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In an effort to copy the manual, the two each read half of the manual and memorized it before return to Huashan. The origin of the split arose when Yue Su and Cai Zifeng, martial brothers from Huashan and the best of friends, went to the Shaolin temple and stumbled upon a manual written by a eunuch called the Sunflower Manual.
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In general, the Sword faction possessed more innovative and creative sword techniques and skills, while the Qi faction relied on having strong internal energy and brute power, but were less creative and skilful with the sword. Because of the feud, the sect's strength was severely weakened and consequently, the Songshan sect gained control of the leadership of the five sects. While the Sword faction was in the majority, the Qi faction managed to gain control of Huashan mountain and leadership of the sect through a ruse, forcing the other faction to leave the sect into exile or take their own lives. Unfortunately, it became divided into two factions: the Qi faction, which emphasized the cultivation of internal energy before learning sword techniques and the Sword faction, which focused on acquiring sword techniques and mastering its use and making internal energy cultivation a secondary emphasis. Huashan Sect was originally the most powerful of the five allied sects. The Alliance is not without friction between its members, as Songshan's Zuo Lengchan plots to put himself in total control of the five sects by calling for a merging of the five sects into one. The Five Mountains Alliance, so called because the sects are based on the five sacred mountains of China, is a loose alliance of self-proclaimed "righteous" sects, with Songshan Sect as its leader. Furthermore, he pictured the characters (Yue Buqun, Mo Da, Zuo Lengchan, Ren Woxing, Dongfang Bubai, Chongxu, and etc.) as politicians rather than the leaders of the martial art sects.Ĭharacters The Five Mountains Alliance (五嶽劍派) In 1980, Jin Yong commented that he did not include any historical setting in this novel to show that these colorful people appear in every era. The Smiling, Proud Wanderer was intentionally written as a reflection of politicians.
Lan laughing in the wind 2001 movie#
In the movie The Swordsman and Swordsman II, it was mentioned that it took place during the reign of the Wanli Emperor. Given the fact that Zhang Sanfeng and Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang were mentioned in this novel, and Linghu Chong was mentioned in the Deer and the Cauldron, it is most probably set during the Ming Dynasty. The Legend of the Condor Heroes and The Return of the Condor Heroes took place in the Southern Song during Jurchen and Mongol encroachment The Deer and the Cauldron happened during the Kangxi era of the Qing Dynasty), the historical period in which The Smiling, Proud Wanderer took place is less obvious. Unlike most of his other novels in which the historical timeframes are explicitly mentioned (e.g. Many people lusted after this manuscript, among them Zuo Lengchan, the leader of Songshan Sect and leader of the Five Mountains Sects Alliance, Yue Buqun, Yu Canghai, leader of Qingcheng Sect, who sports the somewhat nonstandard Szechuan dialect.
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Legend has it that there is a martial arts manuscript Bixie Sword Manual in the House of Lin, which when learned will give the person god-like speed and power. Much of the plotting and intrigue in the story deal primarily with the relationship of many of the characters to a legendary sword manuscript. The story deals with his journey and development as a swordsman and his witness to the various intrigues which take place in the martial world of the story. In the middle of it all is, Linghu Chong, an orphan who is the senior student of Yue Buqun, leader of Huashan Sect, and the protagonist of the story. The story is about friendship and love, deception and betrayal, ambition and lust for power.
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2.2 Ri Yue Shen Jiao (日月神教)(Sun-Moon God Sect).