Jin Yong was born in Wuyuan County, Jiangxi Province, and was born in Haining, Zhejiang Province in 1924. Chajia is a well-known family in the local area, with the reputation of "a rich family since the Tang and Song Dynasties and several families in the south of the Yangtze River". In history, the most prosperous period of tea family was the Kangxi period of Qing Dynasty, when seven uncles and nephews headed by tea served as academicians. There is a saying that "one scholar is seven and two uncles are academicians". There are also two famous figures in the modern Cha family, namely Cha Liang Zheng (Mu Dan), a professor at Nankai University (1a representative poet and translator of the 1940s school), and Cha Zhao Liang, the most influential figure in Taiwan Province academic circles and minister of justice. Famous people in Haining include Wang Guowei and Xu Zhimo. Xu Zhimo is Jin Yong's cousin. Jin Yong's grandfather Cha Cangshan was a party to Danyang religious plan. Many of his novels have been selected into textbooks.
1937, Jin Yong was admitted to Quzhou No.1 Middle School and left his hometown of Haining. 1939, 15-year-old Jin Yong and his classmates wrote a reference book for junior high school students, which is very popular in the mainland. This is the first time that China has published such a book, and it is also the first book published by Jin Yong. 194 1 year, the Japanese invaded Zhejiang, and Jin Yong entered the joint high school. He was 17 years old. When he graduated, he was fired for writing the satirical blackboard newspaper Alice Roaming. (The other is writing love letters. ) 1944 was admitted to the Foreign Languages Department of Chongqing National Chengchi University. He was ordered to drop out of school because he was dissatisfied with Kuomintang vocational school students. He worked in the Central Library and then transferred to Soochow University in Suzhou (now Suzhou University) to study international law. After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, he returned to Hangzhou and worked as a reporter in Southeast Daily. 1948, he stood out from thousands of exams, entered Ta Kung Pao as an editor, worked as a translator and listened to English international telecommunications broadcasts. Soon the Hong Kong version of Ta Kung Pao was reissued, and Jin Yong went south to Hong Kong.
1950, Ta Kung Pao's New Evening News was founded. Jin Yong became the editor of the supplement, presided over Afternoon Teahouse, and also worked as a translator and reporter. He shared a desk with Liang Yusheng (formerly known as Chen) and wrote many sketches and film reviews (pen names Yao Fulan and Lin Huan). Yao Fulan means your friend in English. 1955 began to write The Book of Swords, wrote essays on three swords in Ta Kung Pao and Liang Yusheng and Fan Chen (the owner of Hundred Swords Hall), and became a columnist. From 65438 to 0957, he joined the Great Wall Film Company as a full-time screenwriter, and created plays such as Beauty as a Flower, Lanhuahua, Don't Leave Me, Three Lovers, Little Pigeon Girl, Midnight Piano Sound, and co-directed The Girl Who Fell in Love with Spring and Wang Tiger Stealing Her Kiss (pseudonym Lin Huan).
Shortly after the founding of the People's Republic of China, Jin Yong came to Beijing to realize his ideal as a diplomat, but returned to Hong Kong in disappointment for various reasons, thus starting the creation of martial arts novels.
1959 left the Great Wall Film Company and founded Ming Pao with his middle school classmate Shen Baoxin. He served as editor-in-chief and president for 35 years. During this period, he also founded Ming Pao Monthly, Ming Pao Weekly, Singapore Xinmin Daily and Malaysia Xinmin Daily. During Jin Yong's presidency, Ming Pao became one of the most influential newspapers in Hong Kong, and some people compared it to Hong Kong Times. Its prediction and analysis of the current situation in China is incomparable to other newspapers. Ming Pao Monthly is the most cultural publication in the Chinese world, and its concern for Greater China is deeply loved by Chinese people all over the world.