Read "The Return of the Condor Heroes" carefully: What is the meaning of love in this world?

Author: Chen Mo
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Publish Date: 2006-05-01
Features: The Legend of the Condor Heroes is the most autobiographical of all's novels, marking the true beginning of the humanistic "revolution" in his martial arts fiction. It also represents an unprecedented breakthrough and turning point. From then on, the traditional narrow perspective of the era before The Legend of the Heroic Swordsman transformed into a view closer to the complexities of human nature. Guo Jing, like Changchuan River, stands as the authentic of the martial arts world, while Yang Guo's growth, like a raging torrent, is full of uncertainties, making him a rebel and an unconventional hero in the martial arts world. Yet, this also endows him with deeper humanistic significance and philosophical depth. Yang Guo, along with the author Jin Yong, chose the path of liberalism, becoming the character closest to Jin Yong's own psychology and emotional world. He is ranked alongside Qiao Feng, Linghu Chong, and Wei Xiaobao as one of the four greatest figures in Jin Yong's works. Yang Guo's extraordinary love with Xiao Longnü is a tale of bitter winds and stormy rains, filled with the hardships and regrets of life's partings. The disabled hero and the lost virtue of the jade maiden, the vastness of life and death, and the lingering sense of melancholy and reflection in the author's heart reach their peak here. The Living Corpse Tomb, the Valley of Absolute Emotion, and the historical, legendary, and humanistic emotional journeys experienced by the protagonists and their tragic love stories further demonstrate the extraordinary imagination in this "book of parting," truly ushering in the "magical era" of Jin Yong's martial arts fiction creation!