Gu Long didn't know martial arts, so why could he write wonderful martial arts moves? The answer is only 5 words and cannot be surpassed
Wuxia novels are fairy tales for adults, and adults like to read wuxia novels. "Wuxia", which literally means "hero who can do martial arts", in the world of "wuxia novels", heroes with high martial arts walk in a world that is parallel to the history of the Chinese Empire and under its shadow.
The prototype of the martial arts hero is a person who has gone out of his own way in the jianghu and is only loyal to his own rules of honor, and most of them are inevitably caught up in personal revenge and family conspiracies, even if they desire freedom and pursue martial arts.
Wuxia novels write martial arts scenes, written in the dark and thrilling, but interestingly, martial arts novelists hardly understand martial arts, Jin Yong, Liang Yusheng, Gu Long, Wolong Sheng, Zhuge Qingyun, Sima Ling are all weak scholars, only one Wen Ruian knows a little about martial arts. How could they write such a wonderful array of martial arts moves?
According to Liang Yusheng's own account, he took a boxing book, added an idiom dictionary, and borrowed the words from the idiom to write a move. Gu Long is more interesting, inventing a special move of "no trick to win".
"No trick to win" is actually the highest realm of martial arts in martial arts novels.
Gu Long's famous article "Amorous Swordsman Ruthless Sword" writes that Li Xunhuan and Shangguan Jinhong compete, these two first-class masters on the rivers and lakes want to duel male and female, readers read here are pinched a handful of sweat, but Gu Long does not write martial arts scenes, only describes the nervous mentality of onlookers, when Li Xunhuan came out, others were relieved, asked him how, Li Xunhuan said three words lightly: "He lost." ”
In "Nine Days of Eagle Flying", it is written that Ye Kai and Shangguan Xiaoxian competed, and it was also three words that came out: "She lost!" ”
Let's look at Duan Yu in "Tianlong Babu", he originally did not know martial arts, but after learning a set of "Ling Bo micro steps", he actually defeated the South China Sea Crocodile God, one of the "Four Evil Men", as for how magical this martial art is, Jin Yong avoids talking about it.
This method of artistic expression actually draws on the relevant ideas of Taoism and Buddhism.
Lao Tzu says that the big sound is silent and the big soup is tasteless, which means that everything that has tangible traces and has been artificially processed is not the best. There is a story in "Zhuangzi" that "Ding Ding solves the cow", which plays out this idea.
In the 19th year of Ding Ding's xie niu, the knife in his hand was still as sharp as it had just been sharpened, and Wen Huijun saw his skill that he was so skilled, and exclaimed: "Shanzai, the skill cover is this?" ”
Cu Ding replied: This is not just a matter of skill, after 3 years of self-solution, practice can make skill, "subjects meet gods instead of seeing, officials know and god wants to act, according to heavenly reason", which means that the mind has long been beyond the specific technique, beyond the skill, can be divine skill, so that the mind and the most essential truth of things are integrated into one. This kind of thinking has been repeatedly emphasized in stories such as "Zhuangzi" and "Wheel Flat Axe Wheel".
Later, Nanzong Zen of Buddhism absorbed Zhuangzi's idea to explain the Buddhist "emptiness of all laws" (that is, all things are only illusory, and only the true nature as the source of things, Buddha-nature, is real), and put forward the theory that Buddha-nature exists in the mind and the mind is the Buddha.
Therefore, we look at the origin of the "no trick to win and there is a trick" in the new school of martial arts novels, either a monk or a Tao. And the so-called "no move" is not completely without action, but not bound by any fixed moves, according to the time and place according to people's conditions, free to receive and send, from the heart, change from the new, that is, Zhuangzi said that the realm of transcendence and divine skill.
So Gu Long said, "The best move is no move." There are moves, the opponent can break it, no move, no style, why the opponent can break it. ”
How high Li Xunhuan's martial arts are, it is up to the reader to gallop his imagination. What a clever way to write.
epilogue:
What makes people helpless is that in the hearts of readers, the dream of martial arts has gradually begun to dry up. Once upon a time, children frolicking in the streets and alleys were obsessed with martial arts dreams. The stones on the side of the street are hidden weapons, the dead branches in the hands are swords, the bamboo poles under the crotch are horses, and the partners who go to school together are brothers...
When the one-child family makes the world of children more and more flat, when the toys in the hands of people in the automobile age become more and more exquisite, when people prefer to surf the Internet rather than pick up the bamboo poles and tiles that seem simple and rustic, but can absorb endless imagination, new dreams such as fantasy and crossing increasingly replace martial arts dreams and become the main body of contemporary popular literature.