Gu Long, a martial arts novelist with the same name as Jin Yong in the 1960s and 1970s, has representative works such as "Absolute Double Pride", "Legend of Chu Liuxiang", "Amorous Swordsman Ruthless Sword" and so on. His original name was Xiong Yaohua. Born in 1938 in the war-torn Hong Kong, he came to Taipei at the age of 14, was admitted to Cheng kung university (high school) in 1954, and began to write a large number of poems, submitting to blue star poetry journal, successful youth and so on. Published the novel "From the North to the South" in Chenguang Magazine, began to use the pen name Gulong, about the origin of Gulong's pen name, there is a saying that Gulong's girlfriend is called Gu Feng, and only then was named Gulong. At that time, Gu Long was very short, it was said that he was about 1 meter 6, and the length was not very good-looking, but his head was very large, and his classmates laughed at him and called him "big-headed ghost". Male classmates teased him, female classmates laughed at him, it can be said that Gu Long's childhood, encountered a lot of cold eyes and cruelty. Therefore, the young heroes he wrote were all fatherless, motherless, and helpless, but when they appeared, they surprised any martial arts master. No one even knew where the young man came from and was going there. I only know that the young heroes act heroically and righteously, rob the rich and help the poor, drink alcohol as fate, and peach blossoms continue.
When he was 20 years old, he lived with the dancer Zheng Lili. During the cohabitation period, Gu Long began a lifelong martial arts writing. The ancient dragon of that period finally felt the warmth of family affection. Therefore, his works in the same period are also full of warm colors, such as: "Absolute Double Pride", "History of Wulin", "Legend of the Hero of the Great Banner" and so on. The advent of these novels left the traditional martial arts far behind, and for a while Gu Long became one of the "Four Heavenly Kings" of wuxia novels, and his reputation gradually sounded in Taiwan, and his heart became more wild.
In the emotionally non-single-minded Gu Long career, but the wind and water. Not only did he make money, but he also made friends with big writers such as Ni Kuang and Jin Yong. Since then, Gu Long has gained a firm foothold in the martial arts world.
Many people like to compare Jin Yong and Gu Long, from personal experience, Jin Yong is a full of literati, a decent old chivalrous guest, he is writing about the jianghu outside the jianghu; while the gulong is full of jianghu qi, is a blockbuster prodigal son, writing in the jianghu. Therefore, Gu Long's young hero is a surprise to the whole jianghu as soon as he appears.
Wine and women were more of a necessity for him. He once said, "Actually, I'm not a very fond of drinking." What I love is not the taste of the wine, but the friends when drinking, and the atmosphere and fun of drinking, which only wine can come out of its duty. ”
Someone once said that the gulong pen is the jianghu, and drinking is life. In this life, he used more than seventy martial arts novels to write all the moral and righteous things in the jianghu and the world, and the sentence "People in the jianghu can't help themselves" has exhausted all kinds of things in this world.
Gu Long's attitude towards women is completely different from his attitude towards his friends, he can always abandon any woman at will, but he is dead set on his friends.
Ni Kuang once said, "If someone kills me with a knife, the only one who can stand in my way is Gu Long." ”
Once, a friend was going to Southeast Asia on a business trip and was in urgent need of a sum of money to circulate, so he had no choice but to find Gu Long to help. He originally did not hold out hope, because everyone knows that Gu Long is very generous and difficult to have spare money, who knows gu long but let him wait a little while, and then go to the study to take a few pages of manuscripts out, saying that it is the beginning of a new work, let him take it to find the owner of a publishing house, the other party will pay a deposit of 200,000 yuan first. The friend was half suspicious and went to the publishing house, and the boss really got the treasure and paid immediately.
In October 1980, the movie "The Legend of Chu Liuxiang" was completed, and Gu Long was invited to a tavern in Taiwan called Yin Song Ge for a drink. During this period, Gu Long met another film big man, Ke Junxiong, after the two sides had no old grudge, because who should toast whom first and a dispute, triggering a fight. In the confusion, someone punctured the artery of Gu Long's right arm, causing heavy bleeding. After being sent to the hospital, there were not so many blood banks in the hospital, forcing them to buy blood from drug addicts on the side of the road outside the hospital. The blood is not clean, and as a result, it is transfused into blood with hepatitis. The doctor told him not to drink alcohol or he would die. But Gu Long was so drunk that he didn't listen to advice at all.
In September 1985, At the age of 48, Gu Long died. Although it was only a short period of 48 years, his experience was already bumpy and rich enough, leaving a legendary wine story and a surprising work. After Gu Long's death, when people cleaned up his inheritance, they found that he did not have a single deposit in his account. It is puzzling that Dr. Gu Long created more than 70 novels and received a huge remuneration, but where did the single money go? Perhaps, only he himself knows best.