Yang Guo's comments

1. Yang Guo's "madness" is Jin Yong's portrayal of characters

Jin Yong once said: "China's classical traditional novels are mainly about characters. My personal ideal in writing martial arts novels is to create characters. The plots of martial arts novels are very bizarre and long, and it is not easy for readers to remember these plots clearly. I hope the characters I write can be vivid, they have their own personalities, and the readers are deeply impressed. At the same time, when I conceived, I also took the protagonist as the center. I first thought about the personalities of several main characters, and the plot was also in line with the humanity of the protagonist. What kind of temperament would happen? "

Therefore, Yang Guo's character was probably basically determined before Jin Yong wrote his novels, and that was "madness". Yang Guo is called "crazy in the west", just like "evil in the east", "Xia in the north" and "monk in the south". Of these four unique skills, only two are named after their personalities. However, "Northern Xia (Beggar)" and "Southern Monk (Emperor)" are named according to their status. And the title of a character reflects his character. To be the protagonist of this book, it is inevitable that his character is very bright and full.

The main line of The Condor Heroes is that Yang Guo has grown from a little urchin to a condor hero. No matter what changes have taken place in Yang Guo's personality during his growth, he can't get away from a main theme, that is madness!

second, Yang Guo's "madness" is both his strength and his weakness.

There are many different explanations of "madness" in the dictionary. There are positive and negative, positive and negative, good and bad. It just corresponds to the performance of Yang Guo's advantages and disadvantages in different environments. The rich meaning of "crazy" is directly reflected in Yang Guo's bright and full personality. Because of Yang Guo's madness, he became a generation of heroes with high martial arts, and also because of Yang Guo's madness, he suffered setbacks and great sorrow. "Crazy" is a strong adjective. If the advantage is positive and the disadvantage is negative, "madness" is a positive number greater than one. If a person's personality has a crazy factor, the advantages and disadvantages are multiplied by "crazy" so that the advantages and disadvantages of this person will become quite prominent.

Confucius said, "If you can't go with the Bank of China, you will be crazy. The crazy will make progress, and the stubborn will do something." The opposite of madness is the doctrine of the mean. There are very few people who can really mean the middle way in reality. That's why Confucius said that he couldn't find anyone who followed the golden mean to associate with him, so he could only associate with the crazy and the stubborn. Pursuing the golden mean can eliminate many shortcomings of human nature, but even many advantages will disappear. Became a person who has neither outstanding advantages nor outstanding shortcomings, and completely mediocre people. People who have outstanding advantages must have outstanding shortcomings, and often outstanding advantages will become outstanding shortcomings in a different environment and situation. After Jin Yong created an idealized hero like Guo Jing, his characters became more mature, and he created a hero, Yang Guo, whose advantages and disadvantages were quite prominent.

No matter in history or in literary works, we are always attracted by those characters with obvious advantages and disadvantages. They are all temperamental people, and they stick to their independent personalities, not changing the times. Such people are the most attractive and touching. The advantages of their personality make them bury themselves in success. Similarly, because of the changes of the times, their original advantages have become shortcomings, which makes them face failure. Xiang Yu is such an example: "Life is a hero, and death is a ghost hero. So far, I miss Xiang Yu and refuse to cross Jiangdong. "The success or failure of Xiang Yu's personality deeply touched Li Qingzhao, a poetess in the Song Dynasty, who wrote this generous and vigorous poem for him, hit the floor.

Similarly, Yang Guo is also a man with distinctive personality and outstanding advantages and disadvantages. Yang Guo's advantages have enabled him to practice a high-powered martial arts, which has enabled him to make unremitting efforts in adversity and become a generation of heroes. Similarly, the shortcomings in Yang Guo's personality made him suffer from great bitterness and sorrow. In retrospect, he could not help secretly losing his mind for his madness and almost going astray.

People with outstanding advantages and disadvantages can make people feel more pity for them, and love their advantages and pity their shortcomings. This is the important reason why the love between Yang Guo and Xiao Longnv is so weak.

Third, the rich meaning of "crazy" determines Yang Guo's plump personality.

"crazy" has many different meanings, but all of them have one thing in common: doing something. Combination is manifested in Yang Guo's character. Madness first refers to "human mental disorder" and "madness". Some people who like Yang Guo can't accept Yang Guo's madness, among which "insanity" is "madness". It's very simple. Imagine that the person you love suddenly leaves you or encounters a real problem that is hard to face. Will you be insane or crazy? "Arrogance", Yang Guo's character is easy to understand with arrogance. Yang Guo was strong-willed and competitive since he was a child. When his martial arts became stronger, his skill became greater. With arrogant capital, how could he not be arrogant once? "Since you know that I am the condor, why did you ignore what I said?" This kind of arrogance is more about Yang Guo's domineering. "Wild" Yang Guo is wild and willful. He loved to amuse people since he was a child, and his nature was quite divergent. Yang Guo paid no attention to the defense of men and women. When Lu Wushuang first met Yang Guo, she was a "dirty and wretched shepherd boy". Yang Guo pretended to be crazy and sold her stupidity many times, which made her swear: "When my acupuncture points are loose tomorrow, I must chop him seventeen or eighteen knives on this idiot." Guo Fu had asked Yang Guo who the Wu brothers were better. Yang Guo laughed: "If they are good, is there any hope for Yang Guo?" Guo Fu has never heard anyone say anything frivolous to her. She can't stand being frivolous. Yang Guo's words set the stage for him to be cut off in the future.

madness also has the most important meaning, which is violent and intense. Therefore, Yang Guo's smile is laughter; Yang Guo's crying is crazy crying; Yang Guo's anger is rage; Yang Guo's cry is crazy shout; Yang Guo's roar is a roar; Yang Guo's running is a wild run ... Yang Guo's emotion is: love is crazy, affection is deep, and because of madness, Yang Guo is full of sorrow and joy.

Yang Guo's "madness" highlights his true nature as a man who protects women. Yang Guo vowed to protect the little dragon girl when he was a teacher, which shows his madness. It is precisely because of Yang Guo's "madness" that he changed his identity with the little dragon girl. When he practiced the Jade Girl Heart Sutra, he "only felt that the little dragon girl was a little sister who relied on her own protection, let alone that she was her aunt's master". What's more, the little dragon girl "can't help but feel dependent and obedient, and the dignity of the master's shelf suddenly goes away. The two people occasionally look at each other, one pities for help, and the other relies on help, and suddenly they are connected."

Yang Guo's madness is more reflected in his martial arts cultivation. Yang Guo's personality is "crazy", while martial arts is closely related to his mood. Yang Guo's "crazy" is also closely related to martial arts. There is such a description in the book: Yang Guo wants to combine the martial arts of various sects he has learned into his own original martial arts. "His heart is twisted into a ball like a mess, and it is difficult to support it again. He fell to the sky and fainted. Dalba saw that he was crazy and bossing around, and he didn't know what to do. Suddenly, he was shocked and wanted to save him. " Buddhist Jinlun laughed and said, "Don't disturb his mind. It's a pity that your intelligence is mediocre and it is difficult to understand the truth. " But also confessed Yang Guo's madness in practicing martial arts, which is difficult for ordinary people to understand.

Yang Guo's "madness" is also reflected in the blazing. "A person's internal work practice to a certain level, often unconsciously with different voices. Later, in the Ming Dynasty, Wang Yangming, a great scholar, practiced in the barracks in the middle of the night. Suddenly, all the troops were surprised. This is a matter of clear history. At this time, Yang Guo was full of gas, and suddenly it was difficult to suppress it. He whistled for miles. "

Yang Guo's fascinating palm, which combines the strengths of a hundred schools of thought with his own miserable life, can only exert its greatest power in a state of madness and grief, and it can only exert its amazing power in a time of grief.

In ancient times, "madness" meant being eclectic, imposing and dismissive of vulgarity. Most of the accomplished literati in ancient times were crazy people. "Madness" is associated with the wise, which is a valuable spiritual force. Without "madness", there is no courage to break through the routine. Although civil and military are different, they are unified in spiritual realm. "Madness" is associated with the brave, which is a force to create and change history. Yang Guo is brave and skillful in both martial arts. It is precisely because of his "madness" that he has a pioneering and adventurous spirit. First, he led all the heroes to completely annihilate the left and right wing strikers of Mongolian soldiers by surprise, and then he set fire to Nanyang hay, where Guo Jing had sent troops to attack the Mongolian army for several times, which was always futile. In the Xiangyang War, Yang Guo was even more brave and courageous. He rushed into the enemy with thousands of troops and killed Mongolian Khan Mungo to save Xiangyang. It is "Madness" that makes Yang Guo a great warrior of the condor.

It can be seen that Yang Guo's "madness" is very rich. Someone once asked me, "Is madness the madness of Yang Guo?" I think I can answer him now. "Madness" is not Yang Guo's "madness", but one aspect of it! Yang Guo is three-dimensional, not flat.

Fourth, why do people call Yang Guo "crazy" in the west?

There is no need to discuss this "crazy" in the west. The key lies in the word "crazy".

At the top of Huashan Mountain, Huang Rong gave Yang Guo the word "crazy". Huang Yaoshi first applauded and said, "East evil and west madness, one old and one young, we are a couple." Yang Guo said, "I'm young, and I'm too young to compete with my predecessors." Huang Yaoshi said, "Aha, little brother, you are wrong about this. Since you live in a' crazy' word, what's the harm in being crazy? Besides, with your fame and martial arts today, can't you beat the old urchin? " Huang Yaoshi know daughter deliberately not to mention Zhou Botong, is to make his heart itch hard to scratch, just give him a squeeze. Yang Guo also understood his father's and daughter's thoughts, and smiled at each other with the little dragon girl, thinking: The word "crazy" is really well said.

Huang Rong gave Yang Guo the word "crazy", which was immediately applauded by Huang Yaoshi, and then both Mr. and Mrs. Yang Guo felt that the word "crazy" was well said. First of all, from Huang Rong's point of view, why is Yang Guo called "crazy"? "Crazy" has "evil" first. When Huang Rong was teaching Yang Guo to read and write, she thought Yang Guo was very similar to her father. Yang Guo remembers the speed, but he often doesn't agree with the meaning in the book, so he can't stop asking questions. Huang Rong often thinks to himself: "This child reads sage books, and some ideas are very similar to my dad's. If my dad teaches him, they will be speculative when they talk." "Crazy" and "evil" have a common point, that is, they are deviant and hate the rules and regulations of secular ethics. And "madness" embodies radical resistance. Yang Guo's fierce collision with Guo Jing when he wants to marry the master's little dragon girl in the chapter of "The Great Defense of Ethics" shows Yang Guo's madness to the extreme. "Madness" can make a person lose his mind, not argue about interests, and almost completely control his actions by his own emotions. When Guo Jing threatened Yang Guo to admit his mistake with death, Yang Guo would rather die than admit his mistake, which was a fierce emotional shock. This was "madness". Never please valley heartbroken cliff, Huang Rong saw Yang Guo know little dragon girl left again, is so painful, crazy after losing little dragon girl ... This makes Huang Rong think Yang Guo's character is "crazy", and Jin Yong points out Yang Guo's character is "crazy" through Huang Rong's mouth.

Yang Guo's "madness" in Huang Yaoshi's eyes: When I heard Yang Guo say, "I want her to be both my master and my wife." Huang Yaoshi applauded and laughed: "Good! You think so, but you are better than me. " Yang Guo is not only evil enough, but also crazy enough. Yang Guo suggested that you don't have to be Huang Laoxie's apprentice to spread evil names, but you can also become sworn brothers. Really let Huang Yaoshi see the arrogance of Yang Guo teenagers. If Huang Yaoshi's evil is unfathomable, while Yang Guo's madness is hard-edged, it is impossible to guess. When it was known that there was no such person as the South China Sea Shenni, Yang Guo's face changed and he stood still, and his heart seemed to jump out of his chest. He gave a long whistle and shook the roof tiles, and tears rolled down his eyes. No wonder Huang Rong couldn't figure out Yang Guo's mind. Yang Guo's "madness" was not completely conventional. Huang Rong just felt that without the little dragon girl around, Yang Guo went crazy, and no one could guess what he would do.

Looking at Yang Guo's "madness" from the perspective of the little dragon girl, Yang Guo's "madness" is fanaticism and passion. Only under the emotional impact of Yang Guo's fiery personality, the icy appearance of the little dragon girl completely melted, and the sleeping emotion woke up under the call of Yang Guo's lively childlike innocence.

"Madness" is Yang Guo's choice without regret, and it is precisely because of "Madness" that there is great bitterness and sweetness. Yang Guo thinks: "Great bitterness and sweetness are far better than no bitterness and sweetness. I can only be crazy, but I can't live a normal life. "

V. Changes and Development of "Crazy"

Young and crazy, Yang Guo was "crazy" from an early age. It can be seen from his talk with Wan Yanping about his father's revenge that Yang Guo has a strong sense of revenge since he was a child. He suffered from discrimination and longed for a father. When Yang Guo's mother advised Yang Guo not to avenge her father before she died, young Yang Guo shouted, "I won't allow it! I don't agree! " This is the "mania" and "impulsiveness" of teenagers in Yang Guo. It is normal for teenagers to be impulsive. There is a story of Yang Guo and Guo Fudu cricket in the book: Guo Fu was very unhappy when he saw that his invincible general died in World War I. On second thought, he said, "Brother Yang, give me this little black ghost." Yang Guo said, "Here you are. It's no big deal, but why did you call it a little black ghost?" Guo Fu curled his mouth and said angrily, "If you don't give it, you won't give it. Is it rare?" Picking up the earthen bowl and shaking it, he fell to the ground, kicked off his right foot and died. Yang Guo was surprised and angry, qi and blood upwelling, and her face was flushed with swelling. She cried and couldn't help it. She slapped her on the face with a backhand. There are some mistakes in Guo Fu, but there is no denying that Yang Guo was a little impulsive and grumpy as a teenager.

When Yang Guo grew up, the impulsiveness of this teenager was gradually eliminated. There is such a description in the original work: the little dragon girl feels that she lives so stably, and nothing else in the world can match her, but she misses the world of mortals, and it is hard to keep her in the barren hills for a long time, saying, "After a while, although our martial arts are not what they used to be, how can we compare with your uncle Guo and aunt Guo?" Yang Guo said, "I'm naturally far behind, but you and they probably have their own strengths." The little dragon girl said, "Your uncle Guo passed on Kung Fu to his daughter and the Wu brothers. When we meet one day, we will still be bullied by them." Hearing this, Yang Guo jumped up and said angrily, "If they bully me again, can they stop?" The little dragon girl said coldly, "It's no use beating them." Yang Guo said, "Then help me." "I can't beat your aunt Guo," said the little dragon girl. "It's still useless." Yang Guo bowed their heads and said nothing, thinking about countermeasures. He hesitated for a moment and said, "For Uncle Guo's sake, I won't argue with them." The little dragon girl thought to herself, "He has lived in the tomb for more than two years, and he has practiced the internal skills of the ancient tomb school, but it is rare that his fire has been greatly reduced." In fact, Yang Guo is old, but he is more reasonable. He thinks of Guo Jing's true feelings for himself. He is grateful and willing to give in for him. Besides, he has no rancour with Guo Fu and Wu Shi brothers. He just quarreled for crickets in his childhood. Looking back at this time, he has long been indifferent.

Therefore, from the perspective of Yang Guo's growth, "mania" and "impulsiveness" can not be said to be Yang Guo's madness, but Yang Guo's madness in a certain growth period.

With the continuous growth and change of Yang Guo, the "madness" is also changing. In the Sword Room of Desperate Valley, Yang Guo took the gentleman's sword and called himself a "prodigal son" rather than a "gentleman". prodigal