Although Zhang Sanfeng is not the protagonist of any of Jin Yong's works, but his story is definitely a legend, when he was a teenager, he met the five masters of the predecessors in Huashan, and the "Western Madness" Yang Guo also directly taught him several tricks, which benefited him infinitely, and a few years later, he learned a part of the Jiuyang Divine Gong before the death of Enshi Jueyuan, and later created his own Wudang Jiuyang Gong, and finally opened the sect, Zhang Sanfeng is undoubtedly a generation of martial arts myths.
(Guo Jing stills)
However, there are still many mysteries in the role of Zhang Sanfeng, such as the last Xiangyang War that year, Guo Jing was martyred, why did Zhang Sanfeng not help Guo Jing defend the city?
First, Zhang Sanfeng, who hated the Yuan Army
What kind of person is Zhang Sanfeng? In fact, most people's cognition of him is one-sided, for example, they will simply think that he is a high-ranking person and has no interest in worldly affairs, Zhang Sanfeng does have no intention of fame and fortune, but he is by no means a person who has no concern for worldly affairs, and even his disciples have not seen through him.
For example, after Zhang Cuishan's death, Zhang Wuji was in the palm of the Xuan Meditation God, and Zhang Sanfeng's performance surprised the disciples.
The original said: "Zhang Sanfeng sighed, did not answer, the old tears on his face, his hands held unscrupulously, looked at Zhang Cuishan's body, and said: 'Cuishan, Cuishan, you worship me as a teacher, and when you leave, you trust me heavily, but I can't even keep your only beloved son, what is the use of me living to be a hundred years old?'" What is the use of the Wudang Sect's name shaking the world? I might as well die!" All the disciples were astonished. Since he was a teacher, everyone has always seen him at ease, and has never heard him say such a depressed and sad word. ”
(Zhang Sanfeng stills)
Even if he is of a high realm, he is a person, a person with emotions, and in addition to this point, he is not detached from the world, and his attitude towards the Mongols is also very hateful.
The original said: "Zhang Sanfeng waved the sleeve of his robe and drank: 'Old Dao's life, kill the Tartar!'" But the military attachés and monks felt the wind blowing in their faces, and everyone's breath was blocked, and they could not breathe. Zhang Sanfeng's robe sleeves stopped waving, and the crowd looked miserable, exclaimed in unison, scrambled to jump back to the big boat, rescued the fallen monk, turned the bow of the boat, and rowed away. ”
When he said these words, where was the appearance of the Sect Master of the Immortal Wind Dao Bone? Zhang Sanfeng hated the Mongols extremely, and because of this, he had every reason to help Guo Jing defend the city.
(Guo Xiang stills)
And the most important thing is that when he and Guo Xiang were separated, Guo Xiang also once suggested that he defect to his father Guo Jing, but Zhang Sanfeng lamented that manly men should not send people to the fence before they did not go, but the face is light, the people are heavy, Zhang Sanfeng naturally can distinguish this, when the war in Xiangyang is really urgent, he still has a reason to go to Xiangyang to support, he did not go, is it because the road is far away, far water is difficult to save the fire?
Second, where Zhang Sanfeng is located
Where did Zhang Sanfeng go after separating from Guo Xiang? In fact, the book is very clear, it is in the Wudang Mountains.
The original said: "After half a month of traveling, I have reached the territory of Hubei and am no longer far from Xiangyang." The Monk of the Shaolin Temple never caught up with him. It turned out that the colorless Zen master secretly cared for him, deliberately leading the monks to the east, doing the opposite, and getting farther and farther away from him. On this afternoon, I came to a big mountain, but I saw that the mountains were lush and densely forested, and the mountains were very majestic. When I asked the villagers who passed by, I learned that the name of this mountain was Wudang Mountain. ”
Wudang Mountain is in Shiyan Danjiangkou City, Hubei Province, only more than 100 kilometers away from Xiangyang, the ancient traffic is inconvenient, so more than 100 kilometers is indeed a distance, but most of the masters in the martial arts story have light skills, and it is not difficult to travel a hundred miles a day, and as long as you read an important event in the book, you can see that Zhang Sanfeng has time to support Guo Jing.
(Ming Sect Stills)
What the author is referring to is the "six major factions besieging the bright top", that the bright top is far away at the top of the Kunlun Mountain, take the Huashan and Shaolin in the six major factions, they go to the bright top to talk about how easy it is, it is not a distance, the light altitude sickness can kill them, but the six major factions besieged the bright top or happened, right?
Third, the answer in the old version
Since Zhang Sanfeng had time to support Guo Jing, why didn't he go yet? In fact, Jin Yong has already given the answer in the serial version of the story, and the reason is very simple, because Zhang Sanfeng's strength at that time was not enough.
The fourth time in the original serial version said: "Only Zhang Junbao, except for the four moves taught by Yang Guo and a set of Arhat Fists, has never learned martial arts, and yu Jiuyang Zhenjing has the purest understanding, but it also lacks the foundation of martial arts, at that time, the essence of the scriptures, many places could not understand, to see the snakes and magpies fighting, self-realization of martial arts, but more than thirty years later, the scriptures heard when he was a teenager, can not help but remember the paste." ”
(Yang Guo stills)
A few years after Guo Xiang and Zhang Sanfeng were separated, Guo Jing died in Battle in Xiangyang, at this time Zhang Sanfeng did not know in which cave to practice martial arts, his martial arts success was thirty years later, obviously when Guo Jing died in battle, Zhang Sanfeng had no capital to support Guo Jing, and he went to die in vain.
However, because in the subsequent version, Jin Yong changed the bridge section where Zhang Sanfeng met a snake and a magpie to him to realize the divine skills from the Tao Te Ching, and even this description was completely deleted, which made the fact that "he was close to Guo Jing but did not help" become a little strange, in fact, this point can be justified.