Chapter 5 On "Liancheng Jue"

"Liancheng Jue" is the most unique one among Jin Yong's works.The title of the article when it was first published was "Su Xin Jian". After revision and correction, the current title was used. If "The Legend of Condor Heroes" is a love letter, then "Liancheng Jue" is a bad book. Love writing is full of love from all kinds of people in the world; bad writing is full of badness from all kinds of people in the world. The ugliness of human nature is described so thoroughly in "Liancheng Jue", which makes people shudder after reading it, and makes them feel like eating and drinking.I want to refute, are people really that bad?But I couldn't think of any words to refute.I had no choice but to accept the fact that people are so bad!

The master taught the apprentice martial arts, deliberately made a mistake in the formula of martial arts, bad! In order to compete for a woman, set up a well-planned trap to frame a country boy, bad! Intrigue between seniors and brothers, bad! Disciple kills master, bad! A father who cruelly killed his daughter and buried her alive in a coffin was so bad that it couldn't be worse! Trapping her daughter's lover in a dark prison, tortured in every possible way, bad! The entire "Liancheng Jue" is full of various evil deeds of people. And all the evil deeds are for a large number of treasures. As a result, everyone is crazy about the treasures.After Jin Yong wrote all the evil deeds of people, he set a fire and put these evil deeds in the fire.But this kind of evil deeds of people really exist, and the fire can't burn it out.

Of course, there is also a beautiful side in "Liancheng Jue".The love between Ding Dian and Ling Shuanghua is so mesmerizing and touching, and it is the most descriptive of love in all Jin Yong's works.Then came the turn of Yang Xiao and Ji Xiaofu in "Yi Tian Tu Long Ji".Ling Shuanghua is also the most sympathetic woman encountered in Jin Yong's works. She was killed by her money-obsessed father. It seems unbelievable for parents to harm their daughters, but in the real society, parents who send their daughters into the fire pit for themselves are often seen, so it is no wonder that some people call out: There are parents who are not right in the world!

"Liancheng Jue" is also the most bitter novel.The hardships suffered by the characters in the book are simply too overwhelming for the readers. In order to avoid being discovered by others, Di Yun hid and plucked out his hair in handfuls, was it hard enough?But that was only physical pain.Mental suffering is ten times worse than this.Not only the mental pain of positive characters, but also the mental pain of those who have been doing bad things.After killing people, destroying corpses and destroying traces, sleepwalking and laying bricks in the middle of the night every day, how painful it is to fall into.

"Liancheng Jue" also describes a person's psychological state and performance when facing death.In martial arts novels, knights are not afraid of death, and regard death as home.But Jin Yong made a breakthrough. A hero who has always been famous in the world, when facing death, in order to keep himself alive, he is more despicable than any despicable villain.What Hua Tiegan has done has written all the weaknesses of human nature.Just for the sake of living, no matter whether it is a good life, a bad life, or even a purposeless life, people can do anything. Putting people in a desperate environment, so that the usually hidden side of human nature can be brought into full play, this is a theme that many novelists like to use, but none is as profound as Jin Yong's "Liancheng Jue" described.

Fortunately, at the end there is a dress made of bird feathers by Shui Sheng, which makes people breathe a sigh of relief. In the postscript of "Liancheng Jue", Jin Yong condemned the unjust prison. This postscript is very moving, and it describes an event he heard in childhood with a touch of emotion. There are no strong words, but strong feelings are expressed.The whole "Liancheng Jue" is like this. Regarding all the evil deeds in "Liancheng Jue", Jin Yong's words and sentences are not even strong, but just a light onlooker. Only in this way, the appeal is particularly strong.A disdainful sneer at the corner of his mouth must be more powerful than a scolding gnashing his teeth. "Liancheng Jue" ranks ninth among Jin Yong's works.