Chapter 467: Frightening Ghosts
After meeting Liu Jingting with Wanxiang, Chen Shirang seemed to be more determined in a certain aspect. After returning, he immediately wrote a letter to the education department, proposing to officially include "The Legend of the Condor Heroes", "Journey to the West" and "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" as the must-read books for middle school students during holidays.
Everyone has a tacit understanding of this "must-read book", and there are no rigid requirements on it. It is just a guiding information released by the official, and there are not many students who strictly implement it. At most, they only need to understand the title of the book. Unless sometimes they have to buy gifts for classmates or parents buy extracurricular books for their children, the book list will serve as a reference.
The reason why Chen Shirang was so persistent in promoting Gu Yongsheng's works to the list of books was also very simple - to completely official "Gu Yongsheng's martial arts".
No matter how many Nobel Liu Jingting won or how many Oscars he won, the concept of martial arts novels being "idle books" is still deeply rooted in the minds of the majority of parents and most teachers, and falls within the scope of "".
Professor Chen Shirang wanted to change this phenomenon, and according to his understanding and judgment, the most effective way to change this thinking is to "release news through official announcements", which has immediate effect on parents and teachers.
Of course, Chen Shirang's approach has also been questioned by colleagues and even students, who do not understand why they have to do this thankless thing.
"Isn't it better to let it develop step by step? The so-called real gold is not afraid of red fire. If Gu Yongsheng's martial arts novels can stand the test of time, in the end, you don't need to say it, they will naturally be included in the must-read books for students by relevant departments. If you do this now, the time is not ripe."
This is a suggestion from a colleague. It is conveyed by a professor who has a similar status and close relationship with Professor Chen, which may represent the meaning of the senior management of the school.
However, Professor Chen did not accept this proposal and replied: "Now our academic community and the entire university education community are showing a dull atmosphere. One of the important reasons for this situation is that everyone has learned to wait and see, and learn to retreat. Silence is gold. This is not a healthy development trend in any field, especially education and academics, which need to contend and express opinions. Only in this way can there be a possibility of progress.
However, the reason why I strongly promote Gu Yongsheng’s martial arts this time is not just to make a first-hand man, but I sincerely believe that the so-called “idle books” by Gu Yongsheng or Liu Jingting have a very positive impact on young people and can help them improve their three views to a certain extent. For specific analysis, you can read my article in "Literature and Publication".
Chen Shirang used the three words "cultivating the mind and nature", "distinguishing good and evil", and "cultivating courage" in "World News" to evaluate the three books "Journey to the West", "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", and "The Legend of the Condor Heroes", which can be said to have good intentions.
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The letter written by Professor Chen to the relevant departments was quickly spread on the Internet, which is normal, because from a certain perspective, Liu Jingting is now even more starring than some first-line stars, and news about him is easily spread on the Internet.
Shortly after the letter was released, opposition voices also appeared, all of which were clichés.
"In "Journey to the West", Sun Wukong is naughty and perverted and does not obey discipline, which can easily cause negative effects on children.
"Romance of the Three Kingdoms" is also OK to read as a story. Once officially promoted, there will be a wrong tendency to confuse history. Moreover, the power struggle throughout the book is not suitable for young people, especially middle school students.
As for "The Legend of the Condor Heroes", it is just a love, fighting, killing and killing covered by the family, country and the world, and its impact on children is even worse."
Then, articles that refute this view emerge.
Then, articles that refute this view appear.
then,……
A quarrel kicked off in a certain area of the online world, and the war gradually spread.
On November 30, a video of Professor Chen Shirang's speech on campus was posted online. In the video, Professor Chen talked about the meeting with Liu Jingting in Vientiane, and mentioned the discussion between him, Liu Jingting and Director Kang Yuchang.
"...The most fundamental reason I want to meet Liu Jingting is that I want to confirm his attitude towards martial arts novels. Although I have already obtained the answers from other works, I still have to confirm them personally. As expected, the answers to the several questions he asked were even more ideal than I expected.
In other words, many plots in the novel that contain profound meaning were intentional arrangements. After reaching this conclusion, I became more certain of my approach, because I believe that driven by this idea, he would write better works, and even surpass "The Legend of the Condor Heroes". This is what we should expect."
Liu Jingting did not expect that Professor Chen Shikang met him with these ideas that day, and he did not expect that some of his views would be particularly noticed by Professor Chen. No matter what, just looking at the sentence "the expectation should be", Liu Jingting respected Professor Chen, because this is the attitude that a professor and a cultural person "should have" towards literary works.
It is to expect a better appearance, not to destroy all new things that you cannot accept.
Sure enough, after the video was uploaded, Zhou Zaidao and his supporters pointed out sharply three suspicious aspects of Professor Chen's speech: First, why did he meet Liu Jingting in Wanxiang?
2. Why did Chen Shirang become more determined to push Liu Jingting after meeting? Is it really because Professor Chen was moved by Liu Jingting's noble sentiment, or was he moved by something else?
3. Liu Jingting has always been aloof and has repeatedly sarcasticized the traditional academic circles and authoritative experts. Why did he ask Professor Chen Shi to look at him differently? What kind of situation is he setting up and what purpose is he trying to achieve?
After these three questions came out, the inference was that because Chen Shirang won the benefits of Liu Jingting, he vigorously promoted Gu Yongsheng’s martial arts. Liu Jingting won the Nobel Prize in Literature, the Oscar, and the June 1st Project Award. Now what he wants to do most is to whitewash martial arts novels, so he found Professor Chen Shirang.
Zhou Zaidao, who has 250,000 followers from the microblog, reposted these speculations and commented: "A world-renowned, multi-faceted best-selling writer and a respected old professor, wouldn't he do such a thing? It's incredible."
This comment is flawless. It not only spreads the opinions, but also stays out of the matter. It uses the sentence structure of questions to leave enough way for future consultations. "I am just curious and questionable. You have also seen a tone that I don't believe it at all." The etiquette is quite as handsome as Zheng Qiushi.
Against the backdrop of frequent problems with this professor, this style is easily accepted by netizens: rich writers seek official status for their works, collude with famous professors, and trade famous money.
The Internet provides a hotbed for taking things out of context. In an environment where information explosions have caused many netizens to watch the news and just glance at the title.
So, how shocking it would be when netizens who don’t understand the ins and outs see this title?
After the three became tigers, the charge of "Liu Jingting's whitewashing of martial arts and bribing a big-name professor" was almost confirmed.
On December 2, Liu Jingting updated his personal microblog, with rare and intense words:
"Professor Chen's attitude towards academics, as well as his incentives and cultivation for his younger generations, is something that scumbags like Zhou Zaidao can never catch up with in their three lives. All they can do is stand next to a flower and scream like a skinny dog, 'This flower will wither, this flower will wither', but they never know that no matter what, that flower is not related to him."
After waiting for Liu Jingting's response, Zhou Zaidao immediately forwarded and replied: "Oh? The metaphor of Mr. Liu's flower means that you also admit that martial arts is withering and withering?"
Liu Jingting also responded quickly: "Agree you, do you know what martial arts is like, like you? If you are a borer, just play the role of your borer, pretend to be a critic, pretend to be a critic without knowing it. Isn't this stupid?"
Zhou Zai said: "Mr. Liu's dirty words made me surprised and regretful. As a Nobel Prize winner in Literature, why don't you even have this little education?"
Liu Jingting: "Oh, isn't education targeting educated people? When will education target silly fools?"
Liu Jingting was actually not willing to scold Zhou Zaidao. Even though he was angry, he had to do so, because if the topic continued to develop, Chen Shi would cause Professor to suffer more and more trouble.
Liu Jingting can care nothing, but Professor Chen is different. As an old-school intellectual, he attaches great importance to fame and innocence. He was suddenly labeled as "bribery". How much pressure should he bear? Maybe the school will make some unscrupulous concessions to calm down.
This is definitely something that Liu Jingting doesn’t want to see. Why should good people suffer from grievances?
Therefore, he used this move to attract all his hatred to himself. The swear words were just intentional flaws and ways to divert attention. There was no doubt that once Zhou Zaidao grasped this flaw, he would make a big fuss about Liu Jingting's character and education.
In this way, Professor Chen can be purified.
Of course, as with Liu Jingting, there is also the Vientiane Academy.
The day after the news of discrediting Chen Shirang came out, Vientiane Academy hanged an open letter from the principal. In the letter, Director Kang once again told in detail about the scene of the three meeting that day. Then he praised Chen Shirang's character and academic attitude. Finally, he sternly warned the rumor-monger: If you don't stop this kind of slander and slander, I will do my best to catch you and handle it according to the law!
Director Kang Yuchang never spoke so bluntly, but once he spoke like this, anyone might have to think about the consequences carefully.
Under such pressure, Zhou Zaidao deleted the micro blog and focused on talking about education and the flower with the swearing Liu Jingting.
Liu Jingting kept interacting with Zhou Zaidao while writing, and both sides seemed to be ready for a protracted war.
Before the Chinese New Year, even Gu Yongsheng's hardcore readers began to persuade him, "It's better to conceive a new book." At this time, few people knew that Liu Jingting had already stopped taking vacations. Everyone thought he was having a vacation syndrome, so they were bored to fight this debate with Zhou Zaidao.
Don’t you know that on the first day of the Lunar New Year, Liu Jingting specially brought the printed manuscript of the whole book of "The Legend of the Condor Heroes" to Professor Chen Shikeng's house to give a gift.r1152
Chapter completed!