What is chicken soup for the soul (you don't know chicken soup for the soul)

I answered a question in Wukong's Q&A: What do you think of chicken soup for the soul in modern literature?

Chicken soup for the soul is not literature, but a modern literary phenomenon.

Why can it prevail for a while? There is a simple reason.

Simple and brainless. Follow the trend. Fools have more money.

Why did it decline? There is a simple reason.

Simple and brainless, can't keep up with the times. People who follow the trend will follow suit. People are stupid and rich, and chicken soup is not fresh enough.

1 What is chicken soup for the soul?

Chicken soup for the soul is an article full of positive words and encouragement. An advanced chicken soup for the soul will make you read without thinking at all, very relaxed and very happy. After reading it, you will feel refreshed and wise, and the whole person will be sublimated.

But in fact, you have learned nothing. People just say a few nice things, and you take them seriously. After drinking countless chicken soup, chicken soup lovers have made no achievements in their lives and work, so they suddenly realized that what chicken soup for the soul is obviously poisonous soup! Tear the book!

2. The origin of chicken soup for the soul

This weak-willed man is simply superficial.

It seems that I made up the following story, but it is very likely that Jack canfield made it up himself.

He looks like this.

Jack canfield studied at Harvard University in 1960s, and worked as a middle school teacher in California after graduation. In the 1980s, he was in debt140,000 USD. On his 45th birthday, he drew a 10000 dollar bill, which occupied half of the wall. He read it every day, claiming to be "painting money to satisfy hunger". The authenticity of birthday money can't be tested, and no one took a camera to shoot him. He said yes.

He looked at the big bill and looked back on the first half of his life. He worked hard but achieved nothing, almost crying. He has worked so hard, why is there still no money? If he succeeded, if he succeeded ... A few years later, Jack canfield talked about it in his speech. He thought he was exposed: "God reached out and patted me on the shoulder."

This may be years of hard thinking, or it may be a flash of light at a moment. In short, Jack canfield began to write a book of about 65,438+000 short stories, each of which was inspiring and inspiring. It's called Chicken Soup for the Soul. Although the chicken soup for the soul is poisonous now, Jack canfield was a great god with good writing, rich experience and good eloquence.

He started looking for a publishing house to publish a book and voted 143. Nobody wanted it. He went to a publishing house that was about to close down. Jack Kauffeld has fully believed in Buddhism. As long as it was published, it sold for $65,438 +0.500. This year, Chicken Soup for the Soul sold 8 million copies. God is smiling at him. How's it going? Does it look like your composition material?

It's really an inspirational movie without suspense. I believe you have guessed the ending.

Jack canfield wrote 80 copies of Chicken Soup for the Soul and sold 90 million copies, with an average of more than/kloc-0.0 million copies each. Amazingly, every book is different and every story is true. How did he do it?

I don't know whether a publishing team seized the opportunity to give advice to Jack canfield when the first book "Chicken Soup for the Soul" was rolled into US dollars, or whether Jack canfield was really a genius. In short, he did.

Operation 1: He started to feed chicken soup to a specific group of people.

Cardamom soul chicken soup. Chicken soup for parents' souls. Chicken soup for the soul of pet lovers and chicken soup for the soul of golfers. Afghanistan war, the soul chicken soup of the expeditionary force. Iraq war, chicken soup for military wives. Calvin? Does not exist!

God Operation 2: Began to appeal to fans to contribute.

It doesn't matter if you don't powder. I have chicken soup. Do you have a story?

Don't take it too seriously, okay?

I don't know where it is higher than those official WeChat accounts that make this up now.

This also shows that American readers are really serious.

Jack canfield also developed new skills. His chicken soup for the soul was not only inspirational, but also began to cry. He "touched America" when he was on TV.

The one-legged youth worked hard and won the tennis championship. An 80-year-old lady was strong and healthy, and finished the marathon alone. Disabled children adopt dogs with only three legs and live together. When chicken soup reaches this temperature, Americans certainly buy it.

In the The New York Times bestseller list, there are seven chicken soup books, which can be called the miracle of the century. Jack canfield was awarded the Guinness Book of World Records. After he became famous, Jack canfield gave speeches everywhere and distributed benefits to his fans. Everywhere he went, people cheered. After talking for a few years, I was not satisfied and became an actor. Times make people. At that time, the United States badly needed such a spiritual mentor. Jack canfield launched a series of chicken soup for the soul with tender and inspirational words, sharp and forward-looking vision and perfect marketing, which really changed the lives of many Americans.

He has created an inspiring culture for America that has never been seen before.

People who are more ambitious than him are not as good at writing, people who are better at writing are not as fast as him, and people who are more famous than him are not as tall as him.

There are thousands of inspirational books in Qian Qian, and Chicken Soup for the Soul by Jack canfield is the best. Nature is popular, close to readers, close to life and loved by the American people.

Chicken soup for the soul, which is popular in America, has arrived in China. Why did you go to the altar and become highly toxic?

3. China's chicken soup for the soul

China's chicken soup for the soul has been popular for some time, which is related to our composition education.

The composition is generally 800 words, which is very short and needs literary talent and examples. Chicken soup for the soul is such an ingredient, don't mix too much!

People who have been trained in college entrance examination composition see chicken soup for the soul, just like seeing a till and mass production.

Thus, China Chicken Soup for the Soul came into being. Nine out of ten people who pursue soul chicken soup may not have read Jack canfield's soul chicken soup, but each of them must think that China's soul chicken soup is the authentic soul chicken soup, and foreign products are all dross.

Get rid of its dross and take its essence. Chinese chicken soup for the soul was shipped to the market in bundles, American literature was born, and Luoyang paper was expensive.

The general public has never seen such a battle. Success is not destined for ten years, but a bowl of chicken soup nourishes your soul and makes you thoroughly remould yourself.

At that time, the rise of the Internet was a new trend, and further study was a fashion. The trend brings chicken soup for the soul, which makes people crazy. Reading chicken soup is also reading, with noodles and reciting a few famous American sentences, which can win the house applause. Chicken soup for the soul is a good medicine for success.

Profitable, publishers are eager for it.

However, in marketing and ensuring authenticity, no one is as accurate as Jack canfield. Chicken soup for the soul runs through and is inspiring. It's all empty talk You can't get a real hammer after shouting for a long time. No way, no experience, no capital.

There are countless shoddy junk books, and the chicken soup for the soul is mixed, floating on the surface, and gradually being criticized.

Most importantly, compared with the United States, China's cultural market has a very remarkable feature.

China has a profound cultural soil.

There is no shortage of inspirational culture in China.

No matter how well packaged the chicken soup for the soul, it can't sell the mainstream bestsellers of the same period. It was very popular at that time, with youth literature, lecture halls and budding gods. There are too many literary topics in China. Everything is deeper, more grounded, more gimmicky and more controversial than chicken soup for the soul.

The United States has a short history and basically has no deep-rooted ideology and culture. They like new things and are willing to make them a part of their own culture.

But in China, everything cooked in chicken soup for the soul can be traced back to the Spring and Autumn Period, Warring States Period, Wei, Jin, Tang and Song Dynasties. China is not without chicken soup for the soul. Similar inspirational stories and speeches have existed since ancient times, but they will not be presented as a style alone, but will be constantly proved, questioned and interpreted, thus being affirmed by most dynasties and becoming a part of China culture.

Simple mindless chicken soup for the soul, like an ungrounded eight-part essay, sings the praises of the emperor's poems and can't get the true love of the people.

What's more, the market is changing rapidly, social software is emerging one after another, and people in the global village are all talented, able to tell good deeds and stories. Online novels, funny jokes, Zhihu stories and official WeChat accounts are not as good as chicken soup for the soul.

In fact, many new media are now making chicken soup for the soul, but people just buy it. After all, leeks come out one after another, and there will be another after cutting this session. Some people are not as good as chicken soup for the soul. As some people have seen, the era of flooding is not much better than chicken soup.