When Ryan: Turn micro to Ann

Modesty was not a virtue of Wen Ryan, nor, I'm afraid, did he regard it as one. On the back cover of his novels are a series of weighty recommendations: "In recent years, I will read Rui 'an's wuxia novels" (Jin Yong), "Now the only wuxia novels left are Wen Rui 'an's" (Ni Kuang). Gu Long and Zhang Che, are also "it depends on him", and "the young generation of novels in the best" comments. Most of these comments date back to the 1980s.

How many wuxia novels have Wen Ruian published? Some say five or six hundred, others seven or eight hundred. How do you do that? One version is one version. For example, the Huacheng edition has two copies, and the Hong Kong edition has several times more copies. If the different versions are not repeated, the total number of words should be about 20 million.

What follows is a bit of an anti-climax. With no new film since 1996's Invincible, leaving a dozen unfinished stories, he disappeared. Fifteen years later, he said, he never stopped writing, but lost ground -- newspapers around the world had given up using martial arts serials to attract readers. He is like a performer who has lost his stage and is still honing his skills. Some of those stories are not finished, some are finished but not published, and some are caught in the copyright trap of the mainland.

For example, from the end of 2004 to the beginning of 2006, the last installment of the "Four famous fighting Generals", "Young Merciless", was serialized in the "Legend of Today and Ancient Times · Wuxia version" for more than a year. But merciless female fans take care of their idol, even deciding the name of the book boy for him. They were "at the end of their tether" when Wen Ryan wrote about relentless love. The magazine was very difficult, and he discussed the termination of the serial.

In the past ten years, Wen Ruian has married a wife, had children and done well in business. It seems that he does not have to worry about the "business of the river's lake" anymore. Why did he open his blog and microblog in NetEase last year? He said it was simple. An old friend had lost his suitcase, including his camera and thousands of photos. He was upset when he received the invitation, he thought, anyway, today so unsuccessful, he would do a more positive thing.

In July, Wen began writing a wuxia serial called "Meet of Chivalry" on Weibo. But he rejects the idea of "coming out of retirement". In his opinion, many of the people described by the sword and sword, the bloody people are just cold windows of ten years of scholars, too little contact with the world. He is an "actual combat faction", association, friends, imprisonment, escape, big rise, big fall - life everywhere rivers and lakes, he has been in the rivers and lakes.

Wan Ruian was born on New Year's Day, 1954, in Meruo Locomotive, Perak, Malaysia. At that time, Meruo was a small mountain village, and the station locomotive had only a few residents. His first Chinese education came from his father's thread-bound books. Before he went to school, he began to watch "Seven Swords and Thirteen Heroes", "Five Tigers Pingxi", "Lawton sweep North", "King Lao Zi", and "The True Story of Huang Feihong". When he was five years old, he wrote a story with a small number of words for illustration "Three Donkeys", which he still enjoys talking about.

Wen Ruian's first Wuxia novel, Dragon, Tiger, and the Wind, was written when he was in primary school. It was based on his classmates and illustrated by himself. Two domineering rich kids he "wrote to death" and picked on him. Many "not dead" students, including seniors who read his book, gathered around him and said: "You try! We maintain Winn."

The teacher also knew his ability, something often ask him for help: "you are very good at telling stories, help a class." His high point was eight hours of school a day. After three or four weeks his father talked to him. Did you go to class? The teacher said you were telling a story. I did. It was all you do. We sent you to school, and you didn't go to school, you went to teach!

When Ryan likes to be sociable. In primary school began to run a literary society, a poetry society. In high school, he founded the Sirius Poetry Society with his brother and classmates. To study in Taiwan in the 1970 s, he reached a Shenzhou club, youth elite gathered, and then established the Shenzhou press, published "the Shenzhou corpus," China youth magazine, you zongsan, mu, imported, xu fuguan, Hu Qiu original, you guangzhong, Zhang Xiaofeng, xiao-lin Chen writing these cultural celebrities, warning for Taiwan's cultural and social phenomena and criticism.

Despite Wen Ruian's efforts to avoid politics, the Shenzhou Society, with its huge staff and 300 or 400 young elites gathered in a day, still had an "accident". In 1980 he was arrested as a political prisoner. Once in the JAG detention house, the investigators persuaded him to give up resistance. A couple of death row inmates, right next door, across from Lin Yixing, who was jailed for the "Beauty Island incident". Report people, report things, one by one in front of him, just to let him know that the "brothers and sisters" betrayed, cold, and lost morale.

He "confessed" to all these. Another piece of incriminating evidence is his poem "Record of Mountains and Rivers". It was just a set of poems depicting the map of China, singing about the Yellow River, Yangtze River, Jiangnan, Inner Mongolia, Shaolin, Wudang, and other great rivers and mountains of the motherland, but it was considered to have "ulterior motives".

In the end, the exact crime could not be ascertained, and the Taiwanese authorities forced Wen to leave without trying. He has since gone into exile. No sooner had he arrived in Malaysia than news of his sentence was announced in Taiwan, dominating headlines in Singapore and Malaysia. Terrified, he turned to Hong Kong, where the government tightened immigration policies and his applications were rejected several times.

When Taiwan would not accept it and Hong Kong would not leave it, they had to return to Malaysia. Because of the inconvenience of hotel registration, find the same year's friends to stay with. They used to give the big room to "big brother" to sleep in, but this time they said: "Wen Rui, you sleep on the floor." In those days, "Big brother" before "big brother" after "big brother", now you are down and out, you are "Wen Ruian". The next day, they put him on a bus and told him "don't come back." His subsequent martial arts novels about the betrayal of Cheetos were not unrelated to these experiences.

At the end of 1981, he finally stayed in Hong Kong as an overseas employee. He then became a creative manager for two television stations and met many people in the film industry. His experience was not unusual to those who had already suffered twists and turns. These people are all called "warriors" whether they love to pick up "girls", gamble heavily, drink alcohol, fight, or fight for others. Wen Ruian told his friends that if they can be called warriors, they can be called giants. His friends immediately called him "the Great Man" and kept calling him for decades.

One OF THE big DIFFERENCES between him and JIN Yong, GU Long, and LIANG YusHENG IS THAT HE IS A "WUxia life, life WUxia" person. He often wrote about the people around him in his novels, which made him feel that his words had a greater meaning. For example, "Say hero · who is a hero" lunch king Zhang Tan's name from his sworn brother, screenwriter Zhang Tan. He also in the novel in the river's lake loyalty life, his sworn brother and sister Ye Hao, He Baodan, and others followed him for more than 20 years, sharing joys and sorrows, never abandoning him.

"Life is always about waiting."

When he returned to Taiwan in 1987, his friends helped him publish a book called "Wen Ruian Is Back," a collection of his 12 different novels. At the same time, he wrote articles in various newspapers. He wrote about everything. During a banquet, Zhang Dazhong said with a smile, "Wen Ruian, don't come back! You've taken over all our supplements here. How can we serialize a novel?" Twenty years later, they were both writing columns in the Southern Metropolis Daily, "upstairs and downstairs". For mainland readers, the Wen Troll is back, too.

After all these ups and downs, Wen Ruian, a scholar of numerology, said he believed in destiny and did not accept it. There is such a thing as life. Everyone's life has its ups and downs, beyond their control. What if you realized that individual lives are finite? Just do the best thing you can do. Maybe the cycle of retribution can be improved a little bit. Once accepted, nothing can be done.

He is a big kid, Ms. Wen said, adding that he likes to play "a lot of stuff" and learns how to play with his children because "they do a lot of things I didn't think of," like coloring games. When he saw that his son could form a figure by connecting dots with lines, he thought of writing micro-stories on NetEase microblog. Each time it was a dot, and someday it would be a complete panorama.

But he has always had some "discomfort" with electronic media. He doesn't use E-mail or surf the Internet. His blog and microblog are handled by assistants. To look at the web, he borrowed their computers; To reply to the reader, he wrote a note and his assistant typed it. His retina detached twice, thanks to the famous Hong Kong eye doctor Zhou Po-chan to "pull him back". He joked that Dr. Zhou would have stopped giving him eye drops if he knew he was online.

Wen Shui has a trendy iPad2 and an iPhone4, but neither works. He had a cell phone, too, but he couldn't even remember the number. The doctor told him to read on an iPad, saying it would protect his vision. He took lessons from his gadget-savvy assistant, invited people to dinner, and ended up with an iPad2 lying in a drawer.

Is writing a must for someone so playful and interested? Mr. Wen says he is past the point of writing for a fee, but he remembers that for almost 30 years he lived on the back of it. Even when he was in exile, the payment-enabled him not only to live on his own but also to take care of those around him. Every time he had a bad time in life, he could rely on this feeling to gain confidence.

He believes most readers are waiting for him to go on. They had nothing to do with him but wanted to see the novel through. He would finish them even if he did not see them in his lifetime. However, he joked that reading Jin Yong's novels requires a long life, and reading mine, I'm sorry, may also lead to a long life.

Confucius said that we can generally understand a man by observing why he does a thing, how he does it, and in what situation he feels at ease. I asked Winryan when he would find peace. His approach, he says, is to go with the flow. In what situation, with what attitude to deal? Sit in the food stalls to enjoy the taste of food stalls; Eating Ah Yi abalone (a famous chain restaurant in Hong Kong) is a requirement of Ah Yi abalone.

In his mind, happiness is different from happiness. Happy life has many conditions, not easy to meet, happy mood can be found at any time, as long as you want to be happy, immediately can be happy. When a person has a lot of happiness, it is close to happiness. When chatting with me, he also secretly gave me face-to-face, fortune-telling, enjoying himself. Mrs. Wen said he was also a troublemaker. He said, yes, sometimes trouble is bodhi, bodhi is grapes, grapes eat very happy. That's how wild he is.

Parting, Juxia Wen gave books to the "Xia Friend" photographer and "Xia brother" me. I got my hands on a copy of what sounded like a rather pleasant book, "A Fury Draws a Sword." But in another book I brought with me, he wrote, "Life is always about waiting."