Recently, a netizen left a message on the Zhejiang provincial government website, criticizing one of the four famous novels, "Water Margin", as a "poisonous novel", and suggested that the content related to the Water Margin should be removed from primary and secondary school texts and text reading materials, triggering a wide range of discussions.

　　This netizen said that the plot of "Water Margin" is extremely illogical, and there are problems such as "vicious slander and uglification of women", "unprincipled praise of indiscriminate killing of innocent people", "arranging a good death for Wu Song, Li Kui, Song Jiang and other scumbags", it is the worst he has ever seen. Poison novel.

　　Words such as the above have "impressed" many netizens.

The difference is that many people do not agree with his views, and even more do not understand his linking the reading of "Water Margin" with the selection of textbook content.

　　Someone commented on "his message": A book itself has two sides, and what you see depends on the reader's heart.

　　The term "poison novel" is not uncommon.

Generally speaking, it should refer to the kind of harmful reading that disregards the bottom line of literature and poisons people's thinking.

But in recent years, this word has often caused "movement" on the Internet.

Baidu searched for the keyword "poisonous novels", and 100 million results were found, many of which were related to the topics we are concerned about today.

　　——When reading a book, when it discusses the black and white of human nature and the ugliness of society, it will inevitably stimulate the "pain points" of people's hearts.

As readers, once we are stimulated by these "pain points", should we rush to label it a "poisonous novel"?

Is this label being misused in the present moment?

　　"Water Margin" is included in China's Four Great Masterpieces, dating back to at least 1981.

But its status in the history of Chinese literature development is not just because it was included in the four great classics.

　　"Water Margin" is called a classic. It is the result of more than 700 years of testing and has spanned generations of readers.

It was created in China and spread around the world, borrowing the pen of literature to break the barrier of cultural background between people.

National encyclopedias such as Britain, Germany, France, the United States, and Japan all have high evaluations of it.

"Encyclopedia Britannica" commented on "Water Margin": "It has won universal acclaim for appearing in the ranks of historical masterpieces in popular colloquial form, and it is considered to be the most meaningful literary work."

　　Such "Water Margin" is not covered by the term "poisonous novel"!

　　Judging from this incident, it is becoming more and more "easy" for readers to label a literary work as a "poisonous novel".

Easy to export expressions, easy to publish negative comments, the accumulation is "slander", it can hurt the author behind the book, and over time, it can affect the creation of literature, and at the same time, it is not conducive to the creation of literature.

　　To use the term "poisonous novel" easily to evaluate a literary work will ultimately hurt the readers.

Because this is trying to create a "sterile" reading environment. It looks clean and spotless on the surface, but it is actually a prison with enclosures and lines everywhere, putting people in a "cage" with limited imagination. ", imprisoning one's own thoughts.

　　Ye Shengtao once said that reading is no small matter, it is a technical job: there are three attitudes that are not advisable, one is a casual attitude; the other is an attitude of absolute obedience. It is a critical attitude, and it is tested by real life. If it is beneficial to real life, take it, otherwise it will not be taken.

　　"Learning to read" is worth studying. In the Internet era when the microphone is handed over to the public, "learning to evaluate books" has also become a technical task.

Just as the teaching and research section of the Zhejiang Provincial Department of Education replied to the netizen: the important thing is not what book you read, but how you read each book well.

　　Yangzi Evening News/Ziniu News reporter Sun Qingyun