Recently, Zhang Yucheng, a young literary youth in Jingshan City, created a year-long Xian xia novel "Jiayi Biography", which was personally inscribed by the famous writer Jia Pingwa, and the film and television copyright has also been successfully sold, and will soon meet the audience in the form of film and television dramas.
The novel "The Legend of Jiayi" tells the story of a thousand-year-old fox demon who surrendered for the Buddha because he repeatedly hurt the innocent, became the "messenger of the Buddha's side", and when the Buddha died, because he blocked the protector from robbing the Buddha's relic, he did not hesitate to eat the relic, fell into the human world, became the princess of the Great Song Dynasty, and staged a story of the three realms of strife, heroic beauty, and immortals who were destined for three lives.
The author Zhang Yucheng is a "third-level" disabled person, in the article "A Jingshan Literary and Art Youth Visits the Famous Writer Jia Pingwo Teacher", he wrote: "When he was two months old, due to a cold and high fever for several days, he was left with a lifelong disability, mainly manifested as the tendon tendons on the back of his legs were too short (unable to land on the ground), his hands were not sensitive, his speech was difficult, his reaction was sluggish, etc. He was enlightened at the age of four and eight, during which he passed two surgeries (the tendon tendon was cut off after the slope was cut off, and the docking was extended), and he ended his school career at the age of nineteen, and his education was the first year of ordinary high school ”。
At the beginning of 2019, after returning to his hometown in Jingshan from Beijing, Zhang Yucheng has been struggling in novel writing, completing the audition novel "Jiayi Biography" during the epidemic period, and obtaining the title of the book written by the famous writer Jia Pingwa.
Zhang Yucheng said, "The Legend of Mi Yue and The Flower thousand bones are very successful, they are all set with 'women' as the protagonists, inspired by this to write 'Jiayi Biography', also with the heroine 'Jiayi' as the core to start the story."
In recent years, many online novels such as "Son-in-law", "Si Teng", "Emperor Industry" and other adapted film and television dramas have gained extremely high popularity and word of mouth, frequently appearing on hot searches, and even becoming blockbuster dramas; in terms of animation derivatives, "Douluo Continent", "Mortal Immortal Legend", "Breaking the Sky", "Devouring the Starry Sky", "Spirit Sword Zun", "Vulcan Domination", "One Thought Eternity", "One Step Away", "Peerless Martial Soul" and other novels have also achieved good market performance. Relevant data show that in 2019, IP dramas accounted for 47% of the TOP30 TV dramas, and the number of IP dramas in 2020 accounted for more than 80%.
All along, film and television have borrowed power from literature in order to climb higher artistic halls, such as "Ordinary World", "Red Sorghum", "Fanghua", "White Deer Plain", "Overlord Farewell" and so on. At present, many excellent pure literary works need to use the power of film and television to achieve transcendent influence, Jia Pingwa's "Qin Cavity", Su Tong's "Yellow Bird", Wang Meng's "This Side of the Landscape", Xu Zechen's "North" and so on have announced that they will be filmed.
Industry insiders believe that once the vast majority of works are transformed into film and television, animation, games, etc., the original books will also be sold accordingly and multiplied.
At present, Zhang Yucheng's "Jiayi Biography" has reached a cooperation with War Horse Journey (Beijing) Film Co., Ltd., and the founder of the company, Ma Junnan, is particularly fond of the film and television works of the Xian Xia theme, and he frankly said that "in today's era of 'content is king', the incubation of high-quality novels into IP will be an inevitable trend in the future film and television industry." The two parties agreed to pay the author's remuneration by way of a share after the film and television work was released.
About author:Zhang Yucheng, male, born in 1986 in Jingshan City, Hubei Province, is now a member of the Provincial Writers Association, has tried in prose, film and television scripts and novels, and is now mainly engaged in novels, accumulating more than one million words. It is expected that in 2022, the novel "Jiayi Biography" will be officially published, and in September, he will write a 500,000-word historical novel "Sorrowful Song of Lonely City"; in 2023, he will publish "Sorrowful Song of Lonely City", and complete the 450,000-word autobiographical novel "The Old Man of Mountains and Rivers" in that year.
There are five chapters in "Mountains and Rivers", namely "Overall Memories of Hometown and Childhood", "Difficult Academic Career", "Wandering after Leaving School, Helpless Life Path", "Growth and Transformation from 2012 to 2022", and "Beautiful Vision for the Future and Conversion to Daguan".
Soon it will be the "May Fourth Youth Day", as a disabled youth, Zhang Yu set up a will to live up to this great era, gather the strength of the rest of his life, and make a wish to use the pen in his hand to pave the way for national rejuvenation and build bridges for national rejuvenation and add bricks and tiles to the construction of the motherland!
(Source: Beijing Youth Daily reporter Shou Penghuan)