Chapter 18 Lover

The publication of the book is a milestone in Jin Yong's creative process.Although it is only a continuation of the novel, its spirit is completely different. It can be said to be a major and brewing turning point in Jin Yong's novel creation. The main difference is the difference between Guo Jing and Yang Guo. As soon as Yang Guo appeared on the stage, it caused an uproar. Just like Liang Yusheng's Jin Shiyi came out, it also caused a lot of criticism.The readers at the time liked to think that the heroes in their hearts were perfect. This can be regarded as a paradox in the history of literature, right?

Throughout the history of Chinese and Western literature, we can find that the reason why great works survive must be because they reflect the times, portray human nature, and add fluent literary talent.In other words, the basic condition is realism: realism that reflects the times, realistic description of human nature, and realistic writing skills.Romantic indulgence is just a flash of brilliant talent, and classical restraint is a solid achievement. But the problem is that one of the left is realistic, and the other is realistic, and the audience may not necessarily buy it if they continue to be realistic.Just because there are only concrete forests in reality, they want to find mirages in novels; just because there are no rainbows in life, they hope that their wishes can be fulfilled in novels.If the stories in novels are the same as real life, why do they have to read novels all night long?

Besides, whenever and wherever, there will be people calling for heroes, looking forward to heroes, and needing heroes. The existence of this kind of situation is undoubtedly difficult for novelists. Jin Yong also faces challenges.Things have changed, we don't know what he was thinking at the time. Abstract time is a huge void, if it exists, it only exists on the scale of the dial, and it must rely on the running of the hands. Just as characters in novels rely on stories, and history depends on historical facts, the reason why we can understand novels and history is precisely because of the time difference between characters and historical facts.

Every day between the two New Years is like feathers falling off and drifting away, deepening human's feeling of time.When our lives are constantly filled with various accidents and stories, time is mysteriously transformed into feelings, and there is only feelings. Therefore, in our feelings, the image of Yang Guo should be different from what readers in the past felt. There are many people who don't like Jin Yong making Yang Guo appear like this: In fact, writing Yang Guo's "first time" in this way is full of tension and leaves a lot of room for writing. I think it took Jin Yong a lot of painstaking efforts to come up with such an opening, which not only inherits the past, but also inspires the future.

Yang Guo is the son of Guo Jing's old friend - the child of Yang Kang and Mu Nianci. What kind of person Yang Kang is, has been described in detail. He and Guo Jing have almost become the heroines on equal footing.Readers should also be well aware of his character and fate.If Yang Guo's blood did not have some of his father's romantic, frivolous and evil spirit, readers would not believe it.What's more, because of the early death of his parents, he has been living alone in the world since he was a child, and he has been infected with hooliganism. There is no doubt that childhood encounters will affect the fate of a person's life. Therefore, Yang Guo developed a spirit of self-reliance in his rough and difficult childhood life, which was accompanied by his extremes, stubbornness, and narrow-mindedness.It is purely natural for him to say, "Whoever is nice to me, I will be nice to him; whoever is bad to me, I will be doubly bad to him".

This is of course completely different from Guo Jing, Guo Jing is such a kind person, even for his enemy, Ouyang Feng, who is also the enemy of the heroes of the rivers and lakes, he is still lenient. At that time, Huang Rong, who was smart and evasive, couldn't stand Ouyang Feng's viciousness, and planned to freeze him in a large icicle four to five feet long. Many Mongolian soldiers ran to watch.At this time Guo Jing stood up and spoke, with a tone of reprimand for Huang Rong: "Since ancient times, a soldier can be killed but not humiliated. Although this person is evil, he is a master of martial arts after all. How can he let others laugh and humiliate him?" Cover the icicles, even his relatives and noble generals are not allowed to enter the tent to watch.

If it was Yang Guo, he would never do this.He would treat Ouyang Feng like Huang Rong, or even worse.They are actually the same people.Therefore, Huang Rong was able to make Guo Jingyan obey in many ways, but when she met Yang Guo, she could only do nothing to deal with him. She could only guard against him and hinder him intentionally or unintentionally.This is also the main reason why people don't understand or like Huang Rong in the film. What Yang Guo did was a blatant challenge and rebellion against Guo Jing's Confucian heroic spirit.Someone judged like this: But Jin Yong prefers this character very much.

In order to write Yang Guo well, Jin Yong did not hesitate to put human nature in an exaggerated, extreme, intense and cruel focus scene again and again, making the good and evil sides of human nature more sharp and prominent, profound and special. ——Yang Guo and Guo Fu's childhood sweethearts should have a bright future, and Guo Jing is also optimistic about them, so he personally promised Guo Fu to him.But because of Guo Fu's arrogance, Yang Guo's anger, and Huang Rong's obstruction, this relationship was "aborted" in the end.Later, it also developed to the point where the personality was inconsistent, the temperament was not compatible, and the fire and water were incompatible, and they were like enemies.The reckless Guo Fu finally beat and scolded at the same time, and made Yang Guo one-armed at a young age.

——Yang Guo dances uninhibitedly, speaks sweetly, is romantic and unrestrained, and has fascinated many girls.It was not easy to meet and fall in love with Xiaolongnv, from unaware to self-knowledge, but there are many difficulties.Every time the old catastrophe is about to pass, a new catastrophe arrives, and the parting time lasts for more than ten years. The cruel experience during this period is really unspeakable.Such a pair of golden boys and jade girls is considered a match made in heaven today, but at that time, who would pity the orphan Yang Guo for the pain of losing his arm, and who would pity the little dragon girl for losing her virginity due to her mistakes?

The more tense the plot of the novel is, the more the kindness of human nature and the epic struggle between good and evil, good and evil, success and failure can be revealed.It's like using a condenser to concentrate the power of sunlight, enough to cause incineration. In fact, tragedies happen every day in every corner of the world. Wars, vendettas, bloodshed, death, natural disasters, man-made disasters, starvation, drought, these living events are far more cruel than martial arts novels. Martial arts novels only rely on these strong plots to show the human nature between life and death, success or failure, honor and disgrace.Therefore, successful martial arts novels do not make people feel superficial and exaggerated at all, but make people feel very deep and real. "Warrior is just a means; human nature is the focus of the novel, and it is eternal." Wen Rui'an, who is also a writer of martial arts novels, said so.

Jin Yong also believes that the stories in martial arts novels should not be too bizarre and coincidental.He has always hoped to achieve that martial arts can be exaggerated and deified, but human character should always be true. Yang Guo and Xiao Longnv's parting and reunion is very strange. It seems to be attributed to God's will and coincidence, but in fact it should be attributed to their own personalities.If the two hadn't been so deeply in love, they would never have jumped into the valley one by one; if the little dragon girl hadn't been indifferent by nature, it would have been difficult for her to live alone at the bottom of the valley for a long time; Never regret.Of course, if the bottom of the valley is not a pool but a rock, the two people will be buried in the same hole after jumping down.The world is changing by coincidence, success or failure is well known, although it is related to chance and luck, and there is a difference between luck and misfortune, but in the final analysis, it is always determined by each person's original personality. Character is destiny. The world is changing, and people are always faced with various choices. The choice may also be due to a misunderstanding, but is the misunderstanding right or wrong?Even if people can control their own choices, can they be sure that those choices are correct?Can choice really be attributed to fate?Or is fate still in one's own hands? Jin Yong is a Chinese literati who emphasizes the traditional ideas under the oriental color. In his writing, the traditional culture and national character once again show the magnificence that can contain everything and dispel everything, and show an irresistible magic power.He knew very well that what he was facing was a huge and long cultural existence.They have already existed on the ground under his feet, and they determine the way of life of Chinese literati and their attitude towards their homeland.No matter whether anyone is aware of it or not, no one can completely get rid of its constraints, but can only survive and develop under the shadow of a huge shadow. It is a vast sea, it is boundless time and space, everything will be merged into it, everything will be involved and silently dissipated. Therefore, readers back then really shouldn't worry about Yang Guo's character. In the world, this is the most fundamental need of almost all Chinese literati. They use literature, art, and different means to express themselves little by little, and to develop themselves little by little, and thus obtain a kind of inner enrichment. Or the embodiment of the value of life.There is basically no pure philosophy in China, at most it is half-philosophical, half-religious, an ethical philosophy that educates people on what they should do.Therefore, Jin Yong will not let Yang Guo rebel to the end on his own, he will always bring him into a certain moral track to a certain extent. First, Guo Jing "detained" him to Zhongnan Mountain to learn art, and then he helped Guo Jing to establish an extraordinary achievement in the battle of defending Xiangyang. Let's listen to this "Fengling Night Talk": Well, Yang Guo not only embarked on the right path, but also became a hero.Thinking about the essence of life and worrying about the essence of death can hardly completely replace his involvement in reality and his embrace of life.It's just that Jin Yong expresses his strong desire and certain life attitude in a more peculiar way in order to obtain a stronger artistic effect. Of course, Chen Mo also reminded us that there are obvious, even essential, differences between the hero Guo Jing and the hero Yang Guo. Guo Jing is a Confucian hero who sacrificed himself for the country and the people. Yang Guo is a Taoist hero, with the utmost love and nature, and self-realization. In the end, Guo Jing was still martyred for the defense of Xiangyang, and he died. Yang Guo bid farewell to everyone on the top of Mount Hua and retired to Linquan.What matters is not the difference between Confucianism and Taoism, but the difference between gods and humans. Guo Jing is a model of ideal personality, like a god. Yang Guo has gone through ups and downs in the world, and he has feelings and desires just like ordinary people.But seeing Yang Guo's last majesty, he returned to the temple from the world.The Condor Hero is well-deserved of his reputation, he can be described as half human and half god. This half-god and half-human image is the product of the conflict between the author's idealized pursuit and reality.Yang Guo is a more in-depth attempt. After Yang Guo, the latter gradually overwhelmed the former.The male protagonists in Jin Yong's works are becoming more and more humble, and their martial arts are becoming less and less divine. From this point of view, Yang Guo was just the beginning, and Jin Yong surprised readers step by step.