"The Complete Biography of Yue Yue", the full name of "The New Jingzhong Romance Says the Complete Biography of King Yue", is a heroic and legendary novel with a certain historical romance with the theme of Yue Fei's anti-gold story.

Yue Fei, whose name is Pengju, was a famous patriotic general in the Southern Song Dynasty. He resolutely resisted the war, bravely killed the enemy, and won the deep love of the people before and after his death. Soon after he was killed, the folk began to sing his story, and in the Yuan and Ming dynasties, Yue Fei's deeds of serving the country were widely spread. For example, in the Yuan miscellaneous dramas, there are "The Chronicles of the East Window of the King of Dizang", etc., and the legend "Jingzhong" in the Ming Dynasty. The novels of the Ming Dynasty include Xiong Damu's "Popular Romance of Zhongxing in the Great Song Dynasty", "The Biography of Yue Wumu Wang Jingzhong" edited by Zou Yuanbiao according to Kumamoto's deletion, and Yu Huayu's "Yue Wumu Loyal to the Country". At the beginning of the Qing Dynasty, this eighty-episode "The Complete Biography of Yue" appeared. The title of the book is "Renhe Qian Cai Edition" and "Yongfu Jinfeng Supplement", and Qian Cai and Jinfeng can be regarded as co-authors of this book. The life and deeds of Qian and Jin are unknown, and they are probably intellectuals living in the lower strata of society. They synthesized the works on the theme of Yue in the past dynasties, and processed and transformed them on this basis to write "The Complete Biography of Yue Yue". After the publication of "The Complete Biography of Yue Yue", its influence was so great that it dwarfed all previous works of the same theme, and thus became a summative and stereotyped work in novels of this genre.

"The Complete Biography of Yue Yue" is a work with complex ideological content, which uses the struggle between loyalty and traitor as a clue to unfold national contradictions, and expresses the struggle between loyalty and traitor in the national contradictions. The struggle between loyalty and traitor is a relatively old theme, but the struggle between loyalty and traitor in different eras has different specific contents. The struggle between loyalty and traitor written in "The Complete Biography of Yue Yue" was carried out under the special historical background of the unstable founding of the Southern Song Dynasty and the large-scale march of Jin soldiers into the Central Plains. Yue Fei and other patriotic generals advocated the War of Resistance and regained lost territory. The traitor clique headed by Qin Hui tried their best to advocate betraying the country and seeking peace. Therefore, patriotism and betrayal, resistance and surrender have become the specific content of the struggle between loyalty and traitor reflected in the work. Since the supreme ruler, the emperor, is on the side of the capitulation faction, this makes the author and the protagonist of the work face an insurmountable contradiction: on the one hand, singing the praises of the War of Resistance is the inherent central content of Yue's story, which is also in line with the author's thoughts; On the other hand, loyalty to the monarch is the highest moral code in feudal society, and it is the "first of the three outlines", and the author cannot go beyond this understanding. Originally, in the case that the emperor himself was the leader of the surrender faction, loyalty and patriotism could not be both. However, in "The Complete Biography of Yue", the author tries his best to unify the two, which results in the complexity of the theme of the work and Yue Fei's character. The author couldn't explain the tragedy of reality, so he added a comforting tail to Yue Fei's story. Therefore, the eighty chapters of "The Complete Biography of Yue" are naturally divided into two relatively independent parts: the first sixty-one chapters are Yue Fei's "heroic genealogy" and "entrepreneurial history"; The last nineteen episodes are the story of Yue Fei's death - Yue Fei was wronged and was called "King Jingzhong Wumu".

Yue Fei is the image of a national hero created by the author with concentrated pen and ink. In order to highlight this image, the work has been given a legendary color of many shades since his birth: mother and son sit in a flower pot and float to a foreign land in the flood; In the difficulties, Zhou Tong taught martial arts, became a civil and military all-rounder, and got to know many little heroes; Then he got the spear and the sword of "Zhanlu", and chose to sit down on the horse; When he was the champion of martial arts in Beijing, he picked the king of Xiaoliang with a gun, touched the powerful and so on, and so on, all of which made a good paving for the future achievements of this pillar of the country who "takes the lead and always gives love, and weighs the soul without being famous". It is precisely because of such an ideological foundation and civil and military strategy that at the critical moment of the survival of the Southern Song Dynasty, he resolutely enlisted to resist the Jin, and repeatedly eliminated the framing and interference of traitorous ministers, killed the enemy for the country, and repeatedly performed miraculous feats. With the support of the anti-Japanese war faction of the government and the opposition, he finally became a marshal, and Niu Gao and others led the Taihang Mountain Righteous Army to join each other, and the momentum was even more vigorous, and the killing of Jin Wushu was so frightened that he had to commit suicide to cover up the humiliation of the fiasco. And Yue Fei's image has reached the apex of glory so far.

Due to the insurmountable deep contradiction between loyalty and patriotism in Yue Fei's thoughts, when Qin Hui joined forces with the outside world, slandered Gaozong, and recalled him from the front line that was about to achieve the final victory with twelve gold medals, he held the foolish and loyal concept of "being the holy decree of the imperial court, and the ministers who are in charge of other powers", bowed his head and obeyed orders, and did not allow Wang Heng to resist, and summoned his eldest son Yue Yun and the general Zhang Xian to the Beijing division to prevent them from rebelling, and finally with the resentment of the traitorous ministers and the self-comfort of loyalty, filial piety, and righteousness, he was killed on the Fengbo Pavilion with Yue Yun and Zhang Xian. The tragedy of his loyalty to the highest feudal moral norms forms a sharp contrast with his vigorous anti-Jin struggle, which not only shows the author's pain of "loyal ministers dying for the country" and his indignation at "treacherous and misleading the country", but also reflects the author's identification with foolish loyalty.

If Yue Fei is a tragic hero who made great achievements for the country and died of foolishness, then Niu Gao is a reckless hero who not only hates the ministers, but also dares to criticize the faint king. The author's portrayal of his honest and optimistic character, but also jealous and hateful, heroic and fearless, is quite vivid. This is one of the most glorious images in the work, and the great influence of "The Complete Biography of Yue Yue" among the people is inseparable from this image. He is not as "confused" as Yue Fei, although he is rude and reckless, he is upright, distinguishes right from wrong, and always maintains a clear understanding and strong resistance to the faint monarch and traitorous ministers. He didn't have as much feudal dogma as Yue Fei, after the gun picked off King Xiaoliang, Zhang Bangchang wanted to behead Yue Fei, so he dared to break the flagpole with a wedge and call on everyone to rebel; After that, he really gathered the crowd to Taihang, called the lonely and widowed, and walked for the sky, and called himself the "King of Justice". The holy decree came to recruit An, and he said: "Taifan has become the emperor, he is ruthless and righteous, and I am not deceived by the emperor and not recruited by Zhao'an." When Qinchen was agitated by foreign invasions, Niu Gao was able to understand the righteousness and put the interests of the nation first, and resolutely went down the mountain to participate in Yue Fei's anti-Jin team.

If Yue Fei, as a tragic image, shows more of the value of thought, ethics and morality, which makes people cry, then the image of Niu Gao shines more with the brilliance of his character, adding a comedy to the work in the tragic atmosphere, he is not only a Li Kui-style fierce hero, but also a Cheng Biting Jin-style lucky general, Li Kui's naïve straightforwardness and Cheng Biting Jin's pungent humor are fused together, presenting a serious funny, very comedic aesthetic taste. Compared with Yue Fei's tragic character, Niu Gao's comedy character of maintaining the true character of a reckless hero is very distinct, more real, more humane and folk. This is another living artistic image in the series of comedy heroes such as Zhang Fei, Li Kui, Lu Zhishen and later Cheng Yanjin.

"The Complete Biography of Yue Yue" is full of legends. Yue Fei broke into the enemy camp with one gun, Liang Hongyu beat the drum to fight Jinshan, Niu Gao rode Jin Wushu under his crotch and laughed to death, etc., all of which were written vividly and infectiously. Others, such as Li Ruoshui, were awe-inspiring in the face of cruel criminal law, and even bit off the ear of the old wolf master; Zong Ze was worried about the country, and shouted "crossing the river to kill the thief" and died; In order to infiltrate the Jin camp, Wang Zuo used a "bitter meat trick" to cut off his own arm, etc., which can leave an unforgettable impression.

The plot arrangement of "The Complete Biography of Yue" has its own characteristics. With Yue Fei as the center, the momentum of the stars and the moon is formed. In addition, while the vertical main line of the work is clear, it also pays attention to the vividness of the horizontal plot and the richness of the characters' personalities.

"The Complete Biography of Yue Yue" is a storyteller throughout the text, and the language is fluent, concise and bright, wonderful and moving, and readable.

It should be pointed out that due to the influence of the traditional concept of karma, "The Legend of Yue Quan" attributed the contradiction between Song and Jin, the contradiction between loyalty and treachery to the revenge of old grudges, and the contradiction between Yue Fei and Jin Wushu was interpreted as the revenge of Dapeng Bird and Red Whiskered Dragon, which to a certain extent weakened the laziness of love and hatred in the realistic description. In addition, the work fictionalizes a happy ending: Yue Fei was sealed after his death, the traitorous ministers were punished, Yue Lei smashed Huanglong, and he was angry with Wushu...... This fiction, while very satisfying, is weak and not clever.

On the whole, "The Complete Biography of Yue Yue" is a relatively excellent work, and its leading ideas are positive, but it also contains some dross; There is a commendable side to the art of the novel, but it is also flawed. Today's readers, as long as they read this novel with the right attitude, will be able to learn from history and enjoy art.