Until today, I just finished reading 120, and the reading display on WeChat took 25 hours.
Compared with modern martial arts, the ancestor's "three chivalrous men and five righteous men" has its uniqueness, but it also has its shortcomings. Here, I will talk about the book "Three Heroes and Five Righteousnesses" according to my own experience in contacting martial arts.
If outlaws of the Marsh is regarded as a martial arts, it is the first martial arts book I have ever read. Besides, I have read all the martial arts of Jin Yong, a small part of Gu Long's martial arts, Wen Rui 'an's boating against the current, and Zhu Huan's biography of Shu Shan Chivalrous Man. Of course, each has its own characteristics. However, today's focus is on "three chivalrous men and five righteous men". Compared with modern martial arts such as Jinlong, "Three Heroes and Five Righteousness" also made me fondle admiringly, and I finished it in the first time. What you can read is a good book, which is a standard in itself.
There are many differences. The Three Heroes and the Five Righteousness describe the story of Song Renzong's era, which also shows the Song Dynasty compared with the legend of the condor heroes. Because of the different ages of the authors, the three chivalrous men and five righteous men made me feel really ancient. The same people suffer and the same people live a mean life. The Three Heroes and Five Righteousness is closer to the life at that time. The common people also look forward to an honest official like Bao Gong and a chivalrous man like Three Heroes and Five Righteousness to help the poor and save the people from fire and water.
The older a book is, the more ridiculous it is. This is a kind of admiration of the ancients for the gods and an explanation of many unexplained things. As far as the readability of the novel is concerned, absurd things will reduce the persuasiveness of the novel. Although it is a fiction, it makes no sense to explain it with ghosts and gods. Some science fiction novels are also fictional, but some are hard science fiction, and everything can be explained by physics, which is quite difficult to refute. That's the author's level.
There are many absurd things in "Three Heroes and Five Righteousness", such as the gratitude of the fox, such as the three treasures of Kaifeng House, and the saying that ghosts and gods repay each other, and the sun breaks the sun and the night breaks the yin. These things are not so reasonable, which may be some demands of ancient novels.
The main line of the story is clear, from Bao Gong's entry into Beijing to Dingyuan County, and then to his promotion to Kaifeng Prefecture, all kinds of grievances were settled to save his mother. Twenty years ago, civet cats were replaced by princes, and Pang Yu and Pang Taishi fought. During this period, with the help of Zhan Zhao, Bao Gong recommended Zhan Zhao to the emperor. After seeing Zhan Zhao's skill, the emperor named Zhan Zhao as a four-armed guard to guard against cats. Cats are forbidden to mice. A chivalrous man named Bai Yutang, a golden mouse, is overbearing. He felt that the royal cat eclipsed the five mice, so he showed his skill and then caused five mice to make trouble in Tokyo. In the end, these five mice all belong to Bao Gong's family, and they work with Bao Gong to eliminate evil and rape. In the second half, Bao Gong's appearances gradually decreased. The chivalrous men fought bravely, caught the flower thief and defeated Ma Chaoxian, a powerful official in the DPRK. Finally, they discovered the plot of King Xiangyang, and the chivalrous Qi Xin worked together to get rid of King Xiangyang.
If the story of "Three Heroes and Five Righteousness" needs a leading role, it must belong to Bao Gong. His black face is Master Xing. He is born with an impartial black face, upright and upright, smart since he was a child, and he became an official in high school without fear of authority and people. This is of course the parents that people expected at that time. Unfortunately, without Zhan Zhao's repeated rescues, he would have died many times. Where is it?
Gongsun Ce is a wise man, especially the description of Gongsun Ce in the TV series "Young Bao Qingtian" seems to be an ordinary figure of Bao Gong. However, in its source "Three Heroes and Five Righteousness", there are not many impressive stories except an unannounced visit and three spears when he appeared, and the importance of this figure is far from as great as expected.
Zhan Zhao, Ou Yangchun and Shi Ding are three heroes, Nanxia is active in the first half, Beixia has written half of the book when she appeared, and Shuangxia's twin brother Shi Ding is interspersed in the story. Although Ding and Ding have different personalities, it seems that one of them will not have much impact.
Wuyi is a hero composed of five sworn brothers with special functions. Fang Lu, the eldest brother, is kind and feels like Liu Bei in The Romance of the Three Kingdoms. Zhang Han, the second child, is an out-and-out hamster. He can play poison darts and dig mines, so he is loyal. The third child wore mountain rat Summer Xu to explore eighteen holes in the mountain, but he was a boor like Li Kui jy, but he was quite similar to Zhao Hu in character. Pingjiang, the old four water rat, is good at water-based kung fu and resourceful. He is also the most detailed knight in the book, with the most stories. In my opinion, this person shines above the most famous Bai Yutang; Bai Yutang, a young golden retriever, is proud, generous and complicated. He is the most human figure, an important role in the plot development of this book, and the only soldier who died.
There are also black fox Zhihua, Zhuge and Hu, who are also called the seven chivalrous men with the northern and southern chivalrous men, and some people have adapted the three chivalrous men and five righteous men into Elvis Presley. Zhihua, Shen Zhongyuan and Ai Hu all appeared late, but they are all outstanding figures. Zhihua's wisdom, Zhu Gejin's ingenuity and Ai Hu's juvenile temperament, although appearing in the second half, are more memorable than the heroes of the North and the South. Interestingly, there is a case in the whole book in which Bao Gong didn't find out the truth, that is, Zhihua stole the national treasure, and Ai Hu made the first play, which brought Ma Chaoxian down.
Influenced by film and television dramas, Mahan Zhang Long Zhao Hu, the four warriors of Kaifeng Prefecture, is also a very awesome figure. However, in "Three Heroes and Five Righteousness", the Four Heroes only appeared in the early stage, but after the Five Righteousness, the Four Heroes basically had no problem, and besides the description of Lenghu, the other three were basically nothing special, all appeared together, and there were no earth-shattering deeds. If it weren't for film and television dramas, Mahan Zhang Long of the dynasty really dazzled the audience. One of the characteristics of classical novels is that there are always one or two funny characters in the supporting roles. The appearance of such characters can ease the tension of the whole plot. I think this Zhao Hu is one of the funny characters in Three Heroes and Five Righteousness.
Pang Taishi is the villain in the first half, and Hua, Ma Qiang and Ma Chaoxian are also the main villains, followed by the big boss Xiangyang King. The villains in Three Heroes and Five Righteousness are either excellent or stupid. He was confused by positive people. Pang Taishi did bad things and hurt Bao Gong, but he was very retarded. He can also serve a plate of puffer fish when he invites you to dinner, so that everyone can be poisoned. It is really difficult for such a villain to compete with the front. There is no suspense at all, and there is almost no chance of winning. Hua, Ma Qiang and Ma Chaoxian are really poor. There is no reason why they just want to do bad things to satisfy their desires. I have someone in court. Can you break me down? There is nothing to hide. Isn't such a bad person looking for death when he meets an honest Bao Gong? The image of Wang Xiangyang in Three Heroes and Five Righteousness is not full, and the story is not over. Let's judge after watching the sequel "Little Wuyi".
I have read many cases in it, and the people are really suffering. It is not easy to live and work in peace and contentment. People are too easy to die and commit crimes. It is easy for a scholar in a foreign land to meet a black shop, and then I don't know how he died if it weren't for the help of the chivalrous man. There are too many black shops in the book. As long as they are innkeepers and boatmen, there are basically no good people. If it's a concubine, it's basically hooking up with men outside. The reason for committing a crime is often simple: you want to kill people when you see money. It can also be seen that in the society at that time, the probability of being caught was actually not high. Since the cost of crime is so low, why not make a profit secretly?
There are good people and bad people. When the bad guy dies, the story can't go on. Interestingly, the label of the bad guys in "Three Heroes and Five Righteousness" is attached to the face. You don't have to consider who is good or bad at all. You can know at a glance that bad people are bad people, and all bad things are done by bad people. If you need a reason, then people are bad people. How can bad people not do bad things? Just as Bao Gong is not a bad person when he sees that he is not a bad person, he is not a good person when he sees that he is not a good person. Which is like now, infernal affairs, mission impossible, in the end who knows who is good and who is bad?
There are many descriptions about the marriage between men and women in Three Heroes and Five Righteousness, which basically accord with people's love view at that time. Unlike free love written by Jin Yong, all kinds of emotional entanglements are written in martial arts. When men get married, so do women. According to parents' orders, men and women get married rashly. When they reach marriageable age, the other party can see that they got married after knowing their parents. The status of women is indeed not high, which also reflects the reality of life at that time. There is almost no description of love in the book, which is not the point. Love is not the product of that era. On the contrary, the loyalty of courtiers, filial piety of children and brotherhood are quite numerous, and they were also virtues advocated by society at that time.
As the originator of martial arts novels, the description of martial arts and Jianghu activities in Three Heroes and Five Righteousness should be the first. Now it looks dull, but it has had a very strong influence on later martial arts, such as acupuncturing, hidden weapons, sword tactic, knife cutting, lightness skill, vertical rising, soul-killing incense, treasure chest, thousand-mile fire, night clothes, water leaning, leather mask and so on. Who said that Jinlong didn't use these things when describing these knights?
At that time, chivalrous men were also people's vision. Doing chivalry, traveling, spending money like water, making friends, that may be the life people yearned for at that time. In Jin Yong's novels, apart from describing Yang Guo's heroic deeds and robbing the rich to help the poor in 16 years, it seems that there are not many such experiences for other protagonists. After all, they all follow the main line. How can they take time to do heroic deeds? The chivalry in "three chivalrous men and five righteous men" is the main line. No matter which knight, there will always be all kinds of injustice along the way, and then save the good and punish the bad. That's really like a knight. At this point, I like it very much Although there are too many supporting roles, I forget them after reading them, but that's the real knight, isn't it?