Chapter 21 postscript

"Flying Solitary Biography" was written in 1960 and 1961. It was originally serialized in the fiction magazine "Martial Arts and History", with each issue containing 8,000 words. The novels serialized in newspapers are about 1,000 to 1,400 words per paragraph.It is a paragraph every 8,000 characters, so the writing method is slightly different.I write a paragraph every ten days, and finish it overnight, usually starting at twelve o'clock in the middle of the night, and finishing work at seven or eight o'clock the next morning.As a novel, the rhythm of a paragraph every 8,000 characters is absolutely bad.The modification made this time is mainly to adjust the rhythm to be smoother and eliminate unnecessary traces of paragraphs.

Yes, the "prequel", narrating Hu Fei's past deeds.However, these two novels are related to each other, but they are not completely unified.In the movie, Hu Fei met Miao Renfeng more than once, and Hu Fei had other lovers.These plots did not insist on coordination when modifying. The writing style of this novel is relatively far from the tradition of old Chinese novels, and it has not been changed now, but there are two situations that have been changed: first, the words and concepts with modern flavor have been deleted in the dialogue, and the inner language of the characters has been changed. is also like this.Second, rewrite sentences similar to foreign language grammar in Taixin Wenyiqiang.

The real protagonist of the film is actually Hu Yidao.Hu Fei's character is very thin in the book, and it gradually takes shape in the book.In this book, I try to write a chivalrous man who is in dire straits and acts chivalrously.In martial arts novels, there are not many who really write about chivalrous men. Most of the protagonists' actions are mainly martial arts rather than chivalry. Mencius said: "Wealth and honor cannot be promiscuous, poverty and lowliness cannot be moved, and power cannot be subdued. This is called a man of virtue." Martial arts characters don't care about wealth and poverty, and they don't give in to power. These three standards of a man of man are not difficult for them to achieve .In this book, I want to add some requirements to Hu Fei, asking him to "not be moved by beauty, not by sorrow, and not by face".The hero is sad about the beauty, and a beautiful girl like Yuan Ziyi, who is also attracted by Hu Fei, begs softly when the two are in harmony, and it is difficult not to agree to her.Heroes always take the soft but not the hard. Hu Fei doesn't take Feng Tiannan's gift of gold and silver as a gift, but it is even more difficult not to forgive him if he sincerely admits defeat and pleads for mercy.Face and loyalty are the most important things in the arena. Zhou Tiewei and others gave Hu Fei enough face in this way, and humbly begged him to reveal the festival against Feng Tiannan, but Hu Fei still refused.Not giving people face is probably the most difficult thing for a hero to do.

The reason why Hu Fei is like this is only because of Zhong Ah Si's family of four, and he and Zhong Ah Si have never known each other and have no friendship at all. The purpose was to write such a character, but I couldn't write it with depth.It's just that among the many male characters I wrote, Hu Fei, Qiao Feng, Yang Guo, Guo Jing, and Linghu Chong are my favorites. In martial arts novels, when a villain is killed by a positive character, the usual way to deal with it is to think "damn it", and not to pay any attention to it.The character of Mrs. Shang is written in this book in an attempt to express: the villain was killed, but his relatives did not think he deserved to die, they still worshiped him and loved him deeply. Death is always sad, and always has a fierce hatred for those who killed him.

January 1975