On a brisk day in mid-October, Nobel prizewinner for literature Mo Yan's 62-year-old brother, Guan Moxin, stands outside their childhood home in Ping'an village, Shandong coastal province, posing for photographs with a steady stream of brightly dressed tourists. He smiles as a teenage girl in a pink sweater puts her hand on his shoulder and flashes a peace sign at the camera.
在10月中旬生机勃勃的一天，诺贝尔奖文学奖得主莫言62岁的哥哥管谟欣，站在山东沿海省份平安村他们童年的家门口，摆着姿势与源源不断穿着鲜艳的游客一起照相。当一个穿粉红色毛衣的少女把手放在他的肩上，他微笑着，在相机一闪的时候他轻轻地叹了口气。
"Everybody wants to understand what Mo Yan's life used to be like, when we were young," says Guan, leading a small crowd inside the abandoned house to a dusty room where Mo, now 57, was married. A broken antique radio – a wedding gift, Guan says – sits on a crumbling concrete bed, untouched for decades.
“每个人都想了解莫言过去的生活是怎样的，当我们年轻的时候，”管谟新，带着一小群人从一间废弃的房子进入一间尘土飞扬的房间，这里是现年57岁的莫言曾经结婚的地方。一个旧古董收音机是结婚礼物，管谟欣坐在一张几十年未碰过的摇摇欲坠的混凝土床上说道。
Ping'an, population 800, may soon be hard-pressed to maintain its rustic charm. Authorities in Gaomi, the municipality that administers Ping'an, plans to build a £67m "Mo Yan Culture Experience" theme park around the writer's old home, according to the Beijing News.
有着800人口的平安可能将很难保持其质朴的魅力。根据北京新闻,管理平安的高密市政府，计划在这位作家旧居周围建造6700万英镑的“莫言文化体验之旅”的主题公园。
The plan adds a touch of avarice to the range of reactions with which China has received Mo's Nobel victory. The author has worked with the Chinese Communist party for decades – many outspoken dissidents were outraged by the award. For many ordinary Chinese, however, the prize was a sign that China's cultural influence may now rival its economic clout. For Gaomi city officials, it could prove to be a goldmine.
该计划给中国得知莫言获诺贝尔奖之后的一系列反应增添了一丝贪婪的意味。这位作家已经与中国共产党合作了几十年 – 许多直言不讳的异议者被这个奖项给激怒了。然而，对于许多普通中国人来说，这个奖项成了中国文化影响力可能现在正与其经济影响力相媲美的标志。对高密市官员来说，它可能被证明是一个金矿。
Inspired by Mo's 1997 novel Red Sorghum, which Zhang Yimou adapted into an award-winning film, the government also plans to create a Red Sorghum Culture and Experience Zone in Ping'an. Although villagers counter that they stopped growing the cereal in the 1980s, the government is reportedly planning to pay local farmers to plant 1,600 acres (650 hectares) of the unprofitable crop.
受莫言1997年的小说《红高粱》，即张艺谋改编的一个获奖电影的启发，政府还计划在平安创建“红高粱”文化体验区。虽然村民们反驳说他们在20世纪80年代就已经停止了种植高粱，据报道，政府计划支付当地农民种植1600亩（650公顷）的非经济作物。
The director of the Gaomi press centre, Wang Youzhi, told the official Xinhua news agency that the theme park was more a "vision" than a concrete plan. "Although the idea sounds promising, we have yet to take the whole situation into consideration," he says, adding that "this might be the regulatory commission's long-term plan over five or 10 years."