Chapter 8 Family and country feelings

Ming Pao’s Board of Directors Notice stated: Jin Yong is not only an outstanding novelist, an outstanding newspaper tycoon, but also a very rational political activist.He has a unique set of social and political views, and has unique views on the current situation and the future of China.Although it has received a lot of criticism, looking back now, we have to admit that Jin Yong's rational spirit and keen observations are generally practical. In March 1993, accompanied by Zhang Junsheng, he went to the mainland for a visit. Jiang Zemin, General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, and others received him.After returning to Hong Kong, Jin Yong wrote a long article "Thoughts in the Early Spring of the Northern Kingdom", which comprehensively described the process of the visit and his own political standpoint. In order to let readers directly experience Jin Yong's political views and appreciate his political essays, An excerpt of it is as follows:

said in.He has national integrity.He is from Zhejiang, and there are many literati in Zhejiang. Lu You, the great poet of the Song Dynasty, is also from Zhejiang.I think there are three aspects to his poems. The "hairpin head phoenix" of "Red Crispy Hands, Huang Teng Wine" is about love; many pastoral and lyrical poems are about tranquility and ease; the most important thing for future generations is his patriotic poems , especially the song "When you die, you know everything is empty", there is almost no Chinese intellectual who doesn't know or appreciate it. "

He said it showed the noble humanitarian spirit of the old Russian era. , He said, that can be said to be Russian, through family life to reflect the feudal society's fetters on human nature. , this sentence comes from "Have the Chinese Lost Self-Confidence?" "The article was written in September 1934.The last three paragraphs of the essay are: This article "Thoughts in the Early Spring of the North Country" is undoubtedly quite convincing.Compared with those slogan-style theories that appeal to the public, Jin Yong's propositions are simple and relevant to the people's livelihood. This is based on the interests of the majority of people, not for his own limelight.Jin Yong has the sense of responsibility of traditional Chinese intellectuals, but also has a lot of rationality and tolerance.

Jin Yong's political theories are also often controversial, but he has the spirit of "repelling all opinions" and "even though there are thousands of people, I will go to it", and he will never succumb to the so-called "majority" or "powerful". Some so-called democrats in Hong Kong viewed the CCP government with a rigid view and had no understanding of the domestic situation. They accused Jin Yong of supporting Deng Xiaoping's reform line, saying that he was "playing with the wind".Jin Yong himself defended himself in this way: “My proposition for running a newspaper has eight words—tolerance is great, and selflessness is strength. The former means that all kinds of opinions can be expressed. Although the newspaper has its own position, it should respect the different opinions of others. This is the basic spirit of a democratic society. "One can be strong without desire" of course does not mean that there is no desire at all, but that one cannot have improper desires and use newspapers to achieve selfish goals. If one wants to seek benefits from others, or seeks some business opportunities in the face of the regime, it is considered a If you have improper desires, you cannot be strong in dealing with them.

Of course there are desires to run a newspaper. One is to have more readers, and the other is to have more advertisements.But by sticking to the above two principles, the goal can definitely be achieved.We are not unprincipled criticism. For example, the Communist Party cannot be said to be useless. If what it does is wrong, the regime will have collapsed in two or three days, and it will not develop to this day.It also has its reasons, and one should not oppose it based on one's own prejudice.We just uphold the principle of seeking truth from facts, impartiality and objectivity. We are very opposed to the Gang of Four...Deng Xiaoping is back, I believe he only wants China to be prosperous and strong, and the country is stable...We support his policies.

Indeed, the "Communist Party" during the "Cultural Revolution" is not the same as the "Communist Party" of the Deng Xiaoping era. The Chinese Communist Party itself is constantly developing and exploring in order to renew itself.Jin Yong's support for the reform and opening-up policy of the current Chinese Communist government undoubtedly shows his rationality and pragmatism.As one of his old poems puts it: