How do you evaluate the book "Lingao Qiming"?
This novel has no precedent in literary history. No matter how full of loopholes Lingao Qiming is in the eyes of experts in various fields, it is already incredibly powerful to 99.9% of readers.
Those who are also literary historians and engaged in Ming history research may be very familiar with the situation of the Northern and Southern Dynasties in Vietnam, but they will know much less about the Khmer Dynasty, and they will only know about the Jakarta headquarters of the East India Company during the same period. level (unless it is a thesis devoted to Taiwan), let alone the details of the Thirty Years War 10,000 kilometers away. Braudel, the leader of the Annales School, claims to be the author of the history of human civilization, but his understanding of China is not as good as the authors like Lingao's understanding of Europe.
Those who are engaged in electric power are blind to the chemical industry, and those who are engaged in civil engineering certainly do not understand marine life. Doctors don't know about shipping, people from the finance department don't know about criminal investigation, the navy doesn't know about horses, and people from the army don't know how to read a sextant. This is all natural.
The "specialty" of modern disciplines is a very unfavorable factor in this kind of creation that involves all levels of human civilization. Authors who are interested in this, not to mention consulting materials, just refer to the catalog of materials involving various disciplines. Listing them all can be called a small cultural and historical project. I think it could be called "Catalog of the Scientific and Technological History of Homo sapiens in the Late Cenozoic of the Third Planet in the Solar System in the Right Cantilever of the Milky Way".
The only way is to recruit people from all disciplines. Even the top publishing houses cannot have such strength. Probably only the state has such strength, but obviously no government has been so fussy so far.
As for the literary creation itself, although the level of collective creation is uneven, the value lies in unlimited manpower. "War and Peace" has more than 500 characters of various colors, and more than 30 main characters. The detail of the description and the personalization of the characters are far inferior to that of Lingao. No matter how awesome Towen is, he is still a person. Behind the elders of Lingao There are real people acting, and there are real considerations behind the personnel issues and political struggles. A single author simply does not have the energy to bother with this level of drama.
One of the more interesting details is that people from different countries will use specific translation accents when talking. It sounds simple, but in fact few people will specialize in learning this "mistake". There are only many different languages. The translators worked together to write it like this. If this was the braggart’s own idea, it would be quite impressive.
The Internet has achieved such magical works at almost zero cost. It can be said that Lingao is one of the most successful products of the Internet spirit.