Traditional Culture Encyclopedia - Traditional virtues - What do you think is Jin Yong's intention to create the image of Wei Xiaobao? Is there any intention to deconstruct or subvert the writing norms of martial arts novels? Please, everyone.

What do you think is Jin Yong's intention to create the image of Wei Xiaobao? Is there any intention to deconstruct or subvert the writing norms of martial arts novels? Please, everyone.

Wei Xiaobao is one of the most controversial heroes in Jin Yong's novels. He was born a rogue embryo, glib, flattering, slick, cunning and resourceful. Although he is greedy for money, he doesn't take money. He has many "skills" and has not lost many "heroic qualities". When creating the image of Wei Xiaobao, Jin Yong tried to analyze the image of Wei Xiaobao from the perspectives of life, money, love, victory and defeat, and narrow sense, and then combined with the literary value of this image and its unique influence on traditional martial arts, made a superficial analysis of Wei Xiaobao, an "alternative hero". The modern interpretation of martial arts in Jin Yong's novels leads to the non-heroism of chivalry and the non-idealization of the Jianghu world, and even dispels the martial arts worship in martial arts novels. It can be said that it is a revolutionary impact on traditional martial arts novels and a new concept of martial arts creation. After Jin Yong, there will be new martial arts novels, but we think that the martial arts of traditional martial arts novels are supreme, and the idealized chivalrous image can't dominate the whole country, while ordinary people of Wei Xiaobao style will appear in new martial arts works with faces closer to the reality of life, which is a true embodiment of the diversity of values in today's world. According to Jin Yong's own statement, Duke Lushan "is no longer like a martial arts novel". This means that in Jin Yong's own mind, Duke Lushan is no longer a simple martial arts novel. It transcends the "chivalrous" mode of Jin Yong's other novels, but is an innovative work against tradition and chivalry, which was conceived in the chivalrous cultural tradition.