I received a notice from the editor in charge that it will be put on the shelves tomorrow, although I knew that it would come to this point, but it still felt very sudden.

The book is actually very slow to burn, the really exciting part has not yet begun, the male protagonist is still growing, and the female protagonist has not even appeared yet.

In good conscience, this will be a wonderful story, but limited by the many rules of the starting point website, the subsequent author is likely to embark on the road of self-congratulation.

However, it is the author's responsibility to fulfill the contract, and the subsequent author will try his best to ensure the quality of the work, even if there are only a handful of readers to follow it, it is also the motivation for the author to continue to create.

For feelings, please refer to the "Preface and History" in the work, hoping to find like-minded traditional martial arts lovers.

Finally, excerpt a column by Kunlun, the deputy owner of the book circle circle and the main column of the starting point certification, and talk about some views on the current situation of traditional martial arts:

Poetry, wine, piano and chess disappear forever, and the years are like water in a hurry.

Spring flowers compete like red dance skirts, prosperous like dreams, melancholy and resentful east wind.

People are nearly middle-aged and have gray temples, but their ambitions are empty.

Leaning on the railing to see the sword like a rainbow, the pride is difficult to blame, and the big river is sung.

——"Linjiang Immortal • Poetry, Wine, Piano and Chess Eliminate the Eternal Sun" [Liang Yusheng]

Traditional martial arts is represented by the works of Jin Gu Wenliang and others, and extends to the early works of emerging writers such as Sun Xiao, Feng Ge, Xiao Lin, Shi Weihan, and Bu Feiyan, which were popular from the second half of the last century to the beginning of this century. With the rise of online literature, traditional martial arts have also logged on to the online platform, completing the transformation of the old into a new one.

It's a pity that traditional martial arts have never been able to catch the express train in the Internet era, but have been wandering in the marginal area, and few widely circulated traditional martial arts masterpieces have come out in the Internet era.

The decline of traditional martial arts is irrefutable, perhaps because of the pearl and jade, which is difficult for future generations to surpass, or maybe it is because Xuanhe has been in the past for many years, and readers are aesthetically fatigued, or maybe they are complacent, and it is difficult to burst out of vitality. There are different reasons for this, but the conclusion is basically the same, probably because of the sorrow and decline, and there are few optimistic voices.

Writing a traditional martial arts novel well requires extremely good writing and sufficient ability to navigate the classical vernacular. To this end, the author needs to read, accumulate and practice a lot of writing, not only reading martial arts novels themselves, but also other kinds of literary classics, as much as possible to learn from others' strengths and be eclectic.

However, the words tempered in this way, compared with the clever and lively Internet language, itself has formed a certain reading threshold, rejecting a considerable number of readers, especially young readers who are active on the Internet. It is said that it is a traditional martial arts writer on the Internet who is struggling to survive today, even if it is the classic works of Jin Gu Wenliang and others, I am afraid that not many young readers are in the mood to read the original work, at most they follow their idols to chase film and television dramas.

In addition to the gap in writing style, the hardcore chivalrous spirit of traditional martial arts seems to be too "main theme". The chivalrous spirit emphasizes hoeing the strong and helping the weak, and compassion for others, rather than fighting monsters and upgrading the map, and going straight to the peak of life. In a social environment where work pressure is increasing and the pace of life is accelerating, if the purpose of reading is to relax and recreation, then there is no suspense in how to choose.

In addition, the expressiveness and imagination of traditional martial arts are indeed inferior to some other themes that are popular in the online literature industry today, which must be admitted. After all, real swords and guns, fists and fists to the flesh are not as exciting as destroying the world in the blink of an eye, and the whimsical and happy enmity are not as thrilling as the palace court fighting for power and turning the world upside down.

Traditional martial arts used to be the soil for the imagination of the Chinese people and a rainbow bridge to spiritual freedom, but now the online literature industry is full of flowers and a hundred schools of thought contending, and the unique status of traditional martial arts has long been gone. This is of course a good thing for the ecology of the entire online literature industry, but it is also a pity for the lack of innovation and the accumulation of traditional martial arts.

But then again, in terms of plot organization and character building, I'm afraid that many themes have to draw nutrients from traditional martial arts, either intentionally or unintentionally.

This is not to prove anything, after all, "there are talents in the country, and each has led the way (you know) for hundreds of years", the old-timers always have a time to quit, but I just hope that other themes will uphold the traditional virtues of respecting the old and loving the young, give the old-timers a little necessary respect, be less cynical, be kind to others, and have immeasurable merits.

Maybe some people still remember a traditional martial arts movie "Huang Feihong: The Wind of the King" in the nineties of the last century, this movie mainly shows the chivalrous demeanor, national righteousness and family and country feelings under the changes of the world.

Although traditional martial arts is likely to have become a rotten wood that hinders the torrent of history, but this banner that has gone through vicissitudes, those who still insist on writing traditional martial arts do not want her to fall, even if she is finally pierced by ten thousand swords like Miao Sanniang, she is still unswerving.