On this day, 87 years ago, on June 7, 1938 (May 10, 1938, the martial arts novel Gu Long was born in Hong Kong. Gu Long, whose real name is Xiong Yaohua. His ancestral home is Nanchang, Jiangxi. Born in Hong Kong on June 7, 1938 (registered in 1941), he lived in Hankou when he was a child, and later went to Taiwan via Hong Kong. He died of illness in Taipei on September 21, 1985. Due to the civil war, Xiong Yaohua moved to Hong Kong with his family and studied at Dexing Church Primary School. In 1950, he crossed the ocean and settled in Taiwan. He first attended the junior high school of the Affiliated Middle School of Normal University (now the Affiliated Middle School of Normal University), and was admitted to Chenggong Middle School (High School) in the autumn of 1954. The talented Xiong Yaohua wrote a large number of poems during this period, contributing to the Blue Star Poetry Magazine, Successful Youth, etc. Unfortunately, his dream of family love was shattered. When he was studying in Chenggong Middle School, his father Xiong Fei (Xiong Pengsheng) abandoned his wife and children due to an affair. Soon after, Xiong Yaohua also ran away from home and lived alone in Pucheng Street. He once joined a gang and suffered from scars. In his second year of high school (1955), this rebellious boy published the novel "From the North to the South" in Chenguang magazine under the pen name Gu Long, and began his professional writing career. Origin of his pen name: Gu Long was named Gu Long after he mentioned that his girlfriend was named Gu Feng. In the autumn of 1957, Gu Long entered Tamkang English College (the predecessor of Tamkang University) and studied Night English. The next year he immediately abandoned school and lived with the dancer Zheng Yuexia (Lili) at the Zheng family in Ruifang Town, Taipei County. In order to make a living, he began to write martial arts novels. From 1960 to 1963, Gu Long was the incubation stage or trial writing stage, and more than ten novels such as "The Legend of the Lone Star" and "Protecting the Flower Bell" were published. Due to his extensive exposure to foreign literature, his works are dyed with Western literature and art. At this time, Taiwan's martial arts circles respected the three swordsmen Wo Longsheng, Sima Ling, and Zhuge Qingyun. Gu Long made friends with them and ghosted several works for them. My most important friends, Brother Niu (Li Feimeng) and Aunt Niu (Feng Nani), also met during this period (the latter was also a classmate of Gulong Junior High School and English College). Elder brothers and elders such as Zou Lang and Hu Zhengqun also take good care of Gu Long. Since 1963, Gu Long has successively published six novels, including "Lover's Arrow","Legend of Heroes of the Flag","Records of Washing Flowers and Washing Swords","Famous Sword Romance","Outer History of the Wulin" and "Unparalleled Double Pride", all of which are close to or exceed a million words, and the texture has also been significantly improved, so he became one of the "Four Great Kings". "Washing Flowers and Washing Swords" published from 1964 to 1966 learned from Japanese novels such as "Miyamoto Musashi" to explore martial arts (Tiandao) and explore alternative martial arts paths. "Wulin Outer History" establishes the "prodigal son" flavor of Gu Long's martial arts novels and strengthens the modern sense of "Famous Sword". "The Twin Pride" has an obvious tendency to be allegorical and is the first full-length martial arts comedy to become popular. It is rumored that Ni Kuang, a well-known Hong Kong writer, invited Ming Pao to draft "The Unparalleled Double Pride", and since then he became hostile to Gu Long. For the next 20 years, every time Ni Kuang visited Taiwan, he would eat, drink, and play with women with his buddies. The two would often make phone calls across the sea to talk about their loneliness and talk until the sky was dark. In 1967,"The Legend of Iron and Blood"(the Legend of Chu Liuxiang) broke out of its cocoon, integrating martial arts, literature and art, detectives, reasoning, and fables. It established its own sect and established a benchmark as the "leader of the new school". It also opened the golden era for more than ten years in the future. "The Affective Swordsman and the Relentless Sword" has continued to make it an immortal masterpiece in the history of martial arts. "The Legend of Chu Liuxiang" series,"The Affective Swordsman Ruthless Sword","Xiao Shiilang","Meteor. Butterfly. Sword "," Happy Hero "," Big Man "," The Legend of Lu Xiaofeng "series," Seven Weapons "series," Tianya. Bright moon. Works such as "Dao","The Sword of the Third Young Master","White Jade Tiger","Green Blood Washing Silver Gun" and "Heroes Without Tears" are all very popular. Among them,"The Legend of Lu Xiaofeng" was personally invited by Jin Yong for his Ming Pao after closing the pen, which has the meaning of inheriting the "alliance leader". Another "Tianya." Bright moon. "Dao" was cut in half by China Times because of its avant-garde concept. Gu Long cited it as a pity. However, in 1976, Shaw Clan in Hong Kong published "Meteor. Butterfly. Sword "and this book are the base books, creating another peak in martial arts films and creating Gu Long's film era. China Times had to bow to Gu Long to invite manuscripts, so there was "Green Blood Washing Silver Gun"-this can be said to be Gu Long's "Prince Revenge." Gu Long's creative philosophy is to "seek innovation and change". He is not bound by tradition and blends Chinese and foreign classics into one furnace. From the middle to the end of his creation, he continued to break through himself and said many times that "martial arts novels are about to change." Chinese and foreign co-founders, such as Wang Du Lu He-Iron Five Parts and "The Call of the Wild", co-governed by "The Passionate Swordsman Ruthless Sword", and "Little Woman" integrated into "Happy Hero","The Godfather" and the Japanese comic book "Belt Wolf" integrated into "Meteor. Butterfly. Sword ". It was not until the completion of "Heroes Without Tears" in 1979 that it entered a recession stage, with a sharp decline in creation and ghostwriting rampant. This has a lot to do with Gu Long's interest in screenwriting and his poor health. As early as 1969, Gu Long wrote the script "Xiao Shiilang" for director Xu Zenghong. This was also the first martial arts masterpiece to have a script and then a novel. Unfortunately, the film received little attention when it was released in the early 1970s. In 1976, Shaw Brothers in Hong Kong launched "Meteor. Butterfly. Sword "," Tianya. Bright moon. "Knife" has become a sensation in Hong Kong, Taiwan and Southeast Asia. Gu Long's novels are at the peak, and almost every one of them has been adapted into a film and television work. In the 1980s, the Hong Kong drama "The Legend of Chu Liuxiang" starred by Zheng Shaoqiu was unprecedentedly broadcast on Taiwan."The city competed to talk about Chu Liuxiang", and Yang Lihua's Taiwanese opera, Huang Junxiong's puppet drama "Shi Yanwen", and the costume drama "The Queen of the Generation" are all classics in Taiwan's television history. Therefore, Gu Long has been involved in the film and drama industry since the late 1970s, often working with his friend Ni Kuang and director Chu Yuan, and has produced no less than dozens of famous works. In 1980, he even founded Baolong Film Company. Although this helps to stimulate and innovate the novel text, it also distracts the focus. On the other hand, Gu Long has been fond of sex as food and alcohol as water since he was young. After becoming rich, he became even more complacent. In 1977, he contracted liver disease and his health gradually declined. At the end of 1980, he was cut and injured during a banquet in Yinsongge, Beitou. He lost 2000cc of blood and was infused with hepatitis. From then on, his health deteriorated further. The original size of the "big head and fat" was severely reduced, and he was completely different. The collision of his marriage and the failure of his film investment also caused him to feel depressed and he became obsessed with alcohol. On September 21, 1985, he suffered massive bleeding from an esophageal tumor due to liver cirrhosis. He died at 6 p.m. and was aged 47. At the funeral, Wang Yu, Ni Kuang, Lin Qingxuan and other friends placed 48 bottles of XO wine in his coffin to be buried with him. Qiao Ji wrote an elegiac couplet for him: "Xiao Li's flying knife is the most famous in the world, but Chu Liuxiang is still talked about it today. Gu Long had many feelings during his lifetime. When he was young, he lived with Zheng Yuexia and gave birth to his unmarried eldest son, Zheng Xiaolong. Later, he fell in love with dancer Ye Xue and Japanese student Chiyoko. Ye Xue was the first wife he married openly. She soon divorced and had a son. She remarried in 1976 to the young and innocent Mei Baozhu. Bonhong Films is named after the couple. Unfortunately, Gu Long valued friendship over his wife and children, and was not good at managing his marriage. He ended in divorce a few years later. There are countless late girlfriends. Yu Xiuling was Gu Long's last woman and accompanied Gu Long until his death. Gu Long wrote more than 60 martial arts novels in his life, and more than 100 ghostwritten and false books were false. After Gu Long's death, copyright disputes arose in his works, and there were many lawsuits between relatives, friends and publishers, which somewhat affected the dissemination of the novel. Now the eldest son Zheng Xiaolong and his legitimate son Xiong Zhengda have shook hands and made peace, looking forward to recreating the prosperity of Gu Long's novels. Comments: Gu Long's martial arts has a unique style, full of loyalty and elegance