Writing "The Legend of Yongle Heroes", there is a question that has been haunting my mind: what exactly is martial arts?

I can't give an explanation, but I've heard a lot of answers. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

Martial arts is bloody and bloody, martial arts is happy and vengeful, martial arts is to be happy, and martial arts is to be righteous and angry......

These answers are all correct, and it can also be said that they are not right, because for martial arts, almost all people's focus is on the word "martial arts", rather than the word "chivalry".

I was determined to follow the protagonist in the book to find my own martial arts.

Martial arts and violence are not the core of martial arts, "chivalry" is the essence of these two words.

"Xia" should not be a single spiritual world, he should be a baby in the vast era, every beating of "Xia" should step on the notes of the times, leaving the imprint of the times.

"Chivalry" is a feast for a group of people after all, it is a kind of spiritual condensation, "chivalry" is not lonely, let alone lonely.

"But make the dragon city fly, don't teach Humadu Yinshan", the flying will be a warrior, but it is a literati who wrote this poem, do you say which of them is a chivalry? Or both?

Therefore, "Xia" seems to me to be a hermitage, he can be stationed in the camp of everyone's heart, and he can also pat the dust at any time and set off without leaving a trace.

"Chivalry" is not divided between young and old, Lao Ji is a chivalrous, young people are heroic, and they are sometimes chivalrous; "Chivalry" does not distinguish between men and women, Zhao Keman and Hu Ying are chivalrous, and Mulan is also a chivalrous when she was in the army. "Chivalry" also does not distinguish between identities, Cao Mo is a chivalrous, and it is not true that he wants to leave and specialize.

The bearded guest, Li Jing, and the red whisker girl in the Tang legend, one is a ronin, the other is an official, and the other is a dust girl, but they are all chivalrous, which does not prevent them from knowing and loving each other.

Xia is a grass that takes root, sprouts, and thrives, so anyone understands that 20 years old and 30 years old are definitely not the same, and 50 years old and 60 years old will be another realm.

This is like reading "Water Margin" when I was a child, every time I read that the heroes were always happy when they drank in a big bowl, but when they read about Song Jiang's surrender, they threw the book to the ground angrily. If you read it again now, you will find that the essence of "Water Margin" is not the hero who killed the tiger in Jingyanggang, nor the law field where Jiangzhou was robbed, but it started from that surrender.

When Lu Xun commented on the Water Margin, he once said that the robbers who did not "do the right thing for heaven" were slaves after all. In fact, it just brings out the meaning of chivalry: to do the right thing for heaven!

You may ask, "Do the way for heaven"?

In fact, heaven is the Tao, the Tao is the sky, he is in the heart of each of us, he is a natural public opinion, he is a common emotion of human beings, if you find it, do it, you can also call it "chivalry".

This "The Legend of Yongle Heroes" is to outline such a chivalrous world for everyone, although it is far away in the era of 1402 AD, but the spirit of chivalry can be used for reference and learning at any time, which will be beneficial to our future life.

People must not have unrealistic illusions, but they must not be without a trace of ideals. I write carefully, you are tired of reading, the level is limited, but I want to be worthy of it.

Captain Written on July 2, 2016