Taking Jin Yong's martial arts novels as an example, this paper explains how to use cultural research to analyze popular novels.

It is strange to analyze novels with culture.

But Jin Yong's novels can be analyzed from different angles, such as history, humanities, literature, ethics and so on.

For example, The Condor Heroes has a complex historical background, which can analyze the novel's utilization and divergent description of real historical time and events; The geographical span is obvious, and the description and analysis of the scene can be combined with the customs and environment of human geography. How to use these to shape the character and promote the development of the event; How to enrich literary works with the complex and diverse linguistic features of characters; There are also concepts of humanity, morality and ethics, which are the soul that can be analyzed in this book.

There are many works that analyze Jin Yong's novels now, so you can have a look first.