First of all, introduce the "Red Flower Festival" in history. The "Red Flower Club" is an anti-Qing group in Jin Yong's novel The Legend of the Swordsman and the Flying Fox, and its leader is Chen Jialuo, the chief helmsman. The signal for the Red Flower Club to greet fellow travelers in the Book Sword is two poems: "All the waters in the world are of the same origin, and red flowers and green leaves belong to one family" (Book Sword, 3rd edition, page 45/kloc-0), which is very similar to the couplet of green gang Family Temple "Red flowers and white lotus leaves, three religions belong to one family".

However, the organization "Red Flower Club" has no basis in history and comes from the fiction of novelists. In Taiwan Province Province in 2006, a reader asked, "Is there really a red flower festival in the Qing Dynasty?" Jin Yong's answer was straightforward: "No, it was created."

However, even with Jin Yong's talent, the fear of "Red Flower Festival" in his works does not come out of thin air, but is completely imaginary. He should have a prototype in his head. ?

In the book Sword, it is recorded that the founder of the Red Flower Club once studied at Shaolin Temple in Putian, Fujian Province, and the Qing court was dissatisfied with South Shaolin's funding for the rebellion and burned it. This fire was indeed lit by the Qing Dynasty, but Jin Yong dragged this story on for decades, which definitely has nothing to do with the fictional Red Flower Festival in the novel. The main cause of this disaster is indeed another real organization-the Heaven and Earth Society.

In Shunzhi 18, Cai Dezhong, Ma Chaoxing, Hu Dedi and Li were sent to Putian, Fujian, and they became monks in South Shaolin, learning from abbot Zhitong. After that disaster, the Qing court sent troops to besiege South Shaolin and set it on fire. Only 65,438+08 monks escaped, including Fang Ma. The robbery linked the fictional Red Flower Club with the real World Club.