Chapter 3 Chapter 1 General Theory

"Popular literature" is a new term that has only appeared in the past ten years.The first condition for being committed to popular literature is to contribute some literary works that are truly acceptable to the public, and only then can the effect of educating the public be exerted.Many gentlemen are doing their best to study this question and trying to write this kind of work, and they are all admirable writers.But working so far, the effect seen is still not very grand. It is said that as many as 80% of China's illiterates are illiterate, and this huge number of illiterates is the most genuine public. They have no ability to read books or newspapers at all.Those who can read books and newspapers and are regarded as the masses are not the people at the bottom, but they are already one level above the bottom.Therefore, although Huanzhuzhuzhu's novels have a large readership, it is not very appropriate to regard them as popular writers because of this.Of course, it cannot be said that his works can be classified as popular literature and art.The main purpose of his novels is to provide readers with interest, not to educate them (of course there are still moral concepts).Now let’s take a step back and say: “A writer or a kind of work that can be welcomed by the lower-level people can be regarded as a popular writer or a kind of popular work.” Looking at it as a standard, Huanzhu Louzhu can be regarded as a popular writer. He is a very popular figure among writers, and his works are widely read among popular works.

Many people expressed hatred for Huanzhu Zhuzhuzhu, because he used to write ghost novels as his "stunt skill", and ghost novels, according to many people, are poisonous.But the host of Huanzhu unceremoniously wrote the first and second episodes one by one, so many people stretched their necks and waited for him to write the third and fourth episodes, so they could have a sneak peek.This is the power of his work, it is a miracle, and this miracle is a fact.This fact is worth noting, so I wrote a chapter on "Social Theory" in this article, briefly talking about my personal observations.

the magic The owner of Huanzhu thinks that his famous work can also be said to be a masterpiece.Nine out of ten of his works are published by Shanghai Zhengqi Bookstore.According to the owner of the bookstore, within three or four days of publishing each episode, 10,000 copies were sold out.When I opened the door in the morning, there were customers waiting at the door.Most of the customers are hawkers who set up newsstands, and each person has to buy several copies. The purchase is not entirely by selling, but mainly by renting out.Now there are almost every bookstore and newsstand in Shanghai that sells "novels for rent". The number of readers is astonishing in Shanghai.This book was originally published by Tianjin Lili Publishing House. Due to the war, it was stopped for a while.Many people came to Lili Shanghai branch to inquire about the continued news, and letters from other places reached as far as the Nanyang area.In the southwestern region, it was heard that reprinted and counterfeit copies were popular.At that time, there were more than 30 episodes.Not long after, Liangli Publishing House in Shanghai bought both the paper and the copyright of the book from Lili Publishing House, and republished the book, which was distributed by Zhengqi Bookstore.Sure enough, there are a lot of people who bought it, and many people bought it from the first episode, which shows that although his old readers are not willing to forget him, new readers are still being produced.

In the past twenty years, there have been a lot of new chapter novels published in the market.Apart from Zhang Henshui's best-selling works, and Xiang Jing's "Legend of Heroes of Jianghu", there are only various works of Huanzhuzhuzhuzhuzhu.Mr. Zhang Henshui's works, the material is biased towards the love disputes between men and women, which is far from the nature of Huanzhuzhuzhu.Mr. Xiang Quiran (Bu Xiaosheng) wrote martial arts novels, which are relatively similar to the ghostly martial arts novels written by Huanzhu Louzhu.Back then, "Legend of Heroes of the Jianghu" was very popular and sold widely, but the bookstore also put great efforts in publicizing the book.The popularity of the book is different. The bookstore has never had a grand publicity. It is spreading among readers among each other.However, the vastness of the pages, even if it cannot be said to be unprecedented in recent years, it is difficult to see anyone who can compare with it.When it comes to prolific writers, Huanzhu Zhuzhuzhu can probably afford it.As far as I know, the bibliography is as follows:

Nine-tenths of the above are exclusively published by Shanghai Zhengqi Bookstore. There are other bookstores that have published the volumes, and Zhengqi Bookstore is printing, and Huanzhuzhuzhuzhu is continuing to write the volumes, which are not included.As far as the volumes of the bibliography listed above are concerned, the number of words is extraordinary, and it is not what ordinary popular novelists can speak the same language. Before talking about the content of the work, let me briefly write a few words about the "person" of Huanzhu Louzhu: I know him very little, but we often have opportunities to meet him.But he is very busy, and I am not very free, so the conversation time will not be very long.I really want to pay a visit to him once, so that what I write can be more substantial and kind, because he is now a purely professional writer, and the novels he has to write every day are about ten thousand words, so I am sorry to bother him. him so as not to interfere with his work.

The owner of Huanzhu is surnamed Li and given name Shoumin.Originally from Dongchuan, he lived in North China for a long time.I can feel the Sichuan accent a little bit; but in his mouth, I can't quite hear it.He spoke to me in the spoken language south of the river, which didn't sound blunt.It turned out that he had lived in Suzhou for a considerable period of time when he was a child.His speaking skills are not very good, and there is nothing special to call him.He seems to be very impatient, and when he is happy to speak, he is very excited, and his tone is also hasty, as if he can't wait to finish ten sentences in one sentence.He is not particular about grooming, which seems to indicate that his character is very casual.A round face with a slightly square shape, two ears that are not small, but a neck that is not long.Broad shoulders, thick waist, shorter stature than tall people, longer than short people, should be included in the middle class.Muscle is thinner than a person who is too fat, and fatter than a person who is neither fat nor thin. When it is included between normal and obese, it must not be said to be thin, and it is next to fat.The hair is cut very short.Mostly when wearing Chinese clothes.Is the age around the number forty-five?

He was born in a farming and studying family. Since he was a child, he has been traveling with officials, passing through many places, and Suzhou is one of them.When he was seventeen, his father died.Began to work as a civil servant in Peking at the age of nineteen.Entered the military at the age of twenty-three.He once worked as an aide with Hu Liseng and Fu Yisheng.During this period he married. Martial arts novels have always been popular in the north.His own original intention was to write down the landscapes and characters he had experienced and seen as "notes".It just so happened that there was a "Tianfeng Bao" in Tianjin that was short of a long martial arts novel. Under the instigation of others, he inadvertently chose the title of the novel and wrote it down day by day.Unexpectedly, the readers were very popular, and the alias of Huanzhuzhuzhuzhuzhu has attracted people's attention.Because he didn't write with his heart at first, he once said to me: "The first few episodes were not very comfortable to write."

The Japanese invaded and occupied North China, and he couldn't escape because of the large number of his daughters.The Japanese asked him to co-publish a publication, but he refused and was imprisoned for two months.After he was released from prison, his family was burdened and his life was very difficult.After Kou defeated, he came to Shanghai again, and met Mr. Lu, the owner of Zhengqi Bookstore, and had a good chat.Mr. Lu said: "You don't need to deal with political and military affairs. You should live in Shanghai and write manuscripts. You can maintain your life in the future." He agreed, and began to write and live in Shanghai.

At that time, he lived in a small room on the north side of the Old Garbage Bridge in Shanghai. In addition to continuing to write various novels, he was also invited by daily newspapers in Shanghai, Hong Kong, Wuxi, Zhenjiang, and Peking to write and send novels on a daily basis.At that time, his family members still lived in Beiping.Until the winter of the thirty-sixth year, he moved his family to the south and lived in Suzhou, where he himself lived. The novel about ghosts and ghosts written by Zhuzhu Zhuzhu, the magical ghosts conceived, are unexpected and simply unimaginable.This issue will be discussed later, please refer to "Physics and Metaphysics".

What I want to say now is: since there are so many characters in the novel, the chapters at the end are so long.Not to mention deeds, but the names of many people and places.The name of the magic weapon is cumbersome enough, and it is not easy to figure it out.Moreover, if several works are continued in one day, there is more possibility of entanglement and mistakes.As far as I know, he didn't have a brief list of the names of the various novels that he prepared for research, but he just casually continued to write one by one, and his memory is amazing.Furthermore, he always has to work for twelve hours a day, and there are very few opportunities for mental rest, except for sleep.It is rare for a person's brain power to "resist for a long time" as long as he can.

Huanzhu Louzhu can be regarded as a strange person, especially his mind, which is even more strange.With such a strange mind, novels as mysterious as "Shu Shan" can be produced. A novelist is not equal to a thinker, but if one cannot use thought, the work will become a mediocre narrative, which will hardly have the power to attract readers.Especially the novels of ghosts and monsters, to put it bluntly, are nothing more than speculative talk, creating something out of nothing, let alone the use of ideas.As for which line of thought one belongs to, and the value of thought, that is a matter of individual differences, and cannot be generalized. The "ideology" revealed by Huanzhuzhuzhuzhu in his works is very messy, and it is almost impossible to find the central point.He said he was a Confucian, but he regarded Buddhism as the highest; he was a Taoist, but he was willing to preach for Confucianism; It is said that he is a yin and yang family, but he uses the functions of sound, light, electromagnetism, etc. to act as various "magic weapons" in the book; he is said to be willing to accept science, but he is a gold, wood, water, fire, and earth, and his words are grotesque.This is the reason for its chaos and the dazzling magic of its works. He once wrote me a letter, talking about his writing mood, he said: ) is based on Chongzheng, and the emphasis is on the word love, but it does not specifically refer to the love between men and women.Also: My brother has a strong and complex personality, so the person in the book has seven incarnations, both good and evil. (abbreviated below) These words may be regarded as his writing attitude. In a book, there is a discussion.He said: These words may be regarded as his philosophy of life. The most popular work of Huanzhuzhuzhuzhu is not so much a novel as a myth.However, this kind of myth was not handed down from ancient times, but was created by him. His works of gods and monsters are very far away from the real world. The basis of the story is not based on the human society, but on an unreal society formed by the mixture of immortals, Buddhas, ghosts, birds, beasts, insects and fish.Although they are all personified in the book, the struggle between each other (struggle is the backbone of the story), in terms of image and character, has transcended the fetters of human society. In the writing of Huanzhuzhulouzhu: Regarding natural phenomena, the sea can be boiled, the earth can be overturned, the mountains can be conquered, people can be turned into beasts, the sky can disappear without a trace, the land can sink without form, and Others and so on; about the realm of the story, there is heaven beyond the sky, earth under the ground, lakes and marshes under the water, stone heart and abode, etc.; for the view of life, the soul can leave the body, outside the body You can incarnate, you can resurrect by borrowing a corpse, you can escape by suicide, you can live forever by practicing, but there is death in the immortal family, and so on; as for life, you can live without hunger, without clothes, you can live without cold, and you can travel thousands of miles. Size, talking and laughing can be sent from the basement to the heaven, and so on; as for combat, wind, frost, water, snow and ice, sun, moon, stars, gas clouds, metal, wood, water, fire, earth, thunder, lightning, sound, light, magnetism, all have elites who can absorb them and make them successful All kinds of murderous sharp weapons, which generate and restrain each other, are used to attack and defend, and can be stored in the arms, and the power is unimaginable when fired. As mentioned above, none of them can be seen in actual human social phenomena, or even imagined.Although science is omnipotent and there are many fantasies, today's fruit has become a reality, but when compared with "magic weapon" and "magic", it will eventually become a different view.In the novel of Huanzhuzhuzhulou: Body and sword are united, driving the light, between two days, hurriedly rushing, traveling thousands of miles, seeing the front... (not the original text, just imitating the meaning) What readers get is a kind of magical sound, an abstract feeling that cannot be touched, and the records in real life: "I saw that large plane with four engines rising into the sky and getting smaller and smaller. , Submerged into the depths of the clouds, I can't see it, it's really fast!" The sentiment and artistic conception are completely different.Because the plane has a specific image, which remains in the minds of the people watching it, it must not be "mysterious" like the fusion of body and sword.If you want to ask Huanzhu Zhuzhu to take a picture of the movement of body and sword and print it in the novel, so that you can see why it happened, then I'm afraid it will not be possible, so it will be mysterious. Huanzhu Louzhu's novels of ghosts and monsters are far away from the "mortal world", and the color of the swordsman written in the notes of the predecessors "flying sword to take the head of a hundred miles away" is tens of thousands of times thicker , It is really a long myth.