Life and Works of Buxiaosheng at Pingjiang

Pingjiang Buxiaosheng (1889-1957), whose real name was Xiang Kairan, was the first chivalrous novelist in the 2th century, leading the southern chivalrous trend. People from Pingjiang, Hunan. He likes literature and martial arts since childhood, and both of them have profound attainments. He studied in Japan twice, and his career in literature and martial arts started here. In martial arts, he had a lot of contacts with Japanese jujitsu and swordsmen, and made great progress in kung fu. After returning to China, he participated in the anti-Yuan movement and the Great Revolution. In 1932, he returned to Hunan to establish a martial arts training institute and martial arts club. He was a famous modern martial arts activist. His martial arts theory is also very profound, and he has written monographs such as Notes on Boxing, Notes on Boxing's Salary, Notes on Boxers' Words and Actions, and Notes on Boxing Classics. His literary career began when he was studying in Japan, but he went to loaf about instead of going to school. He was quite familiar with Japanese brothels (mainly low-level brothels) and the lower classes, and wrote a novel "Studying Abroad" condemning the evil situation of students studying in Japan in the late Qing Dynasty. However, after returning home, the publishing house only promised to give a triangular remuneration for every thousand words, which dampened his enthusiasm. In 1922, at the invitation of the World Bookstore, he began to concentrate on martial arts creation. The martial arts debut "The Legend of the Wonder Man in the Jianghu" was a hit, and it was written again and again, which established his position in modern martial arts. In Shanghai, he doesn't like to make friends and socialize. He lives in a narrow building with a concubine, a dog and a monkey. Every midnight, he starts to write until it is bright. Written on a piece of paper less than a foot in small letters, each line can write 145 to 178 words, but it is a straight line, which is a wonder of modern literati. After liberation, Xiang Kairan became a monk and died of illness at the age of 68. Influenced by Hunan folk customs, Bu Xiaosheng's works combine realism with ghosts and gods, and are good at making up stories, so they are very interesting. However, he often writes by hand, and he is incoherent and has a loose structure. However, the basic position of modern martial arts novels laid by him, especially the fantastic fantasy of Jianghu and Wulin, has opened up a new look that is quite different from the old chivalrous legend, which is always unshakable.

Bu Xiaosheng's 12 martial arts novels * * *-Biography of the Jianghu Chivalrous Heroes, Biography of the Jianghu Heroes, Biography of the Jianghu Little Xia, Biography of the Jianghu Strangers, Flying in the Midnight, The Hunter's Odd Biography, The Fireworks Woman, The Twin Chickens and the Yanta Story. A native of Yutian, Hebei Province, who was born in an official family, was well-educated in his childhood, and traveled with his father to Shandong, Hunan, Sichuan and other places. He recorded and accumulated very rich materials whenever he got any income. He wrote concise and ancient classical Chinese notes, and wrote A Series of Talks on Tonight's Zhai, in which many official secrets were told in the literary world, as well as historical novels "A History of Pain in the Late Ming Dynasty" and retribution novels "Circular Mirror". Zhao Huanting's martial arts novels began in 1923 with The Legend of Chivalrous Man and Loyalty. As soon as this book was born, it was said that he paid attention to collecting anecdotes about Chivalrous Man and drawing a lot from the notes of his predecessors when he traveled around the country in his early years. Although he is not familiar with martial arts, he usually observes carefully, pays attention to every move of busking and fighting, and often visits ancient temples on the spot, so his writing is vivid and realistic. He usually writes manuscripts, which are as dense as those of a bad student, but he rarely smears them, and his manuscripts are very welcome by editors. His attitude is also excellent, and he is always responsive to requests from newspapers and magazines in the north and south, even for small newspapers. Later, because those small newspapers often don't have a long life span, they have stopped publishing, and this half of the manuscript is not welcome in other publications. There is no way but to put it aside. There are as many as 1 kinds of such manuscripts. And some of them are in arrears with the payment of the manuscript, and they ignore it after repeated recourse, which makes him suffer a lot.) I think it is better to burn the inkstone than to waste my efforts. After the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, Zhao Huanting basically withdrew from the literary world, specializing in calligraphy and selling words for a living, so there were no new martial arts works to the world. Zhao Huanting has 19 kinds of martial arts novels. Biography of Chivalrous Man's Loyalty, Anecdotes of Hero Yin Yiguan, Biography of Three Heroes of Yin School, Biography of Heroes Going to the Country, Biography of Amazing Chivalrous Man, Biography of Chivalrous Man with Two Swords, Biography of Northern Chivalrous Man, Shuang Bian General, Lantian Woman, Talking about Chivalrous Records, Heroes of Bianhuang, Unforgettable History, Biography of Chivalrous Heroes in Jianghu and the Shadow of Bai Jianlian.

Only the Legend of the Wonder Man in the Jianghu can be read online.

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