Some people say that Jin Yong's martial arts series is actually written from warrior to man. You see, Guo Jing is a warrior, right? He fought and died in Xiangyang for the sake of the country and the people; you see, Xiao Feng is a great warrior, right? For the sake of the peace of the Song Dynasty and the Liao Kingdom, he preferred to commit suicide outside the Yanmen Pass, you see, Linghu Chong is a warrior, right, except that he did not get involved in politics, but he is also a warrior in the jianghu, all of these are warriors.
But let's look at Wei Xiaobao, can you find any trace of chivalry in this man?
I think anyone who has read The Book of Deer and Tripods can't find the shadow of chivalry from this person, but we still like him, why is that?
First of all, Master Jin Yong gave Wei-Shou-Bou a small person's origin, his mother is a prostitute, and he doesn't even know who his father is. Isn't that strange? A child who doesn't know who his father is, do you think he will be well-behaved as a child? He is bound to be missing one key thing in his life, and that is a father's love.
Once a boy lacks this father's love, he is bound to become naughty and mischievous, this is inevitable. So we can understand the character of Wei Xiaobao. Secondly, Wei-Shou-Bou is a real grassroots little man, he not only has the origin of a little man, but also has all the advantages and disadvantages of a little man.
For example, greedy for money, greedy for small interests, like beautiful women, like to make a splash and so on, to put it bluntly, this person has been Jin Yong removed all the spirit of chivalry, Jin Yong wrote, is a real and incomparable person, for Wei-Shou-Bou, Jin Yong portrayed the human nature of this person in a very graphic way.
While he is greedy for money, he can be righteous in the face of righteousness, and although he is greedy for profit, he still has a conscience when he really chooses between profit and conscience. He is like everyone in our lives, always planning for himself and always thinking of others, and, he tells everyone one important truth: given the chance, the little guy can also make history.
Those big people throughout the ages, they made history not because they were really great, but probably because they had a little bit of luck. So even though Wei-Shou-Bou doesn't have the martial art's that are out of our reach, he uses a smart mouth that all of us have, he tries hard enough, and he's a little bit of a tiny bad guy, but not intrinsically bad. It's very humanizing.
So, when we know Xiao Feng, when we know Guo Jing, it's always with immense admiration, but when we know Wei-Xiao Bao, it's with a very relaxed mood, just like talking to our own friends, naturally.