How to explain Jin Yong's novels to foreigners

It is said to be an excerpt from the English version of Selected Works of Jin Yong by American best-selling novel critic Alti.

Dragon Eight Branches: This paper discusses several views on the love between men and women.

This book seems to have three heroes who later became friends.

Among them, Xiao seems to be an ascetic, while Duan is a lecherous (but respects women), while the other () is somewhere in between, always wanting to be single, but when a beautiful woman comes to her eyes, she is pleasantly surprised and eventually becomes a king's son-in-law and a leader of women's society.

In the end, they all became heroes, reflecting the author's tolerant attitude towards this issue.

In addition, there are many minor characters, which is also a variant of the novel. For example, Duan's father was a complete womanizer and eventually suffered some hardships.

Mr. Murong doesn't care about the love between men and women at all for his career, and even takes advantage of it, which is a shameful failure;

You Tanzhi became a masochist because of congenital factors and acquired stimulation;

The monk leader of Shaolin Temple was later found to have an illegitimate child, … and so on.

Legend of the condor heroes: questioning the function of human intelligence.

There are five people with the strongest internal forces in the book, proudly calling themselves virtual monarchs in five directions (sic).

But by the end of the novel, I was surprised to find that I was no better than a slightly retarded young man.

A woman in the book seems to have a rare beauty and intelligence, which was finally owned by the young man.

More subtly, the western monarch among the five virtual monarchs seems to have the strongest internal force later, but his intelligence is even worse-he has become a serious amnesia patient.

Condor Heroes: It reflects the situation of animal husbandry at the beginning of Mongolia's rise from one side.

There is a lonely girl in the book who is an expert in beekeeping, but it seems that this industry was really ignored at that time. Her only student-who later became her husband-did not learn this craft, but became an expert in sculpture, and thus became famous at one fell swoop.

Finally, this skill had to be passed on to an idle and naive centenarian.

Of course, they are all very advanced fighters, especially carving experts. They can command many animals by growling later, but there are no bees among them.

His wife tried to send him a message through bees, but he turned a blind eye.

The legendary swordsman: It reflects the tragic experience of homosexuals in ancient China.

The first gay man was killed to protect her gay partner.

The other two are even more miserable, because they haven't found a gay partner yet, but the author strongly suggests that they will eventually develop into the same people as the first gay, which means there is no doubt that they will eventually become gay.

These three people have one thing in common, that is, they all voluntarily gave up their masculinity through surgery, but after the completion of Dongfang, they almost gave up their career, while Yue Helin thought that this was the beginning of their career.

In this novel, not only one person has had this kind of operation. There is also a knife hand field, which was later renamed indispensable, but his situation is different. His operation was forced to be completed, so he was tolerated by everyone and did not suffer the bad luck of the other three, but it is not known whether he will become gay in the future.

It is also worth noting that Yue, who strongly advocated internal forces, later became synonymous with hypocrites.

But in the book, he did not cause serious harm to others except killing two female Zen master leaders;

Moreover, the assassination did not achieve his goal, because when the five factions merged later, if they had to choose a leader, the two women would definitely choose him instead of another person.