Chapter 24 postscript

The original intention of writing this story was because of my first novel.I wrote that story, and in the end, I felt like a trapped animal in a cage, rushing left and right to get out of the cage, but couldn't find any exit.The fate of the characters has been restricted by the court environment and the character's sexuality. I gave the ending oriented by the story line, but my heart was very depressed.Then, in this extremely depressing situation, I considered writing a story with a bright tone and an uplifting tone. When I chose the background of the era, I turned my attention to the Han and Tang Dynasties.Yes!In these two dynasties, we were full of spirits, we were confident, and we were inclusive.And then, the story of the story was born.

The Han Dynasty in Liu Che's era was actively expanding, and the territory was expanded repeatedly in his hands.I was thinking of a nation that used the name of this dynasty to call itself, and one can imagine the influence of this dynasty on the entire nation.And all of this is inseparable from people like Liu Che, Wei Qing, and Huo Qubing.Regardless of the many things Liu Che has done, in his hands, Huo Qubing said: "Anyone who offends my mighty man will be punished even though he is thousands of miles away." This sentence has been passed down for thousands of years, and it still moves everyone who hears it.

If you want to feel the power of that era and that sentence, you need to briefly understand the prosperity of the Hun Empire at that time.The ruling structure of the Huns was divided into the central royal court, the Zuo Xian Wang in the east, and the You Xian Wang in the west. They controlled a vast area from the Caspian Sea to the Great Wall, including present-day Mongolia, Siberia in Russia, northern Central Asia, and Northeast China.Where would the Han nation go if there were no rest and recuperation under the rule of Wen Jing, if there were no Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty's impassioned ambition, and if there were no genius generals like Wei Qing and Huo Qubing?

Because there is no if in history, I can't imagine it specifically.But when the Huns were defeated by the Han Dynasty, they went far north to Europe.We can look at the subsequent impact of the Huns on European civilization: 1. They destroyed the Alan Empire, the most powerful empire at that time, and the king was killed; 2. They conquered the Ostrogothic Kingdom established by the Germans. The territory extends from the Don River in the east, bordering the Alans; in the west, the Dnieper River and the Visigoths; in the south, the Black Sea; in the north, a tributary of the Dniester River, the Pulipet River Swamp; 3. The Huns After conquering the Germanic tribes in the north, he took the Hungarian plain.As a result, a large piece of land from the Black Sea to the north of the Danube fell into the hands of the Huns, which led to the demise of the Roman Empire; 4. The Huns attacked Byzantium and the provinces of Thrace, except Constantinople, the capital of Eastern Rome. Outside the city, the entire army of Eastern Rome was wiped out, and had to sign an alliance with the Huns under the city.

All this allows us to feel the strength and passion of the Han nationality from the side. When I was writing, I felt the rise of a nation and was excited about it, but at the same time I couldn’t help but think about the suffering of the weak and small nations around them and their struggles in the face of the crisis of genocide.Therefore, there are characters like Li Yan who are in the way of praying mantises, knowing that they can't do it, and characters like Meng Ximo who wander in the middle.The two ideas represented by Mozi and Zhuangzi became the contradiction in Meng Ximo's heart.In fact, the contradiction between entering the WTO and being out of the world has always been the eternal psychological struggle of Chinese literati.Entering the WTO is divided into negative and active, and the same is true for being out of the world. This is why later Buddhist thought combined with Confucianism was loved by Chinese literati, because Zen gave them a spiritual retreat home, which is seemingly passive and active.Meng Ximo's final choice is to look negative and active.

The character creation of Li Yan and Jin Yu was influenced by a movie "Sliding Door".It discusses the countless possibilities of life. In front of a train, if you catch up, what will life be like?If you can't catch up, what will happen?This is the case with Li Yan and Jin Yu. I gave them similar experiences and let them have similar fates, but the two chose differently, encountered different encounters at the crossroads of life, and ended up with completely different lives. Huo Qubing and Meng Ximo, one represents the aggressive attitude of the whole nation, the other shows the guarding mentality of paying attention to the individual under the wheel of the times, the other represents the inspiring national spirit that beat the Huns at that time, and the other reflects the care of the weak under the war. Heart of love.The Han people's counterattack against the Huns is certainly exciting, but the harm caused by the war to the innocent is also helpless.Li Cheng, an ordinary soldier whose name will never be recorded in the annals of history, those singing and dancing girls who sold themselves in foreign lands because of the war, and those daughters of the Han family who married the Huns, their experiences must not be taken for granted because of higher interests , the individual lives only once!

For Meng Ximo and Li Yan, their origins determined their embarrassing identities.No matter in any space and time, people who cannot agree with the mainstream thinking of the times will be doomed to inner pain and loneliness. However, due to the limitation of the first person, due to the positioning of the story and the handling of the plot, many contradictions are actually downplayed, and the literal point is chosen. I have written six stories so far. This story is probably the one that makes me feel the most joyful and happy among the stories I have written. It has a completely different feeling from writing.

When I was writing it, I often wrote and smirked, and when I was walking, I smiled when I saw the blue sky. When I see beautiful and warm flowers, I think, this is how life should be! A vigorous drive once is enough, even once is enough!As long as it has been opened, as long as it has been burned, as long as it has been warmed up, it will last for a year, a month, or even a day. Very happy, very happy feeling. At the beginning of this story, they were all young, in grades of seventeen, eighteen or nineteen. At the end, they were still very young, and the oldest was no more than twenty-five or six-year-old.So this story is supposed to be youthful and indulgent.

Later, it gradually became heavier. Is it because of the excitement in old age, the arrogance in youth, and the soaring youth in youth, always meeting the pressure of society?Even the so proud and passionate Xiao Huo couldn't escape?Can't escape society, can't escape the rules of the game that those "old people" have drawn? We are struggling to shed our youthful sharpness in a little pain, and we have gradually blended into the square society with gentleness, politeness, modesty, hypocrisy and indifference. If you accidentally cross the line, be careful!Will sting you!Those who don't follow the rules of the game will have to pay the price!

But what about Xiao Huo?I can't imagine it.So he can only die! But because he is Xiaohuo, Xiaoyu, and Xiaojiu, he will always feel happy. I don’t want to be too uncomfortable, so I ignore the historical records and satisfy my own wishes willfully and selfishly. After all, this is a story. It is not history. I like this story very much myself, probably because of the joy in the writing process.There's something about being forever young in this.Belongs to bright things. Also because of the happiness that the three of them brought me. Thank you so much for reading this story!Thank you for sharing a period of youth, flying, and vigorous with me!