Jin Yong's dark teenager

Illustration of The Blue Blood Sword.

The so-called dark teenager is a normal life experience for many people, but it also makes the sufferers suffer to the bone, and after many years, they are still frightened in the middle of the night: How can there be so much ugliness, injustice, bullying and treachery in the world? How can countless so-called adults compromise, live hard, or even go through it without feeling the slightest pain or even take the initiative to do evil? Although friendship and love can occasionally be seen here, like the Big Dipper seven stars in the sky, it is always difficult to have, let alone for a long time. The moon changes day by day, people can inadvertently walk out of this dark teenager, but the scars are always difficult to fade, and occasionally touch, there is still a strong sense of pain. Black memories, in the future, consciously or unconsciously reveal information through something.

Mr. Jin Yong is not a person who likes to talk about his life. His thoughts transcend the ordinary, unrestrained, but also harmonious but not flowing, in the middle but not dependent, "sensitive to things and cautious to speak", what is it? The occasional autobiographical essay, "Moon Clouds", is written about the events before the teenager, which is a warm, calm story. The author is a disciple of Mr. Jin Yong, but he does not have the courage to ask questions that are actually trivial and trivial matters that have nothing to do with the big festival, but he is well aware of one truth: any master who is famous for his works has more things in the depths of his thoughts and deeds that have not been directly transformed into works, which Freud called "icebergs", which is very much true. It's just that I think that Mr. Jin Yong's dark teenager is also shown in one of his less successful novels.

That's The Blue Blood Sword.

Written in 1956, The Green Blood Sword is his second martial arts novel after the book became famous in one fell swoop. The novel narrates that Yuan Chonghuan's son Yuan Chengzhi was less ambitious, practiced martial arts, joined the rebel army, challenged the imperial court, and finally disappointed by the perverse and fiasco of the peasant army, and guarded the sixteen-character recipe of "not surrendering tartars, not surrendering to the imperial court, not following the king, and not harming the good people", and finally floating on the sea and opening up a new world overseas. This book is by no means the so-called "winning pen" in Jin Yong's works, and many reading lists often rank it at the end of the favorites, I mean a little bit the same, but Yu Zhong can glimpse Jin Yong's dark youth.

The story of this article begins at the end of October 2004. At that time, Jin Yong returned to Quzhou after 62 years of absence, and gave an affectionate speech at Quzhou No. 1 Middle School where he had studied. Professor Liao Kebin, who was then the executive vice dean of the School of Humanities of Zhejiang University, who accompanied him, later said that mr. Liao Kebin was really emotional that time.

A question at the scene is particularly penetrating, and it seems to be a question from a female middle school student: "Mr. Jin Yong, you said that Quzhou is very good, and you have great feelings for Quzhou. But why is it that in your wuxia novels, the only two Quzhou wulin gangs, the 'Dragon You Gang' and the 'Shi Liang Gang', are not good people? ”

Quzhou locals are familiar with these two place names, but here need to be briefly explained to outsiders: Longyou, the name of the county, was established under this name in the fifth generation, and now there is a "Longyou Grottoes" famous in the world. Shiliang, the name of the town, now belongs to Kecheng District, twenty miles from the city, Jin Yong's Quzhou Middle School moved to the side of the mountain to avoid Japanese bombing. Jin Yong's 15 martial arts novels write that in addition to the "Green Blood Sword", there is also xianxialing in "Smiling Proud of the River". As a Quzhou reader who is obsessed with Jin Yong's novels, it is natural to ask this question. Of course, the Dragon Tour Gang is also a bad person in zheng Zhengyin's martial arts novel "Female Hero Yan Lingyun" in the Republic of China, but this may be something that the little girl does not know.

But it is said that Mr. Jin Yong was suddenly asked to be confused. This is a rare occurrence. Although he is sensitive to his deeds and words, from my limited opinion, he usually can't ask. For any question, even if it is deliberately difficult, he can deal with it for a moment, the speed of speech is not fast, but the answer is reasonable, and never makes angry, so that both the guest and the host can step down with dignity. It is said that this time he was also invited to visit the Longyou Grottoes. The cave is a series of large grottoes discovered in 1992 by local farmers after draining the stagnant water, and has since been declared a tourist attraction. Regarding its origins, everyone is different, and it is difficult to reach a consensus, because of their own considerations. I have a colleague, from archaeology, who insists that it was caused by quarrying. Therefore, it is too ordinary to evoke a very imaginative and has been repeatedly despised. When Mr. Jin Yong visited, the principal insisted on asking Mr. Jin Yong to write an inscription, and also borrowed Mr. Jin Yong's English name to hammer the tone and take the opportunity to carry it forward. In the face of many claims, Mr. Li is not an archaeologist, how to deal with it? But I saw him write fourteen words with a stroke of his pen: "The dragon tour grottoes are strange in the world, and thousands of guesses are always a mystery." "I didn't reproach any of the family's claims, but I revealed a new game of guessing." Today's grotto promotion theme, using this - please guess!

But the little girl's question of not having a good person in Quzhou Wulin was indeed not easy to answer. I should have heard about this scene very early, this time I wrote it, and I specifically called and asked Brother Liao Kebin who was accompanying me. Brother Liao said: I can't remember exactly where it happened, but it did happen. Later, Mr. Jin Yong wrote an inscription for Quzhou Yizhong, which can also be said to be triggered by this.

The inscription reads:

Wen Yahao Mai Quzhou people, classmates young brother Ruo.

Sixty years of often dreaming, Shi Liang Jingyan night heart.

Juvenile negative in the middle of the Quaker. Teachers teach, classmates encourage, often remember themselves. Visiting my alma mater today, seeing the scale of the big zhang, thinking back to the past, I can't help but mix sorrow and joy.

It is said that in "Green Blood Sword", Yuan Chengzhi learned the authentic martial arts of the Huashan Sect, and then obtained the Golden Snake LangJun Sword Spectrum and the Sword, and Yicheng went out to Jiangnan to find his master. A story of a casual encounter with a woman dressed as a man begins in The Jade Mountains in eastern Jiangxi: Wen Qingqing robbed two thousand taels of gold, took a boat back to his hometown in Quzhou, encountered the Dragon Tour Gang on the road, was repeatedly robbed, and Lai Yuan Chengzhi helped him, wading through danger. Wen Qingqing took a fancy to this young man and decided to leave a thousand taels of gold for Yuan. Yuan refused to accept it, so he went to the Wen family to repay the money. When the Dragon You Gang and Mr. Fang Yan LüQi returned to seize the gold and seek revenge, Wen Qingqing's true female face and the secret of her mother's lover as the Golden Snake Lang Jun were also revealed. This period of controversy, crisscrossing, fierce fighting, gripping, is the more successful part of "Blue Blood Sword". However, when Quzhou readers read this book, they really have a question in their hearts: Why is it that the only Quzhou Wulin gangs in their pen are bad people?

After this question, even the author's mind can't help but raise a question: Mr. Jin Yong's Yongkang, who was once in the past, is only found in "The Green Blood Sword" in his works, but why is this Mr. Fang Yan LüQi also the same bad guy as the Quzhou Gang? (Of course, it may be more appropriate to change "Lü" to "Cheng" or "Ying", because Yongkang Guduolu has the surname of Lü, but there are more Surnames cheng and Ying surnames living near Fangyan.) ）

Looking at it again, Jinyun Xiandu, who is close to Yongkang in the south, also has traces in "The Green Blood Sword", which is the Xiandu Sect, but it is also a bad person...

Jin Yong's hero traverses the whole country, his footprints are even as far as the Arctic Ice and Fire Island, Wei Xiaobao also planned the Moscow rebellion, but even when he finished writing 15 martial arts, the great rivers and mountains of the mainland can be said to have never been involved in Tai ban. Before he joined the Hong Kong Ta Kung Pao in 1948, all his whereabouts could only be said to be forced by the situation and livelihood, and the history roughly included his hometown, Jiaxing study, middle school exile, xiangxi farming, Chongqing school and work in Shanghai and Hangzhou, and in 1950 he went to Beijing to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs without success.

In his novels, Haining and Jiaxing and Hangzhou are the most affectionate. Haining is his hometown, and his debut novel "Book of Swords and Enmity" uses the old Qianlong story to pay deep tribute to Yanguan and Qiantangjiang. In the "Legend of the Eagle Shooter", Jiaxing first appeared, that is, borrowing the eyes of Yan Honglie, who was xiongjie in the north, "saw the gentle characters of the residents of the city, the pawns of the peddlers, and the appearance was also handsome and beautiful." "Fight righteousness every time more slaughter dogs", Jiangnan seven monsters are also! And touching Hangzhou, it is even more affectionate, it is difficult to help, the seventh time in the "Book of Swords and Vengeance" wrote that Chen Jialuo first came to the lakeside, "strolling for a while on the White Causeway of Su Causeway, sitting alone on the first bridge, looking at the depths of the lake and mountains, but seeing the bamboo and wood gloomy, green overlapping, not raining and running, not smoking and dizzying, the peaks are beautiful, straight and straight clouds, thinking: Yuan Zhonglang first saw the West Lake, compared to Cao Zhichu Luoshen, said: 'The mountains are like e, the flowers are like cheeks, the warm wind is like wine, the ripples are like Aya, only to lift his head, he has not felt drunk. Yes, it's fascinating! When he was a child, he came to the West Lake several times, and at that time he did not understand the beauty of the scenery, and today he has come back to appreciate the meaning of this mountain and water, and the flowers and willows. ”

In November 1937, rikou landed in Hangzhou Bay, and Jin Yong was thirteen years old at this time, studying in the second grade of Jiaxing Middle School in Zhejiang Province. The whole school style meal camped out and fled south. Arriving at The Dive, Li Fenshui, Tonglu, Jiande, Zhulanxi, Yongkang, Jinyun, arrived in Lishui Bihu Town in January of the following year, and studied at the merged Provincial Provisional Union High School. In 1939, he joined the United High School on the spot, and in the first half of the following year, he wrote "Alice's Wanderings" in the poster to satirize the director of training, but he was almost expelled, and Principal Lai did everything he could to protect him and transferred to Shiliang Middle School in Quzhou. The following year, the middle school launched a protest against the school's training director, and he was included in the list of "excessive students", and the principal loved talent, lowered the tone, and Jin Yong was spared from dropping out of school.

From the age of thirteen to eighteen, the country was destroyed and the family was destroyed, and he was displaced, wanting to uphold justice, but he was repeatedly cruelly injured. Of course, such a youthful memory remains in people's hearts. He once said that the fleeing in those years could be said to be the most bitter day of his life: he was born in the land of fish and rice, suddenly lacked food and clothing, was homeless, had not grown up, trekked all day, had no medicine and no medical treatment, endured cold and starvation, and the people's customs in the places he experienced were also very fierce, far less gentle and courteous than in his hometown. This was said by himself to Liao Kebin when he returned to Quzhou after more than sixty years. As for the righteous words in the school, although they were all resolved by the good principal, the dark side was locked deeper in Jin Yong's chest, and only flowed out of the twists and turns in "The Green Blood Sword", and it was difficult for the author himself to know.

Look at the exiles who have been written into martial arts works, and the first stop is Yu Qian. This place was established as a county during the reign of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, and was changed to a town during the Republic of China. In the Book of Swords and Enmity, Qunxiong detained Qianlong in Hangzhou's Liuhe Pagoda and swore an alliance with him to rejuvenate the Han Dynasty with one heart. The Red Flower Society will go to Tianmu Mountain to visit Wen Tailai and wait for the injury, and when yu Qian arrives, he will marry Xu Tianhong and Zhou Qi here. Everyone made a new house, and Yu Yutong and Li Yuanzhi were reunited in chaos, with joy and sorrow, and great joy in sorrow. (Tonglu, Jiande, Lanxi, none of which appear in Jin Yong's works) and the subsequent Yongkang Fangyan and Jinyun Xiandu are all places of interest, but it can be imagined that when they were displaced, teachers and students should not have gone to see the scenery, and there was only one place name in their hearts. Although Lishui Bihu and Quzhou Shiliang are accompanied by good teachers and close friends, the unreasonable impression of the Kuomintang's "party-oriented education" should be even more profound. Such scenes, Jin Yong did not want to write in his works, and really did not write them, but they were inadvertently revealed on the martial arts figures to which these place names were attached.

However, after this little woman's question, although Jin Yong was quite a diplomat, it was difficult to deal with it satisfactorily at that time. Yes, I am afraid that I have to think about it, why is it that the place where the teenager has gone through such a bumpy road is all evil in the book?

The "new revision" of "Blue Blood Sword" is revised in July 2002. In this version, the "Dragon Tour Gang" became the "Dragon Gang", and the "Shiliang Sect" became the "Chess Immortal Sect", hiding the two real place names of Quzhou. And Fang Yan and Xian Du, because no one asked for advice, Gu was still old.

Rethinking the relationship between Jin Yong's place names and gangs, in fact, many places that Mr. Jin Yong has never been to, the author can keep calm. The good and evil of the characters are also based on the reasonable imagination and logic of the work, and there is no stubborn tendency to discredit. For example, although the Huashan Sect was later famous for Yue Buqun in "Smiling Proud of the Rivers and Lakes", the Huashan Sect Mu Renqing in "The Green Blood Sword" was the first upright gentleman in the world of martial arts. In this way, the relationship between Quzhou's place names and gangs is regarded as an inadvertent outpouring of the writer's dark youth memories, which is probably not over-interpreted.

Of course, if you write a big book of your dark memories to vent your anger, it will not be the arrogance of everyone in the end, and it will not be possible to become everyone. Jin Yong pressed the sword of green blood and shot the eagle with a bow, "The water of the Qiantang River haohao river, day and night, endlessly bypasses the niujia village in Lin'an Province, the two Zhejiang West Road, and flows into the sea in the east." "The weeds in front of the village and behind the village began to turn yellow, and under the remnants of the slanting sun, it added a little bit of depression." The triumphant first return of a period of "Ye Sanjie's Festival of Martyrdom" began the journey of a thick and resolute teenager to the top of the martial arts, and the first authentic work that established a modern new martial arts novel Hongtang Gong was born, and there was another immortal legend on the rivers and lakes.

Lu Dunki