【Qiong Yao's collection of works preface】A new collection of rebirth from the ashes

I was born in war and grew up in distress. When I learned about human affairs, it was the end of the War of Resistance Against Japan that my two younger brothers and I followed our parents to "escape" from our hometown in Hunan to Sichuan. When we were six years old, other children might be playing hide-and-seek and playing games. But I was walking on the Hunan-Guangxi Railway with naked feet. I saw the injured soldiers on the roadside who were abandoned and bleeding to death. I also witnessed refugees rushing to climb into the car from the outside of the refugee train full of people.

In order to prevent anyone from entering, people drew their swords to slash the arms of the refugees outside the car window. We also encountered Japanese troops and almost snatched away their mothers. They also separated their flesh and blood, causing my parents to commit suicide by jumping into the river... Some of these painful experiences were written in "My Story", and some were hidden deep in my heart. In that era of chaos, I had experienced the suffering of wandering and saw all the kind and ugly sides of human nature. This made me mature and sensitive, strong and fragile.

After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, I followed my parents to live in Chongqing and Shanghai. Finally, due to the civil war, I returned to Hengyang, Hunan, and then to Guangzhou. In 1949, I arrived in Taiwan. I was eleven that year, and my childhood ended. My father taught at the Normal University and had a meager income. My younger brothers and sisters and I started another difficult life. At this time, I was also watching "words" that fascinated me. "Journey to the West", "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", "Water Margin"... I was all watched at this time. At the same time, I was fascinated by Tang poetry and Song lyrics. After my mother finished housework, she would teach me Tang poetry. During the Anti-Japanese War, I learned Tang poetry with my mother one after another, and at this time it became my main hobby at the age of eleven or twelve.

When I was fourteen years old, when I was in the second year of junior high school, I became obsessed with translated novels again. That summer vacation, under my father's arrangement, I stayed at the Normal University library all day, took the bento, and from the morning, the library opened and saw that the library got off work. I read all the translated novels until the library director said to me: "I have no books to lend you! You have read all these books that are far older than you!"

I love reading books and writing, and I started writing very early. My early works were childish and had a strong imitation. However, I was lucky enough to contribute. At the age of fourteen, I published works in newspapers and magazines one after another, becoming the only child with "income" in my family. This encouraged me, especially the small manuscript fee was of great use to me. I bought books, read books, and became obsessed with movies. Movies and writing are also inseparable. I knew very early that I might not have any career in my life, but I would become an "author"!

This wish was gradually realized during my growth process. My growth has always been bumpy, my heart is often broken, and my experiences are almost all dramatic. My first love later became my first novel "Outside the Window". It was published in the Crown Magazine at that time. At that time, I helped Crown Magazine for two years and wrote short stories and novellas with the publisher Ping Xintao. I had no idea that my "Outside the Window" would change my life's destiny, and I would have an incomprehensible relationship with this publisher. I would write 65 books in my future life and become husband and wife with him.

There are thousands of people in this world, each of whom has his own novel or several novels. My life is the same. I helped Huang Crown write a manuscript in 1961, and "Outside the Window" was published in 1963. It was also that year that I met Xintao for the first time. Later, he told me that he was poor all his life and determined to succeed, so he worked like a cow. The "cow" didn't know what poetry and picturesque meaning, and he didn't know that there was "a passionate love" in life. Until he saw me, the "cow" suddenly discovered his "weaver girl" and subverted his life. As for me, the "weaver girl", from then on, under his arrangement, weaved one novel after another with words.

Few people can write 65 books, 15 movie scripts, and 25 TV scripts in their lifetime (there are more than 1,000 episodes in total. Each episode is about 13,000 words. Although it is helped by an assistant, most of them are from my own hands. Calculate how many words I wrote?). I did it! For me, writing is never easy, but I didn’t beat drums everywhere to tell everyone the pain and difficulties I was writing. "Investment" is the most important thing for me. My early works were mostly tragedy because of the influence of childhood, youth, and youth. When I wrote a novel, I had no self. When I was working, I only had the characters in the novel. I turned into the heroine, the male protagonist, and various supporting roles. When I wrote the sad part, I also wrote myself as "the silkworm will die until the silk is gone."

When writing, you don’t have time to meet people, you don’t have time to socialize and have fun. I don’t like to accept interviews and publicity. So, I found that everyone’s understanding of me is: “The flowers in the greenhouse that are well cared for by Ping Xintao. A woman who is not as good as the world’s fireworks!” I heard it and just smiled. How to tell others that if you don’t sit at the desk to write all the time, you will never be able to write so many works! When you write day and night, you are often “not as good as the world’s fireworks” because you can’t stop writing and you will forget to eat! I have never been a “flower in the greenhouse”, I am a “faithful person in the study”! Because I firmly believe that there is love in the world, I write for love, write for love, write for all kinds of joys and sorrows in life, and also write about “The candle turns into ashes and tears dry.”

After cross-strait exchanges, I realized that my novels had already existed in the mainland, and because they were not authorized, they were published in a very chaotic manner. In 1989, I began to organize my "full collections" and authorize them to mainland publishers. In Taiwan, Xin Tao still dominated all my works. Love does not require signing or authorization, and I and him have never signed or authorized. Since that year, my novels have been divided into traditional Chinese versions (Taiwan) and simplified Chinese versions (Mainland). Because the mainland has a population of 1.3 billion and I have many readers, which further encouraged my interest in writing. I continued to write and continue to be a "weaver girl of words".

Time flies, and I have been writing from a girl until I was old. Xintao was sick in his later years, and the publishing house handed over to his children very early. I took care of Xintao and became the center of life. Despite this, I did not stop writing. My books increased one by one until sixty-five books were published, and there were many essays and works scattered outside, which were not included in the complete collection. When Xintao was dementia and had a stroke, my mood fell to the bottom. After Xintao extended his life by intubation, I almost collapsed. Then, I found that my sixty-five traditional novels had already begun and were out of print one after another! Simplified Chinese versions were not satisfactory, piracy was rampant, and the Internet was even more messy.

My writing is full of youth, romance, bizarreness, true love... all kinds of stories, these stories have racked my brains, spent my time, and made me exhausted. Each of my sixty-five books is like my biological children, from birth to birth to growth, every day and every year! Only then did I suddenly realize that I can sacrifice everything for love, suffer all grievances, and contribute everything, without authorization...but I cannot let my children disappear out of thin air! I must cheer up and let these sixty books be reborn! This is my mission.

So, when I was already in my old age, my complete works were reorganized and published again. With the efforts of major publishers, the traditional Chinese version fell into the "city-state" and handed over to Chunguang to publish. The simplified Chinese version was "Boji Tianjuan". The books published by the two publishers were very exquisite and exquisite, and were deeply loved by my heart. This new set of classic collections is very vast. After discussion, we decided to publish them in batches. The first batch was the "Essence Edition of Film and Dramas". The two publishers

The books I chose were slightly different, they were all popular works by movies and TV series. Then, we would publish more than 60 books in succession. The novels and dramas were different. The words had the charm of words and the imagination of readers. I hope my readers could read, collect, and cherish my set of books that were finally "reborn from the fire". They were all the essence of hard work and hard work! In this way, I would have no regrets in my life!

Written in Keyuan

November 10, 2017
Chapter completed!