Material Empire

One day in June this year, I accidentally opened the starting point and saw Qi Chengda's masterpiece "Material Empire", but this domineering-sounding name didn't make me want to read it at the beginning.

According to the experience mixed in at the starting point, sometimes the more aggressive the novel, the more bland the content. The meaning of book shortage sometimes does not necessarily mean that there are fewer books, but the lack of novels that make you have a strong sense of substitution. Sometimes there will be a frenzy of good books at the starting point, but sometimes there will also be a period of book shortage, the kind of novels that give you a sense of immersion in that period, the kind of web articles that only rely on the popularity of the screen to gain research, Reading too much is also boring, but many people who have the habit of reading online articles have to read it during the book shortage period.

So, after that day, after I watched three oriental fantasies and two urban suspense, this dull feeling became my habit and made me click on "Material Empire". The original habit of reading books at 11 o'clock every day was thrown into the pile until I was allowed to read the latest updated chapters. Later, in order to satisfy this sudden desire to read, I found out the author's previous "Industrial Overlord". Let me completely get out of the sense of loss of the book shortage.

It has been a long time since I saw such a writing style. While reading it happily, it also makes me miss this writing style very much. From the perspective of the two protagonists Lin Zhenhua and Qin Hai, what I see is not only the struggle history of the protagonists, but also a microcosm of an era. This microcosm should be the great changes of the times that my parents' generation experienced. In the past, I only saw a few glimpses of this change in various documentaries, but now it is vividly presented in front of me.

I even have an illusion that maybe the author sent it by typing on the computer screen with a keyboard after "rustling" with a pen on the manuscript paper. The narrative feature bears a strong imprint of the times, and it is the writing habit of the literati in the 1980s who thought carefully and carefully. I only had this feeling in the magazines that I secretly dug out of my father's old books when I was a child.

There is no impetuosity in contemporary writing, and everything is as serious and responsible as a senior skilled worker in the 1980s for his products. I can say that time travel is just an introduction, and the protagonist’s speech and behavior show us the overall 80s. The characters, the feeling of traveling in time and space is really amazing, and it is actually the charm of time travel novels.

Having said that, let me talk about some experiences from reading online articles.

I remember when the Internet literature began to rise, it seemed that the great gods on the Internet really emerged one after another, and there seemed to be few book shortages in that era. Although the themes at the beginning were not as complicated as today, but from the use of language and characters, it seems to be more simple. Some. Zhonghua Yangda's "Resurrection of China" made me watch it all night. Although Zhonghua Yangda became a popular online writer who did not receive a penny, his writing and works also let us feel the people of that generation How do you deal with writing.

The times are different, and the mentality is different. Sometimes I suddenly find that modern people are not as patient as people in the past to concentrate on doing one thing, and often appear impetuous, and their favorite literary works also show a trend of fast food. In this case, many The author may not have the patience to create, more works are rich and empty, and the protagonist is an existence against the sky as soon as he appears on the stage. It seems that there is no need to narrate such stories.

Therefore, I prefer novels like Qi Cheng, which bring you a real sense of substitution in the plain. And the greatest charm of time-travel novels is this sense of substitution. According to the times, the times closest to the readers are easier to have a sense of substitution, but precisely the closer the times are, the more difficult it is to control, because every reader can learn from their own The life and experience of the artist are compared with the works, which requires the author to accurately describe the era of the picture.

I describe my own experience as that, I found the life pictures of my parents' generation from the author's works. I know what they may have experienced, and those stories happened when they were young... So, the vague memory was wiped clean, and in the sense of substitution, I can feel the why and the present of the people around me from my childhood life The difference is so big... maybe I might not be able to do better than them.

I also know what the era I lived in went through a little bit before. Maybe "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms" and "Historical Records" can tell me what our ancestors experienced many years ago, but I prefer to understand, our parents and them What actually happened.

Maybe the outdated and old-fashioned parents in front of us today, we sometimes feel that the reason for the generation gap between them and us is so ridiculous. However, we really don't understand why they are so different from our thinking habits. The past era, if your youth has passed through this era, I believe you are the same as them. ——Times shape character, maybe shape how a generation thinks.

Thank you Qi Cheng for bringing us a reading feast. This feast is so delicious. ^_^