I. People
Old Mr. Jin Yong is a traditional man, and he writes novels in a proper way. Many characters in the book have been written since childhood, and often let readers watch an innocent child grow up, go through hardships and hardships, and finally hold his head high and become a peerless hero and a chivalrous man. After reading a book, it seems that I have experienced a life, and I can't help but be happy and sad. Guo Jing, who is rooted in Hongmiao, Yang Guo, who is aloof and uninhibited, and Wei Xiaobao, who is eccentric ... used to be ignorant urchins, growing up slowly under a wonderful pen. We witnessed their growth, and we grew up with them.
The characters in Jin Yong's novels all have history and background, and they are all good children who respect teachers and value education. Guo Jing and Yang Guo are model students who don't have to say anything. The son of Dali Duan kowtowed thousands of times in the jade statue of the fairy sister. Even Wei Xiaobao, who was tired, lazy and perverse, didn't dare to expect anything in front of the teachers in Jiu Nan (although his purpose of learning from the teachers was very impure), while Ling Huchong's worship and respect for Yue Buqun was heartbreaking and pedantic. "One day as a teacher, life as a father" and "A master makes a master, and a skillful craftsman carves beautiful jade" are ancient ideas of Jin Yong.
Gu Long is an anti-traditional person. Subversion and innovation are the directions he insists on. The characters in his works have no childhood, no history and no owners. Even if they do, they just write one or two simple strokes on one page of a chapter, leaving the rest for readers to associate and analyze.
Those mysterious people, coming out of Gu Long's books, look unique and make people admire and admire. That unparalleled martial arts, aloof and dust-free bearing, handsome eyes, free and easy smile, gestures and eyebrows are all breathtaking charm. Even many years later, you can still look at Li See's eyes like the sea, Shen Lang's casual and natural smile, and Chu Xiangshuai's signature action of not turning over the book and closing his eyes and touching his nose. ...
"Nothing wins but something wins" is Gu Long's original work. The martial arts he wants to write is not a move, but an artistic conception. He said that the master's confrontation won not the moves but the momentum. So we saw the ancient martial arts, Li Xunhuan's flying knife, Chu Liuxiang's mysterious flying knife, Lu Xiaofeng's finger that can hold everything, and a drop of deep red blood slowly blown off Ximen Chuixue's sword. ...
Ancient Wushu is not as real and vague as the golden wind, but it is beautiful and charming, like poetry, like music, like the brilliant light at sunset.
The men who once fascinated me in those books are as mysterious as the wind and disappear without a trace. They have no past and no future, only present, perfect present. They tell the perfect story at the perfect time. We are loyal listeners. Usually, we are listening to the imagination. The story is over. They waved their sleeves and drifted away, and their free and easy backs crossed a gorgeous rainbow and then disappeared in the distance.
Sometimes I think that Gu Long's martial arts is really an adult fairy tale. In reality, as long as it is the most splendid year of China, how can we not be ignorant of childhood and abandon the declining twilight? If only I could live like this once, I would live like a summer flower and die like an autumn leaf.
Second, love.
Love is the eternal theme of human beings and all literary works, and martial arts novels are no exception.
Love written by Jin Yong is the first love, pure and transparent as crystal, and people who watch it can't help but smile. On the shore of Meilin Lake, Guo Jing first saw Rong Er whose daughter was wearing makeup. The simple boy was speechless. He doesn't know what love is, but he feels indescribable joy. At the noisy hero banquet, the little dragon girl blushed slightly in full view and told Guo Jing: I can't marry your daughter because I want to marry myself. Such a woman with a clear moon and clear ice, such a clear and innocent feeling, makes readers smile and move.
Maybe he was also moved, so Jin Yong likes to fulfill jing elder brother and Rong Er in The Condor Heroes. In "The Condor Heroes", the little dragon girl and infatuated 16-year-old Yang Guo were fulfilled, and in "the legendary swordsman", the free and easy Miss Ren Da who loves him is fulfilled. Of course, Duan Yu of Dali caught up with Qianshan in Dragon, and finally got what he wanted in the mud at the bottom of the dry well, and Wang Yuyan, whom he regarded as a natural person.
Where there is comedy, there is tragedy. There is no doubt that Qiao Feng is a unique tragic hero in Jin Yong's works, and his life and love are the deepest sorrow. It was raining cats and dogs that night, and he personally killed the woman he loved most. Lightning flashed across the sky, illuminating his chilling pain and despair, and making an empty promise with cattle and sheep. From that moment on, I will be lonely forever. A Zi followed in his footsteps and shouted, Brother-in-law! Brother in law! His heart is like a rock, and he turns a blind eye to the affection in her eyes. Outside Yanmen, he traded his death for peace in Song and Liao countries. Ah Zi hugged him, and she said, Brother-in-law, you are really fine now. I hugged you, but you won't push me away! Yes, this is better!
At that moment, my tears rained down and wet the book in my hand.
If Jin Yong's love is a juvenile feeling, then Gu Long's love is an adult world.
Gu Long's concept of love does not have the concept of being together forever. Maybe he doesn't believe that there will be such a tough love at all. Maybe he thinks the tragedy is more touching. Either way, in short, most of the love endings in Gu Long's books are separation, where will you go or death.
Li Xunhuan pushed Lin Shiyin to Long Xiaoyun and left. From then on, only a pot of wine, a knife and a pile of wood accompanied him. It will be a lot of Lin Shiyin, but there is no beautiful life to deceive yourself. A well-deserved example of Xiao Li's flying knife is to carve wood in his hand and in his heart. Who knows the pain of knife after knife? Who knows Lin Shiyin's pain?
Fu Hongxue loves Trinon, and his feelings can be felt. Cui Nong's departure even made him lose the power to draw a sword. But for revenge, he gave up Cui Nong and left alone. Although I finally hugged Cui Nong, I finally said that I would be together forever. However, it is forever.
In fact, if Cui Nong hadn't died, she would still have lost Fu Hongxue, because his hatred is far more important than love.
This separation is unforgettable, and it will draw wounds in each other's lives that will never heal. If they touch each other, they will burst and shed sad blood, which is painful. "Who abandoned leisure for a long time? Every spring comes, melancholy remains. "
And some people can leave peacefully, of course, there will be sadness, disappointment, and only a short-lived heart injury. Chu Liuxiang, for example, and Lu Xiaofeng, for example, are men with butterfly souls, always eager for new sweetness, and never stop at a flower, no matter how beautiful she is.
Beauty Stone left consciously after a night of lingering with Chu Xiangshuai. She said, "You and I are not from the same world at all. Even if I can barely keep you, or I must go with you, I will not be happy in the future. "
A clever woman knows very well that only by doing so can she leave an indelible memory in the heart of the man she loves deeply.
Gu Long's love reminds me of Xu Wei's song: "I am a prodigal son, walking alone in the distance, you are a woman in my vast sea of people …" Perhaps behind every prodigal son, there is a woman who is willing to wait for him, shed tears for him, bloom for him and finally wither for him. Sometimes, less than one.
Third, friendship.
Boldly speaking, Jin Yong does not write about friendship. In his books, it is difficult to find a feeling of being honest with each other. This word, does not belong to relatives, does not belong to lovers, only belongs to friends, real friends.
Guo Jing was born and raised in Mongolia and became friends with Tuo Lei. When Genghis Khan tried to kill Guo Jing who refused to attack the Song Dynasty for him, Tuo Lei disobeyed his father's orders and gave him money with a horse to help Guo Jingnan return. If the story ends here, their friendship can be perfect. It's a pity that Guo Jing later guarded Xiangyang and learned that the Mongolian commander in chief who led the troops to attack the Song Dynasty was Tuo Lei, so he had the idea of killing. Although it is for the survival of the nation, it is really chilling to treat a friend who is a friend of life and death.
Guo Jing is so, look at others. In Yang Guo's life, there are no same-sex friends except Little Dragon Girl and several other women who look somewhat similar to Little Dragon Girl. If it's really hard to count, it's only a god carving. Although Ling Huchong is wild and uninhibited, he has a good relationship with Tian Boguang, Xiang Wentian and others, but after all, there is a deep-rooted distinction between good and evil in his heart. With this bad feeling, it is difficult to treat each other sincerely. Besides, Qiao Feng also has two brothers of Jin Lan, Duan Yu and Xu Zhu, but they don't get along for a long time and have nothing in common, and their feelings are average.
If there is one person in Jin Yong's novels who is obsessed with friendship, it is Wei Xiaobao.
Wei Xiaobao is definitely not a good man. He is a punk from Li Chunyuan. have it both ways is duplicitous, greedy, lewd and scheming. He didn't read a book, didn't understand Confucius and Mencius, and didn't understand the principles of benevolence and righteousness. He only insisted on one thing, that is, he didn't betray his friends.
It is this point that insists that Wei Xiaobao is in pain and predicament. On the one hand, he is a little Zi Xuan who wrestles with him and eats snacks together, on the other hand, he is a brother who trusts him, worships him and follows him. He didn't want to betray either side, so he had to rack his brains to deal with it until he was helpless. He cursed: "Damn it, I quit!" Don't step on any boat! So he waved his sleeves and returned to Yangzhou to see his mother with seven beautiful wives and a lot of money.
Wei Xiaobao is not a hero. He doesn't have such concepts as national justice and national survival in his mind. He only knows how to live up to his conscience and friends. Running away is a cowardly act, but the way this little prick walks is particularly cute.
Compared with Jin Yong, Gu Long's friendship is impassioned and stirring. Even in his works, friendship has reached a peak that no one can surpass, such as Li Xunhuan and A Fei.
"Get on the bus, I'll give you a ride!" A warm word comes from a warm heart, just like a cup of warm and mellow wine in the cold snow, which warms the life of the prodigal son.
Teddy boy killed the black snake and got fifty taels of silver. He said to Li Xunhuan, "I'll buy you a drink."
Later, I heard Emil Wakin Chau sing a friend: "In a word, a lifetime of love, a glass of wine." For a moment, I was in a trance and saw two people sitting in the carriage like running water, drinking a bowl of wine. This is as real as a movie, and my heart is warm and moving, just like seeing willow branches swaying in the spring breeze.
Fourth, rivers and lakes
What is Jianghu? Where are the rivers and lakes?
Jianghu is a fertile ground for Wushu to take root and sprout. Without rivers and lakes, there is no wonderful story.
Jin Yong's rivers and lakes are rivers and lakes of groups and rivers and lakes of atmosphere. In a book, a dozen people, dozens of people, even hundreds of people gathered in his rivers and lakes, coupled with a certain historical background of hot water, people are in hot water, and even the country will not be a country, rendering a solemn and tragic color. Heroes grow up in this environment, constantly strive for self-improvement and become peerless masters, the legendary swordsman. Then save the people, save the people, turn the tide when the country is about to perish, stand up against foreign invasion and do an epic cause.
Jin Yong's rivers and lakes are magnificent. Even in the legendary swordsman without any historical background, these four words are the sublimation and magnificence of the theme. The ensemble of harp and flute sounded leisurely in How Green My Valley is, clear and broad-minded, and the fairy sound curled up. The rock-solid shackles between good and evil are broken by graceful music. Life is a bosom friend, and you can also smile under the grave. Who is not moved by the lofty mind of such a moonlight wind?
Jin Yong's rivers and lakes are rivers and lakes of greater self, with a strong and tragic main tone, such as the tragedy of ancient Greece, which shaped heroes. For the country and the people, chivalrous people are great. This character perfectly sums up Jin Yong's rivers and lakes.
Gu Long's Jianghu is his own battlefield. He does not write about great times or great heroes. He only writes people. As he himself said, "humanity" is an indispensable theme in the novel.
So, he put his characters in the rivers and lakes he created, and then watched them struggle to survive in that cruel environment with strict father's eyes, watched them shed blood and tears in the shadow of swords, and watched them succeed and fail, happy and painful, independent on the peak and struggling in the deep valley. He watched all this and then recorded their hard journey and life experience. He said: this is human nature!