Foreword to "Beacon Daughter Line"

Dear chivalrous friends, we all love martial arts works together, which can be described as like-minded. "Wuxia" is a unique literary phenomenon in China, as long as there are Chinese places, there are lovers of martial arts. I am still watching the TVB version of "Smiling Proud of the Jianghu", thinking that martial arts is not like Chinese chess, Go, tea ceremony, Chinese food like the feelings of Chinese people at home and abroad.

The 1960s and 1970s in the Chinese martial arts industry can be described as a golden age. There were masters like Jin Yong, Gu Long, and Liang Yusheng, and the three predecessors represented the three peaks of the new martial arts and were called the three masters of martial arts novels. Jin Yong's martial arts novels are based on historical wild history, integrating Buddhist philosophy, Taoist philosophy, Zhuzi Hundred Cultures, Idioms and Sayings, Legends and Allusions, Poetry and Painting, Martial Arts Schools, Eight Pulses of Qijing, and Geographical Scenic Spots, alluding in one furnace, and the realm is unfathomable. To this day, people are talking about his "Biography of the Archery Hero", and there are such songs and ballads circulating in the streets and alleys: "East evil and West poison Ouyang Feng, Southern Emperor Northern Cai Hong Qigong." Silly Guo Jing, married to Huang Rong, the beautiful princess is Hua Zheng. It can be seen that his novels are widely circulated, from scholars and professors to peddlers and pawns, all of them are overwhelmed by it, and they have been repeatedly remade into various film and television works, creating countless Jin Yong fans; what really pushes Taiwanese martial arts to the world's Chinese circle is Gu Long, and Gu Long wuxia novels introduce elements of drama, reasoning and poetry, and are dashing and free. Like Sherlock Holmes, it's just that the protagonists are not only intelligent, but also rogue and thief, with great skills, which in my opinion is much more exciting than Sherlock Holmes. Gu Long wrote a lot of stories in his life, and his characters were personable and made countless readers yearn for them, such as Li Xunhuan, the flying knife of Xiao Li, Tie Zhongtang in "The Legend of the Hero of the Great Banner", chu Liuxiang the rogue, Lu Xiaofeng and so on. When "The Legend of Chu Liuxiang" was broadcast in Taiwan that year, it reached the grand situation of thousands of empty alleys; Liang Yusheng was the founder of China's new school of martial arts novels, and from the time he wrote "Dragon tiger fighting Jinghua", The new Chinese martial arts novels were born, and the representative works were "Seven Swords Under the Heavenly Mountain", "The Legend of the White-Haired Witch", "Yunhai Jade Bow Edge", "Ping Trace Hero Video" and so on. When I watched the TV series "Seven Swords Under the Heavenly Mountain", I was very fascinated, after watching the film and television and looking for the original book to read, you are interested in friends can also go to see it, I believe you will also be attracted by it. Of course, since it is the golden age of martial arts novels, there are naturally more martial arts masters than these, such as Zhuge Qingyun and Cheng Qingyun, the four heavenly kings of Taiwan's martial arts, which are not enumerated here.

Wuxia novels are as beautiful as romance novels, but they are far more wonderful than romance novels, because the storyline of wuxia novels is more intense except for the romance part, so I prefer wuxia novels. I often get sleepy when I read romance novels, a "Dream of the Red Chamber" I have not finished reading for half a year intermittently, a "Water Margin" I read it in less than January, when I was in elementary school, every day when I came home from school and holidays to open it, I always felt uncomfortable after reading it, fantasizing about the plot behind in my mind. Up to now, I have this problem, watching a book or a TV series without watching it is very uncomfortable, always want to read it in one breath, for this reason I have delayed a lot of serious things, these are the afterwords.

Many boys have a martial arts dream in their hearts, they have fantasized that they are a chivalrous warrior who acts heroically and righteously, hoes the strong and helps the weak, fantasizes that he is like Guo Jing, accompanied by a girl as smart and lively and beautiful as Huang Rong; fantasizes about Hong Qigong's dog fighting stick, and even secretly practiced the "dog fighting stick method" and "descending dragon eighteen palms". In fact, I was the same, when I was a child, I was obsessed with characters such as Qiao Feng, Guo Jing, Yang Guo, Ling Huchong, the Seven Musketeers of Tianshan Mountain, Jin Shiyi, Yu Chengzhu, Li Xunhuan, Chu Liuxiang, and Lu Xiaofeng.

Wuxia has influenced many contemporary people, and not only our generation. In 1985, the mainland began to broadcast "The Legend of the Eagle Shooter", at that time just after the reform and opening up, only a few people in the countryside bought black-and-white television sets, hard work for a day, after dinner put the TV set on a large table at the door, the bottom was crowded with people, or sitting or standing are watching TV with relish, this situation is still occasionally mentioned. My father was still young, and until now his most impressive and favorite TV series is the eighty-three version of "The Legend of the Eagle Hero". He himself is also very fond of martial arts, and has read a lot of martial arts originals, the first martial arts novel I have seen, "Scattered Flower Girl", was left by my father when he was a child, and now I still collect the "Deer Ding" and "Flying Fox Tales" that he has read. In fact, in addition to most of the teenagers, there are still many middle-aged and elderly people in the current martial arts readers. The rapid development of network information technology provides convenience for us to read martial arts, we can not only buy martial arts originals, but also read on the Internet, read on mobile phones, in addition, we can also watch martial arts themes of film and television works.

The only unpleasant thing is that the current martial arts have changed a bit, not getting better and better, but getting worse and worse. Today's martial arts works are far from those from those from the 1950s to the 1980s and 1990s, which has to be disappointing. Now wuxia has shifted from the new martial arts style of the "Golden Ancient Liang Period" to the style of romance, fantasy, crossing, immortality, and cultivation, and there have not been many classic works since then. Of course, I am on the whole, the current martial arts novels are not as good as the previous martial arts novels, and the current martial arts films and televisions are not as good as the martial arts films and televisions of the past. However, there are still masters and classic works in the current martial arts novels, such as the novels of writers such as Bu Feiyan and Cangyue, the text is very beautiful, and there are still many references to it; works such as "In Search of Qin", "The Legend of the Tang Dynasty Double Dragon", and "Mythology" are also classics. Similarly, the martial arts film and television classic works are also decreasing, and many of the martial arts works remade now have changed the original to a different face, subtracting the martial arts scenes, adding a lot of boring romance, and the plot is protracted. As for the martial arts scene, it is even more imaginative, flying above the moon, truly achieving "nine days to catch the moon, can go down to the five oceans to catch turtles." This kind of extravagant special effects is really not flattering. This situation is known by comparing the martial arts film and television works in the 1980s and 10 years later.

I am a pure martial arts fan, and I have seen a lot of martial arts, so naturally I have some itchy hands. So I wanted to practice penmanship, try to write something myself, and satisfy my own martial arts dreams as children. "Beacon Daughter Line" I painstakingly conceived for a long time, I write slowly, so I spent a lot of time and energy, but I think it is worth it, when I think of the martial arts world, there are those heroic characters I admire, in the real world, there are many like-minded "chivalrous friends" with me, I am very happy. The following is a little bit of my experience, my aunt said it in vain, and my readers and friends listened to it.

As mentioned earlier, "Martial arts is a unique cultural phenomenon in China. "Wuxia has a long history, its source is the primitive period, people hunting must master some basic fighting techniques, in order to better avoid their own harm, that is to say, the birth of "martial arts" is the source of "martial arts". There is still a lot of ancient Chinese understanding of martial arts, one of which is famous for Han Feizi's "Confucianism with the law of chaos, and chivalry with martial arts to violate the prohibition." On some level, the four traditional Chinese cultures can be classified as "martial", "chivalrous", "Confucian" and "Tao". "Wuxia novel" is a kind of literary theme, which is full of bread and bread, not only the culture of the sons and hundreds of families, but also the social life picture and political system of the ancients, and it also reflects the ideological concepts of the ancients. The current martial arts novels are completely divorced from the times and social background, the content and form are not uniform, and the concepts of modern people are grafted in the hearts of the ancients, which is the main reason why I criticize the current martial arts novels and martial arts films, mainly because the writers lack life experience and the screenwriters lack cultural common sense. Not only martial arts films and television, but also many TV dramas with historical themes, such as the Sui Dynasty Emperor's construction of the Grand Canal, the original intention was to facilitate his own play in the south of the Jiangnan, people at that time complained about the labor of the people and the loss of money, the emperor had no way, how can you know that "sin is in the contemporary era, the merit is in the thousands of autumns." "I wouldn't shout such words; there were buns to eat during the Western Han Dynasty, and a large cornfield appeared in the Song Dynasty, and such obvious mistakes should not be made."

The earliest record of "wuxia" is Sima Qian's "History of Assassins" of the Western Han Dynasty, in which the assassins written are the earliest martial arts stories. For example, Yu Rang, who "a soldier dies for a confidant, and a woman is tolerant of herself"; in order to repay the favor of knowing the encounter, he assassinated the special zhu of the Wu king;and Jing Ke, who "the wind is xiaoxiao and the water is cold, and the strong man is gone and will not return"; the stories of these people have been passed down to this day. Since then, "martial arts novels" have developed in their own unique forms, such as the Zhiwei novels of the Six Dynasties of Wei and Jin, the Legend of Tang, the Song and Yuan scripts, and so on. What has really made great contributions to modern martial arts novels are two books, one is shi nai'an's "Water Margin" of the Ming Dynasty, and the other is Shi Yukun's "Three Heroes and Five Righteousness" of the Qing Dynasty. Modern martial arts novels since Mr. Liang Yusheng's "Dragon and Tiger Fighting Jinghua", it is called the new school of martial arts novels, enriching the connotation of martial arts, "xia" is no longer the eagle dog of the ruling class, no longer a personal act of happiness and revenge, but a righteous act, the so-called "for the country for the people, the hero of the great", to defend the family and defend the country, small to hoe the strong and help the weak.

"Beacon Daughter Line" is an attempt by me, I will continue to work hard, although sometimes it is busy, but as long as I have free time, I will continue to write a little. I write slowly, and the words and sentences will be repeatedly deliberated, sometimes can only write a thousand words a day, this process will be relatively long, after writing do not know what year and month, I hope that all the readers and friends can continue to pay attention to me, give me some encouragement, your support will make me continue to go. There are inevitably many mistakes and failures in the novel, and I hope that all discerning readers will criticize and correct them! The opinions of friends are always welcome.