In 1954, a young man who was 30 years old at the time began serializing a novel called "Dragon Tiger Fighting Jinghua" in the "New Evening News". At that time, he just had the attitude of trying it out, and at the request of the editor-in-chief Rover, he tried to write a martial arts novel in the newspaper. He wasn't sure if he would be sought after by his readers, who were after all in the hands of the flowers and bricks. If the reader likes it, he will receive flowers and applause. If the reader does not approve, then it will be a brick thrown at him.
But what he did not expect was that he did not receive the bricks from the reader, but received a letter from the reader asking for it to continue the serialization. This greatly increased Liang Yusheng's confidence, and he continued to serialize in the newspaper for 8 months, and this "Dragon Tiger Fighting Jinghua" was finally completed. With the success of "Dragon tiger fighting Jinghua", he climbed to the peak of the new school of martial arts novels and became the founding master of the new school of martial arts novels.
He is Liang Yusheng, a martial artist who has left a name in the history of martial arts. For his achievements in the new school of martial arts, Liang Yusheng once summed it up like this: Liang Yusheng, the one who opened the atmosphere; the one who carried forward the glory, Jin Yong. As far as the status of the martial arts master is concerned, Gu Long and Jin Yong are his younger brothers, and it is he who really carries the banner of the new martial arts. It is precisely because of his "Dragon tiger fighting Jinghua" that he has created a martial arts fever, which is still uninterrupted.
Liang Yusheng's writing skills are very deep, his novels are beautiful in making words and sentences, and there are a large number of poetic uses, although they are not as fascinating as Jin Yong and Gu Long in describing martial arts moves, but the ideas and literary style presented in his works are still worth a taste. As Liang Yusheng's first martial arts novel, "Dragon Tiger Fighting Jinghua" now seems so immature, which is very normal. Just like Jin Yong's "Book of Swords and Vengeance" and Gu Long's "Sword of the Firmament", as a debut work, they are not as good as the works of the mature period, which is a stage of the growth of a novelist, after all, they are feeling the stones to cross the river and gradually find their own style.
The novel "Dragon Tiger Fighting Jinghua" originated from a ring competition. At that time, there was a dispute between the Tai Chi School and the White Crane Sect in the Martial Arts Circle of Hong Kong, and the contest was a sensation in Hong Kong, and the editor-in-chief of the New Evening News, Rover, quickly found a way to rub the hot spot, that is, to let people write a martial arts novel, a novel about the ring competition, so Liang Yusheng took up the burden. We can also see in the novel that in the last two times of the novel, the ring competition is described. The new leaders of Taijimen, Ding Xiao and Lou Fearless, sought revenge on Yue Junxiong and launched in the form of a ring competition, and in the end Lou Fearless and Ding Xiao won, but the Eight-Nation Alliance invaded Beijing, and the final ring competition became a battle without victory or defeat.
As Liang Yusheng's debut work, it seems that the style of the old chapter Hui body novel is very obvious, the storyline looks very thin, the length is also short, the characters do not have any highlights, too facial, which is also the reason why Liang Yusheng's novel was surpassed by Jin Yong and Gu Long later, too orthodox, black and white are too clear, there is no suspense left blank.
By the way, during the Boxer Rebellion, hot weapons were already very mature, foreign guns and cannons were widely used, was it really necessary for martial arts to exist? As the foreigners in "The Undefeated Storm rises in the East" said, you have martial arts, I have cannons, no matter how high the martial arts, can you resist cannons and guns?