The Flying Fox Gaiden was written between 1960 and 1961, and was originally serialized in martial arts and historical fiction magazines, with each issue containing 8,000 words.
Novels serialized in newspapers range from 1,000 to 1,400 words per paragraph.
In Feihu Gaiden, every 8,000 words are divided into one paragraph, so the writing method is slightly different.
I write a paragraph every ten days and finish it all night long, usually starting at 12 o'clock in the middle of the night and finishing at 7 or 8 o'clock the next morning.
As a novel, the rhythm of one paragraph every eight thousand words is definitely not good.
The modifications made this time are mainly to adjust the rhythm to be smoother and to eliminate unnecessary traces of paragraphs.
Flying Fox Gaiden is the "prequel" to Snow Mountain Flying Fox, narrating Hu Fei's past deeds.
However, these two novels are related to each other, but they are not completely unified.
In Flying Fox Gaiden, Hu Fei met Miao Renfeng more than once, and Hu Fei had another crush.
These plots were not forced to be coordinated when modifying Snow Mountain Flying Fox.
The writing style of this novel is relatively far away from the tradition of old Chinese novels.
It has not been changed back now, but there are two things that have been changed: First, modern words and concepts have been deleted from the dialogue, and the inner language of the characters has been deleted.
The same is true.
Second, the sentences that were too new and literary and resembled foreign language grammar were rewritten.
The real protagonist of Snow Mountain Flying Fox is actually Hu Yidao.
Hu Fei's character is very thin in Snow Mountain Flying Fox, and it is only in this book that he gradually takes shape.
I tried to write about a chivalrous man in this book who was in trouble and acted chivalrously.
In fact, there are not many martial arts novels about chivalrous people.
What most of the protagonists do is mainly martial arts rather than chivalrous.
Mencius said: "Wealth and honor cannot be kinky, poverty and humbleness cannot be moved, and power cannot bend.
This is called a true man."
Martial arts characters do not care about wealth, poverty, and lowliness, and they do not give in to power.
These three standards of a true man are not difficult for them to achieve. .
In this book, I want to add some requirements to Hu Fei, asking him to "not be moved by beauty, not by pity, not by face."
Heroes have trouble with beauties.
A beautiful girl like Yuan Ziyi is attracted by Hu Fei.
When the two are in love, she softly pleads.
It is difficult not to agree to her.
A hero always takes the easy way rather than the hard one.
Hu Fei didn't take it seriously when Feng Tiannan presented him with a house of gold and silver, but he sincerely surrendered and begged for mercy.
It would be even harder not to spare him anymore.
The most important thing in the world is face and loyalty.
Zhou Tieqi and others gave Hu Fei enough face and begged him in a low voice to reveal his affair with Feng Tiannan, but Hu Fei still refused.
Not giving people face is probably the most difficult thing for a hero to do.
The reason why Hu Fei did this was just for Zhong Ah Si's family of four, and he and Zhong Ah Si were strangers and had no friendship at all.
The purpose was to write such a character, but I failed to write it in depth.
But among the many male characters I have written about, Hu Fei, Qiao Feng, Yang Guo, Guo Jing, and Linghu Chong are my favorites.
In martial arts novels, when the villain is killed by the protagonist, the usual way of dealing with it is to think of it as "dead" and not pay any more attention to it.
The character of Mrs.
Shang is written in this book in an attempt to show that the villain was killed, but his relatives did not think he deserved to die, but still worshiped him, loved him deeply, and continued to love him until old age and death.
Death is always sad and always hates those who killed him.
January 1975: