According to reports from many Taiwanese and Hong Kong media, the famous writer Jin Yong died of illness this afternoon at the age of 94.
"Flying snow shoots white deer in the sky, laughing at the book, the hero leaning on the green mandarin orange." These 14 words string together Jin Yong's main works, and it is also the passion and dream of many readers' entire youth ("The Sword of Yue Girl" is not in this couplet).
Jin Yong's original name is Cha Liangyong. He was born in Haining, Zhejiang. His ancestors were a prominent family. He was not only good at doing business, but also produced many knowledgeable descendants. The pen name Jin Yong is to divide the word Yong into two.
1955 On February 8, 1955, Jin Yong began to serialize "The Book and Sword" in the "Art of the Night" version of the "New Evening News". Initially, because the novel was needed to be serialized in the supplement to attract readers, he turned a perfunctory article based on the folk legends about Emperor Qianlong in his hometown when he was young. It was a period of time every day, and it was serialized for a total of 574 days. Unexpectedly, he gained fame. Later, he founded Ming Pao, which made it one of the most influential newspapers in Hong Kong. Works such as "The Legend of Condor Heroes", "Liancheng Jue", and "The Deer and the Cauldron", bringing martial arts novels that were not originally elegant to the hall of elegance to a new realm. Until 1972, Jin Yong had created a total of 15 novels, middle and short stories.
Jin Yong believes that martial arts novels, like other novels, should also pay attention to the creation of characters. The plot is easily forgotten, while characters with distinct personalities can maintain long-term value. This is exactly the success of Jin Yong's creation. His novels have readers in all walks of life, and some people also study them as "Ministry". In Southeast Asia, Jin Yong's works have also been translated into various texts and published.
"Hero"
Jin Yong has a medium figure, and his eyebrows give the impression of being extraordinary. When he showed up in public, he often wore a straight camel suit and a purple-red slanted tie, which was very energetic. Few people know that this hero did not always be rigorous when he was young, and he had been fired twice.
1940, Cha Liangyong was admitted to Zhejiang United High School. At that time, the school often posted posters, and Cha Liangyong, who had excellent writing skills and loves writing, became a frequent visitor to posters. One day, the front of the poster was filled with people, and everyone was scrambling to read an article titled "Alis Travels": "Miss Alice came to campus and suddenly saw a colorful cobra traveling around, stretching out her tongue, spraying poison juice, and making wild words, intimidating the students: I told you that you will never be reborn..."
The students could not help laughing when they read it. Their famous saying of the director was - I told you that you will never be reborn. Jin Yong spoke up for justice, "I don't think of him ashamed the students if he has something to do or not." He then used his pen to attack him. But when the director saw the article, he was so angry that his whole body trembled, and immediately ran to the principal to cry. A few days later, Cha Liangyong was ordered to drop out of school, and later transferred to Quzhou Middle School, before finishing high school.
When I was in college in Chongqing, Sichuan, Cha Liangyong was studying in the diplomatic department and hoped to become a diplomat to realize his political ambitions. But because he couldn't stand the bad school spirit in the school, he once again boldly said that he had been expelled for the second time in his life.
Many people have seen the shadow of Yang Guo from this experience.
Repeated work
In 1972, Jin Yong publicly announced his closing: "If nothing unexpected happens, "The Deer and the Cauldron" is my last martial arts novel."
But over the years, he has carefully revised these fourteen novels with different lengths word by word, and some chapters have been rewritten and republished, with a total of thirty-six books. Due to the deep impression of childhood memories, many people mixed reviews of the later adaptation. However, Jin Yong's personality is rigorous. Someone asked him which ones he was satisfied with. He replied that although he liked the strong feelings of "The Legend of Condor Heroes", "The Legend of the Condor Heroes", "The Legend of the Flying Fox", etc., in terms of writing, he thought that his long and short stories were better than the middle and short stories, and the later ones were better than the early ones.
How strict is Jin Yong about his works? Everything must be found, and even the title of "The Legend of the Condor Heroes" has its source. Jin Yong said: "'The Legend of the Condor Heroes' is a long-standing martial arts act of a nation in northern China."Records of the Grand Historian" says Li Guang, who once said, "It is necessary to be the Legend of the Condor Heroes!" Wang Wei has a poem: "Looking back at the Legend of the Condor Heroes, the clouds are flat in the evening for thousands of miles." "
Jin Yong's novels have both historical shadows and artistic creations. His "Book and Sword" describes Qianlong, "Blue Blood Sword" describes Yuan Chonghuan and Li Zicheng, "Blue Blood Sword" contains Zhu Yuanzhang, and "The Deer and the Cauldron" contains Kangxi. Although many people have been talking about his "speech" about history so far, he writes about Jiangnan, the North, the Dali, the Southern Xinjiang, the Wudang Mountain, the Shaolin Temple, and even the Peach Blossom Island. How many scenery is fascinating, and "makes the fire" many of the great rivers and mountains of the motherland.
Jin Yong's rigor is related to his journalist background. He loved reading since he was a child. Based on the traditional writing of Chinese classical novels, he also maturely used Western psychological description techniques, echoing the front and back, and conceived precisely. Many people like Gu Long's wild and imaginative style, but Jin Yong is indeed better in his theory of planning and layout. He has been a film screenwriter and a newspaper, and it is no wonder that the film and television adaptations of his works are so successful.
The martial arts world he created is so wonderful, which makes countless people fascinated, but Jin Yong himself once said bluntly that he still likes the real modern society that is within reach: "Although modern society is intrigue, as a modern person, I like to live in a modern society better than the martial arts world. ”
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In 1985, Wenhui Po conducted an exclusive interview with Jin Yong in Hong Kong. The heroic style has been admired so far. The original text is attached to comfort readers' mourning for Jin Yong .
Visiting Jin Yong in the north corner of Xiangjiang
More than Xianhua
Among Hong Kong writers, it is probably the most famous of Jin Yong.
is worse than to meet. Taking this opportunity to visit relatives in Hong Kong, I visited him in Ming Pao, and he is also the president of this newspaper!
Ming Pao Building stands in the north corner of Hong Kong and is a newly built ten-story building. This is not quite grand in the majestic local building complex. But this newspaper, which is only more than 20 years old, has been operating from scratch from the ground, and has indeed been bleak. I climbed the automatic elevator to the seventh floor and explained my purpose. At that time, Jin Yong came in from outside with a briefcase.
Just like someone commented that his novel was "martial opera and literary singing", his behavior and expression were also quite elegant and scholarly. He was tall and handsome, with a straight suit, and a pair of new broad-edged glasses. His forehead was particularly wide, which made people feel his thoughts were flowing. But he spoke calmly, spoke Mandarin, and had a Jiangnan accent. It turned out that he was from Haining, Zhejiang, and was born in a scholarly family. The influence of his family made him come into contact with books since he was a child, especially He loved reading "Water Margin" and "Seven Heroes and Five Righteous Ones", which may be the beginning of his future journey of writing martial arts novels. During the War of Resistance Against Japan, he went to Chongqing to study, returned to Shanghai after the victory of the War of Resistance Against Japan, and was admitted to Ta Kung Pao as a translator, and studied at Soochow University while working. In 1948, the newspaper held a Hong Kong edition, and he also came to Hong Kong.
"Then have you gone back to your hometown over the years?"
"I have been back in the eighties. It was a very pleasant trip. I went to my hometown and Shanghai, and visited Inner Mongolia and Xinjiang, as well as Chengdu, Xi'an, Lanzhou, etc., and I almost visited many famous places I wrote in my novels. Along the way, I was very happy to see the country's economy developing and people's lives improving. What made me particularly happy was that I met Deng Xiaoping, the central leader I admired. In 1984, I went to Beijing and was received by General Secretary Hu Yaobang, whom I admired. The TV station broadcasted the scene of the meeting, and also played the Yue Opera documentary "Wang Laohu's Kissing" co-directed by me in the past and Mr. Hu Xiaofeng, and changed Lin Huan's pseudonym to his original name Cha Liangyong, which also meant to welcome it. ”
Speaking of this, the author remembered that in the 1950s, Jin Yong wrote the script of the film "The Peerless Beauty" and was commended by the Ministry of Culture. At present, Tianjin Film Studio and a Hong Kong film company are filming Jin Yong's famous work "The Book and Sword of Revenge", and the script was adapted by himself.
This versatile writer is both familiar with history and good at poetry, and is also a Go fan.I once read an article he wrote, comparing Go to "mind gymnastics", and talking about "five achievements in Go": "Get friends, be harmonious, learn lessons, and be enlightened, and be long-lasting." He also likes to collect various chess tools. If you buy a wooden chessboard made of hundreds of years old trees, you will spend a considerable amount of US dollars. Only when relatives and friends go to his house will he uncover the cloth cover and take it out to watch. Not long ago, Li Menghua, president of the Chinese Go Association, awarded Jin Yong a six-stage certificate of honor. This is the first time that the mainland has awarded a reputation rank in Go.
In addition to Go, Jin Yong also has a hobby of collecting books. The study in his home is very large, and there are various books displayed on the bookshelf around the wall, with at least tens of thousands of books, including rare and rare books. Unfortunately, I was led into his office without visiting it. There is a thick carpet inside, a desk is placed in the middle, and books are also found on all four walls. He took out a carefully-bounded "The Legend of the Warriors" from it, wrote the words and gave them to me. The handwriting is also written in a pretty elegant manner, a bit like a thin gold style. The cover of his book is full of words written by himself. While thanking him, I asked him to talk about how to write a martial arts novel.
It was in 1955, and Jin Yong was the editor-in-chief of the Hong Kong New Evening News "Afternoon Tea". Since the supplement needed to serialize novels to attract readers, he wrote a perfunctory piece based on the folk legends about Emperor Qianlong in his hometown when he was young. Write a paragraph every day, each paragraph is more than a thousand words, and it will be published the next day. Because I couldn't think of an appropriate pseudonym for a moment, I divided the word Yong into two halves. Unexpectedly, the first test of the crying sounded, and a sword shook the world. With the spread of this first work, "The Book and Sword of Revenge", Jin Yong's name has gradually become well-known.
Jin Yong founded Ming Pao in 1959. In order to open up the sales of newspapers, he wrote "The Legend of Condor Heroes", "Liancheng Jue", "The Deer and the Cauldron", etc., which brought martial arts novels to a new level. These works break the traditional eight-legged writing style. Whether it is writing about emotions, narratives, or expressing one's aspirations, they are all ingenious and unique, especially in portraying characters, which shows more skills. Jin Yong said: Martial arts novels, like other novels, should also pay attention to the creation of characters. The plot is easily forgotten, while characters with distinct personalities can maintain long-term value. This is exactly the success of Jin Yong's creation. His novels have readers in all walks of life, and some people also study them as "Ministry". In Southeast Asia, Jin Yong's works have also been translated into various texts and published.
"Flying snow shoots white deer in the sky, laughing at the book of the god of god leaning against the green mandarin orange." Jin Yong made a couplet with the fourteen words of his book title. Over the years, he has carefully revised these fourteen novels with different lengths word by word, and some chapters have been rewritten and then republished, with a total of thirty-six books. Someone asked him which movies he was more satisfied with. He felt that he liked the strong feelings of "The Legend of Condor Heroes", "The Legend of the Condor Heroes", "The Legend of the Flying Fox", etc. As for writing, long stories are better than medium and short stories, and later stories are better than early ones.
In recent years, a "martial arts novel craze" has emerged in the mainland, and Jin Yong often receives letters in this regard. He didn't have time to reply one by one, so he took care of his secretary to print a reply letter, handed him over his signature and sent it. He disagrees with some newspapers and magazines that reprint or adapt other people's works without the author's consent; he also hopes that some teenagers will not be obsessed with martial arts novels, so as not to affect their work and study.
Jin Yong said: For a long time, martial arts novels have been regarded as subtle skills and are not elegant. The situation has changed now, but don’t be too tempted, it’s too overdoing. When talking about the literary nature of martial arts novels, Jin Yong believes that whether a work has literary value cannot be divided by categories, but should be determined based on its quality. Just like novels about love, some are well written and literary works; some are shallow and boring, and even full of pornography, which is certainly not considered literary creation. The same is true for martial arts novels, and specific analysis should be made for specific works.
Now, Jin Yong has been exiled for more than ten years and has not written martial arts novels, but has focused on running newspapers. On May 20 last year, the Ming Pao Jubilee Celebration. That day, the Ming Pao editorial selection "The Future of Hong Kong" was published by Jin Yong.Hundreds of guests surrounded Jin Yong and rushed to sign his autograph. The scene was quite lively. Later, on his way to Beijing to negotiate the signing of the Hong Kong agreement, Hong Kong Governor Youde also read this editorial collection on the plane, which was once circulated as a good story by the public opinion community. Jin Yong's habit of writing editorial reviews is the same as writing novels. He will not submit his manuscripts in the last few minutes. He is a patient person, and he drives very slowly even when driving a Porsche sports car with excellent performance. He is knowledgeable and well-educated. His fans respectfully call him Mr. Cha. Most of the foreign news industry know Louis Chashi.
