What's the difference between the new martial arts novels and the old ones?

The difference between the new martial arts novels and the old martial arts novels is quite big. One feature is the different languages used, and the other feature is the different writing techniques.

The new martial arts novels are mainly in vernacular Chinese, while the old martial arts novels are mainly in semi-classical Chinese or classical Chinese. This is mainly related to the literary tradition at that time. In the study of modern novels, scholars usually take Liang Yusheng's "Jinghua Long Hudou" as a watershed, and divide martial arts novels into the old school and the new school.

Liang Yusheng's previous martial arts novels were all old-school novels, mainly represented by White and others. Later martial arts novels were all new-school novels, mainly represented by Jin Yong and Gu Long.

Old-school novels mainly write stories about love and hate, getting rid of violence, peace or national struggle, and usually adopt chapter-by-chapter novels or biographical descriptions in writing techniques. However, the novel of the new school does not stick to form, nor does it stick to history in content, and gives full play to imagination. In addition to the themes involved in the old novels, the new martial arts novels also write various kinds of fighting between Jianghu sects, focusing on depicting the whole martial arts Jianghu.

The new martial arts novels have absorbed many modern writing techniques and skills in style, and the language is more fluent and colloquial, adding a lot of descriptions of the characters' psychology. Even in some plots, some reasoning skills, case-solving skills and descriptions of suspense scenes are added.

Therefore, compared with the old martial arts novels, the new martial arts novels are more vivid and have a wider readership, which is one of the main reasons why the new martial arts novels have been popular for some time.

With the progress of the times, there are many differences between modern martial arts novels and new martial arts novels. Modern martial arts novels are not limited to describing martial arts. Many novels incorporate many elements, such as truth, time and space, magic and so on. This is also our common fantasy martial arts novel now.