Xiao Feng is the only protagonist in Jin Yong's pen who committed suicide. Jin Yong's protagonists are mostly chivalrous heroes, and often chivalrous heroes have extraordinary hearts, so why should a great hero like Xiao Feng, who stands tall in the sky, finally commit suicide?
And Xiao Feng's death has also become a knot in the hearts of many readers, and even some readers complain about Jin Yong, why do you want to write Xiao Feng "dead", why not let him live and do more meaningful things?
When I was a child, I watched "Tianlong Babu", and I only thought about how wonderful the story was, how Xiao Feng was strong in martial arts, and where to understand the thoughts and emotions expressed by Jin Yong through novels. Slightly older, learned knowledge, had experience, and then looked at "Tianlong Babu", only to find that this novel is not an ordinary martial arts novel, and Xiao Feng and his people are even more extraordinary fiction characters. It can be said that Jin Yong poured endless feelings of home and country into Xiao Feng.
At the end of the Eight Heavenly Dragons, Xiao Feng could have avoided committing suicide, and with the martial arts cultivation of the first rank of a general among his ten thousand armies, even if he had a million Liao troops, he would not be able to do anything. However, at the Yanmen Gate, Xiao Feng broke Yelü Hongji's bow and arrow and inserted it into his chest, ending a vigorous life. Xiao Feng's death was so moving and tragic. He could not have died, but he had to die because:
First, Xiao Feng betrayed big brother Jieyi and also betrayed the great righteousness of the nation.
Xiao Feng had a special life, originally a Khitan person, but was raised by the Song people and received the cultural influence of the Great Song from an early age. Therefore, in the face of the great national righteousness, Xiao Feng could neither stand on the side of Yelü Hongji to help him attack the Great Song, nor could he help the Great Song to resist the Khitans.
In order to end the war between song and Liao, he could only kidnap Yelü Hongji and force him to retreat. In this way, the crisis of the Great Song Dynasty was lifted, but Xiao Feng betrayed the feelings of righteousness. Not only that, preventing Yelü Hongji from attacking the Great Song dynasty was even more a betrayal of his nation, and Xiao Feng had already become a national sinner. As a national sinner, he can only repay him with death.
Second, Xiao Feng personally killed his beloved Arjun.
Arjun is Xiao Feng's beloved and at the same time his spiritual pillar, and the only person in the world who can understand Xiao Feng is Arjun. In order to avenge himself, he accidentally killed his beloved Arjun and personally destroyed his own spiritual pillar. The reason why Xiao Feng is a tragic hero is this.
When a loved one dies, when no one in the world can understand Xiao Feng, then what is the meaning of his life? If it was someone else, they might be living for a long time, but Xiao Feng was a great hero who stood tall in the sky, and perhaps only death was the real liberation.
Third, only heroic sacrifice can create true heroes.
The reason why the character of Xiao Feng touches the hearts of countless readers is precisely because of his self-sacrifice in the end. If Xiao Feng finally lives, then this role will be much bleaker, and it will not let so many readers worry about their stomachs. Xiao Feng's death was magnificent, and he exchanged his life for decades of peace between Song and Liao, and this generous righteousness was touching.
Xiao Feng's death is inevitable. As a novel author, Jin Yong can arrange many endings for Xiao Feng, but only one ending can make Xiao Feng, a fictional character, a hero with flesh and blood, that is, self-sacrifice. Xiao Feng's death is precisely the fulfillment of him, life is a masterpiece, death is also a hero, Xiao Feng is also!