The literary giants of the late Ming Dynasty began by copying books

Just looking at the intensity of discussion in the columns of newspapers in Fuzhou City will tell you how influential "Record of Treating Diseases" has been. Three months after the publication of the book, not only Wang Wenlong's "Xunbao" but also other newspapers came out to comment on the novel. There was an uproar. All good reviews.

Cao Xuequan, editor-in-chief of "Cangshan Poetry Collection", said in the comments: "The human nature and worldly behavior written in "Cure Treatment Record" make people feel helpless and desolate. Even if there are famous doctors like Tu Danke and famous ministers like Song Changqin, they still have a deep understanding of that time. The situation is just a matter of vain hope."

"This book slowly describes the scenes in the last days that no one dares to do from the perspective of the two protagonists: the common people and refugees do not believe in the government, the generals and soldiers do not believe in the superiors, even though the landlords and gentry are educated at home, they do not believe in the court and only know how to keep their money. Bao, how can the building not collapse in this way? Everything is impossible, it seems to be suffering from a serious and long-term illness. This is not a human disease, but a national disease. The disease is in the word twilight energy."

"This book talks about the twilight energy that goes deep into the bone marrow. Reading it actually makes one feel chills down the spine."

In later generations, in modern Chinese literature textbooks, Wang Wenlong's "Cure for Disease" was rated as "a new voice of literature in the late feudal years" and "a work of enlightenment in the budding stage of capitalism". In the literature textbook, it was praised: ""Cure for Disease" "Records" profoundly describes the tragic current situation in the late feudal era, reflecting the profound observation of the social reality of the feudal dynasty by intellectuals during the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty. At the same time, it is a typical embodiment of citizen literature represented by the emerging bourgeois perspective in the popular novels of the Ming Dynasty. the voice of the emerging bourgeoisie.”

For later novel creators, Wang Wenlong's works are also a monument. Decades later, the great writer Li Yu repeatedly talked about the influence of Wang Wenlong's masterpiece "The Cure Record" on him in his memoirs.

"I have been fond of reading since I was a child. I was often taught by my father to read less miscellaneous books. I was ashamed of myself and thought I could not tackle serious classics. It was not until I saw the volume "Records of Cure" that I couldn't put it down, and then I realized that there are also masterpieces in novels."

"Novel writers in the past only knew how to write from one person's perspective. If they wanted to change the characters, they would affect the story and then change the perspective. This was the writing method of "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms" and "Water Margin". Until Jianyang Gong's book created a multi-perspective When it comes to writing, we now know that if we want to write about a big scene, we can start from different perspectives. A story is not told from beginning to end, but can be narrated or flashbacked. A scene is not only described by scenery and dialogue. The characters, expressions, psychology , since the weather and scenes are also methods to set off the scene, the scene sets off the atmosphere, and the atmosphere affects the characters."

"All these techniques began with Duke Jianyang. As soon as they became popular, novel writers all over the world would be able to let dragons enter the sea and birds come out of their cages, and they would no longer be fettered!"

The modern novel writing method pioneered by Wang Wenlong's novel has had a profound impact on later generations. The introduction of various techniques and the strong sense of plot tension have made this book regarded as first-class entertainment literature and first-class history telling for hundreds of years. interpretation.

With the development of history, the Jurchens of the Later Jin Dynasty gradually rose to prominence. The pioneering vision of the novel "Cure Malignancy Record" seemed to be more and more prophecies, which were confirmed in the late Ming Dynasty, which made the status of this novel more and more important. high.

There was even a group of experts who specialized in the study of "Records of Treatment", known as "Record Studies" in the world. With the research of recording experts, the plot and characters of "Records of Treatment" were not enough for them to study. They started from the official system and military organization. We will study the system and other aspects, and dig deeper and deeper into the creative background of "The Record of Treatment".

Relevant scholars have found that the historical background of "The Record of Treatment" seems to be linked to Li Guoxian's "The Biography of Zhen Huan", because chroniclers are increasingly discovering that the northern Rongdi dynasty mentioned in "The Record of Treatment" seems to be related to the "Biography of Zhen Huan" The dynasties described in them are very similar. Finally, someone proposed that the stories described in "The Record of Treatment" and "The Legend of Zhen Huan" should be connected with the times - the Piaocheng Kingdom in "The Legend of Zhen Huan" was the invading Rong Di who defeated the Wu Dynasty in "The Record of Treatment" A minority government was established later.

Reminiscent of the relationship between Wang Wenlong and Li Guoxian, the theory that the two co-created the story background of the work was gradually proposed.

More and more scholars have determined that the "Piaoyao Kingdom" in "The Legend of Zhen Huan" is the Later Jin Dynasty.

This discovery greatly surprised fans of "The Record of Cure" and "The Legend of Zhen Huan".

Both books have a strong storyline, and the linkage also provides topicality. Love stories, national and family destruction, ethnic disputes, and all kinds of hot-button emotions are brought together under the linkage of these two books. Hundreds of years later, in the film and television era, "The Cure" and "The Legend of Zhen Huan" were remade into the same script by Biandao and became the first full-length TV series in the history of Chinese television. This sentence has a large number of national treasure-level "recorders" "Participating in the script adaptation work, the produced works have reached the level of works of art and become screen classics that have influenced generations.

In later generations, these two novels were constantly remade, and there were countless games, second creations, songs, and animations derived from them. Later, they even aroused the disgust of the audience. It was not that "Cure" and "The Legend of Zhen Huan" were not good-looking, but that they were too much garbage. This work is used to increase the popularity of "The Record of Cure".

Hundreds of "Healing Records" mobile games have been released in the past ten years, many of which have been reskinned, making consumers feel aesthetically bored.

When the serialization of "The Cure Record" began, the final chapter of "Strange People in the World" was also released.

The original work of "Strange Man" refers to a large number of notebook novel styles of the Ming and Qing Dynasties. It does not have much innovation in the subject matter, so its impact is not as great as "Liancheng Jue", which pioneered a new martial arts novel genre, and "Liancheng Jue", which pioneered the detective novel genre. "The Case of Dickong" is so big. But this book is also undoubtedly a masterpiece. It has been serialized since the first issue of "Xunbao" and took more than a year to write. It has also accumulated a large number of loyal readers.

On the day when "Strange People" announced its finale, many readers who had been following the series for more than a year rushed to buy the last issue as a collection. The sales of this issue of "Xunbao" actually increased to 2,000 copies.

And as the book ends, the impact of "Strange People" is far from disappearing.

There is a market for this kind of novel, and it is not difficult to imitate it. Therefore, after Wang Wenlong's "Strange People in the World" was serialized for more than a year, various newspapers have imitated works. Because some readers especially like to read this kind of story, some newspapers and periodicals have specially opened " "Strange People and Anecdotes" section.

Some critics believe that although the groundbreaking work of Wang Wenlong's "Strange People in the World" is not as groundbreaking as "The Record of Cure", it is definitely comparable to "Liancheng Jue" and "The Case of Di Gong".

The pioneering point of this novel is to face the perspective of ordinary people.

"Strange People in the World" is composed of strange characters and short stories from the market. Wang Wenlong did not completely copy Feng Jicai's original work, but added many descriptions of the strange people from the market in this era.

The creation of novels in this era was still in its early stages. The characters described by novelists were often talented people, beauties, emperors and generals. Even the characters in Wang Wenlong's "The Scholars" were also scholars with high status in society.

However, the protagonists in each story in "Strange People of the World" are ordinary people like everyone else. The stories with a very urban atmosphere are very popular among readers, and it also makes many creators know for the first time that novels can have such a civilian perspective. .

Later, it was recognized in literary history that Wang Wenlong's "Strange People in the World" written by Wang Wenlong during the Wanli Period was the first mature market novel in Chinese history. Later generations of street novels and civilian novels focused on describing the daily life of ordinary people, their parents' shortcomings, and the warmth and warmth of human relationships began to develop from this time.

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