Author: The Last Ronin.
If the most unloved heroine of Jin Yong's novel is selected, I believe that Yuan Ziyi in "The Legend of the Flying Fox" will definitely be one of the popular candidates that everyone expects. Of course, from the perspective of sensibility, this is indeed to a certain extent because another heroine, Cheng Lingsu, who is an enemy of her, is really portrayed too deeply into the hearts of the people.
The degree of sympathy and love of Cheng girl, even the male protagonist Hu Fei, has been angered by quite a number of readers as "having eyes and no pearls, thin feelings and widowhood"; not to mention Yuan Ziyi, as a nun, but she has to arouse the heart of a pure love boy, but in the end she is unwilling to be responsible and resolutely leaves.
However, from a rational analysis, even if Cheng Lingsu is not discussed at all, Yuan Ziyi can still be regarded as the worst heroine of Jin Yong's novel, and may not need to add "one".
In fact, the difference between Hu Fei and Yuan Ziyi is not a tragedy, but a comedy. In a sense, Hu Fei's feelings for Yuan Ziyi, like Xiao Zhang Wuji's feelings for Zhu Jiuzhen, are a very blind first love.
Hu Fei and Yuan Ziyi are incompatible in their ideas and values, and their relationship is doomed to end in rupture and conflict. The poignant separation in "The Flying Fox" masks this spiritual conflict, and makes the separation entangled and warm. For Hu and Yuan, this is the best ending.
The marriage of the ancients paid attention to the right door, which is not completely unreasonable. Since we admit that the environment can greatly affect a person's personality, we also have to admit that birth and early childhood experience affect a person's values. We tend to stereotype the word love, thinking that love can do all the wonders. In fact, Lu Xun was not wrong, Jiao Da of Jia Fu could not fall in love with Sister Lin. Love will only happen between two values that are similar, at least not in conflict. Just like the story of the treasure of the Red Chamber that we are familiar with.
On the surface, Hu Wei and Yuan Ziyi are both orphans, but the living environment of the two of them is very different. The young Hu Fei followed Ping'a Si and drifted away from the country, making a living as a maid. Although hu yidao's identity as the son gave him natural pride, his early experience made Hu Fei psychologically close to the bottom and commoners. The people at the bottom often have simple and strong moral concepts, so even Wei Xiaobao knows how to value righteousness more than anything else. Hu Fei's moral worship and moral purity were formed.
Similarly, Guo Jing, a morally perfect person, was his mother Li Ping, a low-level peasant woman who was almost completely uneducated.
Yuan Ziyi's situation was completely different from Hu Fei's. Although she was also an orphan, her early living environment can be described as prominent in the special carrier of the martial arts world. The master is a famous Emei with a very high generation, and among the elders are the Red Flower Club and Yuan Shixiao, the world's first master.
(The top four leaders of the Red Flower Society, Chen Jialuo, Wucheng Daochang, Zhao Banshan, and Wen Tailai, all have the strength to approach Miao Renfeng, and Zhang Zhaozhong, who is in the same level as them, is treated as a child in front of Yuan Shixiao.) ）
Therefore, for Yuan Ziyi, it is like an only child, and the families of both parents are giants, and they naturally develop a superior psychology from an early age. This psychology of superiority is different from the intellectuals' sense of spiritual nobility, but similar to the privileged superiority of the imperial relatives and state relatives. This made Yuan Ziyi often have a contemptuous and insulting attitude towards others. Therefore, it is not difficult to understand why Yuan Ziyi is so arrogant and lacks a minimum of respect when facing ordinary jianghu figures.
Therefore, throughout the book "The Tale of the Flying Fox", Hu Fei and Yuan Ziyi showed diametrically opposite attitudes in the face of almost all situations. This actually reflects the conflict of values between the two.
In the Northern Emperor Temple incident, in which the two clashed for the first time, the author Jin Yong used vague brushwork to cover up the ugliness of Yuan Ziyi's behavior. At that time, Yuan Ziyi hid in the shadows to prevent Feng Tiannan from committing suicide, and then Hu Fei was lured away by two small goons, followed by Zhong Asi's family being tortured and killed by Feng Tiannan. At the time of the massacre, Jin Yong avoided the depiction of Yuan Ziyi. However, according to reason, Yuan Ziyi was still present and indifferently witnessed the torture. Yuan Ziyi had enough power to stop it, but she didn't.
Yuan Ziyi prevented Feng Tiannan from committing suicide, but did not prevent Feng Tiannan from torturing and killing Zhong Asi's family, which was an unforgivable stain on morality.
In the xiangfei temple that followed, Yuan Ziyi inadvertently revealed her reasons for not stopping the torture. She said: "... This man has no deep hatred with you, and you are just trying to see things unevenly for the sake of others." The implication is that Hu Fei's uneven path seems to be a bit nosy, because Zhong Asi is just an insignificant peasant, and he can't afford to make a big fuss about such a small person.
What is even more excessive is that she also added such a sentence: "I have never asked for anyone so low three times or four times in my life", as if her eldest miss rarely begged for two sentences in a soft voice, but to give Hu Fei a big face, and Hu Fei, who did not know how to lift, actually refused to forget such a small matter, which was too unreasonable. Its arrogant, cold-blooded face, once exposed, has reached an intolerable level. And her contempt for the people at the bottom and her own superiority are also fully revealed.
Another stark contrast to this value clash was when Yuan Ziyi snatched the head of The Gate of Wei Tuomen. Liu Hezhen stood up and said three truths:
[First, the head of the Vedic Gate should be the true disciple of the Gate. Second, no matter who is in charge, it is not allowed to become inflamed and attach to the situation, and to make friends with powerful people in Beijing. Third, using martial arts to determine the leadership, this statement does not make sense in the first place. Whether you study literature or martial arts, you are the first in character. If a despicable villain has the strongest martial arts, will everyone also push him to be the leader? 】
Of these three truths, the first one is not just a portal view, while the last two can be said to be righteous and awe-inspiring. Therefore, Hu Fei suddenly solemnly respected Liu Hezhen, and the onlookers also nodded darkly.
Yuan Ziyi's reaction was to sneer, "Your first, second, and third, I don't rely on any of them, so what?" Typical rogue tone. This kind of tone is used to amuse and coddle with lovers, which may be cute, but in this kind of big question of right and wrong, it is disgraceful.
Compared with yang Guo, a teenager who even did his own thing, after knowing the chivalrous style of the cai gang, he regretted that he should not be embarrassed with the disciples of the cai gang. These are the basic and correct three views of the protagonist of Jin Yong's novel.
Therefore, Yuan Ziyi's extreme disregard for moral concepts and Hu Fei's moral cleanliness form a strong contrast.
Her contempt for morality inevitably led to the worship of authority. That is to say, except for the realistic things of force, power, and status, everything else can be ignored. Therefore, Yuan Ziyi has a slow attitude towards almost everyone and lacks the minimum respect. If the contempt for the Wang brothers, Zhou Tieluan, and others can be reluctantly explained as disdain for their personalities, then the attitude toward Liu Hezhen and Yi Ji, who have never known the Jianghu people, can only be said to lack the minimum of education.
In contrast, Hu Fei is generous and unassuming to everyone. Hu Fei's respect and push for Qin Naizhi, Nie Yu, and Wang Tiehu made these people regard him as a good friend, willing to put aside the fundamental conflict of positions, risk for him and even die, although these people were previously willing to be Qing court eagle dogs, not necessarily a good person.
Therefore, although Hu Fei in his first love does love Yuan Ziyi, it is easy to get along with each other, and the confrontation of the values and temperament of the two is intolerable, which will inevitably lead to tragic consequences. The separation of the two in the novel is actually not irretrievable, but neither of them has worked very hard to save it. Perhaps, subconsciously, they all know the distance between themselves and each other, so they would rather end it in this beautiful and helpless way.
Yuan Ziyi left, and Hu Fei chose to break up
"All love will be impermanent for a long time. He is afraid of life, and his life is in danger of morning dew. From love comes sorrow, from love to fear. If you are separated from your lover, there is no worry or fear." Yuan Ziyi folded his hands, gently recited the Buddha's words, quietly got on his horse, and slowly walked west.
Hu Fei looked at her back, eight sentences of Buddha, and couldn't stop circling in his ears. The white horse beside him watched Yuan Ziyi drift away, and couldn't help but hiss in sorrow, not understanding why the old master didn't turn his head...