Yu Dong wanted to write "Hou Yi" not to revise a history book, nor to refute anyone's view of history. He just felt that this semi-legendary history had a lot to explore in terms of the expression of human nature.
In fact, Ye Zhaoyan also wrote a book "Hou Yi" later on, but that book was written because of "Binu". He tried desperately to fit the story into the myth, and what he finally wrote was scattered.
It doesn't even reach the level of Ye Zhaoyan's other works.
Yu Dong's "Hou Yi" may be exaggerated in its performance, but it will not be confused with the mythical story "Hou Yi Shoots the Sun".
In Yu Dong's "Hou Yi", there is a man of the Youqiong family who was born with supernatural powers and was good at archery since he was a child. People in the tribe always compare him with the legendary Yi. Because he has been good at archery for several generations, everyone calls him Si.
Yi.
In such an environment, Si Yi dreamed that he would one day become a great hero who would save the common people from an early age.
Later, when he heard that Emperor Taikang was tyrannical and tyrannical, he felt that the time had come to save the people, so he took advantage of Taikang's hunting to raise troops to Luoshui to stop Taikang.
Across the Luoshui River, the two men drew their bows and fired at each other. Si Yi raised his hand and shot Taikang's arm off with an arrow. Although Taikang later saved his life, he was so frightened that he never dared to cross the Luoshui River again.
At this time, Si Yi only felt that he had saved the people, and did not want to be emperor. But later, he gradually felt that his dream had not been completed, so he thought about finding and shooting monsters all day long, and even looked forward to them appearing in the sky.
A few suns let him shoot down.
One day Han Yun told him that if he wanted to be born with a vision, he must first become emperor.
In order to fulfill his dream of being a hero, he listened and proclaimed himself emperor, and then spent several years gathering people to help him find traces of monsters. Until one day, when he was frustrated and complained to Han Zhuo, Han Zhuo ordered him to kill him.
Capture.
Before Han Zhuo killed Si Yi, Fu Er told him that the monster was actually not elsewhere but right in front of him. Si Yi was cruel and cruel and had long become a monster in the hearts of the people, but it was Han Zhuo who would kill this monster.
When Si Yi died, the people danced and celebrated, clapping their hands and cheering.
But later it was discovered that Han Yun was equally tyrannical, and people began to beautify Si Yi and call him Hou Yi. This meant that they recognized his identity as a monarch and that Han Yun had usurped the throne.
In order to enhance the readers' reading experience, Yu Dong deliberately strengthened the intertextuality of the novel "Hou Yi". In fact, to put it bluntly, it extends along the trajectory of historical records, allowing readers to develop more on the basis of limited text when reading.
Rich imagination.
Yu Dong graduated from the Chinese Department. He needs to think about more things when writing and is very influenced by rhetoric.
This time, he deliberately let the "author die" to liberate readers from the authority of a single textual meaning and from the concept of an omniscient and omnipotent author, and gave the freedom of reading to the readers.
In fact, this type of history-related novels more or less achieve this. Because history is there, and every reader has a history in their mind. When they read novels, they will base it on what they have read before.
Use historical texts to interpret the novel.
And some things just need additional historical text comparison to reflect the complete meaning.
This is also the case in some rebirth online novels of later generations. When describing the era, many things are interpreted by readers based on other texts they have read or even their experience of the era.
It's just that Yu Dong specifically highlighted this point in the novel. The changes in the characters throughout the novel are somewhat similar to Yao Xueyin's "Li Zicheng", in that the dragon slayer eventually becomes the evil dragon.
Maybe many readers will think of "Li Zicheng" when reading "Hou Yi", and at this time the intertextuality will be reflected.
"Hou Yi" is the fastest novel written by Yu Dong. He started writing on the afternoon of Saturday and continued until the next night. He wrote the first draft of more than 30,000 words. This is mainly due to the fact that he wrote this novel
It had been conceived for a long time, and the story in my mind had already taken shape.
There are still more than 30,000 words of manuscripts ahead. As expected, it will take less than a week to write and revise.
During this day and a half, Liu Changmin and Feng Ming came five or six times. Every time they saw Yu Dong writing at his desk from the window, they left quietly.
Hu Changqing also came once, also stopped outside the window for a while and then left.
Until Monday morning, Liu Changmin's first words when he saw Yu Dong were: "You finally came out of seclusion."
After chatting with Liu Changmin for a few words, Yu Dong realized that they had come to see him many times.
"Originally I wanted to pick you up, but I saw how seriously you were writing, so I didn't have the heart to disturb you. But I made a bet with Feng Ming to see how long you could write. He said you would have to rest until yesterday afternoon.
I said you couldn't rest for the past two days, and in the end I won him two yuan." Liu Changmin said with a smile.
Yu Dong also laughed: "These two dollars can be considered as my contribution?"
"That's natural. I'll go back to the cafeteria and add a braised egg for you."
“How generous.”
…
When he was about to get off work in the morning, Wu Changxin called Yu Dong to the office.
Yu Dong originally thought that Wu Changxin called him here to ask about the open class last Friday night, but he did not expect that Wu Changxin opened his mouth and asked about the Cucumber Garden Poetry Club first: "How is the development of your recent poetry club?"
Although he was a little surprised, Du Dong still reported the situation, "Last time the Poetry Club held an event, I went to Yanjing and did not participate. However, when I came back, I heard from Teacher Liu that it was not bad. Many students also participated, and the scale was getting bigger and bigger.
The bigger it gets, the more enthusiastic everyone is."
Wu Changxin nodded and suddenly asked: "Yu Dong, do you think our school has the conditions to publish a literary school magazine now? To publish some poems or other articles published by students and teachers?"
Yu Dong wanted to say "no" directly, but he still held it back. He considered his words and said: "I think this is a good thing, but it won't be too late to wait for a while until the time is more mature."
Although Yu Dong said it tactfully, Wu Changxin had already understood the meaning, and it was impossible to do this now.
In fact, Yu Dong not only thinks it can't be done now, he also thinks it won't be done in the future.
Now that there are no social networks or video software, the literary school magazines produced by some schools still have some room for survival. When the Internet develops in the future, the channels for students to obtain information will increase explosively, and this type of school magazine will be completely unattractive.
Besides, Jinyi is an art school, so you can’t rely on a cucumber garden poetry club to support a school magazine.
It doesn’t matter if you insist on doing it, but the end result will definitely be to amuse yourself, and the more you do it, the worse it will become.
Chapter completed!