Southern Weekly, a journal owned by the Southern Press Group, has always regarded itself as an opinion leader in China.

According to what I saw and heard in my previous life, this magazine, which belongs to the southern department, has probably always been crooked in the democratic and liberal faction, advocating the capitalist world of Europe and the United States. Of course, Zhang Tan doesn't know whether it's true or not, he has never been too sensitive to politics, and he belongs to the category of people who follow the clouds. When others say that the government is bad, he scolds them, and when others say that the government is good, they praise them.

If Zhang Tan is to be an official, probably the office staff will be able to play him around.

Fortunately, he is self-aware and does not get involved in any politics.

It is the pursuit of a chic and casual life.

Make money, spend money, enjoy it, don't mess with me, and I won't mess with anyone.

"Southern Weekly" sent a reporter to interview him, which is a good thing to make a name for himself, and of course he must agree to it. After rejecting questions about the Three Musketeers, the interview began to revolve around Zhang Tan himself.

The initial interview didn't have much new.

It is nothing more than asking Zhang Tan how he got involved with novels, how he balances writing and studying as a high school student, why writing novels is so successful, and so on.

"You're sixteen years old now, but your novel has sold well all over the country, and a large number of people in Southeast Asia have seen your novel. You can say that you are already famous, do you feel that there is anything different between you recently and before? The reporter asked.

Zhang Tan thought about it for a while and said: "It's probably because of the difference in life, after all, I have earned some manuscript fees, and my quality of life has improved a lot." ”

"Was your life bad before?"

"I can't say how bad it is, I am well fed and warmly dressed, probably I don't have much spare money, I can buy things other than to guarantee my life, I am a little less strapped in hand, and I envy the rich children."

"Suddenly became famous, did you change your mentality?"

"Not much has changed." Zhang Tan bared his teeth, "In fact, maybe the people around me will be more or less polite, in the eyes of others, I used to be just a half-sized child." Now I have an extra layer of identity as a writer, and I have received a lot of recognition, and everyone thinks that I have independent thoughts and can plan my own future. ”

"So what kind of plans do you have for yourself?"

"I'm a very casual person, and for me, life is already very good. If you make a little more money, then you can buy a house and a car to make your life better, and you may want to try to make your life more colorful. ”

"So you're a very enjoyable person?"

"Probably."

"You are really different from ordinary young people, you seem to be a little less sharp than them, do you feel it yourself?"

is an uncle in his thirties, and there are still so many young people's impulses, Zhang Tan said with a smile: "I am a person who thinks a lot, the more I think, the more dull and introverted I become, and I don't show my flamboyance and personality externally." In my heart, I am also a person who likes to dream and want to climb to the top, I just turned these dreams into words and galloped in novels. ”

"I've written all my spirits into a book, right, hehe." The reporter also smiled and said, "You give me a feeling that you know that I am talking face-to-face, a person of the same age and ideas as me, and when I close my eyes, this feeling is especially strong." ”

"Yes." Zhang Tan smiled.

"I feel that way, but I can't ignore your appearance, you look really young, and even though you have a beard around your mouth, I know you're a high school student. Has anyone ever said that you are young and old? ”

"More than one. At home, my family treated me like an adult; At school, my teachers also respected me very much, at least they didn't treat me as an ordinary high school student; Then with publishing houses, magazines, and some tax and so on, I was all in business; Even myself, sometimes I feel that I have a higher vision than my peers. ”

"Maybe this is your talent, you can write wonderful martial arts novels."

"Probably."

"Do you feel that you are particularly good at writing, "The Four Famous Catches the Kanto Region", "The Four Famous Catchers of the Beijing Division", "The Legend of the Condor Heroes", this has written three books."

Zhang Tan calculated: "Zhen Guandong has 160,000 words, Huijing has more than 400,000 words, and Condor has now written more than 400,000 words, adding up to about 1 million words." Since the beginning of the school year last year, I have written a little more than a year, a million words a year, which is actually not too much. ”

"Isn't a million words enough?"

"Zhang Ailing said that you should become famous as soon as possible, and the sooner you are, the happier you are. Happiness is based on the satisfaction of the material foundation, and only when you become famous and make money can you have a sufficient material foundation to live a happier life. Since I have the ability to write and be able to make myself famous, why not do it? At my age, there are still a lot of constraints and a lot of fun that I can't do, such as getting a driver's license...... Then I have to prepare first, accumulate energy, and work hard to write. ”

"Mainland martial arts is a relatively new martial arts group, a lot behind Hong Kong and Taiwan, and now many writers in the same issue as you have also emerged, what is your evaluation of them?"

"I think that if the martial arts culture, especially martial arts novels, can continue for another 20 years and not decline, there will be at least a dozen of our mainland martial arts authors, who will inherit the past and leave classics. But to be honest, I don't think martial arts can support it for that long, and martial arts have long since begun to decline. ”

"Do you think martial arts are going to decline?"

"I think, personally, that martial arts can last for another decade or so, and in these ten years, I try to write as much as possible anyway. Hehe. Zhang Tan said with a smile.

The journalist perked his spirits: "Why do you think so. ”

Zhang Tan's previous answers were too polite, with a kind of "official" flavor, and only now this topic of the decline of martial arts has aroused the appetite of reporters. Now that the film and television industry has become popular in adapting martial arts masterpieces, Zhang Tan actually thinks that martial arts will decline, which has to be said to be a hot topic.

As a person who has come over, Zhang Tan naturally explored the reasons for the decline of martial arts, and he did not hide it at the moment, and said very casually: "Why are martial arts novels classified as one category?" What is Chivalry? Chivalry is an ideal and a goal. What is Wu? Martial arts is a means and a carrier to achieve the goal of chivalry. Therefore, this kind of small talk book that achieves chivalry through martial arts is called martial arts, and it is a very distinctive literary form. ”

After a pause, Zhang Tan continued: "Xia, there have been since ancient times, in "Han Feizi Five Fools" it is said that 'the festival is used to show his name, and the prohibition of the five senses is violated', and in the "Historical Records and Assassin Biography", it is said that 'the great man of chivalry is called an assassin...... Its words must be believed, its deeds must be fruitful, their promises must be sincere, do not love their bodies, go to the misfortune of the soldiers', this is the embodiment of chivalry, to modern times Mr. Liang Qichao said, 'The great man of chivalry, for the country and the people'. ”

"Throughout the history of China, chivalry culture has a very long history, but it is worth considering that the emergence of chivalry is usually accompanied by the chaos and collapse of the world. In other words, when the people have no way to protect themselves, they call for heroes, punish adultery and eliminate evil, and give everyone a good day. Martial arts is not a mainstream culture, it is a non-mainstream culture produced in a specific environment. ”

"Now that the country is gradually becoming stronger, people are determined, and everyone will gradually stop calling heroes, so sooner or later martial arts will slide down from the mainstream culture and restore its non-mainstream theme nature. Let's go into detail, martial arts is the embodiment of altruism, social turmoil, we call altruism, when the society is stable, everyone wants to make their own fortune and live a superior life, this becomes egoism, egoism and heroes are contrary to each other, we will gradually no longer call heroes. ”

"At the same time, our lives are getting better and better, our horizons are getting wider and wider, and all kinds of games and entertainment will impact martial arts, a very thin theme that belongs to the pursuit of literati in the old era."

"Of course, I'm just worrying about it, casually, at least the few books I have written now are selling very well, I hope the martial arts culture will endure."

Zhang Tan said a lot of things happily, and finally ended the interview with Southern Weekly in a harmonious and polite atmosphere.

Within a few days, the latest issue of Southern Weekly was published.

There is an interview titled "Tan Zhang: I may be the last master of martial arts" on the middle page, the title is very eye-catching, but the content is undoubtedly just a retelling of the conversation during the interview.