关于大师的呼唤近年来不绝于耳。在去年召开的全国政协会议上,王蒙忧心忡忡地提出文学大师的问题:郭沫若、巴金、茅盾等大师,在旧中国就已奠定了他们的历史地位,而今天的大师在哪里?此问确实发人深省。不少人将我们没能产生大师的原因,归罪于“文革”。诚然,那场浩劫使我们的文化和人才遭到极大的摧残,确是损失惨重,但那绝不是惟一原因。所以“文革”以外的原因,我们不能不考虑。在“文革”以外的诸种原因中,作家本身的原因,不能不引起我们的格外重视。曾见有书评文章谈到,梁晓声书中将“华盖运”当作了好运气,不知古代科举中状元、榜眼、探花是怎么回事。又有文章说余秋雨谈论古代科举时也在常识问题上出了错。又有文章谈到余秋雨散文中的一些硬伤,最明显者如《流放者的土地》写送人往东北却 The call on the masters in recent years endless. At the CPPCC National Committee meeting held last year, Wang Meng was worried about the issue of the literary masters: the great masters such as Guo Moruo, Ba Jin and Mao Dun have already laid down their historical status in old China. Where is today’s master? This question really made people think deeply. Many people blame the “Cultural Revolution” for the reason we failed to produce a master. It is true that the catastrophe caused great devastation to our culture and talent. It was indeed a heavy loss, but it was by no means the only one. Therefore, outside the “Cultural Revolution”, we can not but think about it. Among the various reasons beyond the “Cultural Revolution”, the reasons for the writer itself can not but arouse our special attention. There have been book reviews article talked about, Liang Xiaosheng book will be “canopy shipped” as a good fortune, I do not know the ancient imperial examination champion, second place, thirds is how the case. There are articles saying that Yu Qiuyu made mistakes when he talked about ancient imperial examination. There are articles talking about some mishap in Yu Qiuyu’s prose, the most obvious such as “exile land” to send people to the northeast