Mo Yan said in " Wine Country " that Wang Meng advised literary youths to retreat from the crowded literary path. Was this true, or was it made up by Mo Yan?
In Mo Yan's novel," The Kingdom of Wine," it was mentioned that Wang Meng advised his literary youth to retreat from the crowded literary path. However, it should be noted that the novel is a fictional art form. The plot, characters, and events need to be exaggerated and imagined in order to resonate with the readers. Therefore, whether the plot of Wang Meng persuading him to retire from the literary path was true or not needed further research. Literature was a very personal and individual art form. Different literary youths had different literary pursuits and development directions. Therefore, the saying of crowded literary path may be a metaphor used to describe those literary youths who pursued literature but could not find their own literary style. In short, Mo Yan described a fictional literary world in his novel, where the plot and characters were formed through exaggeration and imagination. We need to understand the meaning and symbolism of the novel based on the plot and characters rather than trying to directly infer its authenticity.