I started writing the story of The Golden Coffin Beast in the summer of 2007, and it didn’t end until May Day, 2008.
Although the full text is not long, apart from work at that time, I mainly devoted my energy to writing about ghosts blowing out lanterns, so it usually took me ten days and a half to write a short paragraph about the golden coffin beast.
In the end, it took about twenty Ten thousand words, which lasted nearly a year.
In the process of writing The Golden Coffin Beast, I often ask myself "how to choose the right path" and "what is the right path?
Is it a chance or necessity?"
So maybe in the Golden Coffin Beast This story will more or less reveal these doubts of mine.
I think life can be said to be a maze without a map.
The starting point is birth and the end point is death.
Because in a person's life, every moment, anytime, anywhere, he will face countless choices, which seem to be full of endless possibilities.
And when you stop and look back, you may find that although there are countless complicated forks in the maze of life, there is no way back.
From the starting point to the end, there is only one way. .
Either success or failure, whether it is the path you choose or the path pointed by others, it may not be the right path.
No one can predict it until you reach the end.
I think this path is the so-called "path of destiny" .
I remember watching a movie before, but I can’t remember the title.
It tells the story of a future era in which science is highly developed.
Human beings have mastered the cutting-edge technology of traveling through time and space.
However, according to the laws at the time, no one is allowed to use any excuse.
Go back in time and tamper with history.
However, a female scientist risked her life and violated a taboo.
She hoped to use a time shuttle to go back to the past and change the tragedy of the massacre of the Jews during World War II.
The method chosen by this scientist was to go to the time when Adolf Hitler was just born.
She disguised herself as a cook and sneaked into Hitler's house.
Overcoming many difficulties and obstacles, she threw the then infant Adolf Hitler into the river and drowned.
She also committed suicide by drowning herself in a river.
Perhaps until her death, she thought she had rewritten history.
But she did not expect that after discovering this incident, the nanny who was responsible for taking care of Hitler took back another baby from the beggar who was starving to death on the street in order to avoid being punished by the owner.
This baby is history.
On the real Nazi leader Adolf Hitler.
In other words, the sacrifice of this scientist was completely meaningless.
Not only did it not change the tragedy of the Holocaust in history, it actually contributed to the occurrence of the incident.
If she had not been smart enough to go back to the past, the Second World War might have happened.
It won't happen.
Of course, this is just a completely fictional science fiction movie, but what it should express is that history cannot be changed by technology.
Because deep in the universe, there must be some kind of gravity that humans can never master.
Even if we can control time and space, it will be difficult to resist the mystery of gravity.
And the path of life seems to be always controlled by the gravity of fate.
This invisible gravity may be character or opportunity, but it should mostly be choice.
I think people probably have the subconscious mind to "plan their own life path in advance", such as choosing a career, making friends, and investing.
Some parents even make choices for their children very early.
But whether it is an active choice or a passive choice, we cannot predict in advance whether it is the right path.
The same goes for Zhang Xiaobian'er in Golden Coffin Tomb.
He met strange people in the Golden Coffin Tomb and was pointed out a path to glory and wealth.
In fact, he was used as a scapegoat to avoid disasters. .
But even the "old ghost in the forest" who knows things well can't escape the "gravity of fate" in the end.
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There are also the brave soldiers in Yanying.
They are from the grass bandits in the green forest.
They do not have any concept of "loyalty to the emperor and service to the country" in their minds.
The reason why they risk their lives for Zhang Xiaobian'er is just to have money and food; It's Zhang Xiaobian'er who is the governor's confidant.
In troubled times, personal destiny is small and insignificant.
Only by being attached to a greater destiny can we have a chance to survive.
So from this perspective, in fact, every character in Golden Coffin Beast is risking his life to find his own path.
It can be said that this is a bloody road with an uncertain future.
The above are some of my personal thoughts during the creation of The Golden Coffin Tomb Beast.
The next thing I want to talk about is the story itself, first of all the language in the story.
The background of the story of The Beast in the Golden Coffin took place during the Xianfeng period of the Qing Dynasty, so a vernacular narrative similar to storytelling was chosen.
Because I have always believed that stories with different era backgrounds should have different language styles.
If there are many modern languages in ancient stories, it will make people feel very awkward.
At least I personally can’t help it.
Accepted.
For example, Zhang Xiaobian'er said: "Although your girl is cute, she is very pornographic and violent."
This is obviously too inappropriate.
It would be better to write Zhang Xiaobian'er and say: "This woman has extraordinary courage and kills people without blinking an eye.
She is better than A handsome man."
I once had the desire to be a director, but I guess I have no chance in this life, so I have no choice but to create stories of different themes to satisfy my original small wish.
The films directed by film master Kubrick range from the science fiction-themed 2001: A Space Odyssey to the war-themed Full Metal Jacket.
Almost every one of them has a different type and style, but without exception they have become one of the classics of later generations. do.
I think the director tells the story to the audience through the lens, while the author tells the story through language and text.
An author should also be able to control different types of stories.
Although I am not a professional writer, I personally hope to be able to tell the story for the audience.
Readers and friends bring works with different feelings.
Among all my works so far, the language sense of the Golden Coffin Beast is the most satisfying to me.
Let’s talk about the story style of The Golden Coffin Beast.
It has a very strong color of the legend.
Although many of the characters in it look like philistines and there are many interesting wild cats, overall, The Golden Coffin Beast cannot be regarded as a light and humorous story. story.
It was a time of chaos and chaos, when the Qing soldiers and the Taiping Army fought, often leaving corpses strewn across the fields and rivers of blood flowing.
The torture used by the government was also very cruel, and although the wild cats in the city seemed to be close to Zhang Xiaowei'er, , but in fact they were all spies who secretly monitored his every move.
I'm afraid Zhang Xiaopian'er would feel chilly in his heart when he thought about it afterwards.
The Beast in the Golden Coffin contains a lot of content related to cats.
Readers may ask whether these contents are based on the cat-like thing.
It does exist in Guangdong.
There are still cat scriptures circulating in the world, but the Golden Coffin The various Lingzhou wild cats mentioned in Ling Beast, such as entering the palace and stealing The four-eared fairy cat that steals the pearl of the night, the golden cat with moon shadow and black eyes, the long-faced arhat cat, the water-crossing hyacinth cat, as well as the Qianwenqian and Shengsheng cats who have not yet had a chance to appear are all just what the novelist said.
In other words, if you just listen to it, you can imagine them as a branch of Persian cats.
In the story of the Golden Coffin Beast, in addition to the real historical background, there are still many things that have their origins and are not entirely fictitious.
These can be left to the readers to discover on their own, and I will not go into details in the postscript.
Having said that, I will only talk about a few unofficial legends that are close to the background of the Golden Coffin Beast.
One is the encounter between Tatar dogs and dogs.
These ferocious wild dogs are real.
The Tatar dogs probably became extinct relatively early, and there are no relevant records after the Qing Dynasty.
However, until a few decades ago, some people still saw wild dogs that hit coffin boards and ate dead people with their own eyes, with a blood-red sarcoma on their foreheads. , often found in desolate suburbs and remote villages, but have become less common in recent years.
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The second is the matter of making animals.
According to folklore, making animals is a witchcraft, which can turn people into cows, horses, pigs, and sheep for sale.
There are many related written records, the most famous of which belongs to Mr.
Pu Songling.
Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio, this is probably just a folk legend, and this technique may not have actually existed in ancient times; the human trafficker I described in The Golden Coffin Beast skinned a dog alive Or they wrap up kidnapped children in monkey skins and force them to do somersaults and crawl through fire hoops so that they can act like monkeys and dogs and perform on the street to defraud money.
This may indeed be true, although it does not constitute animal breeding.
There are similar legends, but I think these things are more consistent with the prototype of the word "making animals", but I have never done any research, so I don't know whether the two are the same thing.
Third, let’s talk about folklore about cats.
As we all know, cats are regarded as gods in Egypt, but there has never been a custom of worshiping cat gods in China.
In ancient times, there were legends about the eight immortals and the five great families of animals.
Rats were one of them, but cats never had a place.
But in the East, not only China, including Japan, Thailand and other places, all regard cats as mysterious spiritual creatures.
For example, "old cats can speak human language, but they dare not speak because of taboos", which can be regarded as very interesting stories. .
The space of Golden Coffin Beast is limited, so I cannot write more legends and anecdotes about wild cats.
I will tell more if I have the opportunity in the future.
In addition, there are no further details about the ancient records about meteorites falling and the shadow of the mountains in Tashi.
The current part of the story of the Golden Coffin Tomb Beast in Lingzhou City started from the time when Zhang Xiaowei'er failed to steal the chicken and walked to the Golden Coffin Tomb at night, until the storyteller came to join the gang and the Yanying went south to fight. .
If there is a chance in the future, of course, I can also write about Yanying's march to Beijing to hunt down the remnants of the Tajia Cult, the bloody battle with the Nian Army's Monkey Formation in Shaanxi, and the various deeds of the expedition back to the desert of Xinjiang.
As for whether Zhang Xiaobian'er is the gold-touching captain Zhang Sanlian in "Ghost Blowing the Lantern", this is left to everyone's speculation.
Having said this, it is necessary to thank the readers who like the story of the Golden Coffin Beast.
Although I have seen some of them, I have never seen most of them, but I always feel the sense of recognition you bring me. , thank you very much for your support and concern, and wish you peace, health and all the best.
Finally, I would like to thank the editors who are responsible for proofreading and reviewing.
There are many typos and punctuation marks are basically used indiscriminately.
Thank you for your hard work.
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