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Chapter 679 Wei Feng Award (ask for subscription, ask for monthly ticket)
The popularity of the data released by the daily has not yet subsided, and the list of nominations for the Wei Feng Award made Zhang Zhong hit the headlines again.

The Wei Feng Award is the wind vane for domestic novels and novels, and it is issued only once every four years. In a way, it is more important than the Pu Songling Award won by Zhang Zhong before.

In fact, this is the case with awards in the literary world. Most long-form awards are more important than short-form awards, just as novels often have more weight and influence than short stories.

I have to mention that Zhuang Yu was the winner of the Wei Feng Award for Novel last time, and that was the second time that Zhuang Yu won the Wei Feng Award.

This time Zhang Zhong has two books shortlisted for the Wei Feng Award, namely the novel "Ordinary World" and the novella "Border Town".

At the same time, it is not common for two books to be shortlisted, but it is not so shocking, especially when this kind of thing happened to Zhang Zhong, it seems very reasonable.

Some book lovers who don't know much about the Wei Feng Award even complain that there are too few nominations. After all, Zhang Chong has published many excellent traditional literary works in recent years.

In addition to the two shortlisted books, there are also "To Live" and "Xu Sanguan Selling Blood" novels that meet the requirements of the award.

Some also mentioned "A Premeditated Murder", "The Metamorphosis" and "Sophie's World", but these two books did not fit the theme of the Wei Feng Award.

Works should be conducive to the thought and spirit of advocating patriotism, collectivism, and socialism, to the thought and spirit of modernization, to the thought and spirit of national unity, social progress, and people's happiness, and to advocating honest labor for a better life. The mind and spirit of life.

These four "benefits" are the principles of the Wei Feng Award.

Therefore, although the literariness of the three books mentioned above is beyond doubt, they still cannot enter the field of vision of the award jury.

When "To Live" was published, the deadline for the Wei Feng Literature Award had already passed, so "To Live" could only enter the next round of selection.

So the only thing that has regrets is actually "Xu Sanguan Sells Blood".

Of course, it is nothing to say that it is regrettable. After all, from a certain level, "Xu Sanguan Selling Blood" does not meet the four "favorable" principles.

When the official notice was released, Zhang Zhong had already received an invitation letter for the Wei Feng Award ceremony. The award ceremony was scheduled for October [-]th at the Jinxiang Cultural Center in Shanghai.

When he saw the place where the Wei Feng Award ceremony was held, Zhang Zhong felt that it was a coincidence that going to the award ceremony this time happened to be able to do the thing that France awarded him the Chevalier of the French Letters and Arts.

After that, Zhang Zhong called the French embassy in Shanghai and discussed with them the time of the conferring ceremony.

October [-]th was a Sunday, and Zhang Zhong negotiated with the French embassy to set the time for the award ceremony on October [-]th, which was a Saturday, so there would be no delay.

It didn't take long to discuss with the French embassy here, and the French Ministry of Culture and Communication officially released the news, announcing that Zhang Zhong was awarded the French Order of Letters and Arts.

After seeing this official news, Zhang Zhong knew that he was not the only one who was awarded the medal this time, and Lin Fei, a famous Chinese film and television star, was also the other one.

Lin Fei is in his 40s and has won best actor several times. He is a leading figure in the young generation in the film and television industry.

In addition to the newly awarded medals, the official also announced that the knightly medal previously awarded to Wen Jinjiang will be upgraded to an officer's medal.

After the official news was released, netizens felt that it was a coincidence that the Wei Feng Award had just announced the nomination list, and France had announced the award of the Order of Chevaliers to Zhang Chong, as if rushing to fight.

The most coincidental thing is that the awarding ceremony and the Wei Feng Award ceremony took place on the same two days, and they were both in Shanghai, which saved Zhang Zhong a lot of work.

As everyone knows, this is not a coincidence, it is simply the result of Zhang Zhong making things easier for himself.

Wen Jinjiang also specially made a phone call to congratulate Zhang Zhong.

"Congratulations, you have won the French Order of Letters and Art, and this honor book will add a rich and colorful stroke." Wen Jinjiang said with a smile on the phone.

Zhang Zhong also smiled, "I should congratulate you, haven't you been upgraded to an officer's medal?"

"Don't make fun of me. I'm nothing. Even if I'm promoted to Commander, it's not as good as your Knight Medal."

The reason why Wen Jinjiang said this is because many people in the entertainment industry have won this medal, and many of them are commander medals.

On the contrary, there are far fewer people in the Chinese literary world who have won this medal.

Rare things are precious, although no one said it clearly, but in everyone's subconscious mind, it is still more valuable for a writer to get this medal.

"When are you going to come to Shanghai? In advance, or on the same day?"

Zhang Zhong said, "I should arrive at noon on Saturday."

"In such a rush?" Wen Jinjiang was a little surprised, and then smiled: "But it doesn't matter, the conferring ceremony is very short, and it will be done in a while. When the time comes, I will be the host and treat you to a big meal."

"Then respect is worse than obedience. I'm going this time with the mentality of beating local tyrants. You have to prepare your wallet."

"Haha, although I'm not rich, it's okay to take care of food and drink. If you are willing to hand over "The Da Vinci Code" to me, let alone a day, I'll take care of your food for a year."

It is not the first time Wen Jinjiang has mentioned the matter of "The Da Vinci Code".

Not long after "The Da Vinci Code" came out, Wen Jinjiang had already been thinking about this IP. He not only called and chatted with Zhang Zhong privately, but also quoted the price to Chen Qing through the company.

It's just that there was no agreement at the time.

This time he brought up the old matter again, Zhang Zhong said with a smile, "I heard Chen Qing said that he is talking about this matter with Hua Yi now, and I didn't ask in detail how the talk went."

"You are such a good helper. With the brain of a fox and the appetite of a lion, I guess Hua Yi won't be able to accept this plan in the end."

"Don't worry, take your time. Now we have several movies in the process of filming. It's normal to not be able to spare time to work on "The Da Vinci Code". And I heard that Hua Yi has no shortage of projects on hand recently. , and there is no need to hang on to "The Da Vinci Code."

Wen Jinjiang sighed, "There are quite a few projects, but most of them are TV dramas. Xiao Xianrou hired a lot, and the traffic can keep up, but I'm afraid that there will be a rumbling posture, and there will be no good results in the end. Or Just shoot more high-quality works.”

"With you in charge, there won't be much problem."

"I'm just a minority shareholder, so I can't say anything. Since the fire of "Ten Little Indian Boys", the mentality of the company's top management has been a little flustered. The dividends of this movie are probably almost wiped out."

Hearing Wen Jinjiang's complaints, Zhang Zhong didn't speak up. After all, this was an internal matter of his company.After Wen Jinjiang said a few words, he knew that he had said too much, so he said with a smile, "That's fine, see you later."

　Thanks for the reward of [sorrow may be just a disease]
　　should be added tomorrow
　　
　
(End of this chapter)