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Author: Bu Dong
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Publish Date: 2006-04-01
Features: He is the creator of characters, and also the seal-erector. He is the inheritor, and also the one who bears the blame. On that night 5,000 years ago, the sky rained millet, and the ghosts wept at night—Cang Jie created characters. Thus, we became complacent, and thus we squandered. Have we not heard? The sound of heaven and earth weeping, the lament of the text spirits when they were sealed? Even if transformed into the shape of a brush, when Da Cang is awakened by Cang Ye, the gears of 5,000 years of time start turning again.
This is a youthful literary read that offers a fresh interpretation of the ancient Chinese myth "Cang Jie Creates Characters." The author skillfully portrays the life background of the gods in the primordial era through a time-traveling perspective and narrative structure, while also focusing on the process of Cang Jie creating characters. What is worth pondering is that the author also deeply highlights the importance of maintaining the purity of language and returning to its original meaning by analyzing current popular fashion culture styles, such as anime and cosplay. With a solid foundation in traditional Chinese culture yet uniquely distinctive, it is believed to attract young readers' attention to the issue of cultural inheritance!
5,000 years after Cang Jie created characters, a junior editor receives a family heirloom brush and discovers that a spirit named Da Cang lives within it. Afterward, the authors she is responsible for enter another world one by one. During the process of urging them to submit their work (chasing after those authors), she unexpectedly finds out that they are all text spirits sealed by Cang Jie 5,000 years ago. On that night when gods and ghosts wept, why did Cang Jie seal the text spirits? Just as she is puzzled and confused, she discovers that Da Cang’s eyes are fixed on her.