Jiang Shang Nongchao is over seventy years old this year. Unlike some elderly people of her age who have become rigid, inflexible, and unable to adapt, she still keeps up with the times and pays close attention to the changes in popular culture.
Every month, Jiang Shang Nongchao Sheng buys a batch of books published in recent years, which he reads carefully, skims, or reads superficially.
Writers of her generation either stopped writing, passed away, or went into seclusion, rarely seen. Jiang Shang Nong Chao Sheng doesn't engage in such mystical practices. She has her own official website, official forum, and fan club. In addition, Jiang Shang Nong Chao Sheng also personally manages a WeChat public account and a Weibo account.
In the words of Jiang Shang Nong Chao Sheng, she wanted to talk to young people.
Wuxia (martial arts fiction) is outdated.
The man who rides the tide on the river often sighs like this.
Fewer young people are watching martial arts films and TV dramas, and the genre has been declining for many years. That era of riding horses in light furs, singing wildly and drinking heartily, that era of swords clashing and chivalry, is fading further and further away from people's lives.
Jiang Shang Nong Chao Sheng's WeChat official account and Weibo are both very quiet. A few familiar faces come and go, and Jiang Shang Nong Chao Sheng has long been familiar with them.
Unlike other martial arts works, "Phoenix Plays with Dragon" has been adapted for film and television multiple times, which has helped to improve the original work. Although each adaptation has received mixed reviews, film and television adaptations are indeed the best way to maintain the novel's popularity. "Phoenix Plays with Dragon" missed the golden age of martial arts film and television time and time again, so its current decline is understandable.
Nevertheless, Jiang Shang Nongchaosheng still opens her WeChat official account and Weibo every day with anticipation, sharing some interesting daily stories with her book fans. She enjoys talking to them.
In the past few days, Jiang Shang Nongchaosheng has become even more enthusiastic about using WeChat official accounts and Weibo. This is because a very interesting new friend has suddenly appeared among her book fans.
The story goes back a few days. That day, Jiang Shang Nong Chao Sheng opened the backend of his WeChat official account to check if there were any reader comments, but was surprised to find that more than a hundred messages had popped up!
What's going on?
Jiang Shang Nongchao Sheng took a closer look and couldn't help but chuckle. It turned out that seventy or eighty of the hundred-plus messages were all sent by the same person.
The person's profile picture was of a beautifully drawn girl. Jiang Shang Nongchaosheng squinted at it for a long time before realizing it was fan art of Xiao Fengque. She had even reposted it on Weibo.
The WeChat nicknames are also interesting, some are long strings, like "Ai Sanwu's Kui Kui♡Feng Bao's Destiny".
Jiang Shang Nongchaosheng has seen several similar IDs. According to her impression, those who use such IDs are usually young people.
It seems like a new young reader has come knocking?
Jiang Shang Nongchao Sheng clicked into the chat box out of curiosity, only to be overwhelmed by the sheer volume of text. He swiped up again, nearly fainting from the sheer volume of messages.
—Without a doubt, this is a very arrogant reader.
In the chat this reader sent, he wrote a lengthy discussion about the shortcomings of "The Phoenix Plays with the Dragon: The Heavenly Secrets Pavilion" and offered countless suggestions for revision. His tone was quite confident and arrogant, completely adopting an attitude of "I am second to none."
[As in Chapter Eleven, the scene where Ah Feng falls from the tower and is caught by Xie An around the waist—utterly vulgar! The way she acts like a young girl and a young boy is exactly like the talented scholar and beautiful woman in old-fashioned romantic novels! Deleted!]
[Chapter 3 of the main text was also bad! Too redundant, so it was completely deleted!]
[Xie An is too stupid—if I were Xie An, I should have noticed the clues two chapters ago. The deceased had a perverse fetish for foot binding, and would hold his beloved concubine's bound feet to warm his hands while writing. Mianmian has a pair of large, beautiful feet, what did the deceased like about her? A simple glance at her feet would have been enough to eliminate suspicion, why did Xie An drag it out for three chapters?]
Ah Feng's reaction at this moment was inappropriate! It's good that Ah Feng has compassion, but her reaction here was too bland...
Gibberish, gibberish.
This young reader launched into a lengthy review of tens of thousands of words, offering "thoughts and insights" and "suggestions for revision," interspersed with countless interjections and phrases like "If it's not revised this way, the book will be finished" and "I've liked Feng Bao for twenty years." Considering that *Phoenix Plays with Dragons: The Heavenly Mystery Tower* is only 150,000 words long, this length of review is truly astonishing.
Jiang Shang Nongchaosheng found it very interesting.
Her readers respect her experience, status, and age, and when they speak to her, they say "Thank you for your hard work" every three sentences, "Take care of your health" every five sentences, and "Teacher, I've heard so much about you" every ten sentences, which often makes her wonder if she is about to be buried. She finds it very interesting that she has never met readers who are so emotional and speak so frankly.
"The Phoenix Plays with the Dragon" has naturally received a lot of criticism over the years, and in her youth, Jiang Shang Nongchaosheng (a pseudonym) often got into verbal battles over it. Now that she's older, looking at these endearing criticisms, she finds it worth a look.
"Phoenix Plays with Dragon" is a work from fifty years ago. Some of the ideas and plots in the text seemed very advanced and novel at the time, but in today's entertainment-obsessed era, they are not so fresh. This is also why Jiang Shang Nong Chao Sheng has been revising the script.
Now, a young viewer has offered valuable advice, and although the tone was a little harsh, the intention was good.
Jiang Shang Nongchao scrolled down through a string of messages from Ai Sanwu's Kui Kui♡Feng Bao, her favorite character, and started to feel a little dizzy. Why did she perceive noise in a string of text?
Jiang Shang Nongchaosheng decided to take a break for a while, so he closed the WeChat official account backend and opened Weibo.
A quick glance at Weibo—wow! Incredible! The once deserted message board now has "..." as the number of unread messages, meaning there are more new messages than 99+.
Jiang Shang Nongchao Sheng rubbed his temples with his wrinkled hands.
No way? Could it be that Ai Sanwu's KuiKui♡FengBao, who is a die-hard fan, also posted those messages on Weibo?
Jiang Shang Nongchaosheng was amazed by the boundless energy of the young readers and, with a mixture of amusement and exasperation, clicked on the news section.
Good news! Ai Sanwu's KuiKui♡FengBao, my favorite, didn't copy the dozens of messages posted on the official account's backend.
Bad news (I don't know if it counts as bad news): For some reason, dozens or even hundreds of readers have sent private messages to Jiang Shang Nong Chao Sheng on the same day, which is unprecedented!
In addition, there were an unusually large number of Weibo @ (forwarding or mentioning Jiangshang Nongchaosheng in a Weibo post) notifications today. In the past, there were at most three or five notifications, but today there were hundreds.
Jiang Shang Nongchao was puzzled. He had a gut feeling that the sudden surge in the number of private messages might be related to the sudden surge in @ notifications, so he first clicked on the @ notification message bar.
After seeing the source of these hundreds of @ tags, Jiang Shang Nong Chao Sheng: "..."
KuiKui, who loves Sanwu and is a die-hard fan of Fengbao, posted on Weibo ten hours ago:
[#Xiao Fengque Super Topic# ♡ #Phoenix Palace and Dragon Tower Connect to the Sky, Green Leaves Rustle and Send Off Your Voice#]
Fans, "The Phoenix Plays with the Dragon: The Heavenly Secret Tower" is getting another remake.
As everyone knows, Ah Feng has never had a good track record of being remade or cast. Whether it's the heavily modified 1985 film, the 1995 version with its very masculine actors, or the 2002 version with its disgraced celebrities, they are all painful memories for Ah Feng's fans. Even the 1990 TV series, which received slightly better reviews, in my opinion didn't capture even a fraction of Ah Feng's charm.
I've been keeping up with Ah Feng's news. Recently, I learned that "The Phoenix Plays with the Dragon" is going to be remade into a movie again, but the casting is still undecided and the fidelity of the original story is unknown.
Xiao Fengque, one of the most charismatic characters in the history of wuxia novels—in fact, in the hearts of his fans, the "one of" can be removed—is about to be adapted into another film and television series.
We don't know what awaits us ahead. It might be a pleasant surprise, or it might be yet another period of suffering.
Whether in terms of discussion volume, output quantity, number of super topic users, topic popularity, or national recognition, Xiao Fengque is the undisputed number one among female characters in wuxia novels; whether in terms of appearance, talent, martial arts skills, or intelligence, Xiao Fengque is a top-tier character in wuxia novels.
However, due to the negative impact of film and television adaptations, the character Xiao Fengque has long been burdened with various stigmas and misleading narratives, such as being "cursed," a "remake black hole," "not beautiful, strong, or tragic enough," and having a "one-dimensional character." While fans outwardly laugh it off, how can they not feel pain in their hearts?
I know that fans of Xiao Feng Que are all very Zen. Like me, although I've loved Xiao Feng Que for twenty years, I rarely spoke up for her on various platforms before, just silently loving her in my heart. However, this silent love has only brought disappointment time and time again. Drastic alterations, deletions, substitutions, disgraced artists... the damage suffered by Xiao Feng Que is arguably the worst among all fictional characters.
Silence is useless. Silence is an insult to the characters we love.
Therefore, I implore Phoenix fans and their followers that, at least this time, we must not remain silent.
The casting and plot of "Tianji Tower" have not yet been finalized, and there is still room for maneuver. The only thing we can do is let the creators of this play know our love for Ah Feng.
As the first work of @江上弄潮生, "Tianji Tower" actually has many areas for improvement in terms of plot. These are common topics, so I won't go into details. @华视-易天照 is the director of this series. Director Yi has a very good reputation and rarely makes drastic changes to his films.
Before filming begins, fans can convey our requests to Teacher Jiang and Director Yi. Our demands are really few: as long as the casting matches Ah Feng's image, Ah Feng's highlights aren't drastically altered or cut, and no disgraced artists are cast as Ah Feng, we'll be satisfied.
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