[Literature and Art Personages] Author: Jiang Xiaobin met him after the 40s, 50s and 60s, mostly because he wrote "Class Teacher" and "Bell and Drum Tower", and after the 70s, 80s and 90s, mostly because he told "A Dream of Red Mansions" in "Lecture Hall". Now, at the age of 80, he has not stopped creating, but still continues to introduce new works and try new ways of creation. In his opinion, it is the best creative method to obtain inspiration and materials from life. Realism still has strong vitality. Liu Xinwu, a writer, won the second Mao Dun Literature Award for his work "Bell and Drum Tower", which was selected into the "Collection of 70 Novels in 70 Years of New China". The drama "Bell and Drum Tower" of the same name adapted from this work will be put on the stage in November this year, leading the audience back to the day of December 12, 1982. Liu Xinwu, an octogenarian, said with a smile that he knew him after the 40s, 50s and 60s, mostly because he had written "Class Teacher" and "Bell and Drum Tower". The 70s, 80s and 90s knew him, mostly because he had told "A Dream of Red Mansions" in "Lecture Hall". In fact, he has never stopped writing. In 2014 and 2020, he launched the novel "Piaochuang" and "Cruise Ship Fragments" respectively. Liu Xinwu always keeps pace with the times, not to mention the content of writing, but the way of writing, which has a clear trace of the times. It was naturally the first to use a pen. In 1993, it began to use computers to type. It was one of the first writers to use computers to write. In 2005, he went to the Lecture Hall to talk about A Dream of Red Mansions. Later, the lecture content was compiled into a book and published. In 2021, he played "listening to books" again and opened a personal radio station "Hear Liu Xinwu's Reading and Life Enlightenment", which attracted many fans. His two new books, "There is no book to read in vain in life" and "There is no road to walk in vain in the world", published recently, are a kind of second creation that organizes audio into words. The words "reading thousands of books" and "traveling thousands of miles" we often say fit in with the names of the two new books. Liu Xinwu believes that ordinary people also need to express their feelings and communicate with others when writers want to create. In this process, the experience of reading and traveling is particularly important. In Liu Xinwu's youth, there were few books to read and the society lacked mobility. Even under such conditions, he also tried to read as much as possible, walk as much as possible, and try to broaden his horizons. "To put it simply, reading is to walk with your heart. No matter how much you travel, you are also limited by time and space. Reading can make individual life break through the constraints of time and space, not only through space, but also through time." Such reading and walking, the deep combination of Liu Xinwu's literature is "going deep into life". "My works are all about finding materials and inspiration by going deep into life." Liu Xinwu said that for some time, some authors thought that the concept of "going deep into life" was out of date, that creation mainly depended on imagination, and there was an extreme statement that as long as the pioneer of words was a good text, characters, plots, and stories were not important, but this idea finally faded, "indicating that realism still has strong vitality". There are many archetypes in The Bell and Drum Tower. For example, the names of those stores were recorded by Liu Xinwu after field investigation. Liu Xinwu guarantees that every detail