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In the humble work "The Protagonist Who Does Not Appear - The Secret in the World of Jin Yong's Novels", it was discussed that the "protagonists who do not appear on the stage" in Jin Yong's novels are all dazzling, and the few pen and ink in the book outline their legendary lives, which makes people think out of thin air, radiant, and their style is far better than the protagonists in the book.
Wang Chongyang, who is discussed today, is one of the most dazzling.
Note: This article is based on Mr. Jin Yong's classic version.
1. "The Legend of the Condor Heroes" is at the peak of the "supernatural power"
In "The Legend of the Condor Heroes", Wang Chongyang in the "Five Uniques of Qiankun" died at the beginning of the book, which plunged the martial arts into chaos without the first master. This is, of course, an intentional attempt by the author to create a disordered environment. However, Wang Chongyang's image is not pale because of the lack of pen and ink.
On the contrary, in the book, Wang Chongyang, who only has the legend of one scale and half a claw, is an unreachable god.
1.1 The world's number one master
He is the number one master in the world.
In the first "Huashan on the Sword", Wang Chongyang "In the cold winter, at the end of the cold winter, Mount Huashan is at the top, and the snow covers the mountain." The five of them talked about it in their mouths, competed in their hands, and compared them for seven days and seven nights in the heavy snow, the East Evil, the West Poison, the Southern Emperor, and the Northern Beggar. "Rick East Evil, West Poison, Southern Emperor, and Northern Beggar, won the title of the world's first master, known as "Zhongshentong".
Not only that, in Zhou Botong's words: "Your master Hong Qigong's kung fu is the top in the outer family, although I can get some inner kung fu of the Quanzhen school, I think I am not his opponent." It's just that the foreign kung fu practice is like him, but I am afraid that it has come to an end, but the martial arts of the Quanzhen school are endless, like me, it can only be said that it is just a first glimpse of the door. If he is still here today, coupled with the fact that he has entered the country for more than ten years, and then competes with the East Evil and the West Poison, there is no need to compete for seven days and seven nights, I will be able to convince them in half a day. ”
It can be seen that the "Five Uniques of Qiankun" seem to be equally famous, but Wang Chongyang's martial arts realm far exceeds the other four people of the East Evil, the West Poison, the Southern Emperor, and the Northern Beggar, and his realm is endless, just like the Yangtze River in "Autumn Water", which is as continuous as the Yangtze River in "Autumn Water", and is as majestic as the top of Mount Hua, which is a realm that ordinary people can't dream of, and it is also a realm that the "Four Uniques" can't reach in their lifetime.
1.2 Founder of the "Quanzhen Religion".
He pioneered the famous "Quanzhen Religion".
Fifty-six-year-old Wang Chongyang founded the "Quanzhen Sect," which changed the situation in which Taoism was fainting at that time.
Wang Chongyang's missionary footprints spread throughout Shaanxi, Shandong, and Henan. There are many disciples under him, among which the most famous seven are Ma Yu, Tan Chuduan, Liu Chuxuan, Qiu Chuji, Wang Chuyi, Hao Datong, and Sun Buer, and later generations are called "Northern Seven Truths".
In "The Legend of the Condor Heroes", because Wang Chongyang is the number one master in the world, his "Quanzhen Sect" has become the authentic Xuanmen and martial arts in the world.
1.3 The state of life with the world in mind
Wang Chongyang is not only unique in the world in the realm of martial arts, but also in the realm of his life, which is also unforgettable for others.
Wang Chongyang's "Huashan on the Sword" seized the "Nine Yin True Scripture", his purpose was different from others, not to monopolize the peerless learning in the "Nine Yin True Scripture", but to stop the disputes in the world.
Moreover, in order to restrain Ouyang Feng, the western poison, Wang Chongyang also worked hard, first went thousands of miles away, went to Dali to learn the "One Yang Finger" with the Southern Emperor (in order to learn the "One Yang Finger", he exchanged the "Innate Skill"), and then set up a suspicious array, pretended to be dead to deceive Ouyang Feng, and used the "One Yang Finger" to break Ouyang Feng's "Toad Gong", so that he did not dare to go to the Central Plains for more than ten years, and he himself finally ran out of oil and passed away.
His realm of cherishing the world is beyond the reach of the "Four Uniques".
is the legend of the scale claw, in "Shooting the Condor", Wang Chongyang is a god-like existence, a god in the hearts of almost everyone in the martial arts, and a grandfather and a generation of grandmasters in Taoism. Not to mention the Quanzhen Sect, even the unruly Eastern Evil and the Northern Beggars and others are also admired.
Figure 1 "Zhongshentong" Wang Chongyang
2. There is a flesh-and-blood "Wang Chongyang" in "The Legend of the Condor Heroes"
"The Condor Heroes" turns all the gods into flesh-and-blood "people", including Wang Chongyang, the first legendary character in the book.
In "The Condor", Wang Chongyang's image is further refined, which is surprising.
2.1 From anti-gold leader to Taoist priest
It turns out that this No. 1 master of martial arts is also an anti-gold hero with the world in mind. When he was young, Wang Chongyang organized a righteous teacher to rebel against Jin Bing, and this grand cause was far from being comparable to people in the martial arts. It was only when the government was dim and ambitious that he retreated to the rivers and lakes, became a Taoist priest, and later retired to the "Tomb of the Living Dead".
This world's No. 1 martial arts master is not only immersed in martial arts, but vigorous, defending his family and the country, and has done a great career. Looking at other people in the martial arts, most of them do good deeds, kill the rich and help the poor, and the few are wise to protect themselves.
The most important purpose of everyone is to cultivate to become the first in the world and become famous. Where can I still take care of the hatred of the country and the family, I only know how to compete openly and secretly, and compete for the "Nine Yin True Scripture".
Seeing this, I can't help but admire this world's number one master. The ethereal god that used to exist only in legends is now slowly closing the distance and beginning to become flesh and blood.
2.2 Competitive and miserable love
What's even more surprising is the love between him and Lin Chaoying.
Lin Chaoying is not only the first beauty in the rivers and lakes, but her martial arts talent is not lost to Wang Chongyang. The two were originally happy with each other, just because the two did not give in to each other, and in the end, they had no fate, resulting in a tragedy in which one returned to seclusion in Zhongnan Mountain, and the other lived in the tomb of the living dead, close to the end of the world, and never saw each other.
The reason for such a tragedy is mostly Wang Chongyang.
Regarding the love between Wang Chongyang and Lin Chaoying, there is a long description in "The Condor Heroes": "Wang Chongyang and Lin Chaoying are both martial arts wizards, and they were originally a pair of good couples made in heaven. Between the two, there is no third party of male or female who causes love waves, nor is there any grudge entanglement between relatives, friends, and disciples.
Wang Chongyang was still concentrating on the uprising against Jin, and had no time to take care of the personal feelings of his children, but the righteous teacher was destroyed and lived in the ancient tomb, Lin Chaoying came to comfort him, tender and noble, touching and profound, at that time there was no good thing and dissonance, but he still fell in love and hatred, one became a monk and made a yellow crown, and the other ended up depressed in the stone tomb. The reason for this, although Qiu Chuji and other disciples did not know, and even Wang Lin and the others themselves were difficult to explain, but it was only attributed to the word 'no fate'. But I don't know that there is no cause of the 'effect' rather than the 'cause', the two of them have high martial arts, and their conceit is very beneficial, whenever the love seedlings gradually grow, the competition when talking about martial arts will be born with each other, and they will always be inferior to each other, and the two will not die until they die, and the heart of competition will never disappear.
Lin Chaoying created the Jade Maiden Heart Sutra to restrain the true martial arts, and Wang Chongyang was unwilling to admit defeat and engraved the Nine Yin True Sutra in the tomb. It's just that he thinks that the Jade Girl Heart Sutra was created by Lin Chaoying, but he relied on the suicide notes of his predecessors, which is really inferior in comparison, and since then, he has been deeply humble, and often admonishes his disciples to let go of self-restraint and humble the way of cultivation. ”
In this long description, Jin Yong gave the answer to this miserable love. That is, "the two of them have been fighting until death, and the heart of competition has never disappeared", such a reason actually made a pair of good couples made in heaven finally "love and hate". How can you not make people sigh at the sky?
2.3 Chongyang is not weaker than others in his life
And the great master's detailed description doesn't stop there.
Yang Guo later discovered in the tomb of the living dead, Wang Chongyang engraved in the tomb, used to restrain the "Jade Girl Sword Technique" of the "Nine Yin True Scripture". And also inscribed "The Jade Girl's Heart Sutra, the technique is all true." Chongyang is not weaker than others in his life".
"The Condor Heroes" described: "When Wang Chongyang learned that Lin Chaoying died in the tomb of the living dead, he remembered that she was obsessed with herself all her life, and this kindness was really extraordinary. But seeing the subtlety and mystery of the martial arts mentioned in the Jade Maiden's Heart Sutra, and every move is the nemesis of true martial arts, he couldn't help but feel like ashes, and immediately retreated.
He went into the mountains alone, married a thatched house, and did not go out of the mountain for three consecutive years, intensively studying the breaking method of this jade girl's heart sutra, although there were achievements in small places, but he could not form a set of martial arts that encompassed both inside and outside, and integrated and coherent. In frustration, he admired Lin Chaoying's intelligence even more, and he was willing to bow down and no longer study. More than ten years later, Huashan discussed the sword and won the martial arts book Jiuyin True Scripture. He was determined not to practice the scriptures, but he was driven by curiosity and couldn't help but read them.
His martial arts were already the first in the world at that time, the mysteries and essences contained in the Nine Yin Sutra, once he passed through the eyes, pondered for more than ten days, he had suddenly comprehended, and now looked up to the sky and smiled, returned to the tomb of the living dead, and carved the gist of the Nine Yin Sutra on the top of the most secret underground stone chamber in the whole tomb, and pointed out the method of breaking the Jade Maiden Heart Sutra one by one.
He looked at the scene of the ancient tomb and expected that those empty coffins would be used by Lin Chaoying's disciples in the future. Most of them put themselves in coffins and waited for death when they were dying, and at that time they should have been able to know that the patriarch of the Quanzhen School was not inferior to others in his life. So he wrote sixteen characters on the bottom of the empty coffin that was originally reserved for his own use, so that Lin Chaoying's descendants could learn that the martial arts of the founding patriarch of the Quanzhen Sect were really beyond the restraint of the Jade Maiden Heart Sutra.
This is just his competitiveness, but he didn't intend to leak the Nine Yin True Scripture to the world, and he expected that when Lin Chaoying's disciples saw the Nine Yin True Scripture, they were already dying, and they could only bring this secret underground. ”
This description can be said to be the most skillful description of Wang Chongyang, and it is also the most important description in the book. In this paragraph, Wang Chongyang's children's emotions and the competitive personality of ordinary people are fully revealed. At this time, Wang Chongyang has completely faded from the sacred aura and has become an ordinary person with seven emotions and six desires, a flesh-and-blood "person".
When we compare the two books "The Legend of the Condor Heroes" and "The Legend of the Condor Heroes" at the same time.
This world's first master, when he was young, he was ambitious, competitive and competitive, which led to frustration in love, loneliness all his life, and after becoming a Taoist, he did not forget to maintain peace in the rivers and lakes.
In "Shooting the Condor", it is a large outline in the distance, and in "The Condor", it is a close workman.
A few brushstrokes and a few fragments, although they do not appear, they are full and touching, and they are dazzling. is better than Guo Jing and Yang Guo, who are more colorful.
Looking at the sky and sighing, the heroic posture of the predecessors is infinitely imaginative, perhaps, the blank space is the mastery of the author.
Figure 2 Lin Chaoying
Fig.3 Zhongnan Mountain