The source of my love for Jin Yong is actually attributed to my "myopia".
When I was a child, I had pseudomyopia, and when I did myopia treatment, a course of forty minutes lasted for half a year.
When doing myopia treatment, the eyes should always stare at the therapy instrument and not leave. After a long time, my father was afraid that I would be bored, so he sat down to read Jin Yong's novel for me. I remember that the first book he read was "The Book of the Dragon Slayer in the Heavens." The midday sun is just right, the window is bustling with the real world, and the small room is already a strange river and lake. The bright top where the crowd gathers, the Ming Sect that is both righteous and evil, the Qiankun Great Shift of the Martial Forest, the unpredictable Nine Yin White Bone Claw... Accompanied by the sound of eloquent reading, these blood-surging martial arts pictures that originally existed only between words seemed to be alive, and they walked down from the scroll and stepped into my heart.
The martial arts jianghu depicted in the book is too attractive to me who is trapped in the ordinary world. So I fell in love with Jin Yong uncontrollably, fell in love with martial arts, almost all of the extracurricular time and a lot of in-class time was used to read Jin Yong, and spent a pleasant childhood in "flying snow and shooting white deer in the sky, laughing book god hero leaning on bi duck". Due to the soaring curiosity, I often went to my parents' room to look for martial arts secrets, and even fantasized, I don't know if I would jump out of the grass and next to the stone. I am also wondering, will Jin Yong himself be able to do martial arts in the end? If not, how did he know the precise one move and one style?
When I was in elementary school and junior high school, because I was too obsessed with Jin Yong, I used to imitate his style and write martial arts novels. Two pages a day, a total of more than a dozen pages, quite a chapter back to the appearance of a novel. In the end, he was torn up by his mother and thrown into the trash for reasons of not doing his job.
When I grew up, my family often said to me seriously, you like Jin Yong so much, you will at least see him in your lifetime. Unfortunately, when I really began to pay attention to whether he had a reader meeting and looked forward to the release of his new work, I was disappointed to learn that Jin Yong's martial arts novel career had long been over in 1972 when he announced that he had closed his pen and quit the chivalry world. In the future review of his biography, I learned that he has many titles: contemporary martial arts fiction writer, journalist, entrepreneur, political critic, social activist, known as one of the "Four Great Talents of Hong Kong", along with Gu Long, Liang Yusheng, Wen Ruian and known as the four masters of Chinese martial arts fiction...
But his original dream had nothing to do with those titles— he had a fierce desire to become a diplomat and fought for years. After his dream of being a diplomat was shattered, he had no choice but to return to Hong Kong to continue writing newspapers, and then accidentally created martial arts novels, becoming a cultural celebrity who "no one in the world knows the king". Although he failed to make a difference in diplomacy, he brought this ideal into a grander novel and became addicted to the jianghu in martial arts.
Mr. Jin Yong is a person who "although he is not in the jianghu, the jianghu is his legend". Over the years, Jin Yong's martial arts novels have been remade countless times, and all the actors are proud to be able to play his characters. And he himself doesn't care who plays it. He came and went with his nature, never heard that he was angry because he was dissatisfied with the script changes or the actor's performance, he just looked at all the sentient beings with such ease, just like the martial arts master at the top of the clouds.
I once went to Huangshan to play, and I heard that there is a main peak in Huangshan called "Guangming Peak", and I couldn't help but be very excited. In the hot summer sun, carrying a heavy travel bag, crawling all day, and finally climbing to the top of the bright top of the crowd I longed for in the evening, I found that it was just a plain square inch, full of garbage left by tourists, and the trees were bare, where is there half a point of arrogance? It was also at that time that I understood that the martial arts secret books that I had in mind when I was a teenager naturally did not exist. But he insisted on holding an ordinary pen, a clean white paper, depicting a picture of righteousness and thin clouds, chivalry, and adding heroic dreams in a tired life, which is the most valuable.
Over the years, I have also changed from the little girl who loved Jin Yong's martial arts novels to an adult who is about to face the baptism of society. The reason why the jianghu characters in Jin Yong's martial arts novels have the charm that many readers are fascinated by is that they are extremely realistic. Even ancient stories that happened hundreds of years ago can make many Jin Yong fans benchmark the fictional characters in the novel as their life models in the real world. I'm no exception. I hope that I can become a person like Huo Qingtong in "Book of Swords and Enmity", who is both strong and soft, kind and wise, with a lofty vision and a broad mind. I'm working on that too.
After Mr. Jin's death, there was a picture circulating on the Internet: many of Jin Yong's characters waved goodbye behind him, and he was on crutches, smiling back, facing each other. You play with the jianghu in applause, and when you leave the jianghu, you don't say hello, and you hide in a real chivalrous posture, which is really worthy of the words "make a big fuss and quietly leave". And the jianghu you portray will never say goodbye to us. As stated in the following lyrics:
The back of the night gives birth to the morning dew
Pour out night after night
I don't want to belong
Just want to follow the jianghu in your hands