Chapter 40 Buds
Being a plagiarist has its own rules. Fantasy works are fine, but realistic works must be consistent with your identity. Gao Jialin is just a college student who has just arrived in Shanghai from a rural area in northern Shaanxi. It would be inappropriate for him to plagiarize "White Deer Plain" and "I and the Altar of Earth".
So Gao Jialin decided to choose suitable works based on his own situation and the current literary trends.
Today, the field of literature can be said to be flourishing. Scar literature, reform literature, and root-seeking literature are all the rage, and excellent works are born from other genres from time to time. Gao Jialin is not very interested in the three popular genres. He would rather write something positive.
Speaking of positivity, university life is the best topic. In today's university campuses, teachers have just emerged from the torrent and are eager to seize every moment to make up for the wasted years. Students study hard and discuss national affairs. This vibrant and flourishing scene is truly intoxicating. Unfortunately, there are few articles that have recorded these so far, which is a pity.
Gao Jialin thought for a long time but couldn't come up with any classic literary works about university life. The most famous of them, "Wei Yang Ge", was written by a writer on the island and tells the story of the Southwest Associated University period.
Are readers not interested in college life? Obviously not, so what Gao Jialin has in front of him is a large amount of virgin land that has not yet been cultivated. It would be a waste if he didn't use a few hoes to cultivate it.
So this article was written. He planned to use Gao Shuangxing from the TV series as the protagonist, and mix in some of Song Yunhui's college days in "A Flowing River", to write a novella reflecting the contemporary college students.
This article will be based on the theme of praising youth, so Gao Jialin originally wanted to name it "Long Live Youth". Before he started writing, he remembered that Wang Meng had already used this name. This work was written in the 1950s and tells the passionate youth life of the senior girls in Beijing No. 7 Girls' Middle School.
If "Long Live Youth" didn't work, then he had to change to another one. Coincidentally, that day Gao Jialin heard the song "Young Friends Come to Meet" on the school radio, which was written by Zhang Meitong, composed by Gu Jianfen and sung by Ren Yan.
The line in the lyrics, "To whom does this beautiful springtime belong? It belongs to me, to you, and to our new generation of the 1980s," deeply attracted him. He felt that the lyrics of the song perfectly reflected the theme he wanted to express in the novel.
So I decided to use "Young Friends Come to Meet" as the name of this novel.
The protagonist of the novel is Sun Shaoping, who was born in a poor peasant family in northern Shaanxi. Gao Jialin directly borrowed the setting of "Ordinary World" and just moved the time back a little.
There is no need to be afraid of being scolded by Lu Yao, because I am now living in the world of Lu Yao's works. In this world, there is naturally no writer with the pen name Lu Yao.
At the beginning of the story, Sun Shaoping and his father Sun Yuhou were working in the fields at the village entrance. Suddenly they heard villagers shouting that the postman had brought the university admission letter and Sun Shaoping had been admitted to a university in Shanghai!
In this clip, Gao Jialin copied the chapter "The Goose Father" from Zhiniaocun's "The Rebirth of the God-level Academic Master". This chapter is really well written, and it vividly depicts the joy of a dull and honest country father when he heard that his child was admitted to the university.
A good article should have a dragon head, phoenix tail and pig belly, and the beginning must be amazing. The old father's running posture like a goose can definitely make the review editor's eyes light up.
Afterwards, Sun Shaoping took the money collected by the villagers of Sunjia Village, first took a donkey cart, then changed to a bus and a train, all the way from the mountain village in northern Shaanxi to the prosperous Shanghai.
The gully-ridden and fragmented Loess Plateau, the Guanzhong Plain with lush crops, the turbulent Yellow River, the Jiangnan area with its small bridges and flowing water, and the bustling Shanghai all flashed by the car window one after another like movie scenes. The changes in scenery also hinted that Sun Shaoping's life was about to enter a new stage.
After arriving at Shanghai Academy, Sun Shaoping met many new classmates. Zhong Yuemin from Beijing was born in a high-ranking official family and was an idealist; Song Yunhui from Anyun Province was only sixteen years old and was a genius; Yu Shanqing from the same province as Song Yunhui was quite mercenary; Zhou Bingyi from the Northeast was old-fashioned and expressionless; Qi Tongwei from Handong Province was a handsome guy. On the girls' side, Tian Xiaoxia was free and easy, like a boy, and her ideal was to be a reporter; Zhou Xiaobai came from a wealthy family and had the pampered temperament of a young lady; Zhou Rong loved poetry and yearned for a rich spiritual world. Character creation is crucial to a good novel. Gao Jialin selected several characters with distinctive characteristics, and the novel was half successful.
What follows is the various things that happened to them in college. At the beginning, Sun Shaoping, who came from a poor family, had narrow horizons, and couldn't even speak Mandarin well, was very inferior and had many misunderstandings and conflicts with these classmates with very different personalities.
Sun Shaoping slowly grew up in these conflicts and gradually adapted to university life. Zhong Yuemin, Tian Xiaoxia and others also discovered the bright spots in Sun Shaoping, and they gradually became friends.
At the end of the novel, Sun Shaoping and his friends Zhong Yuemin, Tian Xiaoxia, Song Yunhui, Qi Tongwei and others were listening to the school radio on the playground and sang the song "Young Friends Come to Meet".
Gao Jialin spent more than a week to complete this novella of more than 80,000 words. He carefully copied the manuscript and sent it by registered letter to Zhang Lifeng in Beijing, asking him to help correct it.
Half a month later, Gao Jialin received a reply from Zhang Lifeng, who praised the novel highly. "Jialin, your progress has impressed me. I didn't expect that you could write such a good work in just one month!"
"This novel has distinct characters and vividly depicts the mental outlook of contemporary college students. The growth of the protagonist Sun Shaoping is completely up to the standard of publication!"
"Considering that this novel describes the life of college students in Shanghai, I recommend you to submit your work to these magazines. First is Jinling's Youth. This magazine was founded in 1979 with the aim of 'writing for young people, reading for young people, targeting contemporary youth, paving the way for unknown people, cultivating new literary talents, and inspiring people with excellent works'."
"And there is your Shanghai-based magazine, 'Mengya', which is the first original literary magazine for young people in China. Mr. Ba once wrote a congratulatory message for them: 'Any beautiful flower, any towering tree grows from a bud.' You are now a bud in the literary world, so it is appropriate for you to submit your work to 'Mengya'."
". "Youth Literature" . "Shanghai Literature"." Zhang Lifeng recommended a lot of magazines to Gao Jialin and attached his mailing address.
After looking through the lists of magazines, Gao Jialin chose "Mengya" without hesitation because it was recent.
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