Not only teaches statistics at Beijing Normal University, but also writes industrial novels in the Internet world.
How do college professors become Internet writers?
He is an associate professor at the School of Economics and Business Administration of Beijing Normal University. His "statistics" course, like an industrial-themed internet novel he created, has become a legend on the campus of Beijing Normal University.
His real name is Gong Jianghui and he is 52 years old.
Since 2011, he has published works such as "Industrial Overlord", "Material Empire", and "Great Power Heavy Industry" on Qicheng Chinese website under the name of "Qi Orange", which has caused great social repercussions and also promoted the online literature community. The trend of writing industrial novels.
Facing doubt, every literature has its own mission
Qi Cheng grew up in a chemical machinery factory, and his parents were both cadres in the factory.
At the age of 7 he read the whole book "Little Soldiers Breaking Through the Mountains" alone, in high school liberal arts, and he got a perfect score on the math test.
In 1988, he was admitted to Renmin University of China and became the last graduate of China's planned economy major. He drove a lathe in the internship factory of Tsinghua University.
Later, Qi Cheng worked in a computer consulting company in Zhongguancun, Beijing, as the company's research director during graduate school.
After graduating with a master's degree in 1998, he taught at Beijing Normal University and worked as an "opinion leader" in several online forums. Now he has become a popular online literature writer for fans from 18 to 80 years old.
As a university professor, Qi Cheng can feel that society's prejudice against online writers still exists. Some people are unwilling to tell relatives and friends that he writes online articles, but he doesn't care.
In his mind, each kind of literature has its own mission, "inherit civilization, educate the masses, and entertain the people".
He recognized the educational role of online literature, which has a wider audience and a more mainstream view of right and wrong.
Some readers’ experience provided evidence for his opinion, “Someone chose to read machinery after watching "Industrial Overlord", and chose materials major after watching "Material Empire", which made Qi Cheng feel very proud and felt more strongly. To the value of words.
Two identities never talk about novels in class
During the teaching process, Qi Cheng tried his best to separate his status as a professor and an online writer.
"For example, when I was in class, I would never talk about my novels, including me in my teaching group. Sometimes students saw my news and turned them around. They discuss it down. I will still separate this identity from him, because once I put these two identities together, it actually has an impact on teaching." Qi Cheng said frankly to the reporter.
Sometimes, some students will come over and tell him, "Teacher, I have ordered all your books..." Qi Cheng said, some students would buy his books, ask him to sign them, and keep saying that they admire him very much, but He didn't know whether the student really admired or wanted to use this method to approach it.
Therefore, he will try to separate the two identities of professor and writer.
Create novels and pour emotions into each character
When talking about the writing of industrial novels, Qi Cheng said that industrial novels inevitably involve equipment, technology, craftsmanship and other realistic content. When writing these technical plots, he will try to write very "realistically."
In many cases, he will hold a large book of "Heat Treatment Technology and Technology" till the early morning. Machining principles, material technology, equipment parameters, etc. are all homework he must do in order to describe the technology.
The first two industrial novels written by Qi Cheng, "Industrial Overlord" and "Material Empire", start with a state-owned medium-sized enterprise whose prototype is the enterprise where their parents worked.
Qi Cheng does not regard writing as a difficult task. He is good at expressing real experiences in the language of novels, and finds a balance between fiction and non-fiction.
Qi Cheng believes that there are many stories that can be written in the factory. "An old factory has a inheritance relationship between masters and apprentices, a relationship between apprentices, and kinship formed by the marriage of children. This makes the things of one family in the factory belong to a hundred families. Things." The workers in the factory are all small people, but he never treats small people as small people, and puts his own emotions into every character when he writes about them.
Talking about the current problem of the lack of industrial themes in the online literature industry, Qi Cheng said there are many reasons for this: First, it is true that people rarely see things like factories, and they feel a little fresh.
At the same time, the time he wrote was from 1979. There is a feeling of nostalgia. It happens that some young readers are not very familiar with that era.
In addition, around 2011, the aesthetics of the audience in the entire Chinese society has shifted.
Qi Cheng said that the strong country literature is very popular at the moment, making some works on the theme of the strong country very popular, and he just caught up with this time.
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Counting on "2021 Internet Literature Writer Portrait"
In China, there are about 20 million online literature writers.
On November 22, China Reading Group released the "Portrait of Online Literary Writers 2021" (hereinafter referred to as "Portrait"), announcing the status of its writers for the first time.
"Portrait" shows that online literature creation has ushered in the post-95 era, and the post-95 generation accounted for the most and the fastest growth; the Sichuan-Chongqing region has the largest number of online writers, with nearly 33% of writers "famous with a book"; hidden among online writers There are many "study tyrants". Among the Platinum and Great God writers of China Reading Group, more than 75% have college degree or above, and more than 60% of science and engineering majors. In addition, realistic themes have become the trend of online literature, and online writers have more than 188 professional roles in creating roles. Kind of, doctors, athletes and Internet practitioners are the three most created professions.
"Portrait" shows that Zhu Xingfu, the oldest writer, is a veteran who is 78 years old; the youngest author, Mo Yan, born in 00, has just turned 21 this year, and is serializing his third work on the Chinese website of the starting point.
As early as June 3 this year at the Reading Original IP Ceremony, a film and television actor Hu Ge in a black dress stood on the stage of the banquet hall on the second floor of the Shanghai Center, with his partner in the play "The Pretender" Song Yi told the story of Zhu Xingfu's creation affectionately for the audience.
"There is such a work, in a mighty way, about the nearly eight-year military career of a veteran, recording the most real state of the barracks of commanders, generals, and soldiers. This work is called "Military Notes". The author Zhu Xingfu, A 78-year-old man who is uncomfortable with the status quo..." Hu Ge told the audience the story of Zhu Xingfu's creation.
His creative enthusiasm is high, and he works at his desk until 2 in the morning every day.
In the eight years of prosperous years, the bits and pieces among his comrades were imprinted on his heart. He recorded these true stories one by one and wrote them into novels.
"I am old and may not remember, but I will not forget, I don't want to forget, so I want to write it down." When mentioning the past, Zhu Xingfu with tears in his eyes spoke clearly, and he could even remember the chapter story clearly. The clothes of the protagonist on the scene of the day, etc.
He said that he did not have the habit of keeping a diary. These real past events have been hovering in his mind and remembered clearly.
If there is any uncertainty, he will check the information, or ask others to verify it repeatedly.
Zhu Xingfu said that he was too excited when he was writing the book. The computer was not very useful, but he couldn't stop at all. When he was writing the first book, he would write until one or two in the morning every night.
His wife tried to persuade him many times because he was worried about his health, but the result was still awkward.
Even his wife helped him with the proofreading work.
From October 24th, 2020 to December 24th, 2020, the process of "you revise and me revise" lasted for two months. Zhu Xingfu completed two works in succession, basically writing more than a thousand words in front of the computer every day .
At the same time, the relevant data of "Portrait" shows that among the net writers who make a living on words, computer majors, electronic information engineering majors, and automation majors are the top 3 majors they study.
The writers under the reading article, the diving squid, the embarrassing monster, the blood red and the Ye Feiye are all computer professionals, and the son Yan and the return to the business are both electronic information engineering majors.
In the creation of realistic web articles, post-90s writers have become the main group, accounting for nearly 50%.
Struggle, entrepreneurship, country, middle-aged counterattack, part-time job, marriage, reform and opening up, education, parenting, etc. became the keywords of TOP10 real-themed works.
This group of articles / our reporter Zhang Enjie coordinated / Liu Jianghua