An Exploration Of The Root Narrative Discourse In Wuxia Culture

This article takes Jinyong’s martial arts novel "trilogy of The Legend of The ConderHeroes" for instance,aims at using critical way of myth-archetype as well asstructuralism,in order to expand the research of the martial arts culture.The authorbelieves the existing martial arts structure that is characterized by "great martial arts" and"entire media",this structure originated in Chinese mythology,Taoism-Taoist-The scienceof alchemy system is the " dominant factor" of its evolution and development. Theswordsman is the trinity "coordinator" of "chivalrous""fierce" and "righteousness”, thefundamental narrative grammar of martial arts novels is the practice of"righteousness".Four prototype of cores take the Chinese mythology, Taoism-Taoist-Thescience of alchemy system, and the structure of the martial arts connected, Theyrespectively is: Having dinner with god,The five phases, Inner alchemy and Fairy’s comingdown to earth.The “Having dinner with god” originated by ancestors’ witchcraft rites is theprototype of the underworld’s events，it evolve the prototype bunches such as diningtogether,gathering the brothers, demonstration of and competition in military skills, arenamatch,Wulin assembly, storming a castle,etc. As an “inspiring event”, Taoist goingdownhill promotes the development of the story, brings the martial arts warehouse ofTaoism, and provides spaces of “witchcraft” and “history” as well as themes about“oneself” and “country”.“The five phases” originated by ancestors’ witchcraft rites is the prototype of theunderworld’s geography.It not only makes up the underworld’s characters like the “fivesuperexcellent people” and the forces such as “The Five Mountains”,but also become thebasic narrative grammar. Jing Yong use the conception of “The five phases” to construct circular narrative structure in which yin and yang can interact and form each other, andentrusts the “equilibrium” to the martial arts structure as well.The way to practice spirit and physical body formed by the Taoist-Taoism-DanTaoism system——the “inner dan” is the prototype of martial arts.Chivalrous man inmartial arts novel absorbs inspiration repectively from witchcraft, religion and science.Supernatural vitality is obtained and then exports the subtype of fantasy novel, martial artsnovel and science fiction. This obtaining is closely linked to “formal witchcraft” and“touched witchcraft”, it also interrelated to the Inner alchemy system and the yogasystem.Jing Yong’s martial arts system is constructed on this basis by using the “Inneralchemy” as a prototype.Fairies going down to the earth is the “prototype” of the plot in Jin Yong’s martial artsnovel about the love between men and women.Male chivalrous often meets femalechivalrous transformed from “fairies” in a cave symbolizes “uterus”,through the “man andwoman intercourse” and rebirth. Meeting a fairy and then dividing from her is the coreevent in the martial arts novel.The four prototypes above are the repeating factors as well as the narrative grammarin the structure of the martial arts novel. Those are the unconscious category of martial artsnovels’ structure,and constitute the identity of the martial arts novel.They deformate andalter in nowadays’ utterance, interact with the conceptions of science and democracy, andfinally form new martial arts texts represented by Jin Yong’s books. This facts on the onehand, revive the Taoist-Taoism-Taoist dan cultural traditional, on the other hand, newTaoist atmosphere of “original Taoist plus science” also springs out. The appearance of“the new Taoist” is the core proposition from the “trilogy of The Legend of The ConderHeroes” to Jin Yong’s marial arts books, and finally reaches the structure of martial arts atthe present age; it is the key to the “riddle of martial arts” as well.