"Flying snow shoots white deer in the sky, and the laughing book god hero leans on the blue duck" This is a couplet obtained by Jin Yong according to the first character of the name of his fourteen famous works.
Each of these works is a well-known work, and compared to the wide circulation of Jin Yong's works, Gu Long's popularity is not so high.
Picture of Jin Yong's suit in his later years
If you don't pay attention to gulong passers-by, even if you deliberately think about it, there seem to be only a few characters such as Chu Liuxiang and Li Xunhuan, and as for the name of the work, there is really no impression.
Why is the difference in fame between the two martial arts masters so great? Perhaps from the perspective of their respective life experiences, some answers will be found.
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Jin Yong's real name was Zha Liangyong, born in Haining, Zhejiang, and his grandfather Cha Wenqing was a famous Qing official at that time, who did not hesitate to oppose foreigners in order to protect the people.
In the Qing Dynasty, the Cha family was known as "a seven-door scholar, uncle and nephew five Hanlin", and even Jin Yong's mother Xu Lu was born in the Rich Xu family in Zhejiang.
Jin Yong stood on the podium
Such a family situation dooms Jin Yong's works to be separated from the personal grudges and hatreds of traditional martial artists, focusing on the home country and the world.
But as the saying goes, "rich is not more than three generations", even if the ancestors are brilliant, but with the great changes of the times, the decline is also unstoppable.
By jin yong's generation, it was already doomed to have no connection with the officialdom, and Jin Yong himself also went south to enter Hong Kong in 1948.
Although he did not have access to the official field, the origin of the Shuxiang family laid a solid foundation for Jin Yong's classical culture, and Jin Yong himself was admitted to Chongqing Central Chengchi University in 1944 to receive a new-style education.
Jin Yong's works
These experiences also make Jin Yong's martial arts works not only fantasies, but also astronomy and geography, and the richness of knowledge is amazing.
The most important thing about a martial arts novel is the sense of substitution, if it is completely fictional, it lacks reality, and if it is completely real, it is lifeless.
It is precisely because of jin yong's rich knowledge that his works are filled with real details on the illusory structure, which is also one of the important reasons why Jin Yong's works have a strong sense of substitution.
In his early years, Jin Yong experienced a series of major historical events such as the decline of his family lineage, the outbreak of the War of Resistance Against Japan, and the outbreak of the War of Liberation.
Jin Yong picture
As a cultured and thoughtful youth, Jin Yong is particularly deeply aware of the great changes of the times, so this also lays the foundation for the protagonists in Jin Yong's works to focus on the home country and the world.
Therefore, in Jin Yong's biography of the archery hero, Guo Jing has "the great hero who serves the country and the people", even if he finally dies in Battle Xiangyang, he must realize this ideal.
This sense of responsibility for the homeland coincides with the patriotic feelings in the hearts of each of us and has a great resonance.
In 1950, Jin Yong entered the Ta Kung Pao as a supplement editor, in addition to the identity of editor Jin Yong also had a news author to host the "Afternoon Tea House" column.
Jin Yong comic image
The two professions of editor and journalist have a common feature, that is, logic is meticulous, so the plot in Jin Yong's works is interlocked, and the characters have a reason for what they do.
Compared with the step-by-step life of jin Yong, everything is in a better environment, and Gu Long has experienced the cold and warm of the lowest human feelings in the world since childhood.
Gu Long was born in Hong Kong in 1938, and Gu Long's father, Xiong Pengsheng, graduated from Peking University of China and was a martial arts novelist with the pen name "Dongfang Ke".
Jin Yong mourns the picture
As the saying goes, literati are affectionate, but literati are also the most ruthless, and soon after Gu Long's birth, Gu Long's father abandoned his wife and son to live with Zhang Xiubi.
In Hong Kong in 1938, Gu Long's mother had to raise three daughters and two sons alone, and the embarrassment of her situation could be imagined.
Therefore, the young cologne often starved, and it was natural for the short stature to be bullied.
Where there is oppression, there is resistance, in order to survive Gu Long is doomed to be a good child, so when he was in middle school, Gu Long often associated with social gangs.
For his father Xiong Pengsheng, Gu Long only had endless resentment in his heart, so Gu Long specially declared that he would sever his father-son relationship with him and claimed to be the son of General Xiong Shihui.
Jin Yong was interviewed
If Jin Yong writes about the jianghu affairs by imagining outside the jianghu, then Gu Long is writing the affairs of the jianghu in the jianghu.
Therefore, gu long's character loyalty is more important than life, and In "The Amorous Swordsman Ruthless Sword", Li Xunhuan, as a famous hero in the world, has a reputation, wealth, and status far beyond Long Xiaoyun, but he is married to Long Xiaoyun.
Later, he gave Up Li Yuan and other family properties to Long Xiaoyun, because Long Xiaoyun liked Lin Shiyin, who was married to his belly, and even his fiancée gave way to Long Xiaoyun, all for his life-saving grace.
We may not be able to understand this approach, because we are not Jianghu people, and Jianghu people live by loyalty and righteousness, and they are forced to survive because they have nothing to do.
Jin Yong and his character comic characters
Some of them only have full of enthusiasm and loyalty, which is their last chip, so once the jianghu people lose their loyalty, they will lose everything.
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Jin Yong's martial arts seem to be real, but when they read it to the end, they found that this is the ideal, and Gu Long's works look full of romance, but they are actually writing the truth of human nature.
Whether it is the "Shooting Eagle Trilogy" in the middle of the period or the "Deer DingJi" in the later years, its story takes place in a real dynasty, and the behavior of its characters can be traced, and it seems that the real is actually an adult fairy tale.
Guo Jing's biological father Guo Xiaotian was framed and died, and Guo Jing's mother fled to the desert to give birth to Guo Jing, even so Guo Jing, as a poor boy of a foreign race, gradually became a generation of heroes.
Cologne is pondering
Although Guo Jing's own efforts in growing up are important, what is more important than Guo Jing himself is the noble people who continue to emerge in the process of his growth.
Most of us are born ordinary people, and the protagonists of Jin Yong's works represented by Guo Jing use their own success to resolve our unwillingness and resentment towards reality.
Therefore, even those who do not like martial arts novels will not reject Jin Yong's martial arts works, and Jin Yong has built a spiritual happy hometown with his profound skills.
Gu Long's works read as romantic as poetry, but they are filled with the sadness of timely pleasure, because the story is illusory and human nature is real.
In order to repay the grace of saving his life, Li Xunhuan gave up his fiancée Lin Shiyin and the family property Li Yuan to Long Xiaoyun, but such a great favor was exchanged for Long Xiaoyun's malice.
Image of a young cologne
Because no man can tolerate that the woman he likes is given to him by others, and few people can return Li Yuan's windfall to the Lord.
When the jianghu forces Long Xiaoyun to return, then greed and anger will swallow up the heavy grace of the past, and even because this ungrateful practice is more extreme, to prove that he is not at fault.
Is there really someone like Li Xunhuan? Will there really be such a story as Li Xunhuan and Long Xiaoyun?
We all know that this is fiction, but we still can't help but grieve because the story is fake, but the collision of human nature is real, and similar stories are everywhere in the world.
Middle-aged cologne image
Jin Yong and Gu Long are the same generation of martial arts masters, but their directions are completely different, one is to tell you fairy tales, the other to tell you life.
Fairy tales everyone is willing to read, because life is too difficult, we need spiritual relief, and those who read it do not even need to understand, so Jin Yong's works are destined to spread the breadth of their spread.
Gu Long uses fairy tales to tell life, it is difficult for people who have not experienced life to have resonance, and life is doomed to be not beautiful, so Gu Long's works are doomed to lose the breadth of dissemination if they have depth.
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In 2018, Jin Yong died at the age of ninety-four, from the famous work "Book of Swords and Vengeance" in 1955 to the 1972 work "Deer DingJi", all of Jin Yong's works were run by himself.
For the quality of his works, Jin Yong repaired it for ten years from 1970 to 1980, so he was destined to make all his works fine.
Jin Yong wrote on the case
From 1964, when Gu Long wrote the famous work "Huanhua Wash sword record" to his death in 1980, it was only sixteen years in total.
Gu Long himself is extremely alcoholic, and his writing is mostly written for his manuscript fee, so the writing process is inevitably filled with water plots, and the sudden death is even too late to repair, and his works are naturally uneven.
In addition, Gu Long's writing is mostly arbitrary, and it is common to write half of the book without writing, which also leads to many of Gu Long's works being written by others or imposters.
All of these reasons have greatly reduced the level of Gu Long's works, so from the average quality of works alone, the average level of Jin Yong's works is higher than that of Gu Long.
Cologne suit picture
Another reason is the problem of adaptation, there is a gap between text and picture, Jin Yong because of his editor and journalist background, so his work is less difficult to adapt.
In addition, Jin Yong himself has always been alive, even if there are difficulties in adaptation, asking Jin Yong himself to explain will often be solved.
Gu Long's works are like poetry, but their spiritual core is the conflict of writing human nature, so it leads to different understandings of each reader, and it is difficult to reach a unified opinion.
A large number of psychological descriptions in the text, and its kung fu characteristics of "no tricks to win and tricks" make its film and television simply unable to achieve the expression effect of words.
Gu Long died early, which also led to the difficult adaptation of Gu Long's jianghu, and even if it was forcibly adapted, it also lost the charm of the text.
Another is the difference between the operators, the copyright of Jin Yong's works is controlled by himself, and the film and television adaptation lacks copyright conflict.
After Gu Long's death, his works were managed by his children, and there were many imposters of Gu Long's works, and many works were written by others, so the copyright positioning has been vague.
Lawsuits over copyright disputes over Gulong works are emerging in an endless stream, and film and television companies adapting Gulong's works are naturally affected by their copyrights.
Compared with Gu Long's copyright dispute, film and television companies naturally prefer Jin Yong with clear copyright ownership.
The different strategic choices of the operators have also made Gu Long and Jin Yong's works very different, and while Gu Long's children are still focusing on royalty income, Jin Yong has targeted the huge inland market.
In the 1980s and 1990s, at the time of reform and opening up, Jin Yong himself, as a person who had undergone several changes in the times, had a particularly vicious vision, and took this opportunity for Jin Yong's works to quickly occupy the inland market.
Jin Yong holds a picture of his work
The number of Gulong works is far inferior to Jin Yong in terms of entry timing and adaptation, which also makes most people mention that the first impression of martial arts is Jin Yong instead of Gu Long.
The difference in social status makes the dissemination of works different, Jin Yong is from a famous family, and he is also a social critic and journalist, plus his doctorate degree.
All these have invisibly increased the value of Jin Yong's martial arts works, making Jin Yong martial arts much more elegant than other martial arts, and the social acceptance of Jin Yong's books is greater.
And Gu Long has been in the underworld since he was a child, and he is also addicted to alcohol, and his marriage situation is even more chaotic, compared to Jin Yong's Wei Guangzheng, Gu Long's works naturally carry a hint of literary atmosphere.
The social acceptance of Gu Long's works is naturally inferior to that of Jin Yong, which is one of the reasons why Jin Yong's works are more widely circulated.
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Objectively speaking, the fame of Gu Long's works is not as good as Jin Yong's, but for both of them, if they know that someone will be entangled in this, I am afraid they will laugh.
Jin Yong is a generation of martial arts heroes, but in addition to his identity as a martial arts novelist, his identity as a social critic and journalist is probably more recognized by Jin Yong himself.
The jianghu he wrote is not only to provide a place for the adult world to dispel sorrows, but also the feeling of responsibility in the rise and fall of the world is the place where Jin Yong has always wanted to express.
The Chinese nation has experienced hardships over the past hundred years, and its national self-confidence has been gradually eroded by foreign Western culture, and Jin Yong has used his way to guide the Chinese people to establish patriotic feelings.
Gulong Youth Photo
Playing these roles is where Jin Yong is really happy, just like the book says, Jin Yong uses his way to practice the chivalrous spirit in his heart.
And if Gu Long learns that someone is still upset that his reputation is not as good as so-and-so, I am afraid that he will drink and laugh.
The protagonist in Gu long's book has always adhered to the spirit of timely music, and Gu Long himself has practiced timely music to the extreme.
Gu Long's ability to become a close friend of a number of big men in the literary world in Taiwan is also inseparable from his open-minded and bold and righteous personality.
Jin Yong calligraphy works
Sanmao, Lin Qingxuan, Ni Kuang and others have said that if there is one-in-ten thousand open-mindedness of the ancient dragon, there will not be so many troubles in life.
This shows the open-mindedness of Gu Long, so the dispute over the fame of Jin Yong Gu Long and Gu Long is really unnecessary.
So who are the two heroes? Perhaps from the perspective of life experience, Gu Long is closer to the chivalrous guests in martial arts novels, but both are heroes, just like their books, and their styles are very different.
Jin Yong's chivalrous spirit is focused on the people of the country and the people, and Jin Yong's life experience is also related to this.
In 1958, Jin Yong founded Ming Pao, and in addition to serializing his martial arts works on it, Jin Yong's social commentary was even more to the point, pointing out the difficulties of the people.
Cologne is with friends
Taking race relations as an example, Jin Yong once wrote: "What is barbarian RongDi and Wuhu Chaohua? It's just that races 'take turns sitting'. ”
Therefore, in the "Eight Parts of the Heavenly Dragon", Xiao Feng, in order to quell the war between song and Khitan, did not hesitate to commit suicide to apologize for forcing the Khitan emperor to make an oath not to fight again.
In the "Deer Ding", only kangxi read the articles of Huang Zongxi, Gu Yanwu and other great Confucians to applaud Huang Zongxi's "Ming Yi To Be Visited" and said that compared with the previous dynasty, the people under his rule are living better now.
Huang Zongxi, Gu Yanwu and other great Confucians were silent after learning of this, and obviously approved of this remark, which shows that Jin Yong is completely thinking from the standpoint of the people.
When readers argue about the literary nature of their works, Jin Yong makes it clear that martial arts novels are still mostly entertaining after all, but they do not have to be erased in one stroke, and it is best to do so.
And Jin Yong's martial arts works have a huge readership of hundreds of millions, how can they only use cultural scope to criticize the spread and popularization of classical Chinese culture?
It can be seen from this that Jin Yong's own transparency and freedom, since it is beneficial to the spread of Chinese culture, whether it is literary or not, why should it be debated?
This is the chivalrous spirit that belongs to Jin Yong, standing on the standpoint of Chinese culture and standing on the stand of the people.
Stills of the Condor Heroes
The hero of the ancient dragon lies in the fact that his love is more important than life and his open-mindedness in the face of suffering.
Someone asked Gu Long why he likes to drink, and Gu Long once said: "What I like is not the taste of wine, but the love and atmosphere of drinking with friends, this feeling can only be achieved by wine." ”
Therefore, when drinking, Gu Long said to his friend Ni Kuang: "If someone cuts you one day, then I am the only one who is willing to stand in front of you to block the knife for you." ”
Say to your friend Sanmao: "Is someone bullying you, if someone bullies you, be sure to tell me, I will stand up for you." ”
Sanmao was touched after hearing this, because she knew that Gu Long said this, it was really someone who could do this, this was a hero who belonged to Gu Long, a gentleman who was lightly alive and dead, why should he be chivalrous.
Now that the Si people have passed away, I only wish the two heroes to go all the way.