Jin Yong's novel, "Tian Ba Long Bu" is followed by "Legend of the Condor Heroes". What was before?

Sword of the yue maiden.

The short martial arts novel written by writer Jin Yong 1970 was published in Ming Pao Evening News in June.

Yue Nv A Qing's swordsmanship was exquisite, and he was introduced to the palace by Fan Li to teach soldiers, and finally helped Gou Jian, the king of Yue, avenge himself. Stone who secretly loves and has a long-term relationship. See the beauty, can't bear to hurt, drifting away.

Creative background:

1.970+0.65438, when Ming Pao Evening News was founded, Jin Yong published the short story Yue Niang Jia Jian. At that time, Jin Yong's last novel, Duke of Lushan, had begun to be serialized in newspapers.

According to the essay and explanation written by the author for Ren Weichang's printmaking collection Thirty-three Frames in Qing Dynasty, Jin Yong originally intended to "insert" a short story into each painting of this printmaking collection that brought a lot of knowledge and inspiration to modern martial arts novelists, in order to achieve the opposite purpose, but for various reasons, he only wrote the first sword of the yue maiden and never wrote it again, so "

Slightly different from Jin Yong's other novels, this novel can be said to be a "new story compilation". The story of sword of the yue maiden is recorded in many ancient books, such as The Spring and Autumn Annals of Wu Yue, Literary Lei Ju, The Legend of the Swordsman, The Romance of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty (the eighty-first time) and so on. Jin Yong recreated this theme based on these histories and novels.