Jin Yong once combined the initials of the names of his novels into a couplet: flying snow shooting the white deer plain and smiling at the garden. (see the duke of mount deer? Postscript) has been widely circulated in Hongkong and China mainland for many times and made into TV series and movies. It is also a must-read bibliography of "Golden Powder" (the year of writing is in brackets):
Legend of Flying Fox (1960)
Flying Fox in Snow Mountain (1959)
Ji Cheng repeatedly (1963)
Tiantian Ba Long Department (1963)
The Legend of the Condor Heroes (1957): The first song of Jin Yong's trilogy of condor shooting is also his famous work; It is called "the hymn of chivalrous culture" by readers of Jin Yong's novels.
White-A White Horse Whistling in the West Wind (196 1): A novella in which a flying fox is attached to a snowy mountain.
Duke of Deer-Lushan (1969) (sealed work)
Laughter-the legendary swordsman (1967)
Book-Revenge of the Sword (1955)-the first novel.
The Condor Heroes (1959)- The Second Trilogy of Jin Yong's Shooting and Carving
Chivalry-Chivalry (1965)
Relying on "The Dragon Slayer by Eternal Adversity" (196 1 year) —— the third trilogy of Jin Yong's shooting and carving.
Double swords stained with royal blood (1956)
Yuanyangdao (196 1)—— A novella attached to a flying fox on a snowy mountain.
Yue Nvjian (1970)- a short story of a chivalrous man. Jin Yong originally intended to write a short story for each of the "Thirty-three Fighters", but in the end he only finished writing the first song "sword of the yue maiden", and there was no income couplet.
In a word, Jin Yong's martial arts novels have experienced three versions: the old version, the new version and the new revision. The manuscripts from 1955 to 1972 are called old editions, which are mainly published in newspapers and periodicals, and there are also many singles without copyright, which may have been scattered now. From 1970, Jin Yong began to revise all his works, and 1980 revised all his works. It's a new edition, named Jin Yong's Anthology. 1999, Jin Yong resumed the revision work and renamed it new revision (or century new revision). So far, all the new revisions have been completed and published.
Every time it is revised, the plot changes. The details and ending of the newly revised version of the story have also changed slightly, which has aroused great repercussions. At present, the publishing of the three places across the Taiwan Strait is authorized by Guangzhou Publishing House (which started publishing at the end of 2002 and replaced the original Sanlian Bookstore), Liu Yuan Publishing House in Taiwan Province Province and He Ming Publishing House in Hong Kong.
Off-topic: Mr. Ni Kuang, a famous sci-fi and martial arts novelist, is a good friend of Mr. Jin Yong, who wrote Eight Dragons when he was traveling overseas.
Other works
Essay on Three Sword Buildings
Biography of Yuan Chonghuan (cultural popularization works, non-academic works, included in Sword with Royal Blood)
Be copied by others
In the 1980s, works such as Legend of the Condor Shooting and Legend of the Dragon Carving were all written under the pseudonym of Yonghong, and both packaging and printing were very similar to Jin Yong's works. It still exists in some bookstores that rent and sell old novels in Hong Kong. In Chinese mainland, there are similar plagiarized works with similar titles and authors, such as Quan Yong, Jin Kang, Jin Yongxin and Gao Yong.
Win an honorary title
Jin Yong was awarded many honorary titles in his life, including:
British government O.B.E, French "Knight of the Legion of Honor";
Honorary researchers such as Oxford University, Cambridge University, Melbourne University and Singapore Institute of East Asian Studies.
Honorary doctors from the University of Hong Kong, the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, the Open University of Hong Kong and the University of British Columbia;
Honorary professors of Soka University, Hong Kong University, Peking University, Nankai University, Zhejiang University, Guangzhou Sun Yat-sen University, Sichuan University, East China Normal University, Hangzhou University, Suzhou University and National Tsinghua University.
Honorary Dean of College of Humanities, Zhejiang University;
1998, awarded the "Lifetime Achievement Award for Literary Creation" by the Urban Council of Hong Kong; Together with Ba Jin and Bing Xin, he was awarded the "Golden Dragon Award for Contemporary Writers" by the Hong Kong (and overseas) Literature and Art Association.
In 2000, he was awarded the highest honor, the Grand Bauhinia Medal, by the Hong Kong government.
In 200 1 year, the International Astronomical Society named an asteroid named 10930 discovered by Beijing Observatory as "Jin Yong".
In March, 2003, Jin Yong's library opened in the New Road Cultural Center in Macau. As an honorary consultant, Jin Yong personally opened the library to collect Chinese, English, Japanese, Thai and Indonesian versions of Jin Yong's novels.
In 2005, Cambridge University awarded Jin Yong the honorary title of Doctor of Literature. At the age of 8/kloc-0, Jin Yong immediately went to Cambridge University to study for a doctorate in history, and expected to finish his studies in two to three years.
The university majored in English and international law. He worked as a reporter, translator and editor in Shanghai Ta Kung Pao, Hong Kong Ta Kung Pao and New Evening News all his life. 1959 founded Ming Pao in Hong Kong and served as editor-in-chief and president for 35 years, during which Ming Pao Monthly, Ming Pao Weekly, Singapore Xinmin Daily and Malaysia Xinmin Daily were founded.
He won many honors, including: 198 1 British government O.B.E, praising his contribution to news and novel writing; 1986 honorary doctor of social science from the university of hong kong, praising his achievements in social work and literary creation; 1988 Honorary Professor, Chinese Department, Faculty of Literature, University of Hong Kong; 1992 Doctor of Literature; University of British Columbia, Canada; 1994 honorary professor of Peking University; And 1996 honorary academician of Cambridge university.
Jin Yong has rich experience, profound knowledge, quick thinking and unique vision. He inherited the essence of classical martial arts novels and created a new genre of martial arts novels with unique form, tortuous plot, delicate description and deep chivalry.
knight-errant
-Explain the chivalrous spirit in Jin Yong's martial arts novels
Jin Yong's novels are full of ups and downs and mixed feelings, so it is very difficult to write a rational explanation. Fortunately, Jin Yong's novels, unlike the martial arts novels in the old literature period, have their unique writing style and ideological implications, which makes it easy for me to find a culture-centered perspective to explain the category I want to talk about today.
Jin Yong's novels focus on the word "chivalry", so I have to mention several familiar protagonists in Jin Yong's works first. They are often heroes who achieved chivalrous fame from troubled times, or in the Song Dynasty when the great powers rose, the Wulin was in chaos, the people were in poverty, and foreign troubles and internal troubles continued, or in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, when the times were ups and downs, Xiao Feng, Guo Jing, Yang Guo, Zhang Wuji and. Legend of the Condor Heroes is listed as Jin Yong's most famous masterpiece, which makes sense. The protagonists in these novels have broken through the traditional role of chivalrous men in the old martial arts novels, that is, they are not limited to chivalrous men, but also want to fight for the country and the nation, to say the least, for the whole world. This is also a typical chivalrous demeanor stipulated by Confucian ethics. Unconsciously, this kind of Confucian ethics with certain restrictions has become Jin Yong's martial arts novels.
Guo Jing in The Legend of the Condor Heroes is a typical Confucian warrior. He is a man with moral standards, so from the beginning, there have been the most primitive standards for what is right and wrong. Such a chivalrous man is worthy of respect, but this character lacks his personality, which is one of the limitations of Confucianism. Therefore, in the second part of the trilogy "The Condor Heroes", Jin Yong created a completely different role, an extreme and rebellious temperament middleman-Yang Guo. Different from traditional Guo Jing, Yang Guo has its own value judgment standard. From the Confucian point of view, Yang Guo may not be as worthy of people's respect as Guo Jing, but he also fought bravely to defend Xiangyang City and gave up his blood to save Guo Jing in order not to violate his conscience. Although Guo Jing would do the same in his place, Guo Jing did it because of the influence of Confucian ethics, which was a world outlook initially established by him, the Sixth Division, Qiu Chuji and others, while Yang Guo did it. Yang Guo is a typical Taoist knight-errant. His chivalry is obviously more unrestrained than Guo Jing's, and he deserves to be called "West Madness".
From The Condor Heroes, we can already see Jin Yong's rejection and ridicule of this Confucian ethics, so the thoughts of his later novels have gradually tended to Buddhism, and at this time his most outstanding work Eight Dragons was born here. This is a real masterpiece of "looking at the world positively with the thorough wisdom of Buddhism, and resolving endless injustice in the world with great compassion and great illusion". (He Pingyu) The Eight Dragons belong to the realm of desire. Although their karma is different, they eventually have reincarnation. In the novel, those who do evil must have reasons for doing evil, and those who do good must be rewarded. All people have their own troubles and doomed love, but the karma is different and they repay each other. Finally, they lag behind the wisdom of Buddhism. Xiao Feng, the hero of the novel, is still not free from Confucian ethics. But at the end of the novel, out of fear of "killing and killing, I don't know where to go", he finally stepped out of the Confucian ethics and hijacked Ye Lvhongji for the lives of the people all over the world. But in the end, he took a step back to Confucian ethics and had to shoot himself, which was strangled by the powerful Han centralism and Han orthodoxy of Confucianism. Xiao Feng's death ended all the chivalrous stories of Jin Yong.
"The great man of chivalry is for the country and the people". When Yang Guo lived in Peach Blossom Island as a child, Huang Rong taught him such a sentence, which finally changed many moments in Yang Guo's life. However, after Jin Yong retired from the Jianghu, there were very few real chivalrous people in the Wulin, and tragic life and death never appeared again.
Wan Li stratus clouds, Qian Shan sunset snow, only to whom?