<h3>Look for "Outside"</h3>
Xu Shengzhi is in his early 40s, his face is bright, and he is said to be in his prime, but he wears a mysterious gray hair. As an online writer, Xu Shengzhi's series of novels "Ghosts, Gods, People, Mountains, Earth, Heavens, and Shocks" written under the pseudonym "Xu Gongzi Shengzhi" - "Ghost Shares", "Shenyou", "Human Desire", "Lingshan", "Earth Master", "Tianshu" and "Shocking Gate" have been serialized, and in this series of novels that integrate fantasy, traditional Chinese studies, and religions, he has shown his own knowledge: he understands all kinds of religions, especially the Taoist cultivation art - Neidanshu. In this way, the slightly gray hair and the mysterious works unify the style, making the image of Xu Gongzi Katsuji more distinct. After the end of the previous cooperation, the principle of Xu Gongzi Shengzhi's down-to-earth writing was in line with the "ingenuity" of NetEase Literature, and the two sides immediately hit it off and began a new cooperation. The new work "Fangwai: The Disappearing Eight Doors" was read online for 24 hours on NetEase Cloud, and only 12 chapters were released, which has exceeded 9 million views.
The old bank of economics did not give up because of writing, but penetrated into the novel with a new situation. In many aspects such as philosophy and sociology, the book shows the unique insights of Xu Gongzi Shengzhi. Of course, the older bank goes back to college, where he studied mechanical engineering.
The new work "Fangwai: The Disappearing Eight Doors" has made a new interpretation of the "Eight Doors" jianghu on the basis of the previous work: the protagonist Ding Qi, because of his psychological skills, is favored by the long-rumored "Eight Doors" in the jianghu, hoping to find a secret inheritance through him, as well as an unknown treasure secret. However, when Ding Qi finally succeeded in entering the hidden place - Xiaojing Lake, there were constantly people killed in the "Eight Doors", so that the key to open the secret realm was lost again, and the wider "jianghu" was involved. While experiencing a series of thrilling urban legends, Dingzi re-examines his familiar psychological theories and understanding of the spiritual world. The story takes place in a place called Jinghu City, the so-called Mirror Lake, in fact, is a mirror, illuminating the entire river and lake, the protagonist in the river and lake to find the outside world. ”
"Fangwai" refers to the four directions of heaven and earth, "the so-called fangwai, in fact, is in everyone's heart, is the world that everyone sees and expects." Fangwai symbolizes everyone's self-realization, mental state and spiritual pursuit, such as Tao Yuanming's "Peach Blossom Origin", which symbolizes the spiritual world of an intellectual during the Wei and Jin dynasties. Actually this worldview I constructed, it's my extraterrestrial world, so what about everyone? Taohuayuan does not mean that you have to come to Wulingyuan to find it, Taohuayuan is in your heart. ”
In order to cooperate with the release of the new book, NetEase Literature specially selected the press conference in Zhangjiajie, the location of the legendary Wulingyuan. More than a dozen book friends from Shenzhen, Nanjing, Beijing and other places came, in order to participate in this activity held on the working day, the vice president of the bank repeatedly bought time for the president, the factory owner put several orders alone, the middle level of the state-owned enterprises added more than a week of classes in advance, they are mostly 70, 80, often in college or high school began to see Xu Gongzi Shengzhi, more than ten years later, the emotions and connections gradually thickened. They called him "Gongzi", and Gongzi remembered everyone's name. Every time before the writing of a new book, they signed up for the dragon set in the group - hoping that their screen name would appear in Gongzi's next work. When you are chosen, you are elated, even if the character has nothing to do with me, even if it only appears in one or two chapters and disappears.
They consider themselves fanatical, but they never rush to visit privately on weekdays, and the annual gathering is called "Lan Xianghui", and when they meet, they wear on their little thumbs the keepsake given to them by Xu Gongzi Shengzhi, a milky white agate ring, which is said to be only 100. Gatherings outside of regular gatherings, they cherish even more. A man in a stormtrooper suit said, "Missing out this time is like missing love." ”
But the analogy of love to the emotions between them may seem simple. Some people asked the prince to change his name, as an authoritative elder. Someone must see every night before going to bed, is warm companionship. When someone falls into a low point, he is inspired by the characters in the book, such as encountering a psychological mentor. Too much love can't be a fan. "The general network article is read once, the second time is like chewed sugar cane, the gongzi's book is not bored after reading five or six times, and every time I read it, there are new gains."
Why can't I get tired of watching it? One fan hammered it out: "It's not because the plot is good or the subject matter is novel, but because he has a kind of oldness and detachment that doesn't match his age." ”
<h3>The text is full of words</h3>
He had a period of settling down and desperately trying to make money. After graduating from university, economics became a prominent science, and securities analysts were in the ascendant, studying what changes every day, predicting policies, capital flows, social dynamics and industry developments. With promising career prospects and a good income, he did not hesitate to devote himself to becoming a securities economist. After practicing for a while, Xu Gongzi Shengzhi found that "rapid decay" was an inevitable embarrassment of this profession. The day before in the newspaper to analyze the next day's market trends and stock ups and downs, that night began to reprint, the next day can verify whether the analysis is correct or not, by the third day, the day before yesterday wrote what to do is completely unimportant.
The public is always concerned with the visible results, rather than the worldview and thinking of the analysts behind the results. "The meaning of this work is to pay attention to the rise and fall of the market every day, analyze the timely market, trap people in it, a lot of the work you do, is to write a rapid decay article every day, I wonder if I can write an article that everyone chases, a way of life article, of course, because of the times, we just experience the rapid development of the Internet, if it is not the reason for the Internet age, I will not become a novelist." I hope that after ten or even a hundred years, people will remember you and me. ”
In 2004, he began to write novels part-time, finishing "Shenyou", "Ghost Valley", "Lingshan", "Human Desire", and the fifth "Earth Master", he resigned and deleted all the stock market content on the computer. By 2013, 8 books were published, and according to his criteria, this is not high prolific, "high productivity can write tens of thousands of words a day, I can write an average of 4,000 words a day." That's how my energy and speed are. ”
Xu Gongzi Shengzhi believes that the accumulation of materials is unconscious: "Imagination is established, materials come from life, from occupation, and from your experience, accumulation," he writes for two hours a day, in addition to being in a state of daily life: on the surface meaningless, full of life, and things that have nothing to do with writing, in fact, have meaning, and on an unpredictable day, these stories will become the source of material, write a person, write the subtle expressions of the characters, The posture of writing and walking comes from observing life.
In the book, it is written that the monk stole meat to eat, which is the story that Xu Gongzi Shengzhi heard when he was a child, the monk in the temple broke the bodhisattva, and there was something flowing out of the house, and the monk was under the bed, holding an incense and secretly cooking meat. "It's a very textured plot, but you can't say he's driving a big cauldron in the yard to cook meat, then it's not a monk's temple."
After writing full-time, collecting style became a major issue in the life of Xu Gongzi Shengzhi. Before creating "Fangwai", he went to Taiping Lake and the foot of Huangshan Mountain several times to examine ancient monuments and collect place names. Ask the tour guide in the scenic area, download the commentary materials, hire a local driver to see the field, chat with donkey friends, and the old stories told by the three sisters and six wives, and write down the interesting ones. Where you go, the stories you hear, remember, "There is a world in your heart, you know what you write, you know what you need to add to fill in." ”
In "Shocking Door", the protagonist goes to Shantang Street to find monsters, and the prototype is born from the real Shantang Street. Friends took Xu Gongzi Shengzhi to go, "Seven Mile Mountain Pond" walked back and forth many times, he clearly remembered that from the gate to the Tiger Spring road, many stone slabs have words, engraved with local legends, he also wrote down, became the material for this story.
In Xu Gongzi Shengzhi's view, the accumulation of material is to express, "(Writing) in the depiction of your spiritual world, writing fang, I hope to depict a world, close your eyes, I hope that the world is what it is, what exists, write it into a novel, and then write it out." ”
With the continuous introduction of Xu Gongzi Katsuharu's works, the manga of the same name adapted from the work is also under development, supervised by the professional team of NetEase Comics. Film, television and game development for "Outside the Square" has also started. As part of NetEase Literature's "Big God Project", this cooperation is also a beginning. In addition to Xu Gongzi Shengzhi, the god writers recently signed by NetEase Literature include Xiaoqiao Laoshu, Xiao Riding School, Zhang Junbao, and more vulgar.
"Xu Gongzi Shengzhi is an author with great ideological depth and cultural texture, and his creations describe the collision between traditional oriental culture and modern civilization." Fan Shaoqing, general manager of NetEase Literature and Comics Division, praised Xu Gongzi Shengzhi, and in his view, Xu Gongzi Shengzhi's works are the embodiment of "literature to carry the Tao".
Xu Gongzi Shengzhi agrees with the saying that "the text carries the Tao", he firmly believes that the formation of people's hobbies and thoughts is unconscious, the things they contact and the content they read accumulate over time, and their usual ideas become the flowing thinking in the text. He claimed to have been born in the 1970s and 1980s, when the humanistic atmosphere was not very strong, and the extracurricular reading materials were only allusions and legends. Jingting Mountain is near home, and it is the story of Li Bai who has been to go nine times in his life, and the poem with the highest childhood appearance rate is "Looking at each other and not getting tired, only Jingting Mountain". He often went up the mountain to pick strawberries and hawthorns, and while playing, he wondered how Li Bai could come nine times. By now he finally understood that Li Bai had come here not because of the mountain itself, but because of the spirit of loneliness. "This is his outer world."