I wrote two parts of the book Ghost Blowing the Lamp, a total of eight volumes.
The order is Jingjue Ancient City, Longling Labyrinth Grottoes, Yunnan Worm Valley, Kunlun Shrine, Huangpizi Tomb, Nanhai Guixu, Nuqing Xiangxi, and Wu Gorge.
Coffin Mountain.
Starting from February 2006 to the end of February 2008, it took a total of two years to write, 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 in People often ask me which volume I am most satisfied with, so I also give a "director's self-assessment" when I finish "Ghost Blowing the Lantern".
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 per 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 still don’t know what an outline is. , 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 that runs 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 robbing 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. tstronggtExquisite ancient citytstronggt The first volume of the first part of "Ghost Blowing Lamp" can be divided into two parts: the front and back parts.
The first half ends at the underground military fortress at the Black Wind Gate of Yerengou.
It is mainly the construction of a framework and platform, and has nothing to do with the main plot.
Clear clues.
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 archaeological team entering the desert to search for the exquisite ancient city, they touched upon 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 the part about Jingjue Ancient City, 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 elements such as archaeological puzzles.
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 story will unfold later.
What I am satisfied with is the comparison between description and narrative.
Real and vivid.
The style, which 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 I often get asked: Is what Gui Chuu Deng wrote about true?
There are so many nouns, terminology, geography, and Feng Shui that people who don't understand can't write it.
Are these contents true?
or fictitious First of all, I want to say that Ghost Blows Out the Lamp is a story, a novel.
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It is by no means documentary literature, nor a memoir.
True and false are mixed together.
If you want to distinguish between truth and fiction, you can only be specific to a certain noun or a certain plot.
Only then can we tell the difference.
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.
In Gui Chuu Deng, tomb robbers are called "inverted buckets", just like the burial objects are called "underworld objects".
These special industry terms do exist in reality; and in ancient tombs, they are called The fact that the corpse is a "Zongzi" is entirely 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".
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 more are 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. tstronggtLongling Mysterious Grottotstronggt The second volume of the first volume of "Ghost Blowing the Lamp" is actually divided into three parts.
The first is Longling fighting to find the ghost tomb of the Western Zhou Dynasty, the second is the gold captain's treasure hunt in Heishui City, and the third is the Stone Tablet Shop.
The coffin shop offering 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 that "Ghost Blows Out the Lamp" is a thriller novel, but actually 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 of this book, not the main element.
The only one that is full of suspense is the volume of "Longling Labyrinth", which is full of suffocating buttons of the traditional storybook.
This is a sensational volume.
When writing about Longling Labyrinth, I began to think about the structure of the overall story.
In order to connect the first two volumes with the following content, I arranged some large-scale narrations, which are Partridge Shao's apprenticeship, Na Tou's famous certificate, Pirates of the South Songjiang Ancient Tomb, and then went on an expedition to Blackwater City with Elder Liao Chen and Father Thomas.
The subtitle of Ghost Blowing Lantern is "The Weird Experience of the Grave Robbers", which means that it is mainly about the gold-finding deeds, but as hidden clues, the stories of other tomb robbers such as Taoist Banshan and Xiling Rikishi also began to emerge gradually, and the story was determined.
The clues will 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 my 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 satisfied with the chapters of Deng Ying, Coffin Yi, Suspended Soul Ladder, and Wild Cat, Rooster Crow.
The chapters with big flaws include Pirate Cave in the Fish Bone Temple and Xixia The two parts of Heishui City Tongtian Grand Buddhist Temple are 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 add some resistance to online plagiarism, from this volume I started to use a lot of "shengqi" words. tstronggtYunnan Worm Valleytstronggt The third volume of the first part of "Ghost Blowing the 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 was a severe test of energy, physical strength, and perseverance.
The volume on the Tomb of King Xian of Yunnan takes exploration as its core.
I personally love 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 for the remake of King Kong.
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There was a scene where the expedition team used a turntable charge to grab guns and fight against the evil centipedes in the valley.
I really liked this scene.
An expedition team with old-fashioned equipment, kayak drifting, the wreckage of a crashed Air Force plane, the ghostly Morse signal, the Chicago typewriter, giant insects that have not died for thousands of years, the corpse hole effect that devours everything, and the jungle with harsh natural environment and fighting through obstacles in fossil caves, so 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 had no idea in my mind at the beginning.
I arranged it as bizarre as I thought.
As the writing progressed and I uncovered the mysteries one by one, I also felt a little surprised.
At the earliest The designed Tomb of King Xian is an ancient tomb that can only be entered when the sky collapses.
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 US Air Force to aid China during the Anti-Japanese War was used, so in the end Tianbeng was described as a bomber that was destroyed decades ago.
This sense of gravity and destiny in the plot It’s something I myself can’t 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.
In addition, the passages about Calabash Cave, Tiankeng Deep Pool, Huo-style Undead Worm, and Ghost Signal are also good.
Feel very satisfied.
However, this volume is long and has many flaws.
The main reason is that the rhythm control is not very good.
The most dissatisfactory thing is that I forgot some clues buried in the front at the end of the writing, so they were not used when I left. tstronggtKunlun Shrinetstronggt The fourth volume of the first part of "Ghost Blowing Lamp" Kunlun Temple is full of mythology.
China has a vast territory and rich resources, and different regions have given birth to different cultures and legends.
All Chinese myths must be inseparable from Kunlun Mountain.
It is the backbone of heaven and earth, the birthplace of the ancestral dragon, the shrine of the Queen Mother of the West, and the lair of northern monsters.
Kunlun cannot be called Kunlun without myths and legends.
Ancient books record that the true image of Queen Mother of the West of Kunlun is a monster.
I personally imagine it may be a big fish.
I once saw the largest freshwater fish in the world in a natural history museum, and it really felt like a dragon.
The plot of this volume involves the legend of King Gesar.
The epic of the heroic king who defeated the enemy orb is itself a long rap poem with a strong mythological flavor, so the Kunlun Mountains chapter incorporates many alternative elements close to mythology.
The King of Fishes in the Wind-eroded Lake, the Infinite Karma Fire, the Neqiong Divine Ice, the Thunder Mountain of Mahakala, the Crystal Zizai Mountain, the Evil Loch Sea City, and the Gate of Disaster.
This adventure is as bizarre as entering a fantasy world.
Kunlun Temple is like an adventure in the divine world.
Although there are many mythological elements, it still maintains consistent principles and tries to be closer to the real world.
Of course, there will be no real stories like flying into the sky, immortality, and immortal spells. myth.
Due to scheduling and contract reasons, the first part of "Ghost Blowing the Lantern" ends after the Kunlun Shrine.
The final ending is in Beihai Park in Beijing, which is a perfect ending.
The last chapter of the website, Chapter 234, contains all the content, and the physical book is perfect.
Of course, this finale only belongs to the first part.
Among the first four volumes of the first volume of Ghost Blowing the Lamp, my personal favorite plot occurs in Tibet in the West.
However, due to space issues, that part was included at the end of the Yunnan volume of the physical book, which is about Hu Ba.
Not long after he joined the army, he was part of a fierce battle with the Tiebang Lama in a deserted temple under the moonlight in Western Tibet.
In fact, these chapters should be included in the final volume of Western Tibet.
The most dissatisfying part is that the rhythm of this part is not well controlled, resulting in no space to expand when finally entering the Phoenix Palace.
In March 2007, I temporarily decided to write the second part of Ghost Blowing Out the Lamp, which is almost the same as the first part.
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When I started writing, I basically had no overall idea.
I just had a general goal and planned to write two prequels in the second part. and two sequels, which are independent content compared to the first part.
There are many omissions in the structure of the first part.
I hope that while writing the story of the second part, I can also make some additions to the first part.
I was not sure at the time, but the final effect is quite satisfactory. tstronggtHuang Pizi Tombtstronggt If I follow my original plan, I still want to describe four different key elements in the four volumes of the second part of Ghost Blowing Lamp.
The reason why I want to write a prequel is mainly to liven up my ideas and words so that I will not be too rigid.
Losing patience with time clues.
Huangpizi Tomb is a volume with a very strong historical background.
The core elements are various strange legends about weasels, the tombs and coffins of non-human creatures, and the unique Jianghu system in the Northeast.
These are all elements that I am very interested in.
However, due to the special background of the era, many words and content are inevitably restricted.
Unlike the 1980s when the mind was active, the protagonists in this period are not yet mature, but their enthusiasm is unstoppable by any difficulty.
I once visited the sites of the Japanese invasion of China in Hailar and Dalian, including crematoriums, prisons, European-style hospitals and research institutes and other buildings.
I was deeply impressed by them, so I set the background of the story there.
In this volume, I feel that the most satisfying writing is the description of Huang Pizi's mind-reading and incineration, as well as the strange incident of Lao Yangpi being hit by thunder and fire after his death.
It is very heavy.
In terms of physical objects alone, I thought the section about the strange soup was very bizarre and very real.
The bigger flaw is that some very interesting things were forgotten to be included, and the part about humans and bears was also handled too hastily. tstronggtNanhai Guixutstronggt As a continuation of the first story, in the previous volumes, the descriptions of gold grabbing and fighting made me feel that there are many risky professions in traditional Chinese industries.
The most risky ones are those who fish for pearls in the sea.
Dan people.
The prototype of the Dan people who fished for pearls in the South China Sea came from the Beihai area of Guangxi.
During the Qin and Han Dynasties, the Longhu and Ta families went to the water to fish for pearls and slaughter clams, but few people seemed to write their stories.
So in this volume, pearl fishing in the sea and the legends of this industry are key elements.
Some people believe that the splendid Mayan culture was built by China's ancestors who crossed the sea during the Western Zhou Dynasty, because the two have many similarities, and the myth of shooting the sun is a very important part of Chinese civilization.
They once wanted to describe the divine arrow on the bottom of the sea as a real giant weapon.
Lost in the sea of chaos in Guixu, Colonel Mojin and the Danmen finally activated the divine arrow that shocked Baishi, and shot through the top of their heads.
However, when I wrote it later, I forgot about this idea, but escaping with the help of the Dragon Soldier, a real wonder on the sea, was also a very thrilling adventure.
I am not imagining things like using lime-filled watermelons to kill evil fish in the water, and relying on skyfish to navigate the endless sea.
It did exist in southern China before.
What I am more satisfied with in this volume is the description of the black market on the island.
Some of the scenes about shipwrecks are also good, such as the jump of the universe, etc.; the one I am most dissatisfied with is the corpse of the pirate in the bottom of the sea willow.
This section is rough and there should be a lot of room for improvement.
Things in the Pearl Sea should also be expanded and written, but the length and word count of each volume are also limitations that are difficult to overcome.
The plot and content cannot be more or less.
Without an overall outline, it is difficult to control.
That’s probably where the amateur and professional levels lie. tstronggtnuqingxiangxitstronggt In this volume, my working hours are very loose, and I will be able to write more leisurely when I have more time.
So in terms of text alone, I think Nu Qing Xiangxi is the most exquisite volume among the eight volumes, because it is about modern themes.
There are more and more restrictions, so I decided to rewind the prequel to the Republic of China period and let go of my hands and dig hard.
In the past, I used to make up three major systems at random: touching gold in hair hills, moving mountains, and unloading mountains.
As the storyline continued to unfold, I gradually outlined the origins, anecdotes, legends, and techniques of these industries, because The previous few books were mainly based on looking at Feng Shui to rob tombs.
As a result, many people, even those who follow the trend and write so-called tomb robbing novels, only know how to look for Feng Shui to find dragon veins, but they don't know that there are many weird ways of robbing tombs among the people.
Therefore, in this volume, tomb robbing methods other than Wangzi Jue are taken as the core.
I think that the legendary stories of the Republic of China must firstly have the sense of storytelling, and secondly, have thieves-like characters, plus various slang cuts, and be full of the color of historical folk tales, in order to be interesting.
I used to write a section about Blackwater City in a tentative way, and I didn’t dare to write in a big way.
But with my previous experience, I felt comfortable writing it, and I compiled a new set of conceptual code words, which is the Book of Mountains, including Changsheng Mountain. and Moon Gate systems are completely fictitious.
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In addition, this volume has also set several records.
First, there are many characters.
In the past, I was worried about the control ability and did not dare to write two protagonists and a large number of supporting characters taking turns at the same time.
But after writing so much, it is impossible not to make any progress at all.
The character transfer and background description in this volume are already very handy, and the plot is a good supplement to the first volume, and it also runs through the four volumes of the second volume. , exceeded the original plan, which I am very pleased with.
Let’s talk about the geographical background.
There are so many stories about Xiangxi that have been written into literary works.
However, if you hear about things like witchcraft, driving corpses, and falling into caves too often, you won’t find anything new.
Personally, I don’t think so.
I didn’t like it very much, so I wrote various legends about Pingshan in Nu Qing Xiangxi, trying to distinguish it from those clichéd stories.
And in this volume, some brand-new instruments appear, such as the centipede hanging mountain ladder and the cave armor; another example is the technique of listening to the wind and thunder used by Chen Xiazi, and the ability to smell the soil with a keen sense of smell to distinguish hidden objects.
They are all tomb robbing methods spread among the people.
It can be regarded as a play on several major tomb robbing systems invented by me.
I have made a good summary.
This is the most satisfying part.
There are two other scenes that I personally feel are better written.
One is the battle between the chickens and the ancient tomb centipede, and the other is the group of bandits from Xieling who mistakenly entered the mechanized city activated by Mercury.
There are three things that I am relatively dissatisfied about.
First, Hua Ling and the old foreigner have no role to play and they quit their jobs; second, the partridge whistle and the six-winged centipede fall into the Wuliang Palace, this section is relatively confusing; third, the bridge where the alchemy room is discovered The section is relatively flat. tstronggtWuxia Coffin Mountaintstronggt As the last volume of the book, this volume of Wuxia Coffin Mountain has a relatively heavy task.
The most important thing is the word count.
According to the number of words agreed in the contract, among the first three volumes of the second volume, the first volume is about 30,000 words short. , had to be added to the last volume, so this volume is a very long one, half a book longer, but even so, the length of the last volume seems not enough.
The four copper talismans that serve as the main thread of the book in the plan symbolize the four states of life that exist in heaven and earth through different forms.
I wanted to introduce one talisman to each book, but in that case, at least five volumes would be needed, so some plots had to be simplified. .
In addition, I also plan to explain in this volume the real reason why the sixteen-character Yin-Yang Feng Shui secret technique became a broken book, as well as the story of the previous owner of the gold-touching talisman.
The complete book "Ghost Blowing the Lamp" begins with the remaining volume of the Sixteen-Character Yin-Yang Feng Shui Secret Technique, and will end with the past when the Sixteen-Character Yin-Yang Feng Shui Secret Technique was destroyed.
In addition to the content of the Dixian Village adventure, the last volume also includes these plots.
In addition, this volume also explains why there are only three ancient talismans left and the history of the destruction of the Faqiu Seal in the Ming Dynasty.
The story takes place near the Three Gorges of the Yangtze River, and the geographical background is the incredible coffin.
Mountain, there is a big twist in the plot development.
The Three Gorges of the Yangtze River is more than 700 miles long.
Both sides of the Yangtze River are connected with countless mountain peaks and mountains.
It has been the area where the mysterious Bashu culture and the Wu-Chu culture met since ancient times.
There are countless myths and folklores, some of which have some projections of ancient history; The Book of War The sword, the thousand-year-old plank road, and the coffin hanging on the cliff have left countless room for imagination for future generations.
As the main thread running through the whole article, Guanshan Zhimi Fu is a formula similar to a folk song, including Guanshan Digging Records, which were originally original content in another work of mine.
Due to changes in the writing plan in 2007, the temporary It became the second part of Ghost Blowing Lamp, so it was used in this book.
The other book was canceled and will not appear in any way in the future.
There are three places that I am most satisfied with in this volume.
One is the Shadowless Immortal Bridge built by golden swifts; the other is the magic brush for viewing the mountains, which paints the ground as a door; and the third is the ghostly sound of the ancient tomb of King Wuyang.
In addition, the legend about the black pig opening the river and the origin of the Coffin Mountain Bone Stealing Map can be regarded as a stroke of genius.
In the fictional storyline, many well-known legends are incorporated, such as the meeting of magpie bridges on the Tianhe River, Ma Liang's magic pen, and the ancient paintings of thieves robbing tombs.
These legends, whether true or false, are all presented in a brand-new way in Wuxia Coffin Mountain.
Deconstructed from the perspective of The flaw is that there is too much content to be shown in the last volume and it is too concentrated.
It is inevitable that some places are not developed in depth and appear to be rushed.
The ending cannot be said to be satisfactory.
After all, Duo Ling finally died.
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Different from my initial attitude of blindly liking incredible events, for this super long work that took two years to write, plain and simple is the truth.
In the last six chapters, I mainly want to elaborate on the concept of the book "Ghost Blowing Lamp".
The three chapters of "Ghost Hat" mean that you cannot be superstitious about Feng Shui.
The concept of "the unity of heaven and man" is in the heart but not in the ground; finally, "the extreme of things must be reversed" Chapter three explains how the captain of the Golden Guard protects himself and survives.
Finally, let me talk about my two eight-volume work Ghost Blowing Lamp, starting from Jingjue Ancient City and ending at Wuxia Coffin Mountain.
According to my ideas, I can write eight more volumes, but the new plan has been matured and I can’t wait.
Therefore, there is no plan to continue writing about Ghost Blowing Out the Lamp, and this book ends here.
I would like to express my special thanks to all readers and friends who like this book, and also to the teachers at the Internet, Anhui Literature and Art Publishing House, and Qianxihe Culture Communication Co., Ltd.
Without your strong support and help, there would be no Ghost Blowing Lamp.
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