My grandfather was a martial arts fan
Huang Yi's boyhood was not much different from that of other boys. If there is a difference, it is that he is lucky enough to live in the New Territories with beautiful mountains and rivers, which makes him have an indissoluble bond with nature since childhood; and the other difference is that he has a grandpa who is a martial arts fan who loves him.
Huang Yi’s grandfather often rented martial arts novels to read, and Huang Yi also read all of these novels by the way. Jin Yong and Sima Ling are his two favorite writers, especially Sima Ling, who is good at depicting the relationship between people and has a profound influence on Huang Yi.
Although he has read a lot of martial arts books, Huang Yi is not only unable to write good articles at all, but also has a "remarkable record" academically. Being expelled from school and repeating a grade is common, and he often transfers schools to avoid repeating a grade. The first time I wrote an essay, I was given a failing grade by a strict teacher. From that time on, Huang Yi realized that even if he failed in composition, he could write better articles.
Huang Yi read martial arts novels when he was young and loved descriptions of love affairs between men and women, but traditional martial arts often stopped short of that. Huang Yilao thought, why not push the limit a little further? Based on this mentality and a somewhat exploratory spirit, when he later wrote "Xun Qin Ji", he added in-depth descriptions of male love and female love.
However, that was just Huang Yi's mentality at a certain stage of creation. When revising the novel, all the erotic content was deleted. Domestic readers will see the revised version.
Firstly science fiction and then martial arts
Before writing, Huang Yi used his pen to do another thing - painting. After actually writing, Huang Yi first wrote not martial arts, but science fiction novels.
Huang Yi graduated from the Art Department of the Chinese University of Hong Kong, majoring in Chinese painting. After graduation, he served as assistant director of the Hong Kong Museum of Art. Huang Yi used his high salary to support his family, but his love for martial arts novels never diminished.
Two years before resigning, Huang Yi had already started writing martial arts novels. But that era was the era of Jin Yong and Gu Long. Huang Yi's manuscript has been sitting in the manuscript library of Hong Kong Boyi Publishing House for a long time, but there has been no movement. One day, an editor from Boyi discovered Huang Yi's manuscript and thought it was good and recommended it to his boss Li Guowei. At that time, Huang Yi had resigned and concentrated on creation.
The next day, Li Guowei made an appointment with Huang Yi. As soon as they met, he said straightforwardly: "There is no market for martial arts novels now. Either you don't write them, or you write science fiction novels!"
So, Huang Yi began to immerse himself in writing, and completed his first science fiction work "Moon Demon" a week later. After seeing the manuscript, Li Guowei's first words were: "I want to challenge Ni Kuang with your science fiction novels!" From then on, he was out of control, and Huang Yi successively wrote "The Mystery of God", "The Lake Festival", etc. , and formed the famous "Xuanxia Ling Duyu" series of novels.
But what Huang Yi likes most in his heart is writing martial arts novels. However, that period of "science fiction" experience had an immeasurable impact on Huang Yi's future works. As a result, Huang Yi created the three major genres of fantasy, time travel and strangers, and created new martial arts.
The representative work of fantasy is "Interstellar Prodigal Son", which uses the universe as a battlefield and planets as weapons. The imagination is magnificent and insurmountable; the representative work of Yixia is "The Legend of Two Dragons of the Tang Dynasty", in which the protagonist Kou Zhong Xu Ziling is different from the positive image of Gao Daquan in traditional martial arts novels, who achieves immortality as a small gangster; the representative work of time travel is "Looking for Qin", in which the protagonist Xiang Shaolong is a special soldier in the 20th century, but due to a malfunction of the time and space machine, he... Being sent to the Warring States Period...
Being expelled and repeating a grade was common
Although he was a "new generation of martial arts master" and played in science fiction martial arts novels, Huang Yi in his boyhood , whose academic performance is undoubtedly "brilliant": "Being expelled from school or repeating a grade is common. Until I transferred to a newly opened school to study in Form 4 because of avoiding repeating, I gave the strict teacher a red pen for my first composition. After getting a failing grade, I realized that my composition could also fail." At this time, his beloved grandfather influenced his love for martial arts novels: "My grandpa is a martial arts fan, and he rented martial arts novels for me. I have read them all. When I was less than 10 years old, I started to read "The Crane and the Needle" by Wo Longsheng. When I was in the sixth grade, I read "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms" and "Water Margin".
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Forced by Jin Yong to write fantasy martial arts
Jin Yong and Sima Ling have always been Huang Yi's two most respected martial arts masters. Sima Ling influenced his writing style, while Jin Yong " "Forced" him into fantasy martial arts: "After I submitted the manuscript of my first martial arts novel, it was suppressed for a long time and no one paid attention to it. Later, when the boss Li Guowei met, he went straight to the point and said to me: 'Nowadays, martial arts novels except Jin Yong and Gu Long Otherwise, there will be no market space. Either you don’t write, or you write science fiction. '" So Huang Yi stayed up late at night after get off work every night to complete his first science fiction work "Moon Demon" in one week.
I like to play "Huang Yi's Legend of Heroes"
The 57-year-old Huang Yi has always kept a low profile and rarely appears in public. He lives in seclusion on Lantau Island in Hong Kong and leads a quiet life. However, he is actually a trendy old naughty boy who loves to play online games: "I recently played a game called FALLOUT 3. I played a stand-alone game for more than ten hours a day for two consecutive weeks. Finally, my left hand became sore that I was forced to call it quits. Teenagers must not imitate me. "Huang Yi also enjoys playing games adapted from his own works: "When 'Huang Yi's Legend of Heroes' was launched, I also played it for a long time. There's something fascinating about online gaming, especially entering a world of your own creation. ”
The peak is dedicated to spiritual cultivation
Looking at Huang Yi’s works, many people will always sigh, how come this person knows everything, astronomy and geography, Feng Shui history, Guqin art, and the Five Elements Mathematics, historical science fiction, military strategy, almost everything.
Huang Yi said with a smile that because he has a hard-working wife who does all the work, all he has to do is read and write. Books, walking dogs and playing games. Huang Yi has a wide range of interests. He reads all kinds of books, likes to think against the wall, and is obsessed with spiritual cultivation.
It can be said that it is this kind of persistence in spiritual cultivation. , Huang Yi opened the door to the exploration of the spiritual world in martial arts novels. In the novel, Huang Yi's exploration and breakthrough of martial arts principles are more important than the gorgeous and mysterious moves and techniques. Huang Yi said that his works focus more on fantasy. Because he hopes to "use martial arts to get a glimpse of the way of heaven." Therefore, starting from the first martial arts novel "Shattered Void", the world of martial arts novels has a new type. It no longer takes justice in the world as its own responsibility, but pursues the understanding of the way of heaven.
As he writes more martial arts novels, Huang Yi has been introspecting and transcending, pursuing his own "Tao". Huang Yi believes that martial arts is Chinese science fiction. Like Western science fiction, it is unrestricted and reaches far and wide, imagining the mysteries of life.