Shooting Condor: This Young Hero is Motionless

Since Mr. Jin Yong wrote martial arts novels rather than historical novels, and he has revised several versions, many timelines are inherently contradictory and cannot be justified. There are many so-called "Chronicles of Jin Yong" written by "great gods" on the Internet, which are just self-entertainment works. I have seen several versions of Guo Jing's birth year alone. Some say 1200, some say 1205, some 1206, and even 1188. Judging from their analysis, it all seems to make sense. For example: the beginning of the original book mentions that "Guangzong was passed to the current emperor Qingyuan, who has been sitting in the Longting in Lin'an for five years." The emperor of Qingyuan was Song Ningzong, and the fifth year of Qingyuan was 1199 AD. In the snowy twelfth lunar month of this year, Qiu Chuji went to Niujia Village and met Guo Xiaotian and Yang Tiexin. In the spring of the next year, Li Ping became pregnant with Guo Jing. In the same year, Guo Jing was born. This means that Guo Jing should have been born in the sixth year of Qingyuan of Emperor Ningzong of the Song Dynasty, which was 1200 AD. Another example: Genghis Khan unified Mongolia in 1206, and Guo Jing was already 18 years old at that time, so his birth date should be 1188. Therefore, the chronicle is unreliable and, moreover, is beyond the scope of this post. Before writing this novel, the author also consulted a lot of information, especially about the timeline, and made countless comparisons, but it was difficult to get a clear context. So the final idea is to return to the original work itself. There is a clear time point here, which is also an extremely important event in "The Condor Shooting" - the Huashan Sword Discussion. The Huashan Sword Discussion was held once every twenty-five years, and Guo Jing participated in the second Huashan Sword Discussion at the age of twenty. It can be estimated that four years had passed when the original book opened (Guo Jing was born in the spring of the following year). The opening of this novel takes place more than a year before the sword debate in Huashan. Through some clues, the approximate age of each important person was determined (there may be discrepancies, but not much): at this time, Wang Chongyang was 56 years old, Duan Zhixing was 44 years old, Hong Qigong and Zhou Botong were 42 years old, Ouyang Feng was 41 years old, Huang Yaoshi was 40 years old, and Qiu Qianren was 35 years old. Years old, Qiu Chuji is 26 years old, Ke Zhen'e is 37 years old, Han Xiaoying is 13 years old, Genghis Khan is 39 years old, Sha Tongtian, Peng Lianhu, Liang Ziweng, Master Lingzhi and Hou Tonghai etc. Have no clear age in the original work, so comprehensive consideration can be set at around 35 years old. Then, let's talk about the Huo Gong Toutuo incident. Huo Gong Tutuo is not mentioned in "Shooting the Condor" or "The Divine Condor", but appears at the beginning of "Yitian". At this time, Guo Xiang was looking for Yang Guo on the rivers and lakes, and accidentally came to Shaolin. When the Three Sages of Kunlun challenged Shaolin, Zhang Junbao (later Zhang Sanfeng) used the martial arts he learned from the Iron Arhat given by Guo Xiang to fight against him. He violated Shaolin's precepts by secretly learning martial arts, and was attacked by the monks and forced to flee, which led to the incident of Huo Gong Tutuo. According to the recollections of Abbot Tianming (the young novice monk who grew up in Yaowangyuan with the protagonist Lin Yang at the beginning of this article), pay attention to the time, it was more than seventy years ago. Guo Xiang was about twenty years old at the time, and her father Guo Jing was forty years older than her, which was sixty years old. Calculating this, the Huogong Toutuo incident should have occurred ten years before Guo Jing was born. When this novel begins, Guo Jing was -6 years old, a difference of four years. However, it should be noted that Tianming was already in his eighties at the time, and his memory may not be that accurate. The "seventy years" mentioned may be a vague time. There should be no problem with the author setting the four-year error for the sake of the plot. By the way, in Shaolin tradition, from Xu Zhu to Zhang Sanfeng, they were all expelled from Shaolin because they did not have a master to teach them martial arts. It is normal for Lin Yang to be among them. Each sect has its own sect rules, and you cannot arbitrarily think that it is unreasonable just because your ideas are different. Of course, the author admits that this design is mainly to serve the plot. Let's talk about the ages of Guo Xiaotian and Yang Tiexin: The original book calls Guo Xiaotian a "big man in his twenties" at the beginning, and describes Yang Tiexin without mentioning his age, only saying "a fair-skinned man." The two should be about the same age, with Guo Xiaotian slightly older. In this novel, they appeared in their early twenties. After the Haojiazhuang incident, they went through several twists and turns, and then settled in Niujia Village, Lin'an. They each married wives until they were chased by officers and soldiers. Guo Xiaotian died tragically only five years ago, so there is no problem with the timeline. Let's talk about the fact that Sha Tongtian, Peng Lianhu, Master Lingzhi and others served in Prince Zhao's palace to finish Yan Honglie. According to the original work, these people seemed to have joined forces relatively late, but it did not clearly indicate that they joined forces twenty years later. It is possible that they had colluded long ago. In addition, because there are only a few characters in the original work of The Condor, and the author does not like to add more original characters to the fanfic, if there is no such thing as Sha Tongtian, Master Lingzhi, etc., It will appear very thin and the narrative will be much more difficult. Finally, I would like to say that this book took the author half a year, from searching for information, conceiving the plot, setting up suspense, setting up a foreshadowing, and then making the outline and details step by step. It is a lot of effort. Saying this is not to complain or pretend to be pitiful, but to prove that the author was serious when writing this book and really wanted to write this story well. Of course, this book must have many shortcomings, and book friends are welcome to give good suggestions and opinions. Thank you for your support along the way, thank you! ! !