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Changchun Daily, August 2 1 (Hong Zhenkuai) Jin Yong once said in an interview: "I have read some books about martial arts. There are illustrations and text descriptions. For example, when I write about boxing, I will also refer to some books about boxing. When I see those moves, I will fight by myself. But this is only a minority. Most of the moves in the novel are my own ideas. Look at what kind of action that character needed at that time, whether it was in idioms or poems, in the Four Books and Five Classics, and find a suitable sentence to do the name of that action. " In fact, this passage of Jin Yong has revealed his basic thinking of creating martial arts. In fact, there is another aspect that Jin Yong didn't say. Because his novels were influenced by the "tradition of martial arts novels"-the old martial arts novels of the Republic of China, some of them were borrowed or transformed from the old martial arts novels.
In another "night talk" between Jin Yong and Go master Lin Haifeng in Tsinghua University, Taiwan Province, someone asked Jin Yong: Is the martial arts described in the novel, like Tai Ji Chuan, well written? Do you know these "martial arts" yourself? Jin Yong replied that he didn't understand "martial arts" and that most of the novels were fictional. "But Tai Ji Chuan, Shaolin Boxing and wudang boxing have official records, and now there are many people who will try not to change them. Many other martial arts moves are my own creation and imagination, not traditional; Some martial arts are not from famous artists and sects, and some changes can be made. " This shows that Jin Yong's martial arts writing, especially when it comes to Shaolin, Wudang, Taiji and other schools that exist in China's history and still have important influence in reality, wants to conform to its historical truth as much as possible, rather than writing it into a novel. This is naturally related to Jin Yong's strong historical consciousness. However, do these swordsmen written by Jin Yong conform to historical reality?
Jin Yong wrote martial arts novels mainly in Hong Kong in 1950s and 1960s. At that time, Jin Yong "referred" to "some books about boxing", but Jin Yong never revealed what kind of books these books were. It is also a pity that "golden fans" can't know. According to the truth, these "books on boxing" should have been published before Jin Yong wrote novels, or in the process of writing novels recently, that is to say, they were published in Hong Kong and Taiwan from the Republic of China (or before) to the 1950s and 1960s. These books had an influence on Jin Yong's concept of martial arts. To understand why Jin Yong wrote martial arts like this, we should know what "books about boxing" Jin Yong read when he was young and in the process of writing martial arts novels. However, Jin Yong did not disclose this information, and those books that have been published for a long time may not be seen now.
The purpose of this book (on martial arts and swords-the historical truth of Jin Yong's novels) is to know what "books about boxing" Jin Yong read that year. How did these books affect Jin Yong's martial arts view? What does it have to do with the martial arts written in Jin Yong's novels? Also, does Jin Yong's concept of martial arts in these books conform to historical reality? To this end, this book takes the "martial arts" in Jin Yong's novels as a clue, explores Jin Yong's creation of "martial arts" from the dual perspectives of the history of martial arts novels and the history of China martial arts, traces the origin, development and evolution of the concept of "martial arts" represented by Jin Yong, and outlines those martial arts schools that Jin Yong wants to imitate as far as possible according to the original historical appearance.
Of course, this is only an "effort" of the author, and it can't be called "research". But as a result of this "effort", this book is different from some published works on "Jin Yong's Martial Arts", because the purpose of this book is not to retell the "Martial Arts" in Jin Yong's novels and appreciate whether it is wonderful or not, but to understand why Jin Yong wrote martial arts like this. Where did his martial arts idea come from? What are the similarities and differences with historical reality? In short, it is to "trace back" why the "martial arts" in Jin Yong's novels are so, not so or so. It is "why" rather than "how", not to appreciate and appreciate the work, but to understand the relationship between the content of the work and the creator's own knowledge and reading. Of course, this is only an "effort", and what needs to be "tracked" is limited to the "martial arts" in Jin Yong's novels.