Today is the 100th anniversary of the birth of Jin Yong.
The works he left behind, including film and television adaptations, have influenced more than one generation.
Mr. Jin Yong has really taught us too much.
So much so that at certain critical moments, Jin Yong’s characters pop up in my mind unconsciously.
What is the great hero? It is Guo Jing who serves the country and the people.
Why is it difficult to control yourself? It was Zhao Min who said arrogantly: "I have to force myself."
What does it mean to be loyal to oneself? It was Li Wenxiu who made the most of it: "Those are all very good, but I don't like them."
But sir must be honest. There are some parts that he only half-understood when he first read them, and he was even confused: Why did Jin Yong treat Xiao Longnu, Duan Yu, Zhou Zhiruo, Guo Xiang like this?
When a young man is young, he pursues purity and perfection, and cannot see any "flaws".
As my experience gradually increases, I can understand the advanced, helpless and profound nature of it.
after all.
None of us have grown into the happy and grudges we once envied.
But I know that in the world, no one can have regrets.
The characters in Jin Yong's works seem to have begun to change in our minds.
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Xiao Longnu: Whose innocence
Xiao Longnu herself is a refined person.
lives in an ancient tomb, sleeps on an ice bed, and eats honey.
But is a pure and innocent heroine another common cliché?
So Jin Yong wrote a "refined" plot.
This paragraph can be called the shadow of childhood. How many people want to jump into the book or the screen and cut Yin Zhiping into pieces, and even want to ask Jin Yong loudly: Why do you do this to Xiao Longnu?
After a long time, understood that Jin Yong's "cruelty" to Xiao Longnu was actually his sympathy for the situation of women, and used the so-called "impurity" to fight for free space for women.
From the perspective of many people today, Yang Guo and Xiao Longnu may be classified as "irregular CP".
The relationship between the two broke the shackles of master-disciple ethics.
Xiao Longnu and Yang Guo expressed their feelings in public. Everyone was shocked and immediately looked at the master and disciple who had just defeated Jinlun Dharma King and were regarded as the leader of the martial arts alliance in a different way.
Huang Rong and Guo Jing dissuaded her: since Miss Long is your master, she is your elder, so you cannot have an affair between a man and a woman.
The heroes of the martial arts world despised him: He was just such a blatant and unscrupulous act, but he had a good-natured heart and became a scum in the martial arts world.
The second bondage that the two of them broke was the shackles of chastity.
This is not only in the hearts of people in the world, but also the lingering regret of many readers (including young sirs) when they watch Little Dragon Girl: It would be great if there was no Yin Zhiping...
Originally, Huang Rong, Guo Jing and others had a lingering regret in their lives. We who disdain them and think they are pedantic have actually become them unknowingly - using secular etiquette to judge Xiao Longnu's experience and create stains on her.
But Jin Yong had already said it through Yang Guo: What does this have to do with each other?
What are the names of masters and disciples
What are the rules and regulations
It's all bullshit
Jin Yong wrote in the postscript:
"The Divine Eagle" attempts to use the character of Yang Guo to express the constraints of worldly etiquette and customs on people's minds and behaviors. Rites, laws and customs are temporary, but while they exist, they have great social power. The concept that teachers and students cannot get married certainly does not exist in the minds of modern people. However, in the era of Guo Jing and Yang Guo, it was a matter of course. But is it possible that many of the rules and customs that we take for granted today will be considered meaningless hundreds of years from now?
- "The Legend of the Condor Heroes" (1976 revised edition)
Questioning stereotypes, breaking shackles, and finding freedom are themes that Jin Yong proposed more than 60 years ago through Xiao Longnu's "loss of virginity".
Unfortunately, most people only regard this as Xiao Longnu's flaw and Jin Yong's slander of the one he wants.
instead uses stereotypes and shackles to restrict freedom and detachment.
What is even more disgusting is that there are people who become Zhao Zhijing, a person who uses secular etiquette and dirty thoughts to embarrass and arrange for others.
They "created pornographic rumors" about the characters in the book.
△ The Internet Zhao Zhijing who sees whatever is in his heart
They have not let go of real people and launched rounds of "slut humiliation".
It is precisely because of the existence of shackles that these unwarranted "slut humiliations" work time and time again and are used as weapons by despicable people.
If Jin Yong saw this, he would definitely frown and rebuke, "It's probably because they didn't pay attention to their studies, and they have lived like dogs for a long time."
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Wang Yuyan: How to become a secular person
If Duan Yu could jump out When talking to Mr. Jin, his first question may be: "Why do you want to separate me and the fairy sister?"
In the serial version and the triple version, the endings of Duan Yu and Wang Yuyan are the same in Dali.
Although there is a suspicion of an open ending, after the romance was settled in Kujing, the public also accepted that Duan Yu had a happy ending with his fairy sister returning home.
But in the new version of the century, Jin Yong broke up Duan Yu and Wang Yuyan, leaving Wang Yuyan to be with his crazy cousin Murong Fu.
Not to mention back then, even now, many people still don’t understand this change, especially from Duan Yu’s perspective, he has been pursuing the fairy sister for so long, but in the end he couldn’t get it.
Naturally, it is inevitable to be confused.
But the more I come into contact with reality, the more I realize that life is full of difficulties and less of Dzogchen.
This is the difference between Jin Yong’s martial arts world and some of the current Internet cool articles.
"Dragon and Eight Parts" itself is a Buddhist term, representing many gods and Buddhas of different levels.
Jin Yong originally planned to write a novel with each kind of Shinto monster as the protagonist. However, in the art world, it became a pain to follow the strict rules of "filling the holes", so in the end it did not take shape according to the original plan.
But the "Eight Sufferings gathered together, no one is suffering; no one is unjust, and all sentient beings are sinful" derived from Buddhism is still the main theme of the novel, focusing on unavailability and the impermanence of life .
Xiao Feng wanted to guard the Song Dynasty, but found out that he was a Khitan; wanted to stay with A'Zhu, but accidentally killed A'Zhu; in the end, he committed suicide to defend his righteousness, but those who understood his righteousness, the soldiers present were all talking. How many people can there be?
Xu Zhu initially wanted to be a quiet monk, but instead became the master of Lingjiu Palace and married a Xixia princess, breaking the Buddhist precepts; Ah Zi could not get Xiao Feng, and You TanZhi could not get Ah Zi; Mu Wanqing cannot have Duan Yu alone.
"All potential dharmas are like bubbles in a dream. They are like dew and lightning. They should be viewed as such."
But Duan Yu in the triptych version was unable to escape and seek in matters of love. He achieved great perfection and had no understanding of the original purpose of the story. It is somewhat weakened.
It's more like Mr. Jin Yong created a perfect dream for himself. After all, Wang Yuyan's prototype is his goddess Xia Meng.
But decades later, when looking back and revising, he couldn't help but pierce this old dream, and he also pierced it in a worldly way that actually had an effect on people's hearts -
"substitute literature" and appearance anxiety. In the last chapter of the newly revised version of
, Wang Yuyan was suddenly worried about losing her sex and losing her love, so she took Duan Yu to find Changchun Gong.
——In fact, it has nothing to do with whether Wang Yuyan loves beauty or not, but she knows that Duan Yu’s love for her starts from her appearance and ends with her beauty. After all, when they first met, Duan Yu praised her unabashedly. Beautiful.
When the two came to Wuliang Cave, Duan Yu found out that the one he loved was the jade statue of the fairy sister; when Wang Yuyan saw the jade statue, she was even more shocked to realize the uselessness of beauty.
——Not only because she discovered that "she is a substitute", but also because the original body of the jade statue is her grandmother Li Qiushui, and both her grandmother and mother (Li Qingluo) who share the same face with Wang Yuyan cannot retain love.
This jade statue is more like a nightmare for Wang Yuyan, seeming to predict that her future will end unfortunately like her mother and grandmother.
So she pushed the jade statue down and shouted "I don't want impermanence...". From then on, she no longer returned to Duan Yu, but to the crazy Murong Fu, and returned to what she could control and what she believed. "eternal" side.
When today's domestic dramas repeatedly exaggerate "white moonlight becomes white rice grains, red roses become mosquito blood".
When "appearance anxiety" appears on the Internet in various forms, such as right-angled shoulders, A4 waist, being broken up for gaining weight, etc.
You will feel that Jin Yong's newly revised version, although it has lost a trace of romance, captures the age-old problems that plague the world: the illusion of love, and the changeability of human hearts.
When it comes to grasping human feelings in the world, Mr. Jin Yong is still not behind the times.
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Zhou Zhiruo: After becoming a black man, don’t have “a guilty conscience” anymore
Zhao Min and Zhou Zhiruo’s “Red and White Roses” dispute has been protracted, and Sir’s previous perceptions of them were also very different.
Looking at Zhao Min, it is indeed the description of her in the original work, "as bright as a rose".
is not only about appearance, but also about transparency and sharpness of character.
Looking at Zhou Zhiruo, it's more like looking at flowers in the mist. She always feels that she is covered with a veil, which is too much. Her character reminds people of one word, "fake" .
Looking back now, I feel more and more complicated about her.
She drifts back and forth between ambition and emotion, and the line between altruism and self-interest is unclear.
The audience still has fresh memories of Zhou Zhiruo's later "blackening", but she is by no means a purely exploitative Zhu Jiuzhen to Zhang Wuji.
Compared with the previous generation Ji Xiaofu, Zhou Zhiruo seems to naturally have a heaviness from the depths of her soul.
Zhou Zhiruo's embarrassing blackening, it seems now, is probably caused by the "sense of shame" deep in her heart.
She did not have a good background, and became a disciple of Emei while wandering around. Her first reaction to the responsibility and favor was that she was "not worthy".
At many points in the story, she expresses her inner insecurity, in the form of self-pity and self-deprecation.
Zhou Zhiruo shook her head and said: "I am the most useless woman, cowardly and incompetent, and born stupid. Not to mention that I am far different from the extremely smart Miss Zhao, even Xiao Zhao, how can I match her profound scheming? What if? Your Miss Zhou is an honest and stupid girl, don’t you know it to this day?"
Looking back at "The Legend of Heaven and Sword of the Dragon", I found that many major events that determine the direction of Zhou Zhiruo's life were caused by her being forced Complete an external "performance", and this kind of performance often goes against her original intention:
She needs to stab Zhang Wuji with her own hands in front of the six major sects;
At Wan'an Temple, she was entrusted with the important task by the dying Master Miejie and issued a heart-breaking sentence. Poisonous oath.
In the end, she seemed to be integrated with the social gaze that forced her to hold a decent wedding earned through conspiracy.
The departure of Zhang Wuji completely shattered the "perfect" shell she wanted to create. Zhou Zhiruo in the
story ultimately has the highest martial arts status among the four beauties, but seems to be the farthest away from being a "xia".
She never had a complete, strong and self-contained self. She always relied on rigid and complex values, burying the original little fisherman in her heart.
So, what Ms. Zhou finally got was Zhang Wuji’s sentence “respect” .
is his respect for the huge social machine she is burdened with.
Zhou Zhiruo’s path to darkness is like a microcosm of East Asians being forced to “do business” and eventually going crazy.
The parents' pervasive physical and mental control + the overwhelming "glorious mission" + the bullying of the powerful Tianlong people.
The scene in which Zhou Zhiruo uses the same bullying method to take revenge on Ding Minjun reminds Sir of the overwhelming anger in the "Angry Life" and "Dark Glory" in the past two years, which is unique to the East Asian cultural background.
The trauma psychology book "It's Okay Not to Forgive" says that under the repression of long-term trauma, the expression of the traumatized person may be shameful self-pity, or it may be the opposite anger.
And their essence comes from the helplessness after being let down.
Zhou Zhiruo's actions after her darkening were just a state of out-of-control anger, but because of this, she finally let go of her shame for a moment and showed a bit of truth that is not afraid of the world:
said the sentence "If I I feel guilty" .
But Zhang Wuji did not answer, and Zhou Zhiruo wisely stopped talking.
This sentence finally opened the hard shell for a moment, and was gently covered again.
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Guo Xiang: Once you see Yang Guo, you will never miss him for life
Speaking of Jin Yong's novels, in addition to "a pair of people for life", the most common emotional state is "difficult to calm down".
In the past impression, Guo Xiang was regarded as a leader who was "difficult to calm down".
There are also many people who don’t understand her emotional choices: Guo Xiang is good at everything, except that she “mistakes her life at first sight”.
But, was she really wrong?
There are many single-arrow emotions in Jin Yong's works, the more extreme one is a kind of obsessive self-trap.
For example, You Tanzhi’s shaking-m-like devotion to Ah Zi.
For example, Zhen Zhibing’s defilement of Xiao Longnu.
For example, Azi’s insistence on Xiao Feng.
But sometimes, it adds color to the martial arts giants in the story, such as Guo Xiang who founded the Emei Sect, and Zhang Sanfeng of the Wudang Sect who also cares about Guo Xiang.
Jin Yong never avoids emotions, even the emotions of always repaying injustice.
Guo Xiang and Guo Fu are a contrasting group. Guo Fu cut off Yang Guo's arm due to her complicated emotions towards Yang Guo. Although Guo Fu eventually got married, her mistake was obviously worse than that of her sister.
was trapped in his emotions and used shame to mislead himself who should have adhered to the chivalrous rules.
Guo Xiang, on the other hand, is much more open-minded.
has details.
Sixteen-year-old Guo Xiang made a wish. The first two wishes were for the happiness of her relatives. Huang Rong was also worried about her feelings for Yang Guo, but the result was:
Guo Xiang could not express her third wish for a while. After a while, she said: "My third wish." Three wishes, hoping for the heroic Condor Hero Yang Guo..." Huang Rong had already expected that her daughter's third wish must be related to Yang Guo, but when she heard her say the word "Yang Guo" personally, her heart was shocked, and she continued Said: "...I will reunite with his wife Xiao Longnu as soon as possible, in peace and joy."
Being optimistic about feelings often creates another, broader world .
For example, Yin Li in "Yi Tian".
She let go of Zhang Wuji, who did not belong to her, and found that what she loved was just the man who bit her on the back of her hand when she was a child.
can also be on Linghu Chong.
He witnessed with his own eyes his junior sister's deep affection and support for Lin Pingzhi.
Just like the moment when Baoyu wrote Jia Qiang's name to the senior official, he realized that not every deep love in the world can belong to him.
As for Guo Xiang, many people feel sorry for her, but she is still used to strongly relating women's happy endings to emotions.
The similar hopeless love in the distance reminds Sir of Mr. Bao’s last appointment in Hong Kong with the deceased Xuezhi in "Flowers".
No one thought it was Mr. Bao who "made a lifelong mistake with Xuezhi at first sight".
only feels that although first love is beautiful, it cannot go back.
Because the world at that time was too small to accommodate my expanded self today.
Jin Yong, decades ago, had already used an attitude of equality and respect to record these "difficult to calm down" sentient beings.
On the contrary, this emotion, which is not sweet at all, originates from deep.
When it comes to love in Jin Yong's novels, don't ask whether it's worth it, but ask your own heart whether you can let it go.
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Conclusion
sir always believes that martial arts sentiments may have long stayed in their best era.
Until I communicated with a new post-00s colleague in the editorial department, he shared a short story about Jin Yong of his own.
The scene that impressed him most about Jin Yong's films when he was a child was the scene on TV when he was a child when the six major factions besieged Guangmingding, Zhang Wuji turned the tide, and the big scene of "He is stronger than he is, and the breeze blows over the hills."
was caught off guard, and the news of Jin Yong's death came.
I believe that no Jin Yong fan can imagine how to say goodbye, let alone at work.
after finishing pushing the article that day.
Another scene that I didn't pay much attention to in the past emerged. It was the nameless Ming sect members who fought bloody battles in the siege of Guangmingding. They sang:
Burn my broken body, the blazing holy fire, how happy is life, and why is death so painful? To eliminate evil for the sake of good, only light, joy and sorrow, all return to the dust. Have pity on my people, for they are full of sorrows! Have mercy on my people, who are full of sorrows.
The stories in this world, no matter how wonderful they are, will always end in desolation.
However, with this ultimate understanding, how did those Mingjiao believers shed their blood and go through fire and water?
It's like they can use life as fire.
knows the consequences of burning, but still releases all the heat without hesitation.
The golden age of martial arts is far behind. Those works of
are a kind of secret code that everyone in the same cultural environment knows well.
is like the songs that accompany his works, living in our cultural genes. When
is proud.
We can show off Linghu Chong’s lightness and freedom: "walk freely and unrestrainedly, without thinking about the future."
You can laugh at yourself about Wei Xiaobao's "little man's success": "He is full of youthful arrogance, and he loves and hates hundreds of times."
When he is frustrated.
will also recall that behind the classic song "A Laugh in the Sea", two seemingly "unimportant" little characters in two stories sang before they generously died:
"Follow the waves and just remember the present."
We start from When you step out of martial arts novels, you will see the gray areas of society, and you can also identify and correspond to who is Yue Buqun, who is Ding Chunqiu, and who is Cheng Kun who deceives the world and steals his reputation.
We can also turn our backs on the disputes between evil, evil, evil, southern emperor and northern beggar like the old naughty boy, and let others laugh and scold us in our own spiritual world.
On the 100th anniversary of the birth of Jin Yong, I looked back at Jin Yong again, and those old stories came out of the paper, just like Zhang Sanfeng looked at the suicide note of the girl riding a donkey, Guo Xiang.
thought, but that was a hundred years ago.
We can only sigh: "Because I didn't understand at that time."
△ Postscript to "The Legend of Heaven and Sword of the Dragon"
When we met Jin Yong when we were young, it may be like in Ma Jingtao's version of "The Story of the Heaven and the Sword of the Dragon", Zhang Wuji went to the Mingjiao to explore the secrets of his identity. The mysterious Xiao Zhao sang to him a song "Two Two Forget Each Other":
The sun and the moon wax and wane with each other
Wealth and wealth are difficult to last forever
Today's face is older than last night
The waves are rolling, the person is insignificant
The youthful bird is flying away
Even though he was wandering through the ages
At that time, he didn't know that his life of joyful reunions and bitter partings was being sung by this smart girl in a blissful and spiritual way.
I know when we will miss each other, but I am embarrassed at this moment and this night.
The pictures in this article come from the Internet
