Gu Long's real name is Xiong Yaohua, a native of Jiangxi; he graduated from Taiwan's Tamkang College of English (the predecessor of Tamkang University) (some say he was an undergraduate).

When he was a boy, he was fond of reading ancient and modern martial arts novels and Western literary works. It is generally believed that he was inspired by Yoshikawa Eiji, Dumas and Little, Hemingway, Jack London, Steinbeck novels, and even Nietzsche, Sartre and other Western philosophies.

(Gu Long himself also said, "I like to 'steal tricks' from modern Japanese and Western novels.") Therefore, it can be updated day by day, catch up from behind, and open up a new realm of martial arts novels.

Born in Hong Kong in 1938.

In 1942, he moved to Taiwan with his parents.

1946 First love.

1948 Lost in love.

1949 Published first short story.

(Belonging to pure literary creation) 1952 Parents divorced.

1956 Lost love for the second time.

In 1960, he began to try to write the martial arts novel "Sword of the Sky", but his skills were very poor and the story was just like an outline.

1961 Wrote books such as "Fragrance of Swords and Rain", "Remnant of Gold and Missing Moon", and "Evil Stars in the Moon", with weird plots; but basically followed the traditional path, adding a few literary accents at most, nothing particularly outstanding.

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During this period, Gu Long's attitude towards writing was childish. He wrote new works casually and irresponsibly. He occasionally ghost-written for famous writers (such as Wo Longsheng and Zhuge Qingyun), but it was almost unreal, which showed that he did have strength but had not yet inspired it; or he thought that he had real strength.

Martial arts novels have been 'set', but that's all.

1962 Published early works such as "Jianqi Shuxiang" and "Lost Soul Yin". The writing was good and gradually improved; however, it still failed to break through and innovate basically.

1963 Inspired by Lu Yu's "Youth Journey", he discovered that the "new type of martial arts" had great potential, so he gradually changed the traditional writing style, and successively wrote books such as "The Legend of the Lone Star" and "The Sword of the Concubine of Xiang", trying to find a new path, but failed

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In 1964, he completed his first major work, "Huan Hua Xi Jian Lu", with ups and downs of writing and poetic flavor; one can intuitively feel that Gu Long is impatient to make a living by going around in circles in the half-new martial arts tradition.

He wants to wash his sword with flowers and become his own master!

As a "pioneer" in reforming traditional martial arts novels, Gu Long absorbed the "understanding the true meaning of life through swordsmanship", the pre-war atmosphere and one-sword execution as demonstrated in the famous Japanese writer Yoshikawa Eiji's "Miyamoto Musashi"; he understood Jin Yong's "

The saying of "The Legend of the Condor Heroes" that "without a sword is better than having a sword" is expressed as the supreme secret of swordsmanship as "without a move, there is a move to defeat", and the analysis is extremely subtle.

This so-called "there is a move to win without a move" is three years earlier than the one who wrote Feng Qingyang in Jin Yong's "The Swordsman" and taught Xiao Chong the supreme mental method of "Dugu Nine Swords"!

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Secondly, he introduced the Japanese sword technique of "cutting against the wind with one strike", three moves and two moves, and the head fell to the ground; from then on, he no longer wrote lengthy fighting scenes - this is where he broke through the tradition of martial arts, and also where he "simplified everything"

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Third, starting from this book, he tried his best to create a literary and artistic atmosphere and point out philosophical ideas through ordinary and concise dialogues.

It also uses many poetic languages ??to depict human nature and embody the philosophy of life.

It is a pity that "Huanhua Xijianlu" contains too many foreshadowings and cannot be summarized. It was eventually ridiculed as "an anticlimax" and detracted from the artistic value of this book.

Reference materials are scattered in major newspapers, "Literary Monthly", "(Hong Kong) Ming Pao Monthly", "Spring and Autumn Magazine", "China Forum", "Chinese World", "Shanghai Literary Review" and Wansheng, Yuanliu, Lianjing

Books from other publishing houses, the earliest of which comes from "China Times" on November 2, 1973.

Born in Hong Kong in 1936 (some say he was born in Mainland China in 1937), he died of illness in Taiwan on September 21, 1985.