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Chapter 479 Journey to the West filter
"Why don't almost all Chinese people think that Sun Wukong's people have problems?" Seeing the unanimous negative reviews on the whole network, Liu Xu smiled bitterly while thinking about this question curiously.

Soon, Liu Xu had the answer, that all of this was affected by the Journey to the West filter.

So what is Journey to the West filter?
Many people may think that this should be the various filters that Chinese people have accumulated after reading the original Journey to the West for hundreds of years, but in fact it is not the case. The Journey to the West filter actually refers to various secondary cultural products of Journey to the West.

When it comes to the Four Great Masterpieces, all Chinese people are familiar with it, as if a Chinese person who has never read the Four Great Masterpieces is not a Chinese person.

But in fact, if you ask people around you, you will find that there may be only 5 out of 2 Chinese people who have actually read any of the original works of the four major classics.

Moreover, this is still in a modern age where the literacy rate is extremely developed and illiteracy has almost been completely eradicated. If it were placed seven or eighty years ago, there might only be two out of 80 people in China who have read any one of the four great classics.

After all, in China, which was in the Manchu Qing period, the literacy rate was less than 10%. The four famous books were like heavenly books in the eyes of ordinary people, and they couldn't understand them at all.

What really makes the concept of the Four Great Masterpieces deeply rooted in the hearts of the people is actually the various secondary creation cultures of the Four Great Masterpieces.

The term secondary creation culture sounds like a term that only emerged in the 21st century, but in fact secondary creation culture has been developed in China for thousands of years.

Take Journey to the West as an example, the number of readers who have actually read the original Journey to the West is very small, but many readers feel touched after reading Journey to the West, and carry out their own processing on the original text of Journey to the West, eventually giving birth to a large number of secondary creations. work.

The original second creation came from a storyteller. In the era when most Chinese people were illiterate, the only way for these Chinese people to understand culture and news was the two mouths of the storyteller.

After the storyteller found that the story of Journey to the West is quite interesting, he immediately adapted Journey to the West into a storytelling story told by his mouth, and then followed the entertainment activities such as taverns, teahouses, and social dramas held by various villages and clans. Gradually spread among the Chinese people, this is the original second creation of Journey to the West.

Here, by the way, although the protagonists in all the novels can kill the Quartet after traveling back to ancient times.

In reality, some smart people who talk about wisdom and logic often tell you that the only way for modern people to travel back to the ancient times is to die. Skills simply won't help you get a job in ancient times.

As for the skills of making soap and glass, first of all, 99% of modern humans do not know how to make soap and glass. In fact, even if you go back to ancient times, you will not be able to refine the materials needed to make these two things.

Even if you have the above two kinds of knowledge, you have no start-up capital at all.

Even if you have start-up capital, you will still be investigated by the government because you don’t have identification documents such as road guides, and then you will directly GG.

So don't fantasize about traveling back to ancient times by yourself, then there is only one dead end.

This statement is neither right nor wrong.

To be honest, if you plan to make money from soap and glass in ancient China, you will basically jump off the cliff faster.

But the traveler will never find any income and livelihood in ancient times. The easiest way to make money is to be a storyteller.

Because the vast majority of ancient humans were illiterate, and most of the people who studied since childhood got ahead through the imperial examination, and scholars can only take the imperial examination. If they are engaged in other industries, they will completely lose the experience of being a scholar and will be punished. The whole group despises it, so most scholars will never become storytellers.

This leads to the fact that the storyteller is a very large blue ocean market. As long as you can understand the characters, then go to the market to buy a novel, talk to the owner of a tavern or teahouse to discuss cooperation, and you can live directly as a storyteller. In taverns and teahouses, there is no need to worry about the cost of eating and drinking.

Although it is not possible to make a fortune, it is not a problem to live a well-off life.

Not to mention that as a time traveler, you must have many stories in your head that you have never heard before in this world. If you just copy one and tell it to everyone, then you will be the master of novels in this world.

Therefore, if modern people travel to ancient times, most of them can still survive, and they still live quite well.

Keke, get back to business.

After the first wave and second creation of storytellers, if a story has received a strong response from the audience, many listeners expressed their desire to hear the story repeatedly.

The troupe came on stage.

The competition among opera troupes in ancient times was also very fierce. Except for some extremely high-level opera troupes, most of the opera troupes were grass-roots troupes. It was difficult for them to compete for customers by virtue of technology. The only way was to come up with some new tricks. and new stories come out.

However, limited by the times, the repertoire that the troupe can perform is nothing more than the princes and generals, the founding wars of various dynasties, or the love stories between the ladies and the poor scholars.

It is conceivable how excited the theater troupe would be when they found out that the story of a monkey was so popular with the audience. They took this story as a secondary creation immediately and turned it into various dramas. track.

As soon as a new play that has never seen a plot is released, it doesn't matter whether the characters on stage sing well or not, the money must be full. This is the second wave of second creation in ancient times.

Generally speaking, it is rare for a novel to achieve this kind of second creation, and it is an extremely successful work.

But such a work cannot be called a masterpiece. To enter the threshold of a masterpiece, there must be a third step, that is, the third wave of second creation.

And this wave of second creations came from the most noble group in the world, that is, the second creation of the scholar-bureaucrat group.

Of course, if the literati and bureaucrats create second creations, they will not change them into scripts and dramas so vulgarly, but will quote the plots in these novels in their various cultural creations.

For example, Du Mu's Tongquechun locks Erqiao deeply

Another example is that Wang Yangming mentioned in his letter to the emperor that "thieves are based on the stories of Song Jiang and other gangsters", etc. This is the top second creation.

As for Journey to the West, 100 years after its birth, another literati created a special episode, or a prequel, called "Fengshen Yanyi" specially for him.

The top second creation of Journey to the West is undoubtedly the CCTV version of Journey to the West 600 years later. It was this second creation that made Journey to the West completely accessible to thousands of households, and successfully occupied almost every summer and winter vacation. Even after nearly 40 years, the TV screen of the TV series has been continuously rebroadcasted, and it has become a cultural imprint that all Chinese people will never forget.

And this is Huaxia's Journey to the West brand, because all Chinese people know too much about the story of Journey to the West, and you know how brilliant the subsequent performance of Monkey King is, so they will naturally forget that Monkey King made the first half of the story. Those next operations.

But there is no Journey to the West filter in this world at all, which naturally arouses countless voices of opposition.

"Why don't I shoot Liu Xu's version of "Journey to the West" for you? Give this world a wave of Journey to the West filter?" Liu Xu rubbed his nose and pondered.

(End of this chapter)