Gu Long's novel "White Jade Tiger" book review

This book is worthy of being a classic among martial arts classics! Anyone who studies martial arts in later generations can find something worth learning from it.

There are many good works of Gu Long, but the ones that deserve to be heavily painted and special books are mainly 2 in my opinion, 1 is the early "Amorous Swordsman Ruthless Sword", and 1 is this "White Jade Tiger". Different from this one, "Amorous Swordsman" is mainly that the characters can stand up, and the portrayal is unforgettable, and "White Jade Tiger" is not only the character whose greatest value lies in the unique martial arts charm created. In the white jade tiger, the ancient dragon constructed an illusory jianghu world, this world is exquisite, complex, cruel, cold-blooded, cunning, witty, sad, sad, I believe that anyone who reads this book will be deeply attracted by this world, not only lament his vast ruthlessness, devouring heaven and earth, but also feel his capriciousness, human struggle, it can be said that in the jianghu world of this book, you can feel the real surreal sense of "truth"!

Usually we evaluate Jin Yong and Gu Long, always saying "Jin Yong is thick and heavy, and the ancient dragon is flowing", which means that the two People of Jin Gu show a completely different view of the jianghu in the book. Many people say that Jin Yong's novels are more "authentic", which is certain, because most of Jin's books are historically based on first, and secondly, More importantly, Jin's depiction of character angles and plot advancements are more in line with the logic and way of normal people, the feelings between the characters, the inheritance of teachers, thoughts and life, etc., even if there are exaggerated components, but through Jin's "steady" style, it will not feel abrupt; and Gu Long's style is completely different, he forced a lot of irrelevant elements to be thrown away. Only focusing on the character's personality, action, instinct and emotion in the jianghu world, coupled with the style of writing "dashing", so in some scenes can more set off a fantasy jianghu visual effect, of course, this is also a drawback

For example: in Jin's book, the protagonist meets a certain character, there will definitely be a background explanation and the inheritance of the plot as a connection, in the ancient book, sometimes the protagonist inexplicably eats a meal to meet someone, does a thing to meet someone, a lot of the later plot promotion has nothing to do with it, which makes many "more true" readers speechless; you can say that the ancient is more casual, but inexplicably is inexplicable; for example: Jin's book, the coherence is very strong, often involving old grudges, up and down can be more than a hundred years, such as "Laughing Pride" From the initial extinction to the final five factions of the competition, Jin laid out well at the beginning, rarely see Jin's book has a situation of writing pits and not filling, but gu is not like this, many times the scene is wonderful, but often fleeting, the back never appears again, this point does not say other ancient books, even in the "White Jade Tiger" this classic is also the case, so, from the comprehensive literary evaluation, gu for martial arts "completion" is not as good as Jin, this should be the final conclusion

However, the value of ancient is precisely not in the orderly "stability", "no matter how big and small", "logical rigor", "one move and one style", not in depicting the jianghu world that may have really appeared in history, but in the fact that the jianghu in his pen has a super "real sense" that transcends ordinary real history. A big premise of this super "sense of reality" is that Gu Long dares to think, dare to write, you see gu Long wrote a book, there are many incredible "bold": the last battle in "Before and After the Decisive Battle" is at the top of the Forbidden City, Jin will never be able to make such a joke, he may borrow Wei Xiaobao's psychological activities to compare the palace to the Qinglou, but the fact itself, Jin will not exceed the authenticity of history, Gu does not care so much, who said that the top of the Forbidden City can not be the world's unparalleled chivalrous dueling arena? It is simply a copy of "The Son of Heaven does not come to the ship, claiming that the subject is a wine immortal" Li Taibai style arrogance! Many times you can't imagine the ancient words to a certain realm after the reader's spiritual appeal, reading jin's books will be moved, will be excited, will agree, but only to see the ancient books will have a sweat, immersive, eager to try the sense, of course, the ancient text in the atmosphere of the late stage is almost a textbook model, the real fight is only a moment, and the preparation before the fight can make people float a big white

In addition to the "omnipotent" freedom of "doing anything", the most important thing is that the jianghu depicted to you is too cruel and realistic! If Jin's martial arts are "adult fairy tales", then the ancient martial arts are really "adult action movies", where is there any chance coincidence to shock the world? Where are the warblers and swallows with good full moon flowers? What is there to cherish and respect each other? Where are the key times for higher people to help? It's all a lie!! For example: In "Amorous Swordsman", Lü Fengxian initially planned to help Li Xunhuan to kill Lin Xian'er, but he saw that Lin was reluctant to kill but it was like glue, and then Shangguan was shocked and let Lin Xian'er go with him, Lü did not want Lin to go, let Lin Xuan, Lin Zuo looked forward to the right, and finally ran to Shangguan, Lü Fengxian,Such a proud person had a complete mental breakdown in a moment - this description is too naked, because the real world is completely like this! Would Kim write that? No, that's the difference! Gu did not save any face for humanity at all! Another example is "Amorous Swordsman" Li Xunhuan's brother Long Xiaoyun locked him up after betraying Li, and then went into the cell and said, "Brother, I came to see you", Gu wrote: This person said the 2 words of brother when he was very natural and appropriate, listening to the tone as if Li Xunhuan is really his best friend and brother in the world, there are such people in the world, you see such a person, what else can you say?! At this point in the book, how do you feel? Isn't that what it's real? This kind of real cruelty, real contempt, real pain, abounds in ancient books, and I have to say that ancient people's understanding of real society is very profound!

Finally, back to "White Jade Tiger", Gu once said: When the storyline is exhausted, only human nature is always complex and unchanged, and only by writing human nature can it be written forever! I believe that the book "White Jade" perfectly embodies this point of view, because what promotes this book is all kinds of conflicts in Zhao Wuji's heart! Although purely from the perspective of story structure, "White Jade" can be called the best of ancient books: the helplessness between Xiao Donglou and Jizo; Xiao Lei's deviant love for the four niangs; the handwriting of the Seventh Master, the peak circuit of the Battle of the Lion Forest, the wave of Tang Yu's fighting with each other, the dripping water of Tang Jiabao, and even the truth of the final White Jade Tiger, all of which are whimsical, well-structured, wonderful to the peak, but what really makes people immersed in this and cannot be forgotten for a long time is actually the inner world of the protagonist portrayed by Gu Long, this time, Gu Zai's book is very rare to describe the protagonist's inner gradual changes, from ease to self-consciousness, from sadness to determination, from sinking to firm, from fearlessness to opportunity, from rashness to depth, from the initial revenge obsession to the collapse of faith after understanding the truth, completely multi-layered three-dimensional display of a huge and exquisite human nature change process, that is, this book occupies an absolutely important position in the history of martial arts!

As for why there is such a reviled ending, in addition to the large length of the ancient dragon is not good at driving difficulties, I believe that the more important reason is that Gu himself is not willing to write at all:

Unscrupulous has made so many changes, made so many sacrifices, made so much effort, almost gave up everything, and the fact that the risk has been exchanged can only prove one thing: the trend has gone, irretrievable! Tang Jiabao is almost an invincible myth, this is a complete surrender of the Jianghu gang to the shijia forces, even if there is the blood of Zhang Erge in the South China Sea, the loyalty of Ding Abandoned, the friendship of Guo Que'er, the tenacity of Shangguan Ren, and the strange plan of Sikong Xiaofeng, but on the eve of the collapse, it can only be the last elegy of a hero's unrepentant life! Although the books written by Gu Long have a super "sense of reality" beyond ordinary history, most of the endings of ancient books are good, such as "Amorous Swordsman" In the end, Li Xunhuan finally got the love of Xiaohong, and finally defeated the money gang, but "White Jade Tiger" continued to write, no matter how to write, it could not write the day of victory, and hard writing victory destroyed the real "sense of reality", but really to write along the paved road, some can only be tragedy, this kind of ending that can not see hope, Gu Long has been painful enough to write no longer

This is the real reality "sense of reality", Gu in "White Jade Tiger" finally expressed his final despair about the cruelty of the real world!