1, Xiao Duan: The novel The Cup of Snow, Song of Luoyang Girls in Anyang Steel (meaning Chang 'an in ancient times), The Record of the Fat Monk's Strange Sword; The novella Gong Xiaoyuan; Short story collection Thorn (including Pony in the Gap, Spider in the Dust Mirror, Thorn, The Legend of Moss Mirror and Jianghu Fair); There are pomegranate, star sand, pupil, dragon city, confession and so on.
What do you think of Xiao Duan? We can only say that it is a kind of luck and happiness to have him in the days without Jin, Gu and others. He is a well-deserved leader in China's new martial arts literature writing. In Cang Yue's words, he is "far beyond others in our contemporary writers". Xiao Duan has a profound knowledge of ancient prose, profound attainments in classical poetry, clear writing context, fluent writing style and graceful demeanor. There is a touching warmth in his writing, which is a different color in the current writing trend. In the words of a netizen, "it is a luxury from a long ancient rhyme, and it is a rare fragrance in the vulgar and messy society that advocates flashy and flashy culture." Wen Ruian once commented: "It is extremely bright and moderate, extremely ambitious and subtle. Xiao Duan is a true master, and his hand-picked writing style has long been integrated with various factions, so Xiao Duan can stand on his own feet as a' Sect'. " The author believes that this kind of evaluation is not an exaggeration. For Xiao Duan, all you can do is make a cup of green tea in the silent night, and savor his chivalry, passion, freedom and Jianghu in the faint fragrance.
2. Phoenix Songs: Kunlun and Sea.
It is an indisputable fact that Feng Ge's writing imitates Jin Yong. Imitation in some places is a bit stiff and immature, so it is criticized. But from another perspective, it seems that Feng Ge is the only one who imitates Jin Yong to this extent. Besides, to be precise, Brother Feng is not just imitating, he has his own innovation. Phoenix Song has established its own martial arts system. The most special thing is that it is unique and evolved from ancient mathematics in China, so it has quite a saying. In fact, Brother Feng's understanding of some aspects of ancient China culture is surprisingly profound. In addition, the author thinks that Fengge's Kunlun actually has the flavor of "anti-martial arts", because what the protagonist Liang Xiao does is not the word "hero", but Shu Yun is a tragic figure who "serves the country and the people". Neither criticism nor praise of Feng Ge can deny his position in China's new martial arts literature creation. Professor Han Yunbo's evaluation of the "three cardinal guides" of Kunlun Jue may be overdone, but at least I agree with this sentence: the publication of Kunlun Jue is a landmark event in martial arts literature in recent years. In a few years, when we review Chinese mainland's new martial arts in the 2nd1century, we may compare Kunlun Jue with the appearance of Jin Yong's Legend of the Condor Heroes in 958/kloc-0. "Anyway, care about China's new martial arts literature, must see" phoenix song ".
3. Sun Xiao: Heroes (to be continued) and Qin Long's world (to be continued).
Professor Han Yunbo put forward the concept of "contemporary mainland new martial arts", but I think it is better to replace the word "mainland" with "China", because only in this way can Sun Xiao of Taiwan Province Province be included, otherwise the concept is not inclusive and comprehensive enough. "Jin Yong sealed the pen and Gu Long died, leaving only heroes in the rivers and lakes." Although this statement is slightly exaggerated, it is not too much, because Hero is indeed a magnificent work. The Jianghu world built by Sun Xiao is extremely huge and has many characters. Just having four leading men at the same time is great. Compared with Xiao Duan and Feng Ge, the "heroic lineage" and "satisfaction and enmity" in Sun Xiao's works seem to be stronger. Although the author's writing style is not as good as Jin Yong's, some chapters are compact and long. Compared with Jin Yong, it is a pity that there are not many. However, it must be said that perhaps the author is too ambitious, his works are too scattered, his structure is a bit loose, and the shaping of some characters is not satisfactory. For example, Wu Dingyuan, a "generation of real dragons", is somewhat disappointing, and Qin Zhonghai's description is somewhat simplistic. Lu Yun is the most impressive and successful one. However, despite some shortcomings, the hero is still a masterpiece. The author Sun Xiao's ten years of hard work is also extremely admirable and respectable. In addition, it is worth noting that China's new martial arts literature has a characteristic, that is, the author's vision is extremely broad, and the scope of the characters' activities is not limited to China. In the phoenix song Kunlun, Liang Xiao has been to Arabia and Greece; A considerable amount of content in the sea involves Japan. Sun Xiao's The World of Qin Long involves China, Korea and Japan. This is very amazing. To some extent, this may be an influence of the era of globalization on the new martial arts writers.
4. It's not cold yet: surprise knife, stealing the sky bow, changing the sun arrow, breaking the wave cone, stealing the soul shadow, extremely top, gentle man rainbow, legend of avoiding snow, Dan Xin.
Martial arts novels are story-telling literature in the final analysis. Therefore, a good martial arts novel must meet at least two basic conditions: good story and good writing. Obviously, when it's not cold, you not only have both, but also both are first-class. As far as the former is concerned, the story built with General Ming Zongyue as the core is tightly structured and impeccable when it is cold. As far as the latter is concerned, the lukewarm words at that time were gorgeous and beautiful, which was amazing. Before it was cold, a unique Jianghu world was built. In this Jianghu world, General Ming Zongyue stands aloof, just like the ice covered with water in winter, forming a kind of depression. Other characters in the author's works, like running water under this ice layer, are struggling, rushing and surging with the intention of breaking through the ice. Unfortunately, such efforts often fail (such as Lin Qing and Ye Feng), but it is in this continuous "breakthrough" effort that personal enthusiasm for life can be revealed. It is such a Jianghu, and the time is not cold. In this Jianghu, life struggles because of depression and is wonderful because of struggle.
5. Pan Yang: Martial arts novels, such as Tales of Little Soldiers, Chivalrous Men, Assassination, Smiling Knife, Jianghu, Hero, Black Boy's Life, Sword Smile, Six Friends of the Mountain, etc. Medium-length "Plum Shadow Burning Incense" and "Dead Incense Evil"
Wen Ruian once commented on Pan Yang's works: "Pan Yang's works are touching and shocking, and his writing is surprisingly simple and beautiful. They are described in strict accordance with the' three unifications' of western drama, but they are written with the interest and characteristics of China's traditional novels. " The author thinks this evaluation is appropriate. However, Wen Ruian only paid attention to the writing skills in Pan Yang's works, but did not pay attention to the ideological aspect in Pan Yang's novels. His novels have a strong humanistic spirit, and his concern for the fate of small people is touching. The story of a soldier, less than 3,000 words, subverts the chivalrous spirit in The Condor Heroes. Is the life of an ordinary soldier insignificant? In fact, Pan Yang is a serious thinker. He has amazing insight into the beauty and ugliness of human nature and profound reflection on various ideological teachings. Pan Yang advocates "simple martial arts", and his works are mostly short stories, but these short stories are reasonable in structure and impeccable; Ideologically speaking, it seems that Lu Xun's essays, like daggers and spears, plunge into your heart, make you heartache, and then urge you to think in heartache. By the way, Pan Yang is also a person who cares about the reality of China. His other long article, Political fantasy novel, is even more famous, which is permeated with his thoughts on the present China (some thought-provoking), and it is touching to read. For various reasons, I will not mention it here for the time being, and those who know it will naturally know it.
Giddens Ko: The Eighth Copper Man in Shaolin Temple and Kung Fu. In addition, there are some works that are not martial arts, such as The Tenant Downstairs, The Vampire Hunter, Waiting for a Cup of Coffee and Black Boy.
Like Sun Xiao, Giddens Ko is from Taiwan Province Province. The work "The Eighth Copper Man of Shaolin Temple" won the first prize of the first Komi Ruizhi Million TV Novel Award in Taiwan Province Province. Reading Giddens Ko's works will produce a strange sense of pleasure and beauty. Yangzi Evening News once commented: "Giddens Ko is exquisite, cold and vivid. Bitter, whimsical and mean black humor arouses the increasingly lonely and nervous nerves of urbanites. Funny and thought-provoking. " This evaluation is extremely accurate. In addition to words, Giddens Ko's story is also extremely strange, full of twists and turns, which challenges our usual thinking habits and makes people unable to guess. Often at the end of the mountain, the peaks are protruding and the flowers are clustered, which makes people shine: "So that's it!" Interestingly, if "Eight Bronze Men in Shaolin Temple" tells about chivalry and preaches chivalry, then "Kung Fu" is an out-and-out anti-martial arts work, which is ingenious in conception and breathtaking. In this work, the author combines modern spiritual myths such as mind transfer and hypnotic manipulation with traditional martial arts to show modern flavor in absurdity, and then mercilessly criticizes "justice" and China people's fantasy of "Kung Fu" since ancient times, which is thought-provoking.
7. Bu Feiyan: Wulin Inn, Chivalrous Love, Shura Road, the story of Wuyang, Zhao Ziyin Tian, the sea demon, Datura, Tian Jianlun, the legend of Kunlun, etc.
Accurately speaking, most of Bu's works are not martial arts, but "fantasy literature", which Professor Han Yunbo calls "new myth". In my opinion, you don't have to like Bu's works, but when it comes to China's new martial arts literature, you must mention Bu, otherwise it will be incomplete, because she is not completely out of the category of "martial arts", so she should have a place. There is no doubt about Bu Yanfei's talent. Her writing is beautiful and fluent, full of aesthetic color, which makes people admire. The most important thing is that she is ingenious and her sword is biased, and she has built a huge "fantasy" world, which is based on Indian mythology and belongs to herself completely. This makes her works look very different, which has a strange feeling for readers who are used to the traditional martial arts literature based on China culture. But at the same time, it also gives people a sense of neither fish nor fowl, because in my humble opinion, martial arts can only be Chinese, and it is the product of China characteristics rooted in China culture. Foreign culture can be used as a supplement (for example, Zoroastrianism written by Jin Yong originated in Persia, but even Zoroastrianism eventually evolved into Zoroastrianism in China), but it cannot produce "martial arts" (for example, western knight literature cannot be equated with martial arts). Perhaps, Bu Yanfei felt this herself, and perhaps this is also the reason why she left the martial arts to fantasize. This is a big problem and will not be discussed here for the time being. In any case, Bu Yanfei's works are worth looking forward to. However, as a female writer, her works always make people feel that something is missing. I have no prejudice against women writing martial arts, but I do believe that women writing martial arts always makes people feel that something is missing, such as blood and chivalry.
After all, at least so far, the Jianghu world is still a man's world. Perhaps banning smoking will break this restriction.
8. Cang Yue: Listening to Snow Building Series. In addition, her works also include: mirror? Twin cities, mirror image? Dragon Wars, Mirror? Pojun ","mirror? Open the sky ","mirror? Return to the market and so on.
Like Bu Feiyan, Cang Yue is also a female writer. Her "listening to the snow tower series" once made the author shine. For example, Blood Guard takes a sword as the narrator and observes and narrates from the perspective of a sword. It should be admitted that it is difficult to make a breakthrough in writing martial arts novels, because Jin, Gu, Liang, Wen and Huang are like five mountains, and all their attempts seem to have been exhausted. For the current new martial arts writers, this is a kind of luck (because it can be used for reference), but it is even more unfortunate. Bu Yanfei once said that he wanted to "transform" Jin Yong's life. The author understands her feelings very well. It is not so much arrogance as a vent of anger, anxiety and helplessness that she has been suppressing in her heart. The author thinks that the creation of martial arts literature can find another way and pursue a breakthrough in form. Blood Wei is a good example, because Jin, Gu, Liang, Wen and Huang basically adopted omniscient narrative techniques. Unfortunately, Cang Yue didn't stick to it. She even went further than Bu Feiyan, and finally gave up martial arts completely, because in her "mirror series", I couldn't find the shadow of traditional martial arts at all, and the characters in it were not even human. I understand this choice, because that type of writing will be easier, but at the same time I can't help feeling sorry.
9. Fox character: Shui Longyin (to be continued)
Many writers are afraid to write about martial arts because they find it difficult to break through the pattern of gold, antiquity, Liang, Wen and Huang, or they leave after writing one or two books. In my opinion, this idea is understandable, but there are some problems. Why do you want to "break through" their model in the first place? Their success has been tempered for decades, and you have just begun to write martial arts. Even, your life experience and cultural accumulation are far behind them (Jin Yong wrote martial arts after the age of 35 and worked as an editor, script, director and newspaper before). What made you "break through"? This "breakthrough" idea is immediate, if not ambitious. In fact, as I said before, martial arts novels are story-telling literature in the final analysis, so as long as you can tell an excellent story with excellent writing, you will be affirmed by readers. It's hard to say that the works of Feng Ge, Shi and others have completely broken through the patterns of Jin, Gu, Liang, Wen and Huang. However, because they have formed their own characteristics within the scope of traditional martial arts literature, they have achieved great success and are welcomed by readers. This at least shows that writing traditional martial arts under the traditional framework can be successful as long as those two points are done well. Of course, if you can be a little different, so much the better. Hu Yan's Hidden Dragon is a successful example. Fundamentally speaking, his works are very traditional, but I believe everyone who has read them will think that this is an excellent novel, which is not inferior to the works of Xiao Duan and Feng Ge. If Jin Yong evolved martial arts from China's ancient philosophy, and Feng Ge evolved martial arts from ancient arithmetic, then Hu Yan was inspired by the ancient military strategist's thought (Sun Tzu's Art of War) and evolved martial arts, becoming a family statement. This is a partial breakthrough. By the way, this novel is available online, but it doesn't contain much content. It seems to be a eunuch. But the author later found that the content of the paper version is much more than that of the online version, and it has been published in the second book, and it doesn't look like a eunuch. (By Water Fox, Nanchang: 2 1 Century Publishing House, September 2006)
10, makelaugh's old Wulin story (eunuch)
In any case, the eunuch in this novel is a pity for many readers who like martial arts literature, because it is extremely excellent. If it is a complete book, then when we look back at China's new martial arts literature several years later, it can completely enter the classic ranks. The author's name is translated as "funny". This book may be a performance art joke that he performed for many readers: he aroused the readers' appetite and then suddenly left him, leaving a string of ellipsis, but keeping the readers' hearts hanging there. I have made it clear that a martial arts work is a good work as long as it can tell an excellent story with excellent writing style. "The Old Story of Wulin" has completely achieved these two points, even far beyond these two points, so many readers are worried. It is worth mentioning that the hero in the novel is not a normal person, but a deaf-mute person, which means that the hero is defective. Such a missing protagonist seems to have never been seen in previous novels. This is a new image. However, such new images are not uncommon in new martial arts works, such as Shi Jiuyao (monk), Yu (old man), Hu Dagu (ugly girl), Shang Shanger (blind girl) and the red pig male exorcism (eunuch) in Xi Chronicle of Qing Dynasty. Who says traditional martial arts can't be broken? The shaping of the new role itself is a breakthrough.
1 1. Gravel: The legend of the lost flood (unfinished, like a eunuch)
In the sixties and seventies when Hong Kong and Taiwan's martial arts novels were popular, those writers had different levels. Gold, antiquity, Liang and Wen are naturally first-class, but they lag far behind. Their works can't get rid of the mode of "revenge for ...". Fortunately, however, the creation of China's new martial arts literature got rid of the vulgar mode of "revenge for ..." from the beginning, so the starting point was relatively high. Although not as good as Jin, Gu and Liang, I think I have caught up with Wen Ruian and far surpassed others. Compared with Longsheng Wo and others, contemporary China's outstanding new martial arts literature works have profound historical and cultural connotations. Gravel is an example. He first caught my attention because of his "life-and-death". This is a good novel, at least, it meets the standard of telling an excellent story with excellent writing. But unfortunately, I don't know why the author didn't finish it. Such a eunuch is a bit irresponsible. He caught my attention again because of the novel The Story of the Flood. Fortunately, Gravel didn't live up to readers' expectations. This new novel is more dead than you. Professor Han Yunbo commented: "The boring Buddhism can be vividly and naturally integrated into the works. In addition to Jin Yong's "Eight Dragons", only the gravel "Lost Story" was achieved. " It may be a bit flattering to compare the legend of the lost flood with the Eight Dragons, but I really haven't seen other new martial arts works that better integrate Buddhism and Taoism with martial arts. In the novel, Buddhist meditation is integrated with the development of the story. I can't help but say that the author's Buddhist skills and humanistic qualities are amazing.
12, Red Pig Man: Chronicle of Qing Xi (Beijing: CITIC Publishing House, June 2006). It's already in the second volume)
There are two relationships between Jin, Gu, Liang, Wen and Huang's works and history: they are either rooted in real history or have nothing to do with history. However, perhaps influenced by the recent "overhead history" novels, there is a third relationship between the new martial arts literature and history, that is, putting the story to be told in a "imaginary" history, such as Xiao Duan's "Song of Luoyang Girls" (when someone asked Xiao Duan whether his works were influenced by "overhead history", Xiao Duan replied that he preferred to call it "imaginary" and the author let nature take its course. The same is true of the Chronicle of Qing Xi by the Red Pig Man. It is obviously superficial to simply understand this writing strategy as the author's lack of historical knowledge. The author thinks that the ingenuity of this strategy lies in that this arrangement can not only gain a sense of historical space, but also gain greater freedom of writing, in other words, it is anti-history while following history. What matters is not the truth of history, but the depth of history and the historical consciousness gained from it. The story of Qing Xi Chronicle happened in such a vast space with depth. It tells what a eunuch did on the space stage provided by history. Chronicle of Xi in Qing Dynasty is a martial arts novel, but it should be said to be a court novel to a greater extent, involving court politics, tactics and so on. Interestingly, like the author of A Generation of Strategists, the author Red Pig is also a woman. Perhaps it is because women are delicate in mind and good at writing tactics, and the narrative in this aspect of the novel is extremely successful (A Generation of Strategists is the most classic work about tactics I have ever seen). In addition, the author's mastery of words is also first-class. She slowly showed us a long historical picture. The author doesn't seem to understand the reader's anxiety. On the contrary, she seems to be deliberately challenging the patience of readers. She just tells the story slowly with an elegant and calm attitude, and even has a little sense of space, so she is not in a hurry. It is in this liberation that the changeable history and ups and downs of the plot come to you. Perhaps because the author is a woman, this novel is less chivalrous and more feminine. However, this may be natural, because, when have you ever seen a eunuch full of masculinity?
13, Xiangzi: indulge in the soul of the sword
If Feng Ge is the most successful person to imitate Jin Yong, then Xiangzi is the most successful person to imitate Gu Long. His "Immersing in the Soul of the Sword" is entirely a Gulong-style work, or to borrow Huang Jianxiang's famous saying, the author seems to be possessed by the soul of Gulong when writing, and grasps kung fu with genius imagination and profound suspense, and always grasps the key points just right. It is said that Ni Kuang saw it, greatly appreciated it, and recommended it to Jin Yong. The author thinks that, in comparison, it lacks a trace of Gu Long's philosophy, wit and humor, but has a trace of heaviness, conciseness and rationality. As far as the use of modern vernacular Chinese is concerned, Xiangzi is even higher than Gu Long. But on the whole, there is still some gap between the author and Gu Long, and I always feel that something is missing. I can't say for a moment what is missing, perhaps it is the lack of the understanding of human nature accumulated by Gu Long's decades of life experience. Therefore, it is accurate to say that Xiangzi has completely acquired the shape of Gu Long, but it will take several years to get the God of Gu Long. By the way, I don't know if this novel has been finished. The "Magic Sword Book League" has not been updated for a long time, which makes people suspect that it is a eunuch. But it has published a paper version of the book, and I haven't seen it, so I don't know if it is the whole book.
14, full flavor: human spring and autumn
This is a novel that is seldom mentioned. In fact, the author has never seen anyone mention it in the "Sword Fighting Tianya" section. It was published at the starting point, but it was also read by Liao Liao at the starting point. Perhaps, many readers were scared away when they saw its reply to each chapter, because it quoted the Book of Songs in its reply to each chapter. But in my humble opinion, this is at least a pretty good novel. Martial arts novels are excellent in plot, characters, structure, language and so on. This is a martial arts novel, but more accurately, it is a historical novel that shows us the social life picture in the Spring and Autumn Period in the form of martial arts. The author has a clear understanding of the history and culture of the Spring and Autumn Period. Forgive my ignorance, it seems that the Chinese dynasty involved in martial arts novels was the Warring States at the earliest. Jin Yong's sword of the yue maiden covers the Spring and Autumn Period superficially. Therefore, in this sense, the world of Chunqiu seems to fill the gap.
15, Wei Yi: Jianghu in the world (not serialized yet)
This is also a martial arts novel that is rarely mentioned but the author thinks it is quite good. Currently serialized on the Magic Sword Book League. Although not as good as Xiao Duan and Feng Ge, it is not inferior to Shui Longyin's works. Wei Yi's novels contain many elements of Jin Yong's and Gu Long's novels, but you can hardly say that they are mixed. On the contrary, these elements are basically arranged together properly, which shows the author's skill. Because it contains many elements of gold and ancient novels, it has a strong color of Jin Yong, but it seems to be more inclined to Gu Long. Or, we can simply say that Wei Yi has formed his own family. In addition, it is worth noting that although Pan Yang's creative concept of "simple martial arts" has been put forward for many years and has been quite recognized, some martial arts writers seem to be more inclined to create novels, especially novels with more than one million words. It seems that only such masterpieces can show their talents and complete what they want to say in their hearts. Similar to Sun Xiao's hero, the Jianghu in the world has also created a huge Jianghu world with many characters, including three male protagonists and a female character similar to the protagonist. But unfortunately, it also has a drawback similar to that of heroes, that is, the author seems to be too scattered to get it back, at least for now. However, the author is ambitious, and what he has accomplished so far seems to be only about one third of the plan. Perhaps, when the novel finally ends, we will find that its structure is extremely rigorous. Just, I don't know when.
If you are not satisfied, I have no choice.