MANTOU MASTER ZHANG WEI: HISTORY IS NOT COLD
Steamed Bread, whose real name is Zhang Wei, is the founder and writer of "Mantou Shuo". His representative works are "The Temperature of History" series and "The Analects for Children". He has successively won Amazon China's "2017 New Writer" and "Dangdang Influential Humanities and Social Science Writer" in 2020. His works have won awards such as "Top Ten Favorite Books for Primary and Secondary School Students in Guangdong Province, 2019. How did he create?let's briefly introduce the creation process of this writer's "Temperature of History" series, which may enlighten you.
HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCE WORKS CAN ALSO BE WRITTEN WELL
Everyone's impression may be boring and difficult to understand. All kinds of expositions are like a spilling doctoral thesis, which makes people headache. Why is this happening?
such books are science with social phenomena as the research object. Its task is to study and explain various social phenomena and their development laws, that is to say, social science is a science about the nature and laws of social things.
despite this, there are always a group of excellent authors who can not only conquer readers with rich knowledge, but also write obscure things vividly with popular or interesting words. Their books can nourish people's souls, increase their knowledge and broaden their knowledge.
Many times, people read Zhang Wei's "steamed bread talk", probably to see his interesting words, and his various historical stories that are very different from our original impression. For readers, as long as it's interesting, why should they push themselves so hard or even quit their jobs? But for Zhang Wei, history is not a joke, he should not only write history interesting, but also write rigorously, but also let readers read an attitude from history.
History can move them, even make them laugh or cry. It is a warm history, not a cold history." Zhang Wei said. His new book "The Temperature of History 2" contains a series of stories of historical figures, such as Zhang Lingfu, Sun Dianying, and Nie Er. Among them, Zhang Lingfu is a controversial figure, Sun Dianying has a tortuous story, and Nie Er is our "familiar stranger".
To understand history, people must understand history. Zhang Wei brought the unknown stories of these historical figures to us. This is a warm review of history, and it also allows readers to combine history with flesh and blood while understanding history.
Temperature of History" series has changed many people. Many people who were not interested in history before suddenly found out after reading it: Ah, history is so interesting!
, but Zhang Wei said modestly, "I may not open a door or a window, but just lift a corner of the curtain. Look, history is still very interesting. "
In front of history, everyone is an ordinary reader, but what everyone understands from history is different. Zhang Wei is probably a fan of history. He has read many things from history that we have not noticed, and this may make him particularly want to share with others.
May also be under this desire to talk about history. He created the self-media "Steamed Bread Talk" and launched the article "Today in History: Ultraman was born and Yang Guifei hanged herself". Since then, his "Today in History" series has been out of control.
It only takes two or three hours for Zhang Wei to finish an article, and then it takes seven or eight hours. Most of this time is used to check historical data. For Zhang Wei, it is not easy to write an article.
His job is already busy, he has to write a historical article every two days, which greatly reduces the rest time. In this way, it is difficult for him to balance work and family. Therefore, Zhang Wei quit the job that seemed extremely enviable......
