A new mythological universe was born!
My ugliness is all Nuwa's fault…
Ding Yun's core of mythology: Man can conquer fate!
From the moment Ding Yun began writing the Legend of the White Snake until the end of the Great Wilderness, it took nearly a decade. This decade was enough for her series of mythological novels to deeply resonate with people, and for the films and television series adapted from these novels to spread to households across the land.
Therefore, from the day she released her Great Wilderness novel.
The related buzz never really died down, trending on hot searches every few days. The appearance of stories like Pangu's creation of the heavens and Nuwa's creation and mending of the sky made many feel a sudden enlightenment. They finally understood Nuwa's merits, how the sky was mended, what sky Pangu split open, and why they only left legends.
Their true forms never reappeared.
[Heaven have mercy, Empress Nuwa, why were you so lazy when creating humans? Why were the first people hand-sculpted figures, and later you just flung mud at them!
I'm definitely one of those flung out as mud.
Can I apply for a return to the factory for refurbishment?]
[I strongly suspect the author wrote the legend of Nuwa creating humans because we often rub off a lot of dirt from our bodies. Thinking about it this way, the originally unreasonable mythological story suddenly seems a bit more reasonable.]
[Pangu's creation of the heavens, while seemingly telling a creation myth, is also an allegory for the ancestors sacrificing their lives to open up a peaceful and prosperous era for us.
Pangu's flesh and blood transformed into the mountains and rivers of the world.
Where are the mountains and rivers not stained with hot blood?
Whenever the nation faces great disaster, some people step forward to become Pangu and open up the heavens and earth, while others fall into demonic ways, becoming the so-called three thousand divine demons who obstruct Pangu's creation.]
[If there are no heavens and earth, create them; if the sky cracks, refine stones to mend it; if there are too many suns, shoot them down; even if one loses their head, they resist the Heavenly Emperor. What an unyielding spirit of human determination over fate! I originally thought Ding Yun was just making up stories, but in fact, she is reshaping the backbone of our civilization.
It is highly recommended that these mythological stories be condensed and simplified and included in textbooks, only then can this spirit be instilled from a young age and passed down permanently.
There has never been a savior in this world; all the gods in Ding Yun's mythology are deified ancient sages.]
[Are some people over-interpreting things.
They are just novels and mythological stories, why are you interpreting them as if they can ascend to heaven and enter the earth, omnipotent? Is it necessary? It shouldn't be necessary...]
[The above is what I really wanted to say but didn't dare to. It's not like writing about open rebellion is forbidden nowadays, why bother with metaphors!
Isn't that like taking off your pants to fart?]
[You don't understand, most straightforward stories lack soul and literary depth. In fact, if the story is focused on a specific event.
It will further lack deep impact and transmissibility.
Only metaphors are gods forever, capable of being passed down for millennia. The spiritual core of Pangu's creation and Hou Yi shooting down the sun will not change even after another thousand years. In any new era, there can be new interpretations.
There can be new interpretations that fit the characteristics of the era.
This is something straightforward narratives lack.]
[Writing about open rebellion will likely end up as a preachy story, and whether anyone is willing to read it is a question, let alone having a profound impact and understanding the spiritual core.
But mythological stories with metaphors are truly like a gentle spring breeze, refreshing the heart, allowing many people to feel the spiritual core without them realizing it.
And deep down in their hearts.
An unyielding spiritual will is born!
Influencing a lifetime, benefiting a lifetime...]
[I can attest to this. After my daughter finished the novel, she did start to resist. Today she told me she liked a boy in her class, and I said no dating.
Then she called me a wicked Queen Mother!
Later, I learned from the Queen Mother and suppressed her.]
[Hahahaha…]
[Sometimes, only when you become a parent and encounter a child with a not-so-bright mind can you understand the helplessness of some parents in the stories who try to break up lovers.
We have experienced more and made some detours, so we don't want our children to repeat them, but they think we are trying to harm them, which is truly frustrating!]
[Ding Yun has opened up fan fiction authorization for all her novels. It seems she hadn't opened it before because she felt the entire mythological universe system hadn't been established yet, the foundation wasn't solid enough, etc.
She was worried that opening authorization in advance.
Would lead some authors to distort the core within.
Now that all the main backgrounds are basically established, and the peripheral details are not important, opening authorization now means that the fan fiction written by others can only serve as supplements, as leaves on the branches of her mythological universe, adding luster.
And can no longer shake her foundation.
Ding Yun is truly far-sighted!]
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As Ding Yun opened up related fan fiction authorization, a large number of authors soon followed, skillfully applying the background of Ding Yun's mythological system, and even some of its characters, into their own novels.
And this was not detrimental to Ding Yun.
Because as long as they wrote within her framework, they had to recognize her as their ancestor and indirectly increase the influence of her written mythological system. However, even so, the influence Ding Yun had accumulated was still not enough to imprint her own mark into the world's fundamental origin.
So she could only continue to write diligently.
Continuing to write myths from other countries.
There were countless mythological stories within the cultural transmission system. Choosing mythological stories that matched the historical background and folk legends of a certain country or region.
Was not difficult at all.
Therefore, Ding Yun's "World Mythology Reshaping Plan" proceeded smoothly. Soon, other countries began to gradually accept the myths she wrote.
Especially when Ding Yun spared no expense to select actors from those countries to film corresponding myths, and sold them at a low price, allowing foreign television stations to broadcast them, this further increased the corresponding influence.
However, even so, Ding Yun ultimately spent nearly twenty years, a generation's time.
Only then did she initially complete the world mythology reshaping.
Then she spent another twenty years promoting and waiting for these mythological stories to completely integrate into all aspects of various countries, into the civilization and heritage of each country.
Finally, Ding Yun was in her early seventies.
Nearly eighty years old.
Only then did she completely finish the world mythology reshaping plan, and successfully imprinted her own mark into the world's fundamental origin, successfully conquering this world through cultural invasion and the influence of other worlds' cultures.
With her success and no other regrets, and her parents having passed away long ago, Ding Yun did not stay in this world for long. After making some arrangements for her affairs, she quickly withdrew and left this world.