"Why don't almost all Chinese people think that Sun Wukong's personality is a problem?" Liu Xu thought about this question curiously while smiling bitterly after seeing the unanimous negative reviews on the Internet.
Soon, Liu Xu had the answer, that is, all of this was affected by the Journey to the West filter.
So what is the Journey to the West filter?
Many people may think that these are various filters accumulated by Chinese people after reading the original work of Journey to the West for hundreds of years, but in fact it is not the case. Journey to the West filters actually refer to various second-generation cultural products of Journey to the West.
When it comes to the Four Great Classics, all Chinese people cherish them very much. It seems that those who have not read the Four Great Classics are not Chinese.
But in fact, if you ask people around you, you will find that there are probably only 2 out of 5 Chinese people who have actually read any of the original works of the four major classics.
And this is still in the modern era when the literacy rate is extremely developed and illiteracy has been almost completely eradicated. If it were placed 70 or 80 years ago, then only two out of 100 people in China would have read any of the four major classics. .
After all, in China during the Manchu and Qing Dynasties, the literacy rate was less than 10%. In the eyes of ordinary people, the four major classics were like heavenly books and could not be understood at all.
What really makes the concept of the Four Great Classics deeply rooted in people's hearts is actually the various secondary creation cultures of the Four Great Classics.
The term "secondary creation culture" sounds like a term that has only emerged in the 21st century, but in fact, second creation culture has been developing in China for thousands of years.
Take Journey to the West as an example. There are very few readers who have actually read the original text of Journey to the West. However, there are many readers who feel deeply after reading Journey to the West and carry out their own processing on the original text of Journey to the West. Eventually, a large number of second creations were created. work.
The first two works came from storytellers. In an era when most Chinese people were illiterate, the only way for these Chinese people to understand culture and news was through the mouths of storytellers.
After the storyteller discovered that the story of Journey to the West was quite interesting, he immediately adapted Journey to the West into storytelling specifically for oral storytelling. Then, with the entertainment activities such as taverns and teahouses, as well as social plays held by various villages and clans, Gradually spread among the Chinese people, this was the original second creation of Journey to the West.
By the way, although all the protagonists in it can kill everyone after traveling back to ancient times.
In reality, there are often some smart people with wisdom and logic who will tell you that modern people will only die if they travel back to ancient times. It is very likely that they will not survive even a week, because you have no way to support yourself, and the modern things you carry with you Skills simply couldn't help you get a job in ancient times.
As for skills such as making soap and glass, first of all, 99% of modern humans do not know how to make soap and glass. In fact, even if you go back to ancient times, you will not be able to refine the materials needed to make these two things.
Even if you have the above two knowledge, you have no starting capital at all.
Even if you have the starting capital, the lack of identity documents such as road signs will lead to government investigations and then you will go directly to GG.
So don’t fantasize about traveling back to ancient times, as that will only lead to death.
This statement is both true and false.
You are right, if you planned to make money from soap and glass in ancient China, you would basically be jumping off a cliff at an accelerated rate.
But time travelers will never find any income or livelihood in ancient times. The easiest way to make money is to become a storyteller.
Because the vast majority of ancient humans were illiterate, and most people who studied since childhood took the imperial examination to get ahead, and scholars can only take part in the imperial examination. If they engage in other industries, they will completely lose the experience of being a scholar and will be affected. The entire group despises it, so most scholars will never become storytellers.
This leads to the fact that the storyteller market is actually quite a large blue ocean market. As long as you can read, buy a book on the market, and find a tavern or teahouse owner to discuss cooperation, you can directly live in the tavern as a storyteller. In the teahouse, you don’t have to worry about spending money on food and drink.
Although it is not possible to make a fortune, it is still not a problem to live a well-off life.
Not to mention that as a time traveler, you must have many stories in your head that have never been heard in this world. If you just copy one and tell it to everyone, then you will be a great god in this world.
Therefore, if modern people traveled to ancient times, they would probably survive, and live quite well.
Ahem, let’s get down to business.
After the first wave of second creations like Storyteller, if a story gets a strong response from the audience, many listeners express their wish to hear the story again and again.
The troupe then appeared.
The competition among opera troupes in ancient times was also very fierce. Except for some extremely high-level opera troupes, most of the opera troupes were grass-stage troupes. It was difficult for them to rely on technology to compete for customers. The only way was to come up with some new tricks. and new stories coming out.
However, due to the limitations of the times, the opera troupes could perform nothing more than princes and generals, the founding wars of various dynasties, or love stories between ladies and poor scholars.
You can imagine how excited the troupe was when they found out that the story about a monkey was so popular with the audience. They immediately re-created the story and turned it into various dramas. repertoire.
As soon as a new play with a never-before-seen plot is released, regardless of whether the characters on stage sing well or not, the money will definitely be made. This is the second wave of second creation in ancient times.
Generally speaking, it is rare for a book to be re-created to this extent, and it is an extremely successful work.
But such a work cannot be called a masterpiece. If you want to enter the threshold of a masterpiece, you must have the third step, which is the third wave of second creation.
And this wave of second creations came from the most noble group in the world, that is, the second creations of the scholar-officials group.
Of course, when scholar-bureaucrats create new works, they won’t be so vulgar and turn them into storybooks and dramas. Instead, they will quote the plots from these in their own various cultural creations.
For example, Du Mu's Tongquechun locks Erqiao deeply
Another example is that in Wang Yangming's letter to the emperor, he mentioned that "the thieves are based on the stories of Song Jiang and other bandits", etc. This is the top second creation.
As for Journey to the West, 100 years after its birth, another literati created a sequel, or a prequel, called "The Romance of the Gods" specifically for him.
The top second-generation work of Journey to the West is undoubtedly the CCTV version of Journey to the West 600 years later. It was this second-generation work that made Journey to the West completely accessible to millions of households, successfully occupying almost every summer and winter vacation. Even nearly 40 years later, it is constantly replayed on TV screens and has become an unforgettable cultural mark for all Chinese people.
And this is China’s brand of Journey to the West, because all Chinese people know too much and too deeply about the story of Journey to the West. You know how brilliant the performance of the character Monkey King will be in the follow-up, so they will naturally forget what Monkey King did in the first half. Those lower operations.
But there is no Journey to the West filter in this world, which naturally arouses countless objections.
"How about I make a Liu Xu version of "Journey to the West" for you? Give the world a wave of Journey to the West filters?" Liu Xu touched his nose and thought.
(End of chapter)
