"Huang Yi's Heroes Online" is another martial arts-themed online game named after the master of martial arts novels by China NetDragon after "Jin Yong's Heroes Online". It wants to bring players In addition to the characteristics of Huang Yi's novels: real historical events and disturbing martial arts grievances, what I want to express more is the chaotic time and space adventure intertwined and entangled by the above two!
But before that, let us first introduce to you "Huang Yi", the fantasy martial arts master who created a new style of martial arts novels and led the trend!
How to become a writer
Huang Yi, whose real name is Huang Zuqiang, graduated from the Art Department of the Chinese University of Hong Kong and once served as the assistant director of the Hong Kong Museum of Art. In 1989, he resolutely resigned and devoted himself to novel creation. The early works were set in a science fiction setting, with Ling Duyu as the protagonist of the series, similar to Ni Kuang's creative model. However, since "Legend of the Great Swordsman", it has merged science fiction and martial arts styles into one, and finally found its own path.
When Huang Yi was interviewed by the media, he said that the reason why he embarked on the path of being a martial arts novel writer was just because he liked reading martial arts novels and fantasy when he was a child. It happened that there was a book called "Martial Arts" in Hong Kong many years ago. "World" magazine specializes in martial arts novels, so he put what he thought and read into words and wrote his first martial arts novel of more than 60,000 words. After submission, it was adopted. From then on, he officially started his career. Writing career.
Elements of Huang Yi's novels
If you want to understand Huang Yi's martial arts novels, you can start from several aspects. One is his favorite writers, and the other is his interests. Huang Yi's favorite martial arts writers are Jin Yong and Sima Ling, especially Sima Ling. He feels that he is still the number one in Taiwan's martial arts world because his works have profound connotations and human nature is often revealed in his writings without any falsehood. . He once bluntly pointed out that when he wrote about martial arts in novels, the spirit and momentum he paid special attention to were mainly influenced by Sima Ling. However, there are still very big differences between them. The main reason is that his works focus more on fantasy and hope to "see the way of heaven through martial arts."
In Huang Yi's novels, there are often many references and all-encompassing contents ranging from astronomy to geography, which are actually related to his wide range of interests. In this regard, Huang Yi modestly said that he actually likes to think very much, and has also learned Guqin, yoga, fortune telling, Feng Shui, architectural art, etc., and most importantly, he likes reading, and he can read all kinds of books. Therefore, Huang Yi is actually a person with a wild imagination and rich knowledge. Only in this way can he create so many fascinating novels!
Characteristics of Huang Yi's novels
Speaking of the characteristics of Huang Yi's novels, the most notable feature is that he likes to turn historical events into the background of martial arts novels. The main reason is to make the novel feel real. In fact, if a novel loses its sense of reality and only the knights are left killing each other all day long without a clear goal, they will end up fighting without knowing why, and the readers will lose interest in reading. This is true whether it is the short stories "The Shattered Void" and "The Struggle for Heroes between Jingchu and Chu" or the long-form novels "The Rain and the Clouds", "The Search for Qin", "The Legend of Two Dragons of the Tang Dynasty", etc. These stories happened in the Spring and Autumn Period, Warring States Period, late Sui Dynasty, late Yuan Dynasty and early Ming Dynasty respectively. The progress of the story content is all related to historical events, which also results in Huang Yi's novella or novel having a very large plot structure. Not only does it last for a long time, but also the characters emerge one after another, which shows his creative strength.
In addition, in his mind, a novel must have the effect of a movie storyboard, so that people can look through each word and sentence as if they are seeing vivid movie scenes flowing in front of their eyes. , even people who don’t like reading novels can immediately accept it and become addicted to it, which means the novel is successful.
Another characteristic of Huang Yi's novels is that readers cannot see characters with clear distinction between loyalty and traitor in his novels. This is just like in real life, you can never figure out whether a person is good or bad. , is the same reason.
Because when Huang Yi first created the characters, he just hoped to faithfully describe each character with the same emotions and desires as ordinary people. Whether he is a hero or a villain, he will be afraid when encountering difficult things, and will be afraid when encountering a beautiful woman. Drooling, the difference is that each character in Huang Yi's works will use methods that suit their personality to solve various problems and live out their own lives!
From the early "Shattered Void" to the later "The Legend of Two Dragons of the Tang Dynasty" and "Legend of the Wilderness", we can see Huang Yi's continuous attempts to redefine martial arts. His pursuit of the so-called "way of heaven" and later his ultimate concern for life can be seen in his efforts in continuous pursuit of innovation. I believe this continuous creative process will be presented to more readers in subsequent novels, so let us wait and see!