What is the concept of 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. In a broad sense, it refers to the history of traditional chivalrous prodigal son, chivalrous humor, classical chivalrous fantasy and modern revision, while in a narrow sense, it only refers to the history of traditional chivalrous prodigal son and chivalrous humor. There are two sources of martial arts literature: "First, Sima Qian's Historical Records Biography of the Knight Rider Assassin in the early Han Dynasty;": The second is the' Miscellaneous Stories' supernatural novels that prevailed during the Wei, Jin and Six Dynasties. " If the pre-Qin and Han Dynasties and even the Wei and Jin Dynasties are strange, it has built a solid foundation for the emergence of martial arts novels, which has been played before; Then when the legend of the Tang Dynasty first appeared in the history of literature, the martial arts novels really began to sprout. .