莫言创作《红高粱家族》,最初的灵感产生带有一些偶然性。一次文学创作讨论会,一些老作家提出:“经历过战争的作家已经没有精力创作了;而年轻一代有精力却没有亲身体验。”莫言冲动了一下,就站起来说:“小说家的创作不是要复制历史,那是历史学家的任务。我们可以通过别的方式来弥补这个缺陷。 Mo Yan created the ”Red Sorghum Family“, and the initial inspiration came with some contingency. At a seminar on literary creation, some of the old writers put forward: ”A writer who experienced the war has no energy to create; and the younger generation has the energy but does not experience it personally.“ Mo Yan impulsively stood up and said: ”The novelist The creation is not about copying history, it is the mission of the historian, and we can make up for it by other means.