The Book of Swords and Enmity is Jin Yong's first full-length martial arts novel, written in 1955. This work tells the story of the fierce struggle between the Jiangnan Wulin Gang and the Qing court during the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty. As Jin Yong's pioneering work, the book showed extraordinary talent as soon as it came out, and was praised as a work with everyone's style. When it was serialized in Ta Kung Pao, it caused a huge response. The novel skillfully integrates history and legend, between fiction and reality, and combines historical writing and poetry to depict a magnificent historical picture.