The core routines of the three genres of fantasy novels, cultivation novels, and immortal novels are all cultivated and upgraded in the Otherworld Continent, so as to reach the peak of this world, proud of all beings in the world, and use the recent popular word to achieve the realm of "no one here, no one below".
The essence of these three types of novels is fantasy novels, but the elements of writing are different, let's talk about them in detail:
Fantasy novel, originally meant "fantasy novel based on metaphysics". The so-called metaphysics is not The metaphysics of Wei and Jin, but the metaphysics of science as opposed to science. It is also metaphysics, that is, a doctrine that explores the fundamental principles of the universe. It contains ancient Chinese feng shui numerology, martial arts strategy, Dan Dao cultivation, Confucianism and Buddhism, ghosts and ghosts, as well as Western mythology, modern witchcraft, plus science fiction, or special functions.
The word xuan fantasy was proposed by the Hong Kong writer Huang Yi, whose masterpieces "Searching for Qin", "Overturning Rain and Clouds", and "The Legend of the Tang Dynasty Double Dragon" were conceived in the sky and flew freely. Compared with traditional martial arts, the characters in it fly to the sky and shatter the void, showing undoubtedly a superpower, which greatly broadened the eyes and ideas of readers at that time. The traditional martial arts pearl jade in the front, no one can surpass the situation, so this type of novel became popular.
Huang Yi's fantasy novel has not yet shaken off the shackles of martial arts novels, but it has been transformed in online literature, and it has also integrated elements of foreign magic novels. Magic novels are based on Western mythology, represented by The Lord of the Rings, Dragon Gun, Harry Potter, etc. in Europe and the United States, influencing a generation of online writers at that time.
Therefore, most of the background worlds and story structures of the early genres of mystical works have a strong Western fantasy color, with elements such as magic, dwarves, swords, gods, orcs, demons, prophets, and elves. In China, such novels are generally called fantasy novels, and there have been a number of well-known works, such as blasphemy, mercenary world, Zichuan, Fengzi Story, And Yiren Proud Record and other works.
But the number of fantasy novels in China is so large that the creators have conceived a variety of strange ideas, and they have already incorporated all these elements into it. Other genre works were derived, such as Xiuzhen novels, Xian Xia novels, and Hong Huang novels.
In the Xiuzhen novel, the word "cultivating truth" refers to seeking the true self, going to the false and storing the truth, also known as xiu xian, cultivating neidan. This kind of novel is characterized by a clear division of cultivation levels, and the originator's work "Journey of Drifting" has delineated a clear cultivation route for this type of work, that is, it is probably the similar realms of practicing qi, building foundation, jindan, yuan baby, and crossing robbery that readers often see, and also began to pay attention to the importance of magic weapons and dan medicine seals for the improvement of strength.
So far, Xiuzhen novels have constructed a set of logical and reasonable background systems with complete world views, and each author can build the world he wants based on this system. It can be seen that most of the current cultivation novels are changing soup and not changing medicine, and although the story background, world structure and cultivation system are different, the development direction of the story is similar.
At the same time, the conception and imagination of the Xiuzhen novel is more eclectic, as mentioned in the introduction of "The Journey of The Ethereal": "Perhaps we will see the continuation of ancient China; Maybe see advanced civilizations; Maybe you'll see tempting magic weapons; Maybe see the remains of the immortals; Maybe see medieval castles in the West; Maybe you'll see all sorts of weird beasts; This is the Journey of Drifting. ”
Xiuzhen novels are illusory and mysterious, often appear soaring and other plots, at this time the novel's oriental ideological elements have greatly increased, I like to talk about the characters in the Taoist Buddha mythology, it is easy to appear the heavenly emperor, Fuxi, Zhu Rong, Gonggong and other ancient gods, as well as the creation god, time and space lord.
The Great War of the Heavenly Emperors, the Catastrophe of All Beings, and even the Strange Continent, travel through time and space, Star Wars, the theme is basically unfettered and therefore more easily accepted by young people.
Below we talk about xianxia novels, the originator of this type of novel can be traced back to the Republic of China era and the "Legend of the Shushan Swordsman", but there is no lack of glorious works in online novels, such as the wild fox under the tree", "Search for God", "Wild Wild", Xiao Ding's "Immortal", "Legend of the Seven Realms", "Legend of the Seven Realms", "Legend of mortal cultivation immortals", Ergen "Immortal Reversal", wandering toad "Xian Hu", innocent "Luofu" and other works.
This kind of novel is mainly about the story of human cultivation immortals, mainly based on the background of ancient eastern elements (such as Zongmen, Heavenly Spirit and Earth Treasure, etc.), with a fixed story framework structure, and cannot arbitrarily mix various imaginations like Xiuzhen novels (such as Star Wars, which can only write about the Three Thousand Worlds and the Thirty-Three Heavenly Wars).
Although there is also a division of cultivation realms, it does not take the simple pursuit of strength as the main line, but pays more attention to a kind of immortal rhyme.
Pay attention to the way of heaven and earth through human emotions, vicissitudes experience, and feel the way of heaven and earth, like martial arts, emphasizing a "chivalrous" word. The difference is that the male protagonist is no longer in the jianghu, but in the world of immortality, wandering freely and across the world.
If the Xiuzhen novel is a cultivation encyclopedia, the male protagonist is like a machine that does not stop cultivating, and is omnipotent, likes to punch his face and pretend to be forced; and Xian Xia is more like writing a Xiu Xian life record, which has the ups and downs of the male protagonist's life, there are also feelings of happiness and revenge, and there is a collision of values that are incompatible with the right and the devil;
At the same time, the male protagonist of the xianxia novel is like a mage, paying attention to long-range attacks, and will use external objects such as runes and magic weapons, rather than other fantasy novel types of male protagonists who are more like a warrior and pay more attention to close combat.
As for the Honghuang novel, the work of the founding father is undoubtedly the dream-like "Buddha is the Tao", which is based on the fengshen yanyi, and combines works such as Journey to the West, the Legend of the White Snake, and the Legend of the Shushan Swordsman to reconstruct the structure of oriental mythology and unfold a grand and wonderful honghuang world architecture.
Because of its familiar style of pure oriental mythological stories, it can be understood and accepted by Chinese readers, and for a time the same type of works were all the rage, which can be said that this kind of novel was born out of the theme of cultivation, and it is better than blue out of blue.
Because this kind of novel was once a big fire, there was no shortage of works that followed the trend, and readers were aesthetically tired for a while, and the same type of creation entered a period of silence for a while. But now another round, with the blessing of the Golden Finger system, ushered in the second spring, and another wave of vigorous creation period.
Therefore, seeing this, everyone should be able to understand the difference and relationship between fantasy novels, fantasy novels, Xiuzhen novels, Xian Xia novels, and HongHuang novels.
Fantasy novels are fantasy in a broad sense, and the collective names of xuan fantasy, xiuzhen, xianxia, and Hong Huangwen can be regarded as a novel theme or as a novel genre. Similar to the genre of urban novels, it is also specifically divided into urban abilities, urban treasure hunting, urban workplace, urban cultivation, local farming and other themes.
Xiu Zhen, Xian Xia, and Hong Huang all belong to the branch of Xuan Fantasy, but with the more mature background, plot and other settings of the branch itself, it has become a vein of its own.
Although fantasy, xiuzhen, xianxia, and Hong Huangwen all have their own very obvious characteristic symbols, these three themes can also be said to have me in you, and I have you, learning from each other. For example, fantasy works take the route of cultivating the true stream, and popular works such as the Tomb of the Gods, Panlong, and Douluo Continent are born;
The development of Xian Xia's works to the later stage of the cultivation of true flow is also very obvious, like the Immortal Xia masterpiece "Mortal Cultivation Immortal Biography", it is no longer like the early Xian Xia work "Immortals" to deeply explore the sect's feuds, the dispute between the demons and the demons, the love and hate entanglement of the characters in the Xian Xia world, more inclined to upgrade Shuangwen, but also integrated the cultivation route of xiuzhen, all the way up and finally became an immortal ancestor;
HongHuangwen even changed the soup and did not change the medicine, which put a cloak on the Honghuang structure for the Xiuzhen works; and the Xianxia Wen and the Honghuang Wen were both based on oriental mythology as the background, and the creative styles of the two, the story content was inevitably colliding, and it was easy to be similar.
With the development of online texts, because of the cultivation and upgrading of xiuzhen novels, the route of pretending to force the face to be more deeply rooted in the hearts of the people and more attractive to readers, this type of creation is more likely to be popular, so this type has become the mainstream of fantasy. Among them, the birth of "Breaking the Sky" has pushed the cultivation and upgrading flow to the peak and become a milestone in the development of fantasy novels.
In short, we can see that the definition of fantasy is obviously beyond Huang Yi's assumption of this word, the idea of fantasy is always free, it is a kind of endless fantasy of the sea and the sky, and it is expected that the fantasy novel will continue to add luster to online literature in the future!
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