As the founding father of the new school of martial arts novels, even if Jin Yong and Gu Long came to the top, in terms of qualifications, Liang Yusheng was an uncompromising big brother. It is precisely because this big brother has raised the banner of the new martial arts that there are rising stars such as Jin Yong and Gu Long, and they have emerged suddenly.
As a newspaper editor, Liang Yusheng inadvertently broke into the martial arts world. From the first "Dragon tiger fighting Jinghua" to the final sealed work "Wudang a Sword", Liang Yusheng worked for 30 years and wrote 35 martial arts novels. Despite many doubts, Liang Yusheng has always adhered to the ethics of self-creation.
Liang Yusheng's martial arts novels have been criticized for the fact that the martial arts novels he created are too old-fashioned and do not know how to be flexible, although they are the founding fathers of the new school of martial arts novels, but the shadow of the old school of martial arts novels has not been completely abandoned, and the specious structure and words have made many readers unable to read it. Comparatively speaking, Jin Yong followed Liang Yusheng's steps and walked out of his own new path. With Jin Yong's steps, Gu Long also stepped out of his own style. Liang Yusheng's embarrassment is also here, "silently following the stereotypes, pedantic and old-fashioned", and finally succumbing to Jin Yong and Gu Long.
In fact, Liang Yusheng's novels have also changed, but this change is not very obvious. Take the "Flying Phoenix And Hidden Dragon" today, which is a refreshing work, this novel can be said to be the shortest one in Liang Yusheng's novel, with only seven chapters. But Sheng is short and concise, abandoning Liang Yusheng's consistent long speeches, this novel is condensed with essence, which makes people feel very liked and shocked to read.
At first glance at the beginning of "Flying Phoenix And Hidden Dragon", I thought that I had walked through the wrong door, "If he dies, he wants you to pay for his life", is this Mr. Liang Yusheng's novel? Liang Yusheng, who has always been a poet who has never left his hand, will he write such a big vernacular and such a direct text? After reconfirming the title of the book and the name of the person, I was convinced that it was Mr. Liang Yusheng's novel. If not, I would have thought it was Gu Long's novel.
Why? Because the style is very similar to the ancient dragon, whether it is in the brushwork or in the structure, it is short and concise, but behind the conciseness of the text is not a simple story. The first few lines of "Flying Phoenix Hidden Dragon" quickly suffocated their appetite, if he died, who would pay for his life? Who is he? What's going on? Why is there a sick man lying dying in bed under the protection of swords and swords?
With these curiosities and doubts, you can't help but keep looking, trying to find the root cause. This is the magic of Liang Yusheng's "Flying Phoenix Hidden Dragon", everywhere foreshadowing, so that you have to pull the line tightly at the same time, step by step, to find clues. In the past, Liang Yusheng's novels were very straightforward and gave people a boiled water-like reading experience. But now it is like drinking spirits and cola, and the taste on the top is really liked.
The titles of the seven chapters are also full of jianghu atmosphere and appetite, "Strange and Bizarre Examination", "The Secret of the Cave Copper Man", "Wedding Banquet Storm", "Cave Room Night", "The New Coachman", "The Hidden Dragon Appears in the Seminary", "The Truth Comes Out", the seemingly random title, but there are clues buried everywhere, which is really novel. And in the content of each chapter, there are also many sub-headings, just like the synthesis of a small story, which is really wonderful.
The novel was written in the summer of 1968 and serialized in the noon newspaper, with seven chapters and more than 50,000 words. The first five times talk about the mongolian spy Lu Shixiong and the Golden Kingdom County Lord's lonely flying phoenix and mysterious wedding, the sixth time the hidden dragon and the Mongolian female spy appeared, the seventh time is the finale, the male protagonist is about to appear in the finale, which is really rare. This novel is a tragedy, in the context of the big times, in the face of the great righteousness of the family and the country, everyone has a fate that has to be faced. When the truth finally came out, Lu Shixiong committed suicide, Du Lonely Feifeng committed suicide, and Qianlong committed suicide. The story behind the martial arts is thought-provoking.