Chapter 52 postscript

When rewriting and revising, Mr. Chen Shixiang's kind and graceful face always floated in my heart, and I remembered his demeanor of holding a pipe and talking about learning.Chinese people do not have the habit of dedicating a book to a certain teacher or friend when they write books, but I am eager to add a sentence in the "Postscript": "This book is dedicated to a friend I respect and love-Mr. Chen Shixiang .” It’s a pity that he is no longer in this world.I hope his spirit in heaven knows my little intentions. Mr. Chen and I have only met twice, which is not enough to say that we have a deep friendship.He wrote me two letters and said many things that I was really ashamed of.With his knowledge and academic status, this kind of praise is really too much.Maybe it's because of his preference for traditional Chinese novels, maybe because we have something in common in our views on the world, but his evaluation is, in any case, more than I deserve.My gratitude and joy, apart from being recognized by such a famous literary critic and thus increasing my confidence, is also because he pointed out that martial arts novels are not purely entertaining and boring works, and they can also express the sorrows of the world. Huan can express a deeper realm of life.

At that time, I thought that if I publish a booklet in the future, I must ask Mr. Chen to write a preface.Now I can only attach two letters from Mr. Chen to the back of the book to commemorate this friend.Of course, readers will understand that it is also showing the praise of a famous artist.Anyone who writes expects his work to be well received.If the reader does not appreciate it, the author's work becomes meaningless.It is of course very happy for me that someone reads my novel and is happy. There is a sentence in Mr. Chen's letter: "I'm still looking for the Christmas movie of the Four Great Evil Men, but I haven't seen it."Once he saw a Christmas card in a bookstore, with four people painted on it. Mr. Xia felt that the expressions and looks were very similar to the "Four Great Evil Men" written in the book, so he bought it, wrote my name, and wrote a few words on it. A word of appreciation would like to send it to me.But we have never met, and he asked Mr. Chen to forward it.Mr. Chen put it among the sundries, but he couldn't find it later.Mr. Xia Ji'an mentioned my martial arts novels several times in his articles, and he spoke highly of them.My relationship with him is even shallower, and I haven't been able to see him, and I haven't even received this Christmas card.When I read "Xia Ji'an's Diary" and other works, I often regretted that such a talented person with a deep personality and affection was only destined for one side after all.

It began to be serialized simultaneously in Ming Pao and Nanyang Siang Pau in Singapore in 1963, and it took four years to write. During the time when he was away from Hong Kong, he asked Brother Ni Kuang to write more than 40,000 characters.The passage written by Brother Ni Kuang is an independent story, which has no necessary connection with the whole book. This rewriting and revision was deleted with the consent of Brother Ni Kuang.So I asked him to write it on my behalf, because it was inconvenient for the newspaper to serialize the manuscript for a long time.But publishing a booklet, there is no reason to keep someone else's work as your own for a long time.Here is an accompanying explanation, and I would like to express my gratitude to Brother Ni Kuang for his generosity in writing.

He once learned Bailiangtai style and wrote forty lines of ancient style poems as the review. In this book, he learned to fill in five poems as the review.I can't compose poems and lyrics at all, but traditional Chinese novels without poems are not good after all.The poems in these chapters are just decorations, and their artistic value is equivalent to the inscription on the cover-a beginner's work with no skill. Nineteen seven eight.ten