To understand Chinese and foreign myths, it is enough to read these books.
Mythological elements have become popular.
In recent years, the pursuit of ancient myths has reached a new height. No matter in popular literature or film and television dramas in various countries, there are mythical elements, and even stories are adapted and created based on myths. The creators are willing to re-apply these ancient elements to the creation of film and television literature, adding some mystery to the works, which is very beneficial to the audience. People are often skeptical about some illusory monsters and fairy cultures, but deep down, such myths and legends recorded in ancient books can always stimulate people's interest and satisfy people's unrealistic fantasy desires.
China's supernatural world is extremely huge and complex, forming many schools. Writers who span the contemporary era like to make personal fantasies on this basis, adapt them into images that the audience likes in business and entertainment environments, and even personalize these images to create some additional temporary accessories, which is called "personal design". For example, the recent popular film and television dramas in fantasy novel all borrowed various settings from a large number of ancient books, including "view of time and space", "view of life and death" and ethnic settings. As a new type of TV series and media content that young people generally like, fantasy drama is widely based on the traditional culture of China, constructs a fictional world with unique China characteristics, and conveys many elements, styles, ideas and thoughts in China traditional culture to the audience through the setting of time, space, race and life and death. The image of "Yin Candle" appeared in the best-selling novel Tomb Raider Notes, and there are many such applications.
Japan's monster culture has been greatly influenced by China's myth, and the eastward crossing of Shan Hai Jing has a far-reaching influence on the nocturnal travel of Japanese ghosts. However, this culture has been better developed in Japan. Miyazaki Hayao's early works, Spirited Away and popular cartoons, such as Xia Mu's Account of Friends, Slipping Sun, Inuyasha, etc. All of them are excellent works created in the background of Japanese monster culture, and the delicate feelings and cultural loyalty of the Japanese people are beyond words. We should take this as a mirror and attach importance to the disciplinary influence of China's classical mythology.
Nordic mythology, also known as Norwegian mythology, has become an important part of world culture. Due to the differences in natural environment and cultural background, Nordic mythology is another big system completely different from Oriental mythology, which has built a polytheistic world and formed a complete self-certification system. In Nordic mythology, God is not omnipotent and the world is not eternal. There are factional families and war slavery among the gods, which are closer to the real society. Appear frequently in literature and film and television. For example, in the superhero universe created by Marvel Comics, the background of Raytheon series is set in the divine domain, using the part of Odin in Nordic mythology. While merging the original works, the film retains the Nordic fairy tales, and also makes some new settings for the plot and characters, which makes Nordic myths collide with Hollywood industrial films with extraordinary innovation and diversity. Raytheon movies shine brilliantly in Marvel Universe movies. Thor 3: Twilight of the Gods has a box office of 740 million in China. Besides, classic works such as The Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter and Game of Thrones are all influenced by Nordic mythology.
It is worth mentioning that in the novel Dragon written by Jiangnan, there are also elements of Odin and Nibelungen, as well as mythological stories such as Hachi snake in Japanese mythology. The story is set in 2 1 century and presupposes a world view with dragons, which is called "Oriental Harry Potter". At present, four books have been published, with a total sales volume of10 million copies, so writer Jiangnan ranks first in the rich list of writers. Adding classical elements to the modern background and focusing on the bloody battles of a group of teenagers, the youth groups have no resistance to such themes at all.
Myth book recommendation
Compared with the publication of novels or movies with mythical elements, the publication of pure mythology is also quite popular in recent years. For these mythical publications, there are differences in publishing methods between the East and the West. Because the monsters in oriental mythology are often popular science methods based on Shan Hai Jing, and there are not many stories, the publishing method of picture books is very suitable, while the gods in Nordic mythology have certain stories. On this basis, the publication of story novels is very suitable.
Here are some pure myth publications from various countries.
1. Watch the mountains and seas
Publishing House: Hunan Literature and Art Publishing House?
Release date: 20 18-06-0 1
Pricing: 168 yuan
This is a picture book created by China painter Sugizawa after 1990s, which took three years to create. As a hand-painted picture book of Shan Hai Jing, based on the setting of monsters in Shan Hai Jing, this paper draws the monsters in it, adding many authors' subjective ideas and beautifying it to some extent. The combination of classical smooth lines and modern aesthetic modeling satisfies the desire of modern young people to pursue retro. In terms of content, each character's plate will be annotated, combined with pictures and texts, which is not only a visual enjoyment, but also a boring monster scientific visualization, which makes people more interested in reading and satisfies their fantasies. The binding is exquisite and the thickness is satisfactory. This book is very collectible both in quality and content.
At present, Guanshanhai ranks second on Dangdang's best-seller list, and all kinds of offline bookstores also put it on the best-seller display platform, with Douban score of 8.7.
2. Notes on Nautical Errors
Publishing House: CITIC Publishing House
Release date: 20 16- 1 1
Pricing: 68 yuan RMB.
Zhang Chenliang is the original name of Science Popularization V Natural History Magazine in Weibo, and its humorous and tough science popularization makes it have 6,543,800+million fans. The Annotation of Haicuotu belongs to chinese national geography, and it is a popular science explanation book based on the ancient book Haicuotu. The source of the book is Nie Huang, a painter in Qing Dynasty. Among them, there are real creatures with serious science popularization, some compared with the real creatures that exist now, and some bizarre fantasy creatures. I don't know if it's true or not, which makes people curious. The famous writer Ma Boyong commented on this book: "People only want to explore the world when they are curious, and only when they have knowledge can they understand the world. This book is both curious and knowledgeable, and it is both interesting and beneficial to open it. "
Two years later, on 20 18, Mistakes in Knowing the Sea ranked sixth in Dangdang's popular science book bestseller list, and Douban scored 8.2 points.
3. Ghost Night
Press: Wanjuan Publishing Company
Release date: 20 18-06
Pricing: 68 yuan RMB.
Nocturnal ghosts can be said to be the representatives of Japanese myths and legends. Influenced by China's Classic of Mountains and Seas, Japan has created a series of ghost stories. Monster culture is very popular in Japan, and the monster image in the recent popular mobile phone game "Silver" comes from this. The book contains 207 Japanese classic monsters, which are called "Shan Hai Jing" in Japan. Nishiyama Shigeyoshi was a famous ukiyo-e painter in the Edo period in Japan, and spent his whole life painting Japanese ghosts and gods. The form of this book is also a combination of pictures and texts. After interesting re-coloring and refining the picture, it presents a better visual effect in red. Douban's score is 6.9. Compared with other books of this kind, the sales volume and score are not high, but I occasionally read this book, and the production and content are very good. As a good new book, it should be popularized more vigorously.
4. Tell a hundred stories in the alley
Publishing House: Nanhai Publishing Company
Release date: 20 16- 12
Pricing: 203 (5 complete works)
The Story of a Hundred Stories is a Japanese folk horror game. On summer nights, people gather in a dark room wearing Tsing Yi, light a hundred candles, tell mysterious and horrible stories in turn, and then blow out the candles one by one. When all the candles go out, you can wake up the monster, which is very similar to China's asking the spirits to ask ghosts. The Hundred Stories in Lane has the charm of China's Strange Tales from a Lonely Studio. Is a series of books, a * * *, there are five separate books, there are Japanese classic fairy stories. There is a story behind every monster. Machamp seems to be confused, but in fact he writes people's hearts with ghosts, winning numerous awards. This is really a good book.
5. Nordic mythology
Press: Shaanxi People's Publishing House
Release date: 20 16-03
Pricing: 45 yuan RMB.
This book is also a series of books, as well as Celtic mythology, Indian mythology, Japanese mythology and so on. I have to say that the marketing level, sales volume and rating of this book are very high. In the planning process of the book Nordic Myth, the project team strives to assist the decision-making of each link with a scientific attitude and quantitative analysis. However, the evaluation shows serious polarization, which is enough for entertaining readers, but it is not popular for more experienced readers in content. This is also a point that this kind of books should pay attention to in the future. Douban 5.5 points.
There are only 25 bad reviews on Dangdang, all of which come from after-sales quality packaging problems. The overall evaluation is the recognition of its collection value. In addition to popular science, the function of such books is to collect. Readers are generally more tolerant of such books, and most of them have considerable ratings and sales. The reason can be attributed to readers' loyalty, which comes not from ancient books themselves, but from what guides them to read such books.
For example, many gamers are interested in the background of the characters in the game. Below the Nordic myth on Douban, some readers commented: "Because I love to play games, I am exposed to the myth of Cthulhu and Nordic mythology." Its essence is still loyal to the game itself. By the same token, most young readers who are interested in these Japanese monster cultures or ancient myths in China are guided by their favorite literary works or film and television dramas. Only a few people pay attention to these film and television dramas because they are interested in this culture. But after understanding this culture, this two-way choice may be open and influence each other.
It can be seen that monster culture and myth culture can become a good cultural cornerstone, have a very broad space to play, be loved by the audience, and be a good marketing direction for future book creation.
refer to
? Cao Shule Blair. From Shan Hai Jing to fantasy drama —— Taking the inheritance and innovation of China traditional culture as an example [J]. Journal of Global Media, 20 18(5)
? Zheng Li. A brief analysis of the collision between Nordic mythology and Hollywood film industry —— Taking Raytheon as an example [J]. Audio-visual, 20 16(9)
? Han Lin, Jiang Dongsheng. Application of data analysis in accurate book planning —— Taking the planning mode of Nordic Myth as an example [J]. Chinese editorial, 20 17( 10).
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