Gu Long wrote martial arts, has been seeking change and innovation, that year from Jin Yong, Liang Yusheng such a traditional martial arts breakthrough, to create a newer martial arts novel! (Jin Yong Liang Yusheng's martial arts, in order to distinguish the martial arts novels of the Republic of China period, is known as the new school.) ）
Since then, the characters in the ancient dragon martial arts have not lived in the traditional rivers and lakes, but have entered the world of suspense and reasoning. When the novel of martial arts plus reasoning was launched, it was suddenly more popular with readers.
But Gulong is still constantly seeking new ideas and seeking breakthroughs.
The previous "Chu Liuxiang" series, the "Lu Xiaofeng" series, and the "Seven Weapons" series are all like this! However, this kind of small fight and small trouble in the jianghu still did not meet gu long's ideals, and he was determined to launch a more grandiose jianghu with a traditional flavor, that is, the "big martial arts" novel he has been pursuing diligently. But there must also be an element of suspense and reasoning, so "White Jade Tiger" turned out.
But this novel has to take care of the front, but also to open the back, in the deliberate thinking of seeking change and new, Gu Long is a little confused, so that the stall is too large, can not be closed in the middle of writing, do not know how to write, can not move forward, and can not retreat, write to the half, have to stop writing, but this stop writing, the back can not continue. It became a rotten project.
Many readers say that "White Jade Tiger" is a "half classic". The word "classic" is indeed well deserved, and there are many classics in Gu Long's novels, but very few classics that are so regrettable; and this "half" is really an incredible half.
But even this half of "White Jade Tiger" is also difficult for many people to reach, and it is one of the masterpieces of Gulong characteristics.
Although some people in the back continued to write "White Jade Carved Dragon" with the help of the order of the ancient dragon, this continuation is not even a "dog tail", and how to "continue the mink"! It has also become the biggest regret among Gulong martial arts readers!
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > let's take a closer look at this half of the classic "White Jade Tiger". </h1>
Cutting out the extra side features, according to the framework and organization of the story, "White Jade Tiger" is a detective novel. The novel is strangely conceived and precisely laid out, and the whole story is full of a tight sense of rhythm, interlocking, suspenseful, suspicious, and climactic. At the end, just to a wonderful knot, the reader carries a breath of true anger all the way, does not dare to have the slightest slackening, is waiting for it to stab out with a sword, the so-called head out of a knife, shrinking the head is also a knife, good evil can save a whole corpse. However, it stopped abruptly at this time, and there was no more silence. It's like enjoying a concert with a rush of strings, a beautiful high note soaring to the top, but suddenly like a fish in the throat, neither going up nor coming down, making people feel stunned.
The novel is about a very traditional and clichéd revenge story. On the day of the hero's wedding, Zhao Wujie, his father Zhao Jian was suddenly killed by his brother Shangguan Blade in the secret room, and Shangguan Blade took Zhao Jian's head as a stepping stone to the Tang Gate in Shuzhong.
The male protagonist, Zhao Wuji, was a young and crazy man, riding a horse and leaning on the bridge, full of red sleeves, and living a pleasant life. However, the family was suddenly subjected to this tragic change, and suddenly the temperament was very different. For a whole year, Zhao Wujie hid his name, endured humiliation and burden, locked himself in a dark room and practiced swordplay madly, only to seek revenge. A year later, he finally became unrecognizable, not only did the enemy no longer recognize him, his friends no longer recognized him, his wife and sister no longer recognized him, and even he himself almost no longer recognized himself.
Inhuman torture made Zhao Wuji a meticulous, deep-minded, and desperate person to achieve his goals. His whole motivation for life was to avenge his father, and for this he endured great pain that ordinary people could not imagine.
He went to hell alone, found Jizo to learn the superior sword technique, gambled to lead to Xuanyuan Yiguang, lion Lin Zhidou Tang Yu, Caishen Temple to capture Tang Yu, even deep into the tiger's den is not afraid, with Tang Que circumvention, peeping through the secrets of the Scattered Flower Heavenly Girl, several times suspected of being a spy, it is like circling around the god of death, several times and three times almost lost his life. He did all this at all costs.
Such a Zhao Wujie is completely a person who has lost his self driven by the deep hatred of the blood sea.
When the story ended, after going through all kinds of difficulties and dangers, he finally found the enemy Shangguan Blade, and his sword was finally about to pierce into the body of Shangguan Blade, at this time, a handwritten letter from Zhao Jian hidden in the White Jade Tiger told him in black and white that this was a plan, a plan to put it to death and be born later. Shangguan Blade pretended to be a traitor to the enemy, and Zhao Jian's first rank was the best gift and proof to tang men, and the reason why he hid Zhao Wujie was so that his opponent would never be suspicious. The great secret of the White Jade Tiger was finally revealed. At this time, Zhao Wujie was about to collapse. A long smile or a chest beating and crying was not enough to express his intense feelings.
At this point, Gu Long himself seems to be unable to control the emotions of the protagonist:
Now that he knew the secret, all his sacrifices had become ridiculous. He almost really couldn't help but laugh out loud, laughing out all the heart, liver, and five internal organs, and then stomping on it with his feet, cutting it with his sword, burning it into ashes, and then sprinkling it into the gutter to feed the dogs, so that Zhao Wuji was completely wiped out, and the life and death would never exist again. Although he was responding to Shangguan Blade's words, he didn't even know what he was saying; although he made a sound, his voice sounded far away even to himself, as if it had been spoken by another person. ”
If the novel stops here, it is still reasonable. However, according to Gu Long's personality, there can be tragedies, but there must be no pessimism, so "Zhao Wujie must live, must live", live to complete his father's unsatisfactory cause, and complete this plan code-named "White Jade Tiger". If they are normal people, at this time, most of them will have split personalities, but Zhao Wuji does not seem to have one. He did not have it because Gu Long decided at this juncture to "tie this inner conflict into a dead knot", giving the reader a very unrealistic and complicated and very itchy hope.
In the final analysis, this is actually a story of mutual deception between two jianghu gangs, and it is normal for the jianghu gangs to compete with each other, grab the turf, compete for the first, everyone wants to be the boss, and there is no so-called likes and dislikes, right and wrong. Although Tang Men was cunning and vicious, Zhao Wujie had several fathers and sons, wasn't he also very scheming? Either tang men destroyed the Great Wind Hall, or the Great Wind Hall destroyed the Tang Gate, even if they were evenly matched and evenly divided, there were also ambitious sects such as the Thunderbolt Hall who wanted to get a piece of the pie. The weak eat the strong, the winner is the king, this is the rule of the game, Zhao Wuji is just a victim in this power struggle. His old man easily cut off his own head with a knife, but his son suffered all the hardships and hardships, and abandoned his family and wife to avenge his father. At the beginning of the novel, it is implied that Tang Men has done many evils, and the wind hall hoes the strong and the weak, which is more in line with the moral logic of ordinary people, and placing the story in such a background, Zhao Wujie is more and more like a pawn at the mercy of others, and finally knows that he is being used by others, and he has to sigh and turn sorrow and indignation into strength. Whether the novel's abrupt stop highlights Zhao Wuji's greatness or Zhao Wujie's pity can only be experienced by the reader.
Gu Long's original intention was to write about the inner conflict of Zhao Wuji's character, the conflict between emotion and reason, the conflict between emotion and responsibility, and the conflict between emotion and hatred. This is clearly illustrated in the afterword to the novel. But this explanation does not explain or compensate for the incompleteness of "White Jade Tiger". Or to put it this way, as a piece of reasoning, it has ended smoothly, but as a story, it is too much of a tiger. Xiao Donglou, Xuanyuan Yiguang, Dizang, Xiao Lei, Qu Ping, Zhao Qianqian, Wei Fengniang, Shangguan Pity, and even Tang Yu, Tang Que, Tang Ao... Most of the supporting characters have not had time to arrange the ending, and some supporting characters are simply dispensable in the whole story, but they occupy a large section of the story. And some wonderful foreshadowing, some of the main characters of the huge space for expansion and play, so wasted, the ancient hero literary products are strange, the air teaching readers regret, the real life is where not to play.
It is gratifying that the TV series "Amber Green Dragon", adapted from this novel, avoids the above loopholes and supplements many supporting roles, making the plot complete, taking care of both end and end, and finally worthy of this "half of the classic". If you want to see a complete story, plump characters, specific scenes, including many emotional scenes that are not clearly unfolded in the book, it is more appropriate to choose a TV series. If you want to experience the rhythm of the intense narrative, feel the atmosphere of suspense, satisfy a strong curiosity or enjoy the pleasure of reading in a trance, then you still have to read the original book and taste an original ancient dragon.
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