"White Jade Tiger"

"White Jade Tiger", a representative work of Gu Long's late novel, published by Nanqi in 1976, the description of "Tang Men" in this book is particularly unique and wonderful. It mainly tells that it is from a "white jade tiger", which Sikong Xiaofeng asked him to hand over to Shangguan Blade in person when Zhao Wuji mixed into the "Tang Family Fort". Inside it is a secret--the secret about the murder of Zhao Jian, the master of the "Great Wind Hall".

Some people think that the "ending" of "White Jade Tiger" is already very good, probably influenced by Gu Long's own "interpretation" in the afterword. Gu Long said that the story of the White Jade Tiger is written about a person's inner conflict, the conflict between emotion and reason, responsibility and hatred, and when Zhao Wuji's inner conflict is beaten into a dead knot, the story should end.

Gu Long is a very sincere person inside, but here he does not talk to death like Jin Yong said "Snow Mountain Flying Fox", only that the story is only a paragraph, not an ending. Later, he promised that he would write the ending later, and indeed let Ding Qing write a very bad ending in his name.

The last dead knot in "White Jade Tiger" is a dead knot between the avenger and the enemy, a dead knot between Zhao Wuji and Shangguan Blade, and even if this dead knot is unraveled, the story is far from over. The novel is not just written by Gu Long saying "Zhao Wuji's inner conflict", there are many characters in the bureau, Wei Fengniang, Zhao Qianqian, Shangguan Pity, Qu Ping, Tang Yu, Tang Que, Tang Ao, Lei Zhentian, and even Xiao Lei, Liu Sangen, Xuanyuan Yiguang, Jizo, Xiao Donglou and so on. They are all characters in this bureau, each of them has their own mood, they all have their own stories, and they are not all "meeting" in front of this "dead knot". Therefore, this is not the end.

The classic place of "White Jade Tiger" also lies in the emotions, especially the depiction of love, which expresses two unforgettable emotions in an abstract way. The first is Zhao Wuji's feelings for Wei Fengniang, which is "dare not think of each other", which is even more difficult to dissipate than the eclipse: in the sloping wind and drizzle, Zhao Wuji walked into the sword gate alone, went to the Tang Gate in Shuzhong to avenge his father, and embarked on the road of death, at this time he remembered his beloved fiancée, that feeling was "dare not think of each other", that is Zhao Wuji's love alone. The second emotion is Shangguan's pity for Zhao Wujie's feelings, which are "helpless", in the absence of other choices, facing the people he loves most deeply, the irresolvable hatred for his dearest people. When Shangguan's pitiful father, Shangguan Blade, appeared in front of her and Zhao Wujie as an enemy, she only had to use death to meet Zhao Wujie's sword, which was "helpless", and even death could not be relieved.

One of the major highlights of "White Jade Tiger" is that it creates an immortal sect, and the Tang Gate comes out. In modern martial arts works, there are countless depictions of gangs, but the Tang Men in "White Jade Tiger", its unique and bizarre legendary color, the mysterious and profound background, the multi-level and multi-directional three-dimensional description, and the layers of peeling off the cocoon and gradually deepening the family and horses, on the whole, have never been written by previous generations, which can be called unique. Among martial arts works, Tang Men has become a rather classic sect that has been handed down, and although it is not the earliest appearance in "White Jade Tiger", the description in that book is the most attractive.

The second point is that the achievements of "White Jade Tiger" itself are somewhat beyond Gu Long's creative ability. Compared with Gu Long's other works, "White Jade Tiger" is long enough in terms of length and enough in terms of plot. In terms of creation, "White Jade Tiger" integrates the large structure of the middle period of the ancient dragon and the characteristic language of the later period, although it is promising to write later, but the difficulty of writing has also increased accordingly, beyond the story framework suitable for the ancient dragon.