If you want to compare Jin Yong to a certain character in his pen, then it is more appropriate for the "Sword Demon" Dugu to seek defeat, that swordsman has been crisscrossing the rivers and lakes for more than 30 years without tasting a defeat, this experience is similar to Jin Yong's experience in the martial arts novel industry, and Jin Lao is not a difficult opponent?
Isn't it that Jin Yong is using himself as the prototype to create the character of Dugu seeking defeat? Maybe Jin Lao is not so arrogant, on the other hand, Jin Yong first mentioned Dugu seeking defeat in the book "The Condor Heroes", at this time he was not a great success, and naturally he did not dare to boast of being Dugu seeking defeat.
(Dugu seeking defeat stills)
However, the character of Dugu Qiu Defeat really left a deep impression on the reader, so much so that now he is no longer a noun, but an adjective, and people often use it to describe those who have reached the pinnacle of certain fields.
So who is Dugu seeking defeat?
1. Dugu Sword Demon
Most people may not know that Dugu's quest for defeat is not an easter egg-like character created by Jin Yong temporarily, and his existence actually runs through the entire Jin Yong's martial arts worldview.
Most people have a deep impression of him, mostly because of the epitaph he left in "The Legend of the Condor Heroes".
"For more than 30 years, I have killed all the enemies and traitors, defeated all the heroes and heroes, and there is no resistance in the world, and there is nothing to do, but to live in seclusion in the deep valley and take the eagle as a friend. Woohoo, I can't get an opponent in my life, and I'm embarrassed to be lonely. ”
In fact, at this time, Dugu's character design was relatively weak, and it was not until "Smiling Proud Jianghu" that Jin Yong completed the swordsmanship used by this swordsman, saying that it was "Dugu Nine Swords".
Even Jin Yong even explained the principle of the swordsmanship, saying: "Dugu Nine Swords, there is advance and no retreat! The moves are all attacks, and the enemy has to be defended, of course he doesn't have to defend himself." The old man who created this set of swordsmanship wanted to defeat his predecessors, his name was 'seeking defeat', his old man wanted to seek defeat all his life and could not get it, this swordsmanship was displayed, the world was invincible, and why bothered to defend it? If someone attacked his old man's sword to defend himself, his old man really wanted to be overjoyed, and he couldn't help but be overjoyed. ”
To put it bluntly, Dugu is a master who takes offense to the extreme.
(Sweeping monk stills)
In "The Legend of Deer and Ding", Jin Yong mentioned this predecessor again through the mouth of Master Chengguan: "The ancients said that when martial arts reach the top, it is like an antelope hanging its horns, and there is no trace to be found." I heard that there was a Dugu hero in the previous dynasty, and there was a hero who made Fox Chong, who won with no tricks and was invincible in the world. ”
The significance of this text is to confirm that the master of Dugu seeking defeat is indeed a martial arts myth, not a boastful person.
So who could he be?
Second, the sweeping monk
Like Dugu's defeat, there is another existence in Jin Yong's story that is set as "invincible in the world", and that person is the sweeping monk who appeared in "Dragon Babu".
The role of the sweeping monk also reveals a mysterious temperament, and he doesn't say who his surname is, and even he can't remember when he joined the Shaolin Temple.
After all, the book says: "The old monk counted on his fingers, and after a while, he shook his head, and with an apologetic look on his face, he said, 'I...... I don't remember exactly, I don't know if it was forty-two years, or forty-three years. When this old monk Xiao first came to see the scriptures at night, I ...... I've been here for more than 10 years. Afterward...... Later, the old monk Murong also came. Alas, you come and go, and you turn the scriptures in the cabinet into a mess, and I don't know why. ’”
(Vulture Palace stills)
Therefore, most of the sweeping monks are engaged in the Shaolin Temple with art, which is why he can know that the martial arts used by Gu Mozhi is the small Wuxiang Gong of the Xiaoyao School, the author wants to emphasize that he was not a person of the Xiaoyao School, and it is more likely that the sweeping monk does have a relationship with the Xiaoyao School, or rather, it is the people of the Xiaoyao School who stole his martial arts secrets, so he will be interested in the "Xiaoyao School" expressed disdain, because he was most likely the former master of the Vulture Palace, and he was also Dugu's defeat, and Grandma Tong's subordinate Mei Lan Zhuju also said that the Vulture Palace had an old owner, and Grandma Tong was not the first master of the Vulture Palace.
Where does this start?
In fact, Jin Yong once mentioned a sentence in a speech at Peking University: "In my novel, I wrote a person called "Dugu Seeking Defeat", Dugu is very proud of defeat, he has never lost a sword competition with others in his life, so he changed his name to seek defeat, hoping to fail once, but he has never been defeated. ”
Obviously, Dugu is not the character's real name, he changed the name himself.
Judging from Dugu's experience of seeking defeat, he debuted in the year of the weak crown, and he has been in the rivers and lakes for thirty years, until he retired, he was only in his fifties, if he was as Yang Guo speculated, he was "a master sixty or seventy years ago", then it would never be mentioned by the five masters, so there is only one possibility, he is a figure before the Tianlong era.
Judging from Dugu's experience of seeking defeat and the process of the sweeping monk mentioning his dedication to Shaolin, it is entirely possible that they are alone.
(Vulture Palace Tianshan Tong Grandma stills)
That is to say, the former master began to wander the rivers and lakes as "Dugu seeking defeat" in the year of the weak crown, until he was in his fifties, and then chose to become a monk and become a sweeping monk.
In the past, he defeated the enemy with the sharpest attack, but now he chose to transform the world with the strongest defense, so he only used the invisible qi wall to deal with the Heavenly Dragon Four Peerless and Murong Fu from beginning to end in the battle of the Tibetan Scripture Pavilion.
And the saying that "Dugu is a sweeping monk who seeks defeat" can also be confirmed from the carving.
Third, is it a condor or a vulture
Is the eagle next to Dugu an eagle or a vulture? In fact, the "eagle brother" had a clear description of its appearance when it first appeared.
The book only says: "Under the faint moonlight, there is a big eagle in front of me, the eagle is very huge, standing taller than ordinary people, the appearance is extremely ugly, the feathers of the whole body are sparse and falling, as if it has been plucked out of most of it, the hair color is yellow and black, it looks quite dirty, but it is sharp and steely, it looks very hard, and the appearance is similar to the double eagle on Peach Blossom Island, but the ugly handsome is far away." This ugly eagle has a sharp hooked beak, bald hair on the top of its head, but it has a large blood-red sarcoma, and there are thousands of birds in the world, and I have never seen such an ancient and majestic bird of prey. ”
This is obviously a vulture, and a vulture can also be called a "mountain eagle", and it is no problem for Yang Guo to call it an eagle brother.
(Yang Guo, Brother Diao stills)
And where did Brother Diao come from? Remember the author mentioned earlier that the Xiaoyao faction stole the martial arts of the sweeping monks?
That's because the sweeping monk is very likely to be the former vulture palace master, and the people of the free faction are just doves occupying the magpie's nest, they occupied the vulture palace when the sweeping monk was "Dugu seeking defeat" when he broke through the rivers and lakes, and stole the martial arts secrets in it, which also explains why Dugu is so strong in the year of the weak crown, that is because the stone wall of the vulture palace is engraved with the exquisite magic left by the old master hundreds of years ago.
And the name of the Vulture Palace is naturally derived from the "Vulture" that knows, so everything makes sense.