The theme of martial arts novels is mainly popular reading for ordinary people, and in fact, there is no need to rise to the level of literary aesthetics. Because the function of martial arts novels is fundamentally the same as the Ming and Qing dynasties, novels, they are the pastime of ordinary people after tea and dinner, watch some hunting, find a little fun, not to make life boring, and at the same time enrich the spiritual needs.
But when martial arts novels opened up a new trend since Liang Yusheng, coupled with the fact that Jin Yong's martial arts were too popular, many people saw that martial arts novels were actually a means to gain fame and fortune, so many writers joined in the creation of martial arts novels, thus forming a prosperous era in which martial arts novels prevailed.
It is said that Sima Ling, who was in Taiwan Province, was studying at university at the time. Because the trend of martial arts novels was just emerging, and when he moved to Hong Kong with his family in his early years, he read the martial arts works of Zheng Zhengyin, Huanzhu Lou Zhu, Wang Dulu, Zhu Zhenmu, Gong Baiyu and others, which planted a seed of martial arts in the heart of the young Sima Ling at that time.
This situation is very normal, just like when we were children because we loved watching Saint Seiya, Slam Dunk, One Piece, and Naruto, we always have a territory in our hearts.
When Sima Ling created "Guan Luo Fengyunlu" when he was in college, he became an instant hit. So he suspended his studies and devoted himself to martial arts creation. Because of his fresh and refined writing, varied plots, tight reasoning, and distinctive character characteristics, he quickly became the first martial artist in Taiwan Province at that time.
Because of Sima Ling's success, writers such as Wo Longsheng and Zhuge Qingyun followed, and because of their unique works, they were respected by thousands of readers, so they were called the "Three Musketeers" of Taiwanese martial arts.
Sima Ling's martial arts novels are not only the favorite of readers, but also a model for later martial arts writers. Like Gu Long, who later dominated the martial arts trend in Taiwan, and Huang Yi, the last martial arts master in Hong Kong, are all inheritors of Sima Ling's martial arts.
It's just that before and after Huang Yi became famous, he always claimed that he was Sima Ling's apprentice, and he did not shy away from drawing on the facts of Sima Ling's works in his novels, such as Xiang Shaolong, the protagonist of "Looking for Qin", is from Xu Shaolong, the protagonist of Sima Ling's "The Shadow of the Tan Che". and many characters in "Rain and Clouds" are also from Sima Ling's "Sword Sea Eagle Yang".
From the point of view of reference, Huang Yi seems to be more upright, because his reference is too obvious, this is mainly because Huang Yi himself likes Sima Ling's martial arts works too much, and from Sima Ling's "qi and machine induction" mental method, he got a glimpse of the highest realm of martial arts, and finally rose to the point of his "broken void", which is really better than blue.
On the other hand, Mr. Gu Long, because he wrote for Sima Ling, Wo Longsheng, and Zhuge Qingyun in his early years, can get a close understanding of the creative ideas and techniques of these three martial arts writers, so in Gu Long's early works, there are many direct Sima Ling.
The "Thirteen Styles of the Firmament" created by Gu Long in "The Divine Sword of the Firmament" is actually borrowed from the "Great Zhou Heavenly Sword" in Sima Ling's "Guan Luo Fengyun Lu" and the "Cloud Dragon Big Eight Styles" in "Sword Qi Thousand Illusions", in which the sword moves like "The Sky is the Sky" and "The Star is Octagonal" are proof.
There is also the happy king Chai Yuguan in "The History of Martial Arts", which was directly translated from Cui Ling, the evil sect master "Soul Hooking Monster" in Sima Ling's "Hanging Sword and Suspense", but I have to say that Gu Long's character name is indeed much better than Sima Ling's.
Gu Long's "Chu Liuxiang" and "Peerless Double Pride", two mature works, especially the plot of "Chu Liuxiang", are based on the elements of Sima Ling's "Holy Sword Flying Frost" and the creativity of American 007. The top ten villains in "The Peerless Double Pride" were directly taken from the nine villains in Sima Ling's "White Bone Order", and the image of Li Dazui was also learned from the old bald man in Sima Ling's "The Battle for Heroes in the Imperial Territory". In addition, Sima Ling's "The Legend of the Sword God" is the title of Shi Xuanzhong, and then it was directly used by Gu Long on the head of Ximen Blowing Snow in "Lu Xiaofeng".
But Gu Long and Huang Yi are different, Huang Yi has always looked up to Sima Ling, while Gu Long first looked at Sima Ling, and at the same time, because he ghostwrote Sima Ling, he knew Sima Ling's creative path, including the method of borrowing from other people's works, which made Gu Long see some secrets of Sima Ling's works.
Sometimes cheats are just a layer of window paper, and if they are punctured, there is nothing unusual. Gu Long saw the content behind the window paper, so he thought that martial arts was a big copy of the world's articles, you copied someone else's, and I copied yours, or it seemed that I copied yours, but in fact, I copied someone else, and it has nothing to do with you.
In this way, when we look at Gu Long's martial arts works, it is not surprising that we sometimes find that Gu Long's works have an obvious shadow of Sima Ling. Although Gu Long copied Sima Ling's works, he copied one by one without squeaking, but after Gu Long began to borrow from Japanese and American novels in the later period, the style of writing changed greatly and created a new style, at that time, Gu Long had completely crushed all martial arts writers in Taiwan, including the eldest brother Sima Ling back then, and he could no longer look at Gu Long's neck, so Gu Long didn't need to mention the previous borrowing from Sima Ling's martial arts novels, because they were all copying, so there was no need to mention it at all.
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