The Literary Achievements of Contemporary Wuxia Novels in Hong Kong and Taiwan and the Way of Dissemination

The most prominent thing in recent decades is the rise of new martial arts novels in Hong Kong and Taiwan represented by Jin Yong and Liang Yusheng, especially Jin Yong's martial arts novels, which have created a lot of Jin Yong fans. Jin Yong is also worthy of a generation of masters of martial arts novels, his rich historical knowledge, profound experience, understanding of the spirit of martial arts, mastery of martial arts knowledge, wonderful narrative and description, grasp of the character, there are indeed many excellent. Many of the history and characters in Legend of the Eagle-Shooting Heroes, such as the intricate relationship between the Song Dynasty and the Jin Dynasty and the Yuan Dynasty during the Southern Song Dynasty, are based on historical facts, and historical characters such as Qiu Shi Ji are also real, combining the real with the fictional, and at the same time, combining the four major schools of the Northern School of martial arts novels: Social, Romance, Technique, and Gods and Monsters, but at the same time, completely different from the four major schools, and with a new innovation and development. 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 Tiger and the Crane.

The 1950s belonged to Liang Yusheng, represented by the series Seven Swords Descend the Mountain of Heaven. To the "Pingzong chivalry", "the sea of clouds and jade bow edge" to reach an insurmountable peak of personal creation. Although there were changes in his later works, his influence was not very great. Liang created an era of solid classical literature, and poems can be found everywhere in his novels. However, he has not yet completely broken away from the modern martial arts genre. Readers with good knowledge of ancient literature can take a look, the text and historical depiction is still of a high standard.

The appearance of Jin Yong in the mid to late 50s. Jin Yong introduced Western literary techniques and movie techniques to be pinched, in the era of political repression in Hong Kong and Taiwan at the time, so that martial arts novels into best-selling books. He also elevated martial arts novels to the height of literary art. Jin Yong once combined the first characters of the names of his novels into a couplet: Flying Snow Shooting White Deer in the Sky, Laughing Swordsman Leaning on Blue Ducks (see The Book of the Deer and the Tripods - An Afterword). The couplet has been widely circulated and has been made into TV dramas and movies in Hong Kong and Mainland China, and is a must-read for "Jin fans". It reached its creative peak in 1969 with Lu Ding Ji (The Story of the Deer and the Tripods), and then retired.

Jin Yong's works as a whole, from the early to the late stage is better and better. From the text to the structure, including the tension of the plot. But in some of his works there is a hard time misplaced! It may be related to the serialization of its works in Ming Pao. There is only a simple plot, and the sky is the limit. To the extent that it caused unchangeable errors later on, e.g., after Huang Rong was born in "The Shooting Eagles", Mei and Chen mutinied out of Peach Blossom Island by stealing the "Nine Yin Sutra". When Qu Lingfeng was a thief in Niujia Village after his leg was broken, Guo Jing and Yang Kang's dad didn't know each other yet. Then it is not Huang Rong and Guo Jing have long been popular sibling love, still shouting what Jing brother, pretending to be young? Later Jin in the revision of his "flying snow even the sky shooting white deer, laughing book god knight leaning on blue ducks" 14 major works, also recognized this injury, but in addition to no major mistakes.

With Jin Yong's contemporaries in Hong Kong, there are other people engaged in martial arts novels, such as Jin Feng, Zhang Meng also, Mou Songting, the owner of the Wind and Rain Building, the peak, Shi Chong and so on. However, the mountain of Jin Yong is too high, and his contemporaries are the unfortunate writers of martial arts novels. His peers and later martial arts writers or subjective conditions are not enough, it is difficult to continue; most of them can only follow the path of the past, "club skills school", in the jianghu vendetta to make a living.

In the early 70's, after Jin Yong closed the pen, Hong Kong martial arts novels, a hundred schools of thought, a hundred flowers blossomed situation. Taiwan's wuxia was differentiated from Hong Kong's, with dozens of professional wuxia writers such as Sima Ling, Wolong Sheng, Dugu Hong, Chen Chingyun and Hsiao Yi among Jin's and Liang's contemporaries. According to the rough statistics of Mr. Ye Hongsheng, a famous martial arts critic, during the flourishing period of martial arts novels, Taiwan had at least three hundred martial arts writers who relied on them to make a living, and published at least tens of thousands of martial arts novels. The number of books published ranged from several to dozens. Among them, Sima Ling, Wolong Sheng, Zhuge Qingyun and known as "Taiwan's three swordsmen".

Shi Ma Ling was the most influential at that time. He was an erudite and versatile writer, specializing in writing about love and lust, and fighting with wisdom and strength. In particular, he was unique in depicting the psychological changes of men and women in lust, as well as the art of martial arts in which the odd and the positive change each other, and the virtual and the real, all of which were unique for a while. And its early pioneering spirit, momentum to overcome the enemy to win the principle of martial arts, has been close to the "way" - and Jin Yong, Gu Long lineage of "no sword is better than a sword", there are similarities and subtleties! The same thing is true of Jin Yong and Gu Long's "no sword is better than a sword", and it is even better than that. Famous artists of the same generation by its influence, inspired by many, such as Gu Long, Shangguan Ding, Yi Rong, Xiao Se, etc. are. Unfortunately, Sima Ling failed to hold the surplus to protect the Thai; its creation of the later part of the "Sword Sea Eagle Yang" this superb masterpiece for the martial arts novels shine, but after that, that is gradually downhill, its later years to "Tianxin month" pen name compiled by the "Strongman" series of works. At that time, the representative works of the green leaves were Wolongsheng "immortal crane divine needle", Zhuge Qingyun "purple electricity green frost", Sima Ling "sword Qi thousand illusions", the sole embrace of the master of the building "Biju Bow", Cao Ruobing "Jade Fan Divine Sword", Xiaoyi "seven fowl palms", Yunzhongyue "Ancient Sword Jiexin", Ding Jianxia "God xiao Jianjie biography", Liu Liuyang "Jade face Xiu Luo", Dugu red "Yong Qian Fei Long Biography"; and "Ghost School". "- the name of the book, the content is not a ghost that is the devil, and bloodthirsty and murderous, at every turn to kill the corpse, blood flow into the river. Representatives of Chen Qingyun "blood demon robbery", Tian Ge "blood river magic lamp" and so on. It is still available for viewing.

The person who really let Taiwan martial arts to the world Chinese circle is Gu Long. A name that can be written about in the world of Taiwanese martial arts fiction. The only person who can be compared with Jin and Liang in the world of Taiwanese martial arts novels. Gu Long began to write martial arts novels in the early 60s, but the performance was mediocre, during which for famous authors (such as Wolong Sheng, Zhuge Qingyun), but a few can be messed up, which shows that they do have the potential. After completing his early masterpiece, Raccoon Flower Sword Cleansing Records, in 1964, he turned heads. However, his style had not yet been formed and did not cause too many repercussions. Between 1965 and 1967, Gu Long completed his important works in the middle of his creative period, such as The History of Wulin and The Greatest Generation, and began to gain popularity. Especially in 1967, he wrote The Legend of the Iron Blood (or the Legend of the Grand Theft Ch'iu Liu-hsiang or the Legend of Hsiang Shuai), which is a mixture of martial arts, literature, and modern psychoanalysis, especially the structure of Western reasoning novels. It is like reading an oriental version of Sherlock Holmes. Later, Gu Long confessed that he was y influenced by Western and Japanese speculative fiction. From this point onwards, Gu Long's martial arts novels were transformed into a new school of martial arts novels. But Gu Long's change does not end here, but all the way to run wild, let a person dazzled after a sudden awakening. The original martial arts novel can be written in this way, can also be seen in this way. After that, he completed "mercurial swordsman merciless sword" (i.e., Li Feidao), "Iron gallant warrior soul" duology, can be said to be complete, both traditional and modern "paradoxical unity" of the beauty.

Beginning in the early 70s, Gu Long first wrote "Xiao XI Lang" (due to the first script, and later novels) inspired to reduce nonsense and unnecessary description. Enhance body language and scene setting. From then on, Gulong's became a strange style of writing that resembles poetry, haiku, and non-prose. Maybe the ancient warrior felt that this kind of way can best express his thoughts, and at the same time can maximize the earning of the manuscript fee. For example, "Meteor-Butterfly-Sword", "Joyful Heroes", "Lu Xiaofeng" series, "Seven Weapons" series (only six of them), as well as "The Prodigal Son of the Border City", "The End of the World-Mingmoon Knife", "White Jade Tiger", etc., none of them used the technique of movie subplot and scene change to write novels. This kind of simple, direct, animated delusion is a disservice to Chinese writing. Nevertheless, between 1965 and 1975, Gu Long's novels were so outstanding that he became a target for imitation by his peers and new authors. But at the same time, he also killed those followers who were not as talented as he was. After a decade of popularity, Gu Long's works after 1975 deteriorated, perhaps because he was known to have a real-life heroine and countless bottles of XO after each work consumed too much of his passion. After reading half of his works such as The Protector's Bell, one y understands the pain of his alcoholism after his late period of journeying. From an idea or the beginning of a few thousand words that could be exchanged for huge sums of money and contracts, to the later stages when readers grew cold and publishers chased after manuscripts with ruthlessness. An untimely death was perhaps the end he himself most desired, and in 1985 Gu Long finished his splendid life in excruciating pain from cirrhosis of the liver.

In the mid-to-late 70s and 80s, Wen Rui'an published his debut novel, "The Chase" (one of the "Four Famous Fugitives" stories) in Hong Kong's "Martial Arts Spring and Autumn" in 1970 under the pen name "Wen Liangyu," at the age of 16; although his writing skills were very naive, his imagination was rich and he had already written a series of novels about the Four Famous Fugitives. Although his writing skills were very naive, he was rich in imagination and already had potential. His early works were quite influenced by Gu Long, such as the series of "The Four Famous Arrests" and "The Wonderful Heroes of the Divine Kingdom", all of which showed traces of Gu's influence. Since 1982, the launch of "Cloth God", and then added a number of still pearl novels of the fantastic material, so the god of magic and fantasy color is very strong; and "broken dream knife", "lesser warrior", "to kill the Chu" and other books, there are a lot of "poetic" language and text, intriguing. However, from 1987 onwards, Wen Rui'an has been labeling himself as a "modernist". For example, he wrote Killing You, Okay? The contents are arranged horizontally and vertically to indicate their "modernity" and to emphasize the visual effect. As he said in the book's afterword: "Martial arts novels must mutate! I don't care if ...... succeeds or fails, gains or losses, but this way of writing makes me feel very funny." So the beauty of the Chinese text, in Wen Ryan's "mutation", was cut to pieces; and the "new school" martial arts novels, but also in his "fun", was completely The "new school" of martial arts novels has also been completely "alienated" under his "fun".

From then on, the creation of martial arts novels entered a low ebb, until the early 1990s, Hong Kong's Huang Yi from the "Great Swordsman" began to create martial arts novels, or science fiction, during which there are obvious traces of Yoshiki Tanaka. It was not until "The Search for Qin" that he truly developed his own style, thus ushering in the era of metaphysical martial arts novels. Influenced a large number of authors of martial arts novels, began to turn to the creation of metaphysical martial arts. Huang and change, but back to the orthodox martial arts road or "different chivalry" is more appropriate. Subsequently launched the "broken void", "overturned clouds and rain" have caused a strong reaction. The "Legend of the Two Dragons of Datang" was even more widely spread because of the Internet, making Huang Yi's name spread throughout the Chinese society. Currently, his new novel Legend of the Borderlands is being serialized on several websites in China. Huang Yi was y influenced by Sima Ling, the first importance of momentum, if the early, Liang, Jin's works, the adult after most of the people's martial arts has been set, Qiu can not help Mei Chaofeng, then he will always be at any time and place can only be a tie. After a Huashan debate, the enemy and our fight becomes as simple as an arithmetic problem. I have more ranked masters and minions, so you just wait to be flattened! The potential of man knows nothing, and the Chinese martial arts emphasize the perfect combination of essence and spirit. When Huang Yi added elements such as time, physical strength, and mental state. It greatly increased the credibility of martial arts novels.

The emergence of a large number of network writers engaged in martial arts creation after 2000 is both good and bad, the good is greatly enriched and prosperous readers can see the variety and quantity. However, the fact that most web novels are serialized and must be delivered on time, as well as the invisibility and arbitrariness of web writers, led to the emergence of a large number of eunuch works. Some other writers have seen their serialized works interrupted due to reasons such as websites going out of business. In just a few years, the development of wuxia novels has been very rapid, and there are many young writers who have come to prominence on the mainland and in Hong Kong and Taiwan, but only a few of them have the potential to compete with Liang, Jin, Gu, and Huang. Others, such as Old Pig's Purple River (a military historical novel) (to be precise, Purple River is a hodgepodge, not strictly overhead history), Jia Yu's Into the World Dragon and Snake, and True Essence's True Essence are also very good. Has potential. A lot of other writers are good too, but a lot of them have gone down the path of metaphysics and are no longer fighting within the confines of human power. That should be scratched into another topic of discussion. Modern martial arts novels are a new phase of martial arts on paper, with ideals and romance downplayed.

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