Chapter 4 On "Snow Mountain Flying Fox"

After going through the initial exploration stage of "Book, Sword, Enmity and Enmity" and "Jade Blood Sword", Jin Yong created "Snow Mountain Flying Fox". "Snow Mountain Flying Fox" is Shi Potian's shocking work, breaking through the ensemble drama of "Book and Sword", vaguely inheriting the two-line development and flashback structure in "Jade Blood Sword".And the structure of the whole novel has been pushed to a new realm. Through a series of flashbacks, the flashbacks come from everyone's mouth, there are opinions between everyone, and under extremely confusing circumstances, the events that happened that year are brought together one step at a time. revealed step by step.

Similar to "Jade Blood Sword", the real character in "Snow Mountain Flying Fox" is not Hu Fei, but Hu Yidao and his wife in flashback.The difference is that the flashback characters in "Jade Blood Sword" have already died, but in "Snow Mountain Flying Fox", Miao Renfeng stayed.In the end, he fought Hu Fei. Therefore, "Snow Mountain Flying Fox" does not have the shortcomings of "Jade Blood Sword". After the end of one line of flashback, the other line is equally brilliant. "Flying Fox in the Snow Mountain" has been the most controversial among Jin Yong's works since its publication.There are two points that caused controversy: the first point: multiple characters narrated a story several years ago, each person spoke differently due to different angles, viewpoints, various personal reasons, and according to each person's personal wishes. Things have passed.

This is a unique way of expression, which is a bit of a joke about history, making people suspicious of the so-called historical truth.Since everyone stands on their own standpoint and makes plans for their own interests to describe what happened, how much is the truth of the facts?Not only the narrator of history, but especially the so-called autobiography, one can imagine how authentic it is. What is controversial about this way of writing is that many people intuitively think that this is Rashomon. (Rashomon refers to the Japanese movie Rashomon. The original novel of Rashomon is very simple, and the film is fully developed in the hands of Akira Kurosawa.) Due to the same structure in Rashomon, everyone has similarities and differences when narrating the past. , and the truth of the facts is drowned out.Therefore, "Snow Mountain Flying Fox" is often compared with Rashomon in the minds of readers.

Regarding this point, my opinion is: During the creation process of "Snow Mountain Flying Fox", Jin Yong was of course influenced by the movie Rashomon at the beginning.But people with a discerning eye can easily see that shortly after Jin Yong started to create, he immediately thought that his works would be compared with Rashomon.Therefore, he tried his best to break through again, not to fall into the rut of Rashomon, and as a result, his efforts were successful.The idea of ​​flashbacks in "Snow Mountain Flying Fox" comes from Rashomonko.Saying that "Flying Fox in the Snow Mountain" is a reprint of Rashomon is absolutely unacceptable.If you insist on saying this, it is proof that the person who said it has never watched the movie Rashomon and "Snow Mountain Flying Fox" carefully.

(Here, such as listing the similarities and differences between the movie Rashomon and "Snow Mountain Flying Fox". To do this, you can write a hundred thousand words and become a kind of specialized comment, rather than my original intention. You can pay attention, in the text, I even try my best to avoid quoting the original text of Jin Yong's works, and only express my personal opinions on Jin Yong's works. This is in line with the big topic of my reading Jin Yong's novels, and it can also make the text more interesting. , you say good or bad, how can you prove that you are right? Answer: These words are all written for people who have read Jin Yong’s novels. If you have not read Jin Yong’s novels, please read them quickly.) It is a great loss in life!) The flashback structure adopted by Jin Yong in "Snow Mountain Flying Fox" has never appeared in martial arts novels, and it is a decisive new technique.The embryonic form of this new technique was in "Jade Blood Sword", and it matured in "Snow Mountain Flying Fox".The strange thing is that it will never be seen again in Jin Yong's later works.Perhaps Jin Yong thinks that it is just a kind of gimmick in creation, which is fine if you do it once in a while, especially not in the long run. (To be continued) Snow Mountain Flying Fox (continued) The second point that caused controversy: Is "Snow Mountain Flying Fox" finished? "Snow Mountain Flying Fox" writes that Hu Fei and Miao Renfeng fought. There have been many grievances and grievances between the two of them.Moreover, the place where Jin Yong arranged for the two to fight was on a cliff.The background location is written so that there is no way out for this episode, there is no room for turning around and maneuvering, and life and death must be judged.And from the beginning, the two duels are all positive characters in the book, no matter from the standpoint of the author or the reader, no one can die between the two.

This is tantamount to an inextricable knot. All the readers hold their breath, waiting for Jin Yong to untie this knot, and the readers also believe that Jin Yong can untie this knot extremely satisfactorily.Finally, the two dueling parties, Hu Fei and Miao Renfeng, can judge the superiority. Hu Fei caught a flaw in Miao Renfeng's sword technique. During the fight, once he discovered this flaw, he only needed to make another move. , It is time to judge life and death and determine the outcome! However, at this juncture, Jin Yong stopped writing and declared: The whole book is over! Did Hu Fei's knife cut off?Jin Yong's explanation is: let readers imagine for themselves.

In my opinion, "Snow Mountain Flying Fox" is not considered finished, it is a cunning played by Jin Yong to the readers. The current ending of "Snow Mountain Flying Fox" is by no means within the creative plan, but a kind of inspiration after the pen is written due to various factors.Now that the inspiration is triggered, I feel that it is not a bad idea to end here and leave endless room for imagination to the readers.At the beginning, I just thought it was okay, but as time passed, the inspiration turned into mature thinking, and it changed from maybe not impossible to absolutely possible, so it became a foregone conclusion.

When interacting with Jin Yong, every time he asked about this, Jin Yong always had an expression of no comment. Since it was unpredictable, he had no choice but to speculate. In the ending of "Snow Mountain Flying Fox", the cunning that Jin Yong showed off can only come from Jin Yong's hands, and others must never follow suit. Since the whole book is approaching a dead end step by step, and suddenly stopped writing at the end of the dead end, readers can indeed rely on their own ideas and imaginations, or guess what Jin Yong's original ideas were.When talking about Jin Yong's works, it can add fun, which is also the success of Jin Yong.

"Snow Mountain Flying Fox" in Jin Yong's works, because he created such lovely characters as Hu Yidao and his wife, and because of its peculiar and bizarre structure, it could have been ranked higher, but because it has not ended, the responsibility of untying the deadlock has been shifted to Jin Yong. Readers, so had to rank fifth.