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The Myth of Antiquity

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The Myth of Antiquity is a shared-world novel series launched in 2017 by Boyi Chuangwei (Beijing) Digital Media Co., Ltd., built on Chinese history and myth. The author Sailing Toad serves as chief world architect, with writers including Yue Guan, Ma Boyong, Tiaowu, Sailing Toad, and Angel Oscar contributing. The setting begins with Qian, a collective aggregate of human consciousness: across history, Qian extracts and reconstructs catastrophic moments from the flow of time and space, turning them into parallel branches such as the Twelve Mythic Epochs and the Three Thousand Legend Worlds, forming a vast World Tree around the main world. Each novel draws on periods such as Qin, Western Han, and Southern Song, and on motifs such as Legend of the White Snake and the Shu Mountain swordsmen, standing alone while sharing the framework. Series V1.0 comprises five books: Yue Guan's Ruins of Qin, Tiaowu's Chronicle of Choosing Heaven, Ma Boyong and Zhou Xingwen's The White Snake Chronicles, Sailing Toad's Strange Tales of Shu Mountain, and Angel Oscar's Star Grave, published by Jiuzhou Press from 2017. V2.0 was planned with Wuzui, Ergen, Sanjie Dashi, He Changzai, and Fengling Tianxia. This entry covers the series overall; see individual titles for their contents.

Editor's review

把「中国历史」和「中国神话」放进同一个可扩展的框架里,是「望古神话」最值得称道的野心。它不像传统的单本奇幻那样另起炉灶,而是先造出一套能不断添枝的设定——人类集体意识「乾」把灾难性的历史时刻抽离成平行世界,于是每个作者都能在同一棵「世界树」上嫁接自己的故事:月关写秦帝国的十二金人与宛渠人,跳舞写西汉末年的王莽与刘秀,马伯庸与周行文重新讲述白蛇传说,流浪的蛤蟆把蜀山搬到宇宙另一端。对读者来说,这套书的好处是入口自由:从任何一部切入都不影响理解;对类型文学观察者来说,它又是国内原创文学少见的一次「共享世界观」集体实验,值得作为案例收藏与比较阅读。

Who it's for

A good fit for

  • 喜欢中国历史与神话结合题材的类型小说读者
  • 习惯《九州》式共享世界观、喜欢比较不同作者笔法的读者
  • 想找单元独立、可从任意一本入门的系列小说的休闲阅读者
  • 关注中国原创IP与网络文学产业化进程的观察者

Not a good fit for

  • 期待单一作者、单一主角长篇连续故事的读者
  • 对架空设定高度密集、需要记忆专有名词感到负担的读者

Reading tips

  1. 不必按出版顺序读,可先选自己感兴趣的历史朝代或神话母题入手。
  2. 读前先浏览系列世界观简述,理解「乾」「十二神话纪元」「三千传说世界」的关系即可,不必深究细节。
  3. 每读完一本,回看共享设定中对应的那一支,能体会到不同作者的诠释差异。
  4. 若用于研究,建议把各册的作者风格、时代选取、母题改造并排对照做笔记。

About the publisher

Jiuzhou Press China · Founded in 1993

Jiuzhou Press is a comprehensive publisher with humanities, social sciences, and classic works as important publishing directions, maintaining a sustained focus on philosophy, history, literature, and social culture. Its catalogue includes works by modern literary masters such as Xiao Hong and Lu Xun, as well as intellectual and art history works by Xu Fuguan, including A History of Chinese Theories of Human Nature: Pre-Qin Volume, A History of Han Thought, and The Spirit of Chinese Art: A Study of Shitao. It also translates and introduces overseas academic works such as Peter H. Wilson's The Thirty Years War: Europe's Tragedy and Peter Suber's The Case of the Speluncean Explorers, and covers cross-cultural exchange themes such as From Dunhuang to Samarkand. Its publishing character lies in balancing the organization of original texts with academic translation, forming relatively stable author and title resources in categories including philosophy, military affairs, theory, and social culture. More complete information about the press's publishing history and plans is limited in publicly available sources; this summary is based only on the titles in the catalogue.

FAQ

「望古神话」是同一本书还是多本书?
它是一个由多位作者共同创作的共享世界观小说系列,并非单本作品。V1.0包含《秦墟》《选天录》《白蛇疾闻录》《蜀山异闻录》《星坟》五部,各自独立成篇,但共用同一套背景设定。
各册之间需要按顺序阅读吗?
基本不需要。系列靠共享的世界观而非连续情节串联,每部小说有自己的主角和完整故事。按兴趣挑选即可,把世界观设定当作公共底座来理解会更轻松。
这个系列一共有多少部?
按公开资料,V1.0于2017年推出共五部,由九州出版社出版;V2.0曾规划由无罪、耳根、三戒大师、何常在、风凌天下等参与创作,实际出版情况建议以最新书目信息为准。
世界观是谁设计的?
由作家流浪的蛤蟆担任世界观首席架构师,与月关、马伯庸、跳舞、天使奥斯卡等共同搭建,核心概念是人类整体意识「乾」抽离灾难时刻、形成平行分支世界。

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About the author

Ma Boyong Author · China · 1980

Ma Boyong, whose real name is Ma Li, was born in 1980 in Chifeng, Inner Mongolia. He is an ethnic Manchu contemporary Chinese writer and screenwriter. Since 2005 he has published works online, writing across historical nonfiction, mystery and suspense, and social fiction. His representative works include Feng Qi Long Xi, The Antique Bureau, The Longest Day in Chang'an, and The Lychees of Chang'an, and many of his books have been adapted into films and television series. He has received the People's Literature Award, the Zhu Ziqing Prose Award, and the Galaxy Award. His writing often builds on real history, weaving suspense and imagination into meticulous research, with a brisk narrative pace that combines erudition and readability. The library holds 41 of his works, including the Da Yi series, Two Capitals in Fifteen Days, and Under the Microscope: The Ming Dynasty, spanning subjects from ancient medicine and Ming-era case records to contemporary urban mysteries, reflecting his dual concern with history and the present.

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