1952, there was a dispute between taijimen and Baihe men in Wulin, Hong Kong. First, they attacked each other in the newspaper, and then they agreed to hold a competition in Macau New Park. This incident caused a sensation throughout Hong Kong, and the local newspapers naturally refused to let go of the coverage of the game. The editor of Tonight's Evening News used the title to warn readers that from the second day of the contest, there will be a wonderful series of martial arts novels to satisfy readers, and Liang Yusheng's "Long Hudou Jinghua", the first work of Hong Kong's new martial arts novels, also came out in a hurry. This business strategy has been effective, the novel has been warmly welcomed by readers, and the sales of newspapers have naturally increased. After Jin Yong became famous for The Legend of the Sword and the Chivalrous Man, he founded Ming Pao independently, attracting readers and creating the market with his own martial arts novels. Jin Yong's first martial arts novel serialized in Ming Pao was The Condor Heroes. It is not easy to write this sequel under the fame of Legend of the Condor Heroes, but it is related to the rise and fall of Ming Pao, and Jin Yong has to pay special attention to it. Under the careful operation of Jin Yong, The Condor Heroes was a great success, won the welcome of readers, and Ming Pao also opened the market. Later, when talking about his martial arts novels, Jin Yong expressed his favorite "The Condor Heroes", which was probably not entirely based on artistic reasons, but obviously contained the joy of career success.

In fact, the creation of martial arts novels by Liang Yusheng, Jin Yong, etc. is firstly a commercial activity, and the form of the new school of martial arts novels cannot but be regulated by commerce. This is the most important perspective to study the new martial arts novels, but from the current research on the new martial arts novels, it seems that this point has not been paid attention to.

The birth form of new martial arts novels is newspaper serials, which requires the author to hurry and speed up, and he must hand over his works without delay. In this case, the author has no extra time to elaborate, and there are inevitably sloppy places in the novel. Many people point out that there are many mistakes and omissions in the logic of the new martial arts novels. For example, Mr. Xu Xizhe, a friend of Jin Yong, once published "Talking about Martial Arts in His Busy Schedule-Reading Jin Yong's" Eight Dragons "and" Yi Tian Tu Long Ji "(Note: San Mao, etc. Jin Yong's Hundred Talks, Feng Chun Literature and Art Publishing House 1987. ) points out many mistakes in the plots of the two novels "Dragon Eight Branches" and "Dragon Slayer". Jin Yong said many times that his novels were reprinted from newspapers and there were many revisions. Roughly estimated, 67/ 10 sentences in the original book have been corrected, and the omissions and omissions in the original book have also been roughly corrected. (Noe: Jin Yong: Postscript of Flying Fox on Snow Mountain, Sanlian Bookstore (Hong Kong) 1994, 1 Edition. ) "Now it has been revised and reprinted, and almost every sentence has been corrected. Even the third proof is a mess. (Noe: Jin Yong: Postscript to the Sword of the Book, Sanlian Bookstore (Hong Kong) 1 May, 9941Edition. On the one hand, it shows that Jin Yong is serious and responsible-he can modify his works afterwards, which is rare in Hong Kong. Most people don't even have time to reread their own works, but on the other hand, it shows how sloppy these novels were when they were first published.

With the maturity and rise of Gu Long, passionate swordsman's ruthless sword, Lu Xiaofeng, meteor butterfly sword, Seven Swords, and Chu Liuxiang swept the world, and the appearance of happy heroes brought the peak of Gu Long's career.

At this time, Gu Long is a flying butterfly, and he has reached the peak of his life. The hero image created in Happy Hero is vivid and full of vigor.

Here, Gu Long completely broke away from the shackles of old-school novels, Jin Yong's "unification" of rivers and lakes and old-fashioned grievances, and broke away from the famous schools and rules rooted in rivers and lakes.

Some directly explore and excavate human nature and human heart, praising friendship, tolerance, sympathy and understanding.

This is the essence of Gu Long's novels, and this is the real "chivalrous romance" and "new martial arts novels".

At this time, Gu Long finally turned from looking up to Jin Yong.

He broke the myth that "Jin Yong can't be surpassed" and "there is no martial arts after Jin Yong", and he also created a myth, which is Gu Long's own myth!

Jin Yong was also attracted by this rising star. After Jin Yong sealed the pen, he sincerely invited Gu Long to serialize his novels in Ming Pao.

For Gu Long, this is an honor and a wish, because it proves his position and value.

Because this is a "martial arts myth", Jin Yong personally invited it! !

And the first person invited is Gu Long!

Gu Long was secretly pleased! !

Later, Lu Xiaofeng was serialized in Ming Pao.

Jin Yong proved Gu Long's position in the history of martial arts novels.