"Teacher Zhou, you actually read this kind of book?"

Yin Yang watched in surprise as Zhou Daifei took out a copy of "Ghost Blowing the Lamp" on the bookshelf, almost in disbelief.

As a professor of the history of science and technology at Tsinghua University, it seems that Zhou Daifei is a heinous thing to read this kind of book.

"I heard that this is something written by Yan University students, and it can have some connection with the history of science, so I bought it and read it. "Zhou Daifei was not prejudiced by the portal battles between Tsinghua University and Yanda.

When making the payment, Yin Yang, a young teacher, was still jokingly saying, "Teacher Zhou, do you really want to buy "Ghost Blowing the Lantern"?

Zhou Daifei took out his mobile phone to scan the code to pay, and he replied: "Of course I'm not afraid, who can care what I watch." ”

"I really envy you, I have to be sneaky to read some books like this. ”

Although Yin Yang's words are a joke, they do reflect the concept that a university professor reading a book like "Ghost Blowing the Lamp" is usually considered undignified?

When Hong Kong and Taiwan's martial arts began to become popular in the mainland, it was probably a similar situation.

Until now, some people still refuse martial arts to enter the "palace of literature", and they will even be saddened by the selection of certain passages into primary and secondary school Chinese textbooks.

Even martial arts can't get used to it, how can tomb robberies be spared?

Of course, Zhou Daifei understood what Yin Yang meant, even such a young man had the idea that it was unseemly to watch ghosts blow out the lamp, let alone the rest of them.

Perhaps in the eyes of the public, if professors want to do something as unseemly as watching ghosts blow out the lamp, they should at least do it secretly, not in a big way, after all, people can still do things in private that are not illegal but should not be put on the table.

is also a private reading, whether it is with martial arts, or compared with Zhang Chu's previous detective suspense works, "Ghost Blowing the Lantern" is more special, in addition to the inelegant tone such as strange power, chaos, horror, hunting, etc., it also involves a lot of content that is very different from people's ideas!

Although Zhou Daifei is a professor of the history of science, he is curious about this type of book and wonders why his doctoral students would recommend it.

After all, the Internet is criticizing the pseudoscience in "Ghost Blowing the Lamp"!

After Zhou Daifei returned to the office, he couldn't wait to spread out the work he had just bought and read it carefully.

……

In the cold winter, Zhang Chu, who has completed all the subjects, is perfecting the procedures in the car rental company at this time, and he plans to rent a car to drive it for the time being, and then drive to the airport to pick up his parents, and then take them to Yanjing City tomorrow and the day after tomorrow.

Anyway, after a few days, you can drive directly to the airport store and return it, which is much more convenient than taking a taxi.

According to his current income, buying a car is just a manuscript fee, but now there is no need, the identity of a best-selling author is enough to detach himself from the masses, if he drives a luxury car to and from class every day, he will inevitably become an enemy of the people!

Holding the Maybach car keys in his hand and playing with it, Zhang Chu pondered that before the start of the new semester, he could probably buy a car like this, which would be more convenient for travel.

In his previous life, he was already an old driver, and in this life, he also got his driver's license after the college entrance examination, and there is no problem in driving on the road.

At this time, the traffic flow in Yanjing has gradually increased, especially on the road to the airport, the speed of the car is not fast at all.

"It's only three o'clock, and the plane at five o'clock won't be in time!"

I'd rather wait a little longer than let Zhang Bowen and Chu Lan stand in the unfamiliar airport and wait.

Remembering the location of the park, Zhang Chu took his mobile phone and waited there when he arrived in China, there were many flights from Jiangcheng to Yanjing, almost only two hours of flight time, which was quite fast.

There was still almost an hour before the plane arrived, and he was bored left and right, so he opened the WeChat message, and saw a message from his friend Yang Ling, "Hurry up, look at this." Tsinghua's boss has spoken out against "Ghost Blowing the Lantern"!"

Now what Zhang Chu is most afraid of is seeing such news, Tsinghua Yanda has not dealt with it very much, and he is afraid that he will be criticized again, I hope this criticism will not affect too much.

died early and was born early, and he clicked on the link sent by Yang Ling without thinking too much, wanting to see what the bigwigs of Tsinghua University were talking about, and whether he needed crisis public relations.

[The story of "Ghost Blowing the Lantern" involves many ancient Chinese techniques, but the author has made these techniques superficially "scientific", making them look like some kind of exact science.

Zhang Chu's "Ghost Blowing the Lantern" repeatedly shows such a logical framework: some secret techniques about feng shui have been handed down in ancient China, and these secret techniques have been generally followed by the builders of ancient tombs in the past dynasties.

And these "golden captains" are armed with a full arsenal of modern expedition technology. The construction of this logical framework is quite scientistic, even though the components used in the construction are clearly "pseudoscientific" in today's mainstream discourse.

So in the framework of such a story, is the authority of modern science strengthened, or is it dissolved?

On the other hand, there must be many people who believe that such stories objectively play a role in promoting the "pseudoscience" that is disparaged by the current mainstream discourse. 】

Seeing this, Zhang Chu breathed a sigh of relief, if it was criticism, it would be a breeze!

So he swiped his finger across the screen and continued to look down.

[Perhaps, when we try to use the categories of "scientism" and "pseudoscience" to analyze the series of books "Ghost Blowing the Lamp", it seems a bit too simplistic.] Alternatively, we might as well compare some of the "science fiction" works in the West. In those works, they are simply under the banner of science, but the core is not based on modern scientific theories, and those theories, will we call them "pseudoscience"?

Are we naïve enough to use "pseudoscience" to criticize the fiction and imagination in this kind of literary work? At best, we can only say that these fictions have some similarities with those "standard" "pseudoscience."

If some people will believe the "pseudoscience" in the book because they have read "The Ghost Blows Out the Lamp", of course, there is no way, then it is like some people who watch the "joke" style of historical drama and think that history is really like this, because people who read it in this way will also believe in "pseudoscience" if they don't read "Ghost Blows Out the Lamp" and read something else. 】

is worthy of being a Tsinghua boss, and he can see it very clearly!

Zhang Chu wanted to give him a thumbs up, he was so stupid that he would believe that the ghost blowing the lamp was a real person, and he would probably also believe that the sow could go up the tree.

Next, the professor's pen turned and even began to praise Zhang Chulai, which is probably something that many netizens did not expect.

Doesn't it say pseudoscience?

The professor of Tsinghua University actually supports Zhang Chu!

[I find Zhang Chu's narrative very interesting, often moving between theoretical explanations that are more like "science" and theoretical backgrounds that are more like "pseudoscience". Often, the author Zhang Chu will give a little scientific explanation for the mysterious phenomena in his book, and from time to time return to the mysterious position of "non-science", and maintain a tension between the two, which makes people feel that it is not excessive in any respect. Perhaps this is the author's genius.

As a literary work, "Ghost Blows the Lamp" also has certain merits. In addition to the smooth writing and the good grasp of the narrative rhythm, it has also successfully shaped the character images of several characters.

In most of the stories of tomb robbery and exploration in "Ghost Blowing the Lantern", two men and one woman - Lao Hu, Fat Man and Shirley Yang - are the inevitable protagonists, and the image of these three people is still passable.

Lao Hu and Fat Man have joined the army, have the courage, and are full of political discourse in a special period, and always use this discourse to express or package their highly commercialized and even quackized tomb robbery, which not only constitutes a superficial comedy and irony, but also allows them to live in harmony with Shirley Yang, who has a completely different background.

As a Chinese-American, Shirley Yang, a Christian, graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy, but her ancestors were the leader of another group of tomb robbers in China.

However, this character further highlights Lao Hu's extraordinary—she gradually falls in love with Lao Hu without any suspense. 】

There are even thousands of words in this review discussing whether pseudoscience should be banned or not, with a strong mysticism and excellent narrative strategy, which makes Zhou Yunfei look forward to the rest of the content.

As Zhang Chu thought, "Ghost Blows Out the Lamp" is just a book, and no reader will be so high-quality as to mistake "Ghost Blows the Lamp" for an academic text or a scientific reader!