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Gulong (June 7, 1938 September 21, 1985), formerly known as Xiong Yaohua, was born in Nanchang, Jiangxi Province, Han nationality. Born in Hong Kong on June 7, 1938.
He is a famous martial arts novelist and the leader of new martial arts novels. He is also known as the four masters of Chinese martial arts novels together with Jin Yong, Liang Yusheng and Wen Ruian. His masterpieces include the amorous swordsman's heartless sword, the peerless double pride and the hero without tears. Gulong introduced martial arts novels into the palace of classical literature, brought drama, reasoning, poetry and other elements into the traditional martial arts, and integrated his own unique philosophy of life into it, making a melting pot of Chinese and foreign classics, creating a new era of modern martial arts novels and pushing martial arts literature to a new peak.
On September 21, 1985, due to liver cirrhosis and venous hemorrhage, Gulong died in Taiwan at the age of 48.
Life of the characters
Youth experience
Born in Hong Kong on June 7, 1938.
In 1950, he settled in Taiwan and studied in the junior middle school of the middle school attached to the normal university.
In 1954, he was admitted to Chenggong middle school (senior high school) and began to write a large number of poems, contributing to the blue star poetry magazine and the successful youth.
In 1955, he published a novel from the north to the south in Chenguang magazine, under the pseudonym of gulong, and began his professional writing career. As for the origin of gulong's pseudonym, it is said that gulong's girlfriend was named Gufeng before it was named Gulong.
In 1957, he entered Tamkang English College (the predecessor of Tamkang University) and studied English at night.
Martial arts creation
In 1958, Gulong abandoned school and lived with dancer Zheng Yuexia (lily) in the Zheng family of Ruifang Town, Taipei County. In order to make a living, he began to write martial arts novels.
In 1960, he published his first martial arts work the sword of the sky.
From 1960 to 1963, Gulong was in the latent stage or trial writing stage, and published more than ten novels, such as the biography of the lonely star and protecting the flower bell. During this period, due to a lot of contact with foreign literature, gulong's works were stained with a lot of western literary color.
Since 1963, Gulong has successively published six novels, including lover's arrow, biography of heroes in big flag, record of washing swords with Huanhua, romance of famous swords, unofficial history of the Wulin, and peerless double pride, and has become one of the four heavenly kings.
From 1964 to 1966, he published Huanhua Xijian Lu, which is a milestone of gulong's novel creation. He first imitated Jin Yong's "no move wins with move" in Xiaoao Jianghu, and learned from Japanese novels such as Miyamoto Musashi to explore Martial Arts (Tiandao) and find a new way of martial arts, thus starting gulong's unique way of describing martial arts.
In 1966, he published the history of the Wulin, which established the "Prodigal Son" flavor of Gu Long's martial arts novels and strengthened the modern sense of the famous sword romance.
peak times
"Peerless double pride" has an obvious allegorical tendency. It is the first popular martial arts comedy. Ni Kuang, a well-known writer in Hong Kong, invited the Ming Pao to write "two proud of the peerless generation". Since then, he has been married with Gu Long.
In 1967, "Legend of iron blood" (later renamed "Legend of Chu Liuxiang") was a combination of martial arts, literature and art, detective, reasoning and fable. It established its own school and set a benchmark for the leader of the new school. It also ushered in the golden age of the next ten years.
In 1969, Gu Long wrote the script "Xiao shiilang" for director Xu zenghong, which is also the first martial arts masterpiece with script before novel.
In 1976, Shao of Hong Kong made films based on "meteor, butterfly, sword" and "the end of the world, the moon and the sword", which created another peak of martial arts films and the film age of Gulong.
Recession stage
In 1977, Gulong contracted liver disease, and his health gradually declined.
In 1979, "hero without tears" was completed and entered into a declining stage, with a sharp decline in creation and rampant writing.
At the end of 1980, he was slashed and injured in a banquet in yinsongge, Beitou (yinsongge incident). He lost 2000 cc of blood and imported blood with hepatitis. Since then, his health has worsened.
He died of a serious illness
In September 1985, in the last week before Gu Long's death, he wrote a piece to Lin Qingxuan, who came to visit him. After Gulong died, his friend decided to buy 48 bottles of XO for him to be buried with. Lin Qingxuan worried that the cemetery where he buried a bottle of 4000 NT dollars would be stolen. He suggested that the lid of the bottle should be opened to make fun of their mutual friends. After a few decades, this would be old wine.
On September 21, 1985, Cologne died at 6:00 p.m. due to massive hemorrhage of esophageal tumor caused by liver cirrhosis. He was 48 years old.
Gulong has created more than 70 martial arts novels in his life, and more than 100 of them have been written on behalf of others. After the death of gulong, there were copyright disputes and many lawsuits between relatives, friends and publishers, which affected the dissemination of gulong's works.
Today, Gu Long's eldest son, Zheng Xiaolong, and his third son, Xiong Zhengda, have shaken hands and made peace, expecting to reproduce the prosperity of Gu Long's novels.
personal works
Prose works
Essays
Novel works
As a screenwriter
Derivative works
Xiaoli Feidao series
Chu Liuxiang series
Lu Xiaofeng series
Peerless double pride series
Xiao shiilang series
Big flag hero series
Wulin History Series
Huanhua xijianlu series
Meteor butterfly sword series
Third young master's sword series
Famous sword romantic series
VIP series
Hero without tears series
Tianya Mingyue Dao series
Scimitar series
Flying Eagle series
Other works series
Features of works
Gulong's novels weaken the function of martial arts in martial arts novels, and express the restriction of martial arts and force, the limitation of authority and responsibility of using force. Gulong's writing style has been changing from his early works "biography of the great flag hero" and "romantic sword" to his mid-term works "peerless Shuangjiao" and "Chu Liuxiang", to his later works "Tianya · Mingyue · Dao" and "meteor · butterfly · sword". He created a kind of martial arts school. As a writer, this is a breakthrough and pursuit.
Gulong's early works are relatively rigorous structure, can echo the beginning and the end, the plot of the characters develop vertically, open and close, the characters are many but not chaotic, and each has its own personality. The novel focuses on rendering the atmosphere of the typical environment, revealing the personality of the characters through the changes of the plot, and its representative work, the romance of the famous sword.
The structure of gulong's works in the middle period is rigorous, and the scenes, characters and plots are combined into a perfect overall framework, which is grand on the whole. The representative work is "peerless double pride", which marks that Gu Long's novels have entered a new artistic realm and a milestone of Gu Long's novels. It begins with tragedy and ends with comedy, which is a tragicomedy of life.
The theme of Gu Long's late novels is unconventional, the structure is more rigorous, the plot is also ups and downs, closely linked, with the surface characteristics of character to write the psychological characteristics leading to the formation of character. The character is distinctive. The representative work "meteor, butterfly, sword".
The greatest characteristic of gulong's novels is that he creatively brings drama, reasoning, poetry and other elements into the traditional martial arts novels, and integrates his own unique philosophy of life into them, forming a unique style of Gulong style martial arts novels. Gulong successfully uses the new style of scenery, emotion and heart, and takes into account the intricate plot arrangement of traditional Chinese novels; There are real writing, virtual writing; heavy pen depiction, light pen with; aphorism and aphorism, brilliant dialogue; inner world excavation, clever rendering of atmosphere; relaxation, emotion and taste; twists and turns, survival; sadness and humor; heartstrings and imagination; endless narration but not chaos, suspense and reasonable; touching The heart and tear, can't stop and endless aftertaste. Gulong said: "if a person indulges in alcohol, there must be something sad for him, and the sad person must be affectionate." He broke the previous martial arts to paragraph based approach, using a large number of short sentences, sentence by paragraph arrangement. According to Gulong himself, "long sentences are like a torrent of rivers. Suddenly they are connected by short sentences. They are like a sword cutting off the water. You can get the special effect of ups and downs." Indeed, although there are many short sentences in Gulong's works, the beauty of the words is still beautiful. Gulong's works are always full of truth, goodness and beauty. In his works, no matter how sad the story is, people can feel a touch of warmth. The understanding of human nature and the forgiveness after this understanding is the theme of Gulong.
Relative members
Character evaluation
Ni Kuang (good friend of Gu Long, Hong Kong writer): "there is no gu long in the world, there is Gu Long in the heart."
Bai Yansong: "in Gulong's works, no matter who looks carefully, there are you and me, so Gulong is not ancient."
Chen Kun: "gulong's style is cool. His writing is very poetic. There are many spaces left blank for you to imagine."
Wen Ruian: "the writing method of Gulong is relatively simple. He is very talented. But the problem with Gulong is that he has great talent, and he also has the personality of a prodigal son. Therefore, he has spare no effort in his creation. What's more, Gulong also likes to drink. He often drinks and makes mistakes. It's inevitable that there will be ghostwriting. The level of his writing is uneven, which is very regrettable. " But Wen Ruian insisted that "the status of Gulong and Jinyong should definitely be side by side."
Wong Kar Wai (Hong Kong director): "because Gulong is a hooligan, a talented hooligan. So when I was shooting, I would think, if Gulong wrote about the play, how would he write about it? I like contrast. Just try to tell the story of Jin Yong in the tone of Gulong. "
Tsui Hark (Hong Kong director): "the essence of Gu Long's Novels"
Chinese PinYin : Gu Long
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