Characters in real traditional martial arts novels

Martial arts novels are an important type of China's popular old novels, featuring chivalrous men and describing their stunts, courageous behaviors and rebellious behaviors. Martial arts novels can be divided into broad sense and narrow sense. Broadly speaking, it refers to the history of traditional chivalrous prodigal son, chivalrous humor, classical chivalrous fantasy and modern revision. In a narrow sense, it only refers to the rise of four new chivalrous novels, such as the history of traditional chivalrous prodigal son and chivalrous humor, represented by Jin Yong and Liang Yusheng in recent decades. In particular, Jin Yong's martial arts novels have created many fans of Jin Yong. Jin Yong is also a master of martial arts novels. His rich historical knowledge, profound experience, understanding of martial arts spirit, mastery of martial arts knowledge, wonderful narrative and description, and grasp of characters are really remarkable. Many historical figures and figures in The Legend of the Condor Heroes, such as the complicated relationship between the Song Dynasty and the Jin Dynasty in the Southern Song Dynasty, are based on historical facts, while Qiu Chuji and other historical figures are really real people, organically combining truth with fiction, and at the same time have the advantages of the four schools of northern martial arts novels, namely society, romance, martial arts and monsters, but at the same time they are completely different from these four schools and have new innovations and developments. Hong Kong is the birthplace of the new school of martial arts novels. In the early 1950s, the first modern martial arts novel appeared: The Double Shape of Tiger and Crane. The 1950s belonged to Liang Yusheng, and it was his masterpiece Seven Swords Down the Tianshan Mountains. To "Blurred" and "Jade Bow Edge in the Sea of Clouds" reached the insurmountable peak of personal creation. Although there are some changes in his later works, the influence is not great. Liang initiated an era, and his classical literature accomplishment was solid, and poems can be seen everywhere in his novels. But it is not completely divorced from the pattern of modern martial arts. Readers with better knowledge of ancient Chinese can have a look, and the description of words and history is still very standard. The appearance of Jin Yong in the middle and late 1950s. Jin Yong introduced western literary skills and film techniques, which made martial arts novels become best sellers in the era of political repression in Hong Kong and Taiwan. He reached the peak of his creation in Duke of Lushan in 1969, and then bravely retired. Generally speaking, Jin Yong's works are better from the early stage to the later stage. This is true from the text to the structure, including the tension of the plot. But in some of his works, there is a serious injury of time disorder! It may be related to the serialization of his works in Ming Pao. There is only a simple plot, and it goes on without restraint. Later, they made an irrevocable mistake. For example, after Huang Rong was born in The Condor, Mei and Chen stole Jiuyin and defected from Peach Blossom Island. When Qu Lingfeng was a thief in Niujia Village after his leg was broken, Guo Jing and Yang Kang's father didn't know each other. Wouldn't it be that Huang Rong and Guo Jing have long been brothers, and what is jing elder brother, pretending to be young? Later, when Jin revised his main work 14, The Story of Snow Shooting at the White Deer Plain and Laughing at the Peach Blossom Man, he also admitted these serious injuries and asked readers to forget it. At the same time as Jin Yong, other Hong Kong artists such as Jin Feng, Huan, Mou Songting, Landlord, Gao Feng and Shi Chong were all engaged in the creation of martial arts novels. However, Jin Yong's mountain is too high, and his contemporary martial arts novelists are unfortunate. Its contemporaries and later martial arts writers are unsustainable because of the lack of subjective conditions; Most of them can only go the way of the "gang martial arts faction" and muddle along in the rivers and lakes. In the early 1970s, after Jin Yong sealed the pen, a hundred schools of thought contended and a hundred flowers blossomed in Hong Kong's martial arts novels. Wushu in Taiwan Province Province is different from that in Hongkong. Contemporary with Jin and Liang, there are dozens of professional martial arts writers such as Sima Ling, Du Fu, Du Fu and so on. According to the rough statistics of Mr. Ye Hongsheng, a famous martial arts critic, in the heyday of martial arts novels, at least 300 martial arts writers in Taiwan Province Province made a living here, and at least 10,000 martial arts novels were published. The collection of books ranges from a few to dozens. Among them, Sima Ling, Longsheng Wo and Zhuge Qingyun were also called "Three Musketeers of Taiwan Province", and Sima Ling was the most influential at that time. He is knowledgeable, versatile, good at writing emotions and desires, and fighting for wisdom and strength. In particular, it describes the psychological changes of men and women in the burning of lust, as well as the mutual change of strangeness and truth, and the coexistence of reality and falsehood. In his early years, he pioneered the martial arts principle of defeating the enemy with spirit and momentum, which is close to the "Tao"-the saying that "it is better to have a sword without a sword", which is the same as Jin Yong and Gu Long, and even surpasses it. Many famous colleagues have been influenced and inspired by it, such as Gu Long, Shangguan Ding, Yi Rong and Bleak. It's a pity that Sima Ling failed to hold Yingbaotai; In the later period of his creation, although his masterpiece Sword shines brilliantly for martial arts novels, it has gradually declined since then-except Man in the Jianghu (1975), his series of works entitled "Tian Xinyue" in his later years have been exhausted and used up. Red flowers still need green leaves to help them. At that time, the representative works of green leaves included Flying Swallows to Surprise Dragons, Purple Electric Green Frost by Zhuge Qingyun, Thousand Illusions to Fix Earthquakes by Sima Ling, Jade Bow by Cao Ruobing, Excalibur of Jade Fan by Zhang Daqian, Seven Birds' Paws by Xiao Yi, Gu Jian's Relieving Emotions, Biography of Chivalrous Swordsman by Ding Jianxia and Yang Can by Liu. There is also the "ghost school"-the title and content are either ghosts or demons, bloodthirsty and murderous, killing people everywhere, and the blood is flowing. Representative works include Chen Qingyun's The Robbery of Hunger and Tian Ge's The Lamp of the Blood River. It is fair to see. Not to mention hundreds of others, most people can guess the ending story after reading the beginning and how to attract readers to pay a lot of money. It is Gu Long who really makes Taiwan Province Wushu go to the world Chinese circle. A name that can be written in Taiwan Province province's martial arts novels. He is the only one who can compare with Jin and Liang in Taiwan Province's martial arts novels. Gu Long began to write martial arts novels in the early 1960s, but his performance was mediocre. During this period, he ghosted for famous artists (such as Longsheng Wo and Zhuge Qingyun), but it was almost confusing, which showed that he had potential. In 64 years, it was refreshing to complete the early masterpiece "Huanhua Washing Sword Record". However, the style has not yet been formed, and it has not caused much waves. During the period of 65-67, Gu Long completed important works in the middle of his creation, such as Legend of Wulin and Undoubtedly Pride, and became popular on the Internet. In particular, the legend of Iron Blood written by 1967 (that is, the legend of Grand Theft Auto, Chu Liuxiang or Xiang Shuai) contains martial arts, literature and art, modern psychoanalysis, especially the structure of western mystery novels. Reading is like reading the oriental version of Sherlock Holmes. Later, Gu Long admitted that he was deeply influenced by western and Japanese mysteries. From then on, Gu Long's martial arts novels were thoroughly remoulded and entered the palace of new martial arts novels. But the change of Gu Long didn't stop there, but running all the way, which made people see things in a blur and suddenly realized. It turns out that martial arts novels can be written in this way, and they can also be seen in this way. Later, two films were completed one after another, namely, the ruthless sword of passionate swordsman (that is, Xiao Li's flying knife) and the brave martial arts soul, both of which are the beauty of "contradictory unity" between tradition and modernity. From the early 1970s, Gu Long was inspired by Xiao Ichiro (because there was a script before a novel) to reduce nonsense and unnecessary descriptions. Strengthen the contrast between body language and scenes. Gu Long's style has since become a peculiar style similar to poetry, haiku and non-prose. Perhaps the ancient warriors felt that this way could best express their ideas and earn as much money as possible. Such as "meteor? Butterfly? Sword, Happy Hero, Lu Xiaofeng series, seven kinds of weapons series (only six kinds), the prodigal son in the border town and the end of the world? Bright moon? Knife, white jade tiger, etc. They all write novels by taking apart pieces and changing scenery. This simple, direct and vivid behavior is a kind of harm to China's Chinese characters. However, despite this, the novels of Gu Long 1965 to 1975 are "outstanding", as he described: "He is a dead man, absolutely dead. Dead people can't talk, and those who can talk are definitely not dead. "Simply kill others, kill yourself. So that it has become the object of imitation by famous peers and new authors. But at the same time, he also killed these plagiarism writers who were not as talented as him. Ten years have passed, and Gu Long's works after 75 years have gone from bad to worse. Perhaps it is said that after every work, there is a real heroine and countless bottles of xo that consume too much passion. After reading half of his works, such as Flower Bell, I deeply realized the pain of drinking after he ran out of Jiang Lang in his later period. From the beginning of an idea or a few thousand words, you can get huge funds and contracts. Later, readers are gradually left out, and publishers are relentless. His untimely death may be his most desirable ending. In 85, Gu Long lived brilliantly in the severe pain of liver cirrhosis. From the mid-to-late 1970s to the 1980s, only Wen Ruian reluctantly took over Gu Long's gun, no, it should be a pen. 1970 published his first novel "Zhui" (one of the four famous arrest stories) under the pseudonym "Wen Liangyu" in Hong Kong's "Martial Arts Spring and Autumn Annals", when he was only sixteen years old. Although the writing is naive, the imagination is rich and the potential has been seen. His early works were greatly influenced by Gu Long, such as the Four Famous Catching Series and China Wonder Man. Since 1982 published Face to Face with Fate, there have been some wonderful materials in the novels of returning pearls, so the illusory color of ghosts and gods is very strong; There are many poetic languages in the book, such as Broken Dream Knife, Xia Shao and Killing Chu, which are intriguing. But since 1987, Wen Ruian claimed to be a "modernist". Like "kill you, okay?" , "excuse me? Please, please. Please please ","pull the mountains and rivers out of the world? Beef noodles, please rebel once, don't look at those who haven't said anything bad, and so on. Recently, there was a movie called "Breasts", which was even more incomprehensible. And the content is arranged in disorder to show its "modernity" and highlight the visual effect. As he said in the postscript of the book: "Martial arts novels must be mutated! ..... I don't care about success or failure, but this way of writing makes me feel very funny. " As a result, the beauty of China's writing is fragmented under Wen Ruian's "mutation"; The "new school" martial arts novels are completely alienated under his "teasing". It is said that he himself has a sense of alienation and is currently recuperating in a mental hospital. Since then, the creation of martial arts novels has entered a low ebb, and until the early 1990s, Huang Yi began to write martial arts novels or science fiction novels from The Blade Master, during which there were obvious traces of Yoshiki Tanaka. It was not until the Collection of Qin Xun that it really formed its own style, thus creating an era of fantasy martial arts novels. It influenced a large number of martial arts novel writers and began to turn to fantasy martial arts creation. Huang has changed, but the road of returning to orthodox martial arts or "chivalry" is more suitable. Then "Broken Void" and "Sex" aroused strong repercussions. The story of the dragon in the Tang Dynasty was widely circulated because of the Internet, which made Huang Yi's name spread all over China society. At present, many websites in China are serializing their new work "The Legend of Bianhuang". Huang Yi was deeply influenced by Sima Ling and paid great attention to imposing manner. If in the early days, under Liang Jin's pen, most people became proficient in martial arts as adults, but Qiu Chuji couldn't help Mei Chaofeng, then he would be tied up anytime and anywhere. After a Huashan sword fight, the battle between the enemy and ourselves became as simple as a math problem. I have many ranking experts and younger brothers, so you will be beaten! I know nothing about human potential, but China Wushu pays attention to the perfect combination of God and God. When Huang Yi added time, physical strength, mental state and other elements to it. Greatly improve that credibility of martial arts novel. After 2000, a large number of network writers engaged in martial arts creation, which is both a good thing and a bad thing, greatly enriching and prospering the types and numbers of readers. However, because most online novels are serialized, they must be submitted on time, and because of the concealment and randomness of online writers, a large number of eunuch works have appeared. Due to the closure of websites and other reasons, the serialization of other writers' works was interrupted. In just a few years, the development of martial arts novels is very rapid. In mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan, many young writers have emerged, but few can be compared with Liang, Jin, Gu and Huang. The clay figurine is most likely to be the first to be promoted. A novel "There are so many beauties in Jiangshan" is enough to establish its position in the modern new martial arts novels, with smooth words, full plot and great tension. There are many characters in the book, but they are not messy. The author is well versed in the history of Ming Dynasty, and at the same time, he uses the ancient to satirize the present, so he is comfortable between history and reality. If there are shortcomings, there are too many erotic descriptions, which reduces the quality of the novel. It is difficult to gain a foothold in the mainland physical book market. In fact, Jiangshan was more and more talked about in the later erotic part. This shift is very similar to that in Huang Yi. Bold prediction: clay figurine will be another Jin Yong after illness. Others, such as Zichuan (a military historical novel) by the old pig (to be exact, Zichuan is a hodgepodge, not an overhead history in a strict sense), Jia Yu's Dragon Snake after China's entry into WTO, and Zhenmu's Zhenmu are also very good. There is potential. Many other writers are also good, but many people have embarked on the road of fantasy, which is no longer a struggle within the scope of human resources. This should be included in another discussion topic. In short, the popularity of the Internet in the late 1990s ushered in another spring of martial arts novels. Looking forward to the birth of a new generation of grandmasters.