By the way, I don't comment on other people's books themselves, I don't say good or bad, but I comment on this social and cultural phenomenon.

In recent years, the Tang Dynasty style in the cultural circle has prevailed, and it can be said that this work brought it up.

"The Twelve Hours of Chang'an" has a total of 680,000 words, which is the most inconspicuous point and the most important point. Anything else about the book is not as important as the whole book "only" 680,000 words.

If you don't write enough, you can't write enough, and if you write more, you will collapse, and this length has already decided everything in the book.

Back to business.

Readers who read this book review don't know if you have a first love or a new marriage. I often tell others that sincere marriage and sincere feelings, when the moment of saying "forever", the person who is talking, I believe that his feelings at this moment are absolutely real and from the heart.

Even if he dies because of love in the next second, he will have no regrets.

These are true, and I also believe to be true, there is no deception and no routine.

Although this does not mean that after a month, they will not be able to change partners. Maybe at that time, they changed partners and felt equally happy.

If you write a novel or make a movie, and focus this moment on the moment when the first love couple first says "I love you" or wants to live forever, and all the plot revolves around this moment, I believe that the minds of all viewers will be sublimated.

I believe that love is the most beautiful thing in the world, and everything else is not as important as love.

The next question is, then what?

And then what happened. After Dick Si kissed the goddess, and even played poker in bed, then what? And then what?

What do newlyweds face when they return from their sweet honeymoon?

If they get married at the age of 30 and they live to be 70 years old, what will they face in the remaining 40 years?

This question is worth thinking about for every reader.

You can not like any novels, and you can never get married or fall in love for the rest of your life, but you still have some ideas about these, right?

Well, after the analogy example, let's go back to the book "The Twelve Hours of Chang'an".

The book reflects a lot of Tang Dynasty style, although many of them are made up according to my research, but it is undeniable that they are very similar. What's more, the audience hardly understands anything, and a large number of Xiaobai even think that the Tang Dynasty also used silver as currency.

The most important thing is that, compared with the authors who compiled a large number of research documents, the readers' and audiences' understanding of the Tang Dynasty is about to degrade to the point that it is not as good as even foreigners. There is no harm if there is no comparison, and the ability and rank are all compared.

"The Twelve Hours of Chang'an" has compiled a lot of evidence that has not been publicly debunked so far, but it does reflect the style of Chang'an in the Tang Dynasty to the audience and readers, and the flaws are not concealed.

If, I mean, if I want to continue to write "The Twelve Hours of Chang'an" now, how do I write it?

The answer is that it can't be written, because the novel is a complete system, and the plot is all for the service of the whole.

This problem, in fact, also shows a point in turn, the beginning of the long Tang Dynasty historical essay cannot be "borrowed" from "The Twelve Hours of Chang'an".

If "The Twelve Hours of Chang'an" is continued, what will readers see?

Yang Yuhuan is becoming more and more "bitch", the critical moments in history are frequent, the Yang family is taking advantage of her being favored to do nonsense, Yang Yuyao even interferes with the marriage of the prince and princess, and has to bribe her to get married, so that all readers who are unwilling to fall into the Tang Dynasty want to directly stab Yang Yuhuan, a "bitch"!

Li Mi, an omnipotent strategist, was later in a state of avoiding trouble for a long time, and only came out to save the scene after the Anshi Rebellion broke out. Judging from his follow-up actions, it is more like a fairy character, just treating the Tang Dynasty as a chess game and the world as a practice.

He cares about the country, not the lives of the people.

Zhang Xiaojing should have participated in the Ma Weiyi Mutiny, and most likely also participated in the killing of Yang Yuhuan and Yang Yuyao's entire family. Of course, judging from the military background, if he lived long enough, he would probably be able to participate in the Jingyuan Mutiny in the early years of Dezong, and turn from a meritorious soldier to a thief.

The colorful (although not necessarily real) characters in it will usher in their own tragic endings, so sad that the audience can't watch them.

And the various references in the early stage, readers have seen too much and are not shocked, and it is purely superfluous to describe them. Even a lot of bored readers will follow my example and go online to look up the oddities. Then you will find a large number of ready-made "historical backgrounds".

What happens in one day is condensed into the essence, and if you put the time span more than ten years, there will be nothing to write about, and the rhythm of the plot is so loose that you can't watch it, which is worse than the old lady's footwrap.

A novel is like making a movie, everything has to be placed in a "picture frame", and the reader cannot see what is outside the frame.

Television, dramas, magic, sketches, etc., also follow this rule.

That's where the problem comes in.

For the long Tang Dynasty text, do the things in the "photo frame" need to be transferred?

The saying of "transition" is to change the map and walk out of Chang'an. If you don't change the map, you must still be in Chang'an, and all the plots must be limited to death in Chang'an. So, in the Tang Dynasty, what kind of story can be limited to Chang'an?

"The Twelve Hours of Chang'an" cleverly answers this question.

Just like when a boy and girl fell in love for the first time and said "I love you".

How to make a movie about a person who has cancer, how to reflect that he has cancer, and not let the audience see his hideous appearance in the last moments of his life?

Of course, it cannot be ruled out that technology has developed for a thousand years in a month, so it is enough to put the camera on a beautiful and poetic afternoon. It is not necessary to show how the protagonist wails in pain at the last moment of the battle against cancer.

The body that is as ugly as a demon is not what readers and viewers want to see.

The audience is kind-hearted, they can't see blood, and they have to drag it farther away when they are killed!

The readers and viewers are actually the tooth soldiers of the late Tang Dynasty, and the author is just a powerless and powerless envoy. If the festival cannot meet the growing needs of the tooth soldiers, the tooth soldiers will rebel.

Okay, let's go back to the issue of fiction.

Most readers, in fact, have no idea about the Tang Dynasty at all, and many of them don't even know the name of the largest mountain range in Xinjiang.

If the author wants to write about the style of the Tang Dynasty, then what is the style of the Tang Dynasty? I don't even know this answer, so how can I express it?

It's like someone asking: What is the style of modern China?

Is it a high-rise building in Pudong, Shanghai, or a bamboo building in Xiangxi? To write such a book, do you want to "transition"?

I won't say the answer, but everyone should have the answer in their hearts.

Is the style of Datang what happened in Chang'an City? Or is it Sima Guang's nonsense in "Zizhi Tongjian" that "the Tang Post Road is developed, and there is a post station every 30 miles", which can be seen by a slightly logical person?

The northeast, northwest, Jiangnan, and two capitals of the Tang Dynasty all have their own characteristics, and they are all Datang styles, so why is Chang'an a Datang? No other place to look? Or is it not worth writing?

Why did some people scold "Chang'an 30k" when it was filmed? In fact, there are some simple emotions here to vent, the story that should be told is not told well, and the audience is not allowed to scold?

Speaking of which, the question comes back to "The Twelve Hours of Chang'an", the clever thing about this book is that it only focuses on Chang'an, and it doesn't need to write three or four million words, of course, it can not be transferred, so should other Tang Dynasty texts be transferred?

If you want to change places, go to a new place, what will the city look like? What are the characteristics of the local area and what is the background? What is the geography of mountains and rivers and the cultural features? How much ink does it take?

Readers don't know about this, and they may not even know what the name of that place was in the Tang Dynasty!

Of course, the author can make one up, but ...... It must be very different from what it really looks like in history. Readers may not necessarily know that you are making it up, but they will certainly be able to sense that something is wrong.

This is the "camera box curse" that historical writers can't escape.

There are no transitions, the plot and length are not enough; The ratio of transitions, background descriptions and plot conflicts is not well coordinated.

If it's you, how do you write it?

Yesterday, a reader told me about the book "The Twelve Hours of Chang'an", and this is my answer to him:

Anyone can immerse themselves in the joy of first love for the rest of their lives, but ......

(Update delivered in the afternoon)