Let reality shine through science fiction

Let reality shine through science fiction

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Let reality shine through science fiction


Tiger sniffing: This is the second article in the series of tiger sniffing "new science fiction" series. In this article, you will read: How can a worried science fiction writer draw inspiration from reality; what kind of reality can a journalist from Xinhua News Agency reflect through paper and pen? And, in the eyes of this writer, what kind of environment can you create science fiction? Head map photographer: volume



Han Song held the window frame of the communication room with his hands, slightly bowed back and leaned forward, repeating his name:

"Han Song, Han Song to the outside."

Before the silence of the Xinhua News Agency, his back was a bit cautious, not so much work here, it was more like a penalty station at the door.

Han Song is not tall, often wearing sportswear and jeans. When the event was recognized, I always smiled shyly, and some nodded apologetically and carefully answered questions from others.

As one of the most famous science fiction writers in China, the readers listed Liu Cixin, Wang Jinkang, and He Xi as the four kings of the Chinese science fiction community. In an interview with the US Newsweek in 1997, Han Song was busy with the news work of Xinhua News Agency during the day and wrote a gloomy story at night.

Xiao Ji will now recall that at the Xinhua News Agency’s external exchange meeting, a leader named Han Song on the stage hid behind a black laptop and told everyone in a very low voice: “Being a reporter The most important thing is to have discovery." His voice is getting low and unspeakable, and it is drowsy. Xiao Ji is very spirited and remembers these words.

She recalled to the tiger that she only thought that the name was familiar. Wouldn't it be "that" Han Song?

Later, she learned that the low-key leader was the science fiction writer Han Song.

Worried and fearful


Chongqing's landforms are uneven and the rock mass is exposed. Surabaya is connected to the Yangtze River in Chaotianmen. The water vapor that has been collected has not been scattered for a long time, and the city has more than one-third of the time. When the foggy and high buildings met, Han Song was born in such a mountainous environment. Thanks to this, the story he wrote is like a mist, only a plausible feeling and a labyrinth of words behind the infinite meaning.

For example, the water-stained Liangshan in his paintings is like this: Liangshan is surrounded by large water, the lake is getting bigger and bigger, and the fish is getting less and less. The mountain faces a food shortage. Everyone is ruthless about their situation. Some people have mentioned the matter of Diane with Song Jiang. Song Jiang directly fainted. Xiao Xiaoqi sneaked out and found that there was a second Liangshan outside the Liangshan Mountain, the third Liangshan Mountain, Liangshan Mountain or Liangshan Mountain, and the world or the world--but where is the court?

Liu Cixin’s comments hit the nails [1]: Han Song’s work belongs to three-dimensional science fiction.

"I can't interpret Han Song's works. In-Depth literary works are incomprehensible, but we can all feel a lot. The novel is the literature of feeling, there are not many science fiction novels that can feel, Han Song's novels Belong to this class."

Liu Cixin and Han Song, the two can almost be regarded as the two extremes of sci-fi creation: If Liu Cixin represents "a grand and romantic technical opera", then Han Song's pen is often "social humanity in clothing, food, and shelter."

In July 2012, the two of them went to participate in the CCTV recording "Xiao Cui said things" 
[2], and talked about the A niangziguan power plant that Da Liu had worked for was no longer there. Cui Yongyuan took Hansong awkwardly: "Xinhua is still there?" Han Song smiled embarrassedly: "The Xinhua News Agency should have a future that even science fiction can't imagine..." When it comes to the end of the world, he is joking. "The end of the world is not what you think. It's all about asteroids hitting the earth. It's also possible that it can't be closed all night, looking at the ceiling, waiting for the day."

Xiao Ji remembers that Han Song once joked with her: "You will run the sci-fi port in Xinhua News Agency in the future." In fact, in the entire Xinhua News Agency, sci-fi enthusiasts can be ignored by both of them. Xiao Ji used her interest to do some sci-fi reports from time to time. Han Song silently supported her and introduced her to Yao Haijun, editor-in-chief of Science Fiction World. It was also at that time that she met Liu Cixin. Later, after leaving the Xinhua News Agency, many of Xiaoji’s businesses were deeply related to Liu Cixin.

As an external deputy director, Han Song manages a team of 320 people. Going out at 5 in the morning, watching the manuscript is very late every day. The people who have been to his office have worried that the book next to the table will fall one day. Busy work squeezed the writing time. For him, the most common writing scenes were: on the way to work, on the high-speed rail, on a business trip.

"Get on the subway in the morning and write it on your mobile phone if you have an idea."

He once wrote his first subway trip: in the spring of 1989, Han Song first came to Beijing. When I first got on the subway, I was pushed to the opposite door by the crowd behind me. The paper was flat and tightly attached.

After settled in Beijing, the same thing was repeated day after day. Later, he created the "Trilogy of Rail Transit" with his transportation: "Metro", "High-Speed Rail" and "Track". Did not write an "Airplane" because he was afraid to fly.

In a certain year of science fiction conference, a group of science fiction writers flew to Chengdu. At the airport, Han Song looked at the plane and said: "If today's plane crashes, the Chinese science fiction will be wiped out." Some people in the circle wrote a short story on the Internet. The original text is no longer acceptable. Later Han Song wrote in a blog [3]:

 "The office building in Beijing in the evening glow is like a plane. The fear will come at any time because I don't know what kind of airflow I will fly in, I don't know the temper of the sky, and what background the sky has. It is a big trouble to inadvertently offend the sky. But no matter how much fear, I can't get it by plane. They said that the plane is the safest. It is a lie to us. But we have to be fooled and inspired to endure pain."

Therefore, the world depicted by Han Song's works is often gloomy and sad, with obvious human metaphors. The "surprise" in the works is derived from this. For Han Song, “fear” and “worry” will generate inspiration. He explained to the reporters of “People” [4]:

"When you look at reality, you are not happy, but worried. If you can't write it down, you will be more worried. Writing "Mars shines on the United States" is when I went to the United States as a visiting scholar in 1996 to climb the World Trade Center. The feeling is that this place cannot last."

Wu Yan, a science fiction writer, said that Han Song’s writing relies mainly on intuition. Han Song explained that such intuition is innate - "The world seems to be like this." Ted Jiang created the alien "seven-legged barrel" in "The Story of Your Life": Time is not linear and continuous. Write down is just to show the "what has happened in the future" to the people of the past.

Han Song seems to be the leader of this universe. He is worried crosses countless tides and uses his imagination to cautiously hint in the future through words.

Science fiction writer behind the real world


In the work area of Xinhua News Agency, armed police officers are guarding the guards. The only ones who can enter and leave without the need to swipe in and out are cats and presidents [5]. Han Song often walked and walked down suddenly, talking to the cat on the flower bed, completely ignoring the eyes of Xiao Ji.

In the words of Xiao Ji, Han Song lived in a child: "Observing the world with bright eyes, his vision is revealing his true love."

As for Han Song himself, it is not clear whether the identity of the reporter has helped his sci-fi creation. I just think that many things in life are difficult to explain. The most common thing he said was: "Science fiction can't be written."

Han Song also brought to the Tigers the Notre Dame, which had recently caught fire:

"An 800-year-old church, how can anyone burn a thing that will last forever? This is science fiction, I think it is a fire that aliens put on..."

"There is also the '996' which is also very sci-fi. A lot of people in a city are busy like ants, like worker bees. Then they create one social wonder after another. This is actually like a science fiction film. It's something like "Beautiful New World."

We can find a lot of real-world shadows in Han Song's works.

"In the year of China's rise in 2066, a Go boy went to the United States and witnessed the collapse of the World Trade Center in New York." The second year of September 11th occurred, "Los Angeles Times" said: "Han Song predicted 911!"

In the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake, he reported the unpredictable disaster and the rescue against time in Xinhua News Agency overnight. Two years later, he published the novel "Recycled Bricks" inspired by the architect Liu Jiaxuan's "Recycled Bricks". In the the story, people use the bricks created by the ruins to wrap the soul of the deceased, because the “regeneration” of resources creates the “regeneration” of civilization and people pursue the recycled bricks so that they hope for a new disaster.

"News is the history of the future, and science fiction is the news of the future." Han Song has emphasized this point of view on many occasions, which also summarizes his main business and sideline business. He said that there are more and more people who love to watch science fiction.

In the past, China could not see the future - the Chinese people more than a hundred years ago were struggling for reality and how to survive. They dare not think about what life is like in the future, and naturally, there will be no science fiction. But with advances in technology and the economy, everything is different.

"Fridge, TV, washing machine, mobile phone, Internet, high-speed rail, aerospace, supercomputer, gene editing, 5G, the speed of technological progress is unprecedented. All of this seems to be coming to our lives, China soon became A big technology country."

In 2013, on the third day of launch, a microblog ID called "Lunar Car Jade Rabbit" appeared on Weibo and the daily landing the process was broadcasted in a first-person perspective, frequently on the hot search. But most people don't know that one of the team members behind the cute the jade rabbit is Xiao Ji.

This is an aerospace propaganda project jointly organized by Xinhua News Agency and Guohuo. At that time, the aerospace propaganda was so numerous that it was difficult to make any special features. Xiao Ji thinks that the girls of NASA's "Curious" Mars Rover decided to build a microblog of "Lunar Rover Rabbit". The cartoon and sci-fi style immediately attracted the attention of Weibo users, and was praised as "the most successful aerospace propaganda." ".

"Science fiction works are a product of contemporary social changes. The most direct reflection is the characteristics, changes, and contradictions of contemporary society. His thinking is naturally produced." Han Song said to the tiger, "If there is no science fiction in such an era." I can't say it."

Crash moment: a science fiction class


In September 2013, the Dongtuanbao Township Central Primary School, more than 400 students who were still in trouble, quieted down. Han Song stood next to the principal and watched the children participate in the flag-raising ceremony. Here is the national poverty-stricken county of Hebei Wuyuan, Han Song's mission is: to give children of Hope Primary School a science fiction class [6].

For the Hansong generation, from the beginning of the reform and opening up to the sci-fi fans, science fiction is only a small entertainment, and even once regarded as "absurd, bizarre, no scientific basis of spiritual pollution." In the 1980s, the writer Xinghe borrowed the magazine "Youth Science" and took the book to copy the above story. After the father discovered it, he thought it was messy hand-written literature slapped him in the face and tore the book into pieces [7].

Han Song was lucky. When he was still in junior high school, he participated in the United Nations essay competition for outer space exploration. At that time, there were 39 middle schools in Chongqing to carry out essays. Xiao Hansong’s "Panda Yuyu" sci-fi essay was published in the "Red Rock Boys", which was his first public sci-fi novel.

To reward the winners, the school sent several science fiction novels. "There are Asimov's, and Wells." Han Song recalled.

Nowadays, science fiction has been able to walk straight into the classrooms of students in impoverished counties. Han Songyuan wanted Xiao Ji to go to the science fiction writer Xia Wei to teach the children - Xia has experience in teaching and is better at teaching knowledge. Without help, Han Song had to go into battle personally.

The class finally began. Han Song made a line under the "science fiction" and asked the children if they knew what a science fiction was.

Silence, no one raised his hand, and a child shook his head gently.

He is a little helpless. It is silence, and Han Song feels more fear.

There was a girl in the back row who raised her hand and said: "High-rise buildings!" Then more children spoke, and Han Song carefully marked them on the blackboard. One girl answered: "There is a lot of technology." Han Song asked: "What technologies will there be?" She could not answer.

This is a future school imagined by a fourth-grade an elementary school in Beijing, one hundred and sixty kilometers away. Han Song tried to restrain his own flusteredness and told science fiction. After the end, Han Song stood at the door, watching the next English class of a colleague, watching the children running around on the playground, and crashing in place.

“These rural children are as smart, intelligent, pure and lovely as the children in the city. They must be filled with all kinds of wonderful fantasy, but I am shamelessly unable to inspire them. The teachers who have lived in the country for a lifetime are really worthy of admiration. I finally understood why Liu Cixin wanted to write them into science fiction."

Thanks to the identity of the reporter, Han Song has faced many poverty and painful realities. He often thinks of the Chinese people who have spoken a hundred years ago: they struggled for reality and survival all day and did not dare to imagine the future.

In a commentary [8], Xiao Ji wrote: "For Han Song, it is because he knows what pain is, so he treats people very well. On the surface, his works are terrible, but they are full of clear observations of the world. He does not disguise himself for everyone, because he is full of love for people and the world."

In 2016, “Lunar Rover Rabbit” was retired, and Ji Shaoting decided to leave Xinhua News Agency and “turn positive” to his long-term hobby, and set up a future affairs bureau focusing on science fiction culture. Han The song is worried: it is very dangerous outside and may have to bear the risk of failure after going out.

Xiao Ji replied: "I am not afraid of failure. I want to do something for Chinese science fiction. This is very meaningful."



Han Song realized that his "leader" has unwittingly brought out a new generation of leaders.

"We have once again reached the crossroads."


Two months after returning from Wuyuan, Han Song reluctantly was dragged by a colleague to a primary school in Beijing [9]. With the experience of the last hope of elementary school, Han Song took the mentality of going to die this time. As a result, the classroom effect was completely unexpected. Even if the lesson plan was the same as before, the children showed great enthusiasm. This class made Han Song think that science fiction has a great future in China.

But he will remember more of the Hope Primary School in Wuyuan. He thinks that even the mineral water sent by the school is reluctant to drink, and the children who are speechless in the face of science fiction writers are worried.

Over time, Han Song felt that young people who are “fascinated with technology” and “anxiety about the future” is becoming more and more popular.

“Young people in the 1980s went to see sci-fi, to understand their future and to know where their spirit should go. Nowadays, young people often regard reality as illusory and try to build reality in entertainment.” Han Song felt a little confused about this.

The Pathfinder went back and said, "We have once again reached the crossroads."


 Source: (Katja News)

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