After the National Literature Award Conference, Professor Chen Shirang's initiative to include "The Legend of the Condor Heroes" in the "Must-Read List for Teenagers" was immediately implemented, plus "Journey to the West" and "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", a total of three, and now with the popularity of "Water Margin", it will inevitably be included in the book list over time.

Not only that, the "Chinese Reader" for high school students published in December prominently included the 41st chapter of "Eight Dragons", "Yanyun Eighteen Rides, Galloping Like a Tiger in the Wind and Smoke", as well as the original novel of "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon", which won the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film in the film of the same name.

If it is acceptable to include Gu Yongsheng's martial arts in the "required reading list", then directly including Gu Yongsheng's martial arts excerpts in the compulsory reading books of full-time ordinary senior high schools will inevitably cause controversy among all parties.

Critics insist that martial arts novels are entertainment novels with a low ideological realm, and that the scenes and romance plots involved in them will cause bad guidance to students.

For this reason, the person in charge of the middle school language room of the People's Education Publishing House came forward to explain: "The reason why Gu Yongsheng's martial arts novels were chosen was to expand the reading horizons of middle school students, and there was no compulsion.

Controversy is normal, because the subject of Chinese is an inclusive subject, and students should read extensively outside of class, and if they don't like it, they can also argue. ”

Although the Chinese Reader does not need to be sent to the Ministry of Education for review as an auxiliary textbook, the choice of "Tianlong Babu" is not so easy. There are many works to choose from, and the proportion of one in a hundred, and the status and literary significance of a martial arts novel are still divided.

For the sake of prudence, when screening the selected articles. The relevant person in charge invited university teachers, front-line special teachers and the editor of the "Reader" to discuss together, and the final decision was finally finalized after three discussions.

The explanation of the person in charge of the language room did not suppress the controversy on the Internet, and now everyone is especially looking forward to the person concerned to come forward to express a few points of view, Liu Jingting was disturbed by the reporter, and responded on a microblog: "Take the essence of it." ”

Since receiving the literary award, Liu Jingting and all the editors of "Jianglu" have been deliberately keeping a low profile.

The highest national literary award is both an honor and a protective umbrella. It is also a source of various disputes, but it was just after Liu Jingting issued the so-called presidential order to "keep a low profile". "The Legend of the Condor Heroes" has become a must-read list, and "Dragon Babu" has been selected as a high school reader.

"Do you think I won't be able to find you if you hide, it's useless, you're such a stylish man. No matter where it is. It's like a firefly in the dark, so vivid, so outstanding......"

Liu Jingting watched the news one after another, and vividly appeared in his heart the picture of Zhou Xingxing, the prince of pork, trying to deny prostitution while holding DryMartine in a melancholy and downfront pose.

In December, Liu Jingting basically finished all the entertainment and activities, and honestly stayed in the Yingri Building to write "Water Margin" and the fourth part of the "Harry Potter series" - "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire".

Harry fans must remember that "Ha 4" set off a heated buzz among readers before it was sold, because J.K. Rowling revealed before the publication of the novel that a character would be murdered in the fourth installment, and at that time a large number of readers thought that it might be the other two of the trio.

Although after the novel was released. Everyone knows that it wasn't Hermione and Ron who were murdered, but the reader's nervousness hasn't diminished in the slightest. Because Voldemort laid out a dark magic conspiracy in this part and successfully resurrected.

When the New Year arrives with Big Ben, the news that "someone will be murdered in Harry Potter 4" also spreads to the world with the bell.

……

"Did you release the message?"

When readers around the world began to debate who would be murdered in "Ha 4", Xu Qing questioned Liu Jingting, who had just issued a "keep a low profile" on behalf of several other editors.

"Yes. Liu Jingting confessed.

"Why? Marketing Strategy?"

"Yes. Liu Jingting said: "Aunt Qing, you also know that every move in this book will attract the attention of the whole world now, whether it is for the publisher or for WB, this kind of topic is more and better." And, I've done my best to get the news out of London. ”

"Okay, that's the end of the question, so someone is really going to be murdered?"

"Yes. ”

"Who?"

Cedric Diggory. ”

After a short pause, Liu Jingting guessed that everyone might be going to the role of "Chihiro", and sure enough, after a while, Su Jin replied: "That elegant and rational big boy is known as a talented man who 'has the qualities of an excellent student at Hogwarts'?"

"Hmm. ”

"......" is just a smoke bomb.

"I thought it was Hermione or Ron, or Dumbledore or Hagrid. "There is always a way to reply.

Everyone chatted for a while, and Liu Jingting asked about recruitment.

"It's really strange to say, when I used to go to college, I felt that the senior students were a batch of old fritters, no vitality, boys are uncles, girls are aunts, but in the past few days, I reviewed the resumes of college students, and found that these college students who have just graduated are all little fresh meat, little Lori, am I alone?"

Su Jin saw that the boss asked about recruitment, and complained with feeling.

As a result, Qingjiao and Kang Lingyue replied one after another, "I feel the same way", but a few boys have no special feelings: "I always feel that I am still young, it seems that I am still in my senior year, and I was misunderstood as a freshman." ”

This kind of remark was attacked by all the women, including Xu Qing.

Years later, Yingri Culture joined a graduate student girl, who is from the Northeast named Zhao Man, who is temporarily in charge of Liu Jingting's assistant.

Even the best of the thousands of talents from all over the country, when he first came to the legendary place of "Yingri Building", Zhao Man was still a little nervous and couldn't breathe.

"Are all graduate students so young?" After Su Jin saw Zhao Man in person, she still couldn't help but complain in the editorial group.

This recruitment marks that Yingri Culture and "Craftsman Record" have begun to move towards formalization, at least slightly formalization, in an orderly manner under Liu Jingting's planning.

……

In March of the New Year, King Chao Tianwang captured Liangshanbo, and two months later, Wu Song Jingyanggang fought the tiger, and the serialization of "Water Margin" ended here.

In June, "Water Margin" was released nationwide, and at the same time, Liu Jingting's British publishing partner Bloomsbury announced the title and world premiere of the fourth part of "Harry Potter".

As we all know, "Harry Potter" has created many precedents in the children's book publishing industry, such as the first time that a publishing house has set up a cover design studio for children's books, which has been sold simultaneously around the world, and has been launched at midnight, and promoted from children to adult readers.

Such an all-round, large-scale and innovative marketing campaign is like a marketing mobilization again and again, and the results are also spectacular.

Bloomsbury has successfully won the publishing rights of "Harry Potter", although its strength is ranked second in the United Kingdom, but it has a prominent reputation in the children's book publishing industry, and it is not inferior to first-class publishing companies such as Random House and Penguin.

However, for Chinese readers at this moment, the news of "Harry Potter" still seems a little far away, with the launch of the whole book "Water Margin", the "Water Margin fever" that has been continuously in China has finally ushered in a big tide!

"Water Margin" deserves to be a great wonder book in the literary world of China and the world, because its advent itself is a grand event in the literary world, no longer the Four Books and Five Classics, Cheng Zhu Lixue, no longer poetry and rhetoric, it is a pure "wild village dialect", that is, it has attracted countless commentators with flamboyant personalities to shoot and shout, and frightened countless defenders of the feudal system to shout and kill.

Even if Liu Jingting was launched here and now, the sensational effect was still there.

Speaking of writing, "Water Margin" is the first work written purely in ancient vernacular, narrative dialogue, no longer see "Zhihu also", the same person speaks, and perfectly practices the writing technique of language shaping character;

Speaking of structure, the first seventy episodes of "Water Margin" are connected by various lines, and after seventy episodes, hundreds of rivers converge and return to the sea, which is an outstanding creation of the novel's structure;

Speaking of characters, "Water Margin" writes one hundred and eight characters, and one hundred and eight characters are written, each with their own faces, and they are never the same or the same but different.

Writing about the robbery of the Dharma field in Jiangzhou City and the robbery of the Dharma Field in the Daimyo's Mansion is the same but different; writing about Pan Jinlian stealing people and writing about Pan Qiaoyun stealing people is the same but different; and writing about Wu Song fighting the tiger and Li Kui fighting the tiger are the same but different......

Of course, the discussion and summary of these novel techniques and grammar belong to a small number of experts and scholars, and most readers pay attention to the endless wonderful stories presented by the novels.

For example, the story of Lu Zhishen and Lin Chong, which was discussed hundreds of times during serialization;

For example, the story of Yang Zhi selling knives, such as the story of the Seven Stars Juyi, such as the story of Wu outwitting the birth gang;

Lin Chonghuo and Shuizhai showed his ruthlessness; Song Jiang was angry at killing Yan Po and regretting that he was a scholar; Wang Po took Ximen Qing Pan Jinlian, which was a conspiracy and an old man;

Song Jiang met Dai Zong and dived into the sea; Li Kuidou and Zhang Shun did not know each other......

After the novel was officially released, no one had mentioned Liu Jingting's "One Hundred and Eight Protagonists' Gamble", and perhaps after the fourth or fifth serialization, everyone had already realized the result of this gamble.

"Water Margin" has more than 100,000 words in the whole book, allowing him to write so many classic passages, write so many classic characters, and write so many classic passages, putting aside the influence of other aspects, only in terms of novel art techniques and maturity, "Water Margin" should be above "Journey to the West" and "Romance of the Three Kingdoms". ”

"Unlike "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", which writes about military and political strategies and national events, "Water Margin" is more down-to-earth, and the target readership is wider.

In this way, it should be very objective and fair to rate "Water Margin" as a strange book. (To be continued......)