WEBVTT 00:18.347 --> 00:20.243 There's this writer called Zhang Jia-hua. 00:20.474 --> 00:21.875 He likes to write children's stories. 00:21.875 --> 00:23.450 There's been something wrong with him. 00:23.450 --> 00:24.608 He keeps looking for rhymes. 00:25.064 --> 00:26.572 Hala hala, bala bala. 00:26.572 --> 00:28.007 Is he a dumb or not? 00:28.426 --> 00:30.228 He scratches his head all the time. 00:30.749 --> 00:31.595 He mumbles 00:31.595 --> 00:33.807 even when he's walking on the street. 00:33.807 --> 00:37.317 I've been writing amusing stories since the beginning. 00:38.359 --> 00:41.110 I have great fun writing them. 00:42.596 --> 00:45.919 Imagination is especially important to writers, 00:45.919 --> 00:47.473 as well as associations between words, 00:47.969 --> 00:51.261 including associations the relationships between things. 00:51.556 --> 00:54.623 I made use of my imagination in Moonlight Trilogy, 00:55.066 --> 00:58.005 which is a fantasy historical novel. 00:58.312 --> 01:01.191 I used a lot of imagination in the book. 01:01.439 --> 01:04.522 I referred to the computer's symbol chart. 01:05.368 --> 01:06.717 I had gone all out 01:06.717 --> 01:08.186 and designed many symbols. 01:08.622 --> 01:11.091 It's a Spanish dialogue 01:11.287 --> 01:13.756 mixed with the Pingpu indigenous language. 01:13.995 --> 01:15.229 As for the texts, 01:15.229 --> 01:18.257 I used the codes designed by myself. 01:18.727 --> 01:21.118 When you say this spell three times, 01:21.409 --> 01:23.857 the magic map will be activated 01:23.857 --> 01:27.166 and you can travel through time and go back to the past. 01:36.040 --> 01:37.219 In the story, 01:37.219 --> 01:39.269 the place Yue Zhi-hua travels to 01:39.594 --> 01:40.952 is Fort San Domingo, 01:40.952 --> 01:43.386 which was the former name for Hungmaocheng. 01:44.001 --> 01:48.139 It was built by the Spanish in 1638. 01:48.767 --> 01:51.620 Right here, the protagonist is mistaken for 01:51.620 --> 01:55.924 an accomplice of the witch, 01:56.232 --> 01:57.811 and is held in the dungeon. 01:57.811 --> 02:00.845 While in the dungeon, he has an incredible encounter. 02:11.163 --> 02:13.168 The original idea for the book 02:13.571 --> 02:16.419 was a historical story. 02:16.604 --> 02:17.698 But 02:17.698 --> 02:20.542 I thought it would be awesome 02:20.738 --> 02:22.925 if I added some fantasy 02:23.275 --> 02:24.952 and made it into a ghost story 02:24.975 --> 02:26.991 mixed with history. 02:29.818 --> 02:31.467 You can express your creativity differently 02:31.467 --> 02:35.835 from other people's approaches. 02:35.835 --> 02:38.582 This requires associative ability 02:38.863 --> 02:43.920 to associate the atmosphere of the time period 02:44.373 --> 02:47.157 with people's lives. 02:50.557 --> 02:53.768 Danshui is a place that's rich in culture and history. 02:55.227 --> 02:56.937 It's kind of like archeology. 02:57.253 --> 02:58.633 You can see its history 02:58.633 --> 03:01.659 layer by layer. 03:02.617 --> 03:04.556 The question was what approach I should use 03:04.556 --> 03:07.870 to make it a novel, a great novel. 03:09.516 --> 03:11.355 It took me three years to finish 03:11.355 --> 03:13.995 Moonlight Trilogy. 03:14.687 --> 03:16.122 I spent half of a year 03:16.122 --> 03:18.821 looking for information, 03:19.555 --> 03:22.135 reading, researching, thinking 03:22.468 --> 03:23.758 and constructing the stories. 03:23.971 --> 03:25.187 It was very important 03:25.187 --> 03:27.994 to find the information I wanted. 03:31.266 --> 03:33.990 In The Magical Map of the Danshui Witch, 03:34.136 --> 03:36.183 ghost ships arrive and gather together. 03:36.183 --> 03:38.201 They become a force. 03:38.449 --> 03:41.487 They show up offshore from Danshui 03:41.487 --> 03:44.505 and advance toward the river mouth. 03:44.505 --> 03:46.247 The spectacle is grand. 03:46.717 --> 03:47.635 Additionally, 03:47.635 --> 03:49.589 the male and female protagonists, 03:49.589 --> 03:51.801 in The Magical Map of the Danshui Witch 03:52.038 --> 03:53.771 share the same last name, Yue. 03:53.771 --> 03:54.926 The last name Yue 03:54.926 --> 03:57.881 indicates that they're the Makatao of the Pingpu tribe. 03:58.146 --> 03:59.461 This isn't fictional. 03:59.991 --> 04:03.305 I researched early household registration information at a library. 04:03.595 --> 04:07.086 It's well-grounded information. 04:07.439 --> 04:11.074 It's information-based imagination. 04:22.600 --> 04:25.419 Are you guys excited and happy today? 04:25.419 --> 04:26.598 Yes! 04:26.598 --> 04:28.434 We've been reading 04:28.434 --> 04:32.380 Teacher Zhang Jia-hua's stories in our textbook. 04:32.380 --> 04:35.088 Today, he's here with us. 04:35.088 --> 04:36.446 Students, 04:36.446 --> 04:39.760 what must we possess 04:39.897 --> 04:42.796 if we want to become an excellent creator? 04:42.818 --> 04:44.386 Imagination. 04:44.921 --> 04:46.921 Yes, imitate his pose. 04:50.326 --> 04:51.966 Do you know why 04:51.966 --> 04:54.750 the Mona Lisa 04:54.750 --> 04:56.604 has become like this? 05:00.755 --> 05:03.668 Why has Mona Lisa has become like this? 05:04.753 --> 05:06.033 It's because she's getting older. 05:06.033 --> 05:07.565 She's getting older. That can be the case. 05:08.050 --> 05:09.194 She's been painted like this by someone. 05:09.194 --> 05:10.621 She's been painted like this by someone. 05:10.621 --> 05:11.646 That's possible too. 05:11.646 --> 05:13.285 I think she has had plastic surgery. 05:13.465 --> 05:16.352 I think he's amusing and funny. 05:16.617 --> 05:18.129 I feel that 05:18.269 --> 05:20.734 he helps my imagination. 05:20.734 --> 05:21.981 It's awesome. 05:21.981 --> 05:23.399 So what is imagination? 05:23.399 --> 05:25.176 It encompasses everything, right? 05:25.713 --> 05:28.370 As long as you make inferences 05:28.643 --> 05:30.394 and talk nonsense in a reasonable way, 05:30.394 --> 05:32.675 you can say whatever you want to. 05:33.213 --> 05:36.160 So don't confine your thinking, 05:36.160 --> 05:37.168 understand? 05:37.407 --> 05:39.055 You must set it free. 05:44.231 --> 05:45.632 We don't have wings 05:45.790 --> 05:47.416 but once you have imagination, 05:47.416 --> 05:50.048 it's like having wings. 05:50.048 --> 05:51.253 You'll be able to fly everywhere. 05:54.849 --> 05:56.916 Books are actually a time tunnel. 05:58.017 --> 06:00.990 They allow you to go to pasts and futures that 06:00.990 --> 06:03.022 you haven't been to. 06:07.174 --> 06:08.746 Through reading 06:08.746 --> 06:12.282 and the imagination in books, 06:12.709 --> 06:14.810 we can go to 06:14.810 --> 06:17.586 places that we might not visit in our lifetime.