Tell me about Guo Xiang.
Guo Xiang starred in The Condor Heroes. From 65438 to 0959, Jin Yong ran Ming Pao himself, and in order to promote newspaper sales, he began to serialize The Condor Heroes. The three-year series of novels is the most difficult stage of Ming Pao's initial creation.
At that time, many readers bought Ming Pao purely to catch up with The Condor Heroes. Therefore, when writing the condor heroes, Jin Yong had to face a difficult problem: you have to sell stories, so you have no conditions to be willful, and you have to cater to readers.
Looking closely at all Jin Yong's works, The Condor Heroes is almost the one that caters to readers.
According to Jin Yong's original intention, The Condor Heroes is the only martial arts novel written as a love epic, and his ambition is to turn it into a martial arts version of Romeo and Juliet.
The condor heroes was originally named "the lack of heaven and earth".
Although Yang Guo eventually became a great warrior, Guo Fu broke his right arm in the middle, which is called "wild silkworm". Although the little dragon girl is as pure as ice and pure as jade, it was destroyed by Yin Zhiping, so-called lack of land. What Jin Yong wants to write is incomplete love. More importantly, the love between master and apprentice, the taboo between Little Dragon Girl and Yang Guo, is an anti-ethical and anti-traditional existence.
Because it is revolutionary, challenging and incomplete, love stories can be ups and downs and have a strong narrative depth. All Jin Yong's preparations and settings are for the arrival of the last great tragedy. Just like Liang Zhu became a butterfly, it made people cry with a sad, profound, romantic and complete ending.
Laughing is always a comedy, and tragedy is the most touching. Jin Yong certainly understood this truth. In fact, he has already designed the framework of tragedy and enriched it step by step. But slowly he found something was wrong and the reader was unhappy.
Mass readers are vulnerable. In the middle of the series, readers simply can't stand the tragedy of Little Dragon Girl and Yang Guo. If even the girl and Yang can't be together, how can we believe in love?
What readers want is that everyone is happy. What they want is that everything will be fine. Jin Yong was greatly disturbed.
In Jin Yong's original design, the little dragon girl jumped from the valley of despair, and there was no more. She and Yang Guo will be separated forever in this world, leaving a sad ending and playing the last chapter of the love epic. However, public opinion is hard to violate, and readers strongly demand that it cannot be separated. Once separated, readers feel very hurt and don't buy Jin Yong's newspaper.
When Conan Doyle serialized The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, he wrote Sherlock Holmes to death for a while because he thought the character could leave. However, the reader refused. A gangster reader directly kidnapped Conan Doyle, forced him to write Sherlock Holmes alive, or killed him. Conan Doyle wrote Sherlock Holmes to save his life.
When the American TV series Prison Break was updated to the third season, the actress who played the heroine had to quit because she was pregnant, and as a result, the screenwriter wrote her to death. As a result, her ratings plummeted after her death, scaring the creative staff to revive her in the fourth season.
All serial works have this concern. If you go against the will of the public, the public will abandon you.
Jin Yong's serial "The Condor Heroes" was also indirectly threatened by many readers. Well, Jin Yong has no choice. Let's keep writing. Just write that Yang Guo finally jumped into the Valley of Desperate Love and met Little Dragon Girl. Finally reunited. But Jin Yong really didn't want to continue editing, so he wrote that they finally lived in seclusion.
In Jin Yong's mind, the little dragon girl's play ended long ago, and later she was forced to add a play to win the readers' joy.
Jin Yong once said that as far as the girls and Yang Guo are concerned, they are unlikely to go to the end. Of course, their love is great enough and touching enough, but the little dragon girl is indifferent and Yang Guo is perverse. These two characters can fall in love vigorously, but they are doomed to tragedy.
It was the commercial writing background that influenced Jin Yong's writing plan, so The Condor Heroes was not completed as planned. Forced to become a condor hero, it should have been a thrilling love tragedy and turned into a happy martial arts Spring Festival Evening.
But where is Jin Yong willing? In that part of the tragedy, he temporarily changed his plan and changed his role. That's Guo Xiang.
I guess this scene of Guo Xiang is probably rare in Jin Yong's original design. Throughout The Condor Heroes, when Guo Xiang appeared, it was almost the end of the book, with a total of 40 chapters, and her appearance in The Night Talk in Fengling was already the 33rd chapter.
After Guo Xiang appeared, she replaced Little Dragon Girl as the heroine. Since the little dragon girl jumped off the cliff 16 years ago, Jin Yong's narrative has been unable to go according to the original plan. He probably had a brainwave and simply created another heroine. So although Guo Xiang appeared late, the scene was heavy.
There are only seven chapters left in the book, but Guo Xiang abruptly becomes the second heroine. You can imagine how deep Jin Yong's prejudice against her is. Why do you like her? That's not because Jin Yong wants to continue to play another role in the original tragedy. Guo Xiang is actually making up for the unfinished part of the role of Little Dragon Girl.
The relationship between Guo Xiang and Yang Guo is written according to tragedy. So when she met Yang Guo, she missed her life, so the fireworks at the age of 16 were particularly beautiful, so she rode a donkey to find the back of the giant condor, which was heartbreaking.
In the end, Guo Xiang became the most popular female character in The Condor Heroes. On the hot search list, Guo Xiang's heat threw out a few little dragon girls.
Let's talk about the little dragon girl again. The little dragon girl is probably the most wronged heroine in Jin Yong's works. She starred in The Legend of the Condor Heroes, including the heroine Huang Rong Town Market in The Legend of the Condor Heroes. Under the aura of Huang Rong, it is difficult for her to make a name for herself. As a result, a female explosion like Guo Xiang appeared in the later period. The little dragon girl was caught in the middle and felt a serious threat.
Jin Yong was partial to Huang Rong, and wrote about her all the way from the sculpture to the sculpture, giving the main scene to his daughter Guo Xiang. Guo Xiang's life is the end of The Condor Heroes and the beginning of The Dragon Slayer in Yi Tian. These two women run through the whole trilogy of The Condor Heroes, with a strong sense of existence, which is unparalleled.
In Jin Yong's subconscious, he doesn't like the little dragon girl. Probably because she was disturbed by the market when writing about her, which led to a bad mood. Finally, I wrote her as a hermit, and there was no more.
In The Condor Heroes, Jin Yong dedicated his remaining love to Guo Xiang. Guo Xiang has Guo Jing's kindness and generosity, Huang Rong's resourcefulness and playfulness, and even Huang's free and easy obsession. The strengths of the elders are perfectly integrated in her.
If it weren't for catering to readers, there might be another kind of little dragon girl, with nothing in Guo Xiang at all. The existence of Guo Xiang is a compensation for the rigidity of the little dragon daughter Li, which is just a beautiful accident.
Without Guo Xiang, it is conceivable that the carved gods are not very beautiful. Jin Yong is powerful. Even if he caters to the public, he can turn the tide and stick to his heart. It is also steep to blend in and cater to it.
Facts have proved that the forced reunion between Little Dragon Girl and Yang Guo won the joy of most people at that time. But in the end, it is the deep and eternal memory of Guo Xiang and Yang Guo that is engraved in the memory.
Generally speaking, The Condor Heroes is a regrettable work for Jin Yong. In the general direction, the epic love tragedy was not completed, and Guo Xiang had to become a broken corner of the epic.
But it is such a corner that people can't put it down.
We don't know what Guo Xiang realized when he was forty. The moment she realized it was also the moment Jin Yong asked her to leave.
Jin Yong is also embarrassed. It's not easy for this woman to be number two. It's time to have a rest.