The book was officially released on August 1st, and it feels like a century has passed.
This book has been brewing for a long time, and it was released early for some reasons. To be honest, I was quite stressed. In the last book, I had the question of "what should I write in a historical novel?", and now this book is
The answer I gave.
Historical novels are about writing history.
So I adopted the method of interweaving main lines and hidden lines, and set the protagonist Fang Chongyong as an "observer" to bring readers the scenery of the prosperous Tang Dynasty.
To put it simply, in the early stage, watch more, think more, and participate less.
The first half is about the prosperous Tang Dynasty, and the second half is about elegy. When I came up with the name, I put a lot of thought into it. I tried to restore the true side of the Tang Dynasty. It was powerful and had its own charm, but it also had corresponding problems, and it was also history.
products cannot escape the judgment of history.
What is "the scenery of the prosperous Tang Dynasty"?
Historical memory needs a carrier.
It might be a piece of silk, a slip, a painting, a glass of wine, or even a bowl of rice.
History is real, not the empty words in official history, nor the right and wrong that people arbitrarily knead.
Food, clothing, housing and transportation, these can express the style of the prosperous Tang Dynasty.
Poems and regulations can also express the style of the prosperous Tang Dynasty.
They complement each other and form a picture of the prosperous age of the Tang Dynasty.
This means that this book has a lot of space and will not write traditional cool plots, nor will it deliberately drive to attract attention and write vulgar plots under the guise of "the prosperous Tang Dynasty and the opening up".
Many people like to read about the lower body, and it’s not like I can’t write about it, but the author can’t set his own requirements too low.
After all, the author is not the reader.
Writing like this will definitely make some readers who are looking for "coolness" unhappy. The plot will lack pretentiousness and slap in the face, and some readers may even think that the author is writing randomly because of their own lack of cognition. These are inevitable
Yes, because no matter what kind of book it is, there will be people who like it and people who don't like it.
The content and writing style of this book will filter out a group of readers. In the current market environment, this type of book may be able to make some achievements, but it is destined to be difficult to become popular.
The previous governor made me a level 5 author and also helped me understand the secret of traffic.
I am a grassroots person with no backstage, no team, no support, and no PY transactions. All I can rely on is my own works; my path can only be continued by continuously polishing my works, there is no other way.
Historical novels have fallen into a bottleneck period, and it is no longer a matter of a day or two. In order to break the situation, many authors have begun to make changes to survive. The most common one is to "change their skin and core".
Historical events are very complicated. If you want to write down the ins and outs clearly, you need certain writing skills and writing logic. But after covering it up, things become simple. The history only needs to be summarized, and the rest can be written according to the true core.
For example, historical urban writings write about the city; historical gangster writings write about the underworld; historical officialdom writings write about the specious officialdom. Readers are not familiar with ancient times, but they are very familiar with modern times, and they write modern stories in a layered way.
, it’s easy to resonate.
Then I was thinking about a very speechless question: Why don’t historical writers write about history? There are obviously so many things to write about.
If the author of a historical article makes history boring, then it must be the author’s fault. How can we blame the historical story for being difficult to tell?
Bilibili Anzhou Mu’s historical series of videos (such as Southern and Northern Dynasties) can have a large number of fans. Those stories do not have any innovation, they are all historical facts recorded in history books.
Why do some people watch it and so many others watch it? What’s the problem?
The problem is that many authors of historical articles have not spent their attention on the study of historical logic or the impact of historical events. Because they have not done their homework, they have nothing to write, because they have nothing to write, and
The manuscript must have a plot, so it can only be filled with plots from other aspects.
For example, women, pretending to be a slap in the face, supporting characters all revolving around the protagonist, and so on. It’s not that the author likes to write like this, but it has to be like this because of the reasons mentioned above.
This is a vicious cycle.
There is no history in historical texts, just like there is no osmanthus in osmanthus tea or there is no pork ribs in braised pork ribs.
There are all kinds of pretentiousness in urban literature. If you don’t give me historical plots in historical literature, why don’t I just read urban literature?
Readers are very sensitive to the temperature of history in historical texts. It is possible that if there is only a little more historical plot in each chapter, the reader's experience will be completely different. However, in historical texts, historical records are generally read indiscriminately without analysis and screening.
It is possible to reach exactly the opposite conclusion.
There are too many such examples to count.
In order to write this book, I directly used the master's and doctoral thesis of the Department of History, journals and even cultural relics research papers as reference points. I had no way to research the stone tablets and unearthed cultural relics, so I could only use this lazy method and stand on the shoulders of giants.
Write this book.
I can responsibly say that many of the plots in the first volume were written by me alone. For example, the imitation of Sogdian brocade was taken from real historical events, but it cannot be found on ordinary websites.
No one will write it clearly.
When it comes to being knowledgeable, I'm far from it, but I can impress people.
The paid chapters start from Hexi. When planning this volume, I hesitated for a long time.
According to the ideas of some readers of Shuangwen, I should actually arrange for Xiao Fang to lurk in Chang'an to seize power, kill Li Linfu, get rid of Yang Yuhuan, bribe potential generals, replace them during the Anshi Rebellion, set up a puppet, and finally add Jiuxi.
It’s not that it can’t be written like this. Although it may turn all the supporting characters into people with low IQs, but... there are also many readers who buy it. Facts have proved that readers of Shuangwen do not think while reading, even if they go back and read the second chapter.
You will feel nauseous when you take it.
However, the development focus of the Tang Dynasty has always been in the Western Regions, which was the "Age of Discovery" in ancient China, full of opportunities and adventures. After the Anshi Rebellion, the Silk Road was cut off, and the era of Chinese expansion and self-confidence gradually faded away.
Half of the glory of the Han and Tang Dynasties was in Hexi. If we don’t write about Hexi and the Western Regions, how can we write about the scenery of the Tang Dynasty?
It is certainly a bit satisfying for readers to see an old coin successfully seize power, from the grassroots to the emperor.
But, are historical texts really just conspiracies?
I don't think that's the case.
During the prosperous Tang Dynasty, the Tang people's pioneering and inclusive spirit in the Western Regions is of great reference for today. It is the voice of the times and even the call of the times!
I use the good ones and learn from the bad ones. The openness and self-confidence of the Tang people do not lie in the bohemianness of women, but in the self-confidence and high-spiritedness of the society.
This is the core idea of the Tang Dynasty: "I am the main one and we are one family from all over the world".
I think these things have more historical flavor than those weird strategies and out-of-time "modern inventions".
As for the performance of this book, I am not too demanding; I write from my heart and have a clear conscience in everything.
History is vast and does not depend on personal will. To express it in a poem by Mao Zedong:
"Heavy rain falls on the swallows, white waves surge into the sky,
Fishing boats off Qinhuangdao.
I can't see the vast ocean, I don't know which way I'm heading to.
Thousands of years ago, Wei Wu whipped his whip,
There is a posthumous chapter on Jieshi in the east.
The bleak autumn wind is here again, and the human world has changed."