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Wuxia novels seem to have slowly disappeared into modern literature, and with the rise of online fantasy texts, wuxia novels have slowly lost a large number of readers.
Jin Yong, Liang Yusheng and other martial arts masters have brought martial arts into a new realm, and Gu Long is an outlier in the new martial arts, he has perfectly embedded values and art forms, with extraordinary imagination, profound literary heritage and innovative consciousness of keen change, breaking through the shackles of predecessors, giving martial arts novels a new life, making them appear in the world with a new look. The work "Happy Hero" is not only Gu Long's perfect interpretation of the martial arts seeking innovation and change, but also a true expression of his outlook on life.

Before Gu Long wrote Happy Hero, he successively published "Amorous Swordsman Ruthless Sword", "Xiao Eleven Lang", and "Meteor Butterfly Sword", and his career entered a brilliant heyday. Gu Long is a casual person, after experiencing various things, re-examining the past, and has a positive attitude towards life. "Happy Hero" is simple, natural, and fluent from the nature of Gu Long's clear mind, natural jade.
Second, the characteristics of writing
The first is the character with distinctive characteristics. "Happy Heroes" creates four protagonists with distinct personalities, so that the four form a group and experience various events in the rivers and lakes and life together. This is a good picture of joy: Guo Dalu is indeed a big road, Wang Dong does not move, Yan Qiqi has died seven times, and Lin Taiping is not peaceful at all. If the outline of the first three people is clear and clear, it is a near image, then Lin Taiping is a distant image, seemingly blurry, but after careful scrutiny, the edges and corners gradually emerge, which shows that Gu Long does have the ability to work with the pen.
The second is the interlocking structure. The story of "Happy Heroes" looks very simple, revolving around four people, an empty house, it does not have a strong story thread throughout, but under the shroud of a large theme, like one movement after another smoothly intertwined, the transition between story and story is very appropriate.
The third is a fascinating plot. The story begins with Guo Dalu's solo with a bit of witty music, followed by an ensemble with Wang Dong, then Yan Qi's addition, and finally Lin Taiping, formally forming a quartet. This prologue is very short, starting with Guo Dalu and ending with Lin Taiping, and the four finally come together. The entire "Happy Heroes" includes four quartets, and each quartet also has a primary and secondary point, with different lengths.
The fourth is true and delicate feelings. The theme of "Happy Hero" around Guo Dalu, Wang Dong, Yan Qi, and Lin Taiping is a "love" word: family affection, friendship, love, and the violence and hatred that are eliminated with these feelings. From the perspective of friendship: Gu Long is a person who is extremely affectionate and uninhibited. He values friendship and believes that "a friend is a friend, and nothing can be replaced, nothing can be described- that is, all the roses in the world, plus all the flowers in the world, cannot compare the fragrance and beauty of friendship." "From the perspective of love: the love between Guo Dalu and YanQi is the most moving and intriguing. Thousands of miles to find Yan Seven, this feeling is strong. This is really the most euphemistic and beautiful in Gu Long's pen. The love in "Happy Hero" is pure, clean, sincere, no desire, only deep love. Cover up and think, ripples are stacked, all are moving.
Fifth, a positive attitude. The whole work is full of positive attitude, and depicting the joy of real life like this is rare in Gu Long's works. "Happy Hero" has its own "god", it focuses on depicting human nature, in the work we do not see Gu Long's blind optimism about life, what we see is Gu Long's real philosophy of life. What it pursues is not to reach the hearts of the people, to the profundity of human nature, but to make people move at that moment.
"Happy Hero" holds high the banner of happiness and happiness, it rejects tragedy, it rejects blood and cruelty, violence, it writes about the beauty of human nature. "Happy Hero" is very high and otherworldly, and he interprets what is "jianghu". They regard life as a source of joy, are grateful for life, and affirm the whole of life, along with its suffering and tragedy. Expressing what is "joy", this is what "Happy Hero" is beyond other martial arts novels.
The sixth is the character of the exquisite Portrait. The way to drink in Happy Heroes is also very good, neither sitting nor standing. Wang Kinetic was lying on the bed drinking; Guo Dalu hung himself up to drink; Yan Qiqi hung a pair of feet upside down on the roof beam to drink. "Happy Heroes" embodies the drinking of friends. From wine and meat friends, become friends of the heart.
3. Creative writing
One is that there are no gangs. Dilute the historical background, set up a pure jianghu world and a strange and dangerous region, transcend the narrow contradictions and opposites, transcend the chaotic red dust world, and merge the work of creation and the luck of ingenuity into one. A quiet and indifferent mentality, the pursuit of speculative philosophy, and an interlocking layout. Completely abandoning the unified martial arts pattern: lonely towns, small scenes. Ordinary little things, simple life encounters. Like a small world in a quiet corner, each living an ordinary life in peace. Privately, the waves are rough, the dangers are rife, and the spirits are full of excitement.
Second, there are no tricks. Informal, focusing on artistic portrayal, emphasizing speed and opportunity, relying on "danger and absolute" to win. In his eyes, martial arts are the most oriental and the most mysterious, the bloodiest and the most elegant art. Neat and smooth, no branches. "Happy Heroes" also plays the unwinnable trick to the extreme.
The third is the unique style. The unique environment and unique characters make the language of Gulong exude incomparable charm. Show the deep "human nature" of the characters: weakness, loneliness, helplessness, love... This is the "Happy Hero" of the ancients and the untouchables.
Gu Long's martial arts world has been most perfectly interpreted in "Happy Heroes", re-examining chivalry, re-evaluating beauty, redefining people, retracing centuries of searching, dissecting the human-based world view, through external anti-traditional expression methods, in martial arts novels, creating a value system based on human nature, constructing a classic aesthetic paradigm, and making the style of "humanistic strange love" novels like buds of flowers, splendid embroidery, and blooming. The moment you open the page and turn the page, it is like a dancing butterfly, and the light of humanity flows everywhere.