Born in Zigong, Sichuan Province, his mother, Zou Huilan, is a staff member of a local bank, and his father, Guo Jianwei, works for a state-owned enterprise.
Childhood Guo Jingming is very understanding and like to read, for his interest in reading, mother Zou Huilan often give Guo Jingming to buy some educational aspects of young children's books, and sometimes also personally to the son of the detailed instructions and explanations. Every time his mother explains, Guo Jingming is listening very carefully, and also kept asking this and that, Zou Huilan will not tire of explaining to his son.
Guo Jingming's memory is very good, some stories, his mother told him once, he will be able to recite, Guo Jingming in front of strangers is also bold, never shy, every time there are uncles and aunts to play at home, as long as he told him to tell a story, Guo Jingming will tell up, look very cute. Guo Jingming's cleverness and good learning makes the whole family very happy, but his parents have never intentionally to train him to become a what kind of talent in the future, but always give Guo Jingming a free space to study and live, so that he grows up in the freedom and interest, to give full play to their own, because his mother, Zou Huilan, knows that: "Interests are the best teacher for a child's success! ". Especially from Guo Jingming understand, parents more by its choice, take to buy books, they will no longer take the initiative to select what for Guo Jingming, every time leading Guo Jingming to Xinhua bookstore, are by his own to choose, Guo Jingming like what to buy, every time to buy a book back, Guo Jingming will have to a breath of them to finish reading, and even his parents called him to eat he could not put down their books.
September 1988, Guo Jingming in Zigong City, Gongjing District, Xiangyang Primary School, this time he also like other children, on time to school, complete the teacher's homework assignments in various subjects, but the child in the classroom learning after reading extracurricular books, read, he also wrote some insights and after reading, although very short and young, but his kind of good study habits by the teachers and parents of
These are the first time I've ever seen a person with a good sense of humor.
Because of the large number of readings, implicitly, Guo Jingming's writing skills in the secret growth, to the age of the elementary school students writing, his advantage will come to the fore, every time the teacher assigns a classroom essay, the other students are always racking their brains for half a day can not write, and he only needs to think about it for two minutes to quickly enter the role. He writes articles very fast, and articles written and good, often taken by the language teacher to the class as a model to learn. The teacher's appreciation of education again and again, from time to time to the childhood Guo Jingming in learning to bring more encouragement and push.
In 1995, Guo Jingming was admitted to Zigong Ninth High School with excellent grades, from elementary school into junior high school, Guo Jingming's vision is more open, he began to read a wide range of novels and essays by famous authors, including the martial arts novels of Jin Yong, Liang Yusheng, especially Gu Long's martial arts novels, which he is more than a little bit of a love, and at the same time, he also likes to read some magazines and newspapers. In spite of this, but saw his son Guo Jingming read martial arts novels outside the classroom, parents Zou Huilan, Guo Jianwei never intervene and stop, they believe that it is a child in the study of a useful relaxation, both regulate their own, but also increased knowledge.
In 1997, when he was in his second year of junior high school, Guo published his debut poem, "Loneliness," which is a melancholy and poignant poem, in the national public journal Life 167. Soon after, he received a 10 yuan fee and a sample issue of the magazine. At the time, Guo was overjoyed, and when his parents found out about it, they doubled their appreciation for their son and encouraged him to keep working hard. The parents believe that although the 10 yuan fee is not a lot of money, but it brings to their son Guo Jingming value and benefit far beyond itself, because, this is the son of more than ten years of hard work and sweat cohesion.
When his work was first recognized by society, his passion for writing increased. Since then, he has participated in some national essay competitions for middle school students, in addition to writing some articles freely. Because of his solid foundation, his articles were often published, making his classmates envious. Earned fees Guo Jingming used to buy classroom learning materials and their favorite literature books, and sometimes buy Coke to drink; there are times when he will be used to donate to the class in need of students. Guo Jingming told reporters that he is an only child, no older siblings at home to play with him, but also to find their own exchange of objects of the same age, so he especially treasures the feelings between classmates and friends.
In high school, the study time is tighter, but Guo Jingming did not give up his hobby of reading and writing, he kept a diary every day, rationalize the time: one must ensure that the classroom learning, two learning never read and writing, writing never read and learning. Because of this arrangement, so that writing and learning do not interfere with each other, the results are very good. Reporter in an interview with Guo Jingming's high school homeroom teacher Deng and Li, Deng teacher said that in secondary school, Guo Jingming this child is very aura and self-control, so the teacher in the school basically has no restrictions and constraints on him, in spite of this, his academic performance is still ranked in the top twenty of the year, in Zigong, Fushun two can be ranked in the top twenty, means that it is the material on the key universities; not only this, Guo Jingming's An invention in the Sichuan Provincial Youth Science and Technology Innovation Competition won the first prize, his investigation report also won the first prize in the Zigong City Biological Environmental Investigation Report Competition; writing is not bad, Guo Jingming sophomore and junior, consecutively won the third and fourth "New Concept Composition Competition" first prize.
This is the first time he has shown his talent
When it comes to the New Concept Composition Competition, Guo Jingming has a lot of emotions, and he remembers it very well, because it was a turning point in his life.
It was the winter of 2000, Guo Jingming in the intense study after reading the "Sprout" magazine, and found that the articles published in the magazine they can write, and may be better, just as the "Sprout" magazine published the third "New Concept Essay Writing Competition" notice, with self-confidence, Guo Jingming pumped half an hour to complete the essay entitled "Script". With confidence, Guo Jingming took half an hour to complete his essay titled "The Script" and sent it to Shanghai to participate in the preliminary round. In January, Guo received a notice from the magazine inviting him to attend the final competition in Shanghai. Zigong is thousands of kilometers away from Shanghai, it takes two days by train, and his studies are very tight, so he gave up, right? I think it's a pity, so I called home to tell my parents.
The parents were informed of this, and strongly encouraged their son to take the plane to participate in, although the economic conditions of the family was not very generous, but in the hearts of the parents, their son's trip will cost a few thousand dollars of the couple's savings over the years, but they believe that it is worth it! Because this is the son's ability to show the perfect opportunity, other people want to go still can not go it! More importantly, the son's trip, they as parents will never accompany, they want to let their son in the trip to develop the ability to live independently, while giving their son a free space to live, after all, in the future, a child's ability to live independently in society, directly related to his ability to find a good foothold in the future.
January 2001, Guo Jingming to the school asked for leave, in the absence of parents, accompanied by single-handedly flew straight to Shanghai, Shanghai is an international metropolis, the streets and alleys are crisscrossed. When he arrived in Shanghai, he first found a place to stay, and the next day he asked around about the competition venue. On the final stage, the country's masters gathered here, but Guo Jingming was not panicked, calmly responded to the battle, and finally, he won the first prize of the competition with the essay "If there is no sun tomorrow. But this award is more of a spiritual encouragement, in the interview Guo Jingming told reporters that he only got a medal, not a penny bonus. Nevertheless, in Guo Jingming's heart, is still sweet, because the "New Concept Essay Contest" is quite famous in the country, it is by the Peking University, Tsinghua University, Beijing Normal University and other 10 famous colleges and universities across the country and the "Sprout" magazine jointly initiated *** with the organizers, as the judges are also first-class writers and well-known scholars in China, in China! Recognized as the "Paradox Literature Prize" among secondary school students, it should be a great honor for you to be able to show your face in this authoritative competition.
That's why, even in the case of very tight study time in the third year of high school, Guo Jingming participated in the fourth "New Concept Composition Competition" in 2002, which was attended by more than 40,000 people, and only 200 entered the final rounds, but he was able to win the award and won the first prize in the preliminary rounds and the final rounds of the competition. He won the first prize in both the preliminary and final rounds. This makes the judges of the experts and professors are a little surprised, because this national top-level secondary school students essay contest held over the years, can be two consecutive first prize is too few and far between, only two people in the country, Guo Jingming is one of them, and thus, Guo Jingming reputation.
Behind "The Illusory City," a long, long story
But it was "The Illusory City" that really made Guo Jingming a hit. "The Illusory City" was on sale from the end of 2003 until December, with sales of 840,000 copies, and according to media reports, it was third on the list of the nation's literary bestsellers for November 2003; and he was honored in the "2003 Annual Bestsellers Award," jointly organized by Sina.com and the Southern Metropolis Daily, among others. He was also nominated as one of the "most popular writers" in the "2003 Chinese Literary Figures" contest jointly organized by Sina.com and the Southern Metropolis Daily, ranking alongside Wang Meng and Hai Yan, and leaving many of his literary predecessors in the dust.
Guo contributed to the "City of Illusions," and "City of Illusions" also accomplished Guo Jingming, "City of Illusions" to the new century of China's literary world has brought a great vibration, so that he has also become a new period of juvenile writers leader, the media reported that he has in the fame and power over the previous few years of the up-and-coming Han Han and Yu Xiu, but about the creation of the "City of Illusions," but the story behind the story is very little is known.
Guo Jingming told reporters that one day in April 2002, that is, the college entrance examination is approaching that period of time, the school often exams, the study of tension to him caused great pressure, in order to release their own, to find a point of freedom and relaxation, he fantasized about something to write, by writing something to lift the boredom of the heart, the "phantom city" is produced in this case, but he conceived the "phantom city" spent only one hour to write, but it took only one hour to write. It took him only one hour to conceptualize "The Illusory City".
Because of his writing, he started to write from 20:00 after dinner that night, and kept writing until 22:00, only two hours, he finished the whole text, about 20,000 words, when he finished writing, he never felt such a kind of relaxation and excitement at the bottom of his heart, but he didn't rush to print out the article. But he did not rush to print out the article. Instead, he stored it away and then devoted himself to the intense review of the college entrance examination.
In mid-August 2002, Guo received an acceptance notice from Shanghai University. He could be relieved. At the end of August, he remembered the novel Phantom City, which he had written four months earlier, so he turned over the manuscript and printed it, then E-mailed it to Sprout Magazine, and within a few days, the magazine's editors notified Guo Jingming that the novel was proposed to be released in the 10th issue of 2002. All the results were unexpected for Guo Jingming. What he didn't expect was that his Mirage City was arranged to be the headline in the 10th issue of Sprout; within a few days of Mirage City's release, Sprout magazine and he received a lot of hotlines and letters from readers, and postings on the website about him and the hotly debated Mirage City were overwhelming; in the first half of November, the editor of Spring Breeze Publishing House, Shixiangxiang Xuan, made a special trip from Shenyang to Shanghai University in the hope that Guo Jingming would collaborate with them by Guo Jingming will "phantom city" short to long, the creation of the deadline for 1 month, to which, Guo Jingming did not refuse, he believes that this is in fact the best test of his ability and power of a kind.
But because of the daytime study time is tight, he had to squeeze the night time, in the long "phantom city" creation of the day, Guo Jingming often stay up all night until dawn, he said he dare not sloppy, in the face of the readers' eyes, in the month, Guo Jingming lost nearly 5 pounds. Live up to expectations, in January 2003, the long "City of Illusions" a world, in the Beijing Book Fair, crowded into the top three of the book sales charts of literature and social sciences, in just a few months will be issued to 500,000 copies, some readers can not buy the book, but even borrowed to copy the work after the expansion of the contents of the response is a favorable response, a young reader: "four-dimensional (Guo Jingming) text is Absolutely beautiful and ethereal, there is a beautiful ethereal amber color, his penmanship is flowing clouds and water, there is a beautiful painting of the mirror, his article is clear and ethereal, there is the power to move the hearts of the people ......"
Some readers also suggested that the "phantom city" will be renewed, filmed into a TV series, published comic book and so on. At the same time, it has also caused great repercussions among literary predecessors and many experts. Ye Xin, vice chairman of the Chinese Writers' Association, said, "The Illusory City is a brand-new style of writing that deserves to be recognized."
Cao Wenxuan, a professor and doctoral supervisor at the Chinese Department of Peking University: "The Illusory City uses a noble and solemn accent, never half-oiled." "The author who can write this piece of work is surprisingly a man-child of few years." "There is finally a comfort in reading 'Phantasmagoria'."
Wang Hongtu, a professor of Chinese at Fudan University, said, "The Phantom City is no less than a work of genius." In the face of many readers and literary predecessors of true praise and high expectations, Guo Jingming is even more moved and proud.
On March 27, 2003, Guo Jingming welcomed the "Symposium on the Illusory City" held for him at Shanghai University, which was attended by Ye Xin, vice chairman of the China Writers' Association, Zhao Changtian, vice chairman of the Shanghai Writers' Association, and Ge Hongbing, a famous writer. It was the first time in China that such a seminar was held for an unknown college student's work; what's more, at this time, he was bought out by Spring Breeze Publishing House, which bought out the right to publish the first edition of the work he created during his college years. A student still less than 20 years old, in the literary world, so worth millions, today China is rare. September 2003, Guo Jingming again and again, launched his second full-length novel, "Dreams of Flowers", listed that became a hot commodity, the distribution exceeded 900,000 copies. The young man has become an impressive, unapologetic student millionaire and a "genius" teenage writer.
Jingming impression, fashionable sharpness
Guo Jingming fame and fortune, invited him to participate in the activities of more and more people, but Guo Jingming never think he is a celebrity, he thinks he is still ordinary a student, the main task is still learning. Therefore, he will first complete his studies, and then his own writing and activities, academic really busy, he will not hesitate to put off the activities, in his heart, learning is always in the first place.
Life Guo Jingming is a very fashionable child, like to play badminton, listen to CDs, travel, he is also wearing quite alternative, but give people the feeling must be very comfortable kind. Life Guo Jingming is a very filial child, he relies on his own writing to earn money, but he will from time to time to his parents, grandparents to buy clothes and nutritional supplements and things like that, New Year's Eve, he will call the whole family, so that they can choose their favorite clothes, and then by their own bill; friends and classmates encountered any difficulties, he also generously help him, he believes that "filial piety He believes that "filial piety" and "helping others" is the minimum essence of our Chinese people to be human.
Many readers don't know the origin of the name of the series, so I'll say a few words!
Each & lt; island & gt; the name of the island is the name of an island, in other words, readers are like sailors who have passed through these islands together.
Fundamental :Debut.(first performance)
Land Eyes:Eyeland
Jinian :Silkage (锦色年华)
锦年 :Silkage(锦色年华)
The first time I read the book, I was able to see the island's name. It was New Year's Day when we left <Island Three>)
Prayer :Prayer (Prayer. Prayer for the sailors on the island)
Ezer:Ether (The Vault)
Zeta:Zeta (The sixth letter of the Greek word. It means <island>six)
Relic:Relic
[edit paragraph]Important events
2001 While studying at Fushun No.2 High School in Zigong City, Sichuan Province, he was awarded the First Prize in the Third National New Concept Essay Writing Competition
2002 He was awarded the First Prize in the Fourth National New Concept Essay Writing Competition
2002 He was awarded the First Prize in the Fourth National New Concept Essay Writing Competition
2002 He was awarded the First Prize in the Fourth National New Concept Essay Writing Competition.
2003 National annual best-selling sales of the first "City of Illusions" China Forbes Celebrity Ranking No. 97
2004 China Forbes Celebrity Ranking No. 94 Annual Style Network Writers' Award Best Post-80's Writer of the Year National annual best-selling sales of the first "City of Illusions" and the second "Knowing How Much in Dreams"
May 22, 2006 in the Beijing Municipal Higher People's Court issued a final judgment, finding that Guo Jingming's novel Knowing How Much in Dreams plagiarized writer Zhuang Yu's work In and Out of the Circle.
Topping the list of Chinese writers' wealth in 2007
In 2008, The New York Times described him as "China's most successful writer"
Personal experience
Guo Jingming then released Summer Solstice 1995-2005. Despite this, Guo again edited the Island book series under pressure.
In late 2005, at the request of Chen Kaige, he adapted the movie Wuji as a novel.
In 2006, after suspending the Island book series, he upgraded to become the owner of Ke Ai, and edited The Most Novel, published by Changjiang Literature and Art Publishing House, staffed by the original team of I5land.
At the end of April 2007, he wrote the lyrics to the theme song "I'm the Shiniest" for Hunan TV's "Happy Boys", and then used up all the publishing paper in Beijing to reprint his new book "Sadness Against the River", which was told to have sold more than a million copies, and was ranked among the top three sellers of China's books in the same month for three days.
August, for the "happy male voice" 13 top music special album photo preface.
The author of the most novel youth festival POOK book series to provide graphic planning
"Lost boundaries of the journey" Lin Shi
"If in exchange for more than just the darkness" Meow Meow
"Top Secret Combination of the Thousand Nights of Chronicles" Chocolat
"Love Exercise" & "Masked Ball" Ai Li Si
"Not allowed to turn back the clock" Xiang Si Wei.
POOK2:
"Teenage Remnant"
"Half of a Delusion" Disappearing Binnie
"Dreaming of Extended Years" Well-Known and Unknown
"Their Soap Opera" & "Our Final Song" Soo Siu Lazy
"You and I Crossed on a Distant Planet" Wang Xiaoli
"Charmed-Faedon Free Bird
In October 2007, people in the company Ke Ai, which was founded by Guo Jingming and led by Hansey, jumped ship, allegedly due to the concept of running the magazine.
October 2007, he started working on his new work Tiny Times
November 2007, he joined the China Writers' Association (CWA), becoming the youngest member of the CWA
June 2008, the "TN-Literary Newcomer Selection Contest" was launched on the "Most Novel".
Since 2007, he has been planning for "Lamp of the Earth"
[Edit Paragraph]Milestones
1997 His debut poem "Loneliness" was published for the first time in the national publication "Life in Sixteen Seventeen";
2002/2003 He was awarded first place in the third session of the New Concept, In 2002, she published a collection of her personal works, The Edge of Love and Pain;
In 2003, she published a collection of her personal works, Reflection on the Left Hand, Years on the Right Hand;
In 2003, she published a novel, The Illusory City;
In 2003, she published a novel, Flowers in the Dream, Knowing How Much (Flowers in the Dream, Knowing How Much was judged by the court as a copy of Zhuang Yu's The Circle). (Dreaming Flowers and Knowing How Much) (Dreaming Flowers and Knowing How Much has been plagiarized by Zhuang Yu's Inside and Outside the Circle);
In 2004, he set up the "Island" studio, and published the "Island" book series;
In 2005, he published the novels from 1995 to 2005;
In 2005, he prepared his first musical novel "The Illusory City".
In 2005, he prepared his first musical novel "Lost and Found";
In 2006, he adapted Chen Kaige's movie of the same name, "Wuji";
In 2006, he set up Ke Ai Culture Communication Ltd. and published "The Most Novels";
In 2007, he published "Sorrow Against the River," which sold more than one million copies in one week;
In 2007, he started to write "Little Era" in October, and published "Little Era" book series. October began to write "Small Times"
November 2007 to join the Chinese Writers' Association;
2007 the end of the release of the "sadness into the river" million gold edition;
and published "Island 9.Pompeii", "N world";
November 2007, the first to Guo Jingming's work adapted idol drama "dream flowers fall into the know how much" opened;
April 2008 published "Island 10. Silver Chit"
April 2008, China Forbes Celebrity Ranking 84th Entrepreneurial Pioneer Award
May 4, 2008 the famous U.S. "New York Times" an article under the title of "China's Pop Fiction" (China's Pop Novelist) The New York Times reported on Guo Jingming as "China's Most Successful Writer".
On October 1, 2008, Small Time was officially released.
In 2008, Little Era was the No. 1 seller in China in 2008 for three days.
On December 8, 2008, Guo Jingming signed with Amusement Media
2008 Won the Fifth Golden Dragon Award for Best Comic Script
2009 The Critical Chronicle - Dredd began serialization in the first issue of '09 of The Most Novel - Reflections