Life of Qu Qin's Characters

Ma Qin was born on June 9th, 2004 (1767) in the mansion of Hiranobu Matsumoto, Shenchuan Banner, Edo. But don't get me wrong, Ma Qin has no aristocratic background. His father is just a servant of the Songping family, and Ma Qin is the fifth son of this servant. Ma Qin loved reading since he was a child, and he was also a little literary talent. It is said that he can write harmony at the age of seven, and he is a famous child prodigy. However, family changes soon affected him. When Ma Qin was eight years old, his father died, and life at home began to look a little embarrassed. However, what makes the boy feel most uncomfortable is probably the cold reception from his own family, especially the overbearing young master of Songping's family, eighty-five Lang, which makes Ma Qin feel unbearable. In October of Ernst & Young's 9th year (1780), 14-year-old Ma Qin left Songping's home to find his ideal.

Since then, although Qu Qin listened to his brother's persuasion and found several jobs, they didn't last long and lived a life like this. For Ma Qin, a teenager, those heavy and boring jobs are really unattractive. However, a series of changes from his family soon changed his attitude towards life. Tian Ming five years (1785) in June, his mother died. The following August, the fourth brother He Zhong also died. The successive departure of relatives deeply hurt Ma Qin's heart and made him determined to end his debauchery in previous years. In the autumn of the second year of Qu Qin's reign (1790), he met a native of Jingchuan, Shandong Province, who was six years older than him, and soon began his literary creation under his guidance. The following year, Ma Qin's first book, Huang Biao Papers, was published in the name of Da Rongshan, a disciple of Beijing Chuan. In this way, after years of hesitation, Ma Qin finally found a suitable path. In the literary works of the Edo period, "Machimura Literature" occupies a very important position. Because it mainly reflects the social life at that time, the content is easy to understand, and most of them are illustrated, so it is welcomed by the general public. After entering the middle edo period, the development of "Maji People's Literature" appeared many unique forms, such as yellow paper, scattered books, reading, funny books, human books and so on. "Yellow Watch Paper" is a kind of comics, a bit like the once popular "picture book" in China, and its content is some satirical popular literature. Sanshu is a humorous story describing the life of a brothel, and its form is similar to Yellow Paper. The Scholar is equivalent to a legendary novel, which mainly describes some historical stories, myths and legends.

In the fourth year of Kuanzheng (1792), Ma Qin came to stay in Saburo's home in Tomoya and began to study drama creation. Ken Miyake Saburo is a very famous publishing giant in Edo. He has sponsored and compensated many writers and Ukiyo-e painters, among which the most famous ones are Ten Returns to Hometown, Fasidosi Saner, Kitagawa Utamaro, Composition in Dongzhouzhai, and Geshi Beizhai. Therefore, Shandong Jingchuan introduced Ma Qin to the past, in addition to letting Ma Qin get rid of the difficulties in life as soon as possible, it is also possible to let him learn more. The following year, 27-year-old Qu married Qin. The bride is three years older than him and used to be the widow of a shoemaker. But their lives should be pretty good. By the eighth year when Ma Qin published his first book (1796), they had already had two children. His first book, The Character of Gaoweizhou, was adapted from China's famous novel The Water Margin, and combined with the famous Japanese clear glass work Dai Lu. The writing technique of this work greatly inspired other writers of the same period, including his teacher Jingchuan of Shandong. In the early works of Jingchuan, Shandong Province, most of the works were scattered on yellow paper, but in the lenient reform, such works were banned, and Jingchuan, Shandong Province was imprisoned for more than 50 days and suffered a lot. Later, inspired by Ma Qin's Biography of Wen Zi by Gao Wei, Igawa began to write reading novels. Soon after, he combined the stories of "The Collection of Loyal Officials" and "The Water Margin" and wrote "The Water Margin of Loyal Officials" in the eleventh year of Kuanzheng (1799), which was a monument to reading novels at that time. Since then, although Igawa has turned to the creation of reading novels, it is a pity that most of his works are limited to Japanese drama stories such as pure glass and kabuki, or novels originated from China. Therefore, although they are full of drama, they gradually lose their readers because of their lack of creativity, and Qu Qin's creation has gradually entered a golden age.

In the second year of Xianghe (1802), Qu Qin traveled to Kyoto and Osaka from May to August, during which he met many publishers in Kansai. In the first year of culture (1804), Ma Qin published the book "Moon Ice Romance" in accordance with the agreement with Osaka booksellers during his trip, and the results received rave reviews, and more than a thousand copies were sold in Edo and Osaka. Since then, he has successively created Young Pigeon (1804), The Legend of Qu Chaier (1804), The Legend of Shi Yan (1805) and other works, all of which have achieved good sales results. At this point, Qu Qin became the most popular novel-reading writer at that time, and the creative base of reading novels was also transferred from Kyoto to Edo, represented by Jingchuan and Qu Qin Wei.

After entering the cultural and political period, Qu Qin's creative interest turned to reading long historical novels. Zhang Yue was written in four years (1807), consisting of five articles and 39 volumes, which took four years to complete. This novel describes the story of Yuan Weichao, the general of heian period, who was exiled to Izu after Baoyuan Uprising and later fled to Ryukyu. Since then, he has also created many novellas with different themes, such as Biography of Sanqi in Conan's Dream (1808), Story of Junkuan Sandu Island (1808) and Love Story of Song Ran in Autumn seven grass (1809). For example, The Legend of March 7th to Conan Dream is based on a "famous" double suicide event in Osaka during the reign of Yuan Lu. This story has been adapted into a drama before, and it was a household name at that time. Qu's "Ma Tingqin" focuses not on the monotonous story of double suicide between men and women, but on the implication of persuading good and punishing evil, which embodies his unique creative theme and narrative style. After four years of natural forest protection (1833), due to long-term fatigue and age growth, Quting Maqin's vision has greatly decreased and he is almost blind. At this time, "Biography of Eight Dogs" was just half finished, and his son Zongbo was also ill in bed. In addition, Ma Qin has no master, so his literary creation is in an unprecedented predicament. At this time, Ma Qin's eyesight was weak and he could barely create, but it was so difficult that Ma Qin even thought of suicide. Two years later, Ma Qin's 38-year-old son Zong Bo died, which gave him another heavy blow. Because, Ma Qin has great expectations for this son. Since he was very young, Ma Qin asked him to study Chinese studies, medicine, painting and so on. Looking forward to his achievements. However, Zongbo was sickly since childhood, and finally walked in front of his old father, leaving behind his wife Alu and an eight-year-old son. Because at this time, Ma Qin's creation was in a desperate situation, so the family's life also experienced rare difficulties. Ma Qin had to sell his precious books and his old house and move to an old house in the suburbs.

Natural forest protection 1 1 year (1840), Quting Maqin is completely blind. However, at this time, Ma Qin found a pillar, and that was his daughter-in-law, Alu. Lu is the daughter of a doctor. Although she can't read, she is smart and stubborn by nature. She suggested that Ma Qin dictate the story, and she would write it as a ghostwriter, so as to complete the biography of Eight Dogs as soon as possible. Although Ma Qin finally agreed to her request, I am afraid that the difficulties she will face next are not foreseeable by Ma Qin and Lu. Because Alu only knows a few words, Ma Qin must start teaching with pseudonyms and Chinese characters, and work hard to make progress one word at a time. Sometimes, because the allusions quoted by Ma Qin are too abstruse, Alou is difficult to understand for a while, and even tears flow down his face. On the other hand, Ma Qin also tried to give up writing several times, lamenting that "it's hard to write when you are old and weak, and it's hard to teach your daughter-in-law what to copy". But in spite of this, they persisted in the end, and completed the last volume in August this year, which drew a satisfactory full stop for this masterpiece.

Natural forest protection 12- 14 years (184 1- 1843), the edo shogunate carried out the third major reform since its opening-"natural forest protection reform". During this period, Ma Qin did not create any works, but only used this time to complete the genealogy "My wife is a record". In the second year of Honghua (1845), sorting out unfinished novels is a summary of his creative career for more than 50 years. On November 6th, the first year of Yongjia (1848), Qu Qin died of illness at the age of 82. Ma Qin is a diligent and prolific writer. In his creative career of more than 60 years, he wrote more than 300 novels *** 1000 volumes. These novels can be divided into revenge novels, gossip novels, biographical novels and historical novels. Among the revenge novels, the representative works are On the Frozen Moon (1803), Young Pigeon (1804), The Story of the Stone (1805) and One Night of the Three Kingdoms (1806). These works are revenge stories with a clear distinction between good and evil. Biography of Sanqi in Conan's Dream (1808), Cao Zhi in Summer and Strange Fate of Silk Cherry and Spring Butterfly are representative works of alley novels, which express the concepts of loyalty, filial piety, chastity, benevolence and courage by talking about the love between men and women in the streets. Biographical novels include "Persuade the Good and Continue the Biography" (1806), "Xiexin Fetal Biography" and "Mo and New Books" (1807). Ma Qin's creative thought is closely related to the rule of the Wu family. He attached himself to the samurai world, opposed the literature purely for entertainment, especially the entertainment thought of Machi people, and advocated that literature should have the function of punishing evil and promoting good. His novels are full of Bushido spirit, Confucian view of benevolence and righteousness and Buddhist thought of karma. The characters in his works are often the embodiment of these ideas. In art, his novels absorbed the skills of China's novel The Water Margin and Japanese works Baoyuan Tale, Taiping Ji, Seeing the Army in the Sea, etc., with complex structure, numerous characters, tortuous plot and gorgeous rhetoric, which developed the creation of reading and combined novels to a new level.