Abstract: In the 20 years since the development of online literature, the works created are vast and of different types. Imagination and creativity that subvert traditional literature have made online novels mushroom like mushrooms, and after experiencing the cruel baptism of the waves and sand, classics full of tenacious vitality can reach the altar. As the great god writer Xu Gongzi Shengzhi said, works that have life can be called fine works.
Introduction: Chinese online literature from the initial public view, to today's blossoming, weiguan, has gone through a 20-year process, in this rapid development of 20 years, the increasingly standardized network literature has not only changed people's writing and reading methods, but also because of its 400 million online readers, more than 6 million online authors of the huge volume, and its new literary and artistic development direction, cultural industry pillars and other aspects of the important weight, from marginal grassroots literature to mainstream literature, greatly enriching the contemporary literary territory. However, as a booming sunrise industry, online literature still needs to gain insight and follow the changes in its stage demand, and whether it can grasp the future development trend of the industry is still a long way to go.
In the past 20 years, China's online literature industry has emerged countless industry explorers, innovators, achievers, it is their spirit of "pathfinders", for the industry to bring countless new possibilities and qualitative changes, in the thousands of dream of the industry practitioners efforts, China's online literature presents a hundred flowers, a thousand flowers blooming grand scene, this belongs to the best era of Chinese network literature, has come!
Xu Gongzi Shengzhi, formerly known as Xu Shengzhi, is a famous securities analyst and one of the great god writers in the online literary circle.
In 2010, he withdrew from the securities market and established Xu Gongzi Katsuji Studio, becoming a full-time online writer. He has written a series of novels "ghosts, gods, people, mountains, earth, heavens, and shocks", which have been widely praised on the Internet. He is also an expert in the study of traditional culture, and has a profound understanding of various religions, especially the cultivation art of Taoism, Neidanshu, and has unique insights in many aspects such as philosophy and sociology. The works are full of mysterious atmosphere, the writing is old and spicy, the works are both ideological and storytelling, and the characteristics are very prominent. It not only integrates the rich ideas and contents of traditional Chinese culture, full of cultural speculative personality, but also spans a variety of cultural forms and civilization forms, and carries out in-depth analysis and reflection on the history, culture, society, folklore and other aspects of ancient and modern China and foreign countries.
Representative works include "Ghost Stock", "Divine Journey", "Human Desire", "Spirit Mountain", "Earth Master", "Tianshu", "Shocking Gate", "Taishang Zhang" and so on.
The new work "Fangwai: The Disappearing Eight Doors" was serialized in the Guofeng Chinese Network under NetEase Literature.
The work comes from life
Finding the soul foundation for literary creation and instilling fresh vitality into the works, Xu Gongzi Shengzhi shuttles between the works and reality, and uses his fingertips to knock out exciting stories.
Orange Melon: Since 2004, you have serialized "Stock Affair Zhiyi" on Hexun Network and started your creative career, in the 14 years of creative career, has there been any book that has inspired you the most, and who has influenced you the most?
Xu Gongzi Shengzhi: The Tao Te Ching, the person who writes the book, Lao Tzu.
Orange melon: Your novel incorporates a refraction of reality, and what you see and experience becomes the material for your creation, so will you or the people around you use as a character archetype?
Xu Gongzi Shengzhi: So, probably most of the characters I write are based on the people around me, how do you look around? It's not living around me, it's the people you go out and you see around you.
Because the novel also needs a lot of personality settings, dialogue settings, and appearance settings, this must be borrowed from reality, and you can't think about it, there may be some scenes of who are there, it is possible where you write, and an image emerges in your mind. For example, if I want to write about a restaurant owner, I may have a meal in a certain place on a certain day in a certain month of a certain year, and this restaurant owner impressed me deeply, which is in line with this persona. In fact, I wrote about him, but not exactly, he is just a literary figure, he can not simply compare.
Orange Melon: You've been collecting style everywhere for your creations, and your new book, Fangwai: The Eight Doors That Disappeared, sets the backdrop in the modern era, is there any inspiration or archetype that you got when you went out to collect style?
Xu Gongzi Katsuji: Yes. The so-called style is a good saying, and in some ways it is to go sightseeing and collecting materials in the name of writing books, that is, to go everywhere to see and play everywhere. But this book, I did a lot of material collection work, including NetEase Literature's rice balls, Fan Shaoqing Fan Zong, we also went together. For example, in the book, there is a high platform, I went to it myself, but I did not climb it. The Qin Gaotai came out of the Shanmen Cave, which I wrote in the book as Tianyun Cave, which is completely a scene that restores reality, but there is no square world in that place, there may be, I did not find it.
When writing literature, you must have a realistic, whether it is our own insight or vision, you must be in place before you can write it.
Orange melon: Compared with the creative environment when you joined online literature, how has the current online literary creation environment changed? Is online literature now the same as you originally envisioned?
Xu Gongzi Shengzhi: If there is a change, the simplest change is that when we started to write online literature, we were all a very amateur hobby, and we didn't care to plant willows. As you just said, I am in Hexun, and Hexun is a financial forum, which has nothing to do with online literature. Just write some financial analysis at that time, feel very boring, very boring, write some novels to adjust it.
It was a very unexpected situation, but now it's different, it's a capital platform now. Online literature is mainly based on capital platforms, and everyone has a purpose at the beginning of writing - I am here to create online texts! This is different from what we were then, now there are good and bad, the good side is that the industry has a standard model, there is a very fast way to get into it.
Like I started writing in 2004, signing a contract in 2006, and only full-time in 10 years, this process is very long, like now some young people want to create online articles, quickly intervene in it, and soon know that they are not suitable for this line, he is his own choice to prove it, such as our earliest in the barbaric era, he is the author left by natural selection.
Orange melon: For the success of Chinese online literature, some people boil it down to the emergence of the Internet; some people say that it is because of the profit-seeking nature of capital and the success of capital; others say that the prosperity of Chinese online literature is because of the Chinese, more people write, and more people watch. As one of the first people to engage in the online literature industry, what do you think?
Xu Gongzi Shengzhi: These are all reasons, it cannot be a one-factor model, it is multi-factor, if the most core reason, there are three.
One is the development of the times, technically, the Internet appeared, and finally developed into the current mobile Internet.
The second is the development of culture, basic education has been done for so many years, now each of us can write, to express, everyone also has the desire to express.
What is the third point? It is the development of spiritual biochemical needs, that is, we are now materially rich, who will meet everyone's spiritual needs? There must be something to satisfy it, and so is the development of the entertainment industry, and online literature is one of them.
These three factors are the development of the times, the development of culture, and the needs of the people's spiritual life.
In the era of rapid development, it is still loyal to its heart
Time precipitates history, the times imagine the future, in the noisy development of the internet literature era, Xu Gongzi Shengzhi loyal to creation, loyal to himself, giving works their own unique charm.
Orange Melon: As an important first year of online literature, the 20th anniversary of online literature, and the first anniversary of the establishment of the Chinese Writers Village, what is your biggest impression?
Xu Gongzi Katsuji: It feels very different. 20 years ago, I still read posts on the Internet, when many people wrote small stories in the car, and there were not many long stories written, which were started by hobbies. So far, we have such a big industry, such a big platform. That is to say, it has changed from a state of natural growth to a complete, clear, and emerging industry that can create spiritual wealth for this society.
Orange melon: What kind of social responsibility do you and your studio assume in the future in today's high-quality online literature? In what ways to put up a banner for the development of China's online literature and guide the spread of positive energy?
Xu Gongzi Shengzhi: As a writer, we should write books well, because the development of this era, the emergence of writers' villages, and the emergence of industries mean that there are many people who can serve you and derive more social value from the works you create. For individuals, I am responsible for writing spiritual civilization products that are full of positive energy and can bring benefits to this society, which is the quality of a writer itself, so whether this industry can operate, and whether the development of the times can promote the works, let more people see, and then write more and better stories.
Orange melon: How to make the barbaric growth of online literature produce fine works, which is already a new direction for the development of online literature, what kind of works do you think can be called fine works?
Xu Gongzi Shengzhi: Works with life, because for literature, it is too difficult to say. For example, when I wrote an essay when I was a child, the teacher gave me a hundred points, so is this a good work? Maybe it is a good composition in terms of structure, segmentation, and sentences, but it is not from the point of view of literary works. The works of the predecessors we read now have been left behind by historical elimination, but why can they be left behind? Why did it become a classic?
I think that although online literature has passed 20 years, it still needs time. We can't say what I wrote now, or what he wrote. What really has life is what history has given it. It is possible that in another 20 years, we will know which works are good works.
This is not a cunning answer, but a real answer.
Orange Melon: Talk about the work you're working on right now, what are your expectations for him?
Xu Gongzi Shengzhi: The work I am creating now, "Fangwai: The Eight Doors that Disappeared", is based on realistic themes, but has surreal elements.
In the world we live in, there is another world that you may not see, cannot find, and you can enter them, just as you can discover the inner music of one person after another, just like how one person after another completes self-realization, and everyone is a world. But I chose this theme to write about the outside world with this metaphor. This book is also in cooperation with netease full copyright industry chain. For example, this number, digital publishing is with NetEase Literature, film and television is with NetEase Film and Television, games and NetEase games, which is also a new attempt to cooperate with the whole industry chain to create products.
Looking forward to its future. I hope that in another thirty years, we will sit together and be recognized by others on the road, Xu Gongzi, are you writing outside the square? That's what I'm looking forward to.
Orange melon: Now, more and more people are involved in online literary creation, as a senior, do you have anything you want to say to newcomers?
Xu Gongzi Shengzhi: Writing requires talent and hobbies. Of course, you also need to persist in the spirit, just by interest, it is impossible to insist on one thing for too long. After the enthusiasm subsides, it is very difficult to write every day. So I suggest that they should live more, and online literary creation is not sitting at home every day.
Second, to test whether a person is suitable for creation, the work does not meet the requirements of the reader, not the reporter is not the author, they should pay more attention to their readers.
Orange melon: Imagining the future, what kind of changes do you expect from online literature?
Xu Gongzi Katsuji: There is a better creative environment. There are broader, open subject matter. I myself have read a lot of literary works, including online literary works, from the perspective of readers, I also hope that they can create more interesting, so that people can read at the same time, in the fun at the same time can be rewarded, I hope that such works can be more and more, and the various platforms can also form a benign interactive relationship with readers and authors.
Online literature has been developed for 20 years now, from the beginning of the era of wasteland, the output of excellent works not only needs the author to inject his imagination, but also needs to inject an indispensable outlook on life and values, so that the works born have unlimited vitality, and when reading, a personal character jumps on the paper, vivid as ever.
Starting from life, being loyal to oneself, imagining the future in books, and feeling wonderful from life, Xu Gongzi Shengzhi spoke for the fine works and presented a series of masterpieces for the era of online literature.