"The Legend of the Condor Heroes" can be called Jin Yong's most successful work, and it can also be said that since "The Legend of the Condor Heroes", Jin Yong has gradually stepped onto the "top of martial arts" in the martial arts novel industry.
However, Jin Yong also left many questions in this work, such as why didn't Guo Jing marry Hua Zheng and Huang Rong together? What are Guo Jing's concerns?
1. The abandoned Chinese Zheng
In fact, reading along the plot of "The Legend of the Condor Heroes", it is difficult for you not to regard Hua Zheng as the heroine, after all, she is the first woman to fall in love with Guo Jing, and Guo Jing made a move of "killing two birds with one stone" in the desert, and the Great Khan has married Hua Zheng to Guo Jing, no matter how you look at it, this pair of young people should come together.
However, when Huang Rong appeared on the stage and appeared in front of Guo Jing in women's clothes, Guo Jing seemed to have forgotten all about his marriage contract with Hua Zheng.
(Guo Jing, Huang Rong stills)
Of course, this is not to blame Guo Jing, only to blame Huang Rong is indeed too beautiful, you can see the description of the original book: "A woman at the stern of the boat is rowing with an oar, with long hair and a shawl, and her whole body is dressed in white, with a thin golden belt tied in her hair, which shines brightly under the white snow." Guo Jing couldn't help but be stunned when he saw that this girl was dressed like a fairy. The boat slowly approached, and I saw that the woman was only fifteen or sixteen years old, her skin was better than snow, she was extremely beautiful, her smile was welcome, and her complexion was beautiful. Guo Jing only felt dazzling, and didn't dare to look at it anymore, turned his head away, and slowly retreated a few steps...... Guo Jing was taken aback, turned his head, and saw the girl smiling, her clothes fluttering gently in the wind. Guo Jing was like a dream, and rubbed his eyes with both hands. ”
Maybe this is called love at first sight, although Guo Jing at this time did not dare to say his love, but his expression and actions have proved that he has love for Huang Rong.
It is said that "companionship is the most affectionate confession", distance cannot produce beauty, when Hua Zheng and Tuo Lei visited the Central Plains to find Guo Jing, Guo Jing was already like glue with Huang Rong.
In fact, when I first read this paragraph, the author had a sense of disgust for Guo Jing, isn't this a typical negative man who sees a person who loves one?
(Huang Rong stills)
Of course, Guo Jing also showed his entanglement, and promised Hua Zheng that after he dealt with those things in the Central Plains, he would go back to the desert to marry her.
It's just that Guo Jing later seemed to have forgotten his original promise, and instead said something very irresponsible to Huang Rong.
He said, "I promised to marry her, but I will accompany you for a hundred or two hundred years, and if she is willing to wait, she will wait for a hundred or two hundred years." Alas, Rong'er, I can't die without you, so I have to live with her...... Two hundred years later, she became a white-haired and wrinkled old woman, and I naturally couldn't marry her. ”
Can you imagine that this is the words of Guo Jing, who has been labeled as "wooden" and "honest"?
But then again, even if Guo Jing falls in love with Huang Rong, if Huang Rong doesn't marry, it won't affect him to fulfill his promise, as long as he marries Hua Zheng together, no one will criticize anything.
Second, the protagonist who married many wives
In fact, in martial arts stories, there are only a few dedicated male protagonists like Yang Guo, and even Yang Guo at the beginning was not very dedicated, he helped Lu Wushuang to connect the bones, kissed Yan Ping's eyes, praised Gongsun Lucalyx's beauty, and also teased Cheng Ying, and even Li Mochou couldn't help but be intoxicated when he was hugged twice, which shows how frivolous he is.
(Hua Zheng stills)
Of course, judging from the results, Yang Guo only married a lady of Xiaolongnu, but in Jin Yong's other works, there are many romantic protagonists.
For example, in the newly revised version of "Dragon Babu", Jin Yong added a paragraph about Duan Yu's ending.
The only way is: "Dali (known as 'Houli') Xianzong Xuanren Emperor Duan Yu, when he ascended the throne, the year name was 'Rixin', and later changed to Wenzhi, Yongjia, Baotian, Guangyun, a total of five years, and then abdicated as a monk, a total of 40 years as the emperor, and passed on to his son Duan Zhengxing...... The name of Duan Zhengxing's mother, there is no record in history, whether it was Mu Wanqing, Zhong Ling, Xiaolei, or another concubine, it is unknown. ”
I don't know how many women are included in the "other concubines" mentioned here, it can be seen that Duan Yu does not say that there are 3,000 beauties in the harem, and there are at least dozens of concubines, how can anyone say that he is romantic?
Don't say that Duan Yu is the emperor, so he can do this, so didn't Wei Xiaobao in "The Legend of Deer and Ding" also marry seven ladies?
Therefore, if Guo Jing is unwilling to give up Huang Rong, and at the same time does not want to break the marriage contract with Hua Zheng, he can marry both daughters, so why didn't he do it?
(Hua Zheng, Guo Jing stills)
You must know that Hua Zheng's character design is not much worse than Huang Rong, for example, this description shows her beauty: "Guo Jing resigned from the golden tent, and was about to go to his mother's tent in the twilight, when he suddenly felt a pair of soft palms covering his eyes, and at the same time smelled a fragrance in his nose, and he was stunned, and shouted: 'Hua Zheng girl! When I turned around, I saw Princess Hua Zheng, dressed in white, standing on the ground with a smile. The two have been separated for many years, and this time they reunited, only to see that she was taller, and she stood tall in the strong wind and grass, and she looked even more heroic. ”
Guo Jing noticed the beauty of Huazheng.
In this case, what other concerns does he have, the answer may be related to the historical prototype of Huazheng.
3. The prototype of Huazheng
As presented in the book, Jin Yong set the story in the last years of the Southern Song Dynasty, and the characters in the book, including Genghis Khan, Wang Chongyang, and Qiu Chuji, all have historical prototypes.
As the daughter of Genghis Khan, Hua Zheng naturally also has a historical prototype, if there is no accident, her historical prototype is most likely that Arahai Beji.
And this woman is not a delicate princess, what she does can be called a female devil.
There is a record in the "Mongolian Tartar Record", which says: "Today, I lead the white Tatar colleagues, and read the scriptures day by day." There were thousands of women. All the conquests and killings are out by themselves. And he said, "The so-called white Tatars...... After the present tribe, the kingdom is the Tartar lord Princess Genghis Biji, who has the right to govern state affairs. ”
This woman is decisive in killing, and her ruthlessness is not inferior to that of her father Genghis Khan.
(Stills of the Mongolia army)
Just like at the end of the newly revised version of "Dragon Babu", Jin Yong arranged for Duan Yu to become a monk, which was to make Duan Yu's image consistent with his historical prototype.
At this time, Jin Yong arranged for Guo Jing to abandon Hua Zheng, which also had a bit of meaning to bring the image of this character closer to his historical prototype, and it was precisely because of Guo Jing's ruthless abandonment that Hua Zheng degenerated into a female demon, so that everything made sense.
And Guo Jing has the most contact with Hua Zheng, and he has probably already seen that this woman has a little bit of his father's shadow, so it makes sense that he chose to stay away.