Genius is one percent inspiration, plus 99 percent sweat.
Edison
Since elementary school, she has been writing, and her work has been published in major magazines. Just like Eileen Chang, this girl became famous early for her writing. Tsinghua University also admitted her at a reduced score because of her writing talent, and when she grew up, she also became a famous writer, she is the talented girl Jiang Fangzhou.
Famous before it's too late
Born in 1989, Jiang was born in Hubei province to a family of workers. Her mother, Shang Ailan, loved writing and used to write columns in the Southern Metropolis Daily and other newspapers, as well as novels and essays in her spare time. Under her mother's cultivation, Jiang Fangzhou has loved literature since she was a child, and she started writing from elementary school. At a young age, her works were even published in some magazines.
For many children, writing is a headache, but at the age of nine, Jiang Fangzhou has already created and published her own poetry collection. The young Jiang became known as a "gifted writer". By the time she was in high school, she had published some of her own works.
Netizens can often see the young writer's manuscripts on the Internet, and from her tender handwriting, it can be seen that she has a high talent for writing. As Eileen Chang said, "You have to be famous before it's too late", Jiang Fangzhou, who became famous at a young age, has had a smooth road since then. In high school, she attended the best high school in Xiangyang.
During the most intense time of study in high school, she still insisted on reading, so her reading volume was several times higher than that of her peers. Out of her love for literature, Jiang Fangzhou's language scores were high, but she couldn't raise her math scores. Due to Jiang's literary talent and the fact that her literary works were published when she was in high school, and that her works were highly evaluated at that time, Jiang Fangzhou's grades were higher than her peers.
Tsinghua University also recognized Jiang's literary talent and admitted her with a 60-point reduction. This incident was reported by all the major media, and caused a great sensation for a while. Jiang Fangzhou, who entered Tsinghua University, also felt the pressure, so she also stepped up her study. The four years of college gave her a special experience.
Extremely good at writing, she interned at a famous magazine while she was still in school. After graduation she also chose to stay on smoothly as an associate editor. Jiang Fangzhou's rich reading gave her the strength to be the editor-in-chief, and at first there would be people who would question her ability, but later on, time spoke for itself, and her strength was gradually recognized by some senior writers in the circle.
Literary sentiment
From Jiang Fangzhou's own point of view, she has the calmness, compassion, and independent thinking that her peers lack, as well as a broader insight and deeper sentiment than ordinary people. She shows a sincere and unobtrusive charm, and the words she writes also contain these charms.
The ideas and connotations embodied in Jiang's writing are more frank and sincere than those of her contemporaries, close to the lives of people in China's underclass, and contain a compassionate literary sentiment. Jiang Fangzhou's literary sentiment makes up for the lack of literary backbone and humanistic concern of her contemporaries.
Jiang Fangzhou, as a successful writer, has never forgotten her deep concern for human beings, especially the lower class Chinese people. After she became a member of the upper class with her excellent works, she did not become indifferent. She still cares about the lives of the underprivileged, always sympathizing with them and worrying about them.
She believed that "recording itself is already a revolt", and that tearing off the cloth and showing the ugly world is a kind of silent revolt against the ugly world. This idea is present in many of her works. For example, she remembers her legendary classmates who have become monks, remembers her father as an ordinary railroad policeman, and tells stories about her hometown;
For example, she criticizes the middle class' enthusiasm for running marathons as a "silent square dance"; for example, she believes that "the mind is a piece of shelter that can't pay the mortgage". Jiang Fangzhou records in writing the people and things she has experienced, seen and heard.
The language used in Jiang's works is very casual, frank and straightforward, relaxed and even a bit capricious. Some of her stories seem like hearsay, some like moaning, but underneath the seemingly soft and clear water, there are undercurrents, rotting silt and hard stones.
These vaguely reveal the vicissitudes of history that we have not seen, and also try to secretly build a panorama of the times we have experienced. Jiang Fangzhou's words are written with her true insights and her keen perception of the times. She has a remarkable talent and enough heart to go far in the future.
The present Jiang Fangzhou
Last year, Jiang published a new book about what she saw and heard during her one-year stay in Japan. The story began with a year-long exchange of writers led by a literary society between China and Japan, and Jiang was on the invitation list, so she took part in the program. During the year she participated in the program, her living expenses were all provided by the Japanese literary society.
Jiang Fangzhou describes in her book that she could go to any place in Japan she wanted to, without worrying about anything, and that every day she only had to think about what to eat in the morning, what to eat at noon, what to eat at night, and what to visit her writer friends today, and which exhibition to go see tomorrow. In everyone's eyes, this is a very happy thing.
In the book, Jiang depicts her living condition in Japan within a year, introducing many famous and cold literary writers. There are also famous tourist attractions she has visited, Japanese food, famous universities, some landmarks and so on. Whatever she saw in Japan became the material of her writing. After the book was published in China, many literary young people who read the book were attracted by the scenery described in the book.
Many people had the idea of traveling to Japan, which once caused a wave of Japanese tours. From this we can see the charm of Jiang Fangzhou's words. In this book we can also see Jiang's love for literature and art and her unique appreciation. She would stay in front of a painting for more than an hour, pondering, and bursting into tears. Without the ability to appreciate and rich emotions, it is impossible to appreciate those paintings.
Now Jiang Fangzhou not only reads books for many hours every day, but also participates in some programs. But when participating in the programs, you can often find her still reading books whenever she has free time, so it can be seen how much she loves reading books. Now Jiang Fangzhou is also thirty years old, she often interacts with netizens on Weibo to see what's new online.
There was a time when some netizens attacked and criticized her online, but she handled these things calmly, she didn't deliberately explain or let others help her explain. Jiang Fangzhou's calmness, rationality, and the cultivation of a cultural person can be seen. In the modern society, people are impatient, in Jiang Fangzhou, her love for books and art, and her calm and rational attitude in dealing with things are all worthy of our learning.