Jin Yong and Gu Long are both masters of martial arts novels, their novels are different in style, where is reflected?

Jin Yong and Gu Long are both master martial arts novelists who started their own schools, but their styles are very different.

To put it simply, Jinyong's novels are more realistic and Gu Long's novels are more realistic, which is the biggest difference between them.

Jin Yong's traditional cultural literacy is very deep, and he is good at arranging the Jianghu feuds in a macro historical background to narrate the story, to reflect the ideology of "chivalry, for the country and for the people". This concept is basically the same as that conveyed by Confucianism.

Therefore, reading Jinyong's martial arts novels is like reading a realistic historical novel, in which one can see the inherent ethical concepts of the Chinese nation and the heroic hero's sense of family and country.

On the other hand, Jin Yong is good at storytelling. His novels attach great importance to the rigor of logic, and seldom come as a surprise; the storyline is subtle and silky, and very detailed where it should be, and like most literary novels, it has a beginning, development, climax, and ending, which gives readers a sense of empathy.

Jin Yong's martial arts novels are very grounded, and the main characters, like ordinary people, have to go through all kinds of trials and tribulations before they can finally grow into a generation of warriors. In the novel character names, weapons, martial arts names on the naming, Jin Yong is more elaborate, often a martial arts routines and fighting scenes of a move, very detailed description, as a continuous development of a picture, can shape a very three-dimensional and complete sense of the picture.

It is for these reasons that Jin Yong's novels are less difficult to adapt if they are to be filmed as a movie or TV drama, with a high degree of reproduction of the language of the camera, a strong sense of immersion, and a deep impression on the audience after watching them.

Gu Long's novels are very creative, a bit "radical", often ignoring the novel's period background, as well as the main character's growth experience. His novels, the protagonist is a top master, will be a number of mastery, their martial arts is how to learn, in the learning process and experienced what setbacks? Gu Long basically does not say.

On some of the fighting scenes, Gulong also downplayed, often only highlighting the results, while ignoring the process.

Gu Long first wrote poems and prose, the use of literary language is very skillful, the writing style is condensed, good at writing short sentences, the sentence is very focused on the description of the scenery, as well as the mood of the hammer.

The beginning of "Emotional Swordsman" is written in a very meaningful way, fully reflecting his artistic style, wrote:

The cold wind is like a knife, taking the earth as an anvil, and treating all living beings as fish and meat.

Miles of snow, the dome of the sky as a furnace, dissolving everything into silver.

The snow will live, the wind is not fixed, a carriage from the north, rolling wheels crushed the snow and ice on the ground, but can not crush the loneliness of the world.

If it is Jin Yong, certainly can not write this kind of sentence.

In addition, Gu Long's martial arts novels are not prominent enough in the storytelling, and he likes to express his feelings through the scenery in his sentences, and at the same time, he will also intermingle with a lot of psychological descriptions, thus rendering the main character's psychological characteristics and personality temperament. At the same time, he also added his own life thinking.

The reason why Gu Long developed such a writing style is related to his reading habits during his adolescence. As a child, he read many western modern poems, psychological novels and stream-of-consciousness novels, and was sensitive to the modern trend of literary language. He was a pure literature writer himself, and later, after entering the field of martial arts novels, he put this technique to use. As a result, his novels read with some modern literary flavor.

The second is that Gu Long wanted to take a unique approach, deliberately pulling away from the writing style with Jin Yong, Liang Yusheng and other people, he did not want to follow their ass to write.

From this point of view, Gu Long is still very ambitious in the creation of martial arts novels, with a very strong sense of exploration.

The storyline is jumpy, lacks a sense of picture and logic, and has a lot of psychological descriptions. Gu Long's writing style will inevitably make his novels in the film and television adaptation, and the conversion of the lens language, the difficulty is greatly enhanced.

Overall, Gulong's novels are like old wine, which needs to be savored and pondered over in order to understand its meaning. Jin Yong's novels are like beer, which makes people drink it soundly.