I think Gauteng Zhen is extremely talented and this is what drives me to keep working

on him.

I feel that I'm learning an enormous amount all the time.

But is the interest of this conference, and perhaps even primarily in it, the universal

view of a representative of world literature, to be able to learn from our questions?

Mr. Gauteng Zhen, you are present at a conference that brings together around you about twenty

researchers, translators and art critics from all over the world who will discuss your

work.

This is a work that includes novels, plays, essays on literature, films and painting.

Corresponding to the title of our colleague, which is called Liberty, Destiny and Predictions

at Gauteng Zhen, the discussion so far has mainly been about the notion of freedom in

your works.

But at the same time, we also had to talk about the destiny that occupies an important

place, I think, in many of your writings.

Destiny is also a very important place in my works.

For me, destiny is always a great mystery.

It doesn't explain itself.

If it happens, it happens.

I avoid responding immediately to this question.

It's all kinds of coincidences, but in fact, behind these coincidences, there is this unknown

that we call destiny.

Yes, that's me.

I read Yijing again when I had a false cancer diagnosis.

Because my life doesn't count anymore.

Because my father died of lung cancer.

Only when we discovered it, three months later, he left.

Now it's my turn.

It's the first time I believe in destiny.

How to do it?

I started reading Yijing again at that time.

And finally, the exam, there is nothing.

Everything is gone.

It's inexplicable.

It's really a miracle.

When I was young, we were influenced by Marxists, we were atheists.

But the more we aged, with my own experiences, this atheism, what does it mean?

I doubt it all the more.

This feeling of compassion, of religion, of religious, comes to me more and more constantly.

I think that until now I don't have a belief.

But I still have religious feelings.

I think that's the basis.

Even if it's fundamentally human.

It can lead to a belief, to religion.

It can also lead to another sublimation, to artistic creation.

Even in artistic creation, there is a destiny.

There is a second chance.

We can't know that.

I was still in Beijing at that time.

I worked in the theater.

There was a house in the theater.