This article is from WeChat official account:Bengdi class leader (ID: MrSugar008), author: hear the wind listen to the rain, the original title: “history of ups and downs campus novel: Bad Han Han, southern juvenile gas, and away our youth,” drawing from the head: “here boy 》Stills
In the 1990s and the beginning of this century, almost every middle school student who liked “extracurricular books” had such an experience–
One day in a classroom, you opened a textbook on the desk and pretended to listen carefully, but quietly pulled out a novel from the desk with your hands, secretly opened it on your lap, flipping it sneakily, from time to time Glancing at the teacher. Before long, your thoughts have flown to another campus.
Compared with this dull and boring campus in reality, there is a rebellious youth, ignorant first love, and unforgettable friendship, intertwined into a different kind of turbulent campus life.
You see your heart’s ups and downs, but you don’t know that your every move has already fallen into the teacher’s eyes.
As for whether to walk over and take away your books at lightning speed, or to be too lazy to care about you, it depends on your usual performance—
In the era when there were no smartphones, extracurricular books were the main force in providing students with pastimes and dreams. The campus novels in those years have left many generations with rich memories.
Trailblazer
Before the “Flower Season·Rainy Season” turned out, there was actually no such category as “campus novels”.
The so-called campus novels are, of course, novels with students as the protagonist, campus as the background, and campus life as the main object of description.
Fictions that meet this definitionOf course, there have always been, such as Wang Shuo’s “Animal Fierce”, but it has not been as spectacular as later, so that a new category of novels has been formed.
It is Yu Xiu’s “Flower Season·Rainy Season” that leads this trend.
Yu Xiu was born in 1974, a native of Fujian, and came to Shenzhen at the age of 10. When she wrote “Flower Season·Rainy Season”, she was only 16 years old and a high school student——
And the writing of student life by student authors is one of the typical characteristics of later campus novels.
After Yu Xiu finished writing “Flower Season·Rainy Season” in her third year of high school, she revised another draft in her sophomore year, but at first she did not expect the novel to be published.
Until 1996, when Yu Xiu had already traveled across the ocean to study in the United States, the manuscript of “Flower Season·Rainy Season” was discovered and published by Haitian Publishing House for an accidental reason.
No one thought that “Flower Season·Rainy Season” caused a huge sensation as soon as it was released.
It is said that more than 1 million copies of genuine books have been sold, and the number of pirated copies cannot be calculated.
The novels of that era were often circulated by the whole class. It is conservatively estimated that at least 10 million students across the country have read this novel.
The background of “Flower Season·Rainy Season” is set in Shenzhen, a city that was a little mysterious to the students at the time.The protagonists are all students from the same class (Higher One·Fourth Class), including female squad leader Xie Xinran, male squad leader Xiao Yao, and class flower Liu Xia , Study committee member Chen Ming, literary girl Lin Xiaoxu, basketball enthusiast Wang Xiaotian and so on.
This is a very “pure” campus novel.
It doesn’t have so many messy relationships, betrayal, bullying, and depravity.
Almost all the plots revolve around campus life, so they can particularly resonate with ordinary students.
For example, the writing cheats of the first chapter of the novel:
Although the cheating was unsuccessful, the teacher was not caught, Yu Fa secretly proudly said: “How can the teacher beat the students!”
Students in the 1950s and 1960s regarded cheating as “great rebellion”, and in the 1980s and 1990s, students regarded it as “a behavior worthy of sympathy with the invigilator.”
Descriptions that are close to the students’ psychology like this can easily arouse readers’ empathy.
For the peculiar adolescent love for the opposite sex, “Flower Season·Rainy Season” is also very delicate, such as the psychological description of Xie Xinran’s secret love to Xiao Yao in the novel:
I don’t know when, I am glad to find that I am thinking of him, and this “thinking” has been going on for a long time. She is eager to see him. Every morning, when his figure appears at the door of the classroom, she will be excited; she is eager to hear his voice. When he talked with everyone, she only paid attention to what he said; she longed to…When she found that the person she liked didn’t like herself, this might be the greatest sadness for the girl.
The novel also writes about Xiao Yao’s love for Xiao Zhu and Lin Xiaoxu for his teacher Jiang, but the author never tells them to break each other, nor does the real “lover” appear in the book.
This may be determined by the social environment of the 1990s, but this kind of seemingly ignorant sentiment has become a description that many people can never forget.
After the fire of “Flower Season·Rainy Season”, it was made into a movie the following year, which also attracted attention.
Yan Danchen, who played Xie Xinran in the film, later became a famous female star.
In addition, “Flower Season·Rainy Season” was adapted into a TV series, but the response was mediocre.
However, the biggest impact of “Flowering Season·Rainy Season” on later students was not just that they began to learn to use the words “flower season” and “rainy season” frequently in their compositions. More importantly, let them discover-It turns out that middle school students can also write novels, can they write so well?
It is precisely because of the influence of “Flower Season·Rainy Season” that many middle school students have ignited their interest in writing, which was not expected by Yu Xiu back then.
She inadvertently opened a door to literature for many people, leading the youth literature trend in the next new century.
Han Han and his “Triple Door”
As a person of Han Han’s age, when looking back at his youth years later, Han Han’s name and the book “Threefold Door” are destined to leave a big mark.
Before the “Triple Door” was published, Han Han had already won the first prize of the first National New Concept Composition Competition for his essay “Peeping People in the Cup”, and the winning process was very dramatic, which also changed “Triple Door”. It’s very topical.
The first one on the left is Han Han
I was in high school in 2000, when the Internet was underdeveloped and the speed of information dissemination could not be compared with today.
However, the sensation caused by “Triple Door” is no less than any entertainment incident today.
The whole school is talking about this book, and even students who have never read novels are looking for someone to borrow it. The first classmates who bought this book are all in the limelight.
Of course, a few days later he had to face the reality that the new book was quickly turned into a mess.
If you have read “Flower Season·Rainy Season” first, and then “Triple Door”, you will feel that although both are about campus life, they are not the same way.
“Flower Season·Rainy Season” is what an inexperienced student author should look like, while “Triple Door” shows the author’s maturity and sophistication that does not match his age——
This also allowed Han Han to quickly gain a large number of fans. After all, in our opinion at the time, a person of the same age who can write a novel with the style of “Siege” is really amazing.
The influence of “Siege” on “Three Doors” is obvious, such as the various metaphors that can be seen everywhere in the book, the ridicule and satire that escapes, the knowledge points across ancient and modern China and foreign countries, and even the character of the hero Lin Yuxiang , Also similar to Fang Hongjian in “Besiege”Similarity:
There is little cleverness, no great talent, no clear direction, no lasting determination, emotionally hesitant, fearful, and miss people who shouldn’t be missed.
Of course, today, twenty years later, I reread “The Triple Door”. With the increase in experience and reading, you will feel that there are some wonderful metaphors in the book, but now you only think that it is very contrived, and it was quite profound. Quoting from the classics, now I don’t think so.
But I still retain one point, that is, “Triple Doors” is really an interesting novel, and Han Han himself has never been able to write a more interesting novel since then.
For example, the plot before and after Lin Yuxiang’s article in “Selected Works of National Composition”:
This award is not as sensational as Lin Yuxiang imagined, even the energy to make a sensation in this school. Yuxiang originally expected that “the major newspapers will report one after another”, so the newspapers are also diligent, but the hateful thing is that the news in those newspapers is blocked, and such important things are not reported. Lin Yuxiang even read the advertisements without missing a word, but as an expert, he knew exactly where gonorrhea was treated with a 30% discount. Then begged to “spread out in the newspapers”, but the “papers” did not have this idle time.
There is also the section where Lin Yuxiang participated in the Literature Club at the South No. 3 Middle School. It was also full of jokes and witty words:
The Literary Club has activities once a week. It’s not so much an activity, it’s a quiet life, it’s listening to Teacher Wan to teach Chinese literature history. Teacher Wan is extremely careful and careful. He is a piece of material for studying pure mathematics, but it has been ruined by literature. The person was used to speaking the truth, his tongue stiffened, and he couldn’t speak clearly. Li Yu and Li Yu would bother for a long time, repeatedly reiterating that this carp is not the other carp. When talking about Du Fu and Du Mu recently, they even used the power of a blender to explain that this tofu is not another tofu. There are many Chinese poets, there areAfter learning the lessons of the carp, he was too scared to talk about Li Yi and Li Qi.
No matter how many times I watch it, I will laugh out loud. Even if I read it again now, I still think these two paragraphs are the most interesting paragraphs in the book.
However, after setting aside those interesting passages, the main line that runs through the book-Lin Yuxiang and Susan’s ignorant emotional story, will surface.
“Threefold Doors” TV series stills, starring Dong Jie and Wu Yunan
Han Han once said that this love story is based on his first love, so in fact, he has the deepest intentions on this line.
I still remember the scene where Lin Yuxiang and Susan secretly followed her all the way after they were separated:
There are not many people on the street in the cold night, it seems that there are only two people and a few lights left in the empty world. Lin Yuxiang clenched his fists and was about to open his mouth. Finally, unfortunately, something bad happened. Susan took a step forward and said, “What’s the matter? If not, I will go home?”
Lin Yuxiang’s courage was so scared that he couldn’t find it, so he shook his head and said, “It’s okay.”
Susan wrapped her scarf, smiled at Lin Yuxiang, and stepped into the car to go home. Lin Yuxiang stayed where he was, and blamed himself for forgetting to say “be careful on the road” and other warm words, and couldn’t help but regret it twice. Jiujin came up again, unwilling to think about it, called a tricycle on the side of the road to rush to the next intersection from another road.
The mentality of facing people you like, but not daring to say it, can be said to be very well-prepared, and maybe it can be written by people who have had relevant experiences.
Many years later, “Triple Door” was caught in the controversy of “ghosting” and caused a huge disturbance on the Internet.
However, for the readers of that year, “Three Doors” has been fixed in their hearts.
It now appears that the greater significance of “Triple Doors” is that it has made Han Han a model of anti-system and experimental education, and has also become an idol of countless middle school students.
In the eyes of many people, Han Han is the spokesperson of the “post-80s”.
Jin Yong’s campus life
After “Triple Doors”, the Internet began to spread, and online literature began to flourish, and countless talented authors began to publish works on the Internet.
In 2000, Yang Zhi, a 22-year-old graduate student studying in the United States who graduated from Peking University, began to serialize a novel about his college life on the website “Qingyun Academy”.
The name of the novel is “The Boy Here”.
His pen name will be better known in the future: Jiangnan, the writer who wrote “Kyushu Miaolu”, “Shanghai Fortress” and “Dragon Race”.
The birth of “The Boys Here” brought campus novels into the college age. Since then, campus novels that target middle school students have gradually declined.
In fact, this is well understood. The readers of campus novels are still mainly middle school students.
And for the middle school who is in the midst of the mountains of booksBy birth, university is their Garden of Eden, a mysterious and wonderful place. Novels describing university life will naturally receive more attention from them.
In Jiangnan’s writings, the campus life of Bianjing University (prototype: Peking University) is indeed full of humor and enthusiasm. .
In Jiangnan’s own words:
At that time, the ginkgo biloba leading to the cafeteria was as bright as gold, girls were walking among the fallen leaves and their skirts were rising and falling, and boys hitting their rice bowls. I had countless time and possibilities. The war horse returned with a slender girl.
Extract a record of the “Slumber Meeting” in a book:
The third plan continues to be contributed by Linghu angry youth: “Heroes save the beauty, it is better to save the beauty…. Now it is our classmate Huang Rong. At this time, there is a wolf howl in the distance, and a dark shadow rushes from the roadside. When he came out, his eyes flashed lustfully at Huang Rong…”
“Huang Rong can do karate,” Guo Jing prompted.
“No,” Linghu Chong waved his hand again professionally. We should call him Linghu Director now.
Director Linghu said: “Now you can’t wait for Huang Rong to do it, boss, you must rush out first…”
Director Linghu stuffed a five-centimeter-long fruit knife with a plastic handle into Guo Jing’s hand: “You can use this knife to hack the wicked thief until Huang Rong looks fainted and bloodied. In your arms, the boss, your lifelong happiness is guaranteed.”
Yang Kang understood, and immediately inspired Duan Yu and Lin Pingzhi: “It makes sense, but do we still need a courageous and loyal prostitute?”
Linghu Chong quickly said: “Damn, what are you three watching me doing?”
“The second child,” Duan Yu said, going up to pat Linghuchong’s shoulder, “sacrifice once, we all have such hard-hearted friendship, you can exchange your blood for the first one.Rubbed Jin Yong’s heat. It is also an excellent campus novel, especially the description of the feelings of boys and girls, which in itself is Jiangnan’s strength.
In the book, Guo Jing and Huang Rong, Qiao Feng and Kang Min Azhu, Yang Kang and Mu Nianci, Wang Yuyan and Murong Fu Duan Yu, several completely different emotional experiences, in the author’s pen, are very touching and touching.
In addition, the unique playful and agile style of “The Boy Here” has also influenced countless latecomers.
It can be said that in the school novels at that time, the essay pen, “The Boy Here” should be the only existence.
Usually only a few strokes like a line drawing can create an atmosphere in which readers can substitute. It has to be said that this is a place where Jiangnan surpasses his peers. It is not without reason that he will become the richest writer in the future.
Although Jiangnan is currently involved in many controversies, at that time, he was undoubtedly sincere. He really wanted to use his pen to record his college years and record his youth story.
Because of this, “Here” can be said to be a warm novel, it can arouse so much resonance on the Internet, so that many readers can still remember it after many years, and it has made countless readers because of this book. Full of yearning for college life is undoubtedly the effect of this “empathy”.
Readers who have a little knowledge of Jiangnan know that this person’s scam quality is very poor, and almost all of his masterpieces have become pits. “The Boys Here” is no exception. The story of Duan Yu and Wang Yuyan is half-written. Stop.
He once vowed to release “The Boys Here 2”, which has not been seen yet.
Many years later, when Jiangnan has changed from the other side of the boy to the middle-aged here, when the young boy who just walked out of school became the idol writer who is now famous all over the world, “The Boy Here” Has become an impossible pit to fill.
Two works with very different styles
After the great success of “The Boys Here”, many imitated works appeared on the Internet.
In 2003, two more popular campus novels were published on the Internet, which were picked up by publishing houses and introduced to the market, and they were also praised by readers.
One of them is “We are in Love on the Day of Graduation”, author He Yuanwai, published in July 2003.
The main story line is the campus love between the hero He Le and the heroine Taozi. As the title of the book says, He Le and Taozi agreed to break up on the day of graduation, so they both cherish the love time that was only half a year before the countdown, and many interesting stories happened.
In the process of their love, they also described the life of the classmates, reappearing the simple and short campus time.
The second is “Missing Past in Science and Technology”, author ZT, published in November 2003.
This book tells about the non-mainstream campus life of Liu Bei, Guan Yu, Zhang Fei and others. Under the names of celebrities from these three countries, it is still common in traditional campus novels such as cheating, hanging subjects, competitions, and picking up girls. segment.
But there is also an innovation, that is, the introduction of the “rogue hero” Zhao Yun’s story.The most tear-jerking passage in the entire book.
The time when the two novels were introduced to the market is almost the same, but the styles are quite different.
“Let’s Love Together on the Day of Graduation” is purely romantic, the hero and the heroine are innocent and the other is shy. The two talked about a book and their love is still only holding hands. It can be said that this novel is typical of ivory. Love story in the tower.
The “Missing Past in Science and Technology” appears to be much more vigorous, with rough text and exaggerated plots. There are also many plots that are not suitable for children. There are even dead plots that are rare in campus novels at that time.
The two novels also have something in common, that is, the plot is more funny, although this kind of funny is also different, “the day of graduation, we fell in love together” is biased towards language humor:
Back to the bedroom, Maruko was still playing games in front of the computer with his eyes and teeth. By looking at him, he knew that he had not eaten anything after sitting in front of the computer all day. In order to survive in the dormitory, he quickly dragged the balls out and asked him to have a supper. When we ate supper together, we persuaded the balls and said, balls, you should read a book these days, don’t live and die! Said Maruko.
But Maruko still goes its own way, sitting in front of the computer playing games every day. The life and death of Maruko is well known to passers-by, even the dormitory aunt knows it, and maybe the migrant workers who build the auditorium in the school also know it. Maruko has been extremely interested in English CET-4 since his first test of CET-4, and vowed to collect admission tickets for every CET-4 exam during the university, and participate in every CET-4 registration, but either he would not go at all. Take the exam, or just visit the exam room and touch the exam papers and come back. Except for the freshman year that the school is not allowed to take the fourth grade, Maruko has collected the fifth admission ticket this time.
The “Missing History of Science and Technology” is partial to the spoof and exaggeration of the plot:
SunQuan only felt that the sky dimmed in an instant, as if a black cloud drifted above his head, and then a thick stinky breath came. Just before Sun Quan could react, he was caught by an unusually hard The stick fell down.
Sun Quan lost consciousness at the moment his face was hit, and the world spun around in an instant. He instinctively stretched out his hand, trying to catch something to prevent himself from falling to the ground. At this time, there was no one beside him besides Cao Cao who had already vacated. His hand grabbed Cao Cao’s pants. As Cao Cao’s body continued to rise, Sun Quan continued to fall and eventually fell to the ground. At this time, Cao Cao’s pants were still in his hands, still so intact.
Sun Quan got up blankly, still wondering where the stick came from in the court.
In my opinion, they should all have been influenced by “The Boys Here”. After all, “The Boys Here” is known for its witty language to tell campus life. This influence is in the “Science and Technology” It is even more obvious-embedding celebrities from the Three Kingdoms into campus life, even the blind can see that it is similar to the “campus life of Jin Yong characters”.
The end of youth
Although “Grass Year Huahua” was only published in 2004, it was serialized on Sina.com’s reading channel in 2001.
It can be said that the popular time of “Grass-like Years” is actually about the same as “The Boys Here”, earlier than “Lost Love on the Day of Graduation” and “Science and Technology”.
The reason why I put “The Grass Like Time” at the end of this article is because it represents the end of a generation of youth and the end of traditional campus novels.
The story of “Grass-like Years” took place in Beijing X University, which is said to be Beijing University of Technology. From freshman to senior year in the book, it fully reflects the college life of several protagonists. The protagonist is a few “bad students”, becauseThe tone of Wei Quan’s book is relatively decadent, which also caused considerable controversy in the society at that time.
The protagonist Qiu Fei, although a scumbag, is difficult to say that he is a bad guy.
In fact, like many of our ordinary students, he felt out of place with the dull and boring campus life, so he lost himself in a life of confusion. He had no goal and direction. He had a deep affection for Zhou Zhou and other girls. The child’s embrace is not rejected. He thought he was resisting society and anti-antibody system with a cynical attitude. In fact, when we look back at what he did many years later, we can only send two words: Silly X——
And these two words can often be given to the self back then.
Just as Qiu Fei finally reflected on himself:
At that time, I was extremely dissatisfied with everything in life, could not understand the people and things around me, thought that everyone except myself was a fool, and when I lost my ideals and Zhou Zhou, when I was ignorant When I walked out of campus, I started to squeeze the bus to work from 8 to 5, and when I was criticized by the mean boss for work mistakes from time to time, but still at the mercy of him, when I had a meager salary at the end of each month and my colleagues had a drink. It was only when I was drunk that I felt that I was actually a veritable member of the ranks of fools, and one of the most fools of them.
The heroine Zhou Zhou is the perfect girl in the minds of countless readers. She is beautiful, gentle, kind and understanding, but she has to endure the harm from Qiu Fei, a scumbag again and again–
It is estimated that many people have the urge to puff their mouths after reading.
This kind of strong contrast is also the reason why countless people are unforgettable about “The Grass Like Time”.
Following “The Grass-like Years”, Sun Rui wrote two sequels “Post-University Era” and “Out-of-tune Youth”, but mainly wrote stories after graduation, which is no longer a campus novel.
There is a fourth book of “The Youth in Bloom” after that, but it is a completely different story, just with the title “Grass-like Years”.
The two sequels are about the story of Qiu Fei three years after graduation. The tone of the story is actually the same as that of the first one. It is still based on the relationship between Qiu Fei and Zhou Zhou. The most worthy reading is the review of college life. Those little jokes.
It’s just that the repeated separation between the two people in the book is too artificial. It makes people feel that the author is trying to keep the two people together in order to attract readers to continue reading.
In short, these two sequels can be described as “dog tails continued”.
But if we put together the three “Grass-like Years” together, we will feel that although the last two books are not very well written, they also have its meaning: they represent the end of a generation of youth.
At the end of “The Grass Like Time”, Sun Rui wrote this sentence:
“Youth, it’s time to end.”
In fact, in the first part, youth has not completely ended, and Qiu Fei has not really received a crit from society.
But in the third part, he was actually willing to be a housekeeper for Zhou Zhou, seriously studying the trivial things of cooking and housework at home, and began to rack his brains to make money-in order to make Zhou Zhou able Drink yogurt every day.
Perhaps the hard work in the past few years in society has made him sensible, or the ups and downs of the world have made him finally understand what he loves in his heart.the amount.
In short, he has indeed changed. Although not thorough, it is very valuable.
The readers who read the first part of “The Grass Like Time” should have been standing for years, or at least they have been social animals for several years.
As written in the book, when one day finds that I can no longer stay up late every day, I feel tired after going around the street for two hours. I will fall asleep after watching a night movie, and the corners of my eyes have begun to appear. Wrinkles, when countless such signs are intertwined, that is the time reminding you:
Youth should really end.
In this sense, “The Grass Like Time” trilogy is also an elegy for youth.
End or start
I said earlier that “The Grass Like a Time” published in 2004 is almost a curtain call for traditional campus novels.
Although the main line of “The Grass-like Years” is a love story, the story still does not exceed the framework of the traditional campus novel. Studying, exams, cheating, and after-school life still hold a lot of weight.
And In 2003, another best-selling novel came out, announcing that campus novels had entered a new era.
That is Guo Jingming’s “How Much Do You Know About Flowers in Dreams”.
Actually, I am not willing to talk about this novel because of the well-known “plagiarism.”
After all, the “ghost writers” of “Triple Doors” can only be said to have their own words, and the plagiarism of “Circle Inside and Outside” by “How Many Flowers Fall in Dreams” was “certified” by the court.
And Guo Jingming is “Many performances before and after “plagiarism”, such as being unapologetic. For example, in the subsequent work “The Summer Solstice”, Zhuang Yu was maliciously insinuated to slander himself, and the character corresponding to Zhuang Yu was “opened”, which really did not make people feel good. .
But when we talk about the development history of campus novels, we cannot ignore the transformative influence of this novel.
Actually, it is a bit far-fetched to say “How Many Flowers Fall in Dreams” is a campus novel, because although the protagonist is a few college students who are about to graduate, they are also about growing up from campus to the city, but the storyline is mainly focused on the workplace , Campus life accounts for a small proportion.
More importantly, “How Much Do You Know About Flowers in Dreams” hardly have the “campus elements” of traditional campus novels. The identity of college students is just a label.
I have to say that Guo Jing is clearly a clever man. The campus novels of the year were still tossing about the things on the campus, and he has already played a far-sighted way to attract readers more-creating abuse .
That is to say, regardless of whether the plot is reasonable or unreasonable, the more miserable the character’s experience, the better. This will not only make it easy to earn tears, but also allow readers to ignore the shortcomings of the novel while moved.
Since then, many campus novels have also played with plots such as abortion, drug abuse, and accidental death. In this sense, “Knowing How Many Flowers Fall in Dreams” is also unavoidable when talking about campus novels.
Throughout the history of campus novel development, in fact, this change can also be said to be inevitable.
Because campus novels are a new category after all, in the early stages of development, the authors are crossing the river by feeling the stones, and naturally they will first write about the things they are most familiar with on campus.
Later, more and more authors began to try to break the subject boundaries of campus novels, and “graft” more elements that readers would like to see in campus novels, thus making the traditional campus novels declining, but also making “youth novels” “As a new category, it grows and develops.
Those “green”Spring Campus Novels”, such as Guo Jingming’s “1995-2005 Summer Solstice Not Coming”, “Sadness Goes Against the River”, Rao Xueman’s “Hourglass” and “Left Ear”, Luoluo’s “Time Is Invalid Letter” “Dust Planet”, Ming Xiaoxi’s “Summer of Bubbles”, “There will be angels love you for me” and so on, the campus is just a background, and the focus of the description has been very different from the traditional campus novels.
For readers who have read “Flower Season·Rainy Season”, “Three Doors”, “The Boys Here”, and “The Grass Like Time”, it is already a new era.
Today, if the readers of those years open these novels again, they will find that the self who was once so energetic and instructive is so strange, and when they examine the current life, they will feel as if they are separated.
Yes, it was their best youth that ended with these traditional campus novels.
This article is from WeChat official account:Bengdi class leader (ID: MrSugar008), author: hear the wind to the rain