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《笑傲江湖》中，主角令狐本著自己的天性行事，對於外界的評議，一概置之不理，我行我素，為自己活著，不為他人的評議而活。「名門」令狐和「魔教」任盈盈相戀，卻「千秋萬載，永為夫婦」；魔教妖女大獲全勝，江湖道統大敗虧輸，這是《笑傲江湖》的主旨。《笑傲江湖》沒有任何歷史背景，純敘江湖上事，在一連串的曲折、奸謀之中，逐漸暴露偽君子的面目，解決了正、邪的真正意義，這是一部寫盡人性的小說。
432 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1967
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Jin Yong
851 books772 followersLouis Cha, GBM, OBE (born 6 February 1924), better known by his pen name Jin Yong (金庸, sometimes read and/or written as "Chin Yung"), is a modern Chinese-language novelist. Having co-founded the Hong Kong daily Ming Pao in 1959, he was the paper's first editor-in-chief.
Cha's fiction, which is of the wuxia ("martial arts and chivalry") genre, has a widespread following in Chinese-speaking areas, including mainland China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Southeast Asia, and the United States. His 15 works written between 1955 and 1972 earned him a reputation as one of the finest wuxia writers ever. He is currently the best-selling Chinese author alive; over 100 million copies of his works have been sold worldwide (not including unknown number of bootleg copies).
Cha's works have been translated into English, French, Korean, Japanese, Vietnamese, Thai, Burmese, Malay and Indonesian. He has many fans abroad as well, owing to the numerous adaptations of his works into films, television series, comics and video games.
金庸，大紫荊勳賢，OBE（英語：Louis Cha Leung-yung，1924年3月10日－2018年10月30日），本名查良鏞，浙江海寧人，祖籍江西婺源，1948年移居香港。自1950年代起，以筆名「金庸」創作多部膾炙人口的武俠小說，包括《射鵰英雄傳》、《神鵰俠侶》、《鹿鼎記》等，歷年來金庸筆下的著作屢次改編為電視劇、電影等，對華人影視文化可謂貢獻重大，亦奠定其成為華人知名作家的基礎。金庸早年於香港創辦《明報》系列報刊，他亦被稱為「香港四大才子」之一。
Source: https://zh.wikipedia.org/zh-tw/%E9%87...
Cha's fiction, which is of the wuxia ("martial arts and chivalry") genre, has a widespread following in Chinese-speaking areas, including mainland China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Southeast Asia, and the United States. His 15 works written between 1955 and 1972 earned him a reputation as one of the finest wuxia writers ever. He is currently the best-selling Chinese author alive; over 100 million copies of his works have been sold worldwide (not including unknown number of bootleg copies).
Cha's works have been translated into English, French, Korean, Japanese, Vietnamese, Thai, Burmese, Malay and Indonesian. He has many fans abroad as well, owing to the numerous adaptations of his works into films, television series, comics and video games.
金庸，大紫荊勳賢，OBE（英語：Louis Cha Leung-yung，1924年3月10日－2018年10月30日），本名查良鏞，浙江海寧人，祖籍江西婺源，1948年移居香港。自1950年代起，以筆名「金庸」創作多部膾炙人口的武俠小說，包括《射鵰英雄傳》、《神鵰俠侶》、《鹿鼎記》等，歷年來金庸筆下的著作屢次改編為電視劇、電影等，對華人影視文化可謂貢獻重大，亦奠定其成為華人知名作家的基礎。金庸早年於香港創辦《明報》系列報刊，他亦被稱為「香港四大才子」之一。
Source: https://zh.wikipedia.org/zh-tw/%E9%87...
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November 14, 2017
การผจญภัยของเหล็งฮู้ชงยังคงดำเนินต่อไป เล่มนี้ลมปราณแตกซ่านอ่อนแรงทั้งเล่ม ผู้คนทั่วทั้งสารทิศต่างหลั่งไหลมาช่วบเหลือ หาวิธีช่วยให้พระเอกฟื้นคืนพลัง หลังจากที่เซียนหกท้อทำผลงานไว้ซะเกือบตาย
ตัวละครในเล่มนี้ยังคงสีสันสดใสเหมือนเดิม ยกขบวนกันมาสร้างความปั่นป่วนให้กับชีวิตของเหล็งฮู้ชงแบบไม่เผื่อเวลาให้หายใจ เราว่ากลุ่มตัวละครผู้กล้าในยุทธภพนี่แหละ คือตัวชูโรงของนิยายเรื่องนี้อย่างแท้จริง
ตัวละครในเล่มนี้ยังคงสีสันสดใสเหมือนเดิม ยกขบวนกันมาสร้างความปั่นป่วนให้กับชีวิตของเหล็งฮู้ชงแบบไม่เผื่อเวลาให้หายใจ เราว่ากลุ่มตัวละครผู้กล้าในยุทธภพนี่แหละ คือตัวชูโรงของนิยายเรื่องนี้อย่างแท้จริง
October 19, 2025
Rewatching Swordsman II tonight by myself because I’m feeling homesick & nostalgic. What a fucking masterpiece.
I think when it comes to Chinese martial arts films, people in the west generally know the big Hollywood/Hollywood adjacent names like Bruce Lee Michelle Yeoh or the more contemporary ones Donnie Yen etc., but they don’t know the true ICON of Chinese martial arts cinema is Brigitte Lin, who portrayed Invincible East （東方不敗） in Swordsman II with impossible sensuality and gravitas. Her androgynous appeal triggered one of my childhood’s sexual awakening moments. Seeing her on TV when I was like five was one of my unforgettable core childhood memories.
Summary from ChatGPT about the movie:
Themes
• Gender & Power: Invincible East’s transformation is both literal (castration and feminization) and symbolic, making the character a queer, gender-bending icon decades ahead of its time.
• Loyalty & Betrayal: The film dramatizes Jin Yong’s themes of conflicting allegiances—between martial sects, lovers, and nations.
• Romance & Tragedy: The doomed attraction between Linghu Chong and Invincible East is one of the most haunting love threads in wuxia cinema.
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Style
• Ching Siu-tung’s wire-fu choreography is extravagant, balletic, and surreal: combatants practically fly, spin, and slice through entire armies.
• Tsui Hark’s vision blends operatic drama with kinetic action, making the film both campy and sublime.
• The score and art direction heighten the melodramatic, almost mythic quality of the film.
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Theme song is also 💯💯
滄海一聲笑 — A Laugh in the Vast Sea
滄海一聲笑，滔滔兩岸潮
A single laugh in the vast sea, as the tides surge on both shores.
👉 Life is immense and boundless like the sea; our joys and sorrows are but waves that rise and fall. The hero’s response? Laugh.
浮沉隨浪，記今朝
Drifting up and down with the waves, yet remembering only this present day.
👉 Nothing is permanent — one drifts like foam, carried by the waves of fate. So why cling to past or future? Treasure the moment.
蒼天笑，紛紛世上潮
The heavens laugh, at the endless struggles of the world’s tides.
👉 Even Heaven (or the Dao) laughs at human conflicts — power struggles, sect rivalries, dynasties rising and falling. From the cosmic view, all of it is absurdly small.
誰負誰勝出，天知曉
Who wins, who loses — only Heaven knows.
👉 Human ambition is meaningless; victory and defeat are illusions. Only the Heaven holds the answer.
江山笑，煙雨遙
The rivers and mountains laugh, veiled in distant mist and rain.
👉 The natural world endures, indifferent to human triumphs and tragedies. Heroes come and go, dynasties collapse, yet mountains stand eternal.
濤浪淘盡紅塵俗世幾多驕
The waves wash away all the pride and vanity of the mortal world.
👉 The sea is the great eraser: no matter how glorious, proud, or arrogant one is, everything is dissolved by time.
清風笑，竟若寂寥
The pure breeze laughs, and it feels like solitude.
👉 The wandering swordsman is free like the wind, yet that freedom can also be lonely — no attachments, no permanence, only the self and the vast sky.
豪情仍在，誰與共醉今朝
Yet the heroic spirit remains — who will share this drunken present with me?
👉 Even knowing all things pass, the xia still burns with passion. If nothing lasts, then at least let’s drink, laugh, and live this moment together.
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Philosophical Weight
• Daoist Detachment: Laughing at power, ambition, and human pride.
• Buddhist Impermanence: Waves erase everything — all is fleeting.
• Xia Heroism: Even knowing this, the hero still sings, drinks, loves, and fights passionately.
I think when it comes to Chinese martial arts films, people in the west generally know the big Hollywood/Hollywood adjacent names like Bruce Lee Michelle Yeoh or the more contemporary ones Donnie Yen etc., but they don’t know the true ICON of Chinese martial arts cinema is Brigitte Lin, who portrayed Invincible East （東方不敗） in Swordsman II with impossible sensuality and gravitas. Her androgynous appeal triggered one of my childhood’s sexual awakening moments. Seeing her on TV when I was like five was one of my unforgettable core childhood memories.
Summary from ChatGPT about the movie:
Themes
• Gender & Power: Invincible East’s transformation is both literal (castration and feminization) and symbolic, making the character a queer, gender-bending icon decades ahead of its time.
• Loyalty & Betrayal: The film dramatizes Jin Yong’s themes of conflicting allegiances—between martial sects, lovers, and nations.
• Romance & Tragedy: The doomed attraction between Linghu Chong and Invincible East is one of the most haunting love threads in wuxia cinema.
⸻
Style
• Ching Siu-tung’s wire-fu choreography is extravagant, balletic, and surreal: combatants practically fly, spin, and slice through entire armies.
• Tsui Hark’s vision blends operatic drama with kinetic action, making the film both campy and sublime.
• The score and art direction heighten the melodramatic, almost mythic quality of the film.
———————————
Theme song is also 💯💯
滄海一聲笑 — A Laugh in the Vast Sea
滄海一聲笑，滔滔兩岸潮
A single laugh in the vast sea, as the tides surge on both shores.
👉 Life is immense and boundless like the sea; our joys and sorrows are but waves that rise and fall. The hero’s response? Laugh.
浮沉隨浪，記今朝
Drifting up and down with the waves, yet remembering only this present day.
👉 Nothing is permanent — one drifts like foam, carried by the waves of fate. So why cling to past or future? Treasure the moment.
蒼天笑，紛紛世上潮
The heavens laugh, at the endless struggles of the world’s tides.
👉 Even Heaven (or the Dao) laughs at human conflicts — power struggles, sect rivalries, dynasties rising and falling. From the cosmic view, all of it is absurdly small.
誰負誰勝出，天知曉
Who wins, who loses — only Heaven knows.
👉 Human ambition is meaningless; victory and defeat are illusions. Only the Heaven holds the answer.
江山笑，煙雨遙
The rivers and mountains laugh, veiled in distant mist and rain.
👉 The natural world endures, indifferent to human triumphs and tragedies. Heroes come and go, dynasties collapse, yet mountains stand eternal.
濤浪淘盡紅塵俗世幾多驕
The waves wash away all the pride and vanity of the mortal world.
👉 The sea is the great eraser: no matter how glorious, proud, or arrogant one is, everything is dissolved by time.
清風笑，竟若寂寥
The pure breeze laughs, and it feels like solitude.
👉 The wandering swordsman is free like the wind, yet that freedom can also be lonely — no attachments, no permanence, only the self and the vast sky.
豪情仍在，誰與共醉今朝
Yet the heroic spirit remains — who will share this drunken present with me?
👉 Even knowing all things pass, the xia still burns with passion. If nothing lasts, then at least let’s drink, laugh, and live this moment together.
⸻
Philosophical Weight
• Daoist Detachment: Laughing at power, ambition, and human pride.
• Buddhist Impermanence: Waves erase everything — all is fleeting.
• Xia Heroism: Even knowing this, the hero still sings, drinks, loves, and fights passionately.
May 21, 2021
การดำเนินเรื่องอืดอาดยืดยาดน่ารำคาญ ยิ่งเจอคุณภาพการผลิตที่แย่มากอย่างไม่น่าเชื่อ ทั้งการตรวจแก้ การพิสูจน์อักษร เครื่องหมายวรรคตอน ทำให้ต้องทนอ่านนานมากกว่าจะจบเล่ม จบเล่มสองแล้วต้องพักไปอ่านเรื่องอื่นคั่นจังหวะ ก่อนจะมากลับมาหยิบเล่มสาม เพราะไหนๆซื้อมาแล้ว ก็ต้องอ่านให้จบ
August 12, 2019
看過這本書後，我認為這本書比我平時自己看的中文書的字深奧很多， 所以每當我遇到深奧的內容我都需要用詞典去解決 , 但書的內容非常有趣及非常豐富
February 28, 2025
a lotta meandering side plots that I do not really care about. It took my 2 months to finish the last 60 pages lol Still, it is good book
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