Writing process
196 1 year, after the success of the first battle of The Dragon Slayer, Jin Yong began to write the novel The Condor Heroes, which was serialized in Ming Pao 196 1 on July 6. At that time, Eternal Dragon Slayer was still being sorted out, and it didn't end until July 8. The two novels are published on the same page. He called this work, Ming Pao and The Condor Heroes "Shooting Sculpture Trilogy".
196 1 was serialized in The Legend of the Condor Heroes, which took more than a year to complete. 1976, the author revised the book comprehensively. In 2003, the author revised The Condor Heroes again.
character introduction
zhang wu ji
Zhang Cuishan, the second generation "Zhang Wuxia" of Wu Tangzong, is the son of Yin Susu, the founder of China Zoroastrianism, the adopted son of Xie Xun, the golden lion king of Zoroastrianism, the grandson of Yin Tianzheng, the founder of Zoroastrianism, and the 34th generation leader of Zoroastrianism in the world. Born in an Arctic island of ice and fire, he recognized Xie Xun as his adoptive father. I grew up in an environment without a world, and I was taught by three people. I have a good personality since I was a child. In Binghuo Island, Xie Xun, we talked about beating monks with "Seven Wounds Boxing". We punched ten times, and Zhang Wuji said, "Adoptive father, there are three punches left. Do not fight. This old monk is a very nice person. You hurt him, and you are sorry for it. It's not good to hurt yourself. " With the help of his adoptive father, he learned some basic martial arts. When I was ten years old, I followed my parents back to the Central Plains on a raft. When Wulin learned that Zhang Cuishan and Yin Susu were back, decent and evil people came after him and tried to get the whereabouts of Xie Xun and Dragon Slayer Road from them. Zhang Wuji Jr. has also become their target, as a breakthrough for hunting information. From then on, I began to step into the rivers and lakes and began to understand the sinister nature of the people.
surname
Formerly known as Timur, the daughter of Ruyang Wang, the title is "Princess". Zhao Min is her Chinese name, which comes from her title "Lord of Shaomin County". His father was in charge of the army. Zhao Min is kind in nature, not deep in internal force, but has a wide range of knowledge. She likes to dress up as a Han Chinese and is a beautiful Han Chinese, but as soon as she acts, the ferocity of women in that country is immediately revealed. As the daughter of Princess Yuan, she specializes in dealing with Jianghu Wulin people under the command of a master like a cloud and a ghost. Her style and demeanor are the same at the moment. Zhao Min can make them serve them faithfully and make them despise the heavenly sword. It can be seen that she can coordinate internal interests.
Zhou Zhiruo
The fourth generation leader of Emei, a disciple of the Emei Sect leader, is very fond of the extinct teacher and has a good impression on her. One of Zhang Wuji's pursuers, the treasure of Emei Sect, "Emei Jiuyang Gong". Beautiful appearance, superb martial arts, and quite smart. At first, he was gentle, kind, intelligent and tolerant, but later he became hypocritical, sinister and cruel because of the teacher's trust. When Zhou Zhiruo was young, his father, a boatman in Hanshui River, was shot and killed by the pursuing Yuan Army for carrying Chang Yuchun and Zhou's sons. Fortunately, Zhang Sanfeng took Zhang Wuji to Shaolin to heal Lu Yu and beat off Yuan Bing. Save Chang Yuchun and the little girl Zhou Zhiruo. The next night, in a small room near the Taiping Temple, Zhou Zhiruo carefully fed Zhang Wuji, and the two men forged a friendship from then on.
Xiao Zhao
Persian Zoroastrian saint. Daughter of mother-in-law Jinhua and teacher Yinye. Xiao Zhao's mother violated the rules of the Persian General Church. In order to get rid of the pursuit of the Persian General Church, "Golden Flower Mother-in-law" fostered a young Xiao Zhao in a farmhouse, which made Xiao Zhao lose her father's love and mother's love since childhood, and let her daughter steal the "Dragon Slayer" in the secret passage of Zoroastrianism. When Zhang Wuji first met Xiao Zhao, his left foot was limping, his back was hunched, his right eye was small, his left eye was big, his nose and mouth were twisted, and his shape was extremely scary, but all this was an illusion. When mowgli entered the secret passage with her and was trapped in the secret passage by Cheng Kun, Xiao Zhao showed his true colors. It turns out that Xiao Zhao is a beautiful woman. She joined Zoroastrianism and made a fool of herself. Bright eyes, neatly trimmed eyebrows, short nose and slightly pear-shaped cheeks are very beautiful. She exudes a temperament different from that of women in the Central Plains. She can gossip, understand Persian and have excellent martial arts, which has been handed down from her own family.
Li Yin
Also known as Spider, the granddaughter of Yin, the founder of Tianying, the daughter of Yin, the cousin of Zhang Wuji, and the apprentice of "Golden Flower Mother-in-law". When she was twelve or thirteen, she was beautiful, slim and had beautiful eyes. /kloc-at the age of 0/7, he is ugly, dark-faced, puffy and uneven, because he practices the poisonous martial art of "killing all the spiders", which gives people a terrible feeling. When I was a child, I hated my father for abandoning my mother and finding a new lover, so I killed Ernian and took it out on my mother. My mother was chased by my father Yin to protect her neck. After that, she left her father and escaped the rescue of "Golden Flower Mother-in-law". Later, I went to "Golden Flower Mother-in-law" to be a maid and learn martial arts from her.
Zhang Cuishan
Ranked fifth among the "Wudang Seven Heroes", Yin Susu's husband, Zhang Wuji's father and Xie Xun's adopted brother. Handsome, although slightly thin, but fresh and handsome, good-looking. Zhang Sanfeng, the founder of Wutangmen, personally teaches martial arts. Practicing high-intensity martial arts in his twenties. He has the highest understanding among the seven chivalrous men, and is both civil and military. He is kind and kind, with a clear distinction between good and evil. He is like a father and son, and a brother is like a brother. Jianghu people call it "Zhang Cuishan Zhang Wuxia with iron and silver hooks". He got his name because his left hand hooked a rotten silver tiger's head and his right hand used a wrought iron judge's pen. He devoted himself to studying calligraphy, cursive script, official script and seal script, and learned the brushwork of Wang Xizhi's Ming Pao. Zhang Cuishan is both civil and military, intelligent and capable, and affectionate.
Xie Xun
Because of its unusual figure, yellow hair, loose shoulders and shining eyes, Jianghu people call it the "Golden Lion King" and is one of the four French kings of Zoroastrianism. Versatile, knowledgeable, knowledgeable, can be compared with Zhang Cuishan, but Zhang Wuxia is pedantic and introverted, while Xie Xun has unique insights. Holding maces at both ends, it is one foot long and six or seven feet long, and it is magnificent, just like a god. One of his martial arts is the blazing noise that can make people feel heartache and the super noise that is extremely destructive to life. As a teenager, he was ambitious and clever, so he was accepted as an apprentice by Cheng Kun. After that, he went to the Western Regions, joined Zoroastrianism, drove out the Tatars, saved the Li nationality, and was soon promoted to be the king of France. After Cheng Kun's school sister married Yang Ding, founder of Zoroastrianism, Cheng Kun hated Zoroastrianism. After learning that his disciple was the queen of nursing education, he planned the most insidious trick. Cheng Kun raped Xie Xun's wife and killed 13 family members on the pretext of promiscuity after drinking. From then on, thank sun became crazy, vowed to pay blood for blood, and took revenge on Cheng Kun twice. Unfortunately, he was injured twice and was defeated. In order to improve his martial arts, he robbed the kongdong school's "Eternal Dragon Slayer" to practice hard, and then took revenge on Cheng Kun, but Cheng Kun disappeared from the scene. Xie Xun, who couldn't find Cheng Kun, killed innocent people everywhere and left Cheng Kun's name in the killing place, forcing him to take revenge.
Sister Kiel
Disciple of Cheng Kun, Elder Bao of Beggars' Sect, and Disciple of Shaolin laity. Thirty years old, dressed as a beggar, his clothes are starched clean. The weapon used is a machete. Snake Island has taken sinister measures. Two elders, Zheng Heji, tried to seize the Dragon Slayer Island, but failed. Just as he was about to die on Longtu Island in Xie Xun, he grasped Xie Xun's psychology, pretended to be kind and wisely saved his life. He is ambitious and wants to rule the world with Master Cheng Kun. After the death of the leader of the Beggars' Guild, Liu Ao was found to pretend to be the leader of the Stone Fire Dragon Guild and become a cloth bag elder, trying to seize the position of the leader of the Beggars' Guild. Chen Youliang's martial arts is not high, but he is very shrewd and scheming.
works appreciation
Theme of the work
The theme is profound, positive, negative and comprehensive.
The first level is "righteousness", that is, chivalrous legend. It not only wrote the legendary origin of "martial arts can conquer the world, killing dragons with one sword", but also wrote the chivalrous tradition of "serving the country, serving the people and being a chivalrous man".
The second level is "anti", that is, writing human characteristics. Of course, killing dragons is not an "ominous thing". What is really "ominous" is human greed and power desire. The reason why those people fight for the sword is nothing more than the power to kill dragons and "dominate the world." Ironically, almost everyone does not know the truth. In the end, it's all "forget it." These novels are the basic story lines and narrative contents, with obvious ideological implications.
The third level is "harmony", that is, the combination of legend and history, chivalry and humanity, human conscience and goodwill, historical perspective and ideal. Of course, all these "combinations" are finally embodied in the stories that the protagonists Zhang Wuji and Zhang Wuji told General Xu Da. At the same time, it is also reflected in the author's clever interpretation of history. Since then, Xu Da fought bravely, losing the Yuan army in a row, and finally led the Northern Expedition, pushing the Mongolian army to the Great Wall and establishing a generation of achievements. Sun Tzu's art of war played a great role in killing dragons. Of course, it is "to order the world and not to disobey it." "
The real theme of this novel has two layers: opposing foreign aggression and domestic tyranny.
Artistic feature
style
It is an imaginative martial arts masterpiece. The love in the book is also more romantic. In terms of imagination, first of all, the "Heavenly Sword" and "The Road to Slay the Dragon" designed by the author run through the whole novel, which are very infectious and become the treasures of the major sects in the Jianghu. This kind of imagination can be regarded as the need of the story structure of the novel, and it is also an innovation different from previous novels. Secondly, the protagonist of the novel story is Zoroastrianism, and the core figure Zhang Wuji eventually becomes the leader of Zoroastrianism. The author wrote from Longtu Island to Xie Xun, and then let Zoroastrianism figures appear one by one. When the six sects besieged Guangmingding, the appearance of Zoroastrianism's great protector was completed. Such as: the left is the messenger of light, the right is the messenger of light, the four kings of the French king, the mother-in-law of the purple robe dragon king Yin Tianzheng, the white-browed eagle king, the blue-winged bat king, the three monks of Zoroastrianism, the Taoist iron official, Leng Qian and the monk Peng. They are all vividly written and have different personalities. Thirdly, the novel not only describes China's martial arts master, but also states that religion is a branch of Persian altar, which shows the cooperation and contradiction between the altar and the branch and broadens the readers' horizons.
In the specific martial arts environment, chivalry and love in Jin Yong's novels are often skillfully combined, and rigid chivalry and brave lingering love are a major feature of the novels. First of all, if you tell the judge that Wang Nangu and Hu Qingniu love and compete; He Ji, who fell in love but could not be together, became a victim of sectarian struggle; Although Zhang Cuishan and Yin Susu could get married, they died for love. With Yang Buhui and Yin Liting, two generations can transcend secular views and fall in love. It's all thrilling Secondly, the author combines emotional entanglements with factional disputes, political struggles with national propositions. The conflict between love and reality is intertwined. Finally, it not only tests the hero's courage, but also greatly arouses readers' interest in emotional twists and turns. For example, the Dragon King and Han Qianye in purple shirts have always avoided the pursuit of Persian religious love. In order to love Zhang Wuji, Zhao Min resolutely put aside the fetters of family and narrow national outlook; Zhou Zhiruo twisted her love by sticking to the oath of extermination. In this way, the writer, to a certain extent, plays up the tragic color of the characters in the emotional whirlpool and enhances the artistic appeal.
This book has an extraordinary charm. Not only put forward the "Wulin supreme, slay the dragon with one sword". Dare not disobey the orders of the world. The slogan "Who can't rely on the sky, who will fight for the front" and the battle described by the six sects besieging the peak of light are even more exciting and magnificent.
Like other martial arts novels created by the author, the language of "The New Law of the Great Relocation of Gankun" has a traditional charm, and its poetic words contain a grand historical background and cultural connotation, which makes the traditional culture show new charm.
Character image
The "complexity" and "weakness" of Zhang Wuji's personality is actually the expression of the complexity and weakness of "human nature". In the novel, Zhang Wuji's easy-going and almost weak character, complex and almost theme-free character is mainly manifested in the following aspects. First, his character and behavior are not only the product of the environment, but also always influenced by the environment. Although his martial arts skills are high, his character is actually quite indecisive. When everything comes, he tends to let nature take its course rather than please others, and often prefers to sacrifice himself to others. His "Xi Gan Kun's Great Shifting Mind Method" was requested by Xiao Zhao; Becoming the leader of Zoroastrianism is not only forced by the situation, but also moved by Yin and Yang on cloudy days. The engagement with Zhou Zhiruo was ordered by Xie Xun; Not meeting the bride with Zhiruo was forced by Zhao Min. Secondly, his character is more prominently reflected in his attitude towards Zhou Zhiruo, Zhao Min, Li Yin and Xiao Zhao. In the meantime, he is often forced by the situation. Pretty sloppy. If it weren't for the last "death", if he left and rebelled, I'm afraid he would still wander among the four girls. Unlike Yang Guo's investment in Little Dragon Girl or Guo Jing's investment in Huang Rong. This image of Zhang Wuji may not be "good" for a living individual, but as an artistic image, his significance is enormous. This character is a unique and rare successful artistic image in the whole novel and martial arts novel.
In addition to Zhang Wuji, the book also focuses on Xie Xun, Golden Lion King, Golden Flower Mother-in-law, Zi Long King, Princess Zhao Min of Ruyang, Spider, Xiao Zhao, Zhou Zhiruo and many other Wulin figures with different temperament. They are vivid and vivid, and there are blessings and disasters. Their natural temperament, right or wrong can be summarized in one sentence. By describing the life course and fate of these characters, the author embodies the cultural connotation as grand as its historical background, and turns the essence of China's traditional Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism into life stories in his works without trace, quietly, naturally and calmly deriving the modern charm of ancient culture. The language of the book is fluent and sophisticated, the structure is grand and fine, the plot is ups and downs, and the story development is often unexpected and unhurried.
When analyzing and evaluating people, Jin Yong got rid of the moral judgment mode of either good or evil. He believes that there is no absolute standard for the so-called good guys and bad guys, and there is no distinction between good and bad people. In "Funeral Notes", he expressed an outlook on life: in the world where people live, it is sometimes difficult to distinguish good from evil. Not all the world thinks that what is good is good. Similarly, the whole world thinks that what is bad is not necessarily bad. In Zhao Min's novels, readers thought he was a villain at first, but later found him to be decent. Zhou Zhiruo, who always thought he was a decent person, turned out to be a terrible villain. Jin Yong wrote Zoroastrianism as a magical religion at first, but in the end Jin Yong sympathized with them. Jin Yong said: "The so-called clear distinction between good and evil is sometimes not so easy to distinguish. It is not always easy to distinguish good from bad in life. At the same time, due to the influence of the environment, a person can be good at first, and then slowly deteriorate, such as Zhou Zhiruo. Zhao Min was not good at first, but later it became better because of the environment. " At the level of human nature, people are not good or bad because of different nationalities, status and beliefs. In Wulin, the conclusions drawn by standards other than human nature, such as the distinction between good and evil and racial disputes, are often far from the facts. The head of Emei Sect, under the banner of justice, kills people without blinking an eye in the name of unquestionable decency. She never let go of her apprentice. He fell in love with the "evil faction" and fan his favorite apprentice to death.