Grandpa's great writer

Chapter 1063 Ask yourself

Empoli is really good at chatting, and he chatted with the audience on the stage for a long time.

However, Empoli is humorous and he is the principal, so everyone is willing to listen to him.

In the end, he probably realized that he had talked too much, so he smiled and said, "Next, let's invite the first speaker—Zhuang Yu."

The order of appearance was discussed and arranged by Adrian and Zhang Zhong. The reason why Zhuang Yu was allowed to go first was because besides Zhang Zhong, Zhuang Yu was the most famous in France.

Let him come up and start first, so that the place can be warmed up first.

Zhuang Yu knew that he was the first to go up, but his ass was about to go up as soon as it was hot, so he couldn't help curling his lips.

Zhang Chong, who was sitting next to him, saw him like this, and pushed him with his hands, signaling him to be more hesitant.

Zhuang Yu felt Zhang Zhong's hand behind him pushing him, and his lips curled up even more.

But there was still time to go on stage. Amidst the warm applause, Zhuang Yu got up and walked onto the stage.

"Good evening, everybody."

After Zhuang Yu came to the stage, he started with a not-so-standard French sentence to say hello to everyone.

Hearing that he can speak French, the audience below were naturally very happy, but the accent was so funny that many couldn't help laughing.

But this is the end of French. Zhuang Yu took out the prepared manuscript from his pocket and said in Huaxia, "In order to prevent too much confusion in a while, I prepared it in advance. Compared with the companions of other exchange groups For me, I have come to France quite a few times, but this is the first time to give a speech at the Fourth University. Not only me, but also other people in the group. Because it is the first time, it is inevitable Uneasy, so after Mr. Empoli and Mr. Adrian invited us, we got together and had a small discussion. As for the content of the discussion, it was very simple, what we want to talk about today. We also asked Adrian Mr. An, what do the students in your school want to hear?"

"We hope to use this question to determine what we say, but Mr. Adrian told us, don't think about what the students like to hear, just think about what we want to say?"

"What do we want to say about ourselves? That's also a problem because it's just as hard to look inside ourselves as it is to look into someone else's."

"I've always had a strong thirst for knowledge since I was a child. When I encountered something I didn't understand, I had to ask and ask to the end. Later, when I got older, I asked less about others and more about myself. It is easy to ask yourself when others are troublesome. But it is easy to get an answer by asking others, but it is difficult to get an answer by asking yourself.”

"Zengzi said: I reflect on myself three times a day. Are you not loyal to others? Are you not trusting your friends? Are you not accustomed to passing on?"

"Zengzi asks himself three questions every day. I am even better. I ask myself countless questions every day, but my questions are much simpler. Should I eat more for lunch today? The weather is nice today, should I go out for a walk? Today Should I write something? Do I want to read a book today? Wait..."

Standing on the stage, Zhuang Yu talked eloquently. Although he has not named the topic of his speech, he has already named the topic in his words, which is "ask yourself".

Zhuang Yu cited Zeng Zi's quotations and mentioned self-examination.

But self-examination is somewhat different from self-examination. Introspection is a good way to whip yourself, and self-examination is a way to touch your heart.

Zhang Zhong sat under the stage, deeply moved by Zhuang Yu's words.

People value self-knowledge, how to have self-knowledge lies in asking oneself.

Find yourself in self-questioning and self-answering again and again, strip away the clutter in your heart, and return to a clear self.

Because everyone in the Huaxia Exchange Group had to give a speech on stage, the number of people was a bit large, so the time allocated to each person was not long.

Although Empoli and Adrian didn't mention the usual things before, everyone consciously controlled the length of the manuscript when preparing the manuscript, so as to prevent their own length from occupying other people's time.

Furthermore, today's speech is different from speeches in China.

When speaking in China, the audience below are all Chinese. They speak on the stage, and the audience just listens.

But it is different here. When Zhuang Yu says a sentence, he has to stop for a while, and wait until the translator translates what he just said to the audience before saying the next sentence.

And in order to take care of the translation, Zhuang Yu's speech speed was also deliberately slowed down.

Adding up many factors, the original 10-minute speech may take two or three 10 minutes.

Zhuang Yu's speech lasted about 20 minutes.

After Zhuang Yu finished speaking, Empoli went immediately, the two shook hands, Zhuang Yu stepped off the stage, and Empoli walked to the microphone.

He also knew that there was no room for him to waste any more time, so he didn't say anything else, and directly introduced the next speaker: "The next speaker on stage is Feng He, the winner of the Nebula Award, please."

Apart from Zhang Zhong and Zhuang Yu, Feng He may be the most familiar Chinese writer to the students of the Fourth University, because he has won the Xingyun Award.

Even if someone has never heard of Fenghe, they will take a high look at the name of the winner of the Nebula Award. After all, the gold content of the Nebula Award is still good.

Moreover, most of the Nebula Awards in recent years have been awarded to Zhang Zhong. It is more difficult to win the Nebula Award during this period of time than in previous years.

After Feng He took the stage, he didn't exchange pleasantries, but went straight to the topic.

The topic of his speech today is slightly different from that of the other members. As a science fiction writer, what he talks about is more relevant to young people.

"Our Sky and Our Feet"

This topic has something to do with his work "Far Side of the Center of the Earth", which won the Nebula Award that year.

Zhang Zhong sat under the stage and watched Feng He. In just a few years, Feng He has changed a lot.

Feng He has always been a very talented science fiction writer, but his works are mainly short stories.

It's not that Zhang Zhong despises short stories, but short stories have their disadvantages.

Many writers may be famous for a novel, but few writers are famous for a short story.

Even the masters of the short story did not gain fame until they wrote several short stories.

And looking at ancient and modern times, there are only a few famous short story writers, but there are not many famous novelists.

The short stories written by Feng He earned him some fame, but it was difficult for him to move to a bigger stage.

Take Liu Cixin as an example. He has many excellent short stories, such as "The Wandering Earth", "Country Teacher", "Take Her Eyes" and so on.But if there were no such novels as "The Three-Body Problem", his reputation would definitely be much worse.

Many people read a novel with tens of thousands of words, just like reading a story, they don't pay attention to who the author is, and even if they read the author, they probably don't take it too seriously.

This is the disadvantage of short stories, it is difficult to accumulate high popularity for the writer himself.

Fenghe's current reputation is still not very high, even if he won the Xingyun Award, he still can't really rush to the foreign market.

However, Fenghe is currently writing a novel. When the two of them were chatting before, Fenghe told Zhang Zhong that this story had actually been conceived for five or six years, but he hadn't written it yet.

He himself lacks experience in writing long novels, so it is inevitable that he should be more cautious.

Zhang Zhong encouraged him, telling him not to worry, just write.In Zhang Zhong's view, the reason for not writing after five or six years of conception was not because the plot was stuck, but because he was not confident enough in his novels.

But it doesn't matter, just try to write it again, even if the written things are not satisfactory, it doesn't matter, it's not that the exam won't let you correct it.

Just write, and only after writing will you know where your problems are. If you don't write, you will always worry, and the longer you delay, the harder it will be to write.

(End of this chapter)