Xuanhuan
玄幻【xuan huan】(Types of online literature)
Online literature, quirky styles such as traversing, oriental xuanhuan, cultivating celestial heroes, high-level Kongfu, and even adaptations of movies and animations, etc., are complicated and chaotic and difficult to determine. Eventually, it was gradually summarized into a vocabulary—Xuanhuan. Xuanhuan is a type of novel theme that reinvents or incorporates other Xuanhuan themes in Eastern mythology.
Among them, high-level Kongfu is a new type of xuanhuan novel that has emerged, referring to a kind of high-tech supernatural power and powerful destructive cultivation novel, which is different from low-level Kongfu and middle-level Kongfu. For example, Jin Yong’s novels are low-level Kongfu and Huang Yi’s are middle-level Kongfu, and the one who destroys the world by movement belongs to high-level Kongfu.
Xuanhuan has promoted the rise and prosperity of Chinese online literature. From "Legend of Little Soldiers" to "Fights Break the Sphere", from "Missing Fairy Dust's Life and Death Record" to "Treading the Ancients and Killing the Sky", the Xuanhuan network experienced the rise, initial prosperity, and breakthroughs—three periods of innovation.
In the future, as more breakthrough works are released, the prosperity of Xuanhuan novels has just begun and is far from over.
Development Path
Origin The so-called Xuanhuan word originated from Huang Yi’s work.
Develop Around 2000, a lot of online literature sprung up like bamboo shoots after the rain. The style is bizarre and strange (traveling through time and space to another era, to another planet or even the universe, etc.), science fiction (including Japanese comics like Doraemon, which has no scientific basis. Rhapsody, but the term "pseudo-science fiction" is not suitable), Western magic, martial arts (especially modern martial arts), or even adaptations of movies and animations, etc. The titles are complicated and confusing and difficult to determine. Eventually, it was gradually reduced to a vocabulary—Xuanhuan.
Contemporary Definition
Xuanhuan novels do not have strict boundaries with Xuanhuan novels and science fiction novels, although many readers in China who like traditional Xuanhuan novels (such as The Lord of the Rings, The Lost Continent) and rigorous science fiction novels (such as Base, Three Body) believe that the partial sci-fi and partial Xuanhuan works in the "Xuanhuan novels" that have sprung up on the Internet should not be divided into these two types of novels, but many Xuanhuan novels are still very much like science fiction and Xuanhuan novels in a strict sense. The coincidence.
Therefore, like Japanese light novels, Xuanhuan novels are not a classification of a certain popular literature from the content of the work. Their accurate definition should be: Internet literature is the main body, and the content is similar in the traditional sense (with no science supernatural as the background or in a scientifically based out of common sense to imagine the background) paper media published novel based on a certain difference in writing style and writing attitudes, and readers of popular fiction, which is the purpose of writing more emphasis on entertainment and reading pleasure, the requirements for writing and the cultural connotation of the work are not particularly high; in the time category, the 1988 "Moon Demon" should be the starting point; the content will cover science fiction, Xuanhuan novels, and overhead historical novels.
Main Types
In Ci Hai, there is an entry for "Science Fiction", but "Xuanhuan Fiction" are not found. This shows that "Xuanhuan novels" are popular new terms nowadays and have not yet been included in the Cihai entry.
Xuanhuan literature is divided into two categories, namely Xuanhuan novels and fairy tales. As far as Xuanhuan novels are concerned, they are divided into three major categories, namely science fiction, magic fiction, and Xuanhuan novels.
Type Introduction
Science fiction is well known, and its Xuanhuan is based on science. The first science fiction novel in the world was Frankenstein (also translated as "Frankenstein") published in 1818. The author was Mary Shelley, the wife of the famous British poet Shelley. Since then, France’s Verne, England’s Wells, the United States’ Asimov, the Soviet Union’s Strugatsky brothers, Japan’s Komatsu Sakyo and Shinichi Hoshi, etc., have created a lot of good science fiction, the world's master of science fiction novels. Science fiction has a long history and has become a mature style.
The Xuanhuan of magic fiction is based on magic. With the help of magic wands, rings, magic, magic power, and spells, magic novels are endlessly changeable, magical, and full of magical charm. It is generally recognized that the British writer J.R.R. Tolkien is the father of modern magic fiction. In 1937, Tolkien completed his first work The Hobbit. Although this is a fairy tale, it is also suitable for adult reading. Due to the good sales of this work, the publisher (Allen & Unwin) persuaded Tolkien to write a sequel. This encouraged Tolkien to complete his most famous work—the epic trilogy The Lord of the Rings. The writing of this work lasted for nearly twelve years and was supported by Tolkien’s close friend C.S. Lewis. The beginning of The Lord of the Rings resembles a children's work, but then the writing style quickly becomes serious and dark. The Lord of the Rings is one of the most popular literary works in the 20th century, both in terms of sales volume and reader reviews. Tolkien’s important influence is that after the success of The Lord of the Rings, the literary genre of Xuanhuan novels developed rapidly.
Harry Potter, by Rowling, a contemporary British Xuanhuan female writer, is one of the masterpieces. The mysterious "Sorcerer's Stone" in Harry Potter shows the magic of magic novels to the fullest. In addition to science fiction and magic fiction, it is the third category of Xuanhuan novels, with the most names and the most vague definitions, but they are the most popular and popular in China today. This third category of Xuanhuan novels has three most common names: "great Xuanhuan novels", "Xuanhuan novels", and "Xuanhuan novels", commonly known as "Xuanhuan novels".
Great Xuanhuan Novel The term "great Xuanhuan novel" comes from Japan and is represented by the works of Japanese female writer Naoko Amao. In Naoko Amao’s writing, "It is a Xuanhuan country, a world haunted by elves, where there are fox windows, and the branches are covered with white parrots, and the girl’s soul can be heard crying… …" Some people call Amao Naoko's "Great Xuanhuan Novel" "Contemporary Liao Zhai". Based on this reasoning, it seems that Chinese writer Pu Songling’s Strange Tales from a Lonely Studio can be regarded as the originator of the "great Xuanhuan novel".
Xuanhuan novel The term "Xuanhuan novel", as far as I know, comes from Hong Kong. The earliest Xuanhuan novel I saw was Huang Yi’s "Moon Demon" published by "Juxian Hall" in Hong Kong in 1988. At that time, "Juxian Hall" was also preparing to publish my work, and the publisher Mr. Zhao Shanqi gave me a novel by Hong Kong writer Huang Yi. Mr. Zhao Shanqi wrote in the preface: "A brand-new variety that combines metaphysics, science and literature has been announced. We call this novel variety 'Xuanhuan' novels." This is the first time the term "Xuanhuan novel" appeared with a clear definition.
Huang Yi’s Xuanhuan novels form a series, all featuring a character named Ling Duyu as the main character. Ling Duyu has a legendary experience. He grew up in Tibet, then studied in the United States and obtained two Ph.Ds. He also practices Tantra and has superhuman spiritual awareness. Therefore, many supernatural mysteries in the world have invited him to participate in the exploration.
Huang Yi’s series of Xuanhuan novels, each with one hundred thousand characters, is printed as a small pocket book. Because Huang Yi’s Xuanhuan novels pay attention to suspense, the plot is tortuous, and they show all kinds of peculiar realms of Xuanhuan, so his series of Xuanhuan novels quickly became popular in Hong Kong and Taiwan after the publication.
Huang Yi’s Xuanhuan novels are known as "combining metaphysics, science and literature". It is unknown how many scientific elements are in it. However, metaphysics runs through the novel. Zhao Shanqi said that "Huang Yi is a metaphysical master, who is good at Feng Shui, numerology, and astrological divination."
Of course, Huang Yi’s so-called metaphysics is only a shallow level of "feng shui, numerology, divination and astrology", not laid down by the three books called "San Xuan", "Zhou Yi", "Lao Zi" and "Zhuang Zi"—metaphysics means metaphysics.
Huang Yi’s concept of "a combination of metaphysics, science and literature" is not only an inaccurate representation of contemporary Huang Yi’s works itself, but also a far cry from modern Chinese Xuanhuan novels. It can be said that modern Chinese Xuanhuan novels represented by "Legend of Little Soldiers" are not only without science, but also without metaphysics.
I think that modern Chinese Xuanhuan novels just follow the body of the Xuanhuan novel created by Huang Yi, but discard its core. In modern Chinese Xuanhuan novels, the "Xuan" in it no longer refers to metaphysics, but can be interpreted as metaphysics.
Our ancestors gave the word "Xuan" a magical and mysterious color. Xu Shen’s Shuowen is interpreted as: "Xuan, quiet and far. The word 'Xuan' comes from Laozi’s Tao De Jing 'Xuan Zhi and Xuan, the door of all wonderfulness', and the words are deep and subtle." It is "Xuan" which means "secret and subtle." So it also gives the Xuanhuan novel a world of infinite imagination.
In "Ye Yonglie’s Comment on the Fiction Fiction Fever", I once said: "Xuanhuan novels are emerging in the contemporary era. They are based on Xuanhuan, emphasizing the word 'Xuan', and the content goes further than magic novels. From the perspective of creation, in other words, Xuanhuan writers are more free to create than science fiction writers, do not need to be bound by scientific basis, and have more room for development."
In addition to "Legend of Little Soldiers", the Xuanhuan novel "Fights Break the Sphere" [1] "The Life and Death Records of Misty Fairy Dust", "Douluo Continent", "Ao Feng", "Treading the Ancients", "Holy Kings", "Aotian God of War" [3], and other works have also sprung up endlessly. In October 2004, I attended a seminar on "The Chinese Market of Xuanhuan Literature" in Beijing. At the meeting, the Oriental Publishing Center of China Publishing Group launched 20 kinds of Xuanhuan novels with the signature "Fire Sky Car". The reason for the popularity of Xuanhuan novels is evident.
The Characteristics
Fast development
In terms of history, science fiction is better than magic fiction, and magic fiction is better than Xuanhuan novels. However, the Xuanhuan represented by "Illusory City" and the Xuanhuan represented by "Xiaobingxin Biography" have far more influence than the "old" science fiction. Following the Xiaobingxin Biography, "Fights Break the Sphere" has become a masterpiece of Xuanhuan novels—one. A book review wrote: "The big wave of magic books is surpassing science fiction. In less than three years, Xuanhuan novels have sprung up again, subverting the dominance of magic novels at an astonishing speed." Youthful
Author younger Analyzing the new-born Xuanhuan in detail, I noticed the younger generation of the author and the younger generation of the readers.
Chen Siyu, the author of the Xuanhuan novel "Aliens Proud World", is a sophomore student in the Chinese Department of Chengdu University, majoring in radio and television.
The author of "Legend of Little Soldiers" is not frequently exposed to the media like Guo Jingming, so people think that the author is a shy mm. In fact, the author Xuan Yu is a young man, born in 1980, only two years older than Guo Jingming. Xuan Yu lives in Heyuan, a small city in Guangdong, and has only read a teacher's college and worked as an art teacher in a middle school. He "finally found that the profession of a teacher was too unsuitable for him, and I was too lazy. Those of us all reversed day and night, working at night, going to bed during the day, and waking up until 11 o'clock in the morning." He began to write. He took the pen name Xuan Yu, the character for Xuan was taken from "Heaven and Earth Xuanhuang", and the character for "Rain" is "because I like the feeling of rain".
Xuan Yu started writing Xuanhuan novels like this: "I loved reading novels since I was a kid. In 2000, I had nothing to do this year and read several novels almost a day. I read all the books in bookstores on the street. I started reading it when I couldn’t find a book to read, but I have read most of the complete novels on the Internet, and I started contacting books written by Internet authors when I was bored. This is the first time I read Xuanhuan novels and let me get in touch. It feels completely different from martial arts novels. There are all kinds of weird worlds and adventures in the novels, which immediately made me addicted. But what makes me unhappy is that these good-looking novels are not finished, and the update is very slow. While waiting, I start to think about the plot in the Xuanhuan novel in my mind, and take myself as the protagonist to adventure in the illusory world. At this time, I find that the plot in the novel is much different from the plot in my imagination, so I tried to write the plot I wanted to see. That’s it, the days of typing on the keyboard began." In Beijing, I contacted the author of Xuanhuan novels "Huo Tianche" and learned that it was a writing team, with an average age of only 22 years old. Many of them are women. I asked about the creation of "Fire Sky Car", and they responded like this: A lady in charge wrote the overall idea, designed the characters, and then asked for writers on the Internet. Writers have used email to send their ideas. After these ideas were selected by the lady in charge, they were written and handwritten into Xuanhuan novels. After being revised and polished by the lady in charge, it was published under the name "Fire Sky Chassis". Because of this, "Fire Sky Car" created Xuanhuan novels at an amazing speed, and dozens of them were released at once.
A few days ago, I was about to write a preface to the long Xuanhuan novel "The Last Royal Family" by the Lanzhou author Fu Liangju. The author is also a young college student. The younger generation of Xuanhuan authors is also true in Taiwan. The first-year girls of Songshan High School in Taiwan wrote five major parts of "Feng Dong Ming" under the name "Water Spring", which was published by Taiwan Spring Publishing Company. I appreciate the youthfulness of Xuanhuan authors. In fact, I am also a "juvenile writer" background. I published my work at the age of 11, became the main author of "One Hundred Thousand Whys" at the age of 20, and wrote the science fiction novel "Little Smart Wandering the Future" at the age of 21. I know that young people are full of youthful enthusiasm and full of strange fantasies. Xuanhuan are youth literature. It is worth encouraging that so many young people join in the creation of Xuanhuan novels. As the reform and opening up have entered a deeper level, China has entered a period of relaxation, and the imagination of young people has been released to the fullest. Xuanhuan are the vast world where imagination can freely gallop. The creation of Xuanhuan novels by many young authors just reflects the trend of the times.
The Readers are also young
At the same time, Xuanhuan are widely spread on the Internet, and the main readers of online novels are teenagers. Therefore, Xuanhuan have attracted the attention of thousands of teenagers with the help of the infinite magic power of the Internet. In addition, the novel, beautiful, and unspeakable Xuanhuan realm displayed by Xuanhuan novels is also loved by youthful and energetic young readers. Because of this, "Legend of Little Soldiers" will have such a high click-through rate, and "Illusion City" also shocked the Beijing Book Order Fair with a print run of 100,000 copies.
Healthy Growth
"XuanHuan Fever"
Xuanhuan works have sprung up in China like bamboo shoots after a rain. I think that such "XuanHuan fever" and "XuanHuan fever" are gratifying. In the Xinhua News Agency Shanghai Branch’s telegraph, “Ye Yonglie’s Comments on the Fiction Fiction Fever”, there was a passage: “Faced with the hot scenes of XuanHuan fiction, Ye Yonglie bluntly said: ‘XuanHuan fiction can inspire the imagination of readers, and this is exactly what Chinese students lack. Therefore, the best-selling of Xuanhuan novels is generally a thankful thing.’” The report also wrote: "Ye Yonglie pointed out that the shortcomings of Xuanhuan novels today are ‘eager for quick results.’ ‘I don't believe in slow work and meticulous work, but I also don't appreciate fast writing that is only a commercial gimmick as the premise.’ ‘Xuanhuan’ also looks forward to high-quality goods. Although Xuanhuan novels are popular all over the country, as an important branch of Xuanhuan novels, it also faces creative dilemmas."
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References
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