——A Brief Discussion on the Legend of the Grass Dragon and Snake
"The Legend of the Dragon and Snake of Grass Mang" is the second martial arts novel created by Liang Yusheng, which continues to be written around the Boxer Rebellion, which is a supplementary explanation for his first martial arts novel "Dragon Tiger Fighting Jinghua", and some characters and events in the first book that are not clearly explained are clearly explained one by one, so that the storyline of "Dragon tiger fighting Jinghua" is more complete. The two books can be read separately or in combination. The book was first serialized in the New Evening News from August 11, 1954 to February 5, 1955, with a total of more than 170,000 words.
The two books written by Liang Yusheng at the beginning are called "Tai Chi Series", in fact, Tai Chi is Tai Chi, and it really can't be called a series. The two books are basically the same story that intersects with each other in the same era, and the total is only 380,000 words, which is not very long. Calling the series is somewhat reluctant. But it is precisely because Liang Daxia has the beginning of these two novels as the foundation, to the third novel "Seven Swords Under the Heavenly Mountain", the grade was instantly improved and became a classic.
Ding Xiao
Jiang Fengqiong
Dragon Tiger Dou Jinghua mainly revolves around Liu Jianyin, an apprentice of Taiji Ding. "The Legend of the Grass Mang Dragon and Snake" is written from Ding Xiao, a descendant of Taiji Ding and Liu Jianyin's nephew. At the beginning of the story, Ding Xiao, a disciple of a famous family, first encountered Jiang Fengqiong, a red-clad girl of the Fuhu Female Hero, and gradually narrated the leader of the Yihe Fist, The Scarlet Lantern, and then led to the chivalrous Shangguan Jin, the protagonist constantly changed, there were Ding Xiao, Jiang Fengqiong, Jiang Yixian, Zhu Honglan, Shangguan Jin, Chen Yongchuan and others, and finally, Ding Xiao used the Taiji stunt skill he had trained hard to hand blade the enemy, and he also went from a young teenager to maturity, and later had a good performance in "Dragon and Tiger Fighting Beijing".
Vermilion light
Shangguan Jin
The first time I read these two books was in the spring of 2010, and this time I reread The Tale of the Grassy Dragon and Snake from August 21 to 28, 2021. I feel that this book, on the whole, is relatively naïve, but it has been a great improvement compared to "Dragon tiger fighting Jinghua". In the middle part, the iron-faced scholar Shangguan Jin fell off the cliff, but it was difficult not to die, and he woke up to recuperate in the spring, and had a love affair with the beautiful woman Du Zhenniang, and finally achieved a good thing. This also opened a famous bridge section that was later used by martial arts authors, so readers know that after all, it will be difficult for chivalrous guests to fall over the cliff, and there is Yanfu, which has simply become a fixed format.
Friends who like Liang Yusheng's novels know that there is a very important character in "Sword Net Dust Silk" called Scissor Yishan, commonly known as Mr. Scissors, who is an important figure who promotes the development of the plot of the novel. But in "The Legend of the Grass Dragon and Snake", there is also a character called Mr. Scissor Two. Liang Yusheng likes to plagiarize himself, and many plots like to copy. And the character names are also plagiarizing themselves, which makes people feel bad. One of his supporting roles is called "donkey chasing", Zhao chao donkey, Zheng chasing donkey, Du chasing donkey, because it is a supporting role, just like Zhang San Li Four Wang Er Mazi naughty, this is not a problem, but the important people and even the main characters have the same name, which is really not effective.
In "The Legend of the Grass Mang Dragon and Snake", Shangguan Jin's master is Sikong Zhao, but Sikong Zhao is also an important figure in "Finger Thunder".
The most undeserved thing is that in Mr. Yusheng's sealed masterpiece "Wudang A Sword", the main character is The Great Hero of Zhongzhou, Mu Canglang, who has no name after his renunciation. This name obviously plagiarizes Mou Canglang, the owner of Fuso Island in the Tang Dynasty series. These two Mou Canglang, although not the protagonist, are important characters, can be related to the advancement of the storyline, if it is a small supporting role, a dog A cat, Zhang San Li Si, chase a donkey and pick up a pig, it is also counted. But such an important person, also the same name, really should not be!
I don't know, is it because Liang Daxia forgot, or think it's really good.
2021.9.10.Afternoon at Zhangqiu