Tears!
Grew up with many people
"Fairy Tale King" is about to stop publishing...
On the evening of December 15,
Writer Zheng Yuanjie said on Weibo,
Founded in 1985, "Fairy Tale King"
It will be discontinued in January 2022.
As for the reasons for the suspension,
Zheng Yuanjie said,
At 66 years old, he has limited energy.
Now to stop writing,
Go all out to defend your rights!
All these years
Zheng Yuanjie is not in the defense of rights
It's on the way to defend rights
Zheng Yuanjie told reporters that some merchants maliciously preemptively registered trademarks, that is, his high-profile literary characters Pipilu, Rusisi, Shuk, Beta, Shuk Beta, etc. At present, there are a total of 672 trademarks that infringe on his intellectual property rights. ”
Therefore, Zheng Yuanjie sent a letter to three trademarks on Weibo on November 15 this year, which specifically mentioned three malicious registrations of Pipilu, Fairy Tale King, and Shuk.
Pippilu sells pork skin meat: The no. 7197328 Pipilu trademark was registered in bad faith by Zou Mouhong, a natural person in Chengdu, in 2010, and was used by Chengdu Huicheng Food Co., Ltd. to sell Pipilu brand pork skin meat.
Shuker sells underwear: In 2009, Jiangsu Shuke Garment Co., Ltd. (legal representative Yang Mouchun) maliciously registered the No. 5423972 Shuker trademark without authorization, and used the trademark to sell underwear. The company fearlessly and unscrupulously declared on the company's official website that "Shuk" is Zheng Yuanjie's original little mouse Shuk.
Fairy Tale King Sells Children's Clothing: In 2011, Guo Mouqiang, a natural person in Jiangyin City, Jiangsu Province, maliciously registered the No. 8229932 Fairy Tale King trademark.
In this letter, Zheng Yuanjie said that the name of the lawyer hired by the magazine was published on the copyright page of the inaugural issue of Fairy Tale King, which was launched in May 1985. Almost every issue of Fairy Tale King magazine has a lawyer's statement of rights protection. Since 1981, when he named Pipilu, Rusisi, Shuk beta, and Roque the Great Bad Wolf, he had a sense of protection against infringement, and he deliberately did not use common Chinese words as the names of his original literary characters, but only used imaginary names, such as "Shuk", not "comfortable". Since 1993, Zheng Yuanjie has registered 280 trademarks for his original well-known literary character names Pipilu. "My awareness of intellectual property protection is not strong, but I still can't hide from coveting and crazy plagiarism and infringement."
It is precisely because he is busy with trademark protection that he had to personally announce the suspension of the "Fairy Tale King": "In the face of my rights protection, the three of you trademarks stubbornly resisted, taking advantage of the imperfection of the law, the negligence of the examiners, the mercenary intentions of the trademark agency company, and the possible rent-seeking space of the relevant agencies, so that I spent 32 years to protect my rights and still could not succeed." I decided to stop writing the monthly "Fairy Tale King" monthly magazine from January 2022 and devote all my energy to defending your rights. Your unrepentant infringement led to the closure of the monthly magazine "Fairy Tale King" in January 2022, which has been published for 36 years since its inception in 1985 and has affected millions of readers with a total circulation of more than 200 million copies. ”
Zheng Yuanjie said to himself
66-year-old "Fairy Tale King"
One man insisted on writing "Fairy Tale King" for 36 years
In China's children's publishing market, "The Fairy Tale King" itself is a "fairy tale" that is difficult to reproduce - it was founded in 1985 and has published 495 issues so far, with a total print run of more than 200 million copies, setting a world record. And each story is written independently by Zheng Yuanjie.
In 1985, the inaugural issue of "Fairy Tale King" was also auctioned for 100,000 yuan.
For the post-70s, post-80s, and post-90s generations, every character in "Fairy Tale King", Pipilu, Rusisi, Shuk, Beta..... They are all the most familiar fairy tale images in childhood.
In 2011, the United Nations selected the world's top ten books, and "Pippiru" and "Harry Potter" created by Zheng Yuanjie tied for fourth place.
Born in 1955 in Shijiazhuang, Hebei Province, Zheng Yuanjie served in the military, repaired airplanes, and worked as a worker. He began his literary career in 1977 and has been working tirelessly for more than 40 years. His works have been loved by generations of readers, and Zheng Yuanjie was once the writer with the highest royalty income in China, and can be called the "fairy tale king".
Zheng Yuanjie did not shy away from it, and dropped out of school in the fourth grade of primary school. It is worth mentioning that in the summer of the second year of the "Fairy Tale King", he was ridiculed by a university professor because of his low level of education: "Some of us here do not know the sky is high, and actually want to write a monthly magazine alone, if he can write for two years, I will write the name backwards." 」 ”
Zheng Yuanjie turned the anger he held back into the courage to create, hid at home, immersed in writing, and by the third year, the monthly print volume of "Fairy Tale King" exceeded 1 million copies.
To this day, the 66-year-old Zheng Yuanjie still maintains a spirit of not accepting defeat, whether in literary creation or rights protection.
The suspension of "Fairy Tale King",
To the great regret of the readers, some people lamented:
Shuk beta, Pipilu, Rubik's Cube Building,
It's the memories of childhood...
Many netizens learned of this news
Rush to buy the December issue immediately
I want to keep it as a souvenir
The final issue of Fairy Tale King
And for rights protection
Readers expressed their support
And look forward to resuming publication as soon as possible
This is not the first time that Fairy Tale King has been discontinued
In fact, this is not the first time that Fairy Tale King has been suspended. The last time was in 2002, Zheng Yuanjie was criticized by the CCTV "Today's Saying" program, Sabine said on the screen that his fairy tale works were "full of inappropriate content for children", which caused an uproar after the program was broadcast, and Zheng Yuanjie announced in anger that from 2002 onwards, "Fairy Tale King" only published old works.
Those years were Zheng Yuanjie's "transition period", a large number of readers who followed him from childhood into adulthood, they hoped that Zheng Yuanjie could continue to create new stories for the "Pippiru" who grew up, and Zheng Yuanjie began to create multiple novels.
The resulting "Wisdom Teeth" and "Golden Thumb" were greatly successful, with the total number of prints exceeding one million copies, but Zheng Yuanjie obviously felt that the more restrictions he wrote, the more words such as hemorrhoids and menstruation caused parents to be dissatisfied, and finally even the word "marriage" could not appear, and the "Ghost Car" in the series was forced to stop.
Bought 10 suites to store reader letters
In addition to writing, Zheng Yuanjie often writes back to her young readers. For his own readers, Zheng Yuanjie is a warm day for decades.
A well-known story is that in the 1990s, Zheng Yuanjie bought 10 apartments in Beijing in one go because of the mountains of letters from readers, which were dedicated to storing these letters.
"These 10 houses have never been lived, rented out, not sold, and the letter is still inside. I never managed money, and now these houses are all school district houses. ”
Over the years, Zheng Yuanjie has not stopped writing. A total of 5 million words have been written in several years and have not yet been published. According to his plan, 13 unpublished novels, including "The Enemy", will be published 100 years after his death.
"Respect intellectual property rights, advocate originality, despise plagiarism,
Stay away from businesses and goods that illegally profit through unfair competition. ”
I hope that all goes well with the rights protection matters
"King of Stories" come back early!
Source: Xinmin Evening News (xmwb1929) comprehensive @ Zheng Yuanjie, News Workshop, Morning News, Red Star News, China Fund News, Netizen Comments
Editor: Tang Mengye