Ping Jinya criticized "The Legend of Qin" for three main points.

First, the words are vulgar and unsightly.

At this time, in Shanghai, most of the old literati wrote novels in Chapter 1, mainly classical Chinese, and vernacular novels are rare. Peiping is the place where vernacular novels flourish.

And even if it is vernacular, it is still intertwined with vernacular.

Classical Chinese emphasizes writing based on words, focusing on allusions, parallelism, neat music, and easy to read.

"The Legend of Qin" is very vernacular in vernacular, and it is completely rude, without paying attention to the beautiful words and neat parallelism.

In the eyes of old-school literati, this is like an essay written by a primary school student, and it is naturally unsightly.

Second, historical common sense is false and the plot is stiff.

Ping Jinya criticized the confusing titles of various characters in "The Legend of Qin" and randomly fabricated historical figures. The author knew nothing about the customs and customs of the Warring States Period and had all imagined words.

These accusations make sense.

"The Legend of Qin" itself is a cool article, not a serious historical novel, and it is impossible to conduct rigorous research. Otherwise, if you write the whole ancient style, you will not be a cool article.

The characteristic of cool articles is that they are cool, and everything else can be ignored.

As for the plot, it is difficult to make sense of the plot. After all, this is a time traveling historical novel. If the plot is reasonable, Xiang Shaolong would not survive in ancient times.

Third, tamper with history and mislead the people.

This is the key to criticism.

Pingqianya directly targeted the theme of time travel, believing that if such themes spread, readers may think that this is history, thus confusing the real history.

History is serious and must not be tampered with.

We must stand up, safeguard the dignity of history, and drive "The Legend of Qin" out of "Free Talk".

The above is the attack on "The Legend of Qin" in the newspaper.

Although Ping Jinya criticized "The Legend of Qin" in the newspaper, he didn't think so in his heart.

As the person in charge of the "Three-person Writing Group", he has different business visions. Once he finds that a certain subject in the market becomes popular, he will follow the trend and collude with booksellers to defraud readers of money.

This is the foundation of his survival.

Seeing that "The Legend of Qin" was popular among citizens, he felt that this had opened up a new way out for popular novels.

Think about how many dynasties and wonderful stories there were in history, and how exciting time travelers were in it and killing all directions.

As long as readers like it, this subject can be written without restrictions.

However, he knew the truth about shooting a first bird. He could follow the trend but would not stand out.

The reason why he used the pseudonym to bombard "The Legend of Qin" was not only for the interests of "Free Talk", but also for the exploration of the way.

Similar to Lin Zixuan's idea, Ping Jinya also wanted to see if this subject can be accepted by society. Anyway, "The Legend of Qin" was not written by him, so he would scold him if he scolded him.

Even if "The Legend of Qin" was cut in half in the end, he would not lose much.

If "The Legend of Qin" has little criticism in society and is recognized by society, he will immediately write an article "The Legend of Qin" with a pen name to follow the trend, and write it in vernacular.

What are the words that are vulgar and the plot is unreasonable, so he doesn't care.

What's more, you can write more in vernacular and earn more royalties.

In Shanghai newspapers and magazines, the remuneration of classical Chinese and vernacular Chinese is different. If classical Chinese has three thousand words, then vernacular Chinese can only have two thousand words.

However, classical Chinese can be refined and vernacular Chinese can be filled with water.

With this mentality, Ping Jinya fired the first shot in "The Legend of Qin", and the pen name he used was called Web Spider Sheng.

This comment with intense and righteous words was responded strongly.

Shanghai is a settlement for old-style literati. "Free Talk" is the base camp of the Mandarin duck butterfly school. It has trained a group of professional writers who rely on selling literature to make a living. The emergence of "The Legend of Qin" made some people feel threatened.

Old-style literati had a natural resistance to vernacular Chinese.

They think that classical Chinese is the real writing, vernacular Chinese has no cultural connotation, and time traveling through such subjects is too nonsense and cannot be regarded as a novel at all.

They represent the ideas of some people, who are willing to make changes, and they also have to kill new things and will not threaten their status.

After Pingjinya fired its first shot, these people became the main force in attacking "The Legend of Qin".

For a time, a large number of articles criticizing "The Legend of Qin" appeared in Shanghai newspapers, and even people shouted at it.

Lin Zixuan looked at the newspaper and sighed in his heart.

Everyone writes popular novels, why not worry about each other?

There are two most debated points, one is the issue of vernacular Chinese, and the other is the issue of tampering with history.

In the late Qing Dynasty, the literary world proposed the "new style of literature", which was called popular classical Chinese at that time.

The May Fourth New Text Movement proposed the "vernacular Chinese movement", which means that everyone can write whatever they say in their daily lives.

From the beginning of the new poetry to the first vernacular novel, just three years have passed, and the newspapers are still dominated by classical Chinese, so it is a long way to go to change the writing habits that have lasted thousands of years.

"The Legend of Qin" has attracted much attention because of its thoroughness and extraordinaryness.

Relatively speaking, "The Legend of the Condor Heroes" is still within their tolerance range. With "The Legend of the Condor Heroes" as a target, "The Legend of the Condor Heroes" is much safer.

Some people who criticize "The Legend of the Condor Heroes" will also use "The Legend of the Condor Heroes" as an example. It is also a popular novel. The difference between the writing and storyline is really big. Huang Yi should learn from Jin Yong.

As for the debate on tampering with history, it has attracted the attention of historians.

Originally, "The Legend of Qin" was just an entertainment novel and did not attract the attention of scholars at all. This debate initiated by internal writers of popular novels expanded the influence of "The Legend of Qin".

Shanghai's historians and well-known literati are divided into two schools.

Yipai means that this is just a pastime novel, not a historical novel, nor a real history, so it would be boring to be serious.

The faction criticized this attempt to change history, believing that it was disrespectful to history and that it must not be tolerated.

It seems that there is nothing to do in the entire Shanghai cultural circle. "The Legend of Qin" has become a phenomenon, and it is uncomfortable not to scold me.

And for ordinary readers, it is enough for them to feel good about watching.

At this time, Xiang Shaolong came to Wei State and attended the banquet of Longyangjun. He met Xinlingjun, Li Yuan, Han Fei and others, and was talking about scholars, and his situation was full of dangers.

Readers were very excited to read, and the circulation of "Shenbao" increased significantly.

Just as Lin Zixuan was about to fight back, he published a short comment on the supplement "Freedom Forum" of the "Morning News" in Peking.

The short comment did not mention the issue of "The Legend of Qin" tampering with history, but believed that "the vernacular text of "The Legend of Qin" is the future of vernacular text."
Chapter completed!