"Crazy Life" is a biographical novel about the famous poet Nalan Xingde in the early Qing Dynasty. In order to truly reproduce his short and turbulent life, the author consulted a large number of historical materials, covering his collection of poems, letters to friends, family epitaphs, poems mourning the death of friends, Qing Dynasty notebook novels, as well as research articles by modern scholars, chronologies, chronicles, etc., In an effort to restore the poet's true appearance.
In order to fit the historical context, this book uses Beijing-style language with a mixture of plain and simple language to describe the world of the early Qing Dynasty, when literati socialized and entertained each other, the court was perilous, and the wealthy families were infighting. The work is based on history and adheres to the creative principle of "doing the big things and not the small things", integrating well-documented historical events and appropriately interpreted storylines. As the plot develops, many classic poems by Nalan Xingde are also presented one by one.
The book focuses on laying out the scenes of the protagonist's later life, using line drawing to describe the joys and sorrows in the life of this talented, ambitious, and well-behaved young man in black. He is a talented romantic poet who has conquered thousands of armies with his pen, and he is also a royal guard who leads a horse into a stirrup and holds a halberd. From the flower watcher who is "brought by the Milky Way, who is determined to swallow a whale salamander" to the Huangmen official who is "broken by frost and all his love is wasted", official and seclusion, love and ruthlessness, temples and forests, bohemianism and conformity, his contradictory and tragic life background is shown one by one. All the key points in his life: the twists and turns of the imperial examination, the career of traveling north and south, the unforgettable love, the trivial family affairs, the three-life fate of the tragic song "Golden Thread", the redemption of thousands of miles and even the swan song of Tongzhitang, are all described in depth and in detail in the book.
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The author is a great architect with outstanding achievements, not an inexperienced writer. The text is elegant and concise, the supporting statements are dignified and steady, and the writing style is delicate and rich in layers. Nalan Rongruo's poems are fresh and bone-chilling, and he is unparalleled in elegance. He was also a powerful official, but he was a close servant of the emperor but could not stretch his life ambitions. His story is worth looking forward to.
The emotional description is delicate, half text and half white, and the writing style is sharp. . . Good-looking and good-looking [admiration] [admiration] [like] [like]