Tang Guoming’ s Novel The Zero Land Expected To Be Published
Source:No. One Morning NewsWriter:Xiong QiyuTime:2015-01-15Clicks：次
Source: No. One Morning News, December 15, 2014
Reporter: Xiong Qiyu
The novel took the crazy man of The Dream Of The Red Chamber sixteen years of creation and hundreds of revisions.
‘It was from the last 40 chapters of the Cheng Weiyuan & Gao E’ s edition that I unearthed the hidden Cao Xueqin’ s original, based upon which I did some repairs and restorations, resulting in a book titled The Restoration Of The Truth After The 80th Chapter Of The Dream Of The Red Chamber (20 chapters).’ explained repeatedly Tang Guoming to his net friends in his micro-blog.
In 2013, 40-year-old Tang Guoming was called ‘Crazy Man of The Dream Of The Red Chamber’ and ‘Gifted Scholar Of The Xiao & Xiang Rivers’ because he dwelt in a snail-sized house absorbed in writing the continuation of The Dream Of The Red Chamber’. Only a year later, he, who did not stop his tilling in writing, completed another novel of 200,000 words. Tang said, ‘My consciousness-stream novel The Zero Land is finished, which I expect someone with good eyes will appreciate.’ Meanwhile, The No. One Morning News reported that the novel of 200,000 words The Zero Land on which Tang Guoming spent 16 years is looking forward to being published.
Arduous creation---writing two novels while doing two jobs during a summer vacation of college.
Cherishing a dream of being a writer, Tang Guoming was admitted to the Chinese Literature College of Hunan Normal University in 1998 when he was 26. Yesterday, Tang was busy arranging his manuscripts of The Zero Land in his rented house of less than 10 m2. It was 12 years after his graduation from college. ‘I want to create a great novel.’
In a college bedroom there was a large steel-framed bed on which 14 students slept. The initial manuscripts of The Zero Land was finished in such a bedroom. Every day immediately after class, Tang Guoming recalled, he would spread paper, drew out his pen and began to write the novel. Then the title was Clouds And Rain. He often forgot to eat and sleep. ‘At best, I could write 20,000 words in a day.’
The experience of contribution
The editor praised him for his ‘flying talent’.
‘I was on duty for just six days, because I could not give up creative writing.’ After graduation, Tang Guoming started his work as an editor for a newspaper. Within a week, he finished the work of three months’ reports. However, he was not accustomed to the life from 9 am to 5 pm at work. With the 1,000 yuan lent by his classmates, he rented a house near to the university, in which he concentrated himself on writing. Several days ago his The Zero Land of 200,000 words that took him sixteen years was finally completed.
Factually, in 2005 he contributed his manuscripts to the magazine of The Harvest. Although he received refusing letters one after another, still most people appreciated his literary talents. Director of Yan’ an Literature and editor-in-chief Wei Jianguo told Tang Guoming straightforward, ‘The flying talents in your works made me happy for several days.’ Tang Guoming said the novel told a story about the rich main character ‘I’ and a Tibet girl named Zhuoma, who fell in love with each other thanks to poetry. However Zhuoma left ‘me’, who then searched in the hi-tech background and finally restored ‘myself’.
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Part taken from The Zero Land
‘Tonight, I do not dare to clothe the snow-white and snow-white body of the moon with the sun-skirt which I treasure in the sky, for I am afraid that it will burn the heart of the moon, so I shall bury and bury it in the earth.’
(translated by Yi Daoqun)
Reporter: Xiong Qiyu
The novel took the crazy man of The Dream Of The Red Chamber sixteen years of creation and hundreds of revisions.
‘It was from the last 40 chapters of the Cheng Weiyuan & Gao E’ s edition that I unearthed the hidden Cao Xueqin’ s original, based upon which I did some repairs and restorations, resulting in a book titled The Restoration Of The Truth After The 80th Chapter Of The Dream Of The Red Chamber (20 chapters).’ explained repeatedly Tang Guoming to his net friends in his micro-blog.
In 2013, 40-year-old Tang Guoming was called ‘Crazy Man of The Dream Of The Red Chamber’ and ‘Gifted Scholar Of The Xiao & Xiang Rivers’ because he dwelt in a snail-sized house absorbed in writing the continuation of The Dream Of The Red Chamber’. Only a year later, he, who did not stop his tilling in writing, completed another novel of 200,000 words. Tang said, ‘My consciousness-stream novel The Zero Land is finished, which I expect someone with good eyes will appreciate.’ Meanwhile, The No. One Morning News reported that the novel of 200,000 words The Zero Land on which Tang Guoming spent 16 years is looking forward to being published.
Arduous creation---writing two novels while doing two jobs during a summer vacation of college.
Cherishing a dream of being a writer, Tang Guoming was admitted to the Chinese Literature College of Hunan Normal University in 1998 when he was 26. Yesterday, Tang was busy arranging his manuscripts of The Zero Land in his rented house of less than 10 m2. It was 12 years after his graduation from college. ‘I want to create a great novel.’
In a college bedroom there was a large steel-framed bed on which 14 students slept. The initial manuscripts of The Zero Land was finished in such a bedroom. Every day immediately after class, Tang Guoming recalled, he would spread paper, drew out his pen and began to write the novel. Then the title was Clouds And Rain. He often forgot to eat and sleep. ‘At best, I could write 20,000 words in a day.’
The experience of contribution
The editor praised him for his ‘flying talent’.
‘I was on duty for just six days, because I could not give up creative writing.’ After graduation, Tang Guoming started his work as an editor for a newspaper. Within a week, he finished the work of three months’ reports. However, he was not accustomed to the life from 9 am to 5 pm at work. With the 1,000 yuan lent by his classmates, he rented a house near to the university, in which he concentrated himself on writing. Several days ago his The Zero Land of 200,000 words that took him sixteen years was finally completed.
Factually, in 2005 he contributed his manuscripts to the magazine of The Harvest. Although he received refusing letters one after another, still most people appreciated his literary talents. Director of Yan’ an Literature and editor-in-chief Wei Jianguo told Tang Guoming straightforward, ‘The flying talents in your works made me happy for several days.’ Tang Guoming said the novel told a story about the rich main character ‘I’ and a Tibet girl named Zhuoma, who fell in love with each other thanks to poetry. However Zhuoma left ‘me’, who then searched in the hi-tech background and finally restored ‘myself’.
Related connection
Part taken from The Zero Land
‘Tonight, I do not dare to clothe the snow-white and snow-white body of the moon with the sun-skirt which I treasure in the sky, for I am afraid that it will burn the heart of the moon, so I shall bury and bury it in the earth.’
(translated by Yi Daoqun)