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Recently, at the 2023 China Science Fiction Conference "Chao Fantasy Adventure" held in Shougang Park in Beijing, Yin Chuanhong, president of Bofeng Culture and vice president of China Popular Science Writers Association, Ling Chen, representative of contemporary female science fiction writers and director of China Popular Science Writers Association, Chen Hongyu, genre fiction writer, game world architect and screenwriter, Jin Linhui, one of the founders of Chinese science fiction art, and representative figure of Chinese avant-garde art, "Machine Music World" The author, Bi Heng, discusses how to integrate the charming Chinese philosophy and traditional culture such as Chinese thought into science fiction and inspire more science fiction works with Chinese characteristics.
Forum guests: Ling Chen, Jin Linhui, Bi Heng, Yin Chuanhong, Chen Hongyu (from left to right)
How to combine Chinese traditional culture with science fiction, and spread Chinese culture and spirit through the trend of science fiction, has become a hot topic in recent years. During the forum, the creative concept of "China's core, the shell of the world" embodied in Bi Heng's work "Machine Music World" became the focus of this event. For Chinese science fiction, the movie "The Wandering Earth" is a successful case, which embodies the spirit of collective strength to jointly respond to the global crisis with the Chinese nation, never abandoning the homeland, and respecting life to the greatest extent, successfully highlighting the Chinese science fiction romance on the world literary stage. The success of the "The Wandering Earth" movie is calling for more science fiction works that inherit Chinese spirit and culture.
Bi Heng's science fiction novel "Machine Music World" inherits oriental traditional culture with future technological aesthetics.
As a pioneering artist in China, Bi Heng has been committed to combining traditional culture with future technology and popular trends since the creation of the artistic concept of "China's core, the shell of the world". In the field of artistic creation, he is China's first aerospace cultural and creative ambassador, and has successively carried out cross-border artistic cooperation with first-line brands and well-known IPs such as Disney Group, Paramount Pictures, China Aerospace, Beijing Wangjing, NIO, and "The Wandering Earth 2". In the field of science fiction, Bi Heng insists on inheriting oriental traditional culture with future scientific and technological aesthetics, perfectly integrating the core of China's 5,000-year-old cultural tradition with the international scientific and technological fashion trend shell, and then deconstructing and reshaping the current expression with art.
Bi Heng introduced the architecture of his "World of Joy", which embodies the creative concept of "China's core, the shell of the world".
"Machine Music World" is not only a science fiction work full of "Zen", but also a new creative mode full of the unique charm of Chinese science fiction. As a domestic science fiction work, "Machine Music World" carries the arduous mission of science fiction people - to make young people fall in love with traditional culture and let Chinese culture go global. The emergence of creative images such as "Panda Robot", "Dasheng Robot" and "Guan Gong Robot" stems from Bi Heng's efforts in the integration of Eastern and Western cultures. Combining the mecha and sci-fi elements that are popular with the Chinese and Western public, adding Chinese sinology as a seasoning, it realizes the communication and integration of different cultures, and uses a fresh way to make Chinese traditional culture go to the world.
In addition to the treacherous story plot, wild imagination and delicate and vivid details description, Bi Heng integrates Buddhism, Confucianism, Taoism, I Ching and other Chinese philosophies into his works, telling the process of the robot boy wanting to grow into a "human", and finally realizing that as long as he has a kind "heart", it is the unique quality of "human". The story is like a journey to the West, experiencing hardships and finally realizing the Tao, cultivating the right fruit, "people" are "demons", "I have the final say". The work gives the relationship between artificial intelligence and human beings a Chinese-style interpretation perspective, and science fiction has Chinese characteristics.
"Machine World" was warmly received, and children and parents took photos with the author.
In the forum sharing at the China Science Fiction Convention, Bi Heng further analyzed the creative concept of "Machine Music World" from multiple dimensions, as well as his own thoughts on the future development of oriental science fiction. In his view, the development of science and technology has provided impetus for the prosperity of science fiction and is also the focus of science fiction works, but as a literary form, thought and philosophy are the fundamental demands it wants to express. Experts attending the meeting also agreed that science fiction is about the imagination of the future world, which has a unique role in stimulating imagination and cultivating creativity, and is also an important carrier to strengthen the popularization of science and improve the scientific quality of the whole people. Bi Heng's "Machine Music World" not only has a cool shell of Western Hollywood, but also contains the wisdom of thousands of years of Vipassana wisdom of ancient Eastern civilizations, empowers science fiction with art, and presents the charm of oriental science fiction unique to China, which has left a strong mark in the history of world science fiction literary creation.
Since the birth of science fiction, science fiction and science, science fiction and reality, have been inextricably linked. Especially in recent years, the new development of science and technology in the new era has stimulated the creative passion of a large number of writers. In the field of science fiction literature, creators have recorded the sonorous sound of scientific and technological progress through their works, writing about major projects, heavy weapons of the country, Chinese speed, and Chinese miracles, and making more and more young people fall in love with science. A "Machine Music World", not only has a grand pattern, a big opening and closing of time and space imagination, but also a grasp of young readers' reading habits and interest hotspots, completing the perfect integration of scientific and technological ideas, Chinese traditional culture, and science fiction elements, allowing more people to get closer to science fiction, understand science fiction, and fall in love with science fiction.
Review: Yu Fanghua