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How many writers in China are still writing with pens?

Xu Mingtao At least, Jia Pingwa wrote it with a pen. "Shaanxi Opera" won the Mao Dun Award for writing a page called Don't hit people. He won't even reply when he wins the lottery. After using the computer for ten years, Mo Yan wrote with a pen again. In more than forty days, he wrote more than 300,000 words of Fatigue of Life and Death, and then wrote the famous novel Frog. Mo Yan sincerely lamented that he had found the fluency of writing again. Most writers are interested in calligraphy. The former's Mo Bao is valuable, while the latter's blog shows off Mo Yan, who is famous for his modesty. Zhang Wei has a soft spot for pen and paper. In a lecture more than ten years ago, he almost stubbornly refused the computer, carefully selected the manuscript paper, and wrote a large number of works, including "Ancient Ship". In his view, pen writing can make people calm and patient, wash away the lead, and rarely be impetuous. Sure enough, last year, he wrote the longest novel "You are on the Plateau". Ten volumes are naturally daunting, but they are daunting. This work won the Excellent Works Award from Writers Publishing House. If Jia Pingwa writes that he can't use a computer (ironically, Lenovo gave him a high-profile computer that year), some writers cherish pen and ink and manuscripts. Probably Zhang Xianliang was the first person to use computers in China. During the two sessions that year, he brought a laptop from the United States, saying that he could write with it without a pen, which surprised even Wang Meng, but Zhang Xianliang has not written any decent works so far. Wang Meng's use of computers began at the beginning of the "Season" series in the early 1990s. Before that, he also rejected computers. In order to find the feeling of pinyin for a while, Liang Zuo, who is no longer alive, has been tortured enough. In his own words, "the last wowotou was full", and he finally decided to use Wu Bi, which made his lover feel very sorry because his Chinese pinyin was so good. Since then, I have been telling you about the benefits of computers. This is certainly not the topic now. For online writers, pen and paper have long been something of the Oracle Bone Inscriptions era. In 2003, when I was at Wang Meng's house, I was smart enough to see which computer I used from his works. I didn't think I was right. I thought it was because I had a special understanding of Wang Meng's words, but Teacher Wang Meng disagreed. I said, "Can you still write such great works as God of Songs and Eagle Valley with a computer?" Teacher Wang Meng said of course. Obviously, people and electricity have been integrated. The only trouble is to find suitable seats everywhere in order to prevent cervical vertebra, which seems to be recommended by Jason. Teacher Wang Meng later used a style that was enough from abroad. His elegant handwriting will never be seen in his later works. The biggest failure of computer writing is to change the writer's handwriting into a keyboard. word documents that are more detailed than your mother can't help you. The more you like a work, the more interested you are in its making process. As someone said, thinking is invisible. Once fixed with a pen, the trace of words becomes the material witness of the writer's thinking, an irreplaceable and most personal inner state. If the handwriting says that fortune telling is for the poor, it is too mysterious, but it can explain something. Although what we saw at that time was only a page of handwriting printed in front of the book, we could still feel the writer's writing state from the aspects of font, paper and modification, but we were also very kind. What I'm talking about here is not the disappearance of writers' manuscripts, but something more remarkable, involving collection, research, history and culture. Before the Middle Ages, there were no writers' manuscripts, but the graffiti printed on wax plates and bamboo sticks was carefully copied on various animal skins by later generations, and the ideological value conveyed by it is still being checked and studied by people. The value of the manuscript can be seen. Of course, I don't deny the epoch-making significance of computer writing. I just hope that the great writers in China can express it once in a while and make some contributions to the history of China literature!