Teacher Chen Pingyuan from the Chinese Department of Peking University said that the Chinese Department does not train writers. If a field can become a big cow without strict training, and these big cows may not practice harder than their peers in the process from newcomers to big cows, this shows that this industry relies too much on talents. College graduates write better than those who graduated from Chinese Department of Peking University. Have you ever seen a college student whose mathematics is better than that of Peking University? I don't think so. If mathematicians are born with high-quality academic training, then literary creation is a field that can succeed without training.

From a professional point of view, literary works? In fact, it is only a small part of the study of Chinese department. Take the College of Literature of Beijing Normal University as an example. In 2020, there are * * * Chinese teachers in the postgraduate enrollment catalogue, including curriculum and teaching theory, literature and art, Chinese language and literature, ancient literature, modern and contemporary literature, comparative literature and world literature, classical philology, folk literature and children's literature. , are basically these majors. In these majors, most of the research directions actually do not involve literary works, or even what you think is closely related to literary works? Modern and contemporary literature? And so on can also be studied from the perspective of works. For example, when writing as a literature major in modern times? Textual research on Lu Xun's communication experience during his stay in Japan? Fully meet the requirements of the professional direction, you can also get the corresponding degree. But whether Lu Xun met Zhang San or Li Si during his stay in Japan is directly related to the quality of his novels?

By the same token, many people in the direction of literature and art are doing cultural theory research, which basically does not involve works and is often closer to philosophical speculation. For example, among my doctoral students in literature and art at Beijing Normal University, some wrote about the evolution of China's modern concept of elegance and vulgarity, some wrote about Benjamin's artistic thoughts, and some wrote about the translation of China's ancient poems, all of which have nothing to do with the appreciation of literary works and literary creation. One of my younger brothers did write detective stories, but he also focused on the development process and social motivation behind detective stories, rather than the works themselves. Because of this, a teacher in a middle school once said? Now, nine times out of ten, teachers in the Chinese department can't read works? . These teachers can't even understand their works, so it is undoubtedly more difficult to train writers.