Original title: The daughter of an aristocratic family transforms into a heroine (theme)
Ningxiang writer Kong Liu’s work “Cherishing Flowers and Chi” is now available online (subtitle)
Changsha Evening News all-media reporter Ning Shaou
The high-profile costume drama “Xi Huazhi” has officially launched on Youku platform. The original author of the play and Ningxiang online writer Kong Liu, like many fans of books and dramas, always stays in front of the screen. Kongliu has produced many popular articles, and this is the first time that she has witnessed the visualization of her words. Talking about her years of creative work, Kongliu said: “Love can last a long time.” After more than ten years of writing, her love finally blossomed.
Hunan girl Zhang Jingyi plays the heroine “Huazhi”
“Cherishing Hua Zhi” tells the story of Hua Zhi’s growth from a daughter of a wealthy family to a heroine of a generation. In the novel, the Hua family is a famous family with heirlooms of poetry and calligraphy. However, they suddenly suffer from confiscation and exile, leaving only the women and children in the family with nowhere to go. Faced with the predicament, the eldest lady Huazhi no longer pretends to be stupid and hides her clumsiness, and leads the women to stage the “Transformation of a Lady”, escaping hunger, cold and crisis while stumbling. In the process of taking charge of the family, Huazhi met the frightened Qisu Secretary Gu Yanxi. The two were noisy and affectionate all the way, turning the enemy into a good boyfriend “Mr. Yan” that everyone loved. Huazhi has also grown from a damsel in distress to the head of a family, heading towards a shiny new life.
As a high-profile ancient puppet drama, the cast of this drama is very good-looking. Zhang Jingyi plays the heroine Hua Zhi, Hu Yitian plays the male lead Gu Yanxi, and TVB’s “TV Queen” Myolie Wu also has many scenes.
The female lead, Zhang Jingyi, is from Shaoyang, Hunan. She studied in Changsha during both middle and high school. She has a good connection with her hometown. She once starred in “Changsha Night Life” and the currently being screened “I Lost You” has also achieved good box office results. This is Zhang Jingyi’s first time playing the role of an ancient puppet. As the original author and a fellow Hunan native, Kong Liu said that she is also looking forward to Zhang Jingyi’s performance.
Tired of watching “house fighting”, write a different novel
Kongliu is a prolific writer with diverse themes and unique writing style. His representative works include “Boil Momo in Warm Water”, “Cherishing Flowers and Chi”, “The Best Lyric Works”, and “Yao Nu Chang Le”, etc., all of which have received high praise from readers. evaluation of.
“Xi Huazhi” is her most “out-of-the-circle” work, with more than 1.5 billion hits on the entire network, ranking No. 1 on Migu’s reading female channel list, and was selected into the 2021 China Internet Literature Influence List. In the trend of “Internet literature going overseas”, “Xi Huazhi” is also very popular among overseas readers. In South Korea, this novel was adapted into a comic book, and many Korean readers stayed up late to catch up on it.
Talking about the origin of the novel, Kongliu said frankly: “I wanted to write a different work.” “Xi Huazhi” was first published in 2017. In those years, “house fighting essays” were very popular. In various novels, The eldest girl and the young daughter-in-law were busy fighting with each other in the courtyard of the deep house. “Everyone’s family doesn’t seem to be harmonious. Relatives and friends are plotting against each other. I’m a little tired of reading it.” Kongliu said, “I don’t think all families are like this. They can also be very united and harmonious. I haven’t found any similar books. “Look, so I decided to just write my own book.” Some readers praised the big picture of “Xi Huazhi”, which is not limited to the battles in the back house, but has small feelings, small loves, and more feelings of family and country.
A “Dream of Red Mansions” opens the door to literary creation
Like many authors, reading and writing has been Kong Liu’s hobby since childhood. A “Dream of Red Mansions” led her into the world of literature. “I first watched “Dream of Red Mansions”. I was about 10 years old at the time and couldn’t even recognize all the characters, so I just held a dictionary and flipped through it while reading.” Kong Liu recalled.
As a female writer, she also likes martial arts novels. “Jin Yong, Gu Long, Wo Longsheng… I have basically read many books by martial arts authors. I read a lot of books, which are quite miscellaneous.” “Xi Huazhi” became a hit Later, she did not take advantage of the popularity to continue writing ancient puppets, but relied on her love for martial arts to write a light martial arts themed “Yao Nu Chang Le”. Today, Kongliu’s library of themes spans ancient puppets, modern puppets, light martial arts, and farming novels, and every genre is readily available.
As a writer born in the 1980s, Kongliu is an “old mouth” in the Internet literary world. He has been writing since the literary forum era. Whether on forums, novel websites or mobile reading, the platforms and carriers have been changing, and she has been writing non-stop for more than ten years. For being able to go from a novice to a “master”, Kongliu also attributes it to his harmonious family like “Xi Huazhi”. “From the beginning to the present, my family has always supported my writing.”
After more than 10 years of high-intensity creation, she also had moments of depression. The bitterness during these times was not enough to be appreciated by outsiders. The only thing that kept her going was two words – perseverance. It’s still the same saying, “Love lasts forever.”
