Perhaps only in the works of popular literature researchers and cultural historians will the year 1954 more than half a century ago be frequently mentioned. That year, Wu Gongyi, the head of Tai Chi School in Hong Kong, and Chen, the head of Baihe School, competed in Macau, causing a sensation in Hong Kong and Macao. Liang Yusheng, the 30-year-old editor-in-chief of Hong Kong Ta Kung Pao, has a vacillating heart and a lively style. His first martial arts novel "Long Hudou Jinghua" began to be serialized in the New Evening News, which became an instant hit. This young man named Chen became the originator of the new school of martial arts novels before introducing the atmosphere.
Liang Yusheng, whose real name is Chen, 1924, is from mengshan county, Guangxi. During the wartime, Liang Yusheng, a young boy, paid close attention to the world. 1945 was admitted to Lingnan University, where he studied chemistry first and then transferred to the Department of Economics. "During the Anti-Japanese War, everyone should learn science and engineering to save the country. I wanted to study math, but there was no math department at Lingda. Later, I wanted to study literature. As a result, the teacher said that you can't learn anything in college at your level. " In this way, I learned a practical skill. Liang Yusheng didn't expect that he would be accompanied by pen and ink all his life.
1949, President Chen of Lingnan University introduced Liang Yusheng, who just graduated, to work in Hong Kong Ta Kung Pao, the only newspaper before Liang Yusheng retired. At first, I worked as a translator in a newspaper. Later, I worked as a supplement editor and commentator. I don't like fame and fortune all my life, and I don't seek higher vocational education. His former colleague Jin Yong later founded Ming Pao, which shocked the world. Although he is a master of martial arts novels, Liang Yusheng keeps a much lower profile.
Liang Yusheng's first martial arts novel was serialized in another newspaper, New Evening News. 1954, two Hong Kong boxers competed in Macau and were hyped by the media. In order to find a new way and expand its influence, Luo Fu, editor-in-chief of New Evening News, invited Liang Yusheng to write a novel about the tournament. Liang Yusheng did not allow it at first. At that time, he only wrote a column for the New Evening News, and he didn't intend to write a novel. Unexpectedly, the editor-in-chief took advantage of his good friendship with Liang Yusheng to directly publish the news that "Liang Yusheng's martial arts novels will be published tomorrow" in the newspaper, and even stipulated the general plot: "Write the story of Tai Chi masters fighting with various martial arts teachers, seeking revenge with martial arts masters, Jianghu children falling in love and other plots, and finally fight in Beijing. This story is very tense. I hope readers will pay attention. " Liang Yusheng had to hurry to write. So there was the so-called "Long Hudou Jinghua", the first part of the new martial arts.
This novel has been serialized for more than half a year, which has attracted readers' enthusiastic pursuit. Since then, Liang Yusheng's martial arts novels have become out of control. Famous works such as Chivalrous Man, bride with white hair and Seven Swords Down the Tianshan Mountains came out one after another, and movies adapted from novels also had a great influence in the 1960s. This time, "catching ducks on the shelves" actually "caught" a generation of martial arts grandfathers.
From 1954 to 1984, Liang Yusheng has written 35 novels with thousands of words in the past 30 years. In 1960s and 1970s, Liang Yusheng's and Jin Yong's martial arts novels together constituted the wonderful works of China literature. Both of them had a large number of readers, so they kept pace. Although this literary rivalry is only a rumor, it also triggered a case-solving-1966, or the editor-in-chief of New Evening News, Rover, invited Liang Yusheng to write a short article about Jin Yong and Liang Yusheng, and signed it by Tong Shuozhi. In this article, Liang Yusheng talked about the difference between himself and Jin Yong: Liang Yusheng was deeply influenced by China's traditional culture and was regarded as a "celebrity"; Jin Yong is a "foreign genius" deeply influenced by western literature and art, and his conclusion is that "Jin Yong is a pioneer, Liang Yusheng, the person who developed it". Supposedly, this comparison is very objective, but under the political background at that time, it takes courage to comment on Jin Yong, even taking considerable risks. Liang Yusheng's article triggered a fierce confrontation between the left and right factions, and the rumor that "Liang Yusheng and Jin Yong have a holiday" also came from this. In fact, both of them have publicly expressed that they are very good friends.
"Jin Yong writes better than me." Liang Yusheng said, "It's just that I wrote earlier than him, and literature is always better than before." As for the differences in words, it is actually unclear. Liang Yusheng thinks he is good at writing celebrity romances, while Jin Yong is better at writing villains. "Four villains, one is more exciting than the other." However, he yearns for the life of a wild crane, preferring to read and play chess every day and watch the world change. 1Liang Yusheng retired in June 1986,1moved to Sydney in June 1987. 1September 1994, Liang Yusheng, 70, was baptized in Sydney and officially became a Christian. Religious beliefs make him thoroughly understand the world and have a peaceful mind.
There are hundreds of characters in his works. Speaking of my favorite Andy and Jin Shiyi: "Andy is close to Confucianism, while Jin Shiyi is biased towards Taoism." Confucianism and Taoism coexist and live and die together, which may be the way of life that Liang Yusheng adhered to all his life.
On June 22nd, 2009, Liang Yusheng, a master of martial arts novels, died of illness. This can't help but remind people of a sentence he once mentioned in many novels, "The old dream is dusty and then revived, and this heart is like water only flowing eastward."
Although Liang Yusheng is the originator of the new martial arts, Jin Yong is the master of martial arts in China. His novels cover all levels of Chinese civilization and show the traditional culture of a big country. Therefore, some people say that there are many martial arts writers in the world and there are many stars in the sky. Jin Yong is the only one who is proficient in chivalry.
1924 In February, Jin Yong was born in a wealthy family in Yuanhua Town, Haining County, Zhejiang Province, formerly known as Cha. Haining, originally under the jurisdiction of Hangzhou government, is a small coastal county in Zhejiang Province. From 65438 to 0948, Jin Yong was 24 years old and graduated from law school. Seeing the chaotic situation, he is worried about his future and it is difficult to find a job. Just then, Shanghai Ta Kung Pao advertised for two telecom translators all over the country. At that time, more than 3000 people signed up. As a result, Jin Yong was admitted.
Soon, Ta Kung Pao will be published in Hong Kong, and Jin Yong was sent to Hong Kong. As soon as Jin Yong came to Hong Kong, he began to make a blockbuster. At that time, because of the liberation of the mainland, many materials left in Hong Kong were seized by Britain. Jin Yong is angry. However, according to his knowledge of international law, he wrote a long article "Viewing Chinese People's Property Rights Abroad from International Law", which was published in Ta Kung Pao these two days. This caused a sensation and attracted the attention of famous judges. On his recommendation, Jin Yong, full of hope, came to Beijing and met Joe, hoping to make himself better. But what impressed Jin Yong deeply was that because his family was a landlord, diplomats couldn't do it, so they could only be impulsive and disappointed!
The newspaper was very dissatisfied with Jin Yong's job-hopping behavior and dismissed him. His wife was also dissatisfied with his idea of going to the mainland, so she divorced him. After many twists and turns, Jin Yong, who was alone, came to the newly founded New Evening News as a supplement editor. He began to write film reviews, and at the same time * * * screenwriter.
Although Jin Yong's screenwriter is unintentional, it is very rewarding. "Beautiful Home" and "Lanhuahua" were not only adapted into movies, but also received warm welcome. In the excellent film selection activities from 1949 to 1955, "Beauty" won the honorary award of excellent film, and Jin Yong won the gold medal for screenwriter.
Besides scripts, Jin Yong also liked playing chess at that time, and his best partner was Liang Yusheng, a famous martial arts novelist. Two people often talk about martial arts novels together. At that time, Liang Yusheng's martial arts novel manuscript continued, and he advised Jin Yong to write martial arts novels. It happened that Hong Kong Commercial Daily urgently needed to serialize martial arts novels and edit manuscripts. Jin Yong took the lead, but he has made immortal achievements since then!
Yes 1955. When Jin Yong conceived his first novel, he thought of his hometown Haining and the most popular story book during the Qianlong period. Why not use this as a prototype? Thus, the book of the sword was born. At first, it was not particularly noticeable when it was serialized in Hong Kong Commercial Daily. However, with the development of the story, unique characters, unique language and exciting plots have swept away the boring atmosphere of the old martial arts novels, attracting more and more readers. Hong Kong Commercial Daily suddenly became "Luoyang Paper Expensive".
The book of Sword and Revenge is serialized every day, and Jin Yong basically writes one every day, from 1955 to 1956. Although it took a long time and was written very late, it came from behind and squeezed out Liang Yusheng. Jin Yong, the master of the new martial arts novel, was born!
Then the next "Sword stained with royal blood", flying foxes in snowy mountains, is a sensation in the whole city, and everyone has one. When The Legend of the Condor Heroes was published, it was even more earth-shattering. 1957, it would be a joke if there were people who read novels instead of the legend of the condor hero. The Legend of the Condor Heroes established Jin Yong's status as a master of martial arts novels, which was recognized by everyone and swept countless readers.
Since then, I can't stop, and I didn't quit the rivers and lakes until the 1970 s. Jin Yong wrote fourteen short and long martial arts novels with 36 volumes, which are arranged in chronological order as follows: The Legend of Swordsman, The Life of a Sword with Royal Blood, Flying Fox of Snowy Mountain's Legend of the Condor Heroes, The Legend of the Flying Fox, The White Horse Whistling in the West Wind, The Yuanyang Knife, The Legend of Liancheng, and The Legend of Eternal Dragon Slayer.
Compared with Gu Long and Wen Ruian, Jin Yong's martial arts novels may not be too many. However, it should be noted that when Jin Yong wrote these novels, it was the time when he founded Ming Pao, and the complicated affairs were enough for ordinary people to cope with. And Jin Yong, in the past twenty years, besides running newspapers, he can also write novels and social reviews. He writes novels in the afternoon and editorials in the evening. Moreover, his novels and editorials are first-rate.
Jin Yong once connected the first few words of his fourteen works into a couplet: flying snow shooting the white deer plain, laughing at the book leaning against the garden. It can be seen that his titles are all well thought out, not casually installed. After writing, he spent about ten years revising and polishing, and his serious creative attitude can be compared with that of any great writer.
Jin Yong created it with his own life. He didn't repeat his predecessor or himself.
Gu Long was as famous as wine, color and literature all his life. He once admitted that I only love wine and women in my life, and everything else can be regarded as dirt. He lived on wine and took pleasure in women. Finally, he really stayed in bed for treatment, sat up and drank, and lay down to pick up girls. He spent considerable energy and painstaking writing. In this way, ironman will be destroyed, let alone his own flesh and blood.
Gu Long was originally named Xiong Yaohua, and his ancestral home was in Jiangxi. He was born in Hong Kong on 1936. Gu Long grew up in a broken family and was as lonely as a prodigal son. At the same time, it is also a kind of hero's self-love, chivalrous self-respect, and the pursuit of romance in a mountain village with wine and beautiful women. When he was studying, his cohabitant was Zheng Lili, and their son was Zheng Xiaolong, a judo master in Taiwan Province Province. Three years later, they broke up. He fell in love with Ye Xue and gave birth to another son. Soon, an elegant and simple high school student, Mei, became his first official wife and gave birth to his third son. Although Mei is tender as water, she still can't lock the hearts of the people in the Jianghu, and the two eventually broke up because of their incompatible personalities. His second wife was Yu, who accompanied Gu Long to the end of his life.
Gu Long originally wrote pure literary novels. /kloc-published the novel for the first time in 0/956, and published it twice in Morning Light magazine edited by Mr. Wu Kaixuan. 1960 step into the chivalrous world. Due to the triple factors of fashion influence, friends' advice and economic pressure, he published his first martial arts novel Excalibur in the Sky under the pen name of "Gu Long", in the form of traditional confrontation and with the content of "making things up".
In two years (1960, 196 1), he published eight more works, and then lived in Fangzhen for three years, devoted himself to enlightenment and innovation. Although his imagination was too strange and even absurd, he quickly reached a new peak. 1964, Gu Long published Wash Flowers and Wash Sword (Jianghu Heroes), which was a milestone in his martial arts novels and marked the beginning of his original style. He drew nutrition from Yoshikawa Eiji in Japan, Princess Huanzhu in Chinese mainland and Jin Yong in Hong Kong, and wrote some works on the right path, which laid the foundation for his future success.
From 65438 to 0967, Gu Long published The Legend of Iron Blood (The Legend of Chu Liuxiang), which indicated that his personality and characteristics were fully mature, and a very "good-looking" Gu Long appeared. From that time to the end of 1970s, his dozens of novels enabled him to complete the great cause of "new school" martial arts, dominating Taiwan Province Province for ten years, keeping pace with Jin Yong and Liang Yusheng.
People say that cologne is made of wine. Gu Long is famous for drinking. Previously, he lived in Fangzhen, a suburb of Taipei. Every time he receives the payment, he buys a few bottles of good wine and a pile of new books and goes back to the countryside to live as a hermit. After becoming famous, his wine cabinet was full of wine, and he tried his best to collect wine that could not be bought in the market. When he drinks, he leans his head back and the wine bowl dries up, enjoying himself. Once, five people drank 28 bottles of brandy, but there was no wine or joy at ordinary times. The only time he didn't drink, he sat on the ground and used the blackboard as a table to write a manuscript.
Gu Long thought because of wine, and created good wine heroes, Chu Liuxiang, Lu Xiaofeng, Li Xunhuan, Shen Lang, etc., which made him climb the peak of martial arts novel art, and at the same time consumed himself with wine. I was sent to the hospital because of alcohol. Leave the hospital, drink again, and then go to the hospital. Then, due to alcoholism, liver cirrhosis, splenomegaly and stomach bleeding, Gu Long died prematurely. 1985 On September 2 1 day, Gu Long died in Taiwan Province Province at the age of 48.
There are 68 martial arts novels by Gu Long, but the legend of Chu Liuxiang can be divided into three, and the ruthless sword of passionate swordsman can be divided into two, so it can be counted as 7 1.
Gu Long is brilliant and melancholy. When he bought a two-story mansion in Taipei, Chen, a famous literary celebrity, wrote a pair of couplets for him, cleverly embedding his and his name in * * *: the ancient box dragon recited the sword in autumn and wrapped up her makeup; Bao Dangchun auditioned, Gu Yi night paper.
At that time, what a scenery. In his later years, illness made his life worse than death. He said, "What can a man do if he dies five times and comes back to life?" Perhaps it is because he is open-minded, so he can walk away calmly, leaving readers with nothing more than Qiao Qi's tragic and sad elegy: Xiao Li flew all his knives, and Chu Liuxiang did not see the world.
In the mid-1980s, the "martial arts craze" gradually fell into the cold. Jin Yong sealed the knife, Liang Yusheng stopped writing, Gu Long died, and the three famous Wulin artists withdrew from the Wulin. Although some martial arts novelists in Taiwan Province Province and Hongkong supported this situation, the influence was not great. The vigorous martial arts world seems to have entered the bleak season of autumn wind. At this moment, a new person suddenly appeared in the publishing circles of Hong Kong and Taiwan, namely Wen Ruian, a Malaysian Chinese writer.
1954 On New Year's Day, Wen Ruian was born in a small town with only a few hundred people in Perak, Malaysia, so he often laughed and called himself a "country boy". Wen Ruian, a country boy, is an out-and-out child prodigy. When he was 9 years old, he wrote his first novel, The Legend of the Dragon and the Tiger. Based on the classmates around him, he divided everyone into two factions, justice and evil, and launched a fierce struggle. /kloc-when he was 0/6 years old, he wrote the short story Zhui, which was the embryonic form of the later "Four Famous Arrests" series. Today, more than 30 years have passed, and Wen Ruian's four famous arrests and several novel series have not yet written the endings, which makes many readers anxious. Some people even say that they like Jin Yong for a long time, because he will spend 10 years revising his works, and the changes are so great that readers have to compare them before and after; But if you like Wen Ruian, you have to live longer. God knows how long it will take to see the end.
Speaking of Jin Yong, Wen Ruian claimed to be "standing on the shoulders of giants". "Jin Yong's greatest contribution is to tell everyone that martial arts novels are also literature." Wen Ruian is witty, sounds like Hong Zhong, and makes no secret of his admiration for Jin Yong. At the same time, he also stressed that his advantage is youth: "I am 30 years younger than Jin Yong." So he will know more about what young people are thinking and what tastes readers like in this era of fast food reading.
Since 1970, Wen Ruian's novels have made people see things in a blur: four famous arrests, Fang Zhenmei in white, seven heroes, speaking of heroes, who is the hero, China's miracle, facing fate ... Apart from these seemingly "regular" works, "Brother, please borrow them first"? Please, please. Please, please, please borrow my wife, the monk who fell in love with her, and her who fell in love with the monk ... Wen Ruian thinks that he has "tried all the literary styles on earth", so he is called "super new school" and has the potential to overwhelm the "new martial arts school".
Such "arrogance and lofty sentiments" may be related to his rough experiences when he was young. In the 1970s, Wen Ruian hosted the "Shenzhou Poetry Society" in Taiwan Province Province, and often gathered 400 or 500 people to discuss current politics and literature, which had a great influence throughout Taiwan. Nervous Taiwan Province authorities suddenly arrested Wen Ruian at 1980, and announced that he had committed "rebellion" and was once sentenced to death. Wen Ruian was tortured in prison. Fortunately, he was later released with the active rescue of cultural circles at home and abroad. After surviving, Wen Ruian felt that life was short and things were impermanent. Since then, he has been wandering in the rivers and lakes on the basis of happiness. He worked hard and accumulated capital. At one time, he only slept for three hours every day. Life is happy and charming, and there are countless pink girls around.
Today, his company has 12 branches in three places, mainly producing magazines and operating restaurants. Wen Ruian has also published 17 columns in newspapers and periodicals in Hongkong, Taiwan Province, Singapore and Malaysia, plus four or five martial arts novels every year, and his creative volume is amazing. "I hope I can burn up, live vigorously and live directly." Wen Ruian said, "The most important thing is to live happily and try to make yourself and the people around you happy."
When he became famous, he was old enough to know his destiny. Wen Ruian looks at the gains and losses of life and has his own philosophy: "My study is called' insufficient knowledge' and my dormitory is called' insufficient knowledge'." Explain that you should never be satisfied with your artistic pursuit; In terms of life enjoyment and material desires, we should know that "contentment is always happy." "I have written" Say Hero, Who is Hero "for so long, and now I don't want to be a martyr or a hero." Wen Ruian said. This is a handy life wisdom.
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