Chapter 37 Postscript Poems and Gods and Demons——The World of Zhuo Wangsun

Many years ago, I once said: Since Mr. Gu Long said at the beginning that he changed the martial arts ethos from depicting gods to depicting people was an innovation, why don't we turn it around again today, from depicting people to depicting gods? Because of this sentence, I have suffered countless doubts. "Huayin Liushao", a martial arts novel with a strong mythological background, is the focus of controversy.Fortunately, the Huayin series has been published for six years, with three volumes and eight volumes, millions of words in length, and hundreds of thousands of readers.They wandered in this world and spent the best years of youth with me.

Now, looking back at everything that happened back then, I think, no matter what, I finally answered some of the doubts with facts, but today, I have to say it again.My so-called "writing about the gods" is not to dazzle people with magical and treacherous things, nor to deliberately pursue magnificence and luxury, nor to despise human dignity and value.Just because "God" itself is our own shadow.It is the ancient ancestors who used our uncontaminated imagination to write and perfect themselves under the distant sky. Thousands of years have passed, we have indulged in carnival in modern technology, and no longer fear the majesty of nature and gods.If we can take a break from the hustle and bustle of industry and look back at the images our ancestors have written for us, then these gods will become a mirror through which we can contemplate ourselves.

What I want to write is not the real gods, but people who endlessly pursue beyond the limitations of human beings and make themselves as perfect, noble and free as gods. It is their eternal pursuit of dreams and continuous self-improvement that demonstrate the true dignity and beauty of human beings. Here, I quote a reader's interpretation of the distinction between man and god in Huayin. Although it has been praised, it deeply moved and encouraged me. When it comes to the distinction between man and god, I have to talk about Zhuo Wangsun, the first protagonist of the Huayin series. I know that at least half of Aihuayin's readers love him.Many readers wrote to me and said that although he has the brilliance of gods and demons, they have truly seen themselves from him, and they have seen the perfect self walking freely in another time and space.Of course, some people easily attribute him to a certain type, saying that he is no different from the bosses of other novels except for his god-like power.I think, for the works, of course different people have different opinions. I can't force every reader to understand Zhuo Wangsun, but I still can't help but want to defend him a few words.

From the very beginning, I didn't want him to be just a very cold and powerful boss or daemon.I want to show everyone his changes and his growth.Therefore, in the three volumes and eight volumes of the Huayin series, I will slowly unfold a long and undulating picture scroll, showing everyone a different version of him, different aspects of his character, and the real reason why he moved us. In the first volume, he was only a young man, yet he wielded an almost invincible power in the world, and an authority that attracted the attention of the world.It is undeniable that Zhuo Wangsun's most brilliant light is his majesty, his incomparable arrogance, his strength, cruelty, indifference, and majesty born of a god of destruction.

But in the first volume, I not only want to express these, but also emphasize his calmness, his frivolity, and his dazzling demeanor like the morning sun. At that time, he also carried the frivolity of youth, despising and destroying all stereotypes and bad habits.But this frivolity is not as sharp-edged as Guo Ao, who escaped the control of reason and eventually became a juvenile tyrant.For Zhuo Wangsun, everything is under his control, deviant, but enough is enough. He is not only a destroyer of the old system, but also the builder and definer of the new system. He is dissolute yet calm; tyrannical, powerful yet graceful.What's even more valuable is that during his great cause of ruling the world, he manages his own life all the time, making every action of himself full of art and beauty.

In "Wulin Inn", he defeated his greatest enemy, but refused to participate in the martial arts conference, turned around and left gracefully. In "Zi Zhao Tian Yin", because of Lou Xinyue's love for Yang Yizhi, he let go of his lifelong opponent. In "The Wind and the Moon Connecting the City", he is in a green shirt, admiring the flowers alone at the foot of Yusu Mountain, and makes a three-month appointment with Yang Yizhi. In "Heavenly Capital on the Other Shore", he has a grand banquet, plum blossoms pointing slantingly, chatting and laughing to kill people.Under the starry sky on the prairie, he played against the 100,000-strong army of I Dahan with golden bottles of fine wine...

All these behaviors make him not like an emperor or a juvenile tyrant, but more like a poet and an artist. What on earth does he want? He wants the world?He wants to unify the martial arts?He wants to ascend to the throne of God?He wants to break away from the shackles of human beings and challenge the majesty of God? Actually, neither. A reader who likes Zhuo Wangsun gave him a precise definition: Yes, what he wants is not the world, but his own perfect life with the sky.And the real reason we love him. He is actually a man who coexists with the atmosphere of the prosperous Tang Dynasty and the romantic style of the Wei and Jin Dynasties, a man who regards life as the highest art to create.

Just like Haizi's poem: There are so many beautiful mountains and rivers. At night, I rest my head on volumes and Shenzhou. A book in one hand, and Shenzhou in the other.With one hand, the manly charm, and the other hand, the intimidating majesty, but in the name of art and aesthetics, it must be melted without a trace. It is precisely because of this that it can be said that his life actually transcended the scope of secular achievements and was full of the brilliance of art and dreams, which is why he is so moving. Here, also quote a reader's point of view: Xiaozhuo ignores his pursuit, but he does not ignore his dream.Emperors in the world are usually deluded by power, exchanging dreams for power.Xiaozhuo is just the opposite.First of all, he stands at the pinnacle of power, but he is a typical person who is incompatible with the sense of royal power.

Because he respects dreams.He does not admire power and status like many people who are influenced by feudal concepts, so he will not regard whether he has power as a criterion for whether a person is worthy of respect. For this, in fact, he respects women. Yes, he has power, but he hasn't sold his soul.He didn't exchange his dreams for power, but used his power to guard his dreams. As for Zhuo Wangsun's love, that is an endless topic. In "Whispering the Bell on the Road to Shu", we see him at the age of eighteen, with the romance of a boy, but also the affection of a boy.On that desolate moonlit night, he proposed to Yang Jing and wanted to take her back to Huayin Pavilion.I think, at this moment, this man who has been in and out of the world is sincere. He hopes to spread his wings and let Yang Jing live in the legend with him forever.

But Yang Jing rejected him.At this time, the omnipotent he did not force her to stay (he never forced any woman to stay with him, including Acacia), but respected her choice and her wishes. From then on, his heart had a harder coat, and it was not easy for anyone to move him.However, even so, in Huayin's first volume, he still cares about lovesickness deep in his heart. In "Zi Zhao Tian Yin", he made a special trip to wait for her at the White Horse Temple and promised not to kill anyone in front of her. At that moment, his tenderness was sincere. In "Heavenly Capital on the Other Shore", he came to Saishang to look for lovesickness in thousands of mountains and rivers.Before the thousands of troops, he asked her to go with him.At that moment, his protection was also sincere.

However, Acacia rejected him again. No matter what it was for, no matter how many karmas played in the middle, in the end, the scene that Xiao Zhuo saw in the City of Silver made it difficult for his heart to return to the past—whether it was for lovesickness or Yang Yizhi. Therefore, in the second volume, he will become more restrained, with the majesty and majesty of a suzerain.The artist's nature will only show up in accidental moments.For example, in "The Monster of the Sea", Ji Feng when he was answering with Xiaoyan, the encounter of several people in Wanhualou, and the calm talk of watching the moon and drinking tea together. These changes may not be what he wants, but he has to bear them.Maybe he doesn't know it himself, he regards himself as majestic as the sky, but unknowingly, he is making the most difficult struggle and compromise with fate. He has everything, but when he is protecting his ideals and his own life, he looks so pale and powerless. In the third volume, after he lost Xiaoluan, he might really start to look like a boss, a god and demon. Even so, he is still him. Still calm and elegant, but stronger, bridging the last tenderness in my heart, and becoming more impeccable. You will still hear the sound of flowers blooming and falling, and watch the flying dust fall from the sky.When no one is watching, he allows us to see the loneliness and struggle as a god and demon, as well as the dignity and persistence as a human being. A reader wrote an article for him: Gods and demons are not favored by happiness. Another reader quoted Zang Di's poem, feeling how Zhuo Wangsun questioned his heart in the dead of night after his legendary life in bright clothes and angry horses: For the first time, many readers' texts are quoted in the preface.Over the past six years, readers have written countless chapters for this series, many of which have deeply moved me and inspired me, allowing me to see many places that I am not aware of, and giving me the motivation to further improve the world.Perhaps, it is really a fan of the authorities. Whether it is Xiaozhuo or Xiaoyang, although I created it by myself, it will live forever in everyone's love. thank you all.