Chapter 601: What to do with the new novel?
The four famous novels, "Journey to the West", "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", "Dream of Red Mansions" and "Water Margin", are rare classics in the history of Chinese literature in the past life, in which the stories, scenes, and characters have deeply influenced the ideological concepts and value orientation of the Chinese, and have a high literary level and artistic achievements.
If you want to rank a high and low, it is recognized that "Dream of Red Mansions" has the highest artistic achievement, and the other three are this time.
Of course, this recognition is recognized by cultural people, ordinary people will not consider this issue, if they do, the older will think that "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" is the best, and the teenagers will think "Journey to the West" is the best, and they will definitely not think that "Dream of Red Mansions" is the best, because "Dream of Red Mansions" is not pleasant to watch!
Although the artistic achievements of "Dream of Red Mansions" are high, they are too life-like and too deep in connotation, which is not refreshing for ordinary people, but very dull and boring.
For Stephen Zhao, he doesn't think "Dream of Red Mansions" is the best, he thinks "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" is the best, because he has never watched the original "Dream of Red Mansions", only watched the TV series.
Of course, if you talk about objective facts, Stephen Zhao still agrees with the assertion that ""Dream of Red Mansions" has the highest artistic achievement", in addition to being recognized, there are also his own feelings.
With the increase of age and experience, Stephen Zhao's aesthetic taste has gradually changed a lot, and he can read the esoteric and complex philosophy books in the past, and the more he tastes them, the more they taste, and deeply admires the wisdom of the sages; In the past, he gradually felt very boring and boring in some funny novels, and although he laughed when he read it, he was very empty and bored after reading it. Unlike those philosophical books, when you read them, you have a taste, and after reading them, you feel that you have benefited a lot, and you have a sense of spiritual satisfaction.
A gentleman has three fears, fear of destiny, and fear of adults. Fear the words of the saints!
If this is interpreted literally, it is the principle that a gentleman is afraid of the destiny of heaven, the elders, and the sages, but in fact, it is not that at all, what really means that the more the gentleman knows, the more he feels small, and the more he is in awe. The Mandate of Heaven is the Great Dao of Heaven and Earth, who dares to say that they understand the Mandate of Heaven? Adults are elders who are more experienced than themselves. Even if the elder is not as knowledgeable as you, there are always some of his life experiences that surpass you; The sage said, the truth of the sages, the reason why the sages became sages, there must be something extraordinary, how can you not learn to be a man?
Stephen Zhao became more and more in awe, so for "Dream of Red Mansions", he also changed from disdain at the beginning to watching it. And more and more I feel that this novel is powerful.
Although he hasn't watched the original book, he has only watched the TV series. But it was enough to give him a glimpse of the classics of "Dream of Red Mansions"!
In his previous life, he had many female friends around him who liked to watch "Dream of Red Mansions", the old version, watching it with relish, and preparing a pack of tissues on the table before watching it.
To write a novel that surpasses "Journey to the West", "Dream of Red Mansions" is undoubtedly very suitable!
It's just that. "Dream of Red Mansions" is so esoteric and life-like that it is hard to believe that anyone can write it without personal experience. No matter how talented he is, there are too many incredible things on him. But he didn't have enough experience, and outsiders didn't quite believe that he wrote it himself.
Whether it is mythological novels such as "Journey to the West", "The Legend of the New White Lady", and "Strange Tales from Liaozhai", martial arts novels such as "The Legend of the Condor Heroes" and "The Legend of the Sky and the Dragon", or historical novels such as "The Three Kingdoms" and "Those Things in the Ming Dynasty", these can be written without experience.
"Dream of Red Mansions" has no experience, can it be written just by imagination?
Unbelievable!
Of course, this is not the most important thing, the most important thing is that Stephen Zhao has not read the original novel. With only a TV series, he can't write it at all!
"Romance of the Three Kingdoms" and "Water Margin" can be written, but if they are finished now, what will they write in the future?
Write about foreign? Forget it, he hasn't read a single famous foreign novel, but he can't read much poetry.
Or write a novel of youth love, gods and demons by virtue of your own strength? Well, this is very difficult, so let's keep it after retirement and think about it slowly.
As for when to retire, Stephen Zhao has considered it, retired at the age of 45, and since then has concentrated on dancing and writing at home.
For a while, Stephen Zhao couldn't think of a novel to rewrite.
"Damn, it's a big loss, I knew that I shouldn't have taken out "Journey to the West" so early, but now it's difficult to ride a tiger, and it's not high or low, what should I do?" Stephen Zhao secretly called a mistake.
In the next few days, although Stephen Zhao has been staying in the crew of "Journey to the West", he basically doesn't care about anything, and has been thinking about what new book to write.
In the end, I really couldn't think of it, and Stephen Zhao didn't want to give up, so he had an idea and sent this question to his neck.
Of course, he said it in a different way, saying: "Collect the opinions of friends, what do you think is good for me to write next, martial arts?" Mythology? History? Romance? Functionary? Suspense? Or sci-fi? Then he asked the company's technicians to make a poll setting and mark the subjects he said.
As he expected, after this scarf was issued, it immediately set off a frenzy on the Internet, and countless netizens flocked to his scarf and voted according to their opinions.
Refresh the page once a second, and the number of votes for each theme option is rising the same, and the numbers are constantly changing.
100, 1000, 10,000, 20,000, 100,000......
Martial arts, mythology, history, romance, eunuchs, suspense, science fiction, a total of seven theme options, each option has netizens participated in the vote.
Stephen Zhao soon saw clearly that the number of votes for the theme of "martial arts" increased the fastest, and it increased in units of "10,000" every moment!
Mythology comes second;
3rd in history;
Science fiction is fourth;
suspense is fifth;
Romance is in sixth place;
At the end of the official ranking, the number of votes rose by more than a dozen in a minute or two.
A crooked group.
Group leader: "It's a big deal, Master Xing is going to open a new book, and then do an investigation!" ”
The group members bubbled one after another, and even the guys who had been diving for more than half a year came out and asked, "What kind of investigation?" "All of a sudden. The conversation window was shaking.
The group leader immediately explained: "Xing Ye is soliciting opinions to see which theme has the most votes, and his new book will write about which theme, it should be like this, this is the link xxxx!" ”
The members of the group said: "Rub, how can such a heavy thing be missing me?" ”
"You have to vote!"
"I've been waiting for Master Xing's new book for a long time. I didn't expect to even think about the theme, it's so disappointing for me, I'm going to vote now! ”
"Go together, go together!"
……
A forum.
Enthusiastic netizens: "It's a big deal, Xing Ye is soliciting opinions from big guys for the theme of the new book, and he will write which theme he will write about if he estimates which theme has the highest number of votes." The following is the link xxxxx, everyone vote to go and let Xing Ye write our favorite novel! ”
In an instant, more than 100 netizens spoke to the post: "What kind of trouble is Master Xing going to make?" ”
"Let's go, this goes!"
"Rub. I went to take a look, and it's really, in addition to Xing Ye's best martial arts, mythology, and history, Xing Ye has also specially added four themes: romance, official eunuchs, suspense and science fiction! ”
"What do you think you should choose? I choose martial arts, I love martial arts the most! ”
"I'm tired of watching martial arts, support Xing Ye to open science fiction!"
"Forget about science fiction, just go to watch Hollywood science fiction movies, or wait for Xing Ye's "Gravity" to be released. I think it's better to choose romance. The picture is fresh, anyway, the big guy hasn't seen the star master have romance works! ”
"The idiot upstairs. "The Legend of the New White Lady" was eaten by you? Guo Jing and Huang Rong's love was eaten by you? The love between Yang Guo and Xiaolongnu was eaten by you? ”
"Ask the master to answer what kind of subject is the official eunuch?"
"Upstairs is here to sell cute!"
"@八楼的, the official eunuch is an officialdom novel!"
"Forget about officialdom novels, there are a lot of officialdom novels on Qidian, it's better to write suspense novels."
……
Changnan City.
Qian Minli is taking care of her son at home, her mother-in-law Lin Baoyi is sitting next to her, and her father-in-law Zhao Weiguo is sitting on the sofa chair and playing with his mobile phone. The family is laid back.
"Good grandson, call grandma?" Lin Baoyi teased Zhao Ping'an with a smile on his face, and his fingers gently scratched his lubricated little face.
"Smack!"
Zhao Ping'an was about to sleep, and he was scratched his face like this, and he was suddenly unhappy. Immediately reach out to hit, and then open your mouth to hit Hache, and the sleepy-eyed and hazy look is as cute as it gets.
"Hehehe......" Lin Baoyi smiled from ear to ear, but he didn't tease him anymore, withdrew his hand, and then complained about Zhao Xingchi: "Xingchi is really, how many days have it been, and he didn't come back to see peace, people who don't know still think how busy he is outside." ”
"He's always been like this, Mom, you don't know." Qian Minli said with a smile, and then changed her position to hug Zhao Ping'an and let him sleep more comfortably.
Lin Baoyi smiled: "You, you know that speaking for him will make his heart wild." ”
Qian Minli smiled and was about to speak, when Zhao Weiguo suddenly called out with a "hey", then stood up and turned his head to them and said, "Xingchi is going to write a new book, and he is soliciting the opinions of netizens on the Internet." ”
"What?" Lin Baoyi and Qian Minli were stunned for a moment.
When he reacted, Lin Baoyi immediately laughed and scolded: "What the hell is he doing? ”
Qian Minli smiled and asked, "Dad, what's going on?" ”
Zhao Weiguo hated iron and said: "I don't know what the hell he is doing, anyway, he solicited opinions on the Internet and asked netizens what kind of novel he wrote." There are a total of seven themes, martial arts, mythology, history, romance, eunuchs, suspense, and science fiction! ”
Qian Minli's eyes lit up and asked, "And romance novels?" ”
"yes, see for yourself!" Zhao Weiguo replied, and then handed the phone to Qian Minli.
Qian Minli took the phone and looked at it, there is really the theme of "romance", but looking at the number of votes on it, it is far behind the themes of martial arts, history, and mythology.
Qian Minli thought to herself: "Why have you never solicited my opinions when writing a novel to solicit the opinions of netizens?" I'm your wife, and I gave birth to a son! ”
Thinking like this, Qian Minli suddenly felt unbalanced, and regardless of Lin Baoyi and Zhao Weiguo watching from the side, she immediately dialed Zhao Xingchi's phone with her mobile phone, and said, "Zhao Xingchi, can I vote?" I vote for romance and I want you to write a romance novel! ”
Zhao Weiguo and Lin Baoyi looked at each other for a while, and then laughed.
Zhao Xingchi, who was far away in the crew of "Journey to the West", was dumbfounded, and he didn't react to the blind sound "doodoo" in the mobile phone, because there was still a sentence echoing in his head: "romance novel"! (To be continued......)