Zheng Baochun Seven or eight years have passed since "The Story of the Green Cliff and the White Deer" to "The Clouds Scattered in the High Tang Dynasty". Shen Yingying is studying medicine and writing novels in the capital city full of horses and horses.For Chinese fantasy literature, which is still in its infancy, this is really frightening writing. On the one hand, it is becoming more and more alienated from the mainstream discourse. On the other hand, the territory opened up is so deep and lonely. Doubts, doubts, and uneasiness have been accumulating in her heart like dark clouds, waiting for the next work to come out, washing away the haze all over the sky like a torrential rain.Of course, this is a vicious cycle, just like Guo Xiang went to retreat to practice the "Nine Yin Manual". In fact, it is almost impossible to reach the peak of superb martial arts.

So, I am worried that Yingying will give up, that she will become a devil when she emerges from the new work, and that she will abandon her Cangyue and Xiaolin , Jiangnan, these good brothers in the rivers and lakes, abandon "Legends of Ancient Times·Martial Arts Edition", such a magazine that relies heavily on her talent, after all, in the department, being a female doctor of medicine is more like fantasy It is easier for female literary writers to reconcile with this profit-seeking era. On the eve of the Spring Festival in 2005, I read Shen Yingying's new work "Clouds Scattered in Gaotang" in Wuhan, and my joy was beyond words.Seeing Yao Ji transformed into a white phoenix and soaring from the sea of ​​blood under the cursed black tower, I felt that this scene almost foreshadowed that Shen Yingying would break out of her nearly fateful writing and enter the realm of freedom.It is believed that the strength that made her break through is not only the friendship between her two lifelong sisters, not only the faint joy brought by the hard work of writing, but also the more mysterious hidden in her heart. Power, if she resides in this pure white phoenix, entrusts her body in the spiritual prison like the black tower, what calls her to fly is the mountains, rivers and swamps of Yunmeng, a country called Chu that has disappeared, For a long time, this one of the most glorious ancient countries in human history has been looking for its own maiden in different generations, and the soul has returned, so that its power can be revived in our complex and ambiguous spiritual territory.And "Phoenix Nirvana", I'm afraid it is such a metaphor.

I believe that readers will sincerely love the fresh, bright, and slightly damp atmosphere from the mountains and forests permeated in this work, and those characters with long sleeves and crowns, long clips, who come and go in the palace of plants and trees. Close to God and close to man.Trapped in the fate of fate, and resist without hesitation.They are so free and so humble.Just like the guy named Qu Yuan, wandering with vegetation, birds and beasts, gods, and between heaven and earth, he found himself, but he couldn't complete himself, so he had to entrust himself to great anger.King Quan is another black tower, but this black tower not only imprisoned the phoenix, but also nurtured the phoenix.Unlike the flamboyant, vigorous, and authoritative dragon, the phoenix is ​​almost a symbol of nature, spirit, and self.After being defeated by Bai Qi's iron cavalry, the country where Phoenix lived was destroyed. Since then, it has become a hidden symbol, hidden in the shadow of an ambiguous empire.

"Yun San Gao Tang" makes people think of Cao Yu's masterpiece "Thunderstorm" in the last century.The same chaos of blood caused by incest, after breaking the taboo, the power of fate is thunderous, men sacrifice their lives to atone for their sins, and women become witches.It seems that Yaoji and Fanyi almost have the same witch temperament.This is rather secondary. I noticed that in the blood vessels of these two works, the same blood of Chu State flows.The dark clouds in the tropical monsoon region symbolize the ferocious divine power of abandoning people. The wildly growing grass and trees in the pond courtyard show the absurd and beautiful will of life. Love is like vines and trees entwined together, inseparable.Interestingly, Shen Yingying's hometown is in Wuhan, and Cao Yu's hometown is in Qianjiang, Hubei. They are related by blood to their hometowns, but they have never lived in their hometowns.They can also break free from the style of poetry and prose, and find a narrative mode in the Greek dramas introduced to China in the 1920s and 1930s.The great trinity makes the protagonist's fate succumb to a palace, a mansion, and a stage, instead of going to the sky and entering the earth, making his life in vain, and staying in the sun in the evening.Such a new narrative technology can entertain us even more.

Contemporary fantasy literature has actually reached a critical era.Readers who have watched "The Lord of the Rings" and "Harry Potter" and come back from the cinema, I believe they can understand this.The humanities workers in our country, staring at the literature that expresses authority and the literature learned from the West, have already sent the popular, original, grassroots, and national literature to the popular hometown of the lower Liba people. The most terrible end is probably. Yes, let the culture of a different place take away our right to fantasize.Fortunately, in 2005, with the rise of the new martial arts in mainland China, we editors of popular literature in the industry have built new confidence.There are two systems of ancient Chinese mythology, the Kunlun Mountain system and the Southern system.In last year's fantasy writing, Bu Feiyan moved to the huge Hindu mythology system based on the Kunlun Mountain system, and Shen Yingying entered the southern mythology system, using "Chu Ci" as a blueprint to build her cloud and wild world.Jiangnan and Cangyue rebuilt the New World, rebuilt the empire, and created their own systems out of nowhere.Coupled with the terrific efforts of other writers, the blueprint for a new fantasy world is already unfolding.

Haizi from Huaining, Anhui Province said in his poem: Generating without insight, The earth presents itself, Use happiness and pain, Come rebuild the roof of your hometown. From the above, I come to understand Yingying, her creation of "Scattering Clouds in the Tang Dynasty", and her efforts to "rebuild the roof of Chu State".It is believed that the phoenix that has left the black tower will fly higher and farther if it is summoned by the mysterious voice in Yunmeng Guze.From Zhuangzi to Qu Yuan and Song Yu, from Tao Yuanming to Li Bai to Yuan Zhonglang to Haizi, the singing of the phoenix has never been interrupted in the Chinese literary tradition. In the cloudless world.