Chapter 6 Chapter 5 "Jin Yong" is born

During the "New Evening News" period, playing Go with colleagues Chen Wentong and others became a great pleasure for Cha Liangyong in his spare time.Chen is a native of Mengshan, Guangxi. He was born on March 22, 1924. He graduated from the Economics Department of Lingnan University in 1949.They are colleagues at Ta Kung Pao. In the summer of 1949, Chen Wentong was recommended by the principal Chen Xujing to apply for the translation examination of Hong Kong "Ta Kung Pao", and the editor-in-chief Li Xiawen commissioned Cha Liangyong to be the examiner.He thought that Chen Yingwen was qualified, so he was admitted. Unexpectedly, his Chinese was much better than English.They were originally in the compilation team, translating English telegrams.A few months later, Chen switched to the supplementary edition, and Zha was still on the international edition (during the period, he once resigned and went north). In 1952, the two of them were successively transferred to the "New Evening News" to edit the supplement, and Chen Wentong edited the "Arabian Nights" edition, which was located in the same office downstairs at No. 123 Connaught Road.During this time, the two of them interacted the most and had the closest relationship.What they talked about most was martial arts novels, from Huanzhu Loulou's, Bai Yu's to Zhu Zhenmu's "Monument of Seven Killings"... they often talked happily.They all believe that Bai Yu's writing style is good, clean and neat, the characters are lifelike, and the dialogue is like the person; but the content of "Shu Mountain" is unrestrained and the author's whimsy.When talking about the alien characters in the book, they also add a lot of their own imaginations, which is very compatible.Chen Fan, Gao Xueda and others in the same room are far inferior to them in martial arts novels, and they usually can't get in the conversation. After listening for a while, they have to go to work separately.

Every afternoon, Chen Wentong would go to buy two pairs of steamed and four pairs of roasted meat to help the conversation. While drinking, he invited Cha Liangyong to eat meat, and he was very happy.Cha doesn't like steamed meat and roasted pork, so sometimes he has to drink a bottle of beer with Chen Duo.At that time, none of them thought that they would write martial arts novels by themselves in the near future. They also have a common hobby of Go, and they often play chess together, fighting in the dark.Writer Nie Gannu was the deputy editor-in-chief of Hong Kong Wen Wei Po at the time. He had to write editorials every day, but his greatest interest was playing Go with these two young people. "The chess skills of the three of them are all low, but their interest is really good. They often play for hours." The three of them were evenly matched, and they won and lost. The two of them often teamed up to deal with Nie Gannu. At night, sometimes even at dawn, Nie Gannu simply called Wen Wei Po, saying that there was no editorial today.The "chess talks" written by two chess fans in the newspaper also competed for each other's strengths, and were very popular among chess fans.The difference is that Chen Wentong likes both Go and Xiangqi, while Jin Yong only loves Go.

In 1954, a sensational martial arts competition took place in Hong Kong. The Taiji School and the Baihe School had a dispute because of sectarian differences. The head of the party signed the life and death certificate.Because Hong Kong prohibits ring competitions, the venue is set in Macau across the river.This incident aroused great repercussions in Hong Kong. At least 5,000 people went to Macau to wait for the opening ceremony. It was not only a hot topic of discussion in the streets, but also a subject of newspapers rushing to report at that time. The "New Evening News" reported on it almost every day. On the afternoon of January 17, this eye-catching confrontation kicked off in the New Garden of Macau. The masters of the two factions only fought in the ring for two short rounds before Wu Gongyi punched Chen Kefu, causing his nose to bleed.However, the martial arts competition caused a rare sensation. On the same day, the "New Evening News" published an "extra" report on the results of the martial arts competition, and it was sold out as soon as it went on the market.

The martial arts competition touched Jin Yaoru, who is in charge of the propaganda work of leftist newspapers in the Hong Kong branch of Xinhua News Agency. A thought flashed in his mind: Since the citizens are so interested in martial arts, why not strike while the iron is hot and launch a series of martial arts novels in leftist newspapers to attract readers and expand distribution What about the amount? After 1949, martial arts novels were banned in the mainland because of their absurdity, but King believed that if leftist newspapers could break the rules and serialize martial arts novels, they would surely attract a large number of Hong Kong and Macao readers and change the plight of sales.At the Xinhua News Agency publicity meeting, he proposed to use martial arts novels to attract people to accept "patriotic ideological education", and all the participants expressed their support.The Propaganda Committee made a decision to use the "New Evening News" as a pilot to do it first.At that time, Luo Fu from "New Evening News" and Liao Yiyuan from "Wen Wei Po" were present.

Previously, the "Arabian Nights" column of "New Evening News" serialized Tang Ren (Yan Qingshu)'s "Jinling Spring Dream", and "Afternoon Teahouse" serialized his other novel "Human Scum", which attracted a large number of readers, but never published martial arts novels . On January 19, the third day after the end of the martial arts competition, the "New Evening News" published a notice in a prominent position on the front page of "This newspaper supplements martial arts novels". On the 20th, Chen Wentong's "Arabian Nights" began to be serialized, signed "Liang Yusheng".This is Liang Yusheng's debut novel and also a famous one, marking the birth of new martial arts novels.The novel was serialized for 7 months, and it aroused an unexpected warm response among readers. Liang Yusheng became a hit, and the sales volume of "New Evening News" was booming.

: Hometown Tales From Liang Yusheng's writing, Cha Liangyong has been a loyal reader, and he never thought that he would also participate in the battle. At the beginning of February 1955, Luo Fu and the editor of "Arabian Nights" suddenly asked him to draft a manuscript urgently, saying that the serialization was over and there must be a martial arts novel on top, but Liang Yusheng couldn't take care of it, and the responsibility for writing the manuscript fell on him. Not on the head.He had never written a martial arts novel, not even a novel, and he was hesitant to agree.Unable to withstand their persuasion, Cha Liangyong had no choice but to agree, called the newspaper office, and reported a topic, but he hadn't figured out where to start.

On February 7th, the day of publishing the manuscript arrived, and the editor sent an old coworker to wait at the door. In any case, there must be a thousand-word manuscript before nine o'clock that night, otherwise there will be a blank in tomorrow's newspaper.An old worker inspired him, so he started writing from an old man on the ancient road outside the Great Wall who was "nearly sixty years old, with white eyebrows, but full of spirit and energy", and sent the worker away first.So he said, "If I started writing novels as literary creation, then the purpose of writing at that time was just to do a job."

On February 8, the "Arabian Nights" edition of "New Evening News" began to be serialized, signed "Jin Yong", one section per day, until September 5, 1956, and it was serialized for 574 days. The word "Yong" is split into two halves to become "Jin Yong". He claimed to be "meaningless".Jin Yong was born, and from then on, people in the world often only know Jin Yong but not Cha Liangyong. As a martial arts novelist, Jin Yong appeared on the stage on February 8, 1955, which is the year he passed.Although he left his hometown a long time ago, his hometown lingers in his dreams every night. His mother, father, brothers and sisters, the customs and folklore of his hometown are deeply buried in the heart of a wanderer in a foreign land.Looking at Jiangnan, that is his eternal love and pain. "If you have been to the south of the Yangtze River, you will think of those swallows, those willows and apricot blossoms, and those boats in the light rain." This is exactly the state of mind when he wrote.When he wrote his first martial arts novel, what he thought of was his distant and kind hometown, where Haining Chao, his mother and legends he had been familiar with since he was a child.

It has been rumored in his hometown that Emperor Qianlong was originally the son of Chen Gelao in Haining.Emperor Yongzheng gave birth to a daughter and exchanged the Chen family's son with a subterfuge. Qianlong was actually the blood of the Han family. This legend has survived for hundreds of years and has been engraved in Jin Yong's heart since childhood.The outline of the story comes from this, from family and country hatred to children's love, rivers and lakes, rivers and mountains, heroes and beauties, national grievances... unfold one by one.He couldn't help missing his mother. Mrs. Chen Ge's name was "Xu Huilu" when it was first serialized, which was only one letter different from his mother's name. Later, it was changed to "Xu Chaosheng" when it was revised and published.

"I am from Haining, Zhejiang. I have heard the legend of Emperor Qianlong in my hometown since I was a child. ... Therefore, it is natural that the first novel wrote a story that impressed me deeply. ... Historian Meng Sen wrote According to textual research, the legend that Qianlong was a descendant of the Chen family in Haining is unreliable, and the legend that Xiangfei was killed by the empress dowager is also false. Of course historians don’t like legends, but people who write novels do.” Qianlong built a seawall in Haining, Jin Yong's hometown, and went all out until it was completed, benefiting the local people.But Jin Yong wrote about Emperor Qianlong very badly, and he sometimes felt a little sorry.He said that Qianlong's poems were not well written, and they didn't have much to do with it at first, but when he was a child in Haining, and later in Hangzhou, he saw his imperial poem steles everywhere, and he was really disgusted. Now he sees many famous paintings, and his works are everywhere The inscription, if you don't satirize him, you will be bored.At the end of the writing, he couldn't help making a lot of comments, saying that the emperor's words could not be trusted.This statement has little to do with the main line of the novel.

In the two or three weeks since the serialization of "New Evening News", the response was flat and did not cause any special sensation. After more than a month of publication, the situation gradually changed. The twists and turns and ups and downs of the plot broke the dull situation and deeply attracted readers. They read on all the way. Dong Qianli, who went south to Hong Kong in 1950 and worked as an editor for Shanghai Shenbao, said that when "Book Sword" was first serialized in the newspaper, he never missed it from the beginning to the end. Jin Yong received a large number of letters from readers, almost every day. If he made an oolong that day, there would be more letters the next day. He wrote about the battle between Yan Bogan and Wen Tailai, and he inadvertently used "two eyes are like electricity" , and received seven letters in the next three days, all saying that Yan Bogan had been shot blind in one eye by Yu Yutong.He will respond to letters from readers who have addresses. My friend in the film industry, Liu Fang, the general manager of Zhonglian Company, and his wife compete to watch the serial in "New Evening News" every day, and Zhonglian really wants to adapt it into a movie.A letter from a reader in Yangon, Myanmar said that several local storytellers used "Book Sword" as the finale, which was well received by the audience.There are two overseas Chinese newspapers reprinting it daily. After Liang Yusheng, Jin Yong pushed martial arts novels to another climax, and there is a tendency to catch up from behind. Not only have a large number of readers in Hong Kong, but also many people in Southeast Asia are eager to read. "Some people like the game text", which surprised him.He initially promised Rover that it was just a trial. Some readers regard the characters in the book as real people, and sincerely worry about them and complain about them.Jin Yong said that when he wrote this book, he really imagined himself as a member of the "Safflower Society", he might be regarded as a small leader. The heroes of the "Safflower Club" are easily reminiscent of the 108 generals in "Water Margin", and the ending also has traces of "Water Margin".Before that, he had never written any novels ("White Elephant Love" written when he was in college was an application, and he was not included in it). It is also influenced by many foreign novels, and sometimes it is simply imitating, both imitating and imitating "Water Margin".The girl fed Chen Jialuo food, she just copied it. In the protagonist Chen Jialuo, the shadows of Jiang Baili and Xu Zhimo, two historical figures from Haining in modern times, can be vaguely seen.Jin Yong said that there are no warriors in Haining, even Jiang Baili, a military expert, can only talk about martial arts and is not good at using martial arts.They all have some melancholic tones and tragic undertones in their characters, and they all have a bit of untimely stubbornness.In fact, some of the author's personality can also be seen in Chen Jialuo.Some ideals of the author are entrusted to this fictional character. "To be a scholar, to be a revolutionary leader, and to be a politician, to be a son of a rich family, but also to be a reckless hero, to care about career as well as love, even when it comes to emotional issues, whether you love your sister or your sister can't be entangled clear." (Chen Jialuo) is not a successful character, but he reflects the ideals, aspirations, fantasies, and disillusions of many intellectuals, and reflects their naive mentality, merits and weaknesses. From then on, Jin Yong, a scholar deeply influenced by Chinese traditional culture, after experiencing the turbulent times, developed his unique and infinite understanding of human nature through martial arts novels alone in a foreign land.His appearance almost changed the fate of martial arts novels that are difficult to be refined. : troubled times complex Among the people who talked with Jin Yong or wrote to him were bank managers, lawyers, university lecturers, and handcart workers;In many places in Nanyang, it is used as the subject matter of radio broadcasts and street storytelling. The reception he received was beyond Jin Yong's expectations. Before he started writing, he never thought of becoming a martial arts novelist in the future.The world is unpredictable, what is deliberately pursued may not necessarily bear fruit, but what is unintentionally planted willows will become shades of willows. One day in 1955, when it was still serialized in "New Evening News", Liu Fang, Li Chenfeng and other friends from the film industry were talking in a teahouse about how to make this novel into a movie, and suddenly couldn't remember the nickname of a certain character in the book At that moment, the waitress in the teahouse and the tea customers sitting next to each other stepped in to tell them. The Hong Kong Commercial Daily, with a leftist background, was founded on October 11, 1952. It advertised neutrality. At first, it mainly focused on pure economic news, and its sales were narrow, with only a few thousand copies per day.In the second year, it was changed to a comprehensive newspaper, focusing on entertainment supplements and local news. At the end of 1955, when the "New Evening News" was still serialized, Li Shawei, editor of the supplement of "Hong Kong Commercial Daily", strongly invited Jin Yong to be their "speaking" He also wrote a martial arts novel for the "Moon" edition, but the earnest attitude of the editor made it difficult for him to refuse, so he agreed.From January 1, 1956, his second martial arts novel was serialized in "Hong Kong Commercial Daily". He recalled his high school years in Shiliang more than ten years ago, and made up a "Shiliang school" in the book, and the heroine Wen Qingqing was born in Shiliang.He is familiar with the scenery of Quzhou, Shiliang and Lanke Mountain: Shiliang was more than 20 miles away from Quzhou, he walked quickly, and arrived in less than half an hour.Shiliang is a small town, and Lanke Mountain is nearby.It is said that Wang Zhi, a woodcutter in the Jin Dynasty, went to the mountain to collect woodcutters and watched the game between two immortals. year.There is a huge stone beam connecting the two peaks on Lanke Mountain. It is a supernatural workmanship and cannot be moved by human beings. According to local legends, the gods moved it with magic power, and the name of the stone beam came from it. The fifth chapter, "The mountains are secluded and the flowers are silent, the water is beautiful and the grass is green", is vaguely the spring of Shiliang: The two walked slowly up the back hill.The mountain is not very high, surrounded by verdant trees, with light smoke and mist in all directions, haunting the branches and leaves.The good night was silent, the two of them stepped on the soft grass, even their footsteps were silent.When we reached the top of the mountain, we turned two turns, and there was a gust of breeze, and the surroundings were full of flowers.The moonlight is like frost, looking around, the slope is full of red, white and yellow roses. What he saw back then may not be roses, but mountains full of colorful flowers. The movie has a strong sense of history and a strong political nature. Emperor Chongzhen, Li Zicheng, and Huang Taiji all appeared, but the image of the protagonist Yuan Chengzhi is a bit thin.Jin Yong was very dissatisfied with this, and then made two major revisions, increasing the length by about one-fifth. The plots of many civilians wandering in troubled times undoubtedly have Jin Yong's own life experience and life experience.It was serialized for a whole year until December 31, 1956. Faced with the great turmoil and changes in the Yi Dynasty, Yuan Chengzhi finally chose to start a new life on an island in Nanyang. Metaphors of Hong Kong.Yuan learned about this island from the Portuguese soldiers who escorted the cannon to Beijing. They gave him a map of the Nanyang islands, "Instead of fighting hard here, you might as well bring the suffering people from China to the island. go up".Yuan Chengzhi thought to himself, you are a foreigner with a good heart, but you don't know how big our country is, and there are hundreds of millions of people, no matter how big your island is, you can't live there.This episode appeared in the segment on September 5, 1956.At that time, many Hong Kong people had a similar fate to Yuan Chengzhi. In the novel, Europeans helped these exiles find the island, which seems to imply the situation in Hong Kong. When World War II ended in 1945, Hong Kong's population was less than 600,000. Around 1949, when the political situation changed drastically, a large number of immigrants entered. By the spring of 1950, the population had soared to 2.3 million.Many of my readers came to Hong Kong during this period. On September 5, 1956, the serialization in "New Evening News" ended. On that day, it was announced: "We have asked the famous martial arts novelist Bai Jiantang to write "Legend of Wind, Tiger, Cloud and Dragon", and the serialization will start within a few days." "Hundred Sword Hall Master" is Chen Fan's pen name. He wrote poems for Liang Yusheng, and when he wrote lyrics for Jin Yong's booklet, he signed it as "Lord of Swords Watching Midnight".Jin Yong also addressed the readers of "The Arabian Nights" on the same day, saying, "Haijian Hall Master is the pen name of a famous writer, and the lyrics of the song "Man Ting Fang" in the first volume of the booklet are written by him. Hall Master Literary style..." Chen Fan was born in 1915, older than Jin Yong and Liang Yusheng. As early as the spring of 1941, when they were still in high school, Chen Fan had already entered Ta Kung Pao, and worked as a reporter, interview director, and deputy editor-in-chief. Take "Ta Kung Pao" as a lifelong career. On May 31, 1947, he was arrested in Guangzhou for covering the news of Sun Yat-sen University student strike demonstration.Colleague Tang Zhen often said that he was a famous reporter of "Ta Kung Pao" back then, traveling all over the world and writing many popular newsletters.He was keen on new poems in his early years, and rewrote old poems after his middle age. "Laughing and cursing, mourning intensely, both solemn and humorous, and singing and crying", Qian Zhongshu rarely wrote a preface for his "Zhuang Sui Ji". Chen Fan's poems, calligraphy, and articles are all good, but it is not suitable for him to apply the rhythm of poems and the "Zhi Hu Zhe Ye" in Chinese to martial arts novels. "The Legend of Wind, Tiger, Cloud and Dragon" was serialized on September 9, 1956 (until July 29, 1957), and it probably didn't cause any response. Since then, I haven't seen him write martial arts again, but he was jokingly called by colleagues in the newspaper together with Jin Yong and Liang Yusheng. For the "Three Musketeers". On October 22, the "Grand Park" supplement of "Ta Kung Pao" published a notice: Words written by Chen Fan : Since Mr. Liang Yusheng's, Mr. Jin Yong's, "The Legend of Wind, Tiger, Cloud and Dragon" by Master Baijian were serialized in various newspapers in Hong Kong, they became very popular among readers and became a new genre of martial arts novels.Now we have asked these three authors to write prose essays for "Grand Park" in a different style, which will be published within a day, readers please pay attention. --editor The column "Sanjianlou Essays" was born. On October 24, Jin Yong, who likes movies, wrote "And Novel" as the opening chapter of "Sanjianlou Essay": You may be a reader of what I wrote or read, and you may have seen the film "Serenade" (Serenade) that is currently being screened at the Queen's and Peace Theater.This film tells the story of an American singer, and it has nothing in common with our martial arts novels, but our column talks about everything, so today I am talking about a movie.Perhaps, the master of Baijian Hall will talk about Guangdong shark fin tomorrow, while Liang Yusheng will talk about abnormal psychology.All these seem to have no connection with each other at all. As a column of essays and prose, the more unrestrained ramblings, the more relaxed and gratifying it may be. Later they did the same.Jin Yong talked about movies, calligraphy and painting, music, dance, go, chess, folk songs, riddles, literature, history, religion, Beijing opera, photography, and even pi. He wrote in a wide range and showed a wide range of interests. Talking about movies is commonplace for Jin Yong.At that time, an American film "Incomparable Rivals" was released in Hong Kong. It was adapted from the novel of the same name (first translation) by the American writer Herman Melville. The original work was once regarded as one of the ten greatest novels by the British writer Maugham.The audience watched the movie but felt that there was nothing outstanding about it, expressing disappointment and confusion. On December 1st and 5th, Jin Yong successively published "What's the point?" ""what is the benefit? ", the analysis of the movie only has the plot of the novel, but it has lost the spirit of the novel. The key point is that it has not penetrated into the depths of the soul of the protagonist Captain Albergo in the novel. To penetrate into the depths of his soul, you must first enter the author Melville. deep in the soul. Jin Yong and Liang Yusheng are fond of talking about chess skills, and they account for almost one-eighth of the articles in "Sanjianlou Essays".Jin Yong, who loves Go, has a description of the game and a plot of playing chess. On December 8, 1956, he published "A Historic Game of Chess", which outlined a Sino-Japanese Go match held in Japan in 1933 with line drawing. One side was a 19-year-old Chinese player Wu Qingyuan, and the other side was a 60-year-old Hideya Honinbo, the 10-year-old top Japanese player.This game of chess was played intermittently for three and a half months, and at the end of the game, Xiuzai managed to win a piece (two eyes).His words are plain, but he wrote this thrilling scene in just over a thousand words.Dong Qiao praised him for his "extreme proficiency in the use of characters", which was beginning to emerge at this time. Some topics are discussed by all three of them. Liang Yusheng, who is addicted to couplets, wrote an article "Gossip and Strange Couplets", the master of Baijian wrote an article "Reciting Poems and Composing Pairs", and Jin Yong then wrote an article "Also Talking about Couplets" , starting from many familiar couplets, and also talked about a couplet by the master of Baijian hall: "more blood and more bones, no regrets, no regrets." Jin Yong likes this couplet very much, and the master of Baijian hall wrote it on rice paper Well, Jin Yong asked a mounting shop in Hollywood Road to have it mounted, and hung it in the small room he rented at that time, and the elegance suddenly increased.Liang Yusheng published "Mathematics and Logic", and a few days later, Jin Yong published "The Calculation of Pi". The three of them take turns to write, one article per day, from history and anecdotes, celebrity anecdotes to piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, poems and riddles, myths and martial arts, songs, dances, movies and dramas, from ancient to modern times, everything is discussed.The column lasted for more than three months. By January 30, 1957, a total of 84 topics and about 140,000 words were written.If the "Conclusion" written by the master of Baijian Hall is not counted, the three of them each wrote 28 articles, and after each article, there is the author's handwritten signature. These modest essays contain the Chinese complex of the three scholars.They left their homeland, and in Hong Kong, a small safe haven, they were still in shock, cherishing their homeland, and culture became a kind of comfort.In May of that year, Hong Kong Wenzong Publishing House published a booklet, which was different from when it was first published in the newspaper, and the order of the articles changed. The master of Baijian Hall deleted an article that he thought had lost value, and some letters from readers were included as appendices. , the title is occasionally changed, and the original handwritten signature at the end of each article is changed to (hundred), (feather), and (yong).In front of the booklet is "Gossip" before the "True Story" written by the Master of Baijian Hall: At the beginning, the editor asked each of us to come up with a column and publish it in turn, but Jin Yong said that it would be better for the Three Swordsmen to go out together, so that we could embolden each other.Everyone agrees without waiting for discussion.Later, when I looked into the mirror, I realized that apart from having a pen in each hand, there was really not much "chivalry" spirit, so when deciding on the name of this column, I returned my "lou" and sent the "champion" away.As for the word "sword", it is only used as an encouragement to myself, because newspapers are moving forward for a just cause, and we also hope that our clumsy pen can serve a little bit. On September 30, 1997, the master of Baijian Hall died in Hong Kong due to a heart attack. Liang Yusheng, who emigrated to Australia in 1987, sent a poem of condolences thousands of miles away, which was published in the "Grand Park" supplement of "Ta Kung Pao" written by them in those years: The Three Swords Building is enough to prove his life, and he is also a madman and a chivalrous real celebrity. It's too late to look back, to cry and to sing. Jin Yong was transferred back from "New Evening News" to "Ta Kung Pao", and no longer worked as an interpreter for international telecommunication, but as an editor of the supplement of "Grand Park" (Liang Yusheng succeeded him in editing "Afternoon Tea House"), and published film reviews under the pseudonym "Yao Jiayi" etc. .Zizhen, who contributed to "Grand Park" back then, recalled: "I really don't know Taishan. It turned out that the editor-in-chief of 'Grand Park' was the film critic 'Yao Jiayi', that is, the famous martial arts novelist Jin Yong. .At that time, I only knew his name was Cha Liangyong. I met Mr. Cha, and he asked me to write more short reviews about movies and dramas for 'Grand Park'." Gao Jie, a child of "Ta Kung Pao" born in 1947 (father is Gao Xuekui, Jin Yong's colleague in "Ta Kung Pao", editor-in-chief of the entertainment edition), recalled "Uncle Cha Liangyong with a Shanghai accent—Jin Yong" and "Uncle Chen Wentong with a Guangxi accent—Liang Yusheng ": In the third and fourth grades of elementary school, I kept a thin persuasion book to raise funds for the Mongkok Labor Children's School.The two heroes were all beaten by my little girl with braids, and I took out a few yuan.Although Jin Daxia is famous, I still can't avoid the suspicion of "my friend Hu Shizhi" and call him "Uncle".In my mind, he must be younger than my father, because he was called "Xiao Cha". ... There is a small shop on the fifth floor. If you are hungry, you can have a cup of hot milk tea and a piece of butter toast.My sister loves cherry red jelly topped with condensed milk, which is extremely sweet.Uncle Cha walked by and teased her: "Mommy, please eat jelly!" From 1947, Jin Yong spent ten years before and after "Ta Kung Pao" (including "New Evening News"), from Shanghai to Hong Kong, from telecommunications translation to supplement editing, almost spanning the entire youth.He started his martial arts novel creation career here, and "Ta Kung Pao" provided him with a stage, and the foundation of his career was laid here.Yang Liqiao, Hu Zhengzhi, and Xu Junyuan, the predecessors of "Ta Kung Pao" who supported and taught him, made him miss him all his life.Every time he talks about "Ta Kung Pao", he always has a lot of emotion—— At that time, it was the newspaper with the most status (but not a lot of sales) in China, and it also had a great influence on public opinion.I have liked such a newspaper since I was a student.Later, when I came to Hong Kong, I also worked for Ta Kung Pao.But then it changed course and completely broke with the traditions of the past. Judging from the value orientation of Jin Yong's later running of "Ming Pao", he obviously agreed with the literary style of "Ta Kung Pao" in Hu Zhengzhi's era.Hong Kong's "Ta Kung Pao" is no longer an independent folk newspaper, but an out-and-out leftist newspaper. The political color is becoming more and more intense. He, who is free by nature and likes to be alone, feels out of place, and his enthusiasm for work gradually disappears. Since the summer of 1957, the situation in the mainland has changed suddenly, and the anti-rightist movement has roared in. Thousands of intellectuals have fallen into the trap of "Yangmou" and spread to Hong Kong. Thought control is obviously stronger than in the past, and the atmosphere of the newspaper and Jin Yong's personality are getting more and more out of tune. In the winter of that year, the "Great Leap Forward" began to waver, which was reflected in the "Ta Kung Pao" page. On December 3, the headlines reported that in ten to fifteen years, the productivity of major industries would surpass that of Britain. According to a report on December 18, according to the rate of increase in production in recent years, my country's coal and steel output will surpass that of the United Kingdom within 15 years.At the same time, it was reported that "the grain production increase target of 65 counties and cities across the country has been reached ten years ahead of schedule."Jin Yong felt that "Ta Kung Pao" was always telling lies, and the yield per mu was fake. He went to Guangdong to read it. On October 5th, when the "New Evening News" celebrated its seventh anniversary, Jin Yong published "On Criteria for Criticizing Martial Arts Novels", quoting the words of the great thinker Engels, "In addition to the authenticity of details, realism must also correctly express A typical character in a typical environment".He was deeply influenced by the ideology of the mainland at that time, and he was no stranger to that popular discourse.He said: I worked at Ta Kung Pao for ten years, read a lot of books on Marxism-Leninism, and spent a lot of time studying them.I am a person with some achievements in work, and I am the team leader when discussing in group meetings.But I feel that their management style is incompatible with me. We can only understand his state of mind from his simple words, "I left leftist newspapers because they could not publish opinions opposing the wrong line of the 'Great Leap Forward' at that time, which really violated my original intention as a journalist." Jin Yong found it difficult to stay in Ta Kung Pao.Dong Qianli has known him and known him for many years, and knows him very well. In Dong's eyes, "he is a liberal through and through, and a modest gentleman who can be harmonious but different."He has called himself an individualist many times: "The so-called individualism is relative to totalitarianism or statism. In some political systems, those in power use the name of the country to declare that they wantonly violate the rights of the people for the benefit of the country or the public." Rights and freedoms, they believe that the country is above everything else, and individuals must sacrifice for the country. The so-called country is above all, that is, the government is above all, that is, those who hold power are above all, life and death, and do whatever they want. Individualists have a certain meaning In fact, it is equivalent to human rights, that is, civil rights." This is his understanding of "individualism". In the winter of 1957, he resigned and left Ta Kung Pao. He remembers that the salary he paid before leaving was "fourth grade 13th grade (or fourth grade 14th grade)" salary, not a senior staff member. Before Jin Yong decided to leave, in confusion and depression, his colleague Zhou Yurui also had an influence on him.Zhou Yurui graduated from Peking Normal University, worked as an English teacher at Southwest Associated University, and worked as an interpreter in the British and American intelligence agencies stationed in China. In 1946, he entered Shanghai "Ta Kung Pao" and wrote about the peace talks between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party, Marshall's seven visits to Lushan Mountain, Hu Zongnan's capture of Yan'an, etc. Important news was appreciated by Zhou Enlai. In 1949, he went south to Hong Kong and continued to work as a reporter for "Ta Kung Pao". Under the pseudonym "Song Qiao", he serialized "Miscellaneous Notes of Guards" in "New Evening News", which attracted readers' attention for exposing Chiang Kai-shek.In the eyes of leftists, Zhou is "a carrot that is red on the outside and white on the inside." On January 10, 1952, the Hong Kong British authorities escorted eight people including Sima Wensen and Ma Guoliang out of the country. These eight people are the backbone of the CCP’s underground party in Hong Kong. Their political identities are not disclosed in the Mainland, and even their colleagues do not know. .The Shanghai and Guangdong public security departments determined that it was the intelligence clues provided by Zhou, and the Ministry of Public Security decided to eliminate the hidden dangers. The Shanghai Ta Kung Pao issued a notice: "Our staff in Hong Kong will return to Shanghai to study in turn." Zhou Yurui was interrogated as soon as he returned to Shanghai. He was imprisoned twice for the crime of "British spy". After he was released from prison, he served as a professor at Beijing Foreign Studies University. The two of them got along very well in the past, and this time when Zhou Yurui came back, they almost talked about everything.What happened to Zhou had an impact on Jin Yong's choice to leave.After he offered to resign, the person in charge of Ta Kung Pao asked him to stay on several times, but he made up his mind to go. At that time, after the successor, Jin Yong's "Hong Kong Commercial Daily" serialized.Although martial arts novels brought him a certain amount of fame and income, he never thought of becoming a professional writer.

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