I think netizens and experts who put forward rebuttal opinions should be fans of Jin Yong. This also shows that Gu Bin's boldness is challenging the emotional bottom line of Jin Yong fans. In my impression, this man is fearless. A few years ago, he said that modern literature in China was rubbish. Like a hornet's nest. His big mouth once attracted malicious fans from China experts and literary lovers.
What is the standard of Gu Bin's good writer? Gu Bin said that Jin Yong's works lack modernity and only focus on entertainment. It seems that modernity is the standard for Gu Bin to measure a good writer.
I find it difficult to grasp the standard of modernity. Even experts can't easily agree on modernity. For example, some experts do not recognize Gu Bin's judgment on Jin Yong. They think Jin Yong is very modern. You see, there is no consensus among experts about whether the writer Jin Yong is modern. We ordinary literature lovers who are not experts at all, of course, it is more difficult to grasp this standard. Is it cruel that we think we are not qualified to make basic judgments about writers? Whether Mr. Jin Yong is a good writer is put aside for the time being. In my opinion, the standard of a good writer put forward by Mr. Gu Bin is untenable.
Besides the standard of modernity, Gu Bin seems to have put forward other standards. For example, he said that Jin Yong was popular in China because his novels represented the traditional spirit of China. How can a traditional spirit representing a country and a nation not be a good writer? To be a good writer, must we abandon tradition? This is what puzzles me again.
According to Gu Bin, there is no translation of Jin Yong's novels in Germany. He also analyzed the reasons why there is no translation of Jin Yong's novels in Germany. He thinks it's because Jin Yong's works pay too much attention to stories. Whatever the reason, the question I want to ask Gu Bin is, has Jin Yong's translation in Germany even become the standard of whether Jin Yong is a good writer? It is not very convincing for Gu Bin to judge whether a China writer is a good writer from the German point of view.
Gu Bin's point of view is somewhat contradictory. For example, he thinks that in Germany, successful works are not necessarily beautiful in language, or even have no storyline, and good and evil will not be clearly separated. It seems that whether the language is beautiful or not is not the standard to be a good writer. However, he added that real German modern and contemporary writers can't tell real stories, that is, they don't need plot, protagonist and content, and the most important thing is language; Writers create their own world and heroes through language. Here, language has become important again, and it is the most important! Whether language is important to a writer. Mr. Gu Bin put forward two diametrically opposite views: one is unimportant and the other is the most important. I don't know which of these two views is what Gu Bin really wants to express.
In fact, the content I relayed above is not from Gu Bin's original work, but from second-hand information. I don't know whether this information accurately reflects Gu Bin's original intention. On the Internet, it is said that Gu Bin's views have caused many netizens and experts to refute them. I also doubt how many of those opponents have mastered the first-hand information of Gu Bin's evaluation of Jin Yong. It is ridiculous to make an opinion for or against it rashly based on a data that cannot be accurately judged.
For those who are not fans of Jin Yong, it doesn't matter whether Jin Yong is a good writer or not. Of course, for Jin Yong fans, Jin Yong should be the greatest writer in the world. He didn't win the Nobel Prize in Literature, but the judges in Sweden were blind.
What I want to say is that it doesn't matter whether Jin Yong is a good writer. Even whether Goethe, a German like Gu Bin, is a good writer is not that important. A person who doesn't like reading Goethe at all, how can you make him agree that Goethe is a good writer? Let alone let him accept the view that Goethe is a great writer in the history of world literature. Anyway, every literary lover has his own good writer. And everyone has his own standards to measure a good writer. This standard will vary from person to person. Even Gu Bin can't force everyone to accept his standards.
However, I still agree with Gu Bin's point of view. He thinks that reading Jin Yong's novels is equivalent to reading everything. In fact, I already have this view of Gu Bin. It is this view that keeps me from becoming a fan of Jin Yong. I even think that some universities invite Jin Yong to be a doctoral supervisor in the College of Liberal Arts. However, I didn't put forward my views as seriously as Gu Bin did. This is mainly because I am too lazy. Of course, the main reason is that I am not as influential as Gu Bin, and my speech is not light. Others don't take your own comments seriously, and over time, I won't care about my own opinions.