About the new book "A Song of Long Notes"
I may have to wander through ancient texts for a long time, because I want to dig out the unknown characters of each dynasty, which can enrich my historical knowledge.
Writing is a huge, macroscopic thing, and writing dynastic texts is even more time-consuming and labor-intensive, and it takes more time to check documents than code words.
The background of the new book "A Song of Long Tone Mo Yan" is in the Tang Dynasty, and the heroine is a queen who has only been a queen for three days. Therefore, the style of writing is set to be happy before and sadistic. Modern singers are glamorous, but in ancient times, they were lowly, and inspired by Wei Zifu, I always wanted to write a story about the lowly musicians and the palace.
In order to write "A Song of Long Tone Mo Yin", I chewed the words with the "New Tang Dynasty Book" in classical Chinese, guessed the information of the concubine in a certain traditional Chinese character, browsed the books on life in the Tang Dynasty, and learned about ancient music...... And so on, which is a very subversive process of cognition, and it is also a process of enjoying cognition.
Take TV as an example, such as:
Title—Oh! It turns out that the most common palace titles in Tang dramas, "father, mother, prince, son, concubine......" are all wrong, and the correspondence of the Houmen Guifu is also to make a big red cross.
If you live in the Tang Dynasty, if you catch a handsome man and a beautiful woman, please call "Lang Jun, Lady" casually, take advantage of it, and not be afraid of cutting off your head, because it is common to the royal family and the common people. Oh, don't scream, I guess they can't understand the Mandarin of the new humans in the 21st century.
Grooming - oh! It turns out that the half-draped and half-tied fairies on TV are going to be arrested for shopping on the street, just like the school prohibits the distribution of shawls when they are studying.
The streets and alleys - oh! It turned out that the vendors on TV as soon as they went out were all deceitful, and a customer did not come, but attracted three or five strong men from the city management.
Books – oh! In the colorful and beautiful environment, a breeze blows, and you see a beautiful woman in a skirt curling and green silk fluttering under the flower tree, holding the elegant book in light blue cover, the paper is turned over, and the petals are falling all over the book ink.
Ahem, a book that turns the page, that's not the Tang Dynasty!
Money--The man came to the liquor shop in the middle of the shop, took out a silver ingot and threw it to the wine girl, "Give me the Persian Sanle pulp!" ”
When the wine girl saw the silver, she would not smile and frown, but would only be startled.
"What? Not enough silver? The man pulled out another stack of silver tickets, "Is this enough?" ”
Jiu Ji is even more dizzy, madman, go away, don't get in the way of my business.
The day before yesterday, I saw a similar piece of silver in a certain Tang text, and when a silver ticket appeared, I told him: The Tang Dynasty did not circulate such a wide amount of money.
In a certain Tang drama, there is a plot: the second female was killed and sold by a kidnapper for one hundred taels of silver.
…… Alas, I don't want to say more, it exposes my cultural level, and the officials laugh at it. Everybody knows, and I'm the last one to know.
I recall writing "The Pearls in the Palm", because the dynasty was empty, those clothes and utensils would not be meticulous, and the words would be exquisite, and as a result, I didn't learn anything.
To write about a dynasty, you have to write about its characteristics, something that is different from other dynasties. So I wrote very seriously about the dynastic background of "A Song of Long Voices", as well as the title and costumes. Especially the title, because readers don't understand, they will check it, and they will learn it when they check it, and it can also be deeply rooted in people's hearts.
The new book will not be released very early at present, and it is planned to be released after the completion of the book, which is expected to be released during the Spring Festival this year.
Because there is a prototype at present, and if you write it later, you will find that the previous dynasty is wrong. So I'm going to finish the book, I hope you don't leave me, don't abandon me.
- Xu Xu