Why do you say that?
In my opinion, martial arts novels are mainly about releasing adults' pent-up yearning for freedom-in an illusory way, so they are called fairy tales. It is generally believed that children are not suitable, so it is an adult fairy tale.
Liang Yusheng said that chivalry is the key to martial arts novels, and a martial arts novel without chivalry can't be a martial arts novel.
In fact, martial arts novels may be more important. Novels without martial arts can be chivalrous, but they are definitely not martial arts novels-such as swords. But if there are martial arts without chivalry, it can still be called martial arts novels-for example, there are too many yy novels. In other words, martial arts plays an important role in martial arts novels. In martial arts novels, the higher the martial arts, the freer the person is-the top master has almost no constraints. No Wulin figure has ever been punished by law or despised by everyone for killing people.
Martial arts novels are adult fairy tales. Since it is a fairy tale, the characters in it are either the best in people's minds or the villains. The best people concentrate all kinds of virtues, including ideological, moral and cultural, which are far behind and highly respected. On the contrary, villains concentrate on all kinds of bad behaviors, but they are also the unity of all kinds of contradictions. The appearance of villains in martial arts novels has profound and reasonable roots, which shows that the authors of martial arts novels believe that human nature is good, and there is no great truth or great hatred will not distort people's character like that. The successful description of the villain highlights the tall image of the protagonist and plays a multiplier role in the formation of people's worship of the protagonist. It's really isomorphic, interdependent and mutually reinforcing.
A very strange paradox
-This paradox can be properly explained by the above viewpoint.
In the traditional culture of China, unification is almost a topic that never needs to be discussed. Once anyone gains the unified rule of the country, the legitimacy of his rule is almost never questioned-even for ethnic minorities. For example, when the Manchus entered the customs to unify the Central Plains, all Han Chinese who went to the government to be an official would not have any moral obstacles-as long as he had never been loyal to the Ming government, he would not be accused of treason.
In martial arts novels, however, we see the opposite situation-anyone who seeks the unification of Wulin is morally accused and opposed by everyone, and often loses his reputation in his achievements. Zuo Lengchan, Yue Buqun, Dong Fangbubai, Shangguan Jinhong.
Take Zuo Lengchan as an example. What will the unified wuyue Sword School bring? It is understandable that he will threaten the alliance status of Shaolin Wudang and be opposed by the latter, and he will harm the interests of the original school leaders and be resisted by the school leaders. What about those sects? They can really benefit from the alliance. Why do they also oppose it?
The reason is the yearning for freedom. China people are bound too much in life, which is fully released in martial arts novels. Even the slightest stumbling block to this release factor is uncomfortable. This release depends on a factor that has never existed before-Wu. The position of martial arts in martial arts novels is just like the position of ether in classical physics-although it never existed, all problems could not be solved without it.
So we can see that the positive characters in martial arts novels are often friends and so on, and rarely leaders. Their pursuit of martial arts often reaches the height of personal commitment, because it is the guarantee of their freedom.
In the Water Margin, Song Wu, Lin Chong and others went to Liangshan and were no longer brave. In the Journey to the West, the Monkey King followed the rules when he came out of Wuzhishan, and asked his superiors for instructions when he encountered difficulties, all because he lost this freedom. Also lost its luster.
Shaolin Temple is a collective fairy tale of China people.
1982 Before the film Shaolin Temple came out, Shaolin Wushu was actually written by martial arts writers. Liang Yusheng, Jin Yong, Gu Long and others all regard Shaolin Wushu as a noble and decent representative in their novels. But the influence of movies is really huge. What's more, it was an era when spiritual life was relatively poor. China audience, who are used to the revolutionary model operas, suddenly saw such heroic and brave martial arts performed in mature Hongkong commercial film language. How can they not be ecstatic? What's more, the film catered to the national sentiment at that time.
In the era of reform and opening-up, China people walked out of the long-term isolation and suddenly found that the gap between China and the world was so great, and a great sense of loss and enterprise were intertwined. The excellent and independent China Wushu undoubtedly gave China people a treasure at that time. This mentality fully conforms to the feelings of China people for Olympic gold medals in the 1980s. They won the gold medal, became national heroes overnight, lost the gold medal and became enemies of the whole people in a blink of an eye.
In recent years, the national strength has increased, and the Olympic gold medal is no longer as touching as it was in those years. However, this "can't afford to lose" mentality is still stubbornly persistent, as can be seen from the strong response caused by Ke, the first monk in Shaolin. The contest between China Kung Fu and Muay Thai has also attracted the attention of many people in China. The reason is that China Kung Fu, which is invincible, sometimes suffers from Muay Thai.
How can China be less diligent? This is the tenacious complex of many people so far.
Dreams may come true.
Fairy tales also have the plot of landing. Let's see what fairy tales look like when they fall into reality. Guo Jing misunderstood that Huang Laoxie killed five masters of the "Six Monsters in the South of the Yangtze River", while Huang Laoxie, a martial arts elder, was unwilling to explain. Guo Jing's attitude towards Huang Rong really makes female readers sigh. A melee, Huang Rong secretly worried about the safety of Guo Jing, anxiously shouting "Jing Ge". It was a long time before I heard Guo Jing standing beside Huang Rong respond: What do you want me to do? Don't call me again ... When the two emotions of "filial piety" and "love" collide in reality, the image of Guo Jing suddenly becomes short in readers' minds, as if the previous declaration of love had turned into a lie, and Guo Jing was on the list of faithful love.
The representative of martial arts-Jin Yong
As the main representative of the new school of martial arts novels, Jin Yong has sold well all over the world for nearly half a century. In today's internet age, there are countless websites about Jin Yong and martial arts novels, and Jin Yong has become the common language of China people.
Jin Yong (1924 03 10-), formerly known as Cha, was born in Haining, Zhejiang. He is a famous martial arts novel writer, journalist, entrepreneur, political critic, social activist, honorary vice chairman of the Chinese Writers Association, one of the main drafters of the basic laws of People's Republic of China (PRC) and Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, and the winner of the highest honorary title "Grand Bauhinia Medal" in Hong Kong. Jin Yong 1948 moved to Hong Kong and was the founder of Hong Kong Ming Pao. Jin Yong has 15 martial arts novels, such as Flying Snow Shoots White Deer Plain, Laughing at the Book God Xia Yi Peach Blossom and The Sword of the Young Girl. His works are well-known and have been adapted into TV series, games, comics and other products. Jin Yong's novels are very popular, and many literary geniuses and readers have written book reviews, forming an upsurge of "Jin Xue" research. 1999-2005, Jin Yong was the dean of the School of Humanities, Zhejiang University. Jin Yong, 89 years old, was exploded in June 20 13, and studied for a doctorate at Peking University.
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