"Qingyu Nian": "Jin Yong ****" has been practiced

Tricky: "The Most Emotional Writer of Internet Literature", author of "Vermilion Bird", "Celebrating More Than a Year", "The Guest", "General Night", "The Book of Choosing Heaven", "The Avenue is in the Sky" and so on.

Shao Yanjun: Professor of Chinese Department of Peking University, researcher of online literature
Chen Daoming, Wu Gang, Guo Qilin, Li Qin… With such a strong cast cast, the long-awaited annual drama "Celebration of More Than a Year" finally went LIVE. This drama adapted from the Internet god-level writer’s tricky novel of the same name attracted attention as soon as it was released.
Tricky is a writer who is highly recognized in both the online literary world and the mainstream literary world. He is known as the "most sentimental literary writer" and is also considered the most classic online literary writer.
Among his "fans" is Shao Yanjun, a professor of Chinese literature at Peking University. Shao Yanjun has been following online literature for many years and is also a good friend of Maoxi, and the two often talk about their works and creations. Beiqing Art Review was authorized by Shao Yanjun and Maoxi to publish part of the conversation about "Qingyu Nian" for the first time. The content of this interview began in 2017 and was finally completed on December 2, 2019.
Shao Yanjun: Old cat, I finally have the opportunity to have a good chat with you about books. First of all, I have to say that I am your fan, and our whole family is your die-hard fan. Fortunately, in the academic world, there is now an identity called "scholar fan", which allows researchers to maintain the emotions and position of fans. As a "scholar fan", I wrote a monograph on your writer a few days ago, "Tricky: A Master Writer of Chinese Online Literature", which was published in "Online Literature Review". Today, I am using the privilege of scholars to have a good chat with you on behalf of fans.
In that thesis, I compared you with Jin Yong in all aspects, including concept, story, characters, and writing style. I feel that in "Qingyu Nian", your "Jin Yong ****" has been practiced. As a genre novel author, you are truly standing on the shoulders of your predecessors. Of all your novels, "Qingyu Nian" is the most like Jin Yong. In the next "Interguest", your personal things really erupt. In my personal evaluation pedigree, you surpassed Jin Yong after "Interguest" and "General Night", and your "feelings" are more poking into the hearts of the current Chinese people.
Tricky: This is absolutely unacceptable to me! Jin Yong is my idol, and I am thousands of miles away from him. This comparison makes me very frightened and embarrassed, this is the truth.
Shao Yanjun: It doesn’t count if you say it. Of course, it doesn’t count if I say it, and it depends on what people say later. Now let’s talk about "Qingyu Nian". "Qingyu Nian" is your "work of apotheosis", and there is "Vermillion Bird" in front of it, which is considered a famous work.
Tricky: "Vermilion Bird" was written casually. I was the only author of "Starting Point" at that time who had a fixed rest day, and no one did that.
When it came to "Qingyu Nian", I wanted to write a "big red book".
"Big Red Book" has a formula
Shao Yanjun: What kind of book can become a big hit?
Tricky: very simple. 70 points or more of the writing, the whole routine. The key is the rhythm. In addition, the "big red book" must have a sense of security. The source of security is the big background and golden finger, which are the two most common ways. For example, Fan Xian, his father is the emperor, his mother is Ye Qingmei, his adoptive father is the Minister of Housing, supported by the old black dog (Chen Pingping), and Wuzhu is the bodyguard. If you want to die, you can’t die. The big problem with this is that it is not easy to create conflicts in the later stage. So I must transfer Wuzhu, and I must make the emperor, Chen Pingping, and the Minister of Housing suspect each other. Only in this way can the insecurity above the sense of security be built. But this kind of insecurity is controllable. I can ask Wuzhu to come back at any time, and I can ask Chen Pingping to launch a fatal attack at any time. Therefore, regardless of Fan Xian and the eldest princess or the prince, the sense of security is within the controllable range.
Shao Yanjun: Relatively speaking, Xu Le ("The Guest") and Ning Que ("General Night") are not so safe.
Tricky: Yes. Ning Que lived in insecurity when he was a teenager. But when my novel started to write about him, he had already returned to Chang’an, and he immediately wanted to find a sense of security. The sense of security will be pasted on you one by one in an instant, the emperor, Chaoxiaoshu, and the academy. Especially the academy, as soon as the academy is posted, it immediately settles down.
Shao Yanjun: What other recipe does "Big Red Book" have?
Tricky: Then there is the character setting. "Celebration of More Than a Year" is a hit drama, which has nothing to do with whether it is well written or not, because Fan Xian is too easy to produce things. He has many characteristics that are attractive to women. For example, he is an excellent poet, literati, spy chief, patriot, and has high martial arts skills. Most importantly, he is also very good-looking. He combines the characteristics of a domineering president. No domineering president is more domineering than him, and finally became the hidden emperor. For a man, it is enough to put on the characteristics of a very turtle, and this is the main text of the big man. For women, the after-imaging is very attractive. For men, substitution also has pleasure.
As a reader, there are two ways to enter, one is to join the loser and follow the protagonist’s counterattack. There is also to join Fan Xian, how cool it is, to be a noble son, very cool. This is also the two different directions set by the characters of "Da Hong Wen", one is the rise of teenagers, and the other is the winner in life, both of which are more popular.
"Qingyu Nian" subscription results are the best
Shao Yanjun: Is "Qingyu Nian" currently the most widely accepted work?
Tricky: "The Book of Choice" has a TV series bonus. If you don’t count it, the best subscriptions are "Celebration of Yu Nian" and "General Night". But "Celebration of Yu Nian" is two years earlier than "General Night". It should be said that "Celebration of Yu Nian" has the best results and more people like it.
Shao Yanjun: Was there a story in the conception of "Qingyu Nian"?
Tricky: I first thought of Ye Qingmei, and I wanted to write a story about an illegitimate child. Shuimu Tsinghua BBS Martial Arts Edition called "Qingyu Nian" "The Story of the Bastard Child".
Shao Yanjun: What do you think is particularly good about "Celebration of the Year"?
Tricky: I was still watching "Celebrating More Than a Year" last month, and after reading it again, I felt that there were a few paragraphs that were really well written. For example, the part where the rebels besieged the palace after Dadong Mountain. I have never written anything about iron blood, and in the end I found that not only did I achieve my original goal, but it was also higher, so I felt very happy.
What really made me very high was that Chen Pingping went back to the capital from Dazhou and entered the imperial study. She fell out with the emperor for those two chapters. When she pointed at the emperor’s nose and yelled, I thought it was very well written. Looking back, it was much better than I remembered. Because although it was written very seriously at that time, it was about to unfold the plot of Fan Xian coming back to save him, and I was very nervous, so I didn’t have time to read it carefully. Later, I wrote Fan Xian all the way back – this is the fastest thing I have ever written, the fastest space conversion, all the way back, going to the court in the rain and hugging Chen Pingping – this hug finally loosened my breath.
Shao Yanjun: How many days have you been nervous?
Tricky: I had thought about this plot a long time ago. It wasn’t until I wrote this paragraph in more than 20 days that I started to get nervous. I knew I had thought of a very good plot, but I was worried that I wouldn’t be able to achieve it. If there was a gap, I was very nervous. Including when I was writing "Celebrating More Than New Years", "General Night" and "Choosing Heaven", every time I wrote this kind of plot, the update slowed down involuntarily and I didn’t dare to write it anymore. When it came to that plot, I was so afraid that I would die and not be confident.
Sharpness is lost in modification.
Shao Yanjun: In fact, the same is true for traditional writers, including our own writing papers. We know that we are going to encounter the core, and we are also nervous, but after all, it is not more literary, and there is no sense of urgency of time. I would like to know what your rhythm is. For example, from Chen Pingping’s confrontation with the emperor to Fan Xian’s tribulation, how long have you been more literary?
Tricky: A few days. Write now every day, write until you spit it out in one breath, and throw it away.
Shao Yanjun: At that time, I wrote 6,000 words a day?
Tricky: Maybe more than that, stop writing until you can’t write anymore.
Shao Yanjun: No chance to practice?
Tricky: Not repaired. I’ve repaired "General Night", "The Book of Choice", and "Celebration of the Year" all by one breath, not repaired. I know that if I fix it, it will be over. I don’t even change the typo, worried that if I fix it, it will be wrong. Looking back, I will fix the plot and make it more rigorous, but the first feeling is gone, and the sharpness of moving forward will be exhausted in the revision. We have all encountered this situation. We can wait until we finish writing before repairing it. Jin Yong did this back then. Another reason is that I urgently want readers to see it, and I am very proud.
Chen Pingping: Guoshi Unparalleled
Shao Yanjun: I just talked about the plot, now let’s talk about the characters. Which character in "Qing Yu Nian" do you miss the most?
Tricky: Chen Pingping. This person’s character and choices are all specially approved by me. I think he is a national scholar, and a national scholar is unparalleled – a national scholar against Ye Qingmei alone. Supervising the imperial power, no one knows except him and Ye Qingmei. He has been playing the role of an old dog for so many years, and as soon as his fangs show, he will do it. He knows that he is no match for the emperor if he dies or lives. When he quarreled with the emperor in the imperial study, he still wanted to put Fan Xian aside, thinking that if he died, Fan Xian would still be alive. He knew he couldn’t do it. He really has the heroic arrogance of the rivers and lakes. We often write about this kind of person, knowing that we can’t do you, but we just have to do it again. This is also why I think Stephen Chow’s "Kung Fu" can’t be better. "Kung Fu" realizes all our fantasies about martial arts, whether it is the picture or the fight, including low-level fights, intermediate-level fights, and high-level fights, perfectly presented. The martial arts spirit also exists. Stephen Chow’s head was knocked to the ground with a "bang", but he must take a small wooden stick and hit the other party’s head again. I watched "Kung Fu" seven or eight times, and every time I saw it, I was so hot-blooded that I grabbed my wife and said, "Look, I’m going to knock you if you’re dead or alive."
Shao Yanjun: This is the core spirit of your work. What is this spirit?
Tricky: I don’t know how to sum it up. Anyway, I’m going to hit you if you’re dead or alive.
Shao Yanjun: But few people have the energy.
Tricky: You haven’t forgotten Stephen Chow.
Shao Yanjun: But this is not a human instinct. In "General Night", the people of Chang’an also summon this energy. It should be a capitalized person. Do you think the people of the Great Tang are like this?
Tricky: Fantasy people. Fairy tales. Tang is purely a beautiful country in my imagination. I think such a country is very good, there is collectivism, nationalism, and personal things are always there. From the country to the individual, there is also great dignity, and there is also personal dignity.
Ye Qingmei: Modern People Carrying the Glory of Civilization
Shao Yanjun: What do you think is Chen Pingping’s motivation for action?
Tricky: Others have analyzed it, but I don’t necessarily agree. The first is knowledge. Ye Qingmei is a modern person, and she is the only one who does not dislike eunuchs. Other fathers-in-law also said: "Lord Xiao Fan, you are the only one who smiles really when you give me money." These are two modern people with different concepts, and the concept of class will be lighter. Chen Pingping told the emperor that the young lady regards me as an equal friend, not a subordinate, not a servant, not a servant, not a dog, but an equal partner. This is a very important thing for Chen Pingping. Another is that some people say that Chen Pingping has a vague affection for Ye Qingmei. I don’t agree, I think it is the first level. Chen Pingping is a serious scholar-bureaucrat who "sells to the emperor’s family", a bit like the kind of person in the Spring and Autumn Period.
Shao Yanjun: Spring and Autumn Personality.
Tricky: Yes.
Shao Yanjun: When I wrote that article about you, I didn’t expect it at first. When I wrote this part, I suddenly found that the divine light on Ye Qingmei was the brilliance of civilization, which was higher than that era.
Tricky: Essentially.
Shao Yanjun: Perhaps it is the glory of the best period in the history of human civilization. I am talking about it from the perspective of humanism. In the "post-human" era of artificial intelligence, human nature may not be so high, and freedom and equality may not be a natural human right. So I say that this glory is the glory of the Enlightenment era.
Tricky: Yes. The era Ye Qingmei came from may not be the best, but it is definitely much better than the era of Qingguo. Ye Qingmei will fail when she travels back, and she will not succeed. I will not let her succeed, and success is meaningless. Fan Xian is another type, Jacksu. The biggest difference between Mary Su and Jacksu is that Mary Su believes in this, and she believes that she can save the world. But men are realistic, cold, and heartless, and think things are different.
Fan Xian: Just an ordinary man in the early stage
Shao Yanjun: I asked you, who do your characters like the most? You said all the supporting roles, and there is only one Xu Le in the protagonist. You don’t seem to like Fan Xian?
Tricky: Fan Xian is just an ordinary man. Ordinary men don’t want to change the world from the beginning, unless they are majestic politicians. I have always disliked Fan Xian because Fan Xian is the most similar to me. He just wants to live a good life and earn more money. He has a few more wives, but I don’t want to. Beginner thoughts are like this.
Shao Yanjun: You don’t seem to be as "ordinary" as you said, right? Fan Xian was not ordinary after that.
Tricky: Fan Xian in the early stage is not the same as in the later stage, but in essence, he is the common denominator of the vast majority of people.
Shao Yanjun: When do you think Fan Xian started to change?
Tricky: After going down from Dadong Mountain, Fan Xian stood up from the meadow and fought with Yan Xiaoyi. This was the first time that Fan Xian stood up seriously. Also, in the cave in Beiqi, Sean told Fan Xian the story of Ye Qingmei, saying that "one is a jujube tree, and the other is a jujube tree". This sentence was not interesting at all. Later, a netizens analyzed that from this moment on, Fan Xian basically recognized Ye Qingmei as his mother and truly integrated into this world. He knew where his mother came from, and he gradually recognized this world. He brought the world before his rebirth, and he could survive as a person in this world.
But I fell into a vicious circle at the end, and I can’t solve it until now. I especially respect Emperor Qing, although I also hate him and constantly solidify his strength, I think he is already too strong to defeat. If Fan Xian leads a few people to destroy Emperor Qing, I can’t convince myself. Even if I invite Wuzhu, I can’t convince myself. Before Fan Xian entered the palace to kill the emperor, I can accept killing He Zongwei. But after entering the palace, he and his father talked for a long time, and I didn’t dare to do it. I was afraid that I couldn’t beat him again. Therefore, I didn’t feel comfortable in the last paragraph. Did the great emperor die like this? It’s a bit like after raising the master, there is no other way but to be accepted by the sky.
"Emperor Qing wrote very well!"
Shao Yanjun: What do you think of Emperor Qing?
Tricky: Emperor Qing wrote very well.
Shao Yanjun: Yes, the writing is very, very good. It is also difficult to surpass later.
Tricky: Yes.
Shao Yanjun: The existence of Emperor Qing makes things a lot more complicated. Many novels don’t write like this, for example, "Langya Ranking" at about the same time, which writes the emperor as a bad guy. This way everything is simple, but you make things so complicated.
Cat greasy: When I wrote "Qing Yu Nian", this is how I defined Emperor Qing. Didn’t society have a problem with female doctors at that time? In addition to men and women, there are female doctors. But in addition to female doctors, there is another kind of person, the emperor. He and Ye Qingmei are relative. Emperor Qing is the standard emperor I think, an excellent emperor, a perfect emperor. I didn’t want to give him a name until the end. He doesn’t need a name, he is the emperor. Just like Sun Xiao wrote "Heroes", the chair is the emperor. He is not fighting alone, but many emperors are fighting. At least one-third of Emperor Qing is Li Shimin. After writing, this character jumped too high and defeated your design for him. On the one hand, I hate him, on the other hand, I like him, on the other hand, I respect him, and on the other hand, I feel sorry for him.
About the TV drama "Celebration of the Year"
Shao Yanjun: Now that the TV series "Celebration of More Than a Year" is on the air, what do you think of the filming?
Tricky: I think the shot is very good, the rhythm is what I like, the tonality is also what I like, and all aspects are well realized.
Shao Yanjun: Did you participate in the screenwriting?
Cat: No, because I decided on Mr. Wang Tie, I was very relieved. Then I read two versions of the script and felt very good. Moreover, if I wanted to participate in the screenwriting, I didn’t have the patience and energy.
(Thank you Wang Xin and Xiang Lei for your support of this article.)





















































