Chapter 22 extra article about iron box

Now that the story is over, you must still have three questions: 1. What is in that iron box? 2. Why did it pass to me when I got on the train? 3. How did the contents in the iron box keep Chen Quan youthful? Could it be that the author chose to remain silent because he was unable to complete the answer? Hehe, let's go back to the novel.In the conception of the novel itself, the iron box contained the Jade Seal of Chuanguo. Yes, it is Qin Shihuang's Jade Seal of Chuanguo, engraved with the eight characters of "Ordered by Heaven, long life and eternal prosperity". As a symbol of the orthodox regime, this jade seal has too much mystery and authority.What's more mysterious is that it keeps appearing and disappearing legendaryly in history. There are too many times and I won't describe it in detail.

The orthodox record of the last appearance of the national seal was in 1294 AD. In the market of Dadu in the Yuan Dynasty, the then prime minister Boyan ordered someone to buy it, and the seal entered the Yuan Dynasty. At the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, Ming Taizu sent Xu Da to Mobei to pursue the fleeing Mongolian court in order to obtain the Jade Seal of the Chuanguo, but in the end he returned empty-handed. This is the last record of the Jade Seal of the Chuanguo in history. Then Chuan Guo Yuxi disappeared in the long river of Chinese history. But there is a private legend: at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, in the first year of Emperor Xiankang of the Han Dynasty (AD 220), Emperor Xian of the Han Dynasty was forced to "abide", Cao Pi built the Wei Dynasty, changed the Yuan Dynasty to the early Huang Dynasty, and made people engrave official characters on the shoulder of the Chuanguo Yuxi "The Great Wei received the imperial seal from the Han Dynasty" to prove that it was not "usurping the Han Dynasty", but it was actually an attempt to cover it up.

According to this statement, then we can think that the orthodox Han seal was lost at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, a loss in a symbolic sense. Let's connect Yuxi with the novel to see if we can solve the mystery in the novel. 1. Question: Nurhachi in the Qing Dynasty won the Jade Seal of Chuanguo, will he have the ambition to compete with the Ming Dynasty? Answer: Absolutely.Across history, all tribes that have obtained the Jade Seal of Chuanguo have risen to fight for the world, and Jurchen is no exception. 2. Question: Can Jin Bihui revive the fallen Qing Dynasty when he gets the Jade Seal of Chuanguo?

Answer: No.Because the period of imperial power is gone forever.The problem is that Jin Bihui doesn't know that the iron box contains the Jade Seal of Chuanguo, and the tomb watcher of Huanggu's grave has not been down the mountain for a long time, and his thinking has stuck in the feudal era.He thinks it's okay.Jin Bihui believed his words, plus the legend of her ancestors, that's why she desperately went to get the iron box. But Jin Bihui must not be allowed to get the iron box. If the Jade Seal of Chuanguo falls into Jin Bihui's hands, it will indeed have a fatal attraction and cohesion to those feudal old people and village fools.And Jin Bihui's background is the Japanese. Although the Qing Dynasty cannot be restored and the Japanese cannot dominate China forever, there is no doubt that we Chinese will suffer for a few more years because of this.

3. Question: Does the Chuanguo Yuxi have the magic power to keep Chen Quan young forever?Why would it be passed on to the "me" on the train? Answer: To answer this question, let us look at the origin of this novel.First of all, I want to ask a question, which is the question Chen Quan asked at the end of the train: Is this just a story? I tell you, it's a story, but one that stems from a real story. The origin of the story is this: The author of the novel, I, is from Yancheng, Jiangsu Province. Before 2004, I lived next to the New Fourth Army Memorial Hall. Before 1998, there was a big rapeseed field next to the museum. Every spring, many beekeepers put bees on the edge of the field. It was the kind of big box where the bees kept drilling in and out.Beekeepers make their homes everywhere, staying here and there for a while before leaving.

I was young at that time, I read a lot at night in school, I had chronic bronchitis, and I always coughed non-stop. In the spring, my family would buy fresh royal jelly for me to drink. There was an old beekeeper with a bald head, wrinkles as deep as a pineapple skin, and a fluttering white beard. He was also surnamed Chen.I remember that there are only two stumps left on the index finger and middle finger of his right hand. The bee jelly sold is very pure without any mixture.My family has bought royal jelly from him for several years, and gradually became familiar with it. At that time, I would always go to his temporary bee house to play on weekends. Every evening when the bees returned to their nests, he would smoke and tell me stories, saying that he was from Xuzhou, could read, had served in the army, and had beaten devils, but Not the PLA.

The stories the old man told were complex, including ghosts and gods, but most of them were stories about the military camp, telling all the grievances and hatreds in the trenches, and sometimes he could cry while telling them. There is an iron box next to his bed in his bee house that he has never opened. The iron skin is polished and shiny, and the box is locked with a big copper lock. I still don’t know what is inside. At that time, I looked forward to his coming every spring, not only to buy bee jelly that could cure my illness, but also because he left me with too many mysteries, and I longed to see the answer one day.

But that day never came. In 1998, when the New Fourth Army Memorial Hall was expanded, the vegetable field was poured with cement, and the old man never appeared again.It is now 2009, the old man should be no longer alive. So I used the materials given to me by the old man and added artistic processing to write this novel. I would like to pay tribute to the old man and the soldiers of his generation: "Father Chen, have a good journey, and when comrades-in-arms meet under Jiuquan, it is also a cup of tea." Shui Min's kindness and hatred." Going back to question 3, how should I say it? What I want to talk about is a literary question.

There is a common voice on literary forums that there are no suspense novels in China. If you want to read suspense novels, you have to read European and American ones.Such as Stephen King, such as Hitchcock. If you want to read suspense novels, you have to read Japanese ones.Such as Edogawa Ranpo, such as Higashino Keigo. Children need to watch Conan and cultivate it from an early age. In the second half of 2008, I became interested in suspense novels, and immediately read the works recommended above. I didn't understand Stephen King's, or I just didn't feel it. Anyway, I glanced at it at a glance, and there was no surprise.

I admit that Hitchcock's is very good. I searched all his short novelettes, and I was surprised to find that he didn't have a long novel. I was a little dizzy when I saw the Japanese one. To be honest, I am not saying that it is not good-looking, but it really does not attract me, because I think it is a bit more professional, and I lost interest in physics in high school. I mean it's boring, it's too idealistic, it's sometimes too inhuman, it's always the same thing. Then I watched "Devils and Angels".After synthesizing the most successful foreign suspense novels I have read, I found a commonality among them:

It means that the successful suspense novels in various countries are based on the cultural heritage of each country, or it is the closeness of daily life that communicates. I am very happy, I think how good our Chinese suspense novels should be.Our 5,000-year culture is the oldest and most powerful cultural heritage. Foreigners are nothing compared to the complexity of our lives. So I happily flipped through Chinese suspense novels, and then I cried. I will avoid whether the Chinese suspense novels are good or not. Let me first say that I saw all of them on the cover: China’s Da Vinci Code, China’s Stephen King, China’s Mrs. Ah He. It turns out that China’s suspense novels are all bananas. ah?The outside is covered with yellow skin, and the inside is white? Our Chinese suspense writers are actually complacent with this kind of praise, and they are still looking for inspiration in foreign novels and movies over and over again, trying to find the next foreign hat. If anyone dares to praise that my work is similar to foreign so-and-so, I will beat him with a big ear photon. Now back to the question of whether Chinese suspense novels are good or not.In it I paid tribute to two people with my method: One Zhou Dedong, one the world's top singer. Because their works have not compromised with foreign works, they are our own suspense novels in China.Of course, I am not suggesting to imitate China's own good works, causing grave robbers all over the place. People should have their own personality and write their own things, but you can't be slavish without personality. However, most suspense novels in China are full of slavishness, blindly worshiping and plagiarizing foreign works, and you can always find the ghosts of foreign famous writers in slavish works. It's time to open the iron box, which contains the orthodox heritage of our Chinese culture.It's not that China doesn't have its own good works, but that writers have discarded our Chinese traditional thinking and our Chinese pride.Mr. Lu Xun's borrowing doctrine does not mean that we copy other people's culture to overwrite our own cultural hard drive. It's like western food, it's delicious, but just try it, it can't replace our steamed buns with rice.Don’t think that the wish of Chinese readers is to eat Western food every meal. Maybe the reason why we have to eat Western food is because our author cooks raw rice mixed with curry. How do you let Chinese readers eat? So I had no choice but to eat Western food. As a result, the authors who didn't know how to cook rice flocked to learn how to cook Western food again, thinking that this time they could catch the appetite of Chinese readers. The results of it?In the end, I can tell you responsibly: Western food is only authentic if made by foreigners, so you should come back and learn how to cook. Everyone understands why I don't open the iron box in the novel but open it outside the novel.What I hope is to wave a flag out of the iron box, so that our Chinese readers can see: China can have suspense novels with Chinese characteristics, China can have suspense novels based on 5,000 years of Chinese culture, and China can have suspense novels with Chinese thinking. I hope that Chinese suspense novels can stand upright and face up to the suspense culture of neighboring countries, instead of kneeling on the ground and looking up like they are now.Let us absorb some nutrients from the orthodox Chinese culture in the iron box. Although the padded jacket is not as gorgeous as the Parisian fashion, and although people with slavish bones will laugh at our rustic clothes, we will stand up straight and say: our own is the best.I wore it and it fits nicely and is warm. This is what I really want to put in the tin box. As for why the iron box was passed on to me, because I am an ordinary Chinese. Any Chinese has the right and obligation to accept the cultural inheritance in the iron box.