Chapter 22.5 Late Preface
Twin Rainbows:
Hello fellow Daoists, the original chapter has been blocked for various reasons, and I can't change it. Write a late foreword.
A long time ago, it was the time of "I was still the same teenager I used to be", or the era of watching Hong Kong films from the video hall. At that time, I watched a Hong Kong film called "Thousand Doors and Eight Generals" that talked about the rivers and lakes, and I can't remember the specific plot, but I only remember that the thousands of doors and eight generals mentioned in it are "positive, mention, anti, off, wind, fire, removal, and rumors" Eight people, these eight people have their own division of labor, cooperate with each other, and do a thousand things. What is the specific division of labor, everyone can encyclopedia. Since then, those people and things have aroused my interest.
Later, through various channels, I learned a lot, and I realized that the so-called Thousand Gates and Eight Generals were just a fabrication of the film's hearsay. The first four positive, mention, reverse, and detachment are actually the four routines of Lao Qian's game (in my other book "My Barbarian Ancestor", the male protagonist once used one of the routines. And the wind, fire, removal, and rumor (demon) in the back are actually the four major partial gates of the eight gates of the rivers and lakes, and the thousand gates are only a small part of the wind gates of the rivers and lakes.
Later, I read the "Genius Physiognomy Teacher" written by Dayan, which really aroused my interest in writing a book of physiognomy teachers. I remember that the character of the "Jiang Xiang School" was mentioned in "Genius Physiognomy", but he was just a small foot, the kind that was easily slapped in the face by the male protagonist.
Let's talk about this new book, in fact, I prepared "Grandpa" long before "Savage Ancestor". I have written several beginnings, sent supernatural and urban, but there is no way to sign a contract, tossing for three or four years, and finally even failing to pass the review of the new book and directly aborted. Because I haven't been able to sign a contract, one day three years ago, on a whim, I wrote a random beginning and sent it to the Xianxia category, so there was "Barbarian Ancestor" that was unintentionally inserted.
Alas, the time is also, and the life is also.
Because of the haste of the idea, the character of the male protagonist of "Barbarian Ancestor" is problematic from the very beginning, if you have seen the earliest beginning, you should remember that the courtesy was a liar who walked the rivers and lakes in his previous life. Later, I changed the beginning a few times, and gradually diluted the identity of the liar, but the foundation has been laid, and the subsequent remedies are in vain. The reason why this is the case stems from the obsession in my heart about the rivers and lakes. Even at the beginning of "Barbarian Ancestor", including Cangshan County and Wild Wolf Town, the diligent development still relied on fooling, relying on the game, and relying on deception, that was because I moved my mind to write Jianghu again.
It wasn't until I experienced various mental collapses that I finally woke up that "Barbarian Ancestor" was a fairytale, and I no longer stubbornly wanted to integrate the rivers and lakes into it. But, unfortunately, the story is no longer what it was when I first started. Having said so much, in order to explain the causes and consequences of the two books, I will give you an explanation of "Barbarian Ancestor".
Let's go back to "Grandpa", it has really been planned for many years. Let's talk about the part of Jianghu Art first, mainly around the eight gates of the rivers and lakes, there are actually many sayings about the eight gates of the rivers and lakes. What I used was the classification method of gold, skin, plum, melon, wind, fire, removal, and demon. There is a storyteller called Lian Kuoru, he wrote a book called Jianghu Cong Tan, which for the classification of the rivers and lakes, the first four doors are also Jinpicai (Li) hanging (melon), and my division is the same, but his back four doors are divided into commentary, group, tune, and willow, I did not use his classification because in my opinion, the jury is mostly classified in the Quyi Gate, and does not represent the entire Jianghu.
In addition, there are eight sayings in the eight gates of the rivers and lakes, such as book, fire, floating, wind, surprise (gold), jue (demon), skin, and want. The reason why I didn't use this division is also because of the wind in it, he thinks it is feng shui, and I think it should be classified as Jinmen, the eight divisions I used, in which the wind gate refers to the liar who gambles out of the thousands, Director Yin in "Barbarian Ancestor" should be born in Fengmen. What do the eight gates of the specific rivers and lakes represent, you might as well look at it from "Grandpa". No matter how the eight doors are divided, Kinmen is the most important one, and the people in this gate are what everyone usually calls fortune tellers, and our grandfather's origin is Kinmen.
From the character design of the grandfather, it leads to the numerology feng shui part involved in "Grandpa", and in terms of classification, "Grandpa" can also be regarded as a feng shui novel of the physiognomy master. The biggest difference between "Grandpa" and other feng shui physiognomy novels is the word "dry goods". For example, I have dozens of handwritten copies of fortune tellers who walked the rivers and lakes in the past, which are also collected from used book stalls in various places in order to prepare this book. If you search for the Yingyao and military horses of the Southern Jiang Xiang faction from the Internet, you can probably find them. However, the secrets of the rivers and lakes such as "Entrance" and "Thirteen Reeds" of the Northern School are probably difficult to find, and these are all dry goods in my hands.
Now I only wrote the beginning, and there will be a lot of life and feng shui stories later, all of which are not made up, most of them come from practice and can withstand professional scrutiny.
That's all I have to write, if you like my words and stories, please leave more messages, recommend more, thank you.