produced because of emotional turmoil. It is not only a subjective point of view, because philosophers have opinions and historians have opinions, but they are probably more based on rationality. expression, but literature begins with lyricism, with emotional turmoil.
[Subtitles] What are the similarities between Eastern and Western readers?
How do they focus on literary works differently?
[Concurrent] Alai, Vice Chairman of the Chinese Writers Association
Literary works move people by emotion.
For example, let’s take the simplest example. We watch Jane Eyre, novels or movies. At the beginning of the movie, the houses that the British live in are different from ours. The costumes of the contemporaries in classical Chinese are also different. We will see some cultural differences, but that is not important. In the end, you will fall into this work, and then it will attract you deeply, which is actually the same as us. Yes, it is their love.
The ups and downs of love are what really catches people in the end.
Therefore, literature always puts emotion first, which is not to say that some cultural scenes and elements explained in it are not important, but that is the second thing.
Reporter He Xi reports from Chengdu
Responsible editor: [Luo Pan]