Chapter 923 You can try to read Journey to the West backwards
At the China Literature and Art Association, the first "Journey to the West" literary seminar was held as scheduled.
Lin Fan naturally didn't come, but the bigwigs in the literary and art circles who attended the meeting had no complaints at all, because although Lin Fan didn't come, he sent his new works over! And they were works that had never been released to the public, and the people who attended the meeting were all the first to see them. Compared to going to the author's home to read the author's manuscripts, the feeling of having the author personally handing them over to you and asking you to read them was simply overwhelming.
What's more, the author himself also said that I am working hard on the creation, and once it is completed, I will immediately present the work to you for your enjoyment.
This positive attitude made everyone, even though they had never had any direct contact with Lin Fan, inexplicably feel a sense of familiarity as if they saw their juniors working hard to make progress.
What complaints are there?
Even if there is, there is a copy of "Journey to the West" in front of you, so you should finish reading it before you speak.
Therefore, this first "Journey to the West" literary seminar, without Lin Fan's participation, was held in an unusually harmonious and lively manner, and the subsequent effects were even more amazing.
The most direct manifestation is that one of China's top literary journals has published content related to "Journey to the West" in its main pages for a month.
An article titled "Do you really understand the deep meaning behind Journey to the West?" has sparked heated discussions among netizens.
Because the whole article raises many questions that seem ordinary to everyone, but cannot be thought deeply about. For example, why did the Jade Emperor send Sun Wukong to visit the Peach Garden?
Why were all the monsters with backgrounds taken away on the journey to the West, while all the monsters without backgrounds were killed? Why was Sun Wukong so powerful at the beginning, but he was always defeated by those monsters on the journey to the West? Why was Sun Wukong's master so powerful, but then he disappeared inexplicably? ...
One why after another made "Journey to the West" seem like a huge conspiracy, which made netizens feel creepy.
Not only that, the media seemed to have discovered some traffic code and followed suit, imitating this interpretation model, trying to take advantage of the popularity of "Journey to the West" in various ways, and their titles were more shocking than the last.
For example, "How many people did Monk Sha eat in the 800-li Flowing Sand River?"
For example, "Shock! Actually, Sun Wukong has been dead for a long time!"
Another example is, "After watching Journey to the West, I realized that the journey to the West to obtain Buddhist scriptures was a complete scam!"
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Regardless of whether these interpretations are right or wrong, at least to a certain extent, they have aroused the public's enthusiasm for discussing "Journey to the West".
What's more, many of them are well-known contemporary writers, and the articles published in regular literary journals are still very authoritative.
After reading these interpretations, everyone couldn't help but run to Lin Fan and ask Lin Fan who was right? Normally, the authors of literary works that can cause such widespread discussion and research are either dead or well-known in the literary circle.
They are either unable to respond to readers, or rarely go online, or simply do not respond to these interpretations. After all, there are a thousand Monkey Kings among a thousand readers. Once the author has written a work, no matter how the readers interpret it, it is highly subjective, which the author cannot interfere with.
But who can blame Lin Fan for being the author of Journey to the West?
Lin Fan’s main job is an artist, and he is also an artist who dotes on his fans. Lin Fan is happy to share everything about Journey to the West with his fans, and is also happy to see that everyone is so concerned about this work, willing to spend time reading various interpretations, and exploring deeper things.
These are the processes that the work "Journey to the West" must go through to slowly settle from a novel and eventually become a classic.
Only works that can withstand repeated, profound, and even critical research, discussion, and refutation by readers, and ultimately can stand there and remain undisturbed by the test of time, can become true classics.
Therefore, Lin Fan happily responded to the netizens:
【Lin Fan: Actually, you can try reading Journey to the West backwards. 】
When Lin Fan posted this post, everyone was stunned: Read it backwards? Can "Journey to the West" be read backwards? But how to read it backwards? When everyone was confused, professionals soon gave the correct way to read "Journey to the West" backwards:
[Let me try to read it backwards as Brother Fan said. If I interpret it wrong, please be gentle with me. It's just for entertainment, don't make a big deal out of it.
Tathagata sent Tang Monk and his three disciples, along with the Eight Heavenly Books and the little white dragon, to preach in the Tang Dynasty in the East. They encountered various monsters along the way and found out that they all had backers and could not be punished no matter how evil they did.
Bajie and Sha Seng felt that it was too dark, so one of them married into Gao Village and the other went into the Quicksand River. Only Wukong insisted on justice, slaying demons and monsters along the way and escorting his master to the Tang Dynasty in the East to preach.
As a result, the Heavenly Court could no longer tolerate Wukong, so they reached an agreement with Tathagata - we can ensure that Tang Sanzang arrives in Chang'an safely, but you have to deal with the troublemaker Sun Wukong.
There is no mistake in the poem, post, content, and read the book on 6, 9, and bar!
Tathagata agreed, and after a conspiracy, Bailong was seriously injured and fell into the mountain stream. Wukong was defeated and was pressed under the Five Finger Mountain.
Tang Sanzang abandoned Sun Wukong and came to Chang'an. After preaching in Chang'an, he was named the emperor's younger brother, enjoyed all the glory and wealth, and died of old age.
Five hundred years passed, and Wukong finally escaped from under the Five Finger Mountain. Without saying a word, he turned the Heavenly Palace upside down. The Heavenly Palace was forced to promise to let Zhu Bajie transform into a human and named him Marshal Tianpeng, and Monk Sha named General Juanlian, as long as they could kill Sun Wukong.
In the end, Sun Wukong, who was disheartened by the killing of his brothers, went to Bodhi Patriarch to seek help from him. Then he sealed his cultivation, threw the Ruyi Jingu Bang into the East China Sea and turned it into the Dinghai Shenzhen, returned to Huaguo Mountain, and lived an ordinary life with his monkeys and grandchildren. Finally, he turned into a stone on the top of Huaguo Mountain...】
As soon as this interpretation came out, all the netizens were stunned! Is this even possible? This, this is too dark! Netizens could not accept this interpretation at first and protested, saying that this netizen's interpretation was random and completely destroyed the image of Sun Wukong in everyone's mind!
However, while everyone was cursing, they couldn't help but read this interpretation over and over again, and finally they had to admit that although it was very dark, this interpretation was really in line with reality.
And the reality is only darker than this.
Lin Fan was just about to slide his hand to like the netizen who gave the complete interpretation and express his support, when he found that the public opinion online had changed again.
(End of this chapter)
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