Jin Yong, one of the gatekeepers in the Demon Illustration
Jin Yong, formerly known as Cha Liangyong, is a Grand Bauhinia Medal (the highest honor under the honors and awards system of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region. The Grand Bauhinia Medal has been awarded since 1997 to commend people who have made significant contributions to Hong Kong society throughout their lives. The Literature Museum was awarded Those who are awarded the Grand Bauhinia Medal can add Grand Bauhinia Honoror or gbm after their Chinese name and title.
Born in Haining, Zhejiang in 1924, he moved to Hong Kong in 1948. Since the 1950s, he has written many popular martial arts novels under the pseudonym Jin Yong.
Over the years, Jin Yong¡¯s works have been adapted into many TV series, movies, radio dramas, etc., which have made great contributions to Chinese film and television culture and established the foundation for him to become one of the most famous martial arts novel writers in the Chinese world.
Jin Yong founded the "Ming Pao" series of newspapers in Hong Kong in his early years. He is also known as one of the four great talents in Hong Kong. (Ni Kuang, Huang Zhan, Cai Lan)
Jin Yong¡¯s family is a scholarly family and he has lived in Yuanhua Town, Haining County for generations. Jin Yong himself is a descendant of Cha Kui, the grandson of Cha Sheng.
In 1929, he enrolled in Yuanhua Town Primary School in his hometown of Haining County.
In 1936, he entered Jiaxing No. 1 Middle School as a junior high school student and left his hometown.
In 1937, the Japanese army invaded. Due to the war, he traveled to Yuhang, Lin'an, Lishui and other places with the school. In 1938, he enrolled in the junior high school of Zhejiang Provincial United High School.
In 1939, when he was in the third grade of junior high school, he and his classmates co-edited a reference book to guide students in entering junior high school - "For those who take the junior high school entrance examination". This is the first time this type of book has been published in China, and it is also the first book published by Jin Yong. It has achieved extraordinary results.
In 1941, he was expelled for writing an article "Alice's Wanderings" that satirized the capitulationism of the Dean of Students in a poster. Principal Zhang Yintong introduced him to transfer to Quzhou.
He graduated from Quzhou Middle School in Zhejiang Province in 1942 and was admitted to the Department of Foreign Affairs of Chongqing Central Political University in 1944. He complained to the school because he was dissatisfied with the behavior of student party members on campus. Instead he was dropped out of school. Later, he took a temporary job in the Central Library and read a lot of books.
After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War in 1945, he returned to his hometown and worked temporarily as a field reporter for Southeast Daily in Hangzhou. In 1946, he went to Shanghai Soochow University Law School to study international law and graduated in 1948.
In October 2005, the 81-year-old Jin Yong left Hong Kong to study at the University of Cambridge in England, where he obtained a master's degree and a doctorate in history.
Since 2009, I have been studying for a Ph.D. in Chinese Studies at Peking University through distance education and is expected to graduate in August 2013.
The bronze statue of Jin Yong on Peach Blossom Island in Zhejiang. The couplets on both sides are the famous "Flying Snow Shooting White Deer" and "The Laughing Book of Heroes" leaning on Biyuan.
In the autumn of 1946, Cha Liangyong entered Shanghai Ta Kung Pao as an international telecommunications translator. In 1948, he was transferred to the Hong Kong Branch. In 1950, he went to Beijing to apply for a job at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Communist Party of China. However, he was re-joined by Ta Kung Pao because he was dissatisfied with the foreign policy of the Communist Party of China.
In 1952, he was transferred to the editorial supplement of "New Evening News" and wrote movie scripts such as "The Beauty" and "Orchid Flower". During this period, he met his colleague Liang Yusheng and became friends. Then editor-in-chief Luo Fu arranged for Cha and Liang to write martial arts novels and serialize them in the supplement. Liang Yusheng wrote "Dragon and Tiger Fighting against Beijing", and Cha Liangyong wrote "Books, Swords and Enmities" under the pseudonym Jin Yong, which caused a sensation and made both Jin and Liang famous.
In 1956, Liang Yusheng, who also wrote martial arts novels, and the master of Baijian Hall opened a column in the newspaper "Essays on Sanjian Tower". The three of them co-wrote essays, leaving a historical witness to the new school of martial arts.
In 1956, "The Blood Sword" was serialized in "Hong Kong Commercial Daily" throughout the year. In 1959, "The Legend of the Condor Heroes" was serialized in the self-run "Ming Pao" newspaper.
From 1953 to 1958. He once wrote scripts for the Great Wall Film Company under the pseudonym Lin Huan, among which "The Beauty" won the Gold Medal Award from the Ministry of Culture of the People's Republic of China. He has also co-directed two films, co-directing "Girl's Love" with Cheng Bugao and "Wang Lao Lao Robbery" with Hu Xiaofeng. He also wrote film reviews under the pseudonym Yao Fulan. He also wrote lyrics for movie songs.
In 1959, Cha Liangyong and others founded "Ming Pao" in Hong Kong, and later launched a series of newspapers and periodicals including "Ming Pao Evening News", "Ming Pao Monthly" and "Ming Pao Weekly", and Malaysia's "Shin Min Daily News". Jin Yong also established Ming Pao Publishing House with Bright Window Press.
Ming Pao Enterprise Co., Ltd. was registered and established in 1991. It was listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange that year. Ming Pao Group's profit in 1991 was close to 100 million yuan. In 1991, Ming Pao Group was listed in Hong Kong. He quit the newspaper management, so he traveled around the country, taught, retreated, visited mountains and rivers, and studied the Bible. In 1991, he was listed in the "Hong Kong Chinese Billionaires List of the 1990s" published by Capital Magazine. Ranked 64th, he is also known as a typical example of a literary man getting rich.
Cha Liangyong has been writing editorials for "Ming Pao" for more than 20 years. He writes editorials with his left hand and novels with his right hand.
In the 1960s, due to the enmity between China and the Soviet Union, the security of mainland China was insecure and faced threats, and it began to actively develop and research nuclear weapons. Chen Yi proposed the nuclear trousers theory in 1963: We must build nuclear weapons even if we are trousers! .
The investigation was published in Ming Pao in 1964"Pants Not Nuclear" editorial, opposing the building of atomic bombs in poverty. Left-wing newspapers such as "Ta Kung Pao", "Wen Wei Po", and "New Evening News" responded with ****, pro-British and American views, and betrayal of the national position.
Until the end, Chen Yi stepped forward to stop the leftist attack. Although the Ming Pao series was not a radical publication, when the Cultural Revolution broke out, Cha and Ming Pao openly opposed it.
In his article on the 40th anniversary of "Ming Pao Monthly", Jin Yong also bluntly stated that the publication was in opposition to the Cultural Revolution, which was specifically demonstrated in recording Peng Dehuai's achievements, publishing Wu Han's "Xie Yaohuan" script, and vigorously defending traditional Chinese culture and criticizing erroneous criticism.
Cha Sui was called a traitor, a lackey, and a jackal by Hong Kong leftists; he even received death threats and once left Hong Kong for temporary refuge. After returning to Hong Kong, he received special protection from the Hong Kong government until the late 1970s.
In the spring of 1973, Cha Liangyong went to Taiwan and met with Chiang Ching-kuo. After the Cultural Revolution, Jin Yong visited mainland China in 1981 and 1984, and held talks with Deng Xiaoping and Hu Yaobang in Beijing.
Then in 1985, the Basic Law Drafting Committee of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region was established. Jin Yong, as one of the members, served as the Hong Kong leader of the Basic Law¡¯s political system drafting group and a member of the economic system drafting group.
Because the Hong Kong political system plan is the most core and controversial in the Basic Law, the plan had not yet taken shape until 1988. In 1988, Jin Yong and Cha Jimin proposed the controversial political coordination plan (also known as the double-check plan and the mainstream plan).
This plan was relatively conservative compared to many plans proposed by all walks of life at the time. Therefore, it was considered to hinder the democratic process and was not supported by Hong Kong people. After Cha returned to Hong Kong, various demonstrations and protests took place against him.
In fact, Cha¡¯s original intention was to leave room for the democratic parties Martin Lee and Szeto Wah, but the two remained silent that day in protest, allowing the most conservative plan to be passed, which was beyond Cha¡¯s expectation.
However, the central government believed that this was the bottom line at the time, so it was subsequently revised and incorporated into the Basic Law and is still in use today. In 1989, the 1989 Democracy Movement took place in Beijing. On May 20, the day martial law was announced in the capital, Cha Liangyong resigned from the Basic Law Drafting Committee and Consultative Committee, ending his political career.
Jin Yong expressed sadness over the use of force to suppress students. In the same year, at a tea party celebrating the 30th anniversary of the founding of "Ming Pao", he announced that he would step down as president and only serve as chairman of the group.