Kunlun basically established Feng Ge's position as the leader of the mainland's new martial arts, while Sea is a new work that Feng Ge surpassed Kunlun in an all-round way, and it is also the second series of Shan Hai Jing constructed by Feng Ge, with "mountain" as Kunlun and "sea" as sea. The publication of "The Sea" is an important event in the publication of Chinese mainland's new martial arts. The sales volume of "Canghai No.1" and "Canghai No.2" exceeded 65,438+10,000 within one month of listing, ranking firmly in the online bookstore sales list. "Sea III" will be listed nationwide in mid-April.
Who is Brother Feng? He was born and raised in the Three Gorges, and his novel Kunlun sold 800,000 sets. At the age of 29, he was called the leader of Chinese mainland's martial arts novels after Jin Yong, but little was known about him in Chongqing.
He used to be a bookworm who turned a deaf ear to things outside the window. His childhood library always accompanied Fengjie ancient town to the bottom of the river. At the age of weak crown, he left his hometown to study, but he went against his father's expectation of going into politics and unexpectedly became a writer and editor of books.
He has been at a loss and deeply realized that it is not easy for a wandering cultural person to live in vain. Relying on his own talent, he went out of the East and devoted himself to building Kunlun at the end of three years, which has been a blockbuster ever since.
On the morning of February 4th, Brother Feng came to ciqikou ancient town. Stepping on the stone road and walking through the low and dilapidated houses, the pace of phoenix songs is sometimes hesitant and sometimes miraculous. This is his first visit to Ciqikou, and it is also one of the few times that he passed through Chongqing.
"An antique street, the door is crowded with doors and windows, and every protruding head is selling goods. The ancients will feel funny when they read it. In fact, it is amazing and very anime. " Sitting down in a teahouse by the river, Brother Feng said a little, "I'm not a realist and I'm not good at observing life. Writing martial arts novels was originally for entertainment, but I didn't expect it to be successful. I really feel a little tired in these two years, from wanting to write about myself to having to write a contract. "
A bookworm watcher in the library near Baidicheng.
Chongqing people don't know much about this young genius who was born and raised in the Three Gorges.
Brother Feng's house is very close to the dock of the old city, and when he descends 100 steps, he reaches the Yangtze River. The river here is very narrow and the water is fast. The continuous peaks on both sides of the strait go straight into the sky, steep and mysterious. This is the origin of Li Taibai's "White Emperor Courtesy" and the starting point of Qutangxia's "Kuimen is the best in the world".
"I am an only child. Although I am now 1.83 meters tall, I was weak and sick when I was a child. My classmates told me to be sick, and I was studying for a year because of illness. " Brother Feng pushed his glasses. He said that he was nearsighted by 300 degrees in the fifth grade of primary school, and now he is over 800 degrees.
For childhood, phoenix songs can only be found in memory. The county library is his favorite place, where he finished four great classical novels in elementary school. "There are very few people going to the library in the county, and I am often alone on weekends. Because it was really deserted, one day I was suddenly informed that the library was closed and asked me to return the borrowed books. "
Brother Feng later transferred his reading position to renting a book stall. Every day after school, he will go to the bookstall to read for an hour or two. The winter wind is biting, and my hands are red, swollen and chapped with cold. Mother lovingly made him a pair of wool gloves, but he often didn't wear them, for fear of obstructing the turning of pages. Later, I rented a book to read at home. In order to save rent and hurry, I often light candles and read books after my parents go to bed, and my myopia is getting deeper and deeper.
"What is hunger? Until now, I can only understand it in reading. " Feng Ge smiled shyly. "No matter what book it is, even the most profound and boring book in the world, I can get into the state as long as I read it for ten minutes."
After attending Sichuan University, Brother Feng's reading became more like a duck to water, and his classmates nicknamed him "the last watchman in the library". He has read a hundred schools of thought, various historical records and nearly a hundred world literary masterpieces. "My favorite books are A Dream of Red Mansions and Memories of Time Past. I have read them at least ten times."
Giving up civil servants as journalists is science fiction.
From 65438 to 0997, after graduating from Fengjie Middle School, Feng Ge was admitted to Sichuan University to study administration. Choosing this major, Feng Ge said, is purely according to his father's instructions. My father worked hard all his life and served as the director of the county labor bureau for four consecutive years. Later, he was rated as a national model worker, and he was one of only two national model workers in Fengjie history. Father hopes that Brother Feng can be a practical civil servant like him in the future.
"My father's life is sacred, but after studying administration for four years, I realized that I was not suitable for politics." I spent a lot of time reading all kinds of books, and my vision and mind were gradually broadened. 200 1 After graduating from college, Brother Feng refused the arrangement that his parents wanted him to go back to his hometown to be a civil servant and decided to stay in Chengdu to find a job. After many twists and turns, he became a reporter.
While waiting for registration, Feng Ge wrote her first science fiction novel "Baptism". "At that time, it was just fun. I want to write some words while playing computer games. I don't know if I can finish it. " The novel is about 30,000 words, and the first draft takes 10 days. Brother Feng first posted his novel on the sci-fi forum, then submitted it to the magazine Science Fiction World, then ignored it and continued to play his famous games such as StarCraft, Empire, Sword and Dragon Ball. Two months later, Science Fiction World published his first novel, Baptism.
After half a year's work, the state has reorganized professional newspapers, and the newspaper where Fengge is located is in jeopardy and the people are distracted. I'm not familiar with this line of journalism, and I've encountered such problems when I entered the workplace after graduating from college. Brother Feng naturally feels at a loss.
The only solution is writing. The process of writing baptism made Brother Feng realize his weakness. "Writing science fiction is too tiring and requires a lot of scientific literacy to pave the way, and I am studying liberal arts, which is naturally a defect." However, the creation of Baptism also made him discover his strengths-being good at telling stories. As a result, he began to create martial arts novels with both advantages and disadvantages.
A piece of "Kunlun" Luoyang paper costs millions of words to earn back a suite.
The reporter couldn't do any more, so Brother Feng had to be an editor in a publishing company in Chengdu. During this period, Fengjie Old Town was demolished, and his family immigrated to the new town, leaving a ruin. His parents urged him to go back to his hometown several times. "At that time, I saw a glimmer of light, and there was a huge idea of martial arts novels in my mind, that is," Million Words Kunlun. "
Feng Ge has been renting a house during her hard work in Chengdu. Every time his parents come to see him on a business trip, they are naturally very worried when they see him wandering around and having no fixed place to live. Can I buy a new house in Chengdu to earn money by writing a book? At that time, not only her parents didn't believe it, but Brother Feng also had no idea.
In 2002, Brother Feng began to write his first martial arts novel-The Kunlun Prequel-Iron Blood and Tianjiao, which was based on the "Battle of Fishing City" mentioned in Jin Yong's The Condor Heroes. "Just for entertainment and fun, I started writing with a game attitude." So the writing progress is very slow. "Write a little if you are happy, post it online, and stop writing if you are unhappy. The story in the novel has no overall concept, and you can write whatever you think. " This lasted for three or four months, and "Iron Blood Tianjiao" was completed, with hundreds of words.
However, the response of Tiexue Tianjiao on the Internet was surprisingly hot, which attracted the attention of Wuhan Modern Legend Magazine. After being invited to participate in the pen meeting of Huajian organized by the magazine, in February 2003, Legends of Ancient and Modern Times (Martial Arts Edition) formally extended an olive branch to him, hoping that he would become an editor in the past. 1 month later, Brother Feng walked out of Kuimen for the first time with the unfinished Kunlun Mountain and the dream of a new house.
At the beginning of 2005, 165438+ one million words of Kunlun began to be serialized in Legends of Ancient and Modern Times (Martial Arts Edition). By the end of the year, the circulation of each issue of the magazine increased by about 65,438+050,000, almost doubling. In June 5438+10 of the same year, a full set of 6 volumes of Kunlun was published in Beijing. By the end of last year, the total print run had reached 800,000 sets. When Kunlun came out, the price of Luoyang was sky-high, and the phoenix song was honored as "Fengda" by "Fengfan". The suspense of Liang Xiao, the protagonist in the book, has become a hot topic in online discussion, and many young readers cry for the lingering love in the book.
A song "Kunlun", a phoenix song * * * takes three years. "I wrote more than 700,000 words in Chengdu, and the last 300,000 words were completed in Wuhan. I usually write from 10 in the evening until three or four in the morning, with an average of two or three thousand words a day. " He doesn't drink or smoke, and he refreshes himself with two cups of coffee every night.
Relying on the royalties and royalties decided by Kunlun, Feng Ge bought a new house near the Second Ring Road in Chengdu the year before last, worth more than 400,000 yuan. At the beginning of this year, he was promoted from deputy editor-in-chief to editor-in-chief of the magazine. "Just got the key to the new house, people who work in Wuhan can't live there. It is an investment for the time being. "
The series Shan Hai Jing didn't write The Lord of the Rings that China wanted to write most.
Reporter: Some people say that you are imitating Jin Yong first, and your goal is to break through Jin Yong.
Feng Ge: It was right to imitate Jin Yong at first. Jin Yong had a great influence on me, because he was the only martial arts writer who integrated martial arts into mainstream culture. The original intention of writing martial arts novels is to worship Mr. Jin Yong. However, what we advocate now is "new martial arts", not "changing the life of Jin Yong's martial arts". Every book of Mr. Jin Yong is innovative and constantly absorbs the popular elements at that time, which is exactly what we should learn.
Reporter: What do you think is the reason why readers like Kunlun?
Phoenix Song: Kunlun wrote the life legend of the great mathematician Liang Xiao. He is a clever martial arts expert. Maybe the reader thinks it's fresh, so I won't say much about the rest.
Reporter: How is the sales of your new book "The Sea"? Are you going to finish Shan Hai Jing next?
Feng Ge: Hai has written 600,000 words now, and the remaining 300,000 words are planned to be submitted before April. The first book of the sea, with 6.5438+0.9 million words, was just published last month, but its momentum was not as good as that of Kunlun at that time. I made a bold new exploration in the sea, and I don't know if readers will approve it. Writing about the sea is different from writing about Kunlun. I signed a contract to write according to the bookseller's plan. I still need to get used to this writing state. I was going to write a series of Shan Hai Jing, but now I may have to give up writing the Classic. I want to learn to adjust for a while. Now the martial arts have not jumped out of the routine of "romantic martial arts". I want to try something new, or write China's The Lord of the Rings and Da Vinci codes, while I'm still young and not fully finalized.