Good and bad belong to the category of beauty in art, not to the category of truth and goodness. The criterion for judging beauty is beauty and feeling, not scientific truth or falsehood, moral quality or economic value, which is politically beneficial or harmful to rulers. Of course, any artistic work will have a social impact, and it can also be measured by the value of social impact, but that is another evaluation.

For novels, I hope readers only say they like or dislike them, and only say they are moved or bored. The author's greatest wish is to create some characters, so that they can become living and flesh-and-blood people in readers' minds. Art is creation, music creates beautiful sounds, painting creates beautiful visual images, and novels create characters, stories and people's inner world. If you only want to truly reflect the outside world, why do you need music and painting when you have a tape recorder and a camera? With newspapers, history books, recorded TV dramas, social surveys and statistics, doctors' medical records and personnel files of party departments and police stations, why do we need novels?

Although martial arts novels are popular works, focusing on popularization and entertainment, they will eventually have an impact on readers. The main ideas I hope to convey are: love and respect one's own country and nation, and respect others' countries and nations; Peace and friendship, help each other; Attach importance to justice and right and wrong, and oppose harming others and benefiting themselves; Pay attention to faith and praise pure love and friendship; Praise the selfless struggle for justice; Despise selfish and despicable thoughts and behaviors that strive for power and profit.

Martial arts novels are not realistic works. Many critics believe that only one genre of realism can be affirmed in literature, and all other genres should be denied. This is equivalent to saying that Shaolin sects have great martial arts. In addition, Wu Tangzong, Kongtong School, Tai Ji Chuan, Bagua Palm, Bouncing Legs, Lily School, Karate, Taekwondo, Judo, Western Boxing and Muay Thai should all be abolished. We advocate diversity. We respect Shaolin Wushu as the Taishan Beidou in Wulin, but feel that other small sects might as well coexist. They are not necessarily better than the Shaolin school, but they have their own ideas and creations. People who love Cantonese cuisine don't need to advocate banning Beijing cuisine, Sichuan cuisine, Shandong cuisine, Anhui cuisine, Hunan cuisine, Weiyang cuisine, hangzhou dishes cuisine, French cuisine, Italian cuisine and so on. The so-called "carrots and vegetables, each with his own love" is also true. There is no need to raise the martial arts novels above their due share, and there is no need to erase them altogether. Everything is just right, that's all.