Explanation of "Collection of Zhou Zeping's Short Stories and Prose"
Why come up with "Collection of Zhou Zeping's Short Stories and Prose"? Because I often encounter some very interesting things in life, read some very interesting books or articles, see some very interesting people or things, and learn some very interesting truths. I wanted to express these principles, so I wrote a book like this. I have three points to explain to you:
One is the content of these novels and essays. I studied under Lu Xun and Zheng Zhenduo, and these two were critical figures, so there will be many essays or short stories that criticize human nature. Because I believe that "if a teacher is good, he will miss the mark; if a teacher is not good, everything can be a teacher" and "If a teacher is not good, there will be no limit to progress." I hope everyone can learn from these bad things and improve. Of course there will be no novellas or novels, because I will separate the novellas and novels. Just like "National Memorial·Nanjing".
The second is the reason why this collection of short stories and essays appears here. In fact, when I came up with this work, I first considered a certain writer's website because its name was tall, handsome, and upscale. However, I discovered that behind the tall, handsome and classy website of this writer, there is an irreparable bug, that is, once the work is published, it cannot be modified. If you want to make changes, you have to apply and wait for its approval. If you can't wait for approval, delete the article, and then publish it again, it will refuse to let you pass. We all studied Lu Xun's "Mr. Fujino". We all know that "Mr. Fujino" has been revised many times, and scholars after Lu Xun encouraged it also said: "Good works are made through revisions." Therefore, if we want to become excellent writers, can we not be responsible for our own works and not revise our works? At first glance, a certain writer's website looks like it has a tall, handsome and classy name, but inside it is just a bunch of idiots. This forced me to give it up.
The third is my original intention of doing this work. Before I met Lu Xun, I wrote novels just for fame and fortune. It wasn't until I met Lu Xun that I realized that writing novels with the goal of seeking fame and fortune was really bad. Lu Xun told me: When writing a novel, you must first ask about the purpose. I went to Youzhou Terrace for a visit, and I wanted to write the "Preface to Climbing Youzhou Terrace" to express my feelings about my unappreciated talents, but I accidentally created the eternal line "I have not yet reached my goal, so I wrote poems to clarify my ambition; he went to the clouds, and he showed his kindness and benefited the people." I have since found my goal in writing novels, which is to "bless all people." Just like when I wrote "National Memorial: Nanjing", the first thing that came to my mind was not to seek fame and fortune, but to see that a certain Chinese person was ignorant and went to visit the Yasukuni Shrine in Japan. I wrote "National Memorial: Nanjing" to tell all Chinese people that "history must not be forgotten, heroes need to be remembered, and our life today is hard-earned." The purpose of my "Collection of Zhou Zeping's Short Stories and Essays" today is just like my one-sentence introduction: I don't seek fame or profit, but only wish to benefit all people. I changed my pen name to "Zhou Zeping" just to keep in mind the purpose of "writing novels to benefit all people".
Okay, this is what I want to explain to you.
Purpose: Use love to love people in life, use reason to criticize the weaknesses of human nature