1979: My fiancée is a goddess

Chapter 102 Comments from all over the world
After bringing Nie Qiaomei back to the county in the evening, everyone had a good meal together in the restaurant, which was considered a real New Year's Eve dinner.

The next day at noon, Tang Dahai came to the factory compound to block people and made his position clear: "He doesn't want a divorce, but he can separate the family."

He was just short of kneeling down and swearing.

It was Tang Dahai who took the initiative to propose the division of the family. Their family argued about it for an entire night before finally Tang Shan, the old man of the Tang family, nodded in agreement.

Tang Dahai and Nie Qiaomei set up their own business. The only price they paid was that they spent a few hundred yuan to build a new red brick house at home and divided it up.

Although the two were heartbroken, they untied their restraints and were free from then on.

Although Tang Dahai is foolishly filial, he is hardworking and diligent in his work. Nie Qiaomei earns 36.9 yuan a month at the factory, plus the small benefits provided by the factory. The family of three can live a comfortable life, although they don't have to be rich or have meat for every meal.

From then on, the matter came to an end.

Time flies and it is the sixth day of the first lunar month.

Early in the morning, Cheng Kaiyan rode his bicycle for a stroll on the road, ate a few fried dough sticks and drank a bowl of soy milk to fill his stomach.

Then I wandered around the streets, stopped at newsstands and bookstores, and found quite a few review articles about fragrant grass during the whole morning.

Since the newsstand owner did not allow her to read the newspapers first, Cheng Kaiyan had to buy them with money. So she spent a lot of money in the morning reading influential newspapers from all over the country.

"Hey~ If school starts, I won't have to buy newspapers myself. There are a lot of free newspapers in the reading room. This will only cost me a dollar or two!"

Cheng Kaiyan put away the newspaper excitedly, feeling sorry for the money she had on her.

Not bad!

These days, as people are celebrating the New Year, the influence of "Fragrant Grass" has gradually spread, and is likely to intensify over time.

The novel of the same name "Fang Cao" published by Jiangcheng magazine on New Year's Eve attracted a lot of attention and even shocked many people.

The new generation of young people who grew up with scar literature, after reading this novel, were either excited by the passion of youth or lamented the tortuous fate of the characters in it.

Published in China Youth Daily on the third day of the first lunar month, a review of "Fragrant Grass" by literary master Ye Shengtao recorded the writing process of this novel. Soon many well-known newspapers also reprinted Ye Shengtao's review.

This comment soon attracted the attention of young intellectuals and readers.

Especially the sentence: "A speck of dust from the times is like a mountain on a person's head."

It is amazing. It not only perfectly interprets the theme of the novel, but also points out that all the sufferings that happen to everyone ultimately come from the times and social environment.

There is also a saying, "Suffering is not worth singing about!", which has become the motto of many young people.

After carefully reading "Fragrant Grass", many literary writers, critics and literature lovers wrote reviews in newspapers across the country.

From the Yangtze River Daily, Guangming Daily, Xiangjiang Daily, Wenyi Bao to the Yanjing Daily, Tianjin Daily, Nanfang Daily... comments have emerged.

Among them, Yang Shuan, a well-known historical writer and fairy tale writer, wrote a commentary article in the Yangtze River Daily titled "Fragrant Grass May Break the Shackles of Scar Literature and Bring New Ideas to Contemporary Literature". In the article, he said:
“Scar literature has aroused strong emotional resonance and widespread social repercussions in today’s Chinese literary world, and the readers’ mental journey can be said to be complex and profound.

But as time goes by, the shortcomings of scar literature are gradually exposed: too strong political color, too many limitations, insufficient artistic expression, and relatively simple characterization...

But the mainstream view of this work, "Fragrant Grass" written by the writer Cheng Kaiyan, is that it is a realistic literature, just like what Mr. Ye Shengtao said, it is a great work, which is widely recognized by the readers. But readers can detect the shadow of scar literature in it. The author once said in a conversation with me that in his opinion, this novel and scar literature are like two sides of the same coin.

In a nutshell, they all write about the lives of educated youth, which is nothing more than the two sides of life. On one side, you see suffering and pain, and on the other side, you see passion and regretless youth. There is no higher or lower side.

"Fragrant Grass" can be said to have opened the curtain of scar literature. With the ebb and flow of the tide, I think there will be a group of literary works that write about the passion and idealism of youth and affirm the positive value of the lives of educated youth. Let us look forward to more excellent works..."

Yes, it has torn the curtain of scar literature.

What really caught everyone's attention was a review in Literary Gazette titled "The Grass Has Arrived, the Scars Will Die" by Zhang Guangnian, who brought scar literature to the Chinese literary world and came from Renwen Press:
"It can be said that in the spring described by Cheng Kaiyan, countless educated young people were immersed in the beautiful memories of their youthful, passionate and hardworking life in the countryside.

The novel truly and movingly shows the pain and happiness, pursuit and ideals of the educated youth, and expresses the ideal pursuit and personality spirit of a generation of educated youth in that absurd historical movement, and enthusiastically praises the heroic spirit in turbulent times and difficult environments...

Who can deny their youthful passion, who can deny their struggle?

Does denying Buzz Buzz mean completely destroying the youth and passionate efforts of tens of millions of educated youth?
In this article "Fragrant Grass", I see a theme that is completely different from scar literature.

The author would like to make a bold definition here and call it educated youth literature.

The author has already seen this wave coming, and we will witness its arrival together!

After the fragrant grass, the scars will die! "

When this report came out, it shocked countless people. Some agreed, some criticized, and some sneered at it.

But time will tell.

These two reviews by Yang Shuan, editor-in-chief of Fangcao Magazine, and Zhang Guangnian of People's Literature have made it very clear.

Many readers and young writers have also noticed this, noting that this is a new subject, a new angle, a new direction, and not many people are writing about it now.

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"Tiesheng! Tiesheng!"

No. 26, Lama Temple Street, Beijing.

In a room that was neither big nor small, a man was sitting in a wheelchair reading a book. He had a square face, slightly dark skin, and a thin body, but the outline of his upper limbs was very clear and obvious under his big cotton-padded coat, which must have been the result of years of exercise in a wheelchair.

He held a book of fragrant grass in his hand and wrote his thoughts in a notebook with a pen.

"Crack~"

The wood stove in front of him was burning brightly. The wood inside made crackling sounds from time to time. The orange-red flames were clearly visible, providing life-saving warmth to the man's shrunken legs.

"Tie Sheng! Look, I bought you some books, including People's Literature and Literary Gazette..."

The sound of Shi's father panting could be heard outside the door. After a while, Shi's father broke open the door and ran into the house, holding a few books and newspapers.

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