In the letter from Yanhe Literature Editorial Department, in addition to congratulating Jiang Yulou on being admitted to Yanda, he also made a small request.
That is to say, I hope Jiang Yulou will continue to contribute poetry works to the literary magazine "Yanhe".
Since "Yanhe" magazine published two of his love poems, the magazine has been selling like crazy, and it can be said to have achieved great success.
When Yanhe Literature thought that the July magazine could continue this success, reality poured cold water on them. There were only 100,000 sales, a gap of more than 100,000 copies compared to last month.
If it were in the past, this sales volume would have been enough to make the editorial department smile from ear to ear.
However, one thing I fear the most is comparison.
Last month it obviously set a sales record for a national literary magazine, but it collapsed the next month.
Who can accept this!
The reason is that there is still a lack of hit works.
That is, works with huge influence such as Jiang Yulou's "Mountain Wood" and "Poem of the Ten Commandments".
The editorial staff thought, instead of looking to the old writers and poets that Yanhe Literature had collaborated with, they might as well look to Jiang Yulou.
After all, this young man has created a miracle, not too big or too small.
If he is used as a selling point, there is no need to worry about readers who like his love poems not buying it.
Ever since, this time there was a situation where readers’ letters were packaged and sent to him.
Forwarding letters from readers is false, but asking for manuscripts is true.
In the letter, Yanhe Literature also promised Jiang Yulou the top poetry remuneration in the industry.
That is, the basic royalties plus the royalties for the number of printings.
The basic remuneration changes the current policy of paying royalties by line and adopts a basic remuneration based on down payment. That is, a poem is paid two hundred yuan.
Remuneration for the number of copies printed = 1% of the basic remuneration per thousand copies (less than one thousand copies will be calculated as one thousand copies).
In other words, if Jiang Yulou publishes a poem in "Yanhe", if "Yanhe" prints a thousand copies of the magazine, in addition to the basic royalties of 200 yuan, he will also have 2 yuan in royalties for the number of printings, for a total of 200 yuan. One hundred and two dollars.
In the late 1970s, there were very few people in China who could get paid for the number of copies they printed. Although this number was not large, it was an honor.
This can be regarded as Yanhe Literature's recognition of his poetry, and it has a positive impact on his reputation in the literary world.
So, after Jiang Yulou replied to a few letters, he began to think about which poems to write.
Of course, if he wants to publish, he will still consider Internet celebrity poems.
Because later generations can be said to be an era of information explosion, and there are no more illiterates. Poems that can have an impact on young and middle-aged people are themselves the best among the best.
If he doesn't copy the fine works, isn't he suffering from some serious illness?
However, one needs to carefully consider whose poem to choose.
The two poems he wrote previously, "Mountain Wood", were originally written by Littlesen and were first published on Yanda's BBS, and then became popular on the Internet.
"Poem of the Ten Commandments" is based on the translation of a love poem by the sixth Dalai Lama Tsangyang Gyatso. It was added and subtracted several times by later generations of netizens before the final version was published by him.
Both poems discuss love. It can be seen that the word love is the most touching and the most popular among the literary youth of the current era.
However, there was a poet in later generations whose works happened to be very profound about love. In addition, his works were very similar to the poetry of Tsangyang Gyatso, and his works were mistakenly regarded as the works of Tsangyang Gyatso.
This writer is the contemporary female poet Zashi Ram.
Later, the movie "If You Are the One 2" directed by Feng Da became popular with a short poem "Seeing and Not Seeing".
In the film, Li Xiangshan's daughter sends a poem to her father at his farewell party before his death. It explores the two major themes of love and life. It is restrained and affectionate, and many viewers burst into tears.
The author was once rumored to be the famous 17th-century poet Tsangyang Gyatso, but in fact the original work was Tashi Ram.
The real name of "See or Not See" is "The Silence of Banzaguru Pema".
"This is the poem." Jiang Yulou made a decision.
In addition to the profound artistic conception, he decided to write this poem for another reason: it is easy to understand.
Modern poems are generally very straightforward, and this poem "To See or Not to See" is no exception.
In fact, this is very good. Poetry is originally a work that reflects the joys and sufferings of the people.
For example, the Book of Songs, the beginning of ancient Chinese poetry, reflects labor and love, war and corvee, oppression and resistance, customs and marriage, ancestor worship and banquets, and even celestial phenomena, landforms, animals, plants and other aspects, which are the social life of the Zhou Dynasty. of a mirror.
To give another example, every time Bai Juyi finished writing a poem, he would always ask an old woman: "Can you understand the meaning of this poem?"
If the old woman said she could understand, he would write it down. If she said she couldn't understand, he would revise it again. He would not stop until the old woman understood.
His behavior reflects an easy-to-understand literary creation style.
After making up his mind, Jiang Yulou wrote the name of the poem "See or Not See" on the manuscript paper.
Then, after recalling the content, he wrote in regular script one stroke at a time: "Whether you see it or not..."
The full text is seventeen lines, and with punctuation marks, it is only 301 words.
Does a love poem of more than 300 words cost more than 200 yuan?
Not much, Jiang Yulou is confident that with his poem, Yanhe Literature can create more than a hundred times the profit.
By the time he finished writing, it was already late at night, and the friends in the dormitory had already fallen asleep.
"Ha." Jiang Yulou yawned.
After stretching, I washed up and turned off the lights to go to sleep.
At around seven o'clock, Wei Guoping woke up from peeing.
At this point, everyone is still asleep.
School hasn't started yet, so it's normal to sleep for a long time.
Wei Guoping also drank too much water yesterday, otherwise according to usual practice, he would still be lying in bed and sleeping soundly.
He quietly got off the upper bunk, not wanting to disturb Jiang Yulou's sleep.
Because he slept late yesterday, Wei Guoping knew how hard Jiang Yulou had been last night.
There were dozens of letters to read and replies to, and his scalp felt numb just reading them.
After draining the water, he returned to the bedside. At this time, the halo of the early morning sun had shone in through the window.
Following the sunlight, he saw the pile of envelopes on the table beside the bed and...
A poem?
Is it Yulou’s new work?
Out of curiosity, he picked up the manuscript paper with the title of the poem written on it.
"'See or Not'?" Wei Guoping murmured out loud.
open to take a look?
The next moment, he glanced at Jiang Yulou, who was still sleeping soundly, with a guilty conscience.
It's okay if he hasn't seen it, but since he has seen Yulou's new work, not letting him see it is simply more uncomfortable than killing him.
Wei Guoping opened the manuscript with trembling hands.
"You see me or you don't see me
I am neither sad nor happy right there
…”
The whole poem is not long, and it is simple and easy to understand. It is still a love poem, and it is still in that style.
After reading it, Wei Guoping was already obsessed with it.
Love each other in silence, rejoice in silence.
This last sentence really spoke to his heart.
