Song Feng wrote in the column "Song Feng in Qingyun Academy":
"The ancient Sheshan reserve advantage, there are people who live in peace. If the skin is ice and snow, a virgin is graceful; Don't eat grains, suck the wind and drink dew; Ride the dragon in the clouds and travel overseas. "
-"Zhuang Zhou Xiaoyao Tour"
This passage comes from the crazy attachment of Chu and Yu. At that time, people were shocked by his words, thinking that "it is too big to be rude and never to return" and "it is the infinite river." There is a big difference and inhumanity. "
But I worship the imagination of "too big to be rude, but not to be reversed", and I am also eager for my own thoughts to break through all barriers. "With luck, ride a dragon and travel all over the world!" Although divorced from reality, it is "too big and unreasonable". ~8~
Frankly speaking, reality makes me "afraid", and the reins of reality make the steed of thought lose its freedom. I'd rather stay in history than jump into the future, of course, just thinking about it. Martial arts "shake dust and spill blood through the ages" is an imagination of history; Science fiction is an imagination of the future, and it is always in a race with the giants of science. So when I seek spiritual sustenance, besides martial arts, it is science fiction.
The above views may be right or wrong, but right or wrong, I am just an ordinary pilgrim. Through vilen's thoughts, I headed for Gushan. This is an imaginary journey. Every step, my back foot is integrated into history, and my front foot is heading for the future. Perhaps, I will never get there, but for a fool on earth, this is the most wonderful trip in the world, and the hormone of pleasure constitutes his driving force.
From June, 5438 to February, 2006, Brother Feng won the highest prize in the martial arts circle-the first prize of modern legendary martial arts literature prize with his book Kunlun. Many media commented that this basically established his position as a leading figure in mainland new martial arts novels. But for this, he himself is a little disapproving. "I don't think there is a new genre of martial arts novels. It can be said that there is no one in the mainland who is not influenced by the masters of past dynasties. For myself, it also started with imitating Jin Yong. And because of age, no author has been writing for more than five years, and it is impossible to become an independent faction in such a short time. Jin Yong, who has only 15 works, has written martial arts for nearly 20 years, not to mention writers with dozens of works such as Gu Long and Liang Yusheng. Because we don't have weighty works, the existence of literary factions depends on works. "
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 completely surpassed Kunlun, and it is also the second series of Shan Hai Jing constructed by Feng Ge, with "mountain" as Kunlun and "sea" as the 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 in a teahouse by the river, Feng Ge 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.
An interview with Feng Ge was extracted from a newspaper.
Brother Feng: If you want to surpass Jin Yong, you must keep a low profile.
Source: Beijing News
Jin Yong's response to Bu's "Forced Palace" On Jin Yong and the New Martial Arts
"My martial arts novels should be about Taoist chivalry, breaking through the concern for the country and the people before Jin Yong." In mid-February, 65438, Bu, a talented woman of Peking University and a new martial arts author, boldly said that she would "change Jin Yong's life" and "force Jin Yong to abdicate" at the third special prize of ancient and modern legendary martial arts literature and the award ceremony of martial arts literature. In an interview with Hong Kong media recently, Jin Yong responded to Bu Yanfei for the first time, thinking that the other party created "science fiction, not martial arts novels". The dispute between Bu and Jin Yong is actually a dispute between the traditional martial arts represented by Jin Yong and the new martial arts represented by Bu and others. This newspaper interviewed Feng Ge, another best-selling new martial arts author. His views on Jin Yong and the new martial arts are quite different from those of Bu Yanfei. He felt that the Taoist writing advocated by Bu did not break through Jin Yong's category, and the new martial arts still needed to accumulate to surpass Jin Yong.
It is not clear why Bu Yanfei wants to change Jin Yong's life.
Beijing News: Do you know that Jin Yong recently refuted Bu Yanfei's "revolution"?
Brother Feng: I think Jin Yong's statement has his truth. Martial arts novels pay attention to rationality. Bu Yanfei said that he wanted to change Jin Yong's life. There is no clear reason, and he did not say how to reform. If she can tell me where her works are better than Jin Yong, then she can say that she wants revolution. And those she said, such as the content of Taoism, Jin Yong is not without writing, Ling Huchong is the chivalry of Taoism, and the duke of mount deer is anti-chivalry. I don't think she is better than Jin Yong. Her works are closer to fantasy, different from Jin Yong's. Jin Yong is iconic, so we should not use a negative perspective. And "revolution" is a very fierce word, which obliterates something. It would be better to use "inheritance". The above is my view from the perspective of a bystander.
Beijing News: Do you think these authors of the new martial arts are greatly influenced by Jin Yong?
Brother Feng: Without Jin Yong, it is impossible for these people to write martial arts. Only the characters written by Jin Yong and Gu Long can be known, and the rest are basically gone. When we mention Guo Jing and Huang Rong, we can immediately see their images in our minds. When it comes to Xiao Li's flying knife, we will think of Li Xunhuan, and when it comes to Chu Liuxiang, we will think of Xiang Shuai, who is personable. Besides, there are very few classic characters.
The writing of works is mainly about writing people. By going up one flight of stairs is impossible without creating more classic characters. Moreover, without such classic works, martial arts novels will not form a tradition. Many of us now write martial arts novels, all of which are learning from them, exerting a subtle influence. It must be the same for Buffet Smoke, but maybe I have more ideas now.
To surpass Jin Yong, we must first break his Jianghu lineage.
Beijing News: You say that the success of martial arts novels in Jin Yong's hands is because Jin Yong has built a complete and rigorous river and lake pedigree, and every fictional character has a history, so the martial arts world has become authentic?
Brother Feng: Yes, this Jin Yong made it very clear that martial arts novels must be reasonable. Give the reader a feeling that this person once existed. And each character has an explicit or implicit inheritance, which eventually forms a huge Jianghu framework. Many martial arts writers actually want to do this, and Liang Yusheng keeps writing sequels, but he is worse than Jin Yong in characterization and can't reach the height of Jin Yong. A work must write this point in order to become a classic. Many authors lack this point, which is related to their profound observation of human nature.
Beijing News: How to build this kind of rivers and lakes?
Phoenix song: the construction of rivers and lakes includes three aspects: first, there must be someone who can remind people; Secondly, there must be a brand-new Jianghu structure with brand-new sects and their relationships; The third is to maintain the martial arts system in this Jianghu. At least it should have its own characteristics in these three aspects. To surpass Jin Yong, we must work hard in these three aspects and have strong new ideas, but we must not violate human nature.
Beijing News: A Brand-new Sect? No Shaolin, no Wudang?
Phoenix Song: Shaolin, Wudang and Beggars' Gangs should be changed the most. If even Jin Yong can't bypass it, it is a dead end. Literary works require new changes, which are superficial changes. For example, if we change our name, Shaolin Wudang will always be naive. Jin Yong wrote all these things so well that you can never surpass him again.
To write martial arts, you must first write about love.
Beijing News: But now children seem to read less martial arts novels, and fantasy is popular?
Phoenix song: fantasy escapes from reality. Modern fantasy does not emphasize its own authenticity, but plays the role of escaping from the world. Most of the post-80s children are only children. They hide in their own world and escape from reality. In fact, fantasy has been popular abroad for a long time, and The Lord of the Rings is also called the Millennium novel, which makes the western literary world very sad and angry. It is understandable that they gradually invaded the mainland, Hongkong and Taiwan Province Province, and immortals appeared in the imaginary China. But what is the final legacy of fantasy? It's hard to say. At least the current work is more problematic. Besides, Zhu Xian has a main line from the layout of articles to the depiction of classic characters. Take a closer look, I just changed the mode of the game "Legend of the Sword and the Chivalrous Man" once. Isn't it just a hero and several heroines, and then try very hard to save one of the heroines, which is different from saving Lin Yueru in "Fairy Sword"?
Jin Yong's love writing is very good. San Mao said that he admired Jin Yong very much, saying that his works were sentimental books written by sentimental people, which was one of the aspects that attracted many female readers. "Fairy Sword" also works hard on feelings and wins in romance. It is Huang Yi who really takes the fantasy route, but his love writing is not particularly good, so most of his readers are men. But to tell the truth, now female readers are dominant, boys don't read much, and games are used to achieve the pleasure of reading martial arts novels. So the good books sold now are all good books on love. There used to be a saying that martial arts writers could not write love, so they had no future. Writing is getting better and better. Many martial arts writers set foot in strange circles, thinking that martial arts are just rivers and lakes.
I started by imitating Jin Yong.
Beijing News: Did Jin Yong's works also incorporate the elements of the times at that time?
Brother Feng: Yes, Jin Yong is popular with detective novels, agatha christie and Sherlock Holmes, as well as world famous works and western realistic novels. You see, even the city has the shadow of the Count of Monte Cristo. Chivalrous people have the feeling of a tale of two cities. Almost all of Gu Long's early works were copied from Musashi Miyamoto, but the names of the characters were changed. But what makes him strong is that he imitates and forms his own unique style, which is what a writer should have.
Beijing News: Have you ever imitated it?
Brother Feng: Many imitators will have admirers at the beginning, and I am no exception. I have a strong imitation of Jin Yong in Kunlun, which is the price of growth, and then I can evolve. If I am not afraid of your imitation, I am afraid that you will not make progress. Finally, I must form my own style.
Beijing News: Although you don't say anything, I actually think you are holding your breath to surpass Jin Yong.
Brother Feng: If you really want to surpass it, you should be a relatively low-key person who can calm down and work hard. It is impossible to surpass Jin Yong through short stories. Still have a quiet and peaceful mind, sponge absorbs water, and don't always spray it out when nothing happens. Jin Yong himself is a relatively quiet temperament, and so is Gu Long. I am still a quiet person, and I don't like to say uncertain things in public, lest I become a laughing stock in a few years.