The latest historical and cultural reading book by the prisoner of the writer's history, "The Hormones of History 4: The Persistence and Hesitation of the Ancients", was recently launched, and the book was recommended by Yi Zhongtian, Mengman, Zhao Wenzhuo, Zhan Hao, Huang Doudou and other famous celebrities across borders.
The prisoners of writer history take reality as flesh and blood, humor as the soul, select storytelling characters from four angles such as famous kings, famous courtiers, celebrities, and celebrities to carry out research, apply modern lifestyles, tell different stories, and let readers explore the hearts of historical figures more deeply and in multiple dimensions, and appreciate the grandeur of Chinese history.
On the 9th, Changjiang Literature and Art Publishing House invited a number of media to conduct online interviews with the writer himself. The original text of the interview is as follows:
Reporter: I am very happy that the "Hormones of History" series has produced new works, what is your opportunity and original intention in creating this series of works?
Writer: The original intention of publishing this set of books has not changed, that is, to explore the shining light of the ancients to motivate themselves and motivate readers. That is to say, the hormones in the ancients can stimulate the hormones in the present. The challenges and dilemmas encountered by the ancients are still encountered by us, so their choices and experiences can be used by me. For example, the idol of many people is Su Dongpo, not only referring to his literary achievements, but also because of his cheerful attitude towards life, he has been degraded again and again, encountering adversity again and again, but still optimistic. We should also learn from his attitude towards life now.
This is also the gist of what I have always pursued in my writing, and in addition to teaching us knowledge, history is more important to provide warmth to today's people.
Reporter: This work should be an original work, so on which platforms are your articles usually published? Why use "Prisoner of History" as a pen name?
Writer: It is the original work. The article is only published on the WeChat public account platform, and there is currently no new media account on other platforms.
Regarding the origin of the prisoners of history, it is felt that from a spatial point of view, the heavens and the earth are cages, and my generations are prisoners, and we can never go out. In terms of time, there are too many mysteries in history, and some of them are deliberately glorified or ugly by writers, and it is difficult for us to have a true and definite answer. I think later people are prisoners of history.
Many people think that this name is not very good, and suggest that I change it, but I only prefer this name. Chronologically, history is made up of mysteries, many of which are artificial obstacles, using sweaty and cattle-scale words to cover up the falsification, so many of the texts we see now are not credible. On the main road of history, on the small road of gossip, we are easy to get lost, not that we are not smart, only blame too many misleading "ancient tour guides", you say we are not prisoners of history?
Reporter: Taking Fan Chengda's section "Don't Eat This Set" as an example, your writing has a stem and is very powerful on the Internet. How does this kind of writing balance fun with the seriousness of history? What materials do you have to collect for a character tweet, and how long do you write?
Writer: I still hope that in my writing, the core of history is infinitely close to the truth, and there are many sources of information to confirm each other, on this basis, the expression can be interesting and vivid.
Before writing about the relevant book boxes and characters, I will buy some related books, but there are some more credible characters and historical events, and I will speculate more. In general, if you are fast, write an article in more than an hour, and a slow one may take a few days
Reporter: We found that each series has a subtitle, for example, the subtitles of the first three series are called "The Choices and Emotions of the Ancients", "The Blood and Wandering of the Ancients", "The Romance and Loneliness of the Ancients", and in the fourth series, there is "The Persistence and Hesitation of the Ancients". We wonder why you have this definition of books, or what kind of thinking you want to convey to your readers? What is so special about this series that distinguishes it from the first three series?
Writer: The subtitle of the book is agreed with the editor according to the specific content of the book, reflecting some special things in the ancients, and sometimes these things are still opposites. Because of opposites, there are contradictions and conflicts, and they are good-looking. However, it is more difficult to start a good title, and it is really difficult to be imaged and accurate, and you can only find ways to get close to the content of the book. This series is a continuation of the first three series, and it feels that the content of the book involves more perseverance in the ancients, so it was named.
Reporter: With the deepening of the social popularization of history, there are many authors and many readers. Will this type of writing become more difficult today than it used to be? Do you feel that the face and taste of your readers have changed?
Writer: There are many people to write history, and there are many readers, which is a very good thing, everyone exchanges and learns from each other, and makes progress together. I think writing is not more difficult than before, but it is really difficult to rush out of countless authors, this is more difficult, because there are more homogeneous things, and readers need new historical facts, judgments and experiences.
The number of people who read history has always been relatively stable, so in the field of new media writing, fans generally do not lose, and their tastes have been moderately raised, mainly in the pursuit of new historical facts and new expressions. In addition, there are more and more young readers in the historical readership.
Reporter: In this historical and cultural essay, we see that there is a certain gap between your writing of various characters and the historical figures we have come into contact with in textbooks in the past. How do you see the relationship between literary writing and history?
Writers: Historical figures in textbooks, in the terminology of news, are press releases, and the ancients who appear in the press releases are only the tip of the iceberg, and they have a large number of stories and spirits waiting for us to excavate and speculate. The textbook has the function of a textbook, which corresponds to the exam, so it is full of time and conclusions, which is more tasteless. Literary books are better than history books because they are more lively in form of expression, but they are not in fact an antagonistic relationship. For example, in Sima Qian's historical records, there are a lot of details described, but Sima Teacher is not present, which belongs to the category of combining literature and history.
Reporter: In the fourth series, we saw that you have a kind of identity attribute for the characters in the work, namely "famous kings", "famous courtiers", "famous scholars" and "celebrities", and use this as a standard to tell various characters in chapters. Why do these people become the center of gravity of your writing?
Writer: History is stingy and desolate, and it is difficult for ordinary people to leave traces in the history books. Relatively speaking, famous kings, famous courtiers, celebrities, and celebrities are the key figures in various historical periods. Their works and stories reflect the great times of that time. That is to say, that kind of person, that kind of personality, will only produce in that era, and by exploring the spirit of those characters, it is also an effective entrance to that era, which is a very interesting thing. For example, the history of Tang was officially compiled, and some of the contents are doubtful, but combined with the works of Li Bai, Du Fu, Bai Juyi, and Wang Wei, the Tang Dynasty is three-dimensional and much more visible.
Reporter: In your article, there is an article "Those Little Sisters who Ride the Wind and Waves in History", which can be said to be written about women from a male perspective, from a literary point of view, what kind of understanding do you have of the marriage and love mentioned in the article?
Writer: Of course, it is from the perspective of modern people to look at the love and marriage of ancient women. Recently, the deputies of the two sessions suggested that unmarried women over the age of 30 could have a single child. It feels that the tolerance and friendliness of society are very high, in contrast, the ancient women are much more difficult than they are now, and they face more ups and downs. Just like Li Qingzhao, the first talented woman in the ancient world, in the face of national hatred and family hatred, divorced and went to prison, even the fact that she has talent has also been disliked by the world. In ancient times, women, in addition to the court and female writers, seem to be more difficult to stay in history. Therefore, it is particularly precious and rare to leave a name. Many people think that Wang Mang and Wang Anshi are now traveling through the past, in fact, Li Qingzhao is also a woman like herself.
Reporter: Through reading, we also learned that your writing style of history is more closely related to reality, how do you deal with the relationship between history and reality in your works?
Writer: The first is to have some connection with real topics, and the second is to have more modern colors in the expression of sentence vocabulary, especially in online language. Achieve a kind of empathy with the ancients. Before said that the ancients are firm, hesitant, hot-blooded, wandering, romantic, lonely... These emotions affect their decisions, in fact, put them on us, will they also make decisions like that? Many people cry when they read Tang and Song ci, including Chairman Mao who was still reading the works of the Song Dynasty before his death, and this influence and empathy is a lifetime. Times change, but human nature never changes.
Reporter: Who is the readership of this book mainly aimed at, and do you have any interesting things about communication and interaction with readers?
Writer: Aimed at people who are interested in the study of history, especially those who have spiritual communication with the ancients. Readers usually urge changes, but the current speed can only be like this, because they have their own jobs and have to take care of the baby. I think the most interesting thing is that through historical writing, I got to know a group of descendants of the great V of history, such as zhu Xi's descendants, Cao Cao's descendants, Qiu Chuji's descendants, etc., I don't know if it is true or false, but it is very interesting, I will ask them for evidence, joke, there are no photos of a group photo together.
Reporter: Do you have any writing plans for the future? If so, can you tell us what the theme is?
Writer: At the moment I have 5 series of books running at the same time. One is the hormonal series of history, the second is the 5-minute hilarious ancients series, the third is the ancients chat series, the fourth is the ancient story series, and the fifth is the ancient poetry series. The above series is mainly book-based.
Reporter: I would like to ask the teacher, when can children's historical enlightenment begin? In what way is it better?
Writer: From my observation, 3 years old can contact history comics, six or seven years old can read history books with a lot of text, don't underestimate children, now a few years old history fans are very many.
Reporter: Are you now writing full-time? Or do you write while you work? There are also many authors who write history, what do you think is unique about you? Write the history out of the contemporary sense, let the contemporary people love to see, can you share the secret?
Writer: There is still a job in the system, writing 2 hours a morning and 4-5 hours in the evening. Not necessarily unique, last year my book once landed on the first place in the Jingdong best-seller list, printed several times a month, I think the reason why everyone recognizes is that my text is more interesting, there are many books on the market, but there are too many knowledge transmissions, and very few emotions are transmitted.
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History is wonderful, not only because there are highs and lows, there is blood and warmth, there is wandering and determination, but also because there are hormones. Therefore, this book is readable. ——Yi Zhongtian
The reason why the historical figures in the author's pen can move people is because the author is heartfelt and pours his feelings into the writing object, which produces a strong sense of substitution. - Monman
I have played many historical figures, and I often wonder about their hearts. The prisoner of history writes history, like peeling an onion, approaching the ancients step by step, humorous and humorous, self-contained, and it is written so well, I like it. ——Zhao Wenzhuo
Wonderful trial reading
Fan Chengda: We don't eat this set of Song
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My name is Fan Chengda, a native of Suzhou, and my grandfather is Cai Xiang, so my word is also liked by many people.
Many people say that I am one of the four great Poets of the Southern Song Dynasty, and I feel that my most important thing is not to write poetry, but to go to the Golden Kingdom and live up to the mission.
At that time, the Longxing Northern Expedition failed, and Jin Guo felt that we still wanted to toss, and was very angry, demanding that the diplomatic terms be revised, and this task fell to me. Sending envoys north is the emperor's intention. Chen Junqing, the left minister, was dismissed from his post because he did not agree with this diplomatic arrangement, and Chen Liangyou, vice minister of the ministry of public affairs, was relegated to his hometown of Jiangxi, and a diplomat named Li Tao refused to go on an envoy mission because of his timidity and capital crime.
My heart was worried, not afraid, but because I was so bullied by a northern barbarian that even diplomatic relations were unequal, we could only blindly whisper.
When I was given the task, I closed the door and thought about how to deal with it.
Emperor Xiaozong was my leader, and he was very idealistic, so there was the Northern Expedition that everyone was looking forward to. The task he gave me, as a courtier, is certainly unshirkable.
It's just that Madame has been sighing and sighing, feeling that this act is more vicious and less auspicious, and it is possible to become a prisoner like Su Wu, "Eating Snow Dinner".
The proud side of my literati suddenly grew, and I had this trip in this life, magnificent!
I want to give an example to those who dare not move forward, if something happens and everyone withdraws, we will have no hope at all.
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Finally set off, it was my first time out when I was growing up.
My colleagues and I have passed through Suzhou, Bieliang and other places where the Jin and Song Wars once occurred, and although more than 40 years have passed, my heart is still full of humiliation. The defeat of the war directly led to the decline of national fortunes.
I really didn't want to go back alive, so I took a lot of pictures and wrote a lot of text along the way.
In Bieliang, our group stayed for a few days, and from time to time a homeless man with a vegetable face came to me and asked me, when can I recover the lost land?
Fellow travelers told me that the Rulers of the Jin Dynasty often used their habits to demand the Song, such as shaving their heads. The Jin people especially like to wash and cut blows, especially not accustomed to the long hair of our southerners, so they issued a mandatory shaving order.
What is the most important thing in life? Freedom, of course. Now we keep our heads, but we can't keep our hair, and we're in a very bad mood.
The golden dogs have no culture, really don't understand what respect is, don't they really know that we Song people don't eat their set? Seeing the expectant eyes of the masses in the occupied areas, as far as the eye could see, there were ruined walls everywhere, and I cried bitterly several times. In the former imperial palace, I saw the rockery built by the former emperor with a flower stone class, and I had mixed feelings and wrote two poems: "Who pitied lei Lei lei in the middle of the river, once went up to the king long live the mountain." ”
Everyone knows that Bieliang City used to be very lively, but now, everything is prosperous, like a spring dream, and when you wake up, you don't see it.
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At that time, the supreme leader of the Jin Dynasty was named Guanyan Yong, who was the grandson of Guanyan Akuta and the cousin of Wanyanliang.
Speaking of Yan Liang, that was the person who hurt my Great Song the most, and was a war maniac. However, don't look at his teeth and claws, and later only lived for 39 years. Here I would like to say that people are doing it, and the sky is watching!
At the age of 39, Yue Fei, the hero of our Great Song Dynasty, also passed away at this age. He once gathered the majestic strength of our Great Song Dynasty to resist the enemy. Now only we weak readers maintain a little face.
After passing through Bieliang, we also went to several important places of interest and historical sites, such as the tomb of Bian Que, the prison place of King Wen of Zhou, the city of Cao Cao and the former capital of the Zhao Kingdom, Handan, and when we saw the scenery and compatriots there, my paper towels were not enough. We know that the literati are inherently sentimental.
In the past, I only knew about the loss of land in the north in legends and various books, but now my vision, hearing, and touch are surrounded, and I can't help it.
I dare not forget at any time that during the jingkang disaster, the two former emperors, Huizong and Qinzong, were ordered by Jin Guo to take out the family barrel. I have written a lot of poems to relieve depression, and I have never had such a strong desire to create before. One of them is like this.
North and south of the state bridge is the sky street, the father of the elderly years and so on to drive back.
Holding back tears and losing his voice, when will there really be six armies coming?
Is it full of powerlessness and sadness?
Yes, everyone is asking, and I am asking, when will we regain the lost land?
The homeland is gone, whose rivers and mountains?
But the country is in turmoil, and this goal is a bit far away.
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