
Balance and Splendor
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The sense of family in this book is well written, like a family with a grandfather and a father. The starting point of other family stories is too low, and the route is too low. They develop from village tyrants to powerful men, which are unhelpful or even harmful to society. They smell like nouveau riche. Looking at the aristocratic families in Chinese history, they would not have developed like this. The reason why aristocratic families are called aristocratic families is that the ancestors of a certain generation need to be virtuous and meritorious, gain universal respect from society, and have family traditions that can continue to benefit one party. The descendants may be prodigal and filthy, but they must at least maintain the appearance of respectability, otherwise they will be expelled from the family. In the book, the Wei family is a typical example of a family that fell from aristocratic family to powerful one.
Someone actually went to the classical cultivating immortal novels and said that the classical cultivating immortality was different and had no traffic. It was not the underworld cultivating that he liked to read. Therefore, he suggested that the author be a eunuch. This is something I did not expect.
The plot is fresh and refreshing, which is rare in Xianxia. However, the logic is a bit uncomfortable. Trying to deduce Yuanying Kung Fu before the foundation is completed feels like you have not graduated from junior high school. You have learned some high school knowledge by yourself, solved a few matrices, and then started to compile a linear algebra textbook. It is outrageous. You can't explain it without a powerful golden finger, but there are a lot of people abandoning the book because of the golden finger.
I have read nearly 300 chapters. The book is very good, but the quality is not directly proportional to its popularity. I am here to leave a review. 1. The writer is a perfectionist. From the chapter layout, plot setting, inheritance of exercises, family and country marriage, character names, and even chapter titles, everything is rigorous and quite ancient. It can be seen that the author is different from ordinary Internet article authors and has a profound cultural heritage. The advantage of this is that the book is high-level and highly readable. The downside is that it's a bit obscure, which may be one of the main reasons for its low popularity. But I hope the writer will persevere. Many famous works in history were not recognized by many people at the beginning. 2. The cultivation system has too many contexts and the backbone is not clear. Moreover, because it is close to the ancient style, it does not have a popular name. I read many chapters and only understood the division of realms, but I still did not memorize the cultivation system. Especially the protagonist's training system, there is no guided explanation, and the combat power and training stages are often confusing. During the key promotion periods for each of the main characters, there is no explanation of the training system. 3. There are too many hidden plots, non-main characters are not blurred, and the amount of information is too large, making it difficult for the author to follow the lead. Some small holes are not correct, and some big holes leave readers confused. It is not suitable for fast reading, but it is suitable for slow reading and careful reading. It is not suitable for the fast pace of online articles. Overall, the quality of this book is quite high. I hope it can be completed. It is worth recommending!
Alas, the book is good, but it is too wordy. I just started to build the foundation and wrote dozens of chapters. The protagonist is too protagonist. Everything happens to him when the protagonist moves. Building the foundation feels like he will become an immortal in the end. It is very difficult all the way. It tests patience and persuasion. I said before that I need to quickly build the foundation. I thought it would be done in the third or fourth chapter. I am determined to come back and help my grandfather transform into an infant. I feel that it would be better if the author wrote the dozens of chapters that the protagonist encounters during the foundation building process to the process of helping his grandfather transform into an infant after the protagonist builds the foundation. This not only enriches the content, but also writes about the grievances and resentments between the protagonist's family, his grandfather and various immortal cultivating families, and also expands the environment and humanities of the immortal cultivating world.
Just tied, leave a long comment: First of all, the advantages: 1. The writing style is very beautiful, and the wording is very careful (words that are very disconnected from the theme of cultivating immortality will not suddenly appear in the text) The author has a very profound cultural heritage, take the example from the first chapter: [The large mahogany shelves display the two categories of Zhenfan and Fan collected by the Fu family, totaling twelve volumes and 720,000 books. Among them, the six parts of cultivation are Tao, Dharma, Technique, Technique, Za, and Wen. There are 80,000 volumes in total, including astronomy and geography, Taoism, magic, alchemy, talisman formations, and anecdotes from the spiritual world. To build the foundation of the three realms, first determine the Tao foundation and purify the true essence. Then refine the real fire and refine the jade liquid. Finally, the mysterious embryo was formed, the dragon and the tiger were combined, and the golden elixir of the great road was achieved. 2. Many of the settings are very exquisite - This is the first time I have seen the setting of the mage, and the matching jade puppet settings are also very exquisite - I also like the description of the Dashan calendar that turned into nothing due to the collapse of the continent - The setting of Yunhai Taoist platform is very playful (are you considering building an open source Taoist platform with no entry barriers in the future? Doesn't the protagonist want to teach merits in the world of cultivation on github? Everyone in the world can freely see it. Isn't that a huge merit of educating all living beings?) - Cultivators build luxurious cave tombs not only to pass on the skills and traditions, but more importantly, to have the opportunity to be resurrected in the future. This idea is great! (I have always wanted to complain about the many treasures left in the cave tombs of the predecessors in many immortal cultivators. Do immortal cultivators also need burial objects so that they can live happily in the paradise world after death?? Many tomb robbing novels use various mysterious gossip methods to find a way out of the tomb. Is this reasonable? If I were the owner of the tomb and let all these tomb robbers die, how could there be any door left inside!) (But if it is for the purpose of resurrection after death, it makes sense. Leaving a large number of genius treasures to be buried with them is for use after resurrection, and leaving a way for survival in the tomb is for leaving after resurrection) - The spiritual painter was involved in the color grinder industry, so he was in a situation where he had no good paint to use. This setting is very clever and very playful! - The description of the customs and customs of different waters is very good: Yanlong Shuishui is a cultivating family, good at fighting and secular, and can manage city construction and fortifications; The three major water areas are cultivation sects that do not eat the fireworks of the world, and white gloves from other water areas pay tribute to them; -The Baijia water area is directly destroyed by casual cultivators, which is extremely secular. As long as the wealthy cultivators can also serve mortals; 3.The author has a very strong desire to polish and perfect the setting background of his work, and feels that he takes his work very seriously (He will limit and compress the number of chapters in each volume to fit the sixty-four hexagrams, give chapters ancient style titles similar to Zhanghui style, and will write long ancient style supplements to improve the image of the characters when the author does not count the money. Although I don't read these three very much, I very much recognize this spirit of taking one's work seriously. When I read HP articles, those authors who would check the original works, wikis, and interviews with JK Rowling for a small plot in the article, although the results of their novels are often not the best, are always the type of authors I respect the most.) [Continued]
Some similarities between "Henghua" and "Dream of Red Mansions"
Although the general plot of "Henghua" is based on "Journey to the West", I always have visions of "A Dream of Red Mansions" on some characters. Here are the correspondences of some characters that I have summarized: The Twelve People of Fu Jiabai Palace - Jia Jiarong's Mansion Twelve people Fu Xuanhe - Jia Zhu (suspended death corresponds to early death)\Li Wan (Four Rui Dragon King) Unnamed - Jia Cong (died young) Fu Xiangfeng - Jia Lian\Wang Xifeng (Four Rui Fenghuang corresponds to Wang Xifeng and his wife, but it can also Can be the virtuous concubine Yuanchun) Fu Yaozhen - Jia Yuanchun (as the eldest sister, she often admonishes Henghua, the good Qin corresponds to Yuanchun's maid Baoqin, or it may be Xue Baochai, the crown prince) Fu Maiyuan - Xue Baochai (Chunyang Rijun corresponds to Baochai) Chai's natural heat poison may also be caused by Yuanchun, the Minister of Fengzao Palace) Fu Henghua - Jia Baoyu (The Yuan Gong of the Creation Hui corresponds to the creation method of Nuwa's Sky-Mending Stone) Fu Tongjun - Lin Daiyu (Queen Penglai corresponds to the Scarlet Pearl Immortal Grass, it may also be Tanchun) Fu Liuhui - Shi Xiangyun (the four auspicious celestial turtles correspond to the golden unicorn of Xiangyun) Fu Pengming - Xue Baoqin (the four auspicious celestial turtles correspond to the perfection of Baoqin) Fu Baimin - Xing Xiuyan (to be honest, these two people are I found it by force. They may also correspond to Eryou, Erli and Jia Huan) Fu Sitong - Jia Yingchun Fu Xiantong - Jia Tanchun Sun Yuntong - Jia Xichun Dongfang Yunqi - Chai Daiheyi Fu Xuanxing - Zhen Baoyu Xugutang Fu Ruiying - Jia Daihua of Ningguo Mansion Fu Danwei of Baihuangtang - Jia Daishan of Rongguo Mansion Mu Putian - Jia Shishi Fu Beidou of Baiyutang - Jia Dairu He Hengshou - Li Gui\Ming Yan He Xiaoyu - Hua Xiren\Qingwen It feels like it can be said that if Henghua hadn't traveled through time, the Fu family would have declined like the Jia family. Henghua saved his grandfather, and the Fu family would still have hope. You should be able to find more correspondences, right?
The author is not Wuji. I joined Wuji's group and asked him about it. Wuji has quit writing books. Stop making excuses about Taihao. Wuji was destroyed like this. The author's writing is quite good. Don't substitute other people's works.
The writing style of this book is very different, I hope it will be successful, but it is not suitable for me. The shortcomings in my opinion are: 1. It is too literate, the wording and the title are biased towards book-shaking, not natural enough, very cumbersome, especially the title is too time-consuming. 2. The protagonist is too much of a drag and is too enthusiastic in doing things and even acts like a good person (although it is written under the influence of his cousin and grandfather). 3. The protagonist is too feminine or weak. There is a chapter where he asks the maid to play turtle or something, but the maid refuses. In the cultivating system, he should be killed on the spot. The servant's bounden duty is to obey. Even a maid is so disobedient, she is a loser to the protagonist. So, the author should write about the city. The uncontrollable environment of cultivating immortals is not suitable for the protagonist
The low-level monk is still deducing the exercises. What a ridiculous plot! Just like primary school students deriving quantum mechanics in modern society, Goldbach's conjecture is as ridiculous! Excuse me, for a low-level monk, no matter in terms of knowledge, intelligence, spiritual consciousness, or brain development, what support does he have in deriving the exercises? High-level monks write down the exercises casually, which is equivalent to the low-level monks' 10,000-year derivation!