1. Does the record about the blue fireball-shaped bug in the prototype of the ghost blowing out the lantern story really exist
The author's own answer seems very real, rural and mysterious, yes When I was writing the first volume, I wanted to express what I most wanted to express.
Speaking of "truth", I think of questions that are often asked: Is "Ghost Blowing the Lamp" about a true story? There are so many nouns, terms, geography, and Feng Shui that people who don’t understand can’t write about them. Are these contents real or fictional? First of all, I want to say that "Ghost Blows Out the Lamp" is a story, a novel, not documentary literature, nor a memoir. True and false are mixed together. If you want to distinguish between truth and fiction, you can only specify a certain noun or a certain paragraph. The plot can only be distinguished. For example, in the story of Yerengou, the location is fictitious, but the underground fortress of the Kwantung Army as the scene is real. There are still ruins preserved in Northeast Inner Mongolia and other places. It is said that the Xing'anling fire that year was It was caused by the explosion of the ammunition depot buried by the Kwantung Army.
Regarding nouns and terminology, it is necessary to explain that in "Ghost Blowing the Lamp", tomb robbing is called "inverted bucket", and the funerary objects are called "underworld objects". These special industry terms are true in reality. exists; and calling the corpse in the ancient tomb "Zongzi" is completely my own original fiction, and this has never been said before. To give another example: The book describes that the gold-touching captain must wear a gold-touching talisman before he can engage in tomb robbing activities.
Lighting candles and the iron rule of not touching gold when the rooster crows and the lamp is out are all made up by me and are not true. There has never been such a thing as a gold touching charm in the world, and there is no prototype. I hope readers will understand. Please don't be misled by my story. There are countless similar examples in the book "Ghost Blowing the Lamp". The historical background of each ancient tomb and adventure location, the prototypes of various mysterious animals and plants, Feng Shui metaphysics, folk geography, etc., are both true and false, and there are more. There is a mixture of fiction and reality, and the content will be adjusted according to the needs of the storyline. If you want to explain everything, it will never be explained clearly in three or five days, so I won’t explain it more here.
The second one is the ghost tomb, the second one is the treasure hunt in Heishui City, where the gold captain was found, and the third one is the coffin shop in the stone tablet shop where Wang Zhishu surfaced. Although there are three stories in one volume, in this volume I mainly wanted to highlight the core element of thriller.
Some people may say "Ghost Blows Out the Lamp" is a thriller novel, but in fact I think it is not at all, and it has little to do with "horror" on the whole. If we talk about horror, I think horror is just one of the many elements in this book, not the main element.
The only volume that is full of suspense is "The Mysterious Cave of Longling". It is full of suffocating buttons of the traditional storybook. This is a sensational volume. When writing "Longling Mysterious Cave", I began to consider the structure of the overall story. In order to connect the first two volumes with the following content, I arranged some large-scale narratives. These are Partridge Shao's apprenticeship and Natou's famous certificate. He stole the ancient tomb of Jiang Jiang in the Southern Song Dynasty, and then went to explore Blackwater City with Elder Liao Chen and Father Thomas.
The subtitle of "Ghost Blows Out the Lamp" is "The Strange Experience of the Grave Robbers", which means that it mainly focuses on the gold-finding deeds, but as a hidden line, the stories of other tomb robbers such as Taoist Banshan and Xiling Lishi. It also began to emerge gradually, and it was determined that the clues of the story would revolve around the bottomless ghost cave, so the role of "Longling Labyrinth" is similar to threading a needle. The large-scale narration in this volume is to adjust the thinking, and to test my writing ability in different era backgrounds through the legends of the Republic of China. It can be said that I am moving forward through exploration.
In this volume, I am personally more satisfied with the chapters of Deng Ying, Coffin Yi, Suspended Soul Ladder, and Wild Cat, Rooster Crow. The chapter with major flaws is Diamond Fish. The two parts of the Bone Temple Robbery Cave and the Tongtian Grand Buddhist Temple in Heishui City, Xixia, have been planned to be written to one million words, so the pace of the story has been slowed down. In addition, because it is updated every day at the starting point, in order to increase the number of pirated posts on the Internet Some resistance, starting from this volume, a lot of the words Shengqi are used.
"Yunnan Worm Valley" The third volume of the first part of "Ghost Blowing Lamp" "Yunnan Worm Valley" happened to be watching the World Cup when I wrote the story of this volume. I was particularly impressed by it. It is a severe test of energy, physical strength and perseverance.
Exploration is the core of this volume: Tomb of King Xian of Yunnan. I personally like watching movies, and I used to like "The Abyss" and "Alien" very much.
The so-called adventure is exploration plus adventure. Later, I saw the trailer of the remake of "King Kong". There was a scene where the expedition team used a turntable submachine gun to fight against the evil centipedes in the valley. , I really like this scene. An expedition team with old-fashioned equipment, kayak drifting, the wreckage of a crashed military aircraft, a ghostly Morse signal, a Chicago typewriter, giant insects that have not died for tens of millions of years, the corpse hole effect that devours everything, and the harsh natural environment Fighting through obstacles in the jungles and fossil caves, Yunnan Worm Valley was launched. It is completely a treasure map-style traditional adventure element, with a strange supernatural and science fiction color added to it. This is a volume that combines old and new adventure elements.
In "Yunnan Worm Valley", the story type has completely shifted to "adventure". There are few characters in this volume, and the main space is used to describe the dangerous terrain and various weird traps.
Regarding the human skin map contributed by Chen Xiazi, I didn’t have any idea in my mind at the beginning. I just arranged it as bizarre as I thought. As the writing progressed, I uncovered the mysteries one by one. I also felt a little surprised. The earliest designed Tomb of King Xian was an ancient tomb that could only be entered when the sky collapsed. I once imagined that a large passenger plane crashed in front of the gold-finding team, thus knocking away the big men in the ancient tomb. But then I thought about many friends who would fly out in the future, so it might not be a good idea to write this; plus in the ghost In the signal section, a transport aircraft used by the United States (Mi) to aid the Chinese Air Force during the Anti-Japanese War was used, so in the end Tianbeng was described as a bomber that was destroyed decades ago. In this plot The sense of gravity and destiny is something I myself cannot predict in advance.
The part that I am more satisfied with in this volume is that the creation of the fictional evil technique can finally be justified. I still admire myself very much, and Hulu. 2. Which of the things in Ghost Blowing the Lamp are true?
Some of them are true, and some are written in the article, but it is better to read the author’s words.
The following is the author's postscript, you can read it. The book "Ghost Blows Out the Lamp" I wrote has two parts, totaling eight volumes. The order is "Jingjue Ancient City", "Longling Labyrinth Cave", "Yunnan Worm Valley", "Kunlun Shrine", " "Huangpizi Tomb", "Return to the Ruins of the South China Sea", "Nuqing Xiangxi", "Wuxia Coffin Mountain".
Starting from February 2006 to the end of February 2008, I wrote it for two full years, with about two million words in length. It took a lot of effort during this period, but there were also great gains.
Through this book, I have met many friends, some of whom I have met, and some of whom I have never met. It can be said that if you like my book, we should be considered friends. Please allow me to thank you sincerely. Being able to share the stories I wrote with many people is the greatest joy for me.
Today, as I finish the entire book, I would like to give a brief review of the entire creative process of "Ghost Blowing the Lamp", dedicated to readers who like "Ghost Blowing the Lamp". People often ask me which volume I am most satisfied with, so when I finished "Ghost Blowing the Lamp" I also gave a "director's self-evaluation".
As an author, it is also very interesting to evaluate your own works. A complete set of eight volumes of stories, each volume has different core elements and themes, and the content it wants to express is also different.
During the serialization process, I could only write a few thousand words a day. Due to time constraints and personal preferences, I basically never revised the parts I had already written, and there was never a story outline. I don’t know what the outline is yet. For me, I don’t know what unexpected situations will occur in the next chapter. Many of them are improvisations, which is a great joy in the creative process. It's hard to say which one of these eight volumes is the most satisfying to me. Each volume has chapters and sections that I'm very satisfied with. But in my opinion, each volume also has shortcomings and flaws. It would be much better if I revised it again, but that would inevitably lead to ingenuity, and the fun of improvisation would be lost.
The following is a volume-by-volume review in the order of creation, including the characteristics and creation process of each volume, the characters and backgrounds that appear, as well as chapters that I think are satisfactory and have flaws. "Ghost Blowing the Lamp" is an adventure novel, rooted in the Feng Shui of Yi Xue, and is the meridian running through it.
Although the book contains many elements, only the word "adventure" can sum up its essence. It is by no means a simple tomb robbery novel, nor is it a horror, supernatural or old-fashioned mystery and suspense novel. The ancient tombs are just the basis for the adventure in the story. What this book tells is a series of adventure journeys using traditional Chinese craftsmanship and theory.
"Jingjue Ancient City", the first volume of "Ghost Blowing Lamp", "Jingjue Ancient City", can be divided into two parts. The first half ends at the underground army at the black wind outlet of Yerengou (yes) The Fortress is mainly the construction of a framework and platform, and there are no clear clues about its relationship with the main plot. This half is intended to be written in the genre of folklore and country talk.
The so-called folk tale type, I think, is probably the legend of zombies and black donkey hooves in the deep mountains and old forests. Starting from the time when the archaeological team entered the desert to search for the exquisite ancient city, they touched on distinct geographical and cultural elements, such as the desert of the Western Regions, the Peacock River, the Double Sacred Mountains, the Thirty-Six Kingdoms, the Loulan Female Corpse, and the Dunhuang Murals. When these elements are mentioned, there is a mysterious atmosphere. So in this part of the ancient city of Jingjue, I made mystery the core of the story. In the end, Queen Jingjue didn’t show up, so she was considered mysterious to the end.
This volume involves some archaeological puzzle elements. As the first volume, the biggest flaw now is that some parts are too simple and sloppy, and the logic is relatively loose. I write and compile as I go, without considering how the subsequent story will unfold. What I am satisfied with is the comparison between description and narration. Real and vivid.
The style that looks very real, rural, and mysterious was what I wanted to express most when I was writing the first volume. Speaking of "truth", I think of questions that are often asked: Is "Ghost Blowing the Lamp" about a true story? There are so many nouns, terms, geography, and Feng Shui that people who don’t understand can’t write them down. Are these contents real or fictional? First of all, I want to say that "Ghost Blows Out the Lamp" is a story, a novel, not documentary literature, nor a memoir. True and false are mixed together. If you want to distinguish between truth and fiction, you can only specify a certain noun or a certain paragraph. The plot can only be distinguished.
For example, in the story of Yerengou, the location is fictitious, but the underground fortress of the Kwantung Army as the scene actually exists. There are still ruins preserved in Northeast Inner Mongolia and other places. It is said that at that time The Xing'anling fire was caused by the explosion of an ammunition depot buried by the Kwantung Army. Regarding nouns and terminology, it is necessary to explain. In "Ghost Blowing the Lamp", tomb robbing is called "inverted bucket", just like the burial objects are called "underworld tools". These special industry terms do exist in reality; and ancient tombs are called The corpse in the story is "Zongzi", which is completely my own original fiction. This has never been said before.
To give another example: the book describes that the gold-touching captain must wear a gold-touching talisman before he can engage in tomb robbing activities. The term "Mojin Xiaowei" has been around since the Three Kingdoms period, but it has not been passed down as a traditional industry. It has only existed for a few decades. All the traditional rules about Mojin Xiaowei include lighting candles in the southeast corner and crowing rooster lanterns. The iron law of whether to destroy or touch gold is all made up by me personally. It is not true. There has never been such a thing as a golden charm in the world, and there is no prototype. I hope readers will understand clearly and not be fooled by my story. Misled.
There are countless similar examples in the book "Ghost Blowing the Lamp". There are historical backgrounds of each ancient tomb and adventure location, the prototypes of various mysterious animals and plants, Feng Shui metaphysics, folk geography, etc. There are truths and lies, and more of a mixture of fiction and reality, and the content will be adjusted according to the needs of the storyline. If you want to explain everything, it will definitely not be explained clearly in three or five days, so I won’t explain it more here. "Longling Mystery Cave", the second volume of the first volume of "Ghost Blowing Lamp", "Longling Mysterious Cave", in fact, the story of this volume is divided into three parts. The first is the discovery of the ghost tomb of the Western Zhou Dynasty by fighting in Longling, and the second is to touch gold. The school captain went on a treasure hunt in Heishui City, and the third thing was that the coffin shop in Shibei Shop presented Wang Zhishu to the surface.
Although there are three stories in one volume, in this volume I mainly wanted to highlight the thrillers.
3. Which figure in history has the highest martial arts?
"Do you know who has the strongest martial arts throughout the ages?" This is a question raised by Bai Zizai in Jin Yong's novel "Xia Ke Xing".
As the head of the Snow Mountain Sect, Bai Zizai is familiar with the martial arts stories. He has such a question, which shows that this is not an easy question to answer. The protagonist Hamlet (Hamlet) in Shakespeare's famous work "The Revenge of the Prince" has a question: "To be or not to be, that is a question.
" It is called "Hamlet's question", that is, "Hamlet's question" . Regarding the question raised by Bai Zizai, we might as well follow suit and call it the euphemistically named "Bai Zizai problem."
Answering this question is naturally not an easy task. We must first provide a list of candidates, but the preparation of this list is also not easy. Whether someone is qualified to be selected is a question of To be or not to be. Hamlet had troubles. Our generation may not be as good as Hamlet in terms of EQ or IQ, so even if we want to scratch our heads and scratch our heads, Breaking the scalp may not lead to any conclusion.
However, if this question is thrown to Mr. Jin Yong, whose EQ and IQ are not necessarily inferior to Hamlet, what will be the result? In order to simplify and clarify the problem, we can change the formulation of the "Bai Zizai question", that is, if everyone is asked to choose the historical figure with the highest martial arts in their mind, who will be the top one? In other words, if Mr. Jin Yong were to choose the historical figure with the highest martial arts skills in his mind, who would be the person who can win this honor? Mr. Jin Yong may not bother to answer such boring questions, but the author knows that Mr. Jin Yong must choose two people-Bodhidharma and Zhang Sanfeng. It goes without saying that Bodhidharma is the founder of the Shaolin sect, and Zhang Sanfeng is the founder of the Wudang sect. Shaolin and Wudang are the top martial arts sects in the world. Naturally, the people with the highest martial arts skills must be these two.
However, there is the word "most" in the "Bai Zizai problem". According to the most common custom, it seems that only one person should be elected. This gives us another "Hamlet problem". We always Can't we arrange a fight between Bodhidharma and Zhang Sanfeng? Wouldn't that make a joke about "Guan Gong versus Qin Qiong"? Bodhidharma was from the Northern Wei Dynasty and lived in the fifth and sixth centuries, and Zhang Sanfeng was from the Song and Yuan Dynasties and lived in the 13th and 14th centuries. Naturally, this competition between Bodhidharma and Zhang Sanfeng could not be realized. In this way, the "Bai Zi Zai problem" is still a question, and it is still a question without an answer.
However, the author quite agrees with Bai Zizai's view, "Dharma is from Tianzhu in the Western Regions, and he is a barbarian. If you speak so powerfully of a barbarian, wouldn't you destroy me?" The majesty of China? "This is not narrow nationalism. The introduction of Buddhism eastward introduced new vitality and vitality to Chinese culture. The integration of international cultures has done a lot of good for the development of a country's culture. How can we not know this? ? What's more, Chinese culture can melt and absorb foreign culture, just like Buddhism became the Buddhism of China when it arrived in the East. Naturally, we don't need to follow the Han Dynasty's "Laozi transformation nonsense", saying that Laozi left the customs, entered Tianzhu in the west, and transformed into Buddha established the Buddha Sect, and Buddha is the incarnation of Lao Tzu. That would be too petty, too small-minded, and too narrow-minded. It would indeed be too embarrassing to say that the person with the strongest martial arts skills in Chinese history was not Chinese. But if history is really like this, we can only respect the objective facts.
But everyone knows that it is too far-fetched to say that Shaolin martial arts was taught by Bodhidharma without any solid evidence. At this point, the "Bai Zizai question" finally has an answer, that is, there is only one candidate for the most powerful martial arts person in Chinese history, and that is Zhang Sanfeng. 4. Introduction to the content of "Ghost Blowing the Lamp"
Introduction to "Ghost Blowing the Lamp": In the novel, the author pioneered the four major tomb robbing sects in history - Touching Gold, Unloading Ridges, Faqiu and Moving Mountains, among which Touching Gold is a technical content. The highest sect with the most rules.
"People light candles, ghosts blow out lamps" is a secret of the legendary gold-touching sect. It means that when entering an ancient tomb, you must first light a candle in the southeast corner before opening the coffin. If the candle goes out, You must exit quickly and don’t take anything. According to legend, this is a contract between the living and the dead made by the ancestor, which has been passed down for thousands of years without exception.
Unlock the giant lock of life and pursue the vanished civilization. In that unknown prehistoric era, giant dragons lurked on the vast land, guarding an eternal mystery of the cycle of life and death. The river is surging, the yellow sand is rolling, the glory of the past has faded into smoke, and the light of ambition is long gone. The changes in the sea seem to be just a moment, but this moment has taken thousands of years, and I don’t know how many years have passed during it. After many reincarnations in the past, the souls wandering and struggling in the dusty ancient ruins, have they found the exit to the door to eternal life in the cycle of life?
Extended information Book writing process In March 2006, the author Tian Xia Ba Chang published "Ghost Blowing the Lamp" online.
In April 2006, Qidian Chinese and Sina Reading began to vigorously promote it, and its popularity increased. In July 2006, a Beijing newspaper published a full-page report and interviewed the author Tian Xia Ba Sing.
In September 2006, Sina Reading Channel launched a program where netizens chatted about "Ghost Blowing the Lamp". In December 2006, it topped the Sina Reading List: the sudden rise of tomb-robbing novels.
In June 2007, the first comic "Jingjue Ancient City" of "Ghost Blowing the Lamp" was completed. In July 2007, Ghost Blowing the Lamp②·Huangpizifen was published, and the film adaptation was finalized.
In August 2007, the film and television rights of "Ghost Blowing Out the Lamp" were acquired by Huaying, with Johnnie To serving as producer. In August 2007, "Ghost Blows Out the Lamp" was accused of plagiarism, and the author issued a statement on his Sina blog.
In January 2008, Chengdu netizens challenged Johnnie To to raise money to film "Ghost Blowing the Lamp" privately. In September 2015, the movie "Nine-Story Demon Tower" adapted from the novel "Ghost Blowing the Lantern: The Ancient City" was released.
In November 2015, the newly revised version of the eight complete works of the original novel "Ghost Blowing the Lamp" by Tian Xia Ba Shang was released by Qingdao Publishing House. In December 2015, "The Secret of the Dragon", a realistic fantasy masterpiece written by Tian Xia Ba Sing and directed by Wu Er Shan, was released.