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Chapter 70 Talking about "Farewell Hook"

Seven weapons, parting hook.

How am I going to talk about "The Farewell Hook"?

I also find it difficult to start writing.

First of all, I want to say that if you also want to write a fanfic about Gu Long, and really want to learn from Grandmaster Gu Long's writing style and his writing techniques, then I will definitely recommend the book "Farewell Hook" to read and learn.

In a sense, I think "Farewell Hook" is the book that best represents the rich and unique writing style of "Gu Longfeng".

At the time of "Peerless Two Prides" and "Sentimental Swordsman and Ruthless Sword", the characteristics of "ancient dragon style" were not very obvious at that time; but in "The Sound of Knives in the Wind Chime", the taste of "ancient dragon style" was no longer there. It is difficult to imitate this style of pyrotechnics and ethereal beauty. It requires a deep understanding of ancient dragons and literary skills.

The parting hook is in the middle.

The style of this book is mature, sophisticated, melancholy, brief and natural.

Therefore, if you want to learn some complete, simple, and not tacky "ancient dragon-style" expressions, carefully studying this "Farewell Hook" may be the best choice.

"Parting Hook" was first published in Taiwan's "United Daily News" in 1978.

Although this book is still serialized while being written, Gu Long once said: "The whole book has been written before the serialization begins."

So when reading this book, you will have a very smooth and integrated feeling.

Especially in the middle part, when Di Qinglin and Ying Wuwu discuss the sword, it is also the scene of the decisive battle between Yang Zheng and Lan Yichen;
  That large paragraph uses a montage-style writing technique, completely dividing the "shot" into two sides for cross-narration. However, the "atmosphere" and "character psychology" are completely connected together, making the reading smooth and smooth, and exciting. It has actually reached the state of perfection in brushwork!
  Gu Long wrote this paragraph, which was later selected into the preface of "Farewell Hook":

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[I was only eighteen or nineteen years old at that time, and the first novel I wrote was called "Sword of the Sky". It was a broken book, with fragmented content and incomplete writing, because I did not take it seriously at that time. 】

[If even the writer himself doesn’t value his own work, who else will value it? 】

[After ten years of writing, I gradually began to have some new concepts and new understandings of martial arts novels, because it was not until then that I could come into contact with the spirit of its connotations. A manly spirit of "doing something", a will and fighting spirit that never yields, and an unyielding determination. 】

[A fighting spirit of "even if there are thousands of people, I will go". 】

[These spirits can only make people cheer up and work hard, but they will never make people feel decadent and depressed, or make people want to commit suicide after reading them. 】

[So I began to change, and began to face up to the type of novels I wrote, and I also hoped that others would have a correct view of it. 】

[Martial arts novels are also a type of novel. They can exist to this day, and of course they have their own value. 】

[In recent years, overseas scholars have gradually begun to acknowledge its existence, and have gradually begun to make a more fair and objective criticism of its text structure and the conflict between human nature. 】

[In the past two years, readers in Taiwan have gradually changed their views on it. This is of course the result of the joint efforts of martial arts novel authors. However, it is not entirely without reason that martial arts novels are criticized. Some of them are too ridiculous plots, too old-fashioned stories, too mythical characters, too loose structures, and too frivolous writing styles. These are all things we should improve. at. 】

[To give martial arts novels the status they deserve, we all need to work together. 】

[From "Sword of the Sky" to "Farewell Hook", it has gone through a long and arduous process. An eighteen or nineteen-year-old boy has learned valuable lessons from many painful experiences. 】

[But now that I think about it, it’s all worth it, no matter how much it costs. 】

[Because we have grown up in suffering. 】

[As long as a person can live, it is a happy thing, let alone continue to grow. 】

[So every lesson we learn is equally worth cherishing. It can make people work hard and strive for self-improvement. 】

[If a person can always think like this, how can he have memories that make him sad, disappointed, painful and regretful? 】

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From this, it can be seen that Grandmaster Gu Long has been constantly seeking innovation and change. He believes that by the time of "Farewell Hook", his "martial arts" has grown a lot and matured a lot.

indeed so.

And I think the most worthy thing for us to learn from "Gu Long Feng" is perhaps not just the sentence segmentation, word choice, and word refinement, but the "martial arts spirit" emphasized by Grandmaster Gu Long.

After reading martial arts books, if people can feel full of strength in their hearts and feel the depth and beauty of life, that would be great.

[A manly spirit of "doing something", a will and fighting spirit that never yields, and an unyielding determination. 】

[A fighting spirit of "even if there are thousands of people, I will go". 】

This is the real cologne style!
  Hahahahaha!
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  Putting aside the style of writing.

As is my style, let me talk about the characters.

In terms of characters, this book actually only has two protagonists and two supporting characters.

Yang Zheng and Di Qinglin, Lan Yichen and Ying Wuwu.

The settings of Lan Yichen and Ying Wuwu are very interesting. One is the "Sword of the Blind Eye" and the other is the "Sword of the Blind Eye".

A divine eye, a blind man.

A divine eye, but his eyes are no longer what they used to be; a blind man, but he is not really blind.

This is a very conflicting, very opposing part of the two characters. But both of them use swords, and they are both famous swordsmen!

Therefore, the duel between the two of them is a fateful duel!

What about Yang Zheng and Di Qinglin?
  The two of them are also almost opposites.

Yang Zheng came from a humble background and was a head catcher. His martial arts skills were all desperate moves.

Di Qinglin was born in a noble family and was a young prince. He was extremely skilled in swords and swords, both of which were unique in killing people!

His knife penetrates into someone's heart without even spilling blood, and there is almost no wound.

And when Yang Zheng fights, he breaks his own head first, and then hits others!
  The two of them are almost completely opposite.

Identity, martial arts, stance, good and evil, all are opposites!

Then something very interesting is coming.

The two of them actually have one thing in common, which is the theme of the whole book - separation.

Parting is separation.

The parting hook is to let people separate.

Yang Zheng once said that one of the reasons why he did not use weapons like parting hooks was that he did not want people to say goodbye.

Is the reason why he doesn't want people to leave him also because he himself can't bear the separation?

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  Yang Zheng was born in a small village, and Lu Suwen was the sister next door he met when he was a child.

When he grew up, he fell in love with Lu Suwen. Even though Lu Suwen became a promiscuous woman, he still never left her. A girl next door named Lian Gu liked Yang Zheng, but Yang Zheng only felt guilty for her and had no real love.

There are not many scenes about Lu Suwen in the book, and there is very little written about why Yang Zheng likes Lu Suwen and how they fell in love.

But when it comes to Lu Suwen, she sleeps particularly soundly when she is by Yang Zheng's side; Yang Zheng also feels at ease when she is by Lu Suwen's side.

This is a very interesting description.

There is very little passion between Yang Zheng and Lu Suwen in the book, and there seems to be more of a silent relationship between the two.

This is extremely rare in the emotional lines of the male and female protagonists in "Cologne Love".

We can usually imagine that when a person is in his hometown, he returns to his childhood and returns to his mother's arms, he will feel particularly at ease and sleep particularly well.

And Lu Suwen happens to be someone Yang Zheng has known since "his hometown, when he was a child."

When a person is "nostalgic", it is often not because of saving, but because he is too affectionate and is afraid of separation.

Yang Zheng is undoubtedly such a person.

——And Di Qinglin seems to be different.

When Di Qinglin appeared, he went to buy a horse. What impressed people most was his horse and his carriage.

If talking about hometown, the impression given to people when I was young was stability; then the two images of horses and carriages obviously represent running around.

He talked to Sisi in the luxury carriage, and then killed his woman with his own hands.

Di Qinglin killed countless people, even Ying Wuwu.

He seems to have no friends.

He doesn't even treat people as people, but treats them as tools.

Sisi is his tool, Fourth Master Hua is his tool, Wang Zhenfei is his tool, Qingqing is also his tool, men are his tools, women are also his tools, Lian Yingwuwu is just his tool.

He didn't seem to have any affection for these people.

He is cold, proud, and indifferent.

In other words, he is the person least afraid of "separation" in the whole book.

Because he has never established a true "relationship" with anyone, there is no such thing as "separation" for him.

He can drive his carriage and wander around, changing from one woman to another; instead of being like Yang Zheng, working as a detective in a small county town all his life and loving only one person in his life.

Yang Zheng, who doesn't want to let himself "separate" from others, has to use the "parting hook" to deal with him - the other Di Qinglin, who doesn't care about "separation" at all, and wants to let others continue to "separate".

The final battle ending may have been a little short.

Then what we know is that Yang Zheng was finally "not afraid" of his own separation, and paid the price of an arm for Di Qinglin's separation from the world.

The story ends here.

(End of this chapter)