Seven or eight thousand words are updated every day, and before you know it, it has already reached 170,000 words.
, is Zhai Zhu’s tenth novel and the ninth time it has been published.
Before I went to college, Zhai Zhu always liked to read classic classics. As the amount of reading in college increased, because I was immersed in traditional culture, I wanted to write about it after reading more. When I graduated and found a job, I was very brave and chose this very new novel at the time.
His profession is an online novel writer. His first book was "Rebirth of Journey to the West", in which the protagonist is a pig, Marshal Tianpeng.
This was the first time I earned royalties from a story I wrote. The happiest time at that time was when I was receiving royalties. In 2008, royalties of several thousand a month were still very attractive to college students who had just graduated. Could it be that
Is this the golden house in the book?
This sentence was not spoken by the Master. Chen Shi should not have understood it wrong, right?
Why half a time?
Because "Outlaws of the Marsh" ended when I wrote the review before it was released.
I said in my acceptance speech for Water Margin that 195 subscriptions forced me to give up the book. In order to write the style of a historical fairy tale, I consulted a lot of information, but many of the imaginary plots and even the outline written on paper were missing.
Not written down.
From January 2009 to January 2010, after a one-year hiatus, Zhai Zhu stubbornly opened a book "The Barbarian Throne". The protagonist is De Biao Barbarian Hammer. This name seems very tacky now, doesn't it?
It was the same then!
But he is different from Tianpeng and Wu Song in the previous two books. This is the first time I have named my protagonist.
In the past, I used the stories of "Journey to the West" and "Water Margin" as direct carriers. After writing "The Barbarian Throne", I was convinced that I had the ability to "create" the world, so I wrote a completely different book from the previous three books.
The protagonist, Ye Xu, named Shaobao.
It was only after "The Unparalleled World", "Emperor", "The Supreme Humanity", "The Shepherd God", "Lin Yuan Xing", and "Flying on Another Day" that the pen name Zhai Zhu became known to more book friends. Looking back on past creations
Seventeen years, ten books, and more than 30 million words, the economic condition that restricted my creation became my body.
(It has been seventeen years. It turns out that I have been writing for so long. I wonder if I still have the book friends who followed me when I was reborn on Journey to the West.)
After finishing the book on Ascension on a Select Day, Zhai Zhu defeated Urticaria Tianzun, and then he had the physical condition to prepare a new book, but he still can't eat fish, shrimp and crab.
Since the epidemic, I have become a Liuyang Tianzun.
It's nice to not have to update every day, but Big A is so green, so I can only put my heart back on the road of collecting styles. I went to Fujian, Hubei, Hebei and other provinces and cities, visited famous mountains, searched for ancient temples, and collected materials.
The magnificent mountains and rivers strengthen my mind.
Because it is so difficult to collect folklore information, I often have to go and see it on my own. The most impressive thing about the whole process was the Fujian Wandering God. (Thanks to Zhai Cai for the hospitality)
In addition to collecting style information, I also collect paper materials.
A book friend once asked Zhai Zhu what books he read and asked me about my book list. These are some of the books I read during the collection process: "Taoist Magic", "Compilation of Chinese Local Chronicles and Folklore Materials", "Witches, Ghosts and Obscene Sacrifice", "Witchcraft",
"Chinese Folk", "Chinese Spiritual Culture", "Taoshu", "A Grand View of Chinese Spell Culture", "The Yellow Emperor's Internal Canon and the External Canon", "The Biography of Immortals", "Zhang Tianshi's Complete Collection of Spells", "What I Weared in the Ming Dynasty", "The Taiping Jing", "Guiguzi", "Xiang"
Facial Technique" and so on.
The talismans in the book did not come out of thin air.
Zhai Zhu lived in northern Anhui when he was a child, and worshiping the godmother was a custom in our village.
Zhai Zhu has a godmother, which is a stone tablet. There are words on the stone tablet, but I can't make it out. During the holidays, my mother will take me to worship the godmother of the stone tablet.
Sometimes I burn incense, and sometimes I bring red eggs to my godmother, asking her to bless me with a long life despite my poor health.
There are still people in the village who regard the old willow tree as their godmother and believe that the old willow tree can protect people.
Grandma will tell some weird stories, including an old cat that specializes in eating runaway children, red eyes and green hair, a dragon rising from the water, a child raised in a tank, and all kinds of strange things.
Monsters and ghosts...
When I was preparing the new book, I was thinking: Folk culture is also an important part of traditional culture. Currently, folk culture is in the ascendant, and there is more content that can be explored in depth.
It would be better to include the element of "folklore" in the category of fantasy fairy tales.
So I had an idea.
Assume that Chinese folk traditions, such as worshiping the godmother, are true. Stones have spirits, and the statues worshiped in temples absorb the scent of incense and gradually come to life.
Make another assumption.
Suppose Zheng He, the Three Treasures Eunuch of the Ming Dynasty, sailed to the Western Ocean. The fleet sailed through the dark sea and arrived at a completely unfamiliar continent.
There are no people on this continent, only some strange creatures. (It’s not North America, don’t think nonsense)
There are gods and monsters here, as well as all kinds of evil spirits in Chinese folklore.
There is a great true god outside the sky, watching over the world.
So, how should the story of the New World develop?
Before I started the book, I hoped that "" would bring readers a slightly scary, naughty and funny story that would entertain both the body and mind.
I hope that I can write about Chen Shi’s innocence and sinisterness, the mutual support between Chen Shi as a left-behind child, and the lonely old man Chen Yindu, and the relationship between grandfather and grandson.
It also puts my childhood fantasies about these rural folk customs into words.
I hope to use Chen Shi as my perspective to slowly uncover this story based on the folk world view.
It is something that happened in the Ming Dynasty, but it is not something that happened in the Ming Dynasty.
This time, Zhai Zhu must break through no matter what, kill his former self, and write a folkloric fairy tale fantasy!
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