Murong Fu in "Dragon Babu", his family is not only fictional characters in the novel, but has a deep historical background. Imagine what you would do if your ancestors once ruled a powerful country, and now you can only trace their footprints between the pages of a book? The story of the Murong family is such a legend of restoring the old country through thousands of years. Their ancestor Murong Chui established Houyan during the Five Hu and Sixteen Kingdoms period and became the overlord of the north. Now, sitting in front of the computer, can we draw any inspiration from the story of the Murong family? Is their dream of recovering the country pure obsession, or is it a kind of inseparable past glory?
Having said that, the character of Murong Fu is quite interesting in Jin Yong's "Dragon Babu". The biggest characteristic of this family is that they have a dream that seems to never come true--the restoration of the country.
The founding emperor of Later Yan, Murong Chui, a hero who single-handedly built a strong state, chose Dingzhou (today's Dingzhou) in Hebei Province as his capital. Although this history is only a short moment in the long river of history, it has left endless glory and dreams for the later Murong family. It turns out that their root lies in an inseparable emotion for the glory of the past.
However, the wheel of history is cruel, and although Houyan is strong, it cannot escape the fate of defeat. In the battle with the Northern Wei, another powerful country in the north, Hou Yan was finally defeated. The founding emperor of the Northern Wei Dynasty, Tuoba Jue, a ruthless character who was both political and military, and Murong Chui were originally brothers of the same clan, but they also became antagonists in the cruel game of survival.
The defeat of Houyan was not only a military defeat, but also a cultural and spiritual rupture. When Gao Hu, a wise minister, dissuaded Murong Trai from starting a war lightly, he failed to prevent this disaster from happening. Murong Trai did not listen to dissuasion, which eventually led to the destruction of the country and made the Murong family's dream of recovering the country more and more distant.
Time flies, but the Murong family's dream of recovering the country has never been realized, but has become a cultural symbol, a kind of historical memory that will never go away. In "Dragon Babu", the image of Murong Fu is complex and profound, and his actions and choices are largely bound by the splendor of his family's history, while also reflecting how one struggles between family glory and personal ideals.
Let's take a look at the Murong family's martial arts-Shen Hezhi. Its appearance can't help but make people think, is every wave of the hand is a tribute to the past by the Murong family, or an expectation of possible revival in the future?
And the work "Dragon Babu" itself is not only Mr. Jin Yong's imagination of the martial arts world, but also an echo of that turbulent era in Chinese history. In the book, each character is not simple, and their fates and choices are often closely linked to the background of the entire era, reflecting the struggles and helplessness of human nature in the face of the great era.
In the real world, although it is impossible for us to really go back to a country that no longer exists, everyone has their own "dream of recovering the country" to a greater or lesser extent—it may be the memory of lost love, the nostalgia of old friendships, or the longing of lost relatives. The story of the Murong family shows us that no matter how the times change, people's attachment and emotion for the past will never change.
Although their dream of recovering the country was not realized, it left a deep mark on the long river of history. This inability to let go of the past is not only reflected in the Murong family, but also in the lives of each of us. After all, it's these pasts that have shaped us today.