Huang Yi
Huang Yi (1952-2017), formerly known as Huang Zuqiang, was born in Hong Kong, his ancestral home is Fangchenggang, Guangxi, a famous martial arts literature master and a master of fantasy literature in Hong Kong, and one of the founders and founders of China's internet literature.
Graduated from the University of Chinese in Hong Kong, he specialized in traditional Chinese painting during his studies, and quit his job in 1989 to live in seclusion on Lantau Island to concentrate on creation.
On Wednesday, April 5, 2017, he suffered a stroke and died in hospital at the age of 65.
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Huang Yi, who specialized in traditional Chinese painting during his studies, became the assistant director of the Hong Kong Museum of Art after winning the "Weng Lingyu Art Award", responsible for promoting local art and cultural exchanges between east and west.
In 1989, he resigned from his high post and paid a good salary, and lived in seclusion in the mountains of the outlying islands, where the wind and water gathered, and concentrated on creation. By the 1990s, it swept through Hong Kong and Taiwan with its unique martial arts works.
In 1991, Huangyi Publishing House Co., Ltd. was established, and his works include: "Rain and Clouds", "Legend of the Great Swordsman", "Time and Space Wave Clan", "Interstellar Prodigal Son", "Search for Qin", "Broken Void", "Super Soldier", "The Legend of Datang Double Dragon" and so on.
Huang Yiqi's works "In Search of Qin", "The Legend of Datang Shuanglong", and "Rain and Clouds" have been successively put on the screen by TVB, all of which have been well received.
In November 2012, Huang Yi re-emerged from the jianghu and launched a new work "Sun and Moon When the Sky" was launched by Hunan People's Publishing House at the fastest speed, setting a record for Huang Yi's novels to be published in Chinese mainland. The book was released nationwide on December 2, 2012.
On November 29, 2012, the "2012 Seventh China Writers Rich List" was released, and Huang Yi was listed on the Writers Rich List for the first time with an annual royalty income of 2.4 million yuan, ranking 22nd and winning the important award of "2012 Seventh Chinese Writers Rich List Annual Martial Arts Grandmaster", which attracted widespread attention.
In 2015, Huang Yi's famous novel "The Legend of Datang Shuanglong" was genuinely authorized, and the ARPG mobile game "Datang Shuanglong" developed and distributed by Sohu Changyou was released this year.
In 2015, developed by Taiwan's China NetDragon, authorized by Mr. Huang Yi, combined with Huang Yi's four famous works "The Legend of The Tang Dynasty", "Rain and Clouds", "Legend of the BorderLands", "Searching for Qin", the MMORPG mobile game "Huang Yi Sent", was released in Taiwan, and specially invited the cool male god Lan Zhenglong as the spokesperson for the game "Huang Yi Sent".
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Editing from the first work on martial arts and Heavenly Dao, "Broken Void", Huang Yi indulged in the world of martial arts creation. Later, set against the backdrop of the chaotic rivers and lakes of the early Ming Dynasty, "Over the Rain and Clouds" skillfully integrated the politics of the times, yin and yang theories and philosophies, not only establishing its important position, but also constructing a moving and unique martial arts world, which swept countless martial arts readers. Subsequently, with the continuous innovation of the technique, he eagerly thought about injecting new elements into the traditional martial arts, and created "In Search of Qin", which combines history, science fiction, war and strategy, which has once again become a masterpiece for martial arts fans. And "The Legend of the Two Dragons of the Tang Dynasty" explores the impermanence of the Heavenly Dao, the ultimate in martial arts and the true appearance of life through the chaotic world at the end of the Sui Dynasty, and constantly expands the territory of martial arts and his own creative territory! Become the standard-bearer of Hong Kong and Taiwanese martial arts novels in the 1990s!
Under the trend that wuxia novels have been in the doldrums for a long time and the martial arts market has been mostly divided by sound and light and image media such as movies, television, and comics, why can Huang Yi's martial arts novels win the favor of readers, and under the increasingly weak text patience of modern young readers, he has written three long-form structures of more than two million words in a row, and always has a huge readership?
As Huang Yi describes the works of his two favorite martial arts masters, Jin Yong and Sima Ling: "Both of them have reached the level of maturity and immaculate state, and they are full of charm. Jin Yong's depictions of the characters are vivid and vivid on paper; Sima Ling's portrayal of human nature is three points, bold and direct, insightful and philosophical, and overlooked... They all each created a martial arts world that can justify themselves, with flesh and blood! And Huang Yi's requirements and presentation of his own works are also in line with and prove this.
Since the decline of the "new school" of martial arts, many authors have continued to work hard, hoping to absorb foreign techniques, innovate patterns, or be more modern and more secular acceptance, trying to open up the way for martial arts and inject new blood. However, one of the general trends, more stimulating dazzling popular products gradually prevailed; the other was that the results of efforts were not outstanding, and there were few successful people. Some people emphasize the innovation of writing skills too much, and are out of touch with the public reading habits; some are too secular, or a large number of modern languages, the flavor is lost, or they tend to be vulgar, and they become gags and inferior. How to strike a balance between innovation, popularity, and maintaining the original flavor and showing the unique style of Chinese martial arts has always been a problem facing today's martial arts creators.
The feeling that Huang Yi's works give readers is quite modern. The clear text and bright rhythm set off the plot like a dynamic scene, which appears in the reader's mind, making people feel like they are in the scene. As a master, he raised life and death to the height of the "Tao", perfectly integrated good and evil into his philosophical theories, and expounded his views on all things in the world with a very philosophical language and the idea of the unity of all things. What really gives these novels the soul is the most Chinese philosophy and traditional culture. His knowledge is extremely extensive, and he has a fairly in-depth study of art, astronomy, history, metaphysical astrology, and the five elements of the art, and more intensive study of Zhou Yi, Buddhism, and various schools of thought, so that he can still operate innovative themes and texts without violating the traditional spirit of Chinese martial arts.
For the all-encompassing content of the book, Hu said that he is just a diligent book-turning Huang Yi, through the interview, we can understand his innovative concept of martial arts, and the irreplaceable position of martial arts novels in his heart: "Or it can be said that martial arts is Chinese science fiction. Like Western science fiction, she is not bound by any constraints, far away, thinking about the mysteries of life, and after combining with various ancient sciences in China, she has created a moving world that can justify itself. There, we can gallop in China's beautiful and profound culture, traversing the danxue of magic numbers, the theory of the Immortal Path, meridian theory, poetry and song, piano and chess calligraphy and painting, religious philosophy, allowing imagination to be imaginative and contemplative, combined with history and human feelings, to create a unique fictional reality of martial arts novels, and to pursue a realm that is difficult to obtain from any other literary body. This is exactly what shows his attitude towards martial arts creation.
Looking at Huang Yi's works, it can be found that he is constantly excavating the possibilities buried in martial arts literature. In the pursuit of martial arts, the basic element of martial arts, he elevated it to the status of "Tao", which greatly expanded the possibilities of martial arts. And the attainment of this kind of power must go through the process of pursuing martial arts, not only to fight against the enemy, but also to defeat yourself, constantly test your maximum limit, and then use martial arts to peer into the Tao! Huang Yi believes: "Any technical thing can be sublimated to the realm of the Tao, including the 'Xie Niu' Ku Ding, it is the skill that advances into the Tao." The so-called "things and things are one Tai Chi", everything has a deeper meaning waiting to be excavated. For him, martial arts is "a possibility for human beings to transcend their own fantasies, with eternal and moving beauty, and if they stop at skill, they belong only to the lower classes."
In the novel, the exploration and breakthrough of the principles of martial arts is especially better than the moves and techniques of gorgeous Xuanqi. He also embodied the concept of "no trick to win and there is a trick" in another form; beyond the momentum and spiritual power of sharp weapons and exercises, it can penetrate the space to directly explore the enemy's mind, confuse his mind, destroy his will, and surpass all flesh and blood confrontations. Huang Yi gives the invisible spiritual momentum a concrete force, which is undoubtedly a profound needle and irony compared to the current world of heavy material and light spirit.
The blazing and true appearance of life is also the most frequently explored and most intense theme in his novels. Huang Yi in the character portrayal, can be described as a very hot, whether it is a hero as soon as he appears, or he strives to climb up from a small deflation; whether it is a protagonist, a supporting role, a decent person, or a villain, he has the value and posture of his existence, and he is also facing the same giant web woven by fate, and everyone is eager to break through the shackles and live out their own lives.
In the end, under the waves of the human world and the fiddling of fate, what is the greatest possibility of life? This is a difficult problem that no one can have a clear answer to. However, Huang Yi believes that through martial arts novels, life can be blazing bright, and the face of life can be purified by known strife and unknown fate. "In the master confrontation, life and death are only a line of difference, spirit and potential are elevated to the limit, and life is perfected to the most intense realm." It is a unique artistic conception that can only be expressed through Chinese martial arts novels. "Only when the sword is facing each other will life reveal its true face." And through Huang Yi's text, you may be able to find - it turns out that life also has this possibility!
"History" is often the background element that makes many martial arts novels more vivid and wonderful, and in Huang Yi's works, readers are often amazed by his profound understanding of history, culture and social background and skillful use, which can be as detailed and vivid as recreating historical scenes, and at the same time allow people to flexibly shuttle between illusion and reality, past and future!
Some people may think that the prosperity of martial arts has passed, and the scenery is difficult to see again! But there are also people who continue to work hard for martial arts and open up new frontiers! In any case, another peak of martial arts fiction cannot be achieved overnight or the efforts of a few people. In addition to the creators' need for more rapid imagination, broader perspectives and more breakthrough artistic expressions, it is important to also need the support of readers, so that martial arts have a market for survival and the opportunity to continue.
What is your view of the conditions and future prospects of a good martial arts novel? Huang Yi replied, "I don't think I'm qualified enough to order a good martial arts novel." Any martial arts novel that I can read without sleeping is a martial arts novel that I think is a good martial arts novel. And the methods of fascinating are even more innumerable, waiting only for those who have the heart to dig. From this point of view, martial arts novels should have unlimited prospects. ”
Huang Yi is the author who strives to provide the infinite possibilities and vitality of martial arts novels, and his readers also account for half of the credit. Just as Huang Yi's great hero wave rolls through the clouds - "only can be extremely affectionate, so it can be extremely strong than the sword", and only those who have a deep affection for martial arts can write good works and have martial artists who are never absent. I would like to use this famous quote as a footnote to Huang Yi and his readers.
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◎Alien Series:
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"In Search of Qin"
The Legend of Datang Double Dragon
"Rain and Clouds"
Shattered Void
Tales of the Frontier
"Jing Chu Controversy"
Ugin Blood Sword
"Lingqin Killer"
"When the Sun and moon are empty"
Dragon Battle in the Wild
"Heaven and Earth Bright Ring"
◎Ling Duyu series:
Moon Demon
The Mystery of God
《Lake Festival》
"God of Light"
The Return of the Bestiality
The Virgin
Lost Eternity
"Extraterritorial Demons"
The Lord of Floating and Sinking
"Strange Spirits"
Erguo Linge
Clash of the Gods
◎Fantasy Series:
The Mystery of Cloud Dream City
The Legend of the Great Swordsman
The Prodigal Son of The Stars
The Secret of Civilization
Super Soldier
Genesis
《Hometown》
"Changing Heavens"
The Great Prophecy
"Le Wang"
Dragon God
The Hall of the Witches
"Love Appointment"
"Time And Space Wave Clan"
"Together in the End"
"The Mighty Cop"
Ghost Ship
The Last Warrior
Latest novel "Dragon Battle in the Wild" (in the series)
◎Prehistoric Civilization Series:
The Mystery of Civilization
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The Last Warrior
The Great Swordsman
"Rain and Clouds"
Super Brain
Butterfly Dream
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Boyi Publishing Group
Science fiction series of short films, dating from about 1987 to 1995.
"Moon Demon" "Mystery of God" "God of Light" "Lake Festival" "Strange Spirit" "Return of the Beast" "Holy Daughter" "Ugin Blood Sword" "Super Brain" "Lord of Floating Sinking" "Erguo Linge", "War of the Gods"
Huang Yi Publishing House
In 1991, Huangyi Publishing House Co., Ltd. was established and has been published since then.
Fantasy series
Super Soldier (two volumes)
The Legend of the Great Swordsman, about 870,000 words
Twelve volumes, published from September 1992 to February 1994.
Ghost Ship
One volume, published in April 1993.
Dragon God
One volume, published in July 1994.
"Extraterritorial Demons"
One volume, published in March 1994.
Lost Eternity
One volume, published in July 1995.
"Lingqin Killer"
"Time And Space Wave Clan"
Two volumes, published in January 1997.
The Prodigal Son of The Stars
Ten volumes, published from August 1994 to November 1995.
"In Search of Qin", about 1.5 million words
The Hong Kong edition is 25 volumes, and the revised collector's edition is six volumes, published from July 1994 to July 1996.
The Mystery of Cloud Dream City
The Hong Kong edition was published in six volumes on July 12, 2006.
"The Book of The Gods"
The 12-volume Hong Kong edition was published on 9 April 2008.
The Xenomorph series
Shattered Void (three volumes), about 180,000 words
The first edition was published by Boyi Publishing Group Limited in November 1988.
The Tale of Jingchu Zhengxiong (two volumes), about 130,000 words
The first edition (one volume) was published by Boyi Publishing Group Limited in August 1990.
"Rain and Clouds", about 1.98 million words
The Hong Kong edition is 29 volumes, and the revised collector's edition is 12 volumes, published from January 1992 to 1995.
"The Biography of The Double Dragon of the Tang Dynasty", about 4.35 million words
Sixty-three volumes, 20 volumes of the revised collector's edition, and 10 volumes of the Yunnan People's Edition, published from 1996 to January 2001.
The Legend of Datang Shuanglong (Revised Edition), Huangyi Publishing House Co., Ltd., 2004
"The Biography of Datang Shuanglong" has been serialized since 1996 and ended in 2001, with an average monthly copy, published by Huang Yi Publishing House in Hong Kong and Published by Vientiane Publishing House in Taiwan, both in 63 volumes; later revised by Huang Yi himself, Hong Kong was revised by Huang Yi Publishing House, and Taiwan was published by Times Publishing and revised edition, both of which are 20 volumes. Chinese mainland was published in a 10-volume set edition by Yunnan People's Publishing House in 2010.
The Legend of the Frontier, about 3.06 million words
The Hong Kong edition was published in 45 volumes, from November 2001 to Mid-March 2005.
"The Sun and the Moon Are Empty", serialized since 2012 and completed in 2014, an average of one book per month, published by Huang Yi Publishing House in Hong Kong and published by Times Publishing House in Taiwan, both in 18 volumes; Chinese mainland published by Hunan People's Publishing House.
Dragon War in the Opposition has been serialized since 2014, published by Huang Yi Publishing House in Hong Kong and published by Gaia Publishing House in Taiwan.
Mainland Publishing Authorization
Shanghai Inte Song Books Co., Ltd. spent 3 million yuan to obtain the exclusive authorization of all the works of Huang Yi, the representative of the new martial arts novel. Since then, the era of "underground publishing" of Huang Yi's novels has come to an end. It is reported that Huang Yi's 10 selected masterpieces will soon be officially published and distributed, and Huang Yi, who has always been low-key, is also expected to appear in Shanghai in March this year.
For the first time, all works are authorized
From "The Rain And Clouds", "Searching for Qin", "The Legend of the Double Dragon of the Tang Dynasty" to the "Mystery of The Cloud Dream City", which makes martial arts fans hungry today, Huang Yi organically combines history, science fiction and the metaphysics of traditional Chinese culture, Yi Li, etc., with a unique fantasy martial arts work, blowing up a hurricane of Huang in the contemporary martial arts novel industry.
Since 1997, Huang Yi's novels have been published in the mainland, and they have quickly become the object of competition between major websites and even pirate books. Of these, only a handful of books have been officially authorized. The overwhelming amount of pirated books and the uneven printing quality have made the "Yellow Fans" who love Huang Yi's works feel both disappointed and angry.
Yuan Jiewei, ceo of Shanghai Intesong Books Co., Ltd., revealed that Huang Yi himself also expressed his great hope that through the publication of this genuine novel, the previous disorderly publishing state would be ended. To this end, the company has specially hired well-known lawyers to represent Huang Yi's works in copyright-related legal matters in mainland China to comprehensively combat piracy.
On the occasion of the listing of the new book, they will also list the national "Huang Yi genuine novel" book distributor directory through relevant websites for "huang fans" to purchase and inquire, and mobilize all "yellow fans" to participate in the protection of genuine Huang Yi novels.
In November 2012, Huang Yi, known as the "New Martial Arts Grandmaster", made a comeback after five years of stopping writing, bringing a new fantasy book " Sun Moon Dangkong " , officially licensing the online copyright to the website , and launching a five-day free trial, the paper version will be available in Hong Kong, Taiwan and Thailand today.
Since the 1990s, when martial arts novels have generally been in a downturn in mainland Hong Kong and Taiwan, Huang Yi has swept away the situation of "no martial arts after Jin Yong" and created another territory, creating three major genres of fantasy ("Interstellar Prodigal Son"), "Crossing" ("Searching for Qin") and "The Tale of the Two Dragons of the Tang Dynasty") - and this is exactly the mainstream of today's online literary creation. In the 20 years since his debut, he has rarely been exposed in the media. In the past decade, it has rarely been seen on the mainland. At the press conference on November 1, he squatted down to sign for the readers, laughing heartily, questioning and answering freely, and misbehaving the master shelf.
In conversations with reporters, he was concise and playful, saying that the five years of writing were "like on vacation" and that "writing doesn't stop." Perhaps for him, joining the Internet to write is also another reincarnation of his writing.
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The taste of life
Huang Yi attaches great importance to personal life, because he likes nature, so he resolutely lives in seclusion on Lantau Island and enjoys the wonders of nature. The place where he writes is facing a sea, and the sea breeze is blowing slowly, which is very comfortable. His study not only has a large collection of books, but also many kinds of music CDs, a set of excellent stereos, and the flow of beating notes allows him to completely relax his spirits.
The most attractive thing for me is the large computer screen of about 20 inches, in addition to writing, most of the time is spent playing with computers. In addition, there is the deep impression that Huang Yi and Mrs. Huang made to me. Huang Yi and Mrs. Huang not only do not have the shelf of celebrities, but are also very approachable and very warm. Can you believe that? From the pier on Lantau Island to Mr. Huang's home for nearly 40 minutes, Huang Yi actually helped me carry my big and heavy luggage along the way, and also talked and laughed with us, which made the author deeply moved.
The interview with Mr. Huang Yi benefited me a lot. In the small talk, he actually jumped out of many very creative game scripts while talking, which made me stunned. If you can ask this master to create a game, it will be quite interesting.
video game
Huang Yi is actually a standard computer gamer and a master of the master. He plays any type of game, but still prefers strategy, and all the classic and well-known games can't escape his palm, from the early Three Kingdoms Generation, Ultima series, StarFlight, to the current Diablo, Dust, And Magic series.
"A game is a good game as long as it's fun and creative!" He slowly expressed his experience of playing games for many years. In his mind, as long as a game is easy to start and then has depth, it is a good game and worth playing.
Huang Yi pointed out with a heavy heart: "There are too many games and too many choices, we can't just rely on what we do to Chinese games, we can definitely sell to people who talk about Chinese; to make games, we must have an international outlook, we must go one step ahead of others, we can't always follow behind, use old things, then one day it will be eliminated." Instead of making a hundred medium games and leaving them aside after two days of playing, it is better to make a top game that has never been on the market and make people remember it for a lifetime! The most important thing is to be bold in your creativity, and then see how you package the idea, including the graphics, the script, the engine." Huang Yi pointed to his head and said, "The greatest value of a person is here, depending on how you develop it!"
For the novel to change into a game will inevitably have changes, with many years of experience in playing the game he is very open; he feels that the game and the novel are essentially different, just like in the broken void novel, the fight between Chuanying and the Eight Shiba is not at all victorious or lost, the two through the spiritual rendezvous, experienced a life of time-space journey, peeping into the mysteries of heaven and earth. Such a scene is not easy to perform in the game, because the players are all playing the male protagonist, and each wants to become a hero like Chuanying, so if the game lets Chuanying win this competition, it is understandable.
"No matter what kind of novel or comic is adapted, the program should not want to explain the entire story plot, the most important thing is how to express the original spirit." After all, it is still fun and creative that is the most important!" 」 Huang Yi smiled and emphasized again.
For the novel of Shattering the Void, Huang Yi obviously has a special love. "There have been many people who have discussed with me to draw the broken void into a comic, but I have always been reluctant, for fear of being drawn poorly; because this novel is about the mood, it is my first novel, it was written without considering whether the reader would accept it, it was completely self-amusement, maybe the writing skills and layout are not mature today, but it is the most sincere." 」 He further pointed out that the shattering of the void is from a Zen poem: "The light is still the sun and the moon, the darkness is still the void" Huang Yi explained: "Usually we only see the shining planet, thinking that it is the representative of the universe, in fact, the void is the true self of the universe, and only when the void is broken can we transcend the universe and leave the cocoon."
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