In the middle of the summer of 1895, the sun was scorching, and Zhang Hexhui was born in Shangrao County, Jiangxi Province, to a family of generals. Grandfather Zhang Kai's armor is infinite, "can swing a hundred pounds of boulders, such as making projectiles", once accompanied Zeng Guofan to quell the rebellion of Hong Yang, the official to the general (erpin top wearing flower plume). General Zhang has a special skill, which is bamboo chopsticks to clip flies. On a hot summer day, flies come in swarms, buzzing, a little proud, a little arrogant. General Zhang picked up a pair of bamboo chopsticks and stretched them into the air, and a fly was killed in response. The fly that was caught in the middle of the game, but the wings were broken, and the body was still intact (maybe the head of the fly was shattered with internal force, or how could the fly die?). XiaoBian Yulu, hope to be familiar with martial artists to inform).
His father, Zhang Yu, learned martial arts with his grandfather since childhood, and "dozens of people were not allowed to get close to him", and because of the merits of the bandits, he also got a five-pin treatment, but there was no real shortage. If you want to make up for the lack of reality, you have to play various crafts (for specific how to play, see the late Qing Dynasty satirical novel "Official Appearance"). How Nai Zhang Kaijia "has a proud bone, does not know the way of being an official, and is not good at greeting, so he has not been rewarded, and he is still shy for the rest of his life." There was no one in the DPRK, there was no money in his pocket, and seeing that the years were faltering, he had to let his son change his profession and abandon Wu Congwen.
As the saying goes, interlacing does not benefit. Dancing knife and gun for half a lifetime, grabbing the pen at once, how to play is not easy. Zhang Yu only studied in private school, and it was impossible to pass the examination for the jinshi, so he had to change his studies to taxation, "learning the sword is not successful, one line of officials", relying on the unique work of the plan plate in the lijin cardzi to find a master's errand.
Lijin was a commercial tax levied by the Qing government to raise military expenses after the rise of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, because its initial tax rate was 1% (1%), hence the name. The main method of collection of the gold tax is to set up a card to collect a "toll". Collecting the gold tax is originally a fat difference, how can Zhang Yu have the wind of the father, "for people to be upright, anxious for justice and righteousness", so the two sleeves are clean, and after death, only a few acres of thin fields are left, and there is no surplus wealth. During his term of office, he did many good deeds of heroism and righteousness, and won the respect of the people. Once, when thousands of people in two villages were fighting with weapons, and seeing that it was about to erupt, Zhang Yu came with more than a dozen tax policemen and relied on superb martial arts to stop the tragedy.
Zhang Hated Shui's official name Fang Song was based on the Zhang clan genealogy "Zong Nian Zhao Lian Fang, Zu Ze Yi Fu Qing", but it was not used much. Zhang Yu gave his son another name, called Xinyuan, Zhang Hatshui did not hate water before the pen name, used the name Xinyuan. As the name suggests, the heart is high.
Zhang Hateshui is talented, has a reputation as a prodigy since childhood, especially likes endorsements, and almost never forgets. When I was in elementary school, there was a female classmate named Qiu Feng in the class, and the two of them were young and bamboo horses, holding hands and going to school every day. Qiu Feng's mother said that the two children and two little ones have no guesses, and they will definitely become dependents in the future. Unexpectedly, six years later, Zhang Hexhui was still studying in other places, and Qiu Feng married someone, "full of green trees and branches." Zhang Hatshui saw it, and could not help but have a feeling of "peach blossoms on the face of the person".
In 1905, Zhang Hexhui followed Zhang Kaijia to Jiangxi, saw a copy of "The Rendition of the Tang Dynasty" on a small wooden boat, read it, became fascinated, and "fell into the circle of novels" from then on. When I was in the third grade of primary school, Zhang Hexhui was so big at the time, and my family didn't know where to get a traditional Chinese vertical typography of "Yang Jiajian". I don't know the traditional characters, but somehow I read the whole book and not only understood the gist, but also remembered the main characters and plot. When I think about it to this day, I feel particularly strange.
After Zhang Hexhui opened a clue to reading novels, he delayed his business, read novels day and night, and bought novels with pocket money. At that time, the imperial examination had not yet been banned, and Zhang Yu did not embark on the road of scientific examination, so he pinned his hopes on his son, hoping that he would win the first place in one fell swoop and shine on the lintel. How can my son be obsessed with "reading idle books", how can he not be anxious. He severely reprimanded his son, teaching him not to lose his mind as a plaything, and not to eat idle books. It's a pity that reading idle books is addictive, not to say that you can quit with a few words. During the day, Zhang Hateshui secretly got up in the dead of night and lit a candle to see.
Seeing that he couldn't control it, Zhang Hateshui's mother called him, and at that time, he happened to be in na sole (now the children probably don't know what to call Na sole, I was ten years old, wearing the thousand-layer bottom cloth shoes of Jia Ci Na), took the awl casually, and pierced half of his unread book, so that he could recite it at night. Zhang Hatshui was not embarrassed and promised to go away. The next morning, I asked my mother for peace, and without resting my mouth, I memorized half of the book, and there was no mistake. The whole family was stunned.
In 1909, Zhang Kaijia asked a teacher Xu to teach Zhang Hexhui as a tutor. Teacher Xu was the son of Xu, a famous scholar of the Eastern Han Dynasty, who scrupulously adhered to the ancestral precept of "not being an official" for generations and made a living by teaching. Zhang Hexhui admired Teacher Xu very much and felt that Teacher Xu's celebrity style was too good. After being repeatedly beaten by society after becoming an adult, he realized that he had been misled by Teacher Xu and "planted a lifelong root seedling" from an early age.
If you read too much, you have to write, which is a common disease of readers. At the age of seventeen, Zhang Hexhui had read hundreds of novels, and the most impressive were the gods and monsters and martial arts. So he wrote a martial arts novel with a beginning and an end, telling the story of a young hero holding two large copper hammers of one hundred and eighty pounds to subdue the tiger. Writing and writing, I suddenly felt tasteless. It turns out that writing things yourself and watching what others have written, the experience is really "watching people pick up burdens and don't feel tired".
In 1912, Zhang Yu died, and the 18-year-old Zhang Hexhui took up the burden of the family and began a long and arduous journey in life. The 36-year-old mother returned to the countryside with her six children and lived on acres of thin fields. With no money left at home, Zhang Hexhui's studies were forced to be interrupted. Zhang Hexhui, who has been sailing smoothly since childhood, encountered twists and turns, "the family situation suddenly fell from a well-off to a difficult place", as if he was at a loss, running around in the mountains and wilderness all day long.
In 1913, Zhang Hexhui came to Suzhou Reclamation School to study, the first principal of this school was the famous Chen Qimei, Zhang Hexhui went to a few days, Chen Qimei resigned. Due to the shortage of funds, the school is basically in a semi-abandoned state, and the students know that there is no future after graduation, and they have found a way out. Zhang hated ShuiBai bored, so he used the pen name of "Sorrowful Flowers hate Aquatics" to secretly submit articles to the magazine "Novel Monthly" in an attempt to earn some writing fees. Originally, I also had the mentality of trying it out, but I didn't expect that after four or five days, the magazine replied, praising the novel for being well written, "allowing slow selection to be carried."
Zhang Hexhui was ecstatic, it turned out that I was also the material for writing novels, and I could eat by writing novels. So wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, until ten years later, the editor resigned, and his novel was not published, in fact, it was "thrown into the wastepaper basket". People say "allow slow selection", just like now you go to interview people to let you "go home and wait for news", wait until the sky is barren and there is no news, just polite words.
A friend of mine, when I was in junior high school, I liked to read magazines, read a few issues, and found that the writing was very general, what is special, I can also write. So I gave up my schoolwork and concentrated on writing. I submitted the second article and actually published it, giving the manuscript fee of 26 yuan and seven cents. Since then, he has been out of control, thinking that he can eat by writing, and later became a best-selling author, and became famous, so he resolutely abandoned his studies and followed the literature despite his family's opposition, and has been in the past. Later, I became a special writer of a magazine company to know that the magazine has a large number of fixed authors, basically do not accept scattered manuscripts, unless there is really no manuscript, only to get a few scattered manuscripts to make up. My friend, who was one of the people who was counted, was unfortunately mistaken for a lifetime.
If his manuscript had not been published, he would not have abandoned his studies and his life would have been different. Christians always say in prayer, Lord, please don't tempt me (Adam and Eve, the first patriarch of mankind, was tempted by the serpent into the Garden of Eden and could not resist the temptation to eat the fruits of good and evil and was sent down to the mortal world to suffer), so it can be seen that small successes by chance are not good for a person's growth.
Soon, the reclamation school was dissolved, and Zhang Hexhui went home to idle, and at this time he knew what it was to be a "bookworm with no use". He had no art, no direction for finding a job, no one to cite, no one to do farming, and he had no strength to do so, so he could only close the door and study in the house. The reason why I don't go out is that I can't stand the ridicule of the villagers. If you come from a rural area, you will understand that the villagers are very snobbish and mean, with "foolish cunning". Teachers say that the key issue in China is to educate farmers, which can be described as a sharp point. In the eyes of the peasants, only those who have been promoted to higher ranks and made a fortune deserve respect and awe, and if you do nothing, you will be ridiculed in person, and it is difficult to hear anything, not even the hypocritical politeness of the small citizens.
After graduating from college, I couldn't find a job for a while, and I once went home and lived for three months, which is a profound realization. As soon as they went out, the villagers gathered around and said, Oh, the college students are back. Then he said, "Let's go to college in vain." Your mother asked you to herd pigs, you want to study, and now you know that reading is not as good as herding pigs. There are tens of thousands of dollars spent on studying, is it not good to build a house, is it not good to marry a daughter-in-law? Now it's not like us, go back to the village to plant the land, and plant the land, are you that piece of material? In fact, I listened to it well, everyone is bored to live, just find some fun. But when Jia Ci listened, she couldn't bear it, she remembered that half a life of hard work but no results, she couldn't help but feel sad from it, and went home crying bitterly.
In 1915, Zhang Went to Hankou to join a clan brother. This clan brother ran a tabloid, and there was a shortage of writers, so he invited Zhang Hateshui to come and do it together. Zhang Hateshui was idle and idle, so he scribbled casually, anyway, there was no salary for the meal. I didn't expect many people to like to watch. Since then, he has had the pen name of "Hate Water".
When I was in middle school, the Chinese teacher said that the name Zhang Hexhui was related to Ms. Bingxin. Legend has it that the two once had a relationship, but it did not end. Mr. Zhang scolded Ms. Xie why she was so ruthless, and Ms. Xie said that my heart had become ice. Mr. Zhang heard a lot of words, I hate water is not ice. I began to think that this passage was made up by our teacher, but later when I looked at the anecdotes of the people of the Republic of China, I found that it had been spread as early as the Republic of China period, and the two sides had also specifically refuted the rumors.
Zhang Hexhui said, I have read Ms. Xie's books, she is a famous bridesmaid, I am a person who has no use in selling literature for a living, and I have no heart to climb the dragon and attach to the phoenix.
Bing Xin said, Mr. Zhang Hate Water is a senior, I don't know, where to hate water is not ice?
In addition to Ms. Bingxin, there was also a most speculative statement at that time, Zhang Hate Shui had been emotionally injured, "Dream of the Red Chamber" said, "Women are made of water", hate water is to resent the woman who hurt him, Zhang Hate Shui said, "In fact, it is not like that."
Zhang Hexhui's pen name comes from the Southern Tang Dynasty Li Yu's "Meet and Greet": Lin Hua thanked Chunhong, too hurried, helpless to come to the cold rain and late wind. Rouge tears, stay drunk, when is it heavy? Since people grow up to hate water and grow east.
Li Hou Lord's words have the meaning of "time is like water, living in the present". As a flower, the only thing that can be done is to bloom as much as possible in the spring, so as not to waste this life, as for opening or falling, I said it does not count, and there are seasons to change. The son is in Kawakami, and the deceased is like a sif, who does not give up day and night. Zhang Hate Shui intercepts the word "hate water" to spur himself on not to let time pass like water.
In 1918, spring was in full bloom, Zhang Hexhui met an old journalist named Hao Gengren, Hao Jun was a man of ups and downs, quite a Wei and Jin style, he told Zhang Hexhui that if he wanted to make money by writing, the key was a "fast" word. In the Star Ye movie "Kung Fu", the fire cloud evil god said that the martial arts in the world are indestructible, only fast and not broken. This is true from Wu, and it is also true from Wen.
When Zhang Hexhui returned to his hometown again, the townspeople still ridiculed him and used him as a negative teaching material to warn the children not to mix with this kind of absolutely useless person, this kind of person is stupid in reading and reading, living is not as useful as a cow, and the cow can at least plough the field and pull a cart. But at this time, Zhang Hateshui already had a direction, and without the wandering and inferiority of the past, he only had pity and sympathy for the villagers. They lived in the same place all their lives, the farthest they could be to go to the town to catch a small market, bargain with the vendors, be slaughtered half to death, and think they had earned money. They use their limited cognition to explain everything in the world, there is no ideal, there is no future, and some are just numbness and hardship day after day.
In 1919, when everything sprouted, Zhang Hexhui came to Beijing and met the newspaper big man Chengshe, who was just an ordinary editor at that time, and he introduced Zhang Hexhui as an assistant editor and laid a hand for himself. When he entered the newspaper office, he knew that it was a fantasy to make money by submitting articles. In addition to a few well-known large clubs that occasionally give a little writing fee, many small clubs are articles by white prostitute authors, sending up to a few stamps for you to vote again next time. Lu Xun wrote about the tragic experience of this kind of literary youth in "Wounded Death".
In the busy and noisy newspaper work day after day, Zhang Hexhui practiced the ability to write "fast" articles. He was doing the most tiring and hard work in the newspaper, writing five or six thousand words a day, others drinking coffee and sleeping and playing cards, and he had to pick out the lights and fight at night. On the one hand, I wrote for this newspaper, and on the other hand, I also took on some private work and wrote for other newspapers. This kind of highly time-sensitive manuscript is given money by all newspapers, and the remuneration is not low, three dollars for a thousand words, and you can earn more than two hundred a month. You must know that Lu Xun has become a top big man in the literary world, and the thousand words are only two or three pieces, and he is always dragged and not given. So Teacher Zhou said, I never make money by writing.
If you want to make quick money, you have to chase hot spots, a hundred years ago, and it is true today.
Immediately after, Zhang HateShui's opportunity came. Chengshe I came out to do it alone and pulled him into the gang. Newspapers are composed of main periodicals and supplements, which are carrying very serious things such as current political news, and supplements write about the pastimes of the wind, flowers, snow and moon. Zhang Hexhui was responsible for the supplement because of his strong literary and artistic style. In order to ensure newspaper sales, he began to write novels, publishing 1,800 words a day to attract a fixed reader, in today's parlance, called "accumulation of powder".
The first book was "The History of Chunming Foreign History", followed by "The Family of Gold Powder", "Laughing Karma", and since then it has been out of control. After the "History of Chunming Foreign History" broke out, every day at two or three o'clock in the afternoon, a long queue was lined up in front of the newspaper office, just for a sneak peek, and the row was five years.
Another major reason why Zhang's novels are so popular is that they target the main readership, that is, the housewives of the civic class. These people have nothing to do at home every day, except to buy vegetables and cook, that is, wait for their children to finish school, wait for their husbands to leave work, and have too much leisure time, and can only rely on reading novels to pass. They are literate, have spare time, have money (at least the money for a newspaper is still there), and are the main target customers.
When I was writing a physical book, the editor of the publishing house told me that the money of women and children is the best to earn, and the money of adult men is the worst. Men don't read books when they come, there is a little time to drink and brag about it, you see how many men around you read books. Second, men are very busy, they have to earn money to support their families, and they don't have time to read. No money, no idleness. But women and children are the main spenders in the family, so you see those who write and make a lot of money are written for women and children.
With customers, they must also provide products that customers like in order to stimulate their desire to buy. What do housewives like to see? Of course, it is a talented beauty of the wind and snow moon, realizing her dream of a girl. Zhang Hexhui wrote most of these novels, so it was classified as the "Mandarin Duck Butterfly Sect". Of course, he has also written a number of novels of other genres and themes, but mainly this category.
Lu Xun's mother Lu Rui is Zhang Hate Water Iron Powder, Teacher Zhou every day after work, have to go to the newsstand to see if Zhang Hate Water is updated, update it and buy a piece to go back, read it first, the mother has something she can't understand, so she carefully tells her. Later, when I moved to Shanghai, I couldn't take the knee to accept the joy, so I bought a twelve copies of "The Golden Powder Family" and sent them to my mother, and wrote in the letter that this was zhang hexhui's real work (at that time, there were hundreds of fake and shoddy works signed by Zhang Hexhui on the market, and they all sold well, so that many people did not distinguish between authenticity and falsity), but I had not yet read it, and I did not know what the content was.
In addition to writing romance novels, Zhang Hateshui is writing martial arts novels, and love and violence will always be the best-selling themes in this world. Zhang Hexhui came from a family of martial arts, writing martial arts novels is naturally handy, grandfather and father told him a lot of stories about martial arts Haojie from childhood, casually polished and modified, it is a bestseller. Zhang Hexhui has written many well-known martial arts novels, such as "Sword and Guts QinXin", "The Legend of the Heroes of the Central Plains", "The New Biography of Water Margin" and so on. The instructor gave "Water Margin New Biography" a high evaluation.
In the war of resistance against Japanese aggression, Zhang Hexhui wrote many anti-Japanese novels to encourage the popularity of the country. The most famous is "Long Live the Tiger". The book describes the tragic and magnificent scene of the 57th Division of the 74th Army, code-named "Tiger Ben", who fought together to defend Changde for more than ten days in the encirclement of more than 60,000 Japanese troops. There are more than 8,000 people in the division, only 83 people have survived, and they can sing and cry, and they are full of mountains and rivers.
After Zhang hated water and fire, his works quickly affected high society, and even Chen Yinke was a fan of him. In 1945, during the Kuomintang-Communist negotiations, the instructor received Zhang Hexhui, and the two talked for more than two hours, and when they parted, the old man gave him the wool, millet and red dates produced in Yan'an. After Zhang Hexhui returned home, he said with deep feeling that Mr. Mao was knowledgeable and a great figure.
Zhang Hateshui's motto is "Becoming Gradual". The rope sawn wood is broken, the water drops are worn by stones, and everything in the world is a "boiling" word. To keep the clouds open and see the moon, the key is a "keep" word. Many men stood guard, but when they did not see the moon coming out, they withdrew. At that time, Mingyue once told her own successful experience: those who are more diligent than me are not talented, and those who are more talented than me can survive.
Zhang Hexhui has never been rich in pen cultivation all his life, and has never had holidays, unless he is bedridden and cannot afford to be sick, and he is struggling to write a book every moment, or he is chanting in a scroll. His son recalled, "Jiayan was always the first in the family to get up and sleep the last." Zhang Hateshui himself said, "I am a donkey pushing and grinding, not working for a day, and I am uncomfortable." "Writing is just a livelihood, like a small business such as setting up a stall, plain as a thing, real as a si." In his lifetime, he wrote but not limited to novels, poems, reviews, essays, essays, operas, sketches, notes, essays, etc. More than 30 million words, "works and other bodies" four words, can be described as deserved.
Lao She said that Zhang Hexhui was a real professional writer and had to write three or four thousand words a day. He has the habit of no literati, does not gamble money, does not drink, does not have long hair, does not shave his head, does not wear strange clothes, unless necessary to socialize, if he has leisure, he is to paint landscapes and flowers.
In later generations, the popular fiction writer who was most deeply influenced by Zhang Hexhui and the closest to Zhang Hexhui's path from the literary road was Jin Yong. Jin Yong was also born as a newspaperman, relying on serial martial arts novels to open the sales channel of "Ming Pao", and eventually became famous as a writer of martial arts novels. In the "Fifty Lectures on Popular Literature" edited by Professor Kong Qingdong of Peking University, there are only two people in one writer, one is Zhang Hexhui, and the other is Jin Yong.