To give an example, the eight years of the War of Resistance against Japan were filled with blood and tears, and so that era ought to have produced some epic works of literature; or again a period like the Cultural Revolution should perhaps have spawned an epoch-making novel. But the best works written since the Cultural Revolution have not been the tear-ridden "scar literature."
舉個例子來說，八年抗戰有血有淚，抗戰文學應該產生如史詩般的作品；或者像文化大革命，也許也應該有部劃時代的作品，但是文革以後最好的作品，並不是像涕淚飄零的傷痕文學。