March 10 is Mr. Jin Yong's birthday.
Jin Yong's martial arts novels and martial arts dramas, for the 70s and 80s later, are almost half of the generation's "childhood entertainment memory". Even on the road to the growth of his own personality, it is indispensable to take the protagonist in the play as an example. Just imagine! In that era, which boy did not look forward to Qiao Feng's pride and Yang Kang's handsomeness? What girl doesn't envy Huang Rong's intelligence, and Xiaolongnu is beautiful?
Immersed in the world of rivers and lakes written by Jin Yong, there are always endless legendary stories, endless thrills and romance.
He once said, "I love adventure all my life and love to live a life of novelty." ”
In reality, Mr. Jin Yong himself has many legendary stories, which can be said to be full of adventures and changes like his martial arts novels.
During his life, he was expelled from school twice for adventure and novelty. After his successful career, he retired from politics, resigned as chairman of the board of directors of listed companies, and retired from academia.
He once miraculously gathered Liang Yusheng, Gulong, Wolongsheng and other contemporary martial arts novels together to build a "gang", known as the gang leader.
In order to pursue the "little dragon girl" in his heart, he broke down with his second wife, and Gao Caisheng's son jumped from the 21st floor in order to protest his father's betrayal, causing him lifelong regret.
Prominent youth: Born into a famous family, he published books at the age of 16, but was twice expelled from school
We all know that Jin Yong's family is prominent, how prominent is it?
Jin Yong, born in 1924, was originally named Cha Liangyong, and the ancestor of the Cha family was the "Jin Shi Hanlin House", known as "a family of seven jinshi, uncles and nephews five Hanlin", Kangxi once gave the Cha family a plaque.
In Jin Yong's previous generation, his father Cha Shuqing married his wife Yemen to the same pair - Xu Lu, a cousin of Xu Zhimo's father. And Jiang Baili, Jiang Ying, and Qiong Yao are all in the genealogy of his family's relatives.
His prominent family lineage has allowed Jin Yong to come into contact with classic books such as "Zizhi Tongjian" since he was a child. When he was 8 years old, his grandfather gave him a copy of "The Woman of the Ara River", and after Jin Yong read it, he suddenly fell in love with martial arts novels.
At the age of 16, Jin Yong and his classmates co-edited a reference book called "For Junior High School Candidates", which is said to be one of the earliest tutoring textbooks in China. Although Jin Yong did not set foot in this field in the future, a 16-year-old boy can make new propositions, write and publish such books, which shows his imagination and boldness.
Jin Yong did very well in school, but his academic career was not smooth — he was also expelled from school twice, high school for an article, college because of a letter.
When he was first expelled, he was a high school student at Jiaxing Middle School.
He and his classmates like to play Go between classes, but the director of discipline always comes to interfere with them, Jin Yong feels unreasonable, so he wrote an article "Go and Education" under the pen name "Horse Riding Immortal", satirizing the director of training, haha.
If the article was circulated among classmates, the teaching director would not pursue it, but he published this article in Zhejiang Daily, which caused quite a stir in the education circle. The director of discipline was so angry that he insisted on expelling Jin Yong.
The second time he was dropped out was when Jin Yong was studying at the Department of Foreign Affairs at Chongqing Central Chengchi University.
This major is difficult to enter, and most of the students who can be admitted have a bright future. But Jin Yong was angry because of a letter. At that time, some student party members in the school engaged in factional fighting, attacking and framing each other. Jin Yong was not used to it, so he wrote a letter to the school authorities to expose his evil deeds. However, the school authorities ordered Jin Yong to withdraw from the school on the grounds of "interfering in party affairs" and confiscated all his books and materials.
Jin Yong had no choice but to leave Chongqing and found a temporary job at the Central Library.
Jin Yong was expelled from school twice, but his ambition and enthusiasm became more and more courageous. He read a lot in the library, accumulating knowledge and insights in culture, history, politics, etc. Later, he entered the Shanghai Ta Kung Pao and started as a translator and journalist, and rose to prominence in the press industry. In 1948, he was transferred to Hong Kong, where he was the editor of the supplement of the New Evening Post and the founder of Ming Pao, and his "life of opening and hanging" was beginning step by step.
Rapid retreat: Three advances and three retreats from politics, business, and academia were received by Deng Xiaoping
Jin Yong's first novel was "The Book of Swords and Revenge", which he wrote in his spare time when he was 31 years old while working at Ta Kung Pao.
After becoming a columnist, he joined Great Wall Film Company and began to become a professional screenwriter. Here he also had a "sexual encounter" with Xia Meng, which will be talked about in the next paragraph.
Jin Yong concentrated on writing from 1955 to 1972 (his last novel "Luding Ji"), and he completed 15 martial arts novels in 17 years, building a martial arts world that has at least been "unprecedented and unprecedented" until now.
Just the achievement of writing novels (quantity, achievements, influence), Jin Yong is already unmatched, but in these 17 years, he has done more than that.
In 1959, for example, he founded Ming Pao in Hong Kong.
Ming Pao is not a single newspaper, but a "newspaper group" that includes monthly, evening newspaper, weekly and Malaysia's New Ming Daily, and later Jin Yong established two publishing houses named after "Ming". Later, these companies were successfully listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange. Two years after going public, he sold Ming Pao and announced his resignation as chairman of the company's board.
In other words, Jin Yong successfully founded a listed company and carried out very beautiful capital operations, and it is not too much to call him a successful entrepreneur and a "newspaper tycoon" of that era.
In political circles, Jin Yong is also "planting melons to get melons, planting beans to get beans".
The following text is the mainland leader's assessment of Jin Yong's achievements in the political arena.
As editor-in-chief of Hong Kong's Ming Pao, he participated in the negotiations on Hong Kong's return to China and the drafting of the Basic Law, and he has a deep concern and support for China's reform, opening up and modernization.
In August 1981, Mr. Jin Yong was invited to visit Beijing and requested to meet with Comrade Deng Xiaoping. Comrade Deng Xiaoping, who was also a lover of his martial arts novels, readily acceded to Mr. Jin Yong's request and received him and his family at Zhongnanhai.
Jin Yong's political journey ended in 1989, when he resigned from the Basic Law Drafting Committee and Advisory Committee.
Some people say that Jin Yong's novels are too popular and do not rank in the elegant hall of literature. Although the text of his novel is popular, the connotation is not superficial, and the culture, history, philosophy, and feelings contained in it, the so-called many masterpieces are also "not high".
Because of his literary achievements and the feat of donating 1 million Hong Kong dollars to Zhejiang University to fund poor students and establishing the "Jin Yong Humanities Fund", from 1994 to 1995, he was gradually appointed as an honorary professor, doctoral supervisor and dean of the School of Humanities.
But when Jin Yong was 83 years old, he also resigned from these professions.
As he said, Jin Yong really likes a novel life: he has experienced three kinds of life in politics, business and business in his life, which is equivalent to the three lives of ordinary people.
There are no perfect people, only mortals: Jin Yong's 4 love histories, one of which was called a "scumbag"
Some people say that the characters and lives written by writers are often the epitome of the people and lives around them.
Almost all of the male protagonists of Jin Yong's novels have heroic consciousness and family and country feelings, which is probably very similar to Jin Yong himself. And the heroines he writes are often amorous, which probably alludes to his amorous heart.
He has experienced 4 love histories in his life, including 3 marriages and a bitter love, each of which is a completely different type of woman.
The first wife is called Du Zhifen, a rich family, benchmarking his "martial arts heroine", a bit like Wang Yuyan or Guo Fu.
Du is a friend of Jin Yong's colleague, with a prominent family and a vulgar appearance, and the two fall in love at first sight, which is a typical talented and beautiful type. After marriage, it happened to be Jin Yong's career development period, because the two places had been separated for a long time, and the woman filed for divorce.
The second wife, Zhu Mei, is the woman who helped Jin Yong the most, and she is also the woman who loses the most money for Jin Yong.
In his later years, he publicly said that he was sorry for Zhu Zheng:
"I don't care what other people think, but I'm sorry for her. My view of love is not moral enough. ”
Although Zhu Mei did not have a good family background as Du Zhifen, she was a top student, and after graduating from the University of Hong Kong, she went to study in the West, and later fell in love with Jin Yong when she worked for Ming Pao.
Zhu Mei should be like Huang Rong, Zhao Min or Mu Jianping, and later Jin Yong founded Ming Pao, and Zhu Mei became his most loyal partner and assistant, both as an interviewer, a writer, and also to help Jin Yong in business, and when the newspaper's economy was bad, she also sold her jewelry to make up for it.
However, it is not enough for Jin Yong to have Huang Rong and Zhao Min, he also wants the "peerless appearance" of Xiaolongnu.
In the second year of marriage, Jin Yong fell in love with Xia Meng, a movie star of Great Wall Film Company, so he left "Ta Kung Pao" and ran to work at Xia Meng's work unit to tailor the script "Peerless Beauty" for her.
After working for a while, Jin Yong confessed to Xia Meng, but Xia Meng refused on the grounds that he was married, and Jin Yong saw that the "lover's dream" was unsuccessful, so he had to leave the Great Wall movie.
Jin Yong founded Ming Pao in 1959, and Xia Meng happened in 1957, so Zhu Zheng fully knew Jin Yong's thoughts. Later, someone asked about this, and Zhu Mei just smiled faintly - "He is dreaming."
After returning from Xia Meng's wall, Jin Yong did not converge, and later he met his third wife Lin Leyi, who was 29 years younger than him.
Lin Leyi is a restaurant waiter, and the two got acquainted only because they chatted a few days when serving.
After eating, Jin Yong gave Lin Leyi a tip, but Lin Leyi chased out of the restaurant and said, "It's not easy to write, this money will be repaid to you." ”
Lin Leyi is the only woman in Jin Yong's emotional career who has a miserable life. There are also such women in Jin Yong's novels, such as Xiaolongnu and Shuang'er, who are either lonely, betrayed, imprisoned, or ill-fated... Perhaps for Jin Yong, Yu Lin Leyi's marriage is another novel "adventure", but this time the price is too great.
Because his father divorced his mother Zhu Zhang, Jin Yong and Zhu Mei's son, Cha Chuanxia of Columbia University in the United States, could not accept this fact after fruitless persuasion, and jumped from the 21st floor.
Jin Yong and Zhu Mei married and had four children, but the suicide of this child caused irreparable regrets between the husband and wife, and made the relationship between the two unable to bridge.
Although Zhu Mei never married in her life, she was unwilling to see Jin Yong again.
Mr. Jin Yong's life is full of contradictions and drama: he is a leader in the literary world and can be called a generation of grandmasters. He is as dashing as Lu Xiaofeng in the political arena. But in the love field, he is criticized and called a "scumbag"!
It's embarrassing, Jin Yong! He is an idol we worship and a pitiful mortal.