Jin Yong once said, "Classical Chinese traditional novels are generally character-oriented. My personal ideal in writing martial arts novels is characterization. The plots of martial arts novels are all very bizarre and long, and it is not easy for readers to remember these plots clearly. I hope that the characters I write will be vivid and have their own personalities, so that readers will have a deep impression of them. At the same time, when I conceive the idea, it is also centered on the main character, I first think about how the character of several main characters, and the plot is also in line with the human nature of the main character, what kind of temperament does this have, and what kind of things will happen."
So, Yang's character is likely to have been basically determined before Jin Yong wrote the novel, that is, "crazy". Yang was called "Western Madness", along with "Eastern Evil", "Northern Warrior" and "Southern Monk". Among the four masters, only "Western Madness" and "Eastern Evil" were named according to their character. The "northern knight (beggar)" "southern monk (emperor)" is based on the identity to name. And a character's title reflects his character, do this book's protagonist, is bound to be very distinctive character full.
"Divine Eagle Warrior" is the main line is Yang from a small boy to grow into a divine warrior. Regardless of what changes occurred in the growth of Yang's character, but can not be detached from a main theme, that is, madness!
Second, Yang's "madness" is both his strengths and weaknesses
"Madness" has many different interpretations in the dictionary. There are positive and negative, positive and negative, good and bad. It corresponds to the performance of Yang's strengths and weaknesses in different environments. The rich meaning of "madness" is directly reflected in Yang's distinctive and full character. Because of Yang's madness, he became a great warrior with strong martial arts, and also because of Yang's madness, he suffered a lot of frustration and sorrow. The word "mad" is an adjective that describes a strong degree. If strengths are positive and weaknesses are negative, "mad" is a positive number greater than one. If a person's character has the factor of madness in it, the strengths and weaknesses are multiplied by "madness" so that the strengths and weaknesses of the person will become quite prominent.
Confucius said, "If you don't want to be in the middle of the line, you must be wild and impetuous, and if you are wild, you are aggressive, and if you are impetuous, you don't want to do anything." The opposite of madness is impetuousness, and between the two is the middle way. In reality, there are very few people who are truly capable of practicing the middle way. That's why Confucius said he couldn't find anyone who practiced the middle way to socialize with him, so he could only socialize with the crazy and the impetuous. By practicing the middle way, many of the shortcomings of human nature can be eliminated, but even many of the strengths are also made to disappear. Becoming a person who has neither outstanding merits nor outstanding demerits completely banalizes a person. There are prominent advantages of the person is bound to have prominent shortcomings, often prominent advantages in a change of environment for a change of occasion for a change of circumstances will become prominent shortcomings. After shaping Guo Jing's idealized warrior, Jin Yong's characterization has become more mature, creating a warrior whose strengths and weaknesses are quite distinct and prominent, Yang Qiao.
Both in history and literature, we are often attracted and impressed by those characters whose strengths and weaknesses are very obvious. They are all people of character, insisting on their own independent individuality, not for the change of time and world. Such people are the most appealing and impressive. The strengths of their character make them successful; similarly, because of the change of the times, their original strengths are no longer adapted to the change of the times and become weaknesses, which make them face failure. Xiang Yu is one of such examples: "He was born as a man of honor, but he died as a ghost. Xiang Yu's success or failure y moved Li Qingzhao, a Song Dynasty female poet, to write this generous and eloquent poem for him.
Likewise, Yang is also a distinctive character, the advantages and disadvantages of the very prominent people, Yang's advantages so that he practiced a strong martial arts, so that he was in the adversity of self-improvement to continue to forge ahead to become a generation of warriors. Similarly, Yang's character shortcomings make him suffer a lot of pain and suffering, looking back can not help but for the young arrogant nonsense almost into the wrong way and secretly shocked.
People who have outstanding strengths and weaknesses are more able to let people have love and compassion for them, love their strengths and pity their weaknesses. This is precisely the love between Yang and Xiaolongnu heavenly cruelty touching the important reason.
Three, "mad" rich meaning of the decision to Yang full character performance
"Mad" has a variety of different meanings, but there is a **** the same point is to make a difference. The combination in Yang's character is to make a difference. First of all, "madness" means "insanity", "madness". Some people who like Yang could not accept Yang's madness, which is "insanity" and "madness". Very simple, imagine, you love the person suddenly left you or encountered difficult to face the reality of the problem, you will not be insane or crazy crazy? "Hubris" is a good way to understand Yang's character with hubris. Since he was a child, Yang has always been a strong and aggressive person, and when his kung fu is stronger and stronger, he has more and more skills, and he has the capital to be arrogant, so how can he not be arrogant? "Since you know that I am the Divine Eagle Warrior, how can you ignore my words?" This kind of arrogance is more a reflection of Yang's dominance. "Wild and loose" Yang was wild and unrestrained, capricious and debauched. Since he was young, he loved to tease people for fun, and his nature is quite a bit of flow, for men and women, Yang did not pay any attention to the big defense. Lu Wushuang first met Yang was a "dirty and obscene a shepherd boy", Yang pretended to be crazy, many times light on her, making her swear: "tomorrow when I loose the acupuncture point, will be in this fool on the body to chop him 17 or 18 cuts." Guo Fu asked Yang, the Wu brothers who is better, Yang laughed: "If he two good, I Yang has to count on what?" Guo Fu has never heard anyone say a word to her, she can not stand others to her light. Yang's words laid the groundwork for him to have his right arm chopped off later.
Madness has another most important meaning, which is fierce and strong. Therefore, Yang's laughter is maniacal laughter; Yang's crying is maniacal crying; Yang's anger is maniacal anger; Yang's shouting is maniacal shouting and maniacal shouting; Yang's whistling is maniacal whistling; Yang's running is maniacal running ....... Yang's emotions are: love is wild, love is deep, precisely because of the wild, Yang's great sadness, great joy, great suffering and great happiness.
Yang's "crazy" is to highlight the protection of women's male nature, Yang worship when he vowed to protect the little dragon lady enough to see its crazy. It is because of Yang's "madness" to promote his identity of the identity of the little dragon lady changes, practicing the Jade Maiden Heart Sutra, "only feel that the little dragon lady is a dependent on their own protection of the little sister, more inappropriate to her is not the aunt of the master". Even more to the little dragon lady "can not help but give birth to the feeling of dependence and obedience, the dignity of the teacher's frame suddenly all gone, the two eyes occasionally relative, a pity back to the protection, a rely on help, suddenly heart to heart."
Yang's "madness" is even more evident in his martial arts training. Yang's character is "crazy", and martial arts is closely related to the state of mind, Yang's "crazy" is also in line with the martial arts. There is this description in the book: Yang wanted to combine the martial arts he had learned from various schools into his own original martial arts, "his heart was twisted into a ball like a messy thread, and it was hard to support him anymore, so he fell on his back and fainted. Dalpa looked away to see him crazy, gesturing, don't know what to do, suddenly saw him fall, was shocked, to go to help." Golden Wheel State Master laughed: "Don't go to disturb his mind. It is a pity that your talent is mediocre, it is difficult to understand the reasoning." Moreover, he explained the insanity of Yang's cultivation of martial arts that is difficult for ordinary people to understand.
Yang's "madness" is also reflected in the long whistle. "When a person's internal strength is practiced to a certain level, he will often unknowingly make a loud and unusual sound. Later, during the Ming Dynasty, Wang Yangming, a great scholar, was practicing his qi in a barracks at midnight, when he suddenly let out a long whistling sound, which startled the whole army. At this time, Yang was full of qi, suddenly it was difficult to restrain, and made a whistling sound that could be heard for miles."
Yang Zao set a hundred schools of thought combined with their own miserable life self-created eclipsing the soul palm is more only in the crazy sad state of mind can play the greatest power, must be in the sadness of the time to play amazing power.
"Maniac" in ancient times refers to unconventional, fierce, contempt for the vulgar light rules. In ancient times, most of the literati were madmen. The "madness" is associated with the wise, is a kind of valuable spiritual power. Without "madness", there is no courage to break the rules. Though different, the military and the civilization are unified in terms of spiritual realm. "Madness" is associated with courage, is a kind of power to create history and change history. Yang is wise and courageous, strong martial arts, it is because of his "crazy" makes him have a kind of pioneering spirit of adventure, first of all, to lead all the heroes to the Mongolian soldiers left and right flanks of the vanguard of the whole army was destroyed, and then Guo Jing has been a number of times to send troops to attack the Mongolian army has always been unsuccessful in the Nanyang grain overnight set fire to it burned. In the battle of Xiangyang, Yang was even more courageous and bold, rushed into the enemy's thousands of troops and killed the Mongolian Khan Mongo to save Xiangyang. It was the "madness" that made Yang's reputation as a great warrior.
See Yang's "madness" is a very rich performance, once someone asked me: "Is it crazy is Yang's madness?" I think I can answer him now. I think I can now answer him, "crazy" is not Yang's "crazy", but one of the aspects of the performance! Yang is three-dimensional, not flat.
Fourth, why do people call Yang do west "crazy"
West "crazy", this "west" do not need to discuss. The key lies in this "mad" word.
At the top of Mount Hua, Huang Rong gave Yang a "crazy" word. Huang Yanshi first shouted, said: "East evil and west crazy, an old and a young, we two are exactly a pair of children." Yang said: "The kid is young, the cultivation is shallow, how can I dare to compare with the seniors." Huang Yao Shi said: "ah ha, little brother, this you can not right. You have a 'mad' word, so what's the harm in being a little mad? Besides, with your reputation and martial arts strength today, can you still not beat the old codger?" Huang Yao Shi knows that his daughter intentionally did not mention Zhou Botong, is to make him itchy and difficult to scratch, so he squeezed him a squeeze. Yang also understands his father and daughter's intention, and Little Dragon Girl looked at each other and smiled, thinking: this "crazy" word, really well said.
Huang Rong gave Yang a "crazy" word immediately got Huang Yushu applauded, followed by Yang and his wife feel that this "crazy" word, really well said. First of all, from Huang Rong's point of view, why do you call Yang Zao "mad". First of all, the word "mad" has the word "evil" in it. When Huang Rong was teaching Yang to read and write, she felt that Yang was very similar to her father. Yang was very fast in memorizing and reciting, but he was often unimpressed with the meaning of the scriptures in the books and could not stop raising questions. Huang Rong often thought to herself: "This child reads sage books, some ideas and my father is very similar, such as my father taught him, the two will talk to talk." "Mad" and "evil" have a **** the same point is to deviate from the rules and regulations of the world's Confucianism. And "crazy" more embodied is radical resistance. Ritual defense chapter Yang want to marry his master dragon lady and Guo Jing and the fierce collision with Yang's "crazy" performance to the extreme. "Frenzy" will make a person lose his mind, not recognize the advantages and disadvantages, and almost completely controlled by his own emotions. When Guo Jing used death to force Yang to admit his mistake, Yang preferred to die rather than admit his mistake, the intense emotional impact, this is "madness". In front of the broken-intestinal cliff in the Valley of Absolute Invitation, Huang Rong sees Yang's pain when he realizes that the Little Dragon Lady is gone again, and his madness after losing the Little Dragon Lady ....... This makes Huang Rong think that Yang's character is "crazy", and Jin Yong through Huang Rong's mouth pointed out that Yang's character is "crazy".
Yang's "madness" in the eyes of Huang Yao Shi: When he heard Yang said, "I want her to be both my master and my wife." Huang Yao Shi applauded and laughed: "Good ah! You think so, can be higher than me." Yang not only evil can, crazy also crazy can. Yang proposed to spread the name of evil does not necessarily have to be Huang Laoxie's disciple, brotherhood can also be. This really let Huang Yao Shi see the arrogance of Yang's youth. If the yellow pharmacist's evil hidden unpredictable, and Yang's wild is the sharp reveal, but there can not be guessed. When the world knows that there is no South China Sea divinity of this person, Yang has changed his face and stayed still, a heart seems to want to jump out of the chest, a long whistle to the sky, shaking the roof tiles, eyes in the pearl tears rolled down. No wonder Huang Rong can not guess Yang's mind, Yang's "crazy" is not completely follow the routine. Huang Rong just feel that there is no little dragon lady at the side, Yang went crazy, no one can guess what he will do.
From Xiao Longnian's point of view, Yang's "madness" is fervor, passionate as fire. Only under the impact of Yang's fiery character and fire-like emotions can the cold and frosty appearance of the little dragon lady completely melt, and the sleeping emotions in Yang's lively childish heart awakened.
"Madness" is Yang's unrepentant choice, and it is precisely because of "madness" that there is great bitterness and great sweetness, and Yang thinks: "Great bitterness and great sweetness are far better than no bitterness and no sweetness. I can only be mad and crazy, but not too peaceful days."
Fifth, the development of "madness"
Young and mad, Yang has been very "mad" since childhood. From his talk with Wanyan Ping about his father's revenge can be seen, Yang has a strong sense of revenge since childhood, for a child without a father since childhood, suffered from discrimination, is how eager to have a father. When Yang's mother before she died to persuade Yang not to avenge his father, the young Yang shouted: "I do not agree! I don't promise!" This is Yang's teenage "mania" and "impulsiveness", and it is normal for teenagers to be a bit impulsive. Inside the book, there is a plot in which Yang and Guo Fu both crickets: Guo Fu saw his invincible general die in a battle, very unhappy, thought for a moment, said: "Brother Yang, you give me this little black ghost." Yang said: "to you, there is no big deal, but why do you call it a small nigger?" Guo Fu small mouth a skim, resentful: "not to give on not to give, hanky-panky?" Pick up the tile pot a shake, will be a small black cricket fell to the ground, right foot kick down, stepped on the death. Yang was shocked and angry, the blood rises, face swollen red, can not be held down, backhand palm, heavily hit her a slap. Guo Fu also has the wrong place, but also can not be denied, teenage Yang is indeed impulsive and violent point.
When Yang grew up, this kind of teenage impulsiveness is gradually eliminated. The original has such a description: the little dragon lady but feel so stable life, the world more nothing else can be as good as, but want to his yearning for the red dust, the end of the long difficult to restrain him in the deserted mountains, said: "over the child, although our two martial arts has been greatly different from the old days, but with your Guo uncle, aunt Guo, compared to how?" Yang said: "I naturally still far from being able to, but you and they probably each have their own strengths." Little Dragon Lady said, "Your Uncle Guo has passed on his kung fu to his daughter and the Wu Brothers, so when we meet in the future, we will still be bullied by them." Upon hearing this, Yang jumped up and said angrily, "If they bully me again, how can we stop with them?" Little Dragon Lady coldly said, "If you can't beat them, it's useless." Yang said: "Then you help me." Little dragon lady said: "I can't beat you Guo auntie, still useless." Yang over bowed his head, planning to think of countermeasures. After pondering for a while, said: "See in Guo uncle's sake, I do not fight with them is." Little dragon lady thought: "He has lived in the tomb for more than two years, practiced the ancient tomb school internal energy, actually the fire is greatly reduced, but also rare." In fact, Yang but older, more sensible, remembering Guo Jing treat yourself is a true love, grateful, willing to give in for him, not to mention Guo Fu, Wu's brothers have no deep hatred, but only for the crickets in childhood and fight, at this time, in retrospect, has long been calm.
So, from the point of view of Yang's growth, "manic" "impulsive" can not be said to be Yang's "crazy", but Yang's "crazy!
With Yang's continuous growth and changes, the "madness" is also changing. In the sword room of the Valley of Absolute Love, Yang received the gentleman's sword and laughed and called himself a "prodigal son" instead of a "gentleman". The prodigal son is unrestrained, while the gentleman has some constraints. It is true that Yang could not be considered a gentleman at that time, but since Yang got the gentleman's sword, he has formed a gentleman's code in his own brain. Little Dragon Lady asked him to hold Guo Xiang to exchange antidote for his refusal, the reason is that if you do so, how can you deserve to use this gentleman's sword? This is exactly what a gentleman does and does not do. Yang's growth also includes the process of transformation from prodigal son to gentleman. But Yang is definitely not a gentleman, as suggested by Confucius, who said, "A gentleman is a man of refined manners." Yang's gentleman is more in self-improvement and virtue.
So in the back we see a Yang Zhan who has to do something and not to do something. The heroes and warriors all give a good impression that they are not close to women, and Yang has indeed done this. Inside the book, it says: Yang was suave when he was a teenager, laughing and joking, but since the little dragon lady left, he was depressed, deep from the convergence, more than ten years walking the rivers and lakes, encountered a young woman, he was even more than Mr. Taoism rituals and self-possession, for fear of provoking the sins of the wind and flow, to the people can't live. In the female sex, Yang from "crazy" to "impetuous", impetuous person clean and self-defense, reflecting the growth of Yang from martial arts or character are equally good generation of warriors.
Six, "mad" outbreak
People often think that the tragic ending can earn tears, but sometimes the comedy ending can also earn tears. Sixteen years later, Yang and Xiaolongnu were finally reunited at the bottom of the Valley of Despair.
Yang was so hot that he took Xiao Longnian's hand and ran to the outside of the house, saying, "Dragon, I'm so happy." Leaped up, jumped on top of a big tree, even turned over seven or eight catty buckets.
This happy and forgetful even flip catty buckets, is the young Yang in the Terminal South Mountain and the little dragon lady *** residence when the naughty boy as, more than a decade he never thought of this matter, that expected today, people near the middle-aged, and suddenly came to this show a hand. At this time, he is exquisite light skills, body in mid-air JiaoYao TengNuo, make a small dragon lady taught that year, "YaoJiao BiKong potential". The little dragon lady laughed loudly, even what "less language, less laughter, less happy, less happy" of the prohibition of all thrown into the sky.
This is the description of Yang's ecstasy after reuniting with Xiaolongnu, and Yang's joyful forgetfulness of turning over the catty bucket to express his heart's ecstasy. This detail I used to read the novel when I ignored the moving plot. Later, after watching the TV series reminded me to pay attention to this detail. It is Jin Yong writing love the most subtle place. All movements that can express emotion can be called dance, which is dance in a broad sense. The ancients said, words are not enough when singing, singing is not enough when the hands of the dance, the feet of the dance. All words are unable to express Yang's ecstasy at this time, but the hands of the dance, the feet of the dance. When think about why Yang will be so happy and forgetful even flip catty bucket, can not help but think of that sixteen years and one day of long suffering, long waiting. This is a kind of bitter sweet, although the end of the comedy, but let me think than the tragedy to come to move people. The thought of Yang's ecstasy is that sixteen years and one day of the long suffering accumulated eruption, can not help but weep ......