One
On September 23, 1972, Ming Pao published the last chapter of Jin Yong's martial arts novel Lu Dingji: Wei Xiaobao took his mother and 7 wives to Dali City to live a life of leisure and ease; however, the Kangxi Emperor missed Wei Xiaobao, and each time sent a large number of imperial guards to various teahouses and hotels in Yangzhou to inquire about Wei Xiaobao's people, but there was no such person, so depressed.
The editor wrote a small notice at the end: "Jin Yong's new work is in the conception." From tomorrow onwards, Gu Long's new work "Lu Xiaofeng" will be published."
This well-known "Legend of Lu Xiaofeng" is the result of Jin Yong's handwritten draft.
When Jin Yong was about to finish "Deer Ding", he had a premonition that he would no longer create new martial arts novels. At that time, wuxia novels were in full swing, and countless readers had developed the habit of reading wuxia novels in Ming Pao. In order to enable Ming Pao to continue to publish wuxia novels and live up to the expectations of readers, Jin Yong wrote a letter to Gu Long and asked him to write a wuxia novel, which was serialized in Ming Pao.
A friend said that after Gu Long read Jin Yong's letter of appointment, he "lay naked in a chair and did not say a word for half a day." This letter contains great trust and heavy responsibility.
As we all know, Gu Long is a very casual writer, likes to drink, but also find gunner ghostwriters, so although he wrote a lot of martial arts novels, but good and bad. The first half of his novel is written with great grandeur and momentum; it cannot be picked up when it is written, giving people a feeling of thunder and rain.
This time, Gu Long attached great importance to Jin Yong's manuscript and spent a lot of effort to conceive and write this martial arts novel. As a result, Gu Long's late masterpiece "The Legend of Lu Xiaofeng" came out. "The Legend of Lu Xiaofeng" was deeply loved by readers after being serialized in Ming Pao, and later made into a film and television drama, which made Gu Long earn a lot of money.
Unfortunately, after Jin Yong completed "Deer DingJi", he no longer created new martial arts novels; the only works circulating everywhere were fish-eyed copycat works with mixed eyes such as "Jin Yongxin", "Quanyong", "Jin Yongju", "Ling Huyong" and "Jin Kang".
Two
In the 1960s and 1970s, Jin Yong, Gu Long, and Liang Yusheng were the "three mountains" of the world of martial arts fiction. The interaction between them is also a topic that people talk about. On a public occasion, a reporter asked Jin Yong if he would read martial arts novels written by other writers.
Jin Yong replied: "I myself like to read martial arts novels very much, but I am tired of reading all my novels, and I have read Gu Long's." Gu Long is a prolific writer who has written more than 70 martial arts novels over more than 20 years, with an average of three or four a year. Jin Yong said that he had read Gu Long's martial arts novels, which was really incredible.
Jin Yong also mentioned: "There are not many people who write martial arts novels now, and Feng Jicai in the mainland has written some of them before, but they have not written them later. In fact, I myself very much hope that there are good martial arts novelists out, if there are, their works I will buy and see at the first time. "We know that Feng Ji is a famous writer and painter in contemporary China, when did he write martial arts novels?
Look it up, there really is such a thing. In 1984, Feng Jicai's novella "Divine Whip", which was completed in the form of a martial arts novel, was published in the fourth issue of "Novelist" in 1984.
Liang Yusheng is an old friend of Jin Yong's relationship for decades, and Jin Yong naturally often reads Liang Yusheng's martial arts novels. Jin Yong said: "Now I go to Europe to play, on the plane for more than ten hours, I can't read the study book, and the 'idle book' that I carry with me is still the old work of Liang Yusheng and Gu Long." ”
This means that Jin Yong took Liang Yusheng and Gu Long's martial arts novels on the plane and read them at any time.
Three
The interaction between martial arts novels is more frequent than we think.
In the 1960s and 1970s, wuxia novel writers such as Jin Yong, Liang Yusheng, Gu Long, and Wolong Sheng often moved around. When a Taiwanese martial arts writer comes to Hong Kong, Jin Yong will definitely do his best to be a landlord. "We often get together to drink, play cards and chat, and I'm the main guest, so they unanimously call me 'helper,'" he said. This gang is probably the Hu Hao Gang, and the members of the gang are mainly Gu Long, WoLong Sheng, Zhuge Qingyun, Ni Kuang, Xiang Zhuang, in addition to Zhang Che, Wang Yu and so on. ”
Gu Long, Wo Longsheng, and Zhuge Qingyun are writers of martial arts novels, Ni Kuang is known as the "Four Talents of Hong Kong" along with Jin Yong, Huang Xia, and Cai Lan, Xiang Zhuang is a literary critic who wrote "Jin Yong Novel Commentary", Zhang Che is a famous director, actor, and screenwriter, and Wang Yu is the first martial arts film star in the new martial arts century.
Since then, friends in the circle have called Jin Yong a "helper". For this reason, Gu Long also joked with him in the novel.
In "Happy Heroes", Gu Long joked: "Most of the beggars belong to the beggar gang, which is commonly known as the poor family gang." The short canes they use are often called 'dog sticks'. The name is said to have been given by a former helper surnamed Cha, but no one has seriously examined where the real source came from. ”
The interaction between the literati is so full of fun.