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· Above the Avenue is Zhai Zhu’s tenth novel, and it is also the ninth and semi-released.
Zhai Zhu always liked to read classics before going to college. As the amount of reading increased in college, because I was immersed in traditional culture, I read more and wanted to write about them. When I graduated and found a job, I very bravely chose a very novel profession at the time - an online novel writer. My first book was "Rebirth of Journey to the West", in which the protagonist was a pig, Marshal Tianpeng.
This is the first time I have 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. Is this the golden house in the book?
This sentence was not said by the Master. Chen Shi should not have understood it wrong, right?
Why half a time?
Because the writing of "Water Margin" ended when it was released.
In my acceptance speech for Water Margin, I said 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 imaginary plots were not even written out in the outline on paper.
From January 2009 to January 2010, after a year's pause, Zhai Zhu stubbornly opened another book "The Barbarian Throne". The protagonist is De Biao Barbarian Hammer. This name seems very tacky now, but it was actually at the time!
But he is different from Tianpeng and Wu Song in the previous two books. This is the first time I have given my protagonist a name.
In the past, I used the stories of "Journey to the West" and "Water Margin" as direct carriers. After writing "The Barbarian Throne", Zhai Zhu was convinced that I had the ability to "create" the world, so I wrote a completely different protagonist from the previous three books, Ye Xu, also known as Shaobao.
The pen name Zhai Zhu became known to more book friends only after "Only One Step in the World", "Emperor", "The Supreme Humanity", "Mushen Ji", "Lin Yuan Xing", and "Flying to the Future". Looking back on the past seventeen years of creation, ten books and more than 30 million words, the restriction on my creation has changed from economic conditions to physical condition.
(Seventeen years, it turns out that I have been writing for such a long time. I wonder if there are still book friends who followed it when I was reborn in Journey to the West)
After finishing the book on Ascension on a Certain Day, Zhai Zhu defeated the Urticaria Emperor, and then he had the physical condition to prepare a new book, but he still cannot eat fish, shrimp and crab.
Since the epidemic, I have become a Six-Yang Heavenly Lord.
It is very happy not 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 difficult to collect folklore information, many times I have to go and see it on my own. The one who impressed me most about the whole process was the Fujian Wandering God. (Thanks to Zicai 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", "Grand View of Chinese Spell Culture", "The Yellow Emperor's Inner Canon and the Outer Canon", "The Biography of Immortals", "Zhang Tianshi's Complete Collection of Spells", "What I Weared in the Ming Dynasty", "The Sutra of Taiping", "Guiguzi", "Physiognomy" and so on.
The talismans in the book did not come out of thin air.
Zhaizhu lived in northern Anhui when he was a child, and worshiping the godmother was a custom in our village.
Zhaizhu has a godmother. It is a stone tablet. There are words on the stone tablet, but it cannot be read. During holidays, my mother would take me to worship the stone tablet godmother.
Sometimes I burn incense, and sometimes I bring red eggs to my godmother, asking her to bless me, who is in poor health, to live a long life.
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 children who have run away from home, red eyes and green hair, dragons flying in the water, children in tanks, and all kinds of strange monsters and ghosts...
When I was preparing a new book, I was thinking: Folk culture is also an important part of traditional culture. Folk culture is currently in the ascendant, and there is more content to dig into.
It is better to put the element of "folklore" into 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 blindly)
There are gods and monsters here, and there are 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 "On the Road" 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, about Chen Shi as a left-behind child, about the mutual support between Chen Shi and the lonely old man Chen Yindu, and about the relationship between grandfather and grandson.
Similarly, my childhood fantasies about these rural folk customs were put into words.
Hope to use Chen Shi as the perspective to slowly reveal 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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Brothers, tonight we are looking for a new continent and setting sail! ! !