杀人回忆

时隔一个多月，峰学蔚来总经理武亮更新了术后近况，透露自己做了肝血管瘤切除手术，连同六分之一的肝一并切除。武亮称，在当时所有人都觉得是小手术，连护士也说是个小手术，他住院时甚至连换洗的内裤都没带，以为两小时就能出来、两天下床，甚至术后第七天还约了合作。结果手术做了五个小时，从手术室出来后，自己和家人、同事都懵了。7月24日他刚做完手术时就曾在社交平台发文调侃：“等于生了个孩子一样。”就他视频中回应来看，切除的肿瘤尺寸达10*7公分，这个尺寸说生个孩子也是不足为过。         Livestreaming team of Journey to the West: Heroes' Gathering, featuring the four master-disciples Photo: Courtesy of the cast team of Journey to the West: Heroes' GatheringAt dusk, in an unassuming grove in Shouguang, East China's Shandong Province, performers dressed as Tang Sanzang (Monk Xuanzang), Sun Wukong (Monkey King) and other characters from the renowned Chinese classic Journey to the West set up a thatched hut and cooked around a bonfire while livestreaming. They were not fighting demons or embarking on a pilgrimage, but chatting, joking and improvising in response to comments from live viewers.
This seemingly makeshift Journey to the West: Heroes' Gathering livestream has gone viral lately, with related videos garnering more than 140 million views and more than 400,000 viewers tuning in simultaneously at its peak on Douyin, the Chinese version of TikTok. Netizens gave it a distinctly contemporary nickname — the "2026 version of Journey to the West." 
Behind the viral success is a format far removed from traditional film and television productions: The livestream does not rely on tightly scripted dialogue.
Gao Guancheng, director of the team, told the Global Times that the team usually prepares only a basic outline before each livestream, leaving about 80 percent of each livestream to improvisation.
"Comments from viewers, trending internet memes, and even unexpected incidents on site can all become the starting point for the next scene," he said. This seemingly spontaneous approach, however, is far from unprepared.
Into daily life
The performers playing the "four pilgrims" all have years of experience portraying characters from Journey to the West. That experience has given them the chemistry needed to pick up and build on one another's cues during livestreams.
"The actor playing Tang Sanzang has years of rich experience imitating the character, the actor playing Sun Wukong has studied monkey opera since childhood, and the actor playing Zhu Bajie has been portraying the character for nearly 20 years," Gao said.
"One look, one movement, or one punchline, we all know who should pick it up and who shouldn't," he added.
That chemistry may be the foundation for bringing the characters to life, but what truly connects this new Journey to the West with contemporary life is the seemingly ordinary daily routine.
Peng Tao, a young viewer in his 20s who works in the internet industry, told the Global Times that when he first came across Journey to the West: Heroes' Gathering, he felt as if he were watching a spin-off of Journey to the West, one in which familiar characters were simply going about their daily lives.
"In the past, we saw them on the pilgrimage and fighting the demons. Now we see them eating together, chatting and working. That contrast really draws me in," he said.
In his view, the relationships among Tang Sanzang and his disciples remain familiar, but placing them in everyday situations gives those relationships a new resonance.
"For example, at work, there may be a relatively domineering boss, someone who always rushes to take responsibility, someone who keeps the atmosphere lively, and someone who doesn't say much but always gets things done in the end. You start to feel that they're no longer mythical figures, but people around you," he said.
That sense of familiarity may be one way for classics to reconnect with younger audiences.
"I don't think they are doing Journey to the West a disservice," Peng said. "The basic personalities of the characters are still there; they've simply been placed in a new setting. If a classic can only be told in the same way it was decades ago, it may actually become increasingly distant from young people."
Finding the right balance between the old and the new is also something the creators of Journey to the West: Heroes' Gathering have been thinking about.
"We are not remaking Journey to the West. By preserving the basic characteristics of the characters while placing them in new everyday settings, we are bringing Journey to the West into the lives of ordinary people," Gao said.
Stories reimagined 

The modern revival of classic traditional classics is by no means limited to Journey to the West.
Classic Chinese texts taught in schools, including Letter to Wife, Pipa Song and The Golden Fishhook, have also been turned into vivid and engaging short videos. One video based on The Golden Fishhook has garnered more than 100 million views. Such adaptations have attracted widespread attention online, according to the Beijing Daily.
These time-honored texts have become part of a generation's collective memory and naturally come with an established audience. Yet with countless classics to draw from, there is no shortage of adaptations that simply capitalize on established IPs or recycle old memes, and not every adaptation wins over audiences. What truly resonates is finding a thoughtful way to bring classics back down to earth, according to the Beijing Daily.
Beijing-based cultural scholar Wang Deyan told the Global Times that the vitality of a classic does not lie simply in repeating it word for word, but in its ability to continually forge new connections with contemporary life, emotions and aesthetics.
"Classics can continue to resonate in new eras because the relationships between their characters, their emotional structures and the values they convey can still connect with people today," he said.
In Wang's view, the popularity of Journey to the West: Heroes' Gathering is essentially a way for young audiences to rediscover a classic through new forms of media: The characters remain the same, but the way audiences view them has changed.
"Short videos, livestreams and online fan creations have lowered the threshold for creative expression, giving classics opportunities to enter more tangible settings of everyday life," he said.
Perhaps classics truly come "alive" in moments like these, when they are no longer simply "old stories" preserved in textbooks and on screens, but enter livestreams, short videos and the everyday lives of young people, gaining new vitality in a new era through each retelling and each new way of being seen.
。对于网友之前聊到的干眼症问题，武亮表示干眼症和这次手术无关，是因为麻醉状态下眼睛闭不严，类似张飞睁眼睡觉的状态，导致日常强光下干眼症加重。

二 | 身体情况方面，武亮表示这场手术下来瘦了20斤以上，从之前的175斤左右降到150斤以下，瘦到了2021年刚来苏州时的体重。

三 | 他调侃道，以前总想着减肥，结果住个院不用减了。但是恢复的还算顺利，不过毕竟切除一部分肝，医生建议还是静养一个月。关于直播复播时间，武亮表示医生说他现在“说话都说不利索”，什么时候开播还是等身体允许吧。此外，武亮还回应了网上关于股权变更的报道，表示这些内容都是法律层面真实有效的，团队会按照这个方式一起努力。对于网上那些“乱七八糟的话”，武亮称“别提那些人，真的是别有用心。”不过最后武亮称，包括自己、峰学蔚来小伙伴和董事会其他成员，大家一致的初心就是让张雪峰的女儿健健康康开开心心成长，让张老师的妈妈健健康康开开心心生活，让峰学蔚来越走越远越走越好。张雪峰走后才4个月，接班人也倒下了今年3月24日，峰学蔚来创始人张雪峰因心源性猝死离世，年仅41岁。仅仅过了4个月后，接班人武亮就因为肝血管瘤住院。武亮作为“002 号员工”和总经理，被迫从幕后走到台前，既要扛起公司日常运营，又要应对接连不断的舆论风波。领导的离开随之伴随的就是同事的“背叛”。张雪峰得意爱将数学老师大鹏随即在社交平台公开宣布离职，视频里哭得稀里哗啦，说自己是“为了雪峰老师才来的，他人不在了，我这股劲也没了”。离职之后转头他就推出了标价6999元的课程，还暗讽峰学蔚来12999元的售价太贵。甚至连副总裁张亢也疑似出走。同时不少家长也开始疑虑公司还能不能接着办下去，甚至不少人选择退费。用武亮自己的话说：原来几个人干的活，现在拍摄、剪辑、管理公司大小事务，他全要顶上。他曾在直播时疲惫又无奈地说："我真有点撑不住。"用武亮自己的话说：原来几个人干的活，现在拍摄、剪辑、管理公司大小事务，他全要顶上。他曾在直播时疲惫又无奈地说：“我真有点撑不住。”创始人IP的双刃剑张雪峰用数十年时间把峰学蔚来带到了行业头部，但他的骤然离场，让这家公司瞬间失去了最核心的护城河。个人IP是一把双刃剑。它能让一个公司在短时间内建立极强的用户信任和品牌壁垒，但也意味着一旦核心人物离场，整个体系可能瞬间崩塌。此前有网友问段永平：“如果泡泡玛特创始人王宁出现意外，对公司影响多大”，段永平直接破防回怼“你出意外的机会肯定更大。

四 | ”这家失去了灵魂人物的公司还能走多远，答案或许要等武亮“说话利索了”才能慢慢揭晓。