The Wuxia writer himself is chivalrous and lonely. Especially at the top of the Wuxia writing, the writer is sometimes like a wodering knight in the real world. They enjoy drinking white wine, celebrating with friends and always sentimental to women. They cannot have a family; their home is the outside world and their wife is all the woman they love. But they are not wastrel, they have their own opinions about life and love; they put those into their Wuxia novels and give the viability to the characters by their own life experience. Usually, a story is just a documentary of its author.
Gu Long is this kind of writer.This is his pen name. It means "ancient dragon" , which shows his inner quality of hero. He died at an early age, 47. He died because of his sorrow and loneless in his heart and the crazy for wines. However, he is one of the two most famous Wuxia writers in Chinese world.Short paragraphs and sentences are his writing feature, with some mild sorrow and blue.
Gu Long is this kind of writer.This is his pen name. It means "ancient dragon" , which shows his inner quality of hero. He died at an early age, 47. He died because of his sorrow and loneless in his heart and the crazy for wines. However, he is one of the two most famous Wuxia writers in Chinese world.Short paragraphs and sentences are his writing feature, with some mild sorrow and blue.
"He was tired, perhaps because he has already killed too many people, some of whom should not have been killed at all.
He killed, only because he never had a choice.
He had a sword in his hand."
Just a few sentences, we can feel a kind of cold of a swordman. And the following more and more short paragraphs make there kind of sense stronger and more attractive. This is Gu Long style. Thousands of people are attracted into the atomosphere he made and can not help stop loving it.
Kill, death , sword is always the surface thing in Gu Long's novels. Love and friendship are the eternal theme of his novels. "Sentimental swordsman, ruthless sword" ,his most well-known novel, is talking about his own experience of love and friendship. The choice between love and friendship are always painful and Li Xunhuan(the main character in the novel) choose the friendship and suffers tens of years. The loyalty to friendship and the eternal love to only one girl are shown so well in the novel. Gu Long's sorrow is originated from it and cannot be involved into the real world. His death is romantic and holy because this faith he kept in his mind.
"The flying dagger Li has become a lost art
The human world has lost the sight of Chu Liuxiang"
That is the statement for Gu Long's death, describing him as the two famous characters in his novels, dagger Li and Chu Liuxiang.Two lonely wonderers are the best definition of this great writer's lifettime.
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