It is said that in September 1972, Jin Yong's last novel "The Legend of Deer and Ding" was serialized in the supplement of Hong Kong's "Ming Pao". Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

Since then, Gu Long's influence in Hong Kong and Taiwan has become increasingly popular, and many of his works have been made into films and TV series, which quickly formed a "Gu Long fever".

By the mid to late seventies, the peak period of Gu Long's creation had passed, and there were fewer and fewer works, which could not meet the needs of the majority of "martial arts fans". As a result, several famous writers have changed their styles and imitated Gu Long, hoping to write newer and better works.

Under this fashion, Taiwan's famous Sima Ling's "Shocking Waves" and "Flying Feather Tianguan", Liu Yanyang's "Xiao Zhongxiong" and "Xiao Ba" have come out one after another, winning a round of applause.

Since the 80s, two new stars have jumped up in the Hong Kong martial arts literary scene characterized by the reproduction of the ancient dragon style - Huang Ying and Long Chengfeng.

Huang Ying stood out by writing Gu Long's "Blood Parrot" and completing the remaining five parts of "Six Horrors" ("Vampire Moth", "Black Lizard", "Crystal Man", "Wingless Bat", "Pink Skull"), and wrote "Silkworm Transformation", "Silkworm Transformation", "Heavenly Dragon Jue" trilogy and "Hero Shen Shengyi" with Yun Feiyang as the protagonist.

Long Chengfeng wrote a series of novels with the "fast knife prodigal" Long Chengbi as the protagonist. Both are very popular with young readers.

Long Chengbi is the third young master of the Long family in Jinan Prefecture, Shandong, and the ancestor of the Arctic Inhuman Wind and Snow is particularly fond of him, and in the ninetieth year of his birthday, he will accompany the treasure knife of most of his life - the Knife of Wind and Snow to Long Chengbi. Since then, he has fought with a knife to help the weak and the strong, save the good and punish the evil, and has become famous all over the world, winning the reputation of "the prodigal son of the fast knife", becoming the most outstanding young swordsman on the rivers and lakes, and together with the "King of Killers" Sima Xue and the "Head Stealing Hero" Wei Kongkong, he is known as the "Three Great Wonders of Martial Arts".

It can be said that the author's Long Chengbi is not a lone ranger, he and a group of chivalrous warriors such as Sima Xue, Wei Kongkong, Tang Zhuquan, etc., have the same mind, the same world-class martial arts, the same superhuman courage, they unite as one, and fight unremittingly against the evil forces. Seeing this group of friends who are heart-to-heart, people can't help but think of Gu Long's Chu Liuxiang, Hu Tiehua, and Ji Bingyan...... Feel the chivalrous spirit and unswerving friendship inherited from Gu Long! Long Chengbi's sword killing is a kind of art in the author's pen, he brings death to the enemy, and at the same time shows the reader the unique beauty of the sword light and blood shadow.

Gu Long doesn't like to write about endless fights and complicated tricks. The martial arts he wrote are absolutely effective, they are authentic martial arts of killing, and a prominent feature of the martial arts of killing is "fast", and all the beauty is vividly reflected in this word "fast". At this point, Lin Yi believes that Long Chengfeng is more than equal.

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At this moment, Lin Yi admired these "martial arts pearls", and couldn't help but sigh, it seems that there will be lucky and unfortunate people in every industry.

The lucky ones can become famous with a book or two, and then laugh proudly, while the unfortunate ones have been unknown and forgotten.

He shook his head and moved from one section to another.

If the exhibition area just now is the "Martial Arts Pearl", then this exhibition area is the "Eight Masters" in the martial arts world.

As the eight masters of martial arts in Hong Kong and Taiwan, they are Liang Yusheng, Jin Yong, Gu Long, Ni Kuang, Wen Ruian, Wo Longsheng, Sima Ling and Huang Yi. Although they are in different eras, these eight writers all belong to the "new school" of martial arts novels.

In fact, Lin Yi has a little understanding of martial arts culture, and knows that modern martial arts novels written in vernacular can be divided into "Northern School", "Guang School" and "New School".

Since the 1920s, the "Northern School" has been prevalent in the mainland, and the foundation was laid by "Pingjiang Buxiaosheng" to Kairan and Zhao Huanting, and then there were five masters, Bai Yu, Zheng Zhengyin, Zhu Zhenmu and Wang Dulu. Since 1980, when Guangzhou "Wulin" magazine serialized Jin Yong's "The Legend of the Condor Heroes" and Guangzhou People's Publishing House published Liang Yusheng's "Ping Trace", the "new school" writers have conquered readers from all over the country, but they don't know that the "new school" martial arts novels have gained a lot of creative nutrients from the "northern school" works. Nowadays, however, the writers of the "Northern School" are rarely humane. It is said that the background source of "The Legend of Sword and Fairy" is the "Legend of the Swordsman of Shushan" by the "Northern School" Huanzhu Mansion.

"Canton School" is a martial arts novel that was popular in Hong Kong in the 1930s, earlier than the "New School" martial arts novels, and the content focuses on the authenticity of kung fu, that is, the moves used by the characters must have a basis, the theme is unified, and the practice of martial arts is promoted. It is called "Cantonese School" or because the works are written in "Cantonese language" (i.e., Cantonese dialect), and most of the authors are from Foshan. The famous "Guangpai" writers include Deng Yugong, Zhu Yuzhai, Nian Foshanren, Kongtong and I am a mountain man, etc., their works include "The True Story of Huang Feihong", "The Biography of Huang Feihong", "The Legend of the Ten Tigers of Guangdong and the Dragon Slayer" and "The Monk of Sande", etc., often with the theme of "Southern Shaolin", and the story revolves around Hong Xiguan, Fang Shiyu, Hu Huiqian and Sande Monk and others.

The birth of the "new school" martial arts novels is related to the martial arts competition between the Tai Chi school and the White Crane school in the martial arts world, Chen Wentong (Liang Yusheng's real name), who was the editor of the supplement of the "New Evening News" at the time, went to report on the competition, and then found that the news reports reflected well, and the editor-in-chief Rover asked Chen Wentong to use this competition as a blueprint to serialize martial arts novels in the newspaper, which is the origin of the first work of the "new school" "Dragon and Tiger Fighting Jinghua". A year later, Liang Yusheng's colleague Zha Liangyong was also invited by Rover to create, and Zha Liangyong created "Book of Swords and Enmity" under the pen name "Jin Yong".

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At this time, looking at so many rare early Hong Kong and Taiwan martial arts versions in front of him, Lin Yi was inexplicably excited.

As far as Lin Yi knows, the Republic of China martial arts master "Hoof Wind" has a lot of works, and it has also been auctioned on the Internet, basically a set of four or five thousand, and the novels of "I am a mountain man" are also more circulated, and the price is roughly about three thousand per set, because of the Cantonese dialect, the audience is not too much, so the price is low. As a new school of martial arts masters, "Jin Liang Gu", the most valuable novel is Gu Long, followed by Jin Yong, and then Liang Yusheng.

Why is this happening?

Lin Yi's research found that Jin Yong became famous earlier, so his martial arts novels were treasured and published more. Although Gu Long is not as good as him in terms of fame, but because Gu Long became famous later than Jin Yong, his early martial arts novels were not taken seriously, so that there are fewer surviving novels, in response to the principle of "rare things are precious", Gu Long's early Hong Kong and Taiwan version of martial arts novels can be said to be difficult to find.

For example, published in Taiwan's martial arts Spring and Autumn Period, the 1970 version of Gu Long's work "Iron Brave Hero" (that is, Xiao Li Feidao), one to three episodes, can be sold for 13,600 yuan.

The two copies of "Peach Blossom Killer" in the 70s of Wugong Publishing House can be sold for more than 6,000 yuan.

In contrast, the old martial arts master Ni Kuang's old martial arts "Ten Thousand Miles of Heroes" was published by Wulin Publishing House in 1971, and one set was sold for 3,399 yuan.

Liang Yusheng's old martial arts "Seven Swords Under the Heavenly Mountain" has a complete collection of upper, middle and lower volumes, with illustrations, and it was only sold for 1,319 yuan when it was published by Weiqing Bookstore.

Lin Yi has also studied the reasons for this, in addition to Gu Long's late fame, there are few surviving works in the early stage, and it is estimated that it also stems from his untimely death. After all, there is this tradition in the collecting world, as long as it is a famous work, with his death, the tide will rise, more and more collectible, and the collection price will continue to increase, so that it will eventually become a "sky-high price".

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Just when Lin Yi looked at these old martial arts books and sighed, a voice said: "Friend, seeing that you are also a fellow practitioner, why don't you sit down and have a drink?" ”

Lin Yi turned his face to look, but saw that not far away, there was a wine table, and the wine table was placed with "Kinmen Sorghum Wine", and two middle-aged men were looking at him with a smile.

One of them has a big waist and a round waist, and his appearance is mighty, and he is also the Lin Yi he invited.

Lin Yi didn't know anyone, and the amount of alcohol was average, so he was ready to refuse, but Nawei Wuzi stood up directly, and gave up his seat and said: "If you want to please, it's better to meet by chance, you and I are both husbands, why bother to refuse?" ”

Lin Yi can't refuse anymore. (To be continued.) )