Historical Archetypes of Characters in Ghost Blowing Lights

1. Does the record of the blue fireball bug in the prototype of Ghost Blowing Lamp really exist? The author's own answer looks very real and mysterious in the countryside, which is what I want to express most when I write the first volume.

Speaking of "the truth", I think of some frequently asked questions: Is the writing of "The Ghost Blows the Lamp" true? There are so many nouns, terms, geography and geomantic omen that people who don't understand can't write them at all. Are these contents real or fictional? First of all, I want to say that "The Ghost Blows the Lamp" is a story, a novel, not documentary literature, nor a memoir. True and false mixed together. If we want to distinguish between truth and fiction, we can only distinguish it by referring to a noun or a relationship. For example, the story of Yemangou, the location is fictional, but the underground fortress of Kwantung Army as the scene is real. Up to now, there are still sites preserved in northeastern Inner Mongolia and other places. It is said that the fire in Xing 'anling was caused by the explosion of the ammunition depot buried by Kwantung Army.

With regard to nouns and terms, it should be noted that in Ghost Blowing Lights, grave robbery is called "inverted bucket", just like funerary objects are called "funerary objects", and these special trade terms do exist in reality; Moreover, calling the body in the ancient tomb "Zongzi" is completely my own original fiction, and no one has ever said it before. Another example: the book describes that the captain who touches gold must wear a gold symbol before he can engage in grave robbery.

The title of "Captain Touching Gold" existed in the Three Kingdoms period, but it has not been handed down as a traditional industry, only existed for decades. All the traditional rules about touching captain Jin, including the iron law of lighting candles in the southeast corner and touching gold or not, are all made up by myself and are not true. There has never been such a thing as a golden charm in the world, and there is no prototype. I hope readers can read it clearly and don't be misled by my story. There are countless similar examples in the book Ghost Blowing Lights. The historical background of each ancient tomb and adventure site, prototypes of various mysterious animals and plants, geomantic metaphysics, folk geography, etc. Both are true and false, and more are mixed with reality, and the content will be adjusted according to the needs of the story. If you want to explain everything, it will never be clear within three to five days, so I won't explain it here.

Longling Cave Ghost Blows Lights Volume I Volume II Longling Cave Actually, this story is divided into three parts. One is that Longling inverted bucket found the ghost tomb of the Western Zhou Dynasty, the other is that a captain in Heishui City searched for treasure and touched gold, and the third is that the coffin shop in Shibeidian presented the skill of kings to the surface. Although there are three stories in one volume, in this volume, I mainly want to highlight the core element of terror.

Some people may say that Ghost Blowing Lights is a thriller, but I don't think it is at all, and it has little to do with "terror" as a whole. Speaking of thriller, I think thriller is just one of the many elements in this book, not the main element.

The only suspense is the volume Longling Cave, which is full of buttons of suffocating traditional scripts. This is a sensational book. When I wrote Longling Cave, I began to consider the framework of the whole story. In order to connect the first two volumes with the content behind, I arranged some large-scale interludes. This is the story of a partridge whistle. The warlords scuffled, the ancient tomb of the Southern Song Dynasty was stolen, and then they went on an expedition to Heishui City with the dust elder and Father Thomas.

The subtitle of "Ghost Blowing Lights" is "Strange Experience of Grave Robbers", which means that it mainly talks about touching gold. However, as hidden lines, stories of other grave robbers, such as Mountain Walker and Xie Ling Lux, began to appear gradually, and the clues of the stories were determined to revolve around the bottomless ghost cave, so the role of "Longling Mystery Cave" was similar to threading the needle. In this volume, the large-scale interpolation is to adjust the thinking, and test your ability to control writing with different backgrounds through the legends of the Republic of China, which can be said to be advancing in exploration.

In this volume, I'm satisfied with the chapters such as lamp shadows, grotesque figures, hanging ladders, wild cats and crowing lanterns that don't touch gold, but there are some big defects in these two parts, namely, drilling the fishbone temple to steal holes and the Tian Tong Buddhist Temple in Xixia Black Water City, which has slowed down the pace of the story because it is planned to write one million words. In addition, because it is updated at the starting point every day, in order to increase some resistance to online piracy, starting from the third volume of Yunnan Worm Valley, the first volume of Yunnan Worm Valley was written when watching the World Cup, which was particularly impressive and was a severe test of energy, physical strength and determination.

Exploration is the core of Wang Xian's Tomb. Personally, I like watching movies. I used to love abyss and aliens.

The so-called adventure is exploration and adventure. Then I watched the trailer for the remake of King Kong. There was an expedition that used a turntable to load (rob) guns and fought centipedes in the valley. I really like this scene. Outdated expeditions, canoeing, the wreckage of the crashed Air Force (Jun Jun) plane, the ghostly Morse signal, the Chicago typewriter, the immortal giant insects, the corpse hole effect that devours everything, the jungle thorns and fossil caves with harsh natural environment, so the Yunnan Worm Valley began. This is the traditional exploration element of the treasure map, which is a combination of old and new exploration elements with strange supernatural and sci-fi colors.

In Insect Valley in Yunnan, the story type turned to "exploration" in an all-round way. There are not many characters in this volume, and the main space is used to tell about the sinister terrain and all kinds of strange traps.

At first, I had no idea about the human skin map contributed by Chen Man, a blind man. When I felt strange, I felt how to arrange it. With the advance of writing, I was a little surprised to find out the mystery one by one. The earliest designed tomb offering the king is an ancient tomb that only the sky were to fall. It's also whimsical. A large passenger plane crashed in front of the gold team and opened the grave, but then I thought it would be bad for many friends to go out by plane in the future. In addition, in the ghost signal part, the US (mi) transport plane was used to assist the China Air Force during the Anti-Japanese War, so the sky were to fall as a bombing plane that was destroyed decades ago. This sense of gravity and fatalism in the plot was unexpected to me.

I am satisfied with the part of this volume, that is, I can finally prove that my creation of the fictional art of mental health is justified, and I still admire myself.

2. What is true in the ghost blowing lamp? Some are true, some are written in articles, but it is better to read the author's words.

The following is the author's postscript, which can be read. I have written the book Ghost Blowing Lights in two parts, with a total of eight volumes. The order is Jingjue Ancient City, Longling Cave, Yunnan Insect Valley, Kunlun Temple, Huangpi Tomb, Nanhai Ghost Livestock, Nuqing Xiangxi and Wuxia Coffin Mountain.

From February 2006 to the end of February 2008, I wrote for two years, about two million words. During this period, I paid a lot, but I also gained a lot.

Through this book, I have made many friends, some I have seen and some I have never seen. It can be said that if you like my book, we should be friends. Allow me to thank you sincerely. It is my greatest pleasure to share my story with many people.

Today, when the whole manuscript is being finalized, I want to make a brief review of the whole creative process of ghost blowing lamp, and dedicate it to readers who like ghost blowing lamp. People often ask them which volume they think is the most satisfactory. At the end of Borrowed Ghost Blowing Lights, there is also a "director's self-evaluation".

As an author, it is also interesting to evaluate his own works. A complete set of eight-volume stories, the core elements and themes of each volume are different, and the content to be expressed is also different.

During serialization, only a few thousand words can be written every day. Due to time constraints and personal preferences, the parts that have been written are basically unchanged, and there is always no story outline. I still don't know what the outline is. For me, I don't know what unexpected things will happen in the next chapter Many of them are improvisation, which is a great pleasure in the creative process. It's hard to say which of these eight volumes is my most satisfactory, and each volume has very satisfactory chapters and bridges; But in my own opinion, each volume also has shortcomings and defects. It would be much better if it were revised, but in that case it would be craftsman-like and lose the fun of improvisation.

The following comments are made one by one according to the order of creation, including the characteristics and creation process of each book, the characters and background of the appearance, and the chapters that are satisfactory and defective. The Ghost Blows the Lamp is an adventure novel, which is rooted in the Yi-ology geomantic omen and is the meridian running through it.

Although this book contains many elements, only the word "adventure" can sum up its essence. It is by no means a simple grave robbery novel, nor is it a horrible, bizarre and old-fashioned reasoning novel. The ancient tomb is only the basis of the adventure in the story. This book is about a series of adventures using China's traditional techniques and theories.

The first volume of Jing Jue Ancient City and Ghost Blowing Lights can be divided into two parts. The first part ends in the underground military fortress of Darkmouth in Yerengou, mainly to build a framework and platform, and the main line has no clear clues. This part is intended to be written in the genre of folklore and rural gossip.

The so-called folk story, I think, is probably the legend of zombies and black donkey hooves in the deep mountains and forests. Since the archaeological team entered the desert to find the ancient city of Jingjue, they have been exposed to distinct geographical and cultural elements, such as the western desert, Peacock River, Shuang Sheng Mountain, the Thirty Six Kingdoms, the female corpse of Loulan, Dunhuang murals and so on. When these elements are mentioned, a mysterious breath comes to my face, so in this part of Jingjue Ancient City, I take mystery as the core of the story. Finally, the queen of Jingjue did not appear, which was a mystery.

This book involves some elements, such as archaeological puzzles. As the first volume, the biggest defect now is that some parts are too simple and sloppy, and the logic is loose, and they are compiled with the writing, without considering how the following story unfolds; Satisfactory, the description and narration are more realistic and vivid.

The style that looks real and mysterious in the countryside is what I want to express most when I write the first volume. Speaking of "the truth", I think of some frequently asked questions: Is the writing of "The Ghost Blows the Lamp" true? There are so many nouns, terms, geography and geomantic omen that people who don't understand can't write them at all. Are these contents real or fictional? First of all, I want to say that "The Ghost Blows the Lamp" is a story, a novel, not documentary literature, nor a memoir. True and false mixed together. If we want to distinguish between truth and fiction, we can only distinguish it by referring to a noun or a relationship.

For example, the story of Yemangou, the location is fictional, but the underground fortress of Kwantung Army as the scene is real. Up to now, there are still sites preserved in northeastern Inner Mongolia and other places. It is said that the fire in Xing 'anling was caused by the explosion of the ammunition depot buried by Kwantung Army. With regard to nouns and terms, it should be noted that in Ghost Blowing Lights, grave robbery is called "inverted bucket", just like funerary objects are called "funerary objects", and these special trade terms do exist in reality; Moreover, calling the body in the ancient tomb "Zongzi" is completely my own original fiction, and no one has ever said it before.

Another example: the book describes that the captain who touches gold must wear a gold symbol before he can engage in grave robbery. The title of "Captain Touching Gold" existed in the Three Kingdoms period, but it has not been handed down as a traditional industry, only existed for decades. All the traditional rules about touching captain Jin, including the iron law of lighting candles in the southeast corner and touching gold or not, are all made up by myself and are not true. There has never been such a thing as a golden charm in the world, and there is no prototype. I hope readers can read it clearly and don't be misled by my story.

There are countless similar examples in the book Ghost Blowing Lights. The historical background of each ancient tomb and adventure site, prototypes of various mysterious animals and plants, geomantic metaphysics, folk geography, etc. They are all true and false, and more are mixed with reality. The content will be adjusted according to the needs of the story. If you want to explain everything, it will never be clear within three to five days, so I won't explain it here. Longling Cave Ghost Blows Lights Volume I Volume II Longling Cave Actually, this story is divided into three parts. One is that Longling inverted bucket found the ghost tomb of the Western Zhou Dynasty, the other is that a captain in Heishui City searched for treasure and touched gold, and the third is that the coffin shop in Shibeidian presented the skill of kings to the surface.

Although there are three stories in one volume, in this volume, I mainly want to highlight the horror.

3. Who has the highest martial arts in history? "Do you know who has the highest martial arts through the ages?" This is a question raised by Bai Zizai in Jin Yong's novel Chivalrous Man.

As the head of the Snow Mountain Sect, Bai Zizai knows the story of Wulin like the back of his hand. He has such a question, which shows that it is not an easy question to answer. Hamlet, the hero of Shakespeare's masterpiece The Revenge of the Prince, has a question: "To be or not to be, that is a question.

People call it "the question of Hamlet", that is, "the question of Hamlet". As for the question raised by Bai Zizai, we might as well imitate it and call it the "Bai Zizai question".

It is not easy to answer this question. First of all, a list of candidates must be provided, but it is not easy to draw up this list. Whether so-and-so is qualified to be selected is originally a question of survival or destruction. Hamlet is in trouble. My generation's EQ and IQ are not necessarily comparable to Hamlet of noble descent, so even if I want to scratch my head, I may not have any conclusion.

However, what will happen if this question is thrown at Mr. Jin Yong, who is not necessarily inferior to Hamlet in both emotional intelligence and IQ? In order to simplify and clarify the problem, we can rephrase the "Bai Zizai problem", that is, if we let everyone judge the historical figures with the highest martial arts, who will be the best? In other words, if Mr. Jin Yong is asked to judge the historical figures with the highest martial arts in his mind, who will win this honor? Mr. Jin Yong may disdain to answer such a boring question, but I know that Mr. Jin Yong must choose two people-Dharma and Zhang Sanfeng. Needless to say, Dharma is the ancestor of Shaolin School, Zhang Sanfeng is the founder of Wutang School, Shaolin and Wudang are the best martial arts schools in the world, and the people with the highest martial arts naturally belong to these two schools.

However, there is a word "most" in the "Bai Zizai issue". According to the most common habit, it seems that only one person should be chosen, which gives us a "Hamlet problem". We can't arrange the match between Dharma and Zhang Sanfeng. Isn't that a joke of "Guan Gong vs Qin Qiong"? Dharma was born in the Northern Wei Dynasty in the 5th and 6th centuries, and Zhang Sanfeng was born in the Song and Yuan Dynasties in 13 and14th centuries. So the contest between Dharma and Zhang Sanfeng failed to come true. In this way, the "Bai Zizai question" is still a question, and it is still an unanswered question.

However, the author agrees with Bai Zizai's point of view, "That Dharma is a Tianzhu people in the western regions, but it is a barbarian. Don't you ruin my prestige in opening China by talking about a semi-final of the conference? " This is not narrow nationalism. I think Buddhism and Buddhism were introduced into China culture in the past, and the blending of international cultures has made great contributions to the development of a country's culture. How can our generation not know this? What's more, China culture can melt and absorb foreign cultures, just as Buddhism became Middle-earth Buddhism when it arrived in the East. Naturally, we don't need to learn from the "Lao Tzu's nonsense" put forward by the Han people, saying that Lao Tzu went through customs, learned from the Western Heaven, became a Buddha, and established the Fautu Sect. The Buddha is the embodiment of Laozi, too petty, too petty and too narrow-minded. If the person with the strongest martial arts in the history of China is not from China, it is really a shame, but if history is really like this, we can only respect the objective facts.

It's just that as we all know, it's far-fetched to say that Shaolin Wushu was handed down from Buddhism. At this point, the "Bai Zizai question" has finally been answered, that is, there is only one candidate who has the strongest martial arts in the history of China, and that is Zhang Sanfeng.

Description: In the novel, the author initiated four schools of grave robbery in history-touching gold, unloading mountains, building mountains and moving mountains, among which touching gold is the school with the highest technical content and the most rules.

"People light candles, ghosts blow lights" is the legendary secret of alchemy, which means that when entering an ancient tomb, you must light candles in the southeast corner before you can open the coffin. If the candle goes out, you must quit as soon as possible and don't take anything. According to legend, this is a contract between the living and the dead set by our ancestors. It has been passed down for thousands of years, and there is no exception.

Open the giant lock of life and pursue the disappearing civilization. In that unknown era, there were dragons on the vast land, guarding an eternal mystery of life and death. The river is surging, the yellow sand is rolling, the glory of the past has become a cloud, and the light of ambition has long gone. It seems that the vicissitudes of life are only a moment, but it took a thousand years for this moment, and I don't know how many cycles have passed, but the soul struggling in the dusty ancient ruins has found the exit to the door of eternal life in the cycle of life.

Expanding the Process of Information Writing In March 2006, the author Muye Zhang published "Ghost Blowing Lights" on the Internet.

In April 2006, starting from Chinese, Sina reading began to be vigorously promoted, and its popularity climbed. In July 2006, a newspaper in Beijing reported and interviewed the author Muye Zhang.

In September 2006, Sina. Com's reading channel launched a program to chat with netizens about "Ghost Blowing Lights". From June, 5438 to February, 2006, it was listed on Sina's reading list: Tomb-robbing novels sprang up suddenly.

In June 2007, the first cartoon "Exquisite Ancient City" was completed. In July, 2007, Ghost Blowing Lights (2) Huangpi Tomb was published, and the dust of film adaptation was settled.

In August, 2007, the film copyright of Ghost Blowing Lights was released to Huaying, and Du Qifeng became the producer. In August 2007, "Ghost Blowing Lights" was plagiarized, and the author Sina blog issued a statement.

June 5438+October 2008 10, Chengdu netizens challenged Du Qifeng to raise money to make a private film "Ghost Blowing Lights". September 20 15, the film "Nine-story Demon Tower" adapted from the novel "Ghost Blowing Lights" was released.

20 15, 1 1, the eight complete works of Muye Zhang's original novel Ghost Blowing the Lamp were published by Qingdao Publishing House. 20 15, 12, a realistic fantasy masterpiece "Ghost Blowing the Lights" written by Muye Zhang and directed by Wu Ershan was released.