The ninth episode of "Son-in-law" has been written, and he praises himself as usual, and the ninth episode has done a good job, and he has reached the goal set when he started writing.

I started with the writing of "Hidden Killing", realized my lack of ability in the big structure, all the planned big climaxes of "Hidden Killing", and finally only barely succeeded one, to "Alienation" began to deliberately exercise, "Alienation" mastered the skills in the second half, and then to "Son-in-law", the whole process in retrospect, ten years have passed.

After the ninth episode is written, the exercise of control over the multi-million-word structure can come to an end.

The remaining two episodes are slowly wrapped up and slowly recuperated, and it's time for me to move on to a new direction of exercise.

Looking back on the episode of "The Vast Earth", the text is one hundred and forty chapters, more than 700,000 words, I am afraid it is also the longest episode in the entire son-in-law, which took nearly two years, but on the whole, it should be regarded as the episode that I am most satisfied with, starting from You Hongzhuo, to the Zezhou Incident, to Wang Shitong, the Jurchen going south to Lin Chong's death, Tian Shi's death, Lou Shuwan's resistance and Liangshan's rebirth, and then to the collapse of the Wu Dynasty...... It's written slowly, trembling, but what should be shaped is also shaped with the fullest emotions.

Thinking about it, it corresponds to "The Vast Earth", and it is not off-topic.

There are two more episodes of the son-in-law, and the next episode is called "When the Long Night Passes Spring", which is obtained by Lu Xun's poem:

Accustomed to the long night of spring, the woman will have silk sideburns.

In the dream, there are vague motherly tears, and the city head changes the king's flag.

endure watching his peers become new ghosts, and angrily look for small poems in the knife bush.

There is no place to write with low eyebrows, and the moonlight shines like water on the clothes.

This poem was written in the background of the murder of some patriotic poets in March 1, and when I wrote this title, I also took the artistic conception of the second and third sentences: In the dream, there are vague motherly tears, and the city head changes the king's flag. endure watching his peers become new ghosts, and angrily look for small poems in the knife bush.

The changing king banner at the head of the city is written about the princes rising together, and the angry knife cong looking for a small poem is about awakening, so this will probably be the tone of the tenth episode.

Of course, this is a very cool book, and the reason why it is so literary here is just to lead to the next topic and talk about writing.

I've talked about some basic ideas about writing before, and in a single chapter for readers, sometimes I don't want to talk too deeply, but more I still want to emphasize that every chapter we have is very cool, but as you can see, I accidentally got the first place in the monthly pass, and such and such people will appear, some people are very superficial, even if they scold, and some people feel that they have a lot of connotation, and they come over to talk about this and that, talk about some basic, unpopular literary understanding, and sometimes they have to interfere with the reader's reading mood, and even shape the reader" This book is very low", I saw everyone in the book friend group this morning discussing this kind of troublemaker.

I don't have much confidence when talking about monthly passes, and this monthly pass list is really not about my operation, but when it comes to literature...... Then let's talk to you in the most simple way about why this book is the way it is.

First of all, let's talk about two pre-concepts: the nature of art, and the nature of words.

It's a little boring, but it's necessary, of course, after a cursory reading, please treat it as if you haven't read it, because these things have nothing to do with reading.

For art, you will be told in college about a lot of definitions and characteristics and things like that, which are characteristics that are derived from all the objects that we currently define as "works of art", but in fact, for me, art is very simple: art is thinking.

Any one of us, any moment of emotion or perception, can be a kind of art, let's put it this way, the crystal clear thinking of a six-year-old child is an art, the youthful ignorance of a fifteen-year-old boy is an art, the stumbling of a twenty-four-year-old in the face of society is an art, the rush of a thirty-year-old is an art, the hesitation of a forty-year-old, the burst of a fifty-year-old, and the letting go of a sixty-year-old...... Any moment of your thinking is art, but we usually convey it by extracting a pure cross-section or a whole feeling with chaotic properties.

Feel your present moment, and the complexity in your mind is far greater than people think. The problem is that our thinking is opaque, so we have to pass it on through two steps, the first is to see each feature of our thinking clearly, and the second is to transmit this characteristic through the carrier, all objects that can convey complex, intense or pure thinking, and materialize, that is the so-called art.

The essence of words is the carrier of thinking. It is a kind of tool, we can use words to record the way of making pies, we can use words to record a life insight, the former is a reference book, such as a textbook, the latter is a sage's words, such as the Analects, and later there is a pure story book, describing a story, a life, but if by describing a story and a life, the "Analects" and other works have or are not yet justified to be used, so that the reader can finally empathize with it, it is called literature.

Of course, this is literature in the narrow sense of the word, and it is not worth mentioning relative to the nature of words. We don't know that tens of thousands of years ago, our ancestors' minds could not communicate, and then they created words, and various experiences and experiences were passed on, and human experiences were superimposed from generation to generation, and we stood out from animals. This instrumentality of words is one of the things that excites me the most.

Why do you talk about these two concepts, one of them is that there will be some fools who come to beg for scolding with college textbooks, and they will fool people by saying terms they don't understand, don't be fooled, everything they say will not override these two concepts. Second, it's the following.

I grew up reading all kinds of famous books, I was in my early twenties, I love literature, but I am in the powerless period of literature, and some people who come to make trouble will say that I might as well read "XXXX" when I read books like yours, yes, the most strange thing for me is why everyone doesn't read "XXXX", which obviously contains such a good truth.

Later, I gradually understood the basic steps of people's acceptance of experience, and the age of 10 became 20 years old, and the age of 20 became 30 years old, not because you told others the right truth, and they immediately understood. Ten-year-old people, through the experience of one thing at a time, through the comparison and digestion of information, slowly understand the truth of the twenty-year-old, twenty-year-old is also standing on his basis, accepting the information he can accept, one by one, one thing and one thing experience, at a certain time, a thirty-year-old experience, he finally understands.

The important thing is to repeat the process, not to say the conclusion, and many of the truths in the world may have been known to people 5,000 years ago.

This is a very superficial enlightenment thinking, but our entire modern literature has been abandoned, and those "authors", "writers", are keen to throw out a conclusion, and then look at most people in society: "Why don't you understand?" And then they were complacent and self-congratulatory.

In addition, there are many literary masterpieces, world classics, but due to their contemporary nature, they cannot be the first tick in the hearts of readers at the age of ten or twenty, so they cannot be popularized. "Son-in-law" is an experimental essay based on such a premise.

In the process of writing this book, some people ran out to think that the era of suffering was just some people fighting for power and profit, and some people thought that I was very humble, and I must be afraid of death in that era, so those who are not afraid of death are people made of some special materials. However, the truth is not, they are all ordinary people.

This is an experimental direction, and the fundamental purpose of this is to try to see if I can actually pass on some of the things I understand, and even the core of the thinking that I see in many, many famous books, when I fully understand what our readers want to see.

Because it is an experiment, there are many deliberate contrasts in the middle, for example, it can blur reality, increase allegorical and storytelling, and highlight the purpose in some places.

At the beginning of the article, when I was writing a disaster relief booklet, I saw the idea of a modern disaster relief booklet, and when I wrote it, I blurred the specific things, just like that, everyone understands it, why, it is not important - many people will think that all kinds of details are important, but in this book, I try my best to avoid many things, the industrial system, the ......arrangement of troops, "How do we reproduce the modern industrial system in ancient times", this is not a science student's game, it has no practical significance at all, Of course we can write, sometimes such deductions are interesting.

I can also not write.

In this article, I also wrote a long story about the "truth" to be output and affect the reading, but the purpose is to see if when the plot reaches a certain level, whether this way can convey something and how much.

To be subtle, to dissolve everything into the plot, so that the reader understands, who doesn't know? But how many people can understand it well? The reason why "Water Margin" has become one of the four famous novels is that it tells the weakness of the peasant rebellion, "good is good in surrender", how many people can see it? When I wrote a paragraph about Liangshan, some people shouted that Water Margin was a hero, and not long ago, a fool came to me on Zhihu and said that Water Margin is a recognized hero, is it because of your prejudice...... Prejudice your sister! Zero points in reading comprehension, take it all back and change it! They also consider themselves to be thoughtful guys.

Don't read the Water Margin - because people whose brains are not fully developed can't see the meaning of the middle.

I know the standard of "literary masterpieces", written like this, anyone can see something, and the author does not give any guidance, which is the standard. I know, but I don't do it – that's not something this society desperately needs.

I don't respect the kind of literary theory that fools know what it is, I only respect the dignity of words to this society.

In the process of writing this book, I have received a lot of praise and criticism, and in a very malicious question from Zhihu, I once saw a review that made me feel that the direction of my efforts is worthwhile, the full text is as follows, from a student named Fang Chenguang:

"Ladies and gentlemen, I don't know if Banana's online article has contributed or how much, but as a person who graduated from a junior college and has not received a higher education system, I can tell you that you overestimate the spiritual height of the students at the bottom. As far as my side is concerned, thousands of students in the entire college are full of desire, and there are more than 60 people in our class. Banana's writing is low in depth and not rigorous, but the great power, at least he taught me to read traditional literature, to read the four famous works, and learned that the ancients were so smart, it turned out that there was something more meaningful than making money, which was something that more than ten years of study teachers could not teach me, because I was forced to read and naturally resisted knowledge. I don't think it's important whether it's a masterpiece or not, the key is to really do something good, give us real help at the bottom, we need to be kind and heartfelt, not a slap in the face"

Seeing such evaluations, I can laugh at all the foolish evaluations made on the basis of "literary theories" that they themselves do not understand.

Let's talk about the text, about ten years ago, when I wrote "Diary of Survival in a Foreign Land", at that time I pursued gorgeous writing, similar to the thickness of the translation and the like, one thing I still remember is that a friend sent me a link to this book to let me see, historical text, the author wrote in antique text, the skill is very profound, my friend was shocked, I looked confused, this can only be a small game, for example, cultural people are full of food, make a small game to laugh at themselves, use this kind of thing to write a book, affect reading - Do you know how to write a book?

Of course, at that time, writing was a kind of self-congratulation, so I didn't say much, but around that time, I began to determine the direction of my writing efforts, pruning myself a lot of unnecessary embellishments and words, and taking the proportion of thinking output as the only criterion for writing.

I still haven't completely finalized my own writing style - I'm very envious of the cat at this point, he did it a few years ago, and in the process of the last two episodes of the son-in-law, I may look for more directions and means to stereotype, and no matter what five or ten years after that, this is something that must be done.

So back to the beginning, what do I value the most? It's the sociality of words, we want to make an art, we pursue art, but why should we pursue it? Because finding the commonality between people and passing on your feelings to others can save the time of others' experience and maturity, and can make people more aware of the beauty of this world, which ultimately plays a role in society.

When many people worship literary masterpieces, and literary masterpieces are high, people take it for granted, where is the pride of being a human being? Find a way! Many people think that this society has developed very strongly, all kinds of knowledge is very profound, in fact, it is not at all, there was no literature before modern China, the Dream of Red Mansions and Water Margin are all small games that cultural people do not enter, starting from the enlightenment thinking of Lu Xun's generation, literature began to have a purpose and is linked to everyone in society, it serves us, I hope everyone can slowly understand those good things through literature.

By the 80s, the Enlightenment mentality had declined, and people believed in all kinds of chaotic literary ideas, and they themselves did not understand why, so there were a large number of "writers" who admired themselves for themselves. And then now, in fact, if you calculate it, it is difficult to say whether the so-called development of literature has taken a hundred years, its purpose, its role, and the place where it can finally reach are not conclusive at all, and we have just begun to start.

So "Son-in-law" is such an experimental article, and I want to do something that we can theoretically do.

These words are very serious, and they should not be said here in their entirety, and I occasionally discuss them with some teachers whose literary theory systems are quite mature. But if someone takes some immature first-year college theory textbooks and comes over and says that this book doesn't meet here and there, so this way and that, when it affects everyone's reading experience, you can tell them with confidence:

You know a about writing a book!

Then everyone can forget about it and just read the book happily.

That's the single chapter of Episode 9.

Welcome to the tenth episode of "Son-in-law", "When the Long Night Passes Spring".