According to the "real-name voting table of the 6th Lu Xun Literature Award" published by China Writers' Network, Zhou Xiaotian's "Into Tea-Selected Poems of Zhou Xiaotian" won 9 votes in the 1 1 vote of this award, which has obvious advantages in terms of the number of people.
However, this result soon caused widespread controversy inside and outside the circle.
The Lu Prize was published on Writer's Network on the afternoon of 12, and Wei Ke, a cartoonist and writer, immediately published it with the title of "Lu Xun Literature Prize Scandal". Weibo said: "The Lu Xun Literature Prize was announced on 20 14. Although we know that there is an inside story behind the Lu Prize, many people won the prize by running relationships, which has become more and more unbearable, but I didn't expect it to be so unbearable! I am very angry to see that a poet named Zhou Xiaotian actually won the prize. " Weibo also attached several works by Zhou Xiaotian, such as Deng Jiaxian and Leslie Cheung.
Later, the writer Fang Fang reprinted Weibo of Wei Ke and commented, "I didn't read anything else. I wonder what the winning poem looks like. Looking at these poems alone, Liu Zhongyang's poems are better than his. It is no wonder that some poets say that winning the Lu Xun Poetry Award has only interests and no sense of honor. "
Just a few months ago, Fang Fang questioned that Liu Zhongyang, a poet who also wrote ancient poems, was shortlisted for the Lu Xun Award because of Networking and Running.
The voice of ordinary readers is endless. Most people think that Zhou Xiaotian's poems are too straightforward and simple, lacking the implicit beauty that classical poetry should have, and even call them "Oil Poetry won the prize, and the Lu Xun Prize made Lu Xun angry".
Zhou Xiaotian's archaic "News Poetry" has also been highly praised.
For example, the famous writer Wang Meng wrote the article "Reading is very enjoyable", which was highly praised. He talked about the poem "Into Tea" and thought it was "also a swan song". At the beginning of this poem, it says: "Things are always changeable, so we must be well informed. It's better to drink tea than to be bored. " Wang Meng believes: "There is a normal mind here, which writes ordinary things. Ordinary people's ordinary poems are interesting, kind, energetic and harmonious. In the hostile modern world, this is really a rare voice of harmony. "
Regarding these two completely different attitudes, a senior industry insider who asked not to be named said that the final result was disappointing and understandable, but some negative comments on the Internet were a bit hasty. "It's too hasty to draw a conclusion just after reading a few poems. You should read the whole collection of poems carefully, calm down and appreciate it before drawing a conclusion."
In addition, this year's Lu Prize was voted in real-name registration system for the first time, and the awarding cycle was changed from "once every three years" to "once every four years". Works from 20 10 to 20 13 were selected this year.
In addition to Zhou Xiaotian's winning the prize, the writer who had been favored before was defeated by 0 votes, which also attracted people's attention.
According to the voting data of the judges, Alai's reportage "Looking Right-Two Hundred Years of Kangba Legend" and Yuenan's reportage "Crossing the South and Returning to the North", both of which were favored before, lost by 0 votes.
In this regard, Alai said at the first time: "I want to protest!"
Yuenan's masterpiece "Crossing the South and Returning to the North" took eight years to create, and it was well received by the industry and sold well after publication. The failure of this work also made many readers call "I don't understand".