《狼毫小笔》:引领网络文学主旋律

2018-03-09 20:00刘钊林
文化交流 2018年3期
关键词:绍兴网络文学小说

刘钊林

前不久,在浙江慈溪举行的第二届网络文学双年奖颁奖大会上,网络文学新锐、绍兴籍作家莲青漪原创的《狼毫小笔》,因历史与现实、山水与玄幻结合完美,使中国优秀传统文化在小说中大放异彩,一举摘得优秀奖。

双年奖是目前全国网络文学最高奖,两年评一次。《狼毫小笔》是莲青漪的首部网络小说,一参赛就获此殊荣,很难得,莲青漪因此被邀入驻位于杭州的中国网络作家村。

站在弘扬中华传统文化的风口

中共中央、国务院2017年出台了《关于实施中华优秀传统文化传承发展工程的意见》,提出要丰富中国特色、中国风格、中国气派的文化产品,实施网络文艺创作传播计划,推动网络文学、网络剧等传承发展中华优秀传统文化。

《狼毫小笔》无疑站在了弘扬优秀中华传统文化的风口,它承载的思想正好契合了国家大政方针,它表达的方式正是时代所好。因为中国网络文学近年虽然发展快速,但缺少精品化、深内涵、有思想、有文采的作品,大部分作品同质化严重,套路文居多,缺乏文化承载的能力。所以,《狼毫小笔》,就是网络文学的发展方向。

前不久,中国作协原副主席、网络文学委员会主任陈崎嵘特意赶到绍兴,参加《狼毫小笔》的媒体采访座谈会。他说,《狼毫小笔》是一部文化内涵丰富的山水玄幻作品,作者以欣赏的目光,来撰写自己对历史文化和稽山鉴水的独特感受,文笔灵动,情怀浓郁,乡愁无限,有点小清新,充满淡淡的忧伤,思想性和可读性都极强,为网络文学吹来了一股清新之风。

他说,《狼毫小笔》既有大容量的中国传统文化承载,又有时尚的传播模式,是中华民族在这个时代最需要的文学,希望更多这样的好网络作品和新生代网络作家加快冒出来,引领网络文学的主旋律。

深研史学踏勘现场打磨精品

莲青漪,绍兴长大,杭州读高中,新西兰上大学,曾经在上海工作过,现就职于香港一家出版社。这次获奖的奇幻小说《狼毫小笔之云门香雪1》,总字数约50余万字。

小说的故事脉络为:年轻的插画家宋思源,在父母离世后,听从父亲遗训,带着遗产,离开居住已久的上海,回到绍兴老家的平水镇。由于他的到来,触发了自己家族远在宋代结下的人仙契约。当他从爷爷手中接过可以自由穿越时空的狼毫小笔时,才明白了自己家族的特殊性。于是,在乡间,他为保护家乡山水灵脉,经历了一系列奇怪的灵异事件,与狼毫小笔的仙灵诸夏、好友许诚,以及若耶洞天众多仙灵一起,穿越六朝,纵横九州,拨开历史迷雾寻求真相。

小说的最大亮点是突破了穿越小说的套路限制,从年轻人喜歡的视角出发,巧妙地以绍兴平水宋家店、云门寺、兰亭、会稽湖等地为背景,通过穿越、神化等表现手法,将古代绍兴深厚的历史文化、民间风情、人文掌故等,融于故事情节中,通篇流淌着绍兴传统文化的清泉,让人身临其境。在小说中,王献之、谢灵运、皎然、秦系、晏殊、赵构、陆游、辛弃疾、刘伯温等历史人物,一一呈现,真正重讲绍兴故事,书写历史文化传奇,让人产生共鸣。

莲青漪是一个践行“读万卷书、行万里路”的人。她写《狼毫小笔》,大部分时间不是在写作,而是在研究史料和现场踏勘,所以才有那打动人心的张力和深度。莲青漪不仅在诗词歌赋、名人史料上发力,她对天文历法、五行星宿、中医导理、佛道修行等领域,都广泛涉猎,深入研究。

动笔之前,在2014年和2015年两年时间里,莲青漪都在拼命精研史学。她把小说要涉及的相关市志、县志、村志都收齐了,再把家里两万多册藏书中的相关章节都挑出来,又购买了两万多元的新书,精研深读,勤做笔记。所以,她写出的小说,关键的历史章节,经得起史家的检验,绝不胡编乱造。绍兴有一位陆游研究会的老前辈,与莲青漪交流时赞叹说:你对陆游的钻研,有不少领域,已经超过我了。

莲青漪很注重实地考察,她历尽千辛万苦,跋涉千山万水,去凭吊历史遗迹,考察真实现场,探求历史真相,目的只有一个,不仅要写出小说的时代梦幻感,更要写出小说的历史真实感。

绍兴云门寺,在唐宋时期极度辉煌,为了展示其雄壮,莲青漪一遍一遍地细读陆游的《寿圣院记》,从中找灵感;并且到国清寺、灵隐寺、普陀山等地游览参观,谙熟佛寺文化。到云门寺考察时,周边荒烟蔓草,有的地坎很高,她一个纤纤女子,就靠同行的人拉手、搬腿,翻山越岭。在《狼毫小笔》中,宋家店是江南古宅,为了把中国园林和庭院文化描摹到位,莲青漪特意赶赴东阳卢宅,踏勘建筑布局与构造。

网络作家大多以点击量和赚快钱为衡量标准,为此每日更新超万字的人也不在少数。莲青漪不一样,她每天创作7小时,有5小时是在学习打磨,2小时才是付诸写作,每天更新仅2000字。她说,要学习杜甫,严苛文字,语不惊人死不休。

莲青漪这种精神,为她小说的现实主义风格奠定了坚实基础。正因如此,《狼毫小笔》一问世,就作为精品被列入浙江省网络作协十大重点扶持产品。浙江省网络作家协会主席曹启文、常务副主席夏烈,著名文学评论家骆寒超、鲁迅文学院教授王祥等名家,都称赞《狼毫小笔》一反穿越小说常态,创造了一种全新的文学口味。绍兴市、柯桥区的文化界领导,对《狼毫小笔》亦是关爱有加,表示要大力扶持。

诗意表达山水玄幻激荡人心

《狼毫小笔》创出了诗意的山水玄幻风格,激荡人心。

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“我喜歡精读郦道元的《水经注》、徐霞客的人生游记、谢灵运的山水诗、曹雪芹的《红楼梦》等作品,这些先贤的创作精神、文化功力,给我的创作启发很大。”莲青漪说,她要立志打造“新山水派”文学流派。

《狼毫小笔》创造了风雅唯美的独特风格,融合历史文化和现代时尚,亦诗亦幻,亦景亦奇,以地域为主线,以家国为情怀,自由穿越时空,重讲中国故事,深受年轻人喜欢。

古典诗词、精妙书法、深家大宅、山水情怀、儒释道思想……这些深深打着传统文化烙印的中国元素,在《狼毫小笔》中,通篇都是。因为深植于传统文化,这部小说才情毕现,超凡脱俗,光芒四射。

莲青漪酷爱中国古典诗词,从诗经、楚辞、汉乐府,到建安诗歌、南北朝民歌,再到唐诗、宋词、元曲和明清诗歌,她系统通读,并娴熟运用于小说中,在她笔下,诗词歌赋信手拈来,文化典故俯拾皆是。读《狼毫小笔》,诗意拂人。

“网络小说写作时,很多人都以为古代诗歌太高雅,大家看不懂,不利于传播,所以很少有人常用。我觉得这是一种理念的误解,中国诗歌意境很美,用活了,全文皆活。”莲青漪说。

莲青漪写小说,有个习惯,与别人不一样。一般人是先有故事情节,再嵌入诗歌,比较生硬。而她呢,往往是先有诗歌,再构思情节,所以显得天衣无缝。“我喜欢读诗词,找灵感,很多精彩情节都源于古圣先贤的诗词。”

“稚子唯能觅梨栗,逸妻相共老烟霞。高吟丽句惊巢鹤,闲闭春风看落花……这些句子闪着银光,辗转飞到眼前,供人诵读,一个个优雅的汉字悬空而立……”

这是《狼毫小笔》主人公穿越到云门寺丽句亭时,莲青漪的描写。类似于这样的描述,在她笔下,俯拾皆是,瑰伟奇特,风雅唯美。有人评价,《狼毫小笔》蔓藻词华,如梦似幻,读之心生莲花。

绍兴,因兰亭而成为中国书法圣地。《狼毫小笔》中,因主人公的穿越,王羲之、王献之等历史书家和他们的曼妙书法,也精彩呈现。在后续创作中,将重点突出王谢风流,特别是王羲之的书法,将着力渲染。

根据莲青漪的写作计划,《狼毫小笔》系列包括四部作品,大约300万字。这次获奖作品是第一部《狼毫小笔之云门香雪1》,接下来她还将创作《狼毫小笔之云门香雪2》,届时,秦观、王羲之、王献之、郗道茂、丹丘子、李白、贺知章、白居易、元稹、赵孟、苏东坡等众多名人,都将聚于此书中,星光灿烂。

莲青漪说,我要通过作品,重新捡拾历史的碎片,巧妙串联,让大家发现遗失的美好。

绍兴是文化古城,这里的山水、砖瓦、街巷,都充满着故事,莲青漪热爱家乡的情感,在她胸中激荡,绍兴的景色和风物,都在她笔端精彩呈现。小说重要场景地平水王化宋家店、东晋古刹云门寺等,都引起了游客和投资商的关注。

现在,在绍兴古城区书圣故里西街117号,莲青漪工作室已成为了这里的一片新风景。新加入工作室的一名合作伙伴,放弃数十万元年薪,全心全意来开发《狼毫小笔》IP,一条与网络小说相关的旅游、休闲、文创产业链正在形成。

Lian Qingyi grabbed Excellence Award of China Web Literature Prize in November 2017. Founded in 2015 and issued every two years, the prize is sponsored by Zhejiang Writers Association, Ningbo Federation of Literature and Art Circles, the Publicity Department of Cixi CPC Committee, and operated by Zhejiang Web Fiction Writers Association, Ningbo Web Fiction Writers Association and Cixi Web Fiction Writers Association.

The award-ceremony in 2017 was the second of the biennial web literature celebration. Though fourteen other novelists were honored in the same category and ten others bagged gold, silver and bronze medals respectively, Shaoxing, a well known city of history and culture in eastern Zhejiang, is very proud of by Lian Qingyi.

Like many other web novels, is a fantasy. The story is about a young illustrator who leaves his job in Shanghai after his father passes away and comes back to his birthplace in a rural town in Shaoxing. His arrival at home wakes up a sleeping contract that his ancestors made with an immortal in ancient times. The brush pen he receives from his grandfather helps him travel in time. With the help of his friends, the illustrator travels back to the past in search of truth.endprint

The novelist explores the beauty of calligraphy and poetry, bringing back many well known historical personages including poets, calligraphers, painters including Wang Xianzhi, Xie Lingyun, Jiao Ran, Qin Xi, Yan Shu, Zhao Gou, Lu You, Xin Qiji, Liu Bowen. Moreover, the novelist nimbly integrates the history, culture, lifestyle, folklore, and anecdotes of Shaoxing into the story. The author writes in a realist style. The fantasy gives local readers a brand new perspective to look at historical people and places they are familiar with.

Unlike some web novelists who mostly stay at home and fantasize freely, Lian Qingyi does a lot of research and field studies. In writing this fantasy, she studied history arduously from 2014 to 2015. She built up a complete collection of annals of the cities, counties and villages that appear in her fantasy and studied them carefully. She also went through the books in her 20,000-title private library and made thorough notes of relevant information. She followed history faithfully and got all her facts right. In a conversation with the novelist, a scholar specialized in the studies of Lu You, a prolific poet of the Song Dynasty, confessed that the novelist knew more about Lu You in some aspects than he did.

Again unlike some fellow web novelists who write fast and update 10,000 words per day, Lian Qingyi worked at a comparatively slow pace in writing her first fantasy. She paced herself with a rigorous schedule: she worked seven hours a day. She spent five hours reading and thinking and rewriting, and two hours writing. She updated 2,000 words a day.

The novel, shortly after it went online and began serializing regularly at a web fiction website, caught the attention of readers as well as Zhejiang Web Fiction Writers Association. The novel was endorsed by the association as one of the top ten works it supported. The leadership of the association and some literary critics in the province think highly of the fantasy. They say that it creates something brand new. The cultural authorities of Shaoxing City and Keqiao District love it.

Lian Qingyi gives general readers nationwide, these experts with the association, and government officials in Shaoxing an adequate reason to like the novel. It is more than about Shaoxing. The fantasy is really marvelous in its own right. For example, the language is beautiful. A passionate reader of ancient poems, Lian Qingyi is able to deftly apply poetic images and phrases as well as backgrounds to the story. Some readers enjoy the fantasy simply because the writing is poetic and the reading experience is really delightful.

Lian Qingyi plans to write four books in this series. The prize-winner is book one in about 500,000 words. The four books are scheduled to be about three million words.

Lian Qingyi is a native of Shaoxing. She grew up in Shaoxing and went to high school in Hangzhou. She went to college in New Zealand. Now she works for a publisher based in Hong Kong.

The popularity of the fantasy is attracting the attention of some investors. Some investors are looking at the places mentioned in the novel to see whether they can be developed into tourism attractions. Lian Qingyi has set up a studio to translate the novel into a line of side products.endprint

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