Chapter 37 Postscript This grid is not easy to walk

When the first volume "Ancestor" and the second volume "Nation" of this Chinese History were released in Beijing, I had a conversation with the media.Reporter: Is it not difficult for you to use your own strength to write a thirty-six-volume history of China in five to eight years?I answered: Difficult, of course it is difficult.The reporter asked again: Are you not tired?I replied: Tired, of course tired.The reporter asked again: Is there a way?I answer: Yes, of course. My solution is to read detective novels before going to bed. When Xie Gang and Chu Meng from Xinxing Publishing House heard about it, they sent their "Midnight Library" one after another. As a result, I learned another trick unintentionally.

This trick belongs to Deaver, and it is called "walking the grid". Going through the grid is a criminal investigation method.The specific method is to draw a number of grids in the mind of the crime scene, and then collect evidence grid by grid.The advantage of this is that no clues will be missed, and the efficiency is very high.This efficient means can be used for writing perfectly. That's how "Ancestors" was written.Eve, Nuwa, Fuxi, Yandi, Huangdi, Yao, Shunyu, six grids. "Youth" is also written in this way.Assassins, lovers, warriors, ministers, envoys, ghosts and gods are also six elements.

It's just that Deaver is "walking the grid", and I am "filling the grid". But by the fifth volume, it was difficult. The biggest difficulty is that this period of history is long, has many clues, and the relationship between characters is complicated.From the Spring and Autumn Period in 722 BC to the end of the Warring States Period in 221 BC, it lasted for five hundred years.On average, within 10,000 words, you have to say a hundred years.This is of course not impossible.But it would be too difficult to explain clearly the ins and outs of the story while also having a vivid and colorful story.

Yet it must be done. In my opinion, a good history book cannot live without historical view, which is the soul; historical knowledge is indispensable, which is the skeleton; historical materials are indispensable, which are flesh and blood; historical sense is also indispensable, That is the spirit.Without charm, there is no charm, and history remains a mummy on the operating table. That's not what I want. The acquisition of historical sense of course depends on empathy, but at the same time it also requires a technical support, which is to restore the scene.Only by restoring the scene can you be on the scene, and only by being on the scene can you feel the same experience.This determines that this book cannot be a plot outline, but should be full of emotion and lifelike.

In other words, you can only attack one point and not the rest. The question is how to choose. First look at whether it is indispensable.For example, Qi Huan's hegemony and Shang Yang's reform are two major events in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period; Tian Chen Daiqi and Sanjia Mizhi are the watershed between the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period.As for Zheng Zhuanggong, who opened the Spring and Autumn Chapter, and Lu Buwei, who ended the Warring States Period, it is inconvenient to be absent.From this to the other, Song Xiang, Jin Wen, Qin Mu, Chu Zhuang, He Lu, Fu Chai, Gou Jian, Zi Chan, San Huan, Su Qin, Zhang Yi, etc., all have to talk about it.Coupled with other related figures and events, it is already full and full of people.

For the rest, we have to part with each other. Divorce is not an easy task.Fortunately, the king of Qin won the government, and it can be reserved for the future; it is also fortunate that Shen Baoxu cried for Qin, Lord Xinling rescued Zhao, and Lin Xiangru met Mianchi, etc. Readers have heard many of them, so they may as well leave them out.As for the fellow diners, why Feng was chosen instead of Mao Sui is because Feng is more representative and the story is more interesting.Therefore, although the latter has contributed two idioms of "self-recommendation" and "stand out", I still choose Feng.

Representativeness, typicality and storytelling, this is the second principle. The third is to be readable, especially to eliminate reading barriers for readers.After all, the pre-Qin period is ancient, so it is not easy for readers to remember so many names.One of the ways is to make the same character appear repeatedly as much as possible.In fact, as long as the articles are written enough, it is possible to know the autumn of the world with one leaf falling. How effective is it, please test it.