(lonely and defeated stills)
Some exaggerated descriptions in martial arts works are completely understandable. The master in the book can be explained by flying skills or postures. There are people with better jumping ability in the real world, so exaggeration adds color to the story of martial arts to some extent. For example, there are various martial arts cheats in the book, such as Jiuyin Zhen Jing and Sunflower Collection. If someone accidentally gets them and learns martial arts, they can greatly improve their martial arts. This is also a martial arts shortcut in martial arts novels, which can be explained by "setting", but there are still some story bridges in Jin Yong's works that deviate from the scope of "setting", which is a loophole.
(Wang Yuyan stills)
For a typical example, in the newly revised version of Eight Branches of the Dragon, Jin Yong made drastic changes to the ending of the role of Wang Yuyan. In the original serial version and triple version, Wang Yuyan finally went to Dali with Duan Yu, so I won't elaborate on the story afterwards, but it's not hard for readers to make up their minds. It's nothing more than two people getting married and then living the life of a fairy couple.
However, in the newly revised version, a section named "Looking for the Spring Valley of Youth" was added, which showed Wang Yuyan's "brainless" side vividly. Obviously, the story is over, but she made everything and broke the statue of the fairy sister. The most unreasonable thing is that she returned to Mu Rongfu. Jin Lao's actions ignored that Mu Rongfu was the villain who forced Wang Yuyan's parents to die. Even if Wang Yuyan had no brains, it wouldn't be like this. But Jin Lao does not regret this change, but it is definitely the other two plots in his works that are unreasonable.
The first story is the "autobiography of Wu Ya" in Eight Dragons. When the plot in the book developed to the stage of "Heroes cracking Indiana Jones", Xu Zhu, a young monk of Shaolin School, stood out and cracked the chess game unintentionally, thus getting the chance to meet Wu Yazi and acquiring lifelong skills.
(Five Duck Stills)
But this way of teaching skills is obviously not in line with normal logic. If a person can pass on his lifelong skills to another person, if Xu Zhu passes them on to his disciples, and so on, won't internal forces accumulate infinitely in a person? Therefore, Jin Lao avoids talking about the bard in other works, because the bard's inheritance of martial arts is already a loophole.
The second point that makes Jin Lao dissatisfied with himself also comes from the book Eight Dragons, which is the plot of "Tian Shan Tong's rejuvenation". In the book, it is very outrageous that A can easily pretend until no one notices, but Tin Muk can actually go against the laws of nature and rejuvenate himself with his skills. This is obviously not a category of martial arts, but belongs to "cultivating immortals".
The irrationality of these two plots is not the author's nonsense, but explicitly mentioned by Mr. Jin Yong in the newly revised postscript of Tianlong Babu. There are many exaggerated or actually impossible places in the characters' personalities and martial arts skills in "Dragon", such as "Six-pulse Excalibur", "Flame Knife", "Northern Ghost Magic", no cliff-child skills, and rejuvenation of children. Readers are invited to think about surrealism and symbolism in modernist painting. For example, a woman in a picture has two heads facing left and right. In art, expression divorced from reality is allowed. "
Moreover, in the note at the end of the tenth chapter of the original book, he also mentioned: "The narrative of this book is full of false imagination and exaggeration, mostly in the name of' Eight Dragons', which is symbolic and abstract and has entered the magical realm of magic." It can be seen that Tian Ba Long Bu is the pinnacle of Jin Yong's works, but it also has some shortcomings. It is worthy of readers' admiration that Mr. Jin Yong dares to raise these questions himself, which is also the embodiment of his Excellence in his works.