北京作为中国的文化中心每年都吸引着许许多多的文学青年和艺术青年从全国各地奔向它的怀抱。在他们的想象中,这里将是他们奋斗的的起点,成功的开端。他们租住廉价的平房,一面打工,一面读书、写作、画画。他们中有的人中途退却,放弃了最初促使他们来到这里的初衷,有的人依然坚持自己的信念,但他们中真正成功的人却少之又少。这里一方面固然有环境和机遇的原因,但另一方面在这些奋斗者身上也确 Beijing’s cultural center as China attracts many literary and art youth each year from all over the country to its embrace. In their imagination, this will be the beginning of their struggle, the beginning of success. They rent cheap bungalows, while working, reading, writing, painting. Some of them retreated halfway, giving up their original motives to get them here, while others persisted in their beliefs, but few of them actually succeeded. There are certainly reasons for the environment and opportunities on the one hand, but on the other hand,