After the publication of Zhang Jun's novel "Empty Capsule", I had the honor to attend the symposium. At that time, I hadn't had time to read "Empty Capsule", and I didn't expect Mr. Zhang Jun to write such a novel. Although very touched and admired, I can't say it well. Facing teacher Zhang's modesty, I just said to him, "The first time you write a novel, it means success, it means victory!" " "I think this sentence is what I said to him, so why not to myself? After all, literary creation is an attempt. Who can guarantee that every attempt will succeed? Children can only dress up when their husbands come out-"if the skin doesn't exist, how can the hair be connected?" "So what I said to Mr. Zhang Jun is true. After reading "Empty Capsule" today, I feel not only touched by this novel by Zhang Jun.

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Zhang Jun's novels are innovative. This is mainly manifested in two aspects. The first is the new theme. Teacher Zhang Jun's novels are set in the countryside, but the countryside he takes as the material is not the countryside in the general sense, but the countryside that has basically completed urbanization and is in the early stage of urbanization. However, the rural works in this special period are rarely involved in China at present. Therefore, Zhang Jun's novels stand on the commanding heights of the theme, "loud voice, loud voice". The second is the new image. What is an "empty sac"? An "empty bag" is an empty bag, which means that a person has only a body and no soul; Only material yearning, no spiritual pursuit. This is a true portrayal of the living conditions of farmers in some rural areas of China after the completion of urbanization, that is, after "losing" their land. Paying attention to and truly reflecting the living conditions of these peasant groups, especially their mental state, like Mr. Zhang, using concentrated brushwork to describe, using the form of novels to reflect, and using the word "empty bag" to point out the topic, seems to be rare in China literary world at present.

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Zhang Jun's novels are deeply conceived. In his novels, he used nearly 300,000 words to describe and outline the living conditions of a group of peasants who lost their land, but from beginning to end, Zhang Jun never labeled them as "empty bags" in his writing, nor did he give readers a hint of "empty bags". Only at the end of the novel, he pointed out the theme with the dream of a character in the story-the village head, suggesting that they are just a group of "empty pockets", saving a lot of pen and ink-but two or three hundred words. However, it is these two or three hundred words that seem to have a fatalistic power, which makes readers wake up at once. After reading it, you can't help but admire Mr. Zhang Jun's ingenuity and thoughtful mind. Cover the book and ponder: Is this novel by Teacher Zhang Jun realistic or romantic? Undoubtedly, Zhang Jun's novels are realistic; However, there is such a dream at the end of this novel, which has been stained with romanticism. Note that romanticism at this time is not the end of this novel, but only the beginning. Why? On the one hand, it is because this dream was written by Zhang Jun to summarize and generalize the essence of these farmers' "walking dead"; Both of them are due to this dream, which directly led to Zhang Jun's final naming of his novel, and his interpretation and play of the significance of the final naming of this novel in the inscription of this novel. These practices have obviously strengthened the romanticism of his novels, and made the romanticism of his novels sprout from the end, spread to the beginning, and finally enveloped all. From this, we can completely draw the conclusion that the novel Empty Capsule is not only a realistic work, but also a work with distinct romanticism.

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Zhang Jun's novels draw lessons from the structure of China's traditional novels. In fact, There are seven chapters in Empty City, including Wang Cai and Second Uncle. Each chapter is interrelated and relatively independent; The previous chapter begins the next chapter; People are born of things, and things begin with people. This kind of link is interlocking and constantly pushes the story forward. This is the structure of the novel Water Margin in our country, especially the structure of the first half of Water Margin. This structure gives readers great reading freedom. First, the single article is a relatively complete biography; Second, no matter which chapter the reader reads, he can quickly enter the plot without obstacles. Although this kind of composition is ancient, it may seem a bit clumsy now, but in today's "time is money" and everything is fast-paced, this structure just adapts to readers' reading habits.

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Zhang Jun's novels also draw lessons from China's classical novels. Generally speaking, he is good at portraying characters with their language. Wang Cai is, the third brother is, and so are the second uncle and the village head. Characters are shaped in the character language, plots are deduced in the character language, and stories move forward in the character language. What is even more rare, however, is that Zhang Jun's description of characters also draws lessons from the expression of "grass snake gray line, a thousand miles of pulse" in A Dream of Red Mansions. In A Dream of Red Mansions, the most outstanding performance of this technique is the portrayal with large focus-Jiao Da only appeared twice in A Dream of Red Mansions, but once in the first half and once in the second half; The expression of this technique in The Empty Capsule focuses on the shaping of scholars. The name scholar first appeared in the chapter of Wang Cai at the beginning of the novel, but the story of the specific scholar is basically in the chapter of scholar at the end of the novel, and the "hidden pulse" is not "long". Of course, this also reflects Zhang Jun's meticulous description and control of the novel structure.

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Zhang Jun's novels have their own characteristics in narrative and language. Narratively, the plot is compact, the progress is fast, and the details are appropriate; Being good at using Zhang Jun's novel has its own characteristics in narrative and language. Narratively, the plot is compact, the progress is fast, and the details are appropriate; Good at using flashback to render atmosphere and stimulate readers' interest in reading; Good at using interpolation to supplement the plot and explain the background. At the same time, it also pays attention to the echo of the characters, so that you have me and I have you, which not only maintains the close relationship between the chapters, but also makes the chapters of the book firmly stick together and become an organic whole. In terms of language, first, he is good at telling and spreading stories in colloquial language, which is simple and natural, fluent and full of affinity and appeal; The other is good at using dialect slang to express the character and reveal the soul of the character. In particular, when Zhang Jun created characters in dialects, he deliberately used a large number of "swearing" dialects. This dialect of "swearing" obviously plays an auxiliary role in shaping the characters in the story and deepening the theme of the novel "Empty Bag".

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Zhang Jun's novels are bold in pen and ink. Why? Because there are many erotic descriptions in his novels. But this is not wrong. For a writer, what is written is not important. What is important is what the writer expresses and reflects through these erotic descriptions-the theme is "positive", so one is "positive" and the other is "positive". Teacher Zhang Jun's selection of materials is precisely to highlight the mental weariness of these farmers after they become rich overnight, as well as the extravagance of life, the decline of morality and the fading of human nature-all these are sensory stimuli, and they are forced to do so. But more importantly, this is Zhang Jun's true revelation of the real society, rather than his imagination, out of thin air, out of thin air. This shows Zhang Jun's realistic writing style and the practical significance of Zhang Jun's writing this novel.

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Zhang Jun's novels have inspired writers in our communication industry in many ways. First, his novels reveal to us that as an industry writer, the subject matter can be completely removed, even completely away from the field of our communication industry. Of course, the field of our communication industry is also very promising, and many writers have made extraordinary achievements, but if we immerse ourselves in this single subject for a long time, we will inevitably feel deja vu. It is very difficult to make progress in works, even to innovate and surpass them. The timely appearance of Zhang Jun's novels will undoubtedly broaden the thinking of these writers, broaden their horizons, and promote their writing to change from the former "writing industry" to the later "writing society". Secondly, his novels will also prompt writers in our communication industry to turn from short stories to novels. At present, I have read the novels written by our Henan Unicom writers, and Zhang Jun's Empty Capsule is the first one. But I have read many short stories and short stories created by our writers in Henan Unicom. If we explore the reasons, although there is a problem that these writers do not have enough life accumulation, I think they must have the courage to write long stories because they are afraid of themselves. The publication of Zhang Jun's novel Empty Capsule undoubtedly sets a good example for our writers.