Novels Of The Modern Evolution

Martial arts novel has been regarded as vulgar and conservative marketplace fiction, because of its strong dependence on Chinese traditional culture. Modernity seems far away from the popular novels of this type. However, this article attempts to compare and analyse " Three Knight-errants And Five Righteousness " and " The Swordsman's Biography On Shu Mountain " these two best kung fu novels of the late Qing Dynasty and the Republic Period, we have reached a conclusion: martial arts novel has a process of the modernity evolution. The value of the modernity is affected by era. Martial arts novel writers actively and consciously drew new ideas and new concepts of era. Chinese traditional culture was been placed in the background of modern civilization, and the writers were also constantly been adding new significance to the traditional cultural; meanwhile the introduction of new writing transformed the text of the martial arts novel. Although the progress of modern martial arts novel compared to the new literature would be relatively slow and there had been no major transformation in the literature so shocking, after careful and comparative analysis, it's not difficult to see their efforts and exploration to pursue modernity. "The oppression of the modernity" developed to distinct modernity from the late Qing Dynasty to the Republic Period, "Three Knight-errants And Five Righteousness" and "The Swordsman's Biography On Shu Mountain" were on behalf of the modern changes in the martial arts novel becoming increasingly clear. Moreover, as the period of transition from ancient errantry novels to the contemporary martial arts novel, these two works in the history of the martial arts novel have epoch-making significance to the development of contemporary martial arts novel, contribute to its prosperous and have made an indelible contribution.