Although the difference between Xianxia and Wuxia is only one word, the framework and elements of their stories are quite different from those of Wuxia. From the early "Legend of the Swordsman of Shushan Mountain" to the game adaptation of the "Legend of the Immortal Sword", the Immortals have gradually been accepted and loved by the public. If the "chivalrous" element in martial arts is the hot-blooded art that walks on the edge of physics, then the "sword immortal" element in xianxia is the beauty of logic.
Wuxia is more about composing the grassy hero Weeping Danzhi, even if the protagonist is a family child or a rich nobleman, often such protagonists are destroyed by flying disasters to "the fallen phoenix is not as good as a chicken", or tired of the "spiritual bondage" brought by the rich and noble position and wandering in the jianghu to pursue the dream of freedom. Jin Yong's martial arts novels are almost all about the history of the protagonist's growth and struggle, the ancient dragon martial arts novels are more about the jianghu heroes to break the puzzle, and the martial arts commentaries are more about the jianghu famous heroes for the "qingtian" in their hearts to hold the knife or the loyal children for the family's zhaoxue road.
The previous Xian Xia story is a metaphysical product of the martial arts theme, and the newly added elements in the story are gods, immortals, people, demons, demons, ghosts, as well as artifacts, magic weapons, and elixirs, but the vast majority of the pages are still worldly affairs and jianghu grievances, and the story ultimately highlights "chivalry" instead of "immortals", and "The Legend of the Immortal Sword" and "Xuanyuan Sword" are in place in this regard.
However, in the era of the new school of immortals' online texts, some works have undergone great changes, many story units are more to highlight the "immortals" rather than "heroes", replacing the elements of "heroes" is the protagonist's strategic thinking and personal likes and dislikes, which makes the story have a "open and hanging mode" and "violence against violence" hostility.
Three fish is a post-eighty, for martial arts and xianxia are also more like, from an objective point of view, martial arts and xianxia is not good or bad, there is only good or bad is related to the work. Because many Xian Xia works now grow barbarically in the online text, and the net text is to make money and silver with the number of chapters and words, it leads to the situation that some Xian Xia novels have dragged their content and injected water.
In order to allow readers to swallow these "insignificant" chapters in full, such novels often set a "cool point" every few chapters, and this kind of fairy tale novel becomes a cool text with a tiger's head and a pig's tail. Three fish prefer the story of the grassy jianghu Haojie fighting the sword Tianya, the story of Hao Heng Shizi with a powerful guard and the top knife holder brushing the copy except "cool" or "cool", almost no other taste.
First, the hero does not ask the martial arts world of origin
Wuxia has a greater impact on the post-70s and post-80s, it can be said that these two generations have more or less a martial arts dream in the process of growing up, and there are also uneven phenomena in martial arts and xianxia, overemphasizing "martial arts" and neglecting to show the "chivalrous" side, and TV series adapted from such novels can only become non-martial arts films instead of martial arts. Although martial arts also give people an endless sense of "coolness", it is more to highlight the interweaving of chivalry in love and hate.
Three fish prefer the hero does not ask the origin of the martial arts world, Jin Yong martial arts Ling Hu Chong, Di Yun, Yang Guo and other protagonists in the ill-fated world still live a resilient, free, sad, compared to the blood sea and the deep vengeance and all the way supported by the nobles Guo Jing, Zhang Wuji, Xiao Feng, the former has the strength to break through the world's vision and the world's waves of teasing tension, the latter although they are all heroes but have not been freed from the shackles of human feelings and the manipulation of the heavens.
Take the growth history of The Archery Hero Guo Jing, if there is no "yin fu" of the descendants of the good Han of Liangshan, the bet between the Seven Monsters of Jiangnan and the Quanzhen Master Qiu Is not necessarily logical, Guo Jing is almost supported by nobles all the way, and when he broke through the rivers and lakes, he met the Beiqi HongQigong to protect him, and there is a bit of the sword god Li Chungang in "The Sword Line in the Snow" to protect Xu Fengnian. Guo Jing's IQ is not the same as Xu Fengnian's, but the male protagonist's wisdom is not online, so he comes to a brilliant female protagonist Huang Rong to "make it up".
To a certain extent, the fire of "The Legend of the Eagle Shooter" reflects the change in the concept of the times from "the female protagonist inside, the male protagonist outside" to the "combination of strength and wisdom", the man is responsible for the strength (earning silver and loyalty), and the woman is responsible for management and staff. "Shooting Eagle" also gives the grass people a blueprint for achieving a big career scene by personal struggle, but under the details, it will be found that Guo Jing's understanding is "four points rely on hard work, three points to fight luck, and three points to meet nobles." Thinking of "heroes do not ask about origin", we should add a sentence, "A good man also needs an opportunity, an opportunity to meet a noble person", because there are many people who work very hard in the world, if the direction is not right, no matter how big the strength is, it is useless.
A mention of Jin Yong will inevitably think of Gu Long, if Jin Yong's martial arts are writing "how to become a generation of heroes", then Gu Long's martial arts are writing "the troubles of the great heroes", Li Tanhua's flying knife can not cut the grace and love that entangled him all his life, and the great grace that cannot be afforded is revenge, and the great love that cannot be abandoned is forever wounded. No matter how sharp Xie Xiaofeng's sword is, it is difficult for him to jump out of the heart prison drawn by himself, and what he wants to escape is to face it after all, and Chu Liuxiang, Shen Lang, Lu Xiaofeng, who are involved in the martial arts storm, do not ask where the hero is from, but where Gu Daxia is going.
Second, the unparalleled fairy dream of the prince
Whether it is the cross-genre work "Qing Yu Nian" between martial arts and xianxia, or the fantasy and fantasy of "Douluo Continent" represented by "Douluo Continent", it is a bold attempt at the concept of "xianxia" in dimension and has achieved great success. The biggest impression of "Qing Yu Nian" is to try to link the ancient people's belief in mythology with ultra-modern technology, if gods and immortals are beyond the existence of the civilization of the times, then the word "xianxia" is the belief in breaking through the shackles of the concept of the times and redeeming the fire of civilization.
"Douluo Continent" takes the path of anti-traditional immortals and mythical legends, in the past immortal and demonic stories, demons and ghosts basically rely on absorbing human souls to enhance their strength, and in the land of Douluo Continent, human beings are born with martial souls, awaken martial souls and become soul masters.
The soul master's acquisition of the soul ring will not only increase the power, but also obtain a powerful soul skill, and the way to obtain the soul ring requires hunting the soul beast. Soul beasts can also increase their cultivation by devouring soul masters, but soul masters need to cultivate for more than ten thousand years before they can transform into human forms, whether it is a soul beast or a soul master, they can constantly increase the soul ring and become a Douluo, and eventually they are also expected to become gods, this idea can be described as ingenious.
After saying the valuable points of this kind of new immortal, Three Fish also came to talk about the places he did not like, and here I would like to say that it only represents a personal opinion, and can be criticized and corrected. Whether it is Tang San in "Douluo Continent", Xiao Yan in the Douqi Continent, or even Fan Xian in "Qing Yu Nian", and Xu Fengnian in "The Sword Line in the Snow", all of them are the settings of "Gongzi World Peerless Open hanging and abusing rookies and chickens abusing wild dragons", which is what I don't like very much.
Although this setting is very cool to read, you can't feel the blood boiling in the classic martial arts. Shuangwen is used for addiction and recreation, Chivalrous is used to wash the spirit, Wuxia inherits the Mo family's mandate of "taking the world as its own responsibility", and Xianxia should be the spiritual portrayal of "the greater the ability, the greater the responsibility".
The young Tang San had the cultivation of the top master of the Tang Gate, the young Xiao Yan cultivated into the Nine Duan Dou Qi, Fan Xian was born with domineering true qi, Xu Feng forgot to open the hanging when he was young, and when he just became an adult, he obtained the Great Yellow Court Hun Hou Inner Gong and the "Eight Parts of the Heavenly Dragon" in the Void Bamboo to obtain the Northern Meditation Divine Gong, although these future achievements are rare in the world, but they are all taking the "road of the return of the king to the end".
Tang San's father was Hao Tiandouluo, who had made the Martial Soul Hall jealous, Xiao Yan's father was also a grandmaster-level Dou Sheng of the Douqi Continent; Fan Xian's adoptive father was a minister of the imperial court, and his biological father was directly Emperor Qing, and all the people and things left by his mother Ye Qingmei were inexhaustible to Fan Xian; Xu Fengnian, a master of the Northern Liang Shizi, was like a cloud, and he was clearly and clearly "arranged" by his father Xu Xiao, the king of Northern Liang, from traveling to entering the rivers and lakes.
This kind of "send the yuan treasure at the beginning, send the talent, send the raiders, send the baby of the god beast (strong guard)", and then pick up the god-level suit all the way, and then go to the rivers and lakes to spawn monsters, much like a way of an online game, the network text circle has a special name called system text, such a gongzi peerless immortal dream, after all, is a gorgeous and unreal dream belonging to your prince, somewhat unstained.
After the end of the series of "Sword Line in the Snow", the birth of "Sword Coming" has also raised the author's own writing of xian xia to a new height, and Chen Ping'an, an ordinary teenager who came out of mud bottle alley, finally became a sword immortal after suffering, as if he felt the taste of "heroes are not afraid of being too thin". The person who had the greatest influence on Chen Ping'an's sword learning was Ah Liang, "My name is Ah Liang, the kind Liang, I am a swordsman" also brought Xian Xia closer to the martial arts.
Third, the text is to carry the tao and the chivalrous to clarify the meaning
Since ancient times, there has been a saying that "the text carries the Tao, the poem is the word", some literati feel that the "wen carries the Tao" has a heavy feeling, so the leisure and liao silent articles written with gentle and light brush and ink are used to taste the beauty of life and relieve the bitterness and mourning, but this kind of article is like a boneless kite, fluttering with the wind has a different flavor, but in the years of "the wind rises and the clouds fly", it can not face the wind after all.
In the view of the three fish, whether it is a fairy or a martial artist, the focus is still a "chivalrous" word, because only "chivalry with clear righteousness" will make the protagonists' behavior tend to be justified, and the protagonist who loses the chivalrous heart, whether it is revenge or hegemony, will have the risk of form bias.
For example, in "Douluo Continent", when Tang San and Xiao Wu were being hunted down, they encountered a human-faced demon spider blocking the way, which led to Xiao Wu's sacrifice, and Tang Sanyi, who was full of grief, killed all the face demon spiders in the Douluo Forest. Although the species of the Human Face Demon Spider is more annoying, it can be cleansed out of the Human Face Demon Spider but there is an element of venting private anger, after all, the soul ring and soul bone of the Human Face Demon Spider were of great help to Tang San later, at the time of the Nine Examinations of the Sea God, if there was no eight spider spears of the Human Face Demon Spider to apply soul bones, Tang San could not defeat the Deep Sea Demon Whale King.
Xu Fengnian in "Snow In the Sword Line" for Xuanyuan Qingfeng umbrella, in the original Xu Fengnian is much more "belly black" than the TV series, in addition to "taking away" half of the Xuanyuan family's treasures, Xu Fengnian also "took away" nearly half of the Xuanyuan family's doormen, although this practice is very good for the balance between The Northern Liang and the Xuanyuan family, but this is more or less a bit of the meaning of taking advantage of the fire to rob. Of course, from the perspective of the sinister rivers and lakes and the ruthlessness of the temple, Xu Fengnian, who has "strategy and skill", is more in line with being a Northern Liang King, but such a protagonist seems to deviate from the word "chivalry" of Xian Xia.
As Yuan Tingshan, a disciple of the Xuanyuan family, said, the vast majority of the supreme martial arts in the martial forest are mastered by the rich family and the major sects, and those at the bottom want to become strong, and it is almost an unavoidable road to attach themselves to the various gate valves and sect gates, and the protagonist sits on the throne as soon as he is born, and the king who occupies the innate advantage of "awakening or returning" is no longer domineering, and it can only be over-eyed and addictive, which is somewhat ungrounded, after all, most people are ordinary sentient beings.
Even if the protagonist of such a fairy tale has the feat of "rejecting the Northern City and resisting the Northern Mang", it is difficult to resonate with the reader's heart, because the protagonist is certainly beneficial to the world, and objectively there is also an element of preserving the throne of Northern Liang, which is incomparable with Xiao Feng's self-defeating of the soldiers in "Tianlong Eight Parts". Finally, with a light sigh, "Grass reckless counterattack weeping Danzhi, Gongzi Peerless Shuangwen", Xian Xia and WuXia should not dilute the "Chivalrous" element.