It is the second part of the "Heroes of Time" series, and also the sixth set of works I published in Fengyun Times. I have always liked this way of writing ancient Chinese mythology into the science fiction system. When I was young, when the wonderful legends of Nuwa mending the sky, Houyi shooting the sun, and Kuafu chasing the sun came into my mind from the lines in the book, I have always been very fond of it. I tried my best to make these stories three-dimensional and vivid, and extended more beautiful pictures from the limited ancient records. The "Time Heroes Series" from, to now, are all written in such anticipation.

In my sci-fi series, these heroes of time will follow the mythology of ancient China and step into the magnificent and magnificent mythical world one by one with the evolution of the times.Many unconstrained imaginations in Chinese culture are very fascinating and far-reaching. In the series of heroes of time, I will push from the era of gods and the Eastern Zhou Dynasty to the time and space when Jing Ke assassinated Qin and Chu and Han contended for supremacy; In the future, we will also enter the world of Sou Shen Ji, Journey to the West, and Legend of the White Snake. After traveling through the time and space of ancient Chinese civilization, I will lead everyone to go to the ancient Maya together with the heroes of time. , Egypt, Atlantis, the Bible, and the world of mythology.

What lies ahead is a colorful and exciting mysterious avenue that makes people leisurely and fascinating. Among the heroes of time in the Eastern Zhou Dynasty, these strange people who have fallen into the ancient times have another strange energy form: "primordial spirit". "Godless" is one of the sayings of ancient Taoism, and it is also related to the "back spirit" in supernatural sayings. It is a wonderful concept and phenomenon in the ancient Chinese metaphysics system. The number of them is extremely large, and they are closely related to many military affairs in the Eastern Zhou Dynasty.

The Eastern Zhou Dynasty in ancient China, known as the "Spring and Autumn Period" in history, was the most exciting period in thousands of years of history. The wars were raging on the earth, and there were countless touching stories. In addition, the hero Di Meng in the "Time Heroes Series" Hun, Yao Sheng, Ge Leixin, Yang Tongye, Yi Yangjiu and others will surely be the footnotes for the next ups and downs of this great legendary era. The previous series of "Eastern Zhou Dynasty" was "Fengshen". When "Fengshen Time Heroes" was launched, a reader once wrote to me and asked me, "Why do you want to set the same story as the Japanese manga "Fengshenbang"?" "?I think this is a very serious issue, so I would like to take this opportunity to make it clear.

In the cognition of many young readers today, they always think that the various wonderful works of Japanese writers and cartoonists are original ideas, such as the popular "Three Kingdoms", "Dragon Ball", "Feng Shen Bang", "Journey to the West", but they are It is not known that the original sources of these works are all from Chinese classical literature. In other words, when you think these Japanese works are wonderful, what you are actually admiring is the essence of civilization of our own ancestors. Japanese culture may have its delicacy, but we must never underestimate ourselves, and we must not forget the pearls we have while admiring the crystal clearness of the sand.

In fact, the same thing happened in my newspaper column "The Law of Iron Teeth"; in one of the laws, I wrote "The only lesson man learns from history is that man never learns from history", and later Then some righteous readers submitted a letter to the newspaper, angrily saying that I had violated the intellectual property rights of the Japanese "master" Kuki Tanaka, because this sentence had appeared in "Legend of the Galactic Heroes". But the reader didn't know that this sentence was not original by Yoshiki Tanaka, and he might have copied it, because the nineteenth-century thinker Hegel had already said such a statement, and the famous Chinese writer Kashiwaba Yang also made a similar statement in history books.

What's more interesting is that when I wrote this sentence, it was indeed my comprehension from reading history to the Southern and Northern Dynasties. Before that, I had never heard Bo Yang, Hegel, or even Yoshiki Tanaka say this theory. In the era of knowledge explosion, it is not uncommon for brains with similar thinking to achieve the same goal through different routes. "Eastern Zhou Time Heroes" is a work I wrote combining the historical facts of the Spring and Autumn Period and my own science fiction setting. I hope to hear more voices from readers so that I can write better works.

Just, please, don't say that I imitate Japanese works.For an author who writes in Chinese, coupled with a sense of kinship and pride in his own culture, to be honest, I extremely dislike such accusations. During the writing process of the "Time Heroes Series", I was very grateful to Master Ni Kuang for his guidance relayed by Brother Ye Lihua. Needless to say, Brother Ye Lihua's daily encouragement, I also want to thank my fellow sci-fi writer Zhang Cao, and Brother Cao for his support. This kind of phone conversation that often lasts until late at night has also benefited a lot.

And the readers from mainland China also gave me great encouragement.Thanks to Mr. Chen Xiaolin of Fengyun Times for the arrangement. My work will be published in mainland China soon. In addition to the usual e-mail correspondence, the same website that publishes my work has accumulated to dozens, which is very touching. This series, I hope to bring readers long-term reading pleasure, this is my greatest hope. Su Yiping in Taipei, Taiwan in February 2000 AD