What's the difference between eastern fantasy and western fantasy?

Oriental fantasy is an element of China with oriental culture as the background, especially the traditional culture of China. On the basis of fantasy, traditional myths and legends of the East are added. Oriental fantasy is easily accepted by Chinese at home and abroad.

Western fantasy is based on western culture and contains strong magic color and magic style.

2. The overall situation of the work is different.

Oriental fantasy is a fairy civilization in ancient times, which gained great strength by breaking through the limitations of heaven and earth through cultivation, while the west inherited an independent magical civilization.

3. The development of fantasy works in the new era

Oriental Fantasy: It can be said that it is a "fantasy novel with China characteristics" that has just emerged in the contemporary era. Its creative principle is unprincipled, and its fantasy foundation is unfounded.

China's culture is tolerant, and anything foreign can melt into its embrace, and something new can be derived or transformed. Because fantasy novel is basically a hodgepodge of western fantasy, China martial arts, Japanese animation and technology.

Western fantasy: gradually absorbing the characteristics of martial arts, music and strategy of eastern fantasy, but it is still the main theme of pursuing freedom.

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Characteristics of fantasy works:

For fiction and fantasy, fantasy novel is the freest of the four fantasy novels. It involves future technology, but it does not need scientific theory verification; Involving magic, there is no textual research on the western witchcraft system; It involves martial arts, but it is more magical and powerful than traditional martial arts, and often goes beyond the limits of human physiology ... Both the structure of virtual world and characters experience are mysterious and unconstrained.

However, fantasy novel must have a premise, that is, the non-traditional fantasy novel described by the conceptual thinking of their respective cultural backgrounds and the characteristic style of English or Chinese.

Fantasy novel, it can be said, is completely opposite to magical realism novels. Magic takes "magic" as the rendering, mainly writing real events; Fantasy is characterized by real events, mainly writing "fantasy"

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