Most of Mr. Jin Yong's fifteen novels have a clear background of the times. For example, the "Archery Trilogy" from the end of the Southern Song Dynasty to the end of the Yuan Dynasty, the middle and late Northern Song Dynasty of the "Eight Parts of the Heavenly Dragon", the Spring and Autumn Period of the "Yue Female Sword", and so on. However, Mr. Jin Yong's three novels do not have a clear background of the times, and many readers and friends like to infer the era of the story from the details between the lines of the novel, but in fact, as Mr. Jin Yong said in the afterword of "Smiling Proud of the Jianghu": "Because I want to write about some universal personalities and are common phenomena in life, this book has no historical background, which means that similar scenes can occur in any dynasty." "Since even the authors have not written their historical background, it does not make much sense for us as readers to work hard to explore. Why didn't the chivalrous jun mention "White Horse Whistling West Wind"? Because Most of Mr. Jin Yong's achievements are in novels, it is more representative to mention long stories. The three novels mentioned by Chivalrous Jun today are Mr. Jin Yong's more representative novels "Smiling Proud of the Rivers and Lakes", "Chivalrous Journey" and "Liancheng Tips".
These three novels can be said to be Mr. Jin Yong's relatively high achievement novels, although each has its own characteristics, but The hero Kejun feels that Mr. Jin Yong does not arrange a very clear background for these three novels, which should be related to the common points in these three novels. Of course, the common denominator here is definitely not what the protagonist's adventures are, but something deeper.
Chivalrous Jun felt that the content of these three novels actually had a kind of thing in it that was difficult to distinguish between right and wrong. The most typical "Laughing Pride", can we see what is right and wrong from inside? For example, in "Smiling Proud of the Jianghu", the Sun Moon God Sect is called the "Demon Sect" by the famous and upright sect, and the members of the Sun Moon God Sect have indeed done a lot of bad things. When Ling Hu Chong was punished by Yue Buqun to think about the cliff face, there was a psychological description like this:
Suddenly, many scenes appeared in my mind, all of which were the evil things that people in the demon cult said about how the people in the demon cult usually listened to the master, the master's wife, and the elders in the jianghu said that the people in the demon sect had committed murder and harmed people: Jiangxi Yu's old boxing master's family was captured by the demon cult, and they were nailed alive to the tree, and even the three-year-old child was inevitable, and the two sons of the old boxer groaned for three days and three nights before they died; Zhao Dengkui, the head of the Dragon and Phoenix Sword in Jinan Province, married his daughter-in-law, and when the guests were full, the people in the demon cult broke in and cut off the heads of the newlyweds and placed them in front of the feast, saying that it was a congratulatory gift The old hero of Hanyang Hao made the seventieth birthday, and all the good Han Came together to wish for the birthday, but unexpectedly, the Shou Tang was buried with explosives by the Demon Sect, ignited the medicine, and suddenly exploded, and the hero hao killed and injured countless people, and Uncle Ji of the Taishan Sect interrupted in this battle and sent a piece of arms, which is what Master Ji personally said, naturally there is no falsehood..."
Although this psychological description is written about the hateful people in the demon cult, is the famous and upright school in the novel really a famous and decent school? Did the Qingcheng Faction only deal with the Main Lord Lin Family in order to seize the Evil Sword Spectrum, and did it not slaughter the rest of the Fuwei Dart Bureau without scruples? How did the Songshan party consider the innocence of others in Liu Zhengfeng's family? Not to mention that in the face of the Hengshan Sect that opposed the merger, whether it was Zuo Lengchan or Yue Buqun, they were not soft,000, and the Huashan Sect was fighting for its own authentic position within the Sword Qi Sect. Even the famous and upright sect regarded Xiang Qingtian as a member of the Demon Sect, while the Sun Moon God Sect regarded Xiang Qingtian as a traitor, and as a result, the two parties actually joined forces very strangely when they caught Xiang Qingtian. Therefore, where there is any good and evil here, some are just interests!
It is difficult to distinguish between right and wrong in "Laughing at the River", and the same is true of "Chivalrous" and "Liancheng Tips". The disciples of XiaKe Island, Zhang San and Li Si, invited masters to Xia Ke Dao every ten years to study martial arts together, and destroyed people at every turn for those who did not want to go to the appointment, although many sects did have hateful places, but not everyone should be killed! As long as others agree to go to Chickasaw Island, it seems that it does not matter whether this sect or gang has done something wrong. Like the Changle Gang inside, there are obviously evil traces, and as a result, Shi Shaotian promised to go to the covenant of The Knight Island, and as a result, the evil traces of the Changle Gang Zhang San LiSi did not care, and they went. What kind of heroic deeds is this? Chivalrous had previously defended them, but in the details of these novels, even Chivalrous could not admit that some of them were not chivalrous. Therefore, in "Chivalrous", it is actually inseparable.
As for "The Secret of the City", many people say that after reading it, their hearts are creepy, and it is true, in this novel, we see the extreme of human evil. For the sake of gold and silver treasures, the characters in the novel are completely inhuman, fathers can deceive sons and daughters, husbands can deceive wives, apprentices can deceive masters, not to mention, the story of "Lian Cheng" is too dark. However, many people in it were originally very positive images, such as the four chivalrous guests of the Southern Four Qi", and the "Bell Sword Double Heroes", which are obviously chivalrous people, and as a result, when they encountered the treasure, many people changed. In the finale, those people finally found the treasure, but all of them were poisoned by the poison on the treasure, in fact, these people were not so much poisoned by the poison on the treasure, but rather poisoned by the poison of greed in their hearts!
It seems that "Lian Cheng Tiao" is to write about the evil of human nature, but when the situation becomes "there are no good people in Hongdong County", whether this evil is also a kind of indistinguishable right and wrong.
So, like these three novels, which era are you going to label it? In fact, they just synthesize some of the events of the dynasties and highlight a world that does not distinguish between right and wrong. If so, is it necessary to write a clear historical context? Perhaps, as the afterword to "Smiling Proud of the Jianghu" says: "A similar scenario can happen in any dynasty." "Let's take a closer look, isn't the story of these three novels exactly what can take place in any dynasty?"
Why did the kings think so?