Chapter 40 start martial arts

Before I wrote martial arts novels, like some other martial arts authors, I was also a fan of martial arts novels, and I also read them from Xiaorenshu. "Little People's Books" are comic strips, about the same size as today's audiocassettes. Each book has about a hundred pages, and a set has about 20 or 30 books. The content is all-encompassing. Mishima, Chen Guangyi, Qian Xiaofo, until now I still have a vivid impression when I think about it. Chen Guangyi likes to draw funny stories, starting with a bird flying out of the cage, and then painting chickens flying, eggs beating, dogs barking, people jumping, bowls broken, soup spilled, we children almost burst out laughing.

Qian Xiaofo specialize in paintings to warn the world, talking about karma and persuading people to do good.Zhao Hongben and Zhao Sandao are authentic martial arts. Zhong Zhan Zhao, Ouyang Chun, and Zheng Zhengyin's Eagle Claw King and Flying Dao Tan Wu seem to have become real people in their works. At that time, it would be incredible if there were not a few such comic books in the schoolbags of elementary school students. But the primary school students have grown up before they know it, and comic books can no longer satisfy us. Our idols have shifted from Zhao Hongben to Zheng Zhengyin, Zhu Zhenmu, Bai Yu, Wang Dulu and Huanzhu Zhuzhu. Among the martial arts writers at that time, the most These are probably the five most popular.

Then there is Jin Yong. The structure of Jin Yong's novels is precise, and the writing is concise. They melt away from Chinese writing and Western literature and transform them into another form and new style.If I have 18 novels by Jin Yong at hand, I will definitely not be able to fall asleep after reading only 17 and a half. So I started writing. The most original motivation that caused me to write martial arts novels was not any high-sounding reason, but to make money for food. I was only eighteen or nineteen years old at the time, and the first novel I wrote was called. It was a broken book, broken and incomplete, because I didn't take it seriously at the time.

If even the writers don't value their own work, who else will value it? After ten years of writing, I gradually began to have some new concepts and new understandings of martial arts novels, because until then, I was in touch with its inner spirit. A masculine spirit of "doing what you have to do", a will and fighting spirit that will never yield, and a determination that will never turn back. A fighting spirit of "Though there are tens of thousands of people, I will go". These spirits can only make people cheer up and strive for strength, and will never make people decadent and depressed, making people want to commit suicide after reading it.

So I also began to change, began to face up to the form of this type of novel I wrote, and hoped that others would have a correct view on it. Martial arts novels are also a kind of novels, they can exist to this day, and of course they have the value of their existence. In recent years, overseas scholars have gradually begun to acknowledge its existence, and have gradually begun to have a more fair and objective criticism of the conflict between its textual structure and thought and human nature. In the past two years, readers in Taiwan have gradually changed their views on it. This is of course the result of the joint efforts of martial arts novel authors.

However, the criticism of martial arts novels is not entirely without reason. Some of the plots are too absurd, the stories are too old-fashioned, the characters are too mythical, the structure is too slow, and the writing style is too rash. Should be improved. In order for martial arts novels to gain their due status, we need all of us to work together.