The Legend of the Condor Heroes is based on the history from the fifth year of Qingyuan in Song Ningzong (1 199) to Genghis Khan's death (1227), which reflects the struggle between the Southern Song Dynasty and the two powerful enemies, Jin Guo and Mongolia, and is full of patriotic nationalism.

The novel has outstanding historical background, numerous scenes and great momentum, and has a distinctive "heroic epic" style; In terms of characterization and plot arrangement, it broke the traditional martial arts novels' mode of blindly legend, taking characters as plot vassals, insisting on shaping personalized characters as the center, and insisting on directing stories with characters.

Creation background

According to Jin Yong's self-report, when he wrote The Condor Heroes, he was working as a screenwriter and director at the Great Wall Film Company. During this period, the books he read were mainly western dramas and drama theories, so some plots in the novel were unconsciously dramatized, especially the large section of Niujiacun's secret room healing, which was completely the scene and character scheduling of the stage play.

Many changes have been made in The Legend of the Condor Heroes. When Jin Yong revised it, he deleted some plots that were not necessarily related to stories or characters, such as the little red bird, the frog-clam war, the iron palm gang killing people and so on. And removed the character of Qin, combined her with Mu Nianci, and added some new plots, such as the beginning of Zhang Shiwu's storytelling, a painting was stolen by a crooked ghost, Huang Rong forced the palace sedan chair to meet the rain, and wrote the Nine Classics.