Why is Xiuxian popular Zhang Baotong 2018.7.23

I have seen several great gods introduced by the starting point Chinese website, they are all spire-like characters in the theme of cultivating immortals, and there are many things that make me feel stunned. For example, they work part-time, and they can change 8,000 to 10,000 words a day every day. Oh my God! 8,000 words a day, 80,000 words in 10 days, and more than 3 million words a year. It's almost like a writing machine, how can it not be surprising? What's worse is that they have tens of thousands or even more than 100,000 readers a day, which makes me feel like I can't believe it.

No, I am also a contracted writer of the starting point Chinese network, and the work "Poetic Emotions" has always ranked first in the "Life Essays" column of the starting point, although I have signed a contract for two or three years, and I am constantly writing and updating every day, but the readership is always sparse, and the number of readers in a day is only one or two hundred, and the least is only twenty or thirty, compared with others, it is not dozens or hundreds of times worse, but thousands or tens of thousands of times worse. For this reason, I asked the editor, and the editor told me that the column itself has few readers.

For a long time, I wondered what was so good about cultivating immortals? Why are there so many readers? In order to find out this question, I decided to choose two or three of the most popular works to read, so as to understand why so many people like to read immortals. In the past, I only knew that there were realistic themes, martial arts themes, historical themes and military themes, etc., but I didn't know that there was such a theme as cultivating immortals. I clicked directly on the Internet to one of the most clicked works of the great gods, but after only half a chapter, I couldn't read it. I think the handwriting of the great god is really good, but I can't read the content at all. Then, I watched another work, and it felt almost identical.

I wondered if it was because I was getting older, my ideology and appreciation level had fallen behind, and I also had self-knowledge, that is, what I didn't like, it wasn't necessarily that others didn't like it. So, I looked online again to find out. However, the answers on the Internet are mostly negative evaluations, saying that cultivating immortals is a non-literary mainstream, saying that readers who cultivate immortals are not of high taste, just for entertainment, and saying that this kind of people don't want to watch it again after watching it for a while. However, this evaluation does not seem to be accurate, because there are so many readers who like to read this kind of work, and it is not at all as light and tepid as the online evaluation.

Many people think that men like to watch Xiuxian, and the reason why they like to watch this is that becoming strong is the pursuit of the vast majority of men. Cultivating immortals is the story of the protagonist becoming a strong man step by step. And there was also a woman who asked: Why does my husband like to watch mortals cultivate immortals, immortals, and so on? In reality, it is impossible for a person to become an immortal, isn't this a daydream? Is he mentally ill?

Looking at these answers, I'm asking the same question. Every man wants to be a strong man, but in reality, there are many strong roles, such as the leader of a unit, an expert in technology, the boss of a business, and the core of a team. Why are they not interested in these powerful people in reality, but want to immerse themselves in an illusory and hopeless imagination? However, I still feel that my feelings and understanding are not accurate, if this is the case, how can there be so many people who are pretending to be crazy and stupid, and they are infatuated? Yes, not a few people or dozens of people, but how many thousands of people are obsessively pursuing and pursuing them. How can this be explained?

So, I decided to find one or two of the most classic works of cultivating immortals and take a look. I found a masterpiece called "Ethereal Journey", which is known as the work of cultivating immortals. The content of the book is that the protagonist Li Qiang was originally just a shrewd businessman who escaped because he accidentally killed his wife's lover. After meeting Fu Shan, a master of cultivation, because of his magic weapon "Ziyan Heart", he became a cultivator by coincidence, and since then a major turning point has occurred in his life: he had an accident when he first started, and was teleported to a strange planet, due to good popularity, coupled with shrewd business acumen and coincidence, he has made many friends, constantly has adventures, and has obtained a lot of rare treasures;

Originally, I wanted to take a good look at this book, but when I saw the introduction, I didn't even want to read the book. Because I don't like this kind of subject matter and plot at all. Someone said when explaining the works of Xiuxian: There will be a thousand Hamlets in the eyes of a thousand readers. Maybe this is their emotion, but in my mind, it is impossible for the real Hamlet to appear in the works of Xiuxian. Because Hamlet can only be found in the great scriptures. And the works of cultivating immortals have nothing to do with reality and greatness.

Maybe some readers will be angry after reading this article of mine, and will say, "You have the ability, write a book for me to see!" In fact, some friends have asked me how much I earn from signing up to write, and I told them that it is pitiful. It's just that I have a retirement salary, and I don't live on it, I just use writing as a hobby to kill time. Hearing this, my friend persuaded me that young people nowadays like to watch the cultivation of immortals, you might as well write something about cultivating immortals, maybe you can make a lot of money. Moreover, I also saw on the TV program a primary school physical education teacher who had just graduated from the mountainous area of Guizhou, who had nothing to do, sat in front of the computer and tried to write Xiuxian, and became an instant hit, earning more than 500,000 yuan in the first year, not only buying a house, but also buying a car.

Compared with this newly graduated physical education teacher, not to mention that I am much more clever than him in terms of writing skills and expression, even my life experience is much richer than his. Although I am not familiar with cultivating immortals, as long as I read a few books on this subject, I can quickly become familiar with and grasp it. However, I really don't like this kind of work. I think that literary works are influencing readers and guiding readers, and since they are influencing readers and guiding readers, we must lead people to the right path. At best, the content of cultivating immortals can only be regarded as a pastime, not seriously, and can only be regarded as a kind of fast food, not as a main meal.

We adults know that eating too many burgers and fried chicken is harmful to our health, but burgers and fried chicken restaurants are still overcrowded. People know that drinking Coke and Sprite is bad for their teeth, but that doesn't affect the sales of Coke and Sprite at all. Maybe Xiuxian is this kind of fast food and drink, although people don't take it as a main meal, but because they like it, they still have to eat it once or twice a day. So, this is why Xiuxian is so popular.

On the other hand, the readers of these serious articles and works that we write all day long are pitiful, but I do not feel disappointed or ashamed at all. Writing itself is hard and laborious labor, and although the benefits of this labor are still insignificant, and the gap between what I get and what I give is still very large, I still want to transform my thoughts and words into a positive force on the reader's life path. It's not that it's dazzling how noble my mind is, but that's what my thoughts and ideas are.

In today's society, where everything is about money, this kind of thinking and practice will inevitably be laughed at, or at least despised. Many relatives and friends learned that I was signing a contract to write, thinking that I could earn a lot of money, and when I told them that I barely made much money, they immediately retracted their envious eyes and showed a look of disapproval, as if saying that I was doing useless work and working for a boss who did not pay wages.

I have only signed a contract to write for two or three years, and the starting point of contact is only two or three years, but I see that the starting point can launch some god-level characters every year. Most of these great gods come from the group of authors who cultivate immortals. These gods are constantly creating myths, constantly subverting many of my ideas and conventions in writing. I remember that I used to submit articles to newspapers and magazines and write a short essay of 1,000 words, and it would take three or four days to conceive, write, and revise it, but they could write 8,000 or 10,000 words a day. I can only get a maximum of 50 yuan for writing a 1,000-word essay. And they can earn 500,000 to 1 million a year, and it is said that they can comfortably retire with two or three books like this. This often makes me feel like I'm honestly grinding people and they're picking up a lot of money.

In fact, pie will fall from the sky. There are many accidents and inevitables that a writer can become famous and a work can become popular. First of all, the work must be attractive and moving, otherwise, the reader will immediately run away if he sees it. Because the online world has endless works that they read and choose from. Then there must be an editor's recommendation. Without the editor's recommendation, no matter how good your work is, it will fall like a needle into the sea. My long history, The Inca Tragedy, is well written, but it has only a handful of daily readers. At first, I only had three or two readers a day for "Poetic Emotions", but after signing the contract, I was continuously recommended by the editor, and the number of readers increased significantly.

Although I have said a lot of disrespectful things about the works on the theme of cultivating immortals, I still have great respect and admiration for those great gods. Although the works of cultivating immortals are fast food, they can make fast food likable and lovely, and it is very amazing to be able to do this, so they should be called masters and gods. They are the masters and gods in my heart, because their writing and fame are like modern myths, and they still amaze me. Some people have persuaded me to learn from them, but I am self-aware and know that there are some things in this world that you cannot learn or really want to learn.