Elegy of Tang Dynasty

Chapter 82
The book was officially released on August 8st, and it feels like a century has passed.

This book has been brewing for a long time, and for some reasons, it was launched ahead of schedule. To be honest, I am under a lot of pressure.In the last book, I had the question of "what should I write in historical novels", and now this book is my answer.

Historical novels are about writing history.

So I adopted the method of interweaving main lines and hidden lines, and set the protagonist Fang Chongyong as an "observer" to bring readers the scenery of the prosperous Tang Dynasty.

To put it simply, in the early stage, watch more, think more, and participate less.

The first half is about the prosperous Tang Dynasty, and the second half is about elegy. When I named it, it can be said that I worked hard.Try to restore the true side of the Tang Dynasty. It is powerful and has its own charm, but it also has corresponding problems. It is also a product of history and cannot escape the judgment of history.

What is "the scenery of the prosperous Tang Dynasty"?
Historical memory needs a carrier.

It might be a piece of silk, a slip, a painting, a glass of wine, or even a bowl of rice.

History is real, not empty discourse in official history, not right and wrong being arbitrarily manipulated by people.

Food, clothing, housing and transportation, these can express the style of the prosperous Tang Dynasty.

Poems and ordinances can also express the scenery of the prosperous Tang Dynasty.

They complement each other and form a picture of the prosperous age of the Tang Dynasty.

This means that this book is very long and will not write traditional cool plots, nor will it deliberately drive to attract attention and write vulgar plots under the guise of "the prosperous Tang Dynasty and the opening up".

Many people like to read about the lower body, and it’s not like I can’t write about it, but the author can’t have too low expectations for himself.

After all, the author is not the reader.

Writing this way will definitely make some readers who are looking for "coolness" unhappy.The plot will be lacking in pretentiousness, and some readers may even think that the author is writing randomly due to their own lack of cognition.These are inevitable, because no matter what the book is, there will be people who like it and people who don't like it.

The content and writing method of this book will filter out a group of readers.In the current market environment, this type of book may be able to achieve something, but it is destined to be difficult to become popular.

Superintendent Uemoto made me a fifth-level author, and also let me understand the secret of traffic.

I am a grassroots person with no backend, no team, no support, and no PY transactions.The only thing I can rely on is my own works; my path can only be continued by constantly polishing my works, there is no other way.

The bottleneck period for historical novels is no longer something that happens in a day or two.In order to break the situation, many authors began to change to survive. The most common one is to "change their skin and change their core".

Historical events are very complicated. If you want to write clearly the ins and outs, you need certain writing skills and writing logic.But after putting on a layer of skin, things are simple. The history only needs to be approximate, and the rest can be written according to the real core.

For example, historical urban essays are written about cities; historical underworld essays are written about gangsters; historical officialdom essays are written about specious officialdom.Readers are not familiar with ancient times, but they are familiar with modern times. Writing modern stories under a layer of skin can easily resonate.

Then I was thinking about a very speechless question: historical writers, why don’t you write history?Obviously there is so much to write about.

It must be the author's fault if the author of the historical article writes history in a boring way. How can you blame the historical story for being difficult to tell?
The history series videos of Anzhou Mu at Station B (such as the Southern and Northern Dynasties) can have a large number of fans. Those stories, without any innovation, are all historical facts, historical facts recorded in history books.

Why do some people watch it, and there are so many people watching it?What is the problem?
The problem is that many authors of historical articles do not devote their attention to the study of historical logic or the impact of historical events.Because I didn’t do my homework, I had nothing to write. Since I had nothing to write, and the manuscript must have a plot, I could only fill it with other aspects of the plot.

For example, women, pretending to be a slap in the face, supporting characters all revolving around the protagonist, and so on.It's not that the author likes to write it this way, but it has to be this way because of the reasons mentioned above.

It's a vicious cycle.

There is no history in historical texts, just like there is no sweet-scented osmanthus in osmanthus tea, and there is no ribs in braised pork ribs.

There are all kinds of fancy tricks in the urban novels. If you don’t show me the historical plot in the historical novels, why don’t I just go to the urban novels?
Readers are very sensitive to the temperature of history in historical texts.It is possible that there is only a little more historical plot in each chapter, and the reader's experience will be completely different.On the other hand, in historical texts, the records of historical books are generally recklessly carried around without analysis and screening, and it is possible to draw completely opposite conclusions.

There are too many such examples to count.

In order to write this book, I directly used master's and doctoral dissertations in the history department, journals and even cultural relics research papers as reference points.I have no way to verify the stone tablets or unearthed cultural relics, so I can only write this book in this lazy way, standing on the shoulders of giants.

Many of the plots in the first volume, I can say responsibly that only I can write the whole starting point. No one will write it out clearly.

When it comes to knowledge, I'm far from being able to talk about it, but I can shake people.

The charging chapter starts from Hexi.When planning this volume, I also hesitated for a long time.

According to the ideas of some Shuangwen readers, I should actually arrange for Xiao Fang to lurk in Chang'an to seize power, kill Li Linfu, get rid of Yang Yuhuan, bribe potential generals, replace them during the Anshi Rebellion, set up a puppet, and finally add Jiuxi.

It’s not that you can’t write like this.Although this may turn all the supporting characters into people with low IQs, but... there are also many readers who buy it. It turns out that readers of Shuangwen do not think while reading, even if they feel sick when they look back at it a second time. .

However, the focus of Datang's development has always been in the Western Regions, which was the "Great Navigation Age" in ancient China, full of opportunities and adventures.After the Anshi Rebellion, the Silk Road was cut off, and the era of Chinese expansion and self-confidence gradually faded away.

Half of the glory of the Han and Tang Dynasties was in Hexi.If we don’t write about Hexi and the Western Regions, how can we write about the scenery of the Tang Dynasty?

Readers see an old coin successfully seized power, from the grassroots to the emperor, of course it is a bit refreshing.

However, is historical text really just a conspiracy?

I don't think so.

During the heyday of the Tang Dynasty, the people of the Tang Dynasty pioneered and forged ahead in the Western Regions, and the ethos of tolerance and tolerance is of great reference and reference significance for today. It is the voice of the times, and even the call of the times!

Use the good ones for me, and learn from the bad ones. The openness and self-confidence of the Tang people do not lie in the unruly women, but in the high-spirited self-confidence at the social level.

This is the core idea of ​​the Tang Dynasty: "I am the main one and we are one family from all over the world".

I think these things have a more historical flavor than those cunning tricks and anachronistic "modern inventions".

As for the performance of this book, I am not too demanding; I write from my heart and have a clear conscience in everything.

History is vast and does not depend on personal will.To express it in one of Mao Zedong’s words:
"Heavy rain falls on the swallows, white waves surge into the sky,
Fishing boats off Qinhuangdao.

I don't see a single ocean, I don't know where to go.

Thousands of years passed, Wei Wu whipped his whip,
There are posthumous chapters on Jieshi in the east.

The bleak autumn wind is here again, and the world has changed. "

(End of this chapter)