Jin Yong, one of the gatekeepers of the Demon Catalogue

Jin Yong, formerly known as Cha Leung Yong, is the Grand Bauhinia Medal (The Grand Bauhinia Medal has been conferred since 1997 under the Honours and Awards System of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, in recognition of those who have made significant contributions to Hong Kong society throughout their lives. Recipients of the Grand Bauhinia Medal may add "Grand Bauhinia Honor" or "GBM" to their Chinese name and title. )

He was born in Haining, Zhejiang Province in 1924 and moved to Hong Kong in 1948. Since the 1950s, he has written a number of popular martial arts novels under the pen name "Jin Yong".

Over the years, Jin Yong's writings have been adapted into a number of TV dramas, films, radio dramas, etc., which can be regarded as a significant contribution to Chinese film and television culture, and also respected as the basis for him to become one of the most well-known martial arts fiction writers in the Chinese world.

In his early years, Jin Yong founded the "Ming Pao" series of newspapers in Hong Kong, and he is also known as one of the "Four Great Talents of Hong Kong". (Ni Kuang, Huang Zhan, Cai Lan)

Jin Yong's family is a scholarly family, living in Yuanhua Town, Haining County, Jin Yong himself is a descendant of Cha Sheng's grandson Cha Kuo.

In 1929, he enrolled in Yuanhua Town Primary School in his hometown, Haining County.

In 1936, he entered Jiaxing No. 1 Middle School to study junior high school and left his hometown.

In 1937, the Japanese army invaded, and because of the war, he traveled with the school to Yuhang, Lin'an, Lishui and other places, and then studied in the junior high school of Zhejiang Provincial United High School in 1938.

In 1939, when he was in the third year of junior high school, he and his classmates co-edited a reference book to guide students to enter junior high school. This is the first time that this type of book has been published in China, and it is also the first book published by Jin Yong. The results are extraordinary.

In 1941, he was expelled for writing a satirical article on the poster about the capitulationism of the director of discipline, "Alice's Wanderings", and the principal Zhang Yintong introduced him to Quzhou.

He graduated from Quzhou High School in Zhejiang Province in 1942 and was admitted to the Department of Foreign Affairs of the Central Political University in Chongqing in 1944. Later, he worked at the Central Library and read a lot of books.

After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War in 1945, he returned to his hometown and worked as a field reporter in Hangzhou's "Southeast Daily". In 1946, he went to Shanghai Soochow University Law School to study international law, graduating in 1948.

In October 2005, the 81-year-old Jin Yong left Hong Kong to study at Cambridge University in the United Kingdom. He also obtained a master's degree and a doctorate degree in history.

Started in 2009. He is studying for a Ph.D. in Chinese at Peking University through distance education and is expected to graduate in August 2013.

The bronze statue of Jin Yong on Peach Blossom Island in Zhejiang, the couplets on both sides are the famous "Flying Snow Shoots White Deer in the Sky, and the Laughing Book Hero Leans on the Blue Mandarin"

Autumn 1946. Zha Liangyong joined Ta Kung Pao in Shanghai as an international telecommunications translator. In 1948, he was transferred to the Hong Kong branch. In 1950, he went to Beijing to find a job at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Communist Party of China. However, due to dissatisfaction with the CCP's foreign policy, it was merged and re-entered into Ta Kung Pao.

In 1952, he was transferred to the editorial supplement of the New Evening News. and wrote movie scripts such as "Peerless Beauty" and "Orchid Flower". During this period, he met his colleague Liang Yusheng and became friends. Later, the editor-in-chief, Rover, arranged for Zha and Liang to write martial arts novels to be serialized in the supplement, Liang Yusheng wrote "Dragon and Tiger Fighting Jinghua", and Zha Liangyong wrote "Book of Swords and Enmity" under the pseudonym Jin Yong. caused a sensation, and suddenly Jin Liang became famous.

In 1956, he and Liang Yusheng, who also wrote martial arts novels, and the owner of Baijian Hall opened a column in the newspaper "Essays on the Three Swords", and the three of them co-wrote essays, leaving a historical witness to the "new school of martial arts".

In 1956, "Blue Blood Sword" was serialized in the "Hong Kong Commercial Daily" throughout the year. In 1959, he serialized "The Condor Heroes" in his self-run "Ming Pao".

From 1953 to 1958, under the pseudonym Lin Huan, he wrote scripts for the Great Wall Film Company, among which "Peerless Beauty" won the Gold Medal Award of the Ministry of Culture of the People's Republic of China. He has also co-directed two films, co-directed with Cheng Bugao in "A Girl in Arms" and Hu Xiaofeng in "Wang Laohu Robbing Relatives". He also wrote movie reviews under the pseudonym Yao Fulan, and also wrote lyrics for movie songs.

In 1959, Cha Liangyong and others founded Ming Pao in Hong Kong, and later launched a series of newspapers including Ming Pao Evening News, Ming Pao Monthly and Ming Pao Weekly, as well as Malaysia's New Ming Daily.

In 1991, Ming Pao Enterprises Limited was incorporated and listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange. Ming Pao Group's profit in 1991 was close to 100 million yuan, and after the listing of Ming Pao Group in Hong Kong in 1991, he retired from the management of the newspaper industry, so he traveled around the world, taught, retreated, traveled and studied the scriptures, and he ranked 64th in the "Hong Kong Chinese Billionaires List in the 90s" of Capital Magazine in 1991, and he was also hailed as a typical example of literati getting rich.

Zha Liangyong has written editorials for Ming Pao for more than 20 years, and has been known as "writing editorials with his left hand and novels with his right hand".

In the 1960s, due to the hostility between China and the Soviet Union, Chinese mainland's security was insecure and threatened, and began to actively develop and research nuclear weapons, Chen Yi put forward the "nuclear pants theory" in 1963: "When you have pants, you must also build a nucleus!"

In 1964, Cha published an editorial in Ming Pao, "Pants, Not Nuclear", opposing the building of an atomic bomb in poverty. Left-wing newspapers such as Ta Kung Pao, Wen Wei Po, and Xin Wan Wan responded with "anti-communist and anti-China", "pro-British and American-minded", and "betrayal of the national position".

It was not until the end of the day that Chen Yi stepped in to stop the attack of the leftists. Although the Ming Pao series was not a radical publication, when the Cultural Revolution broke out, Cha Liangyong and Ming Pao openly opposed it.

In an article on the 40th anniversary of "Ming Pao Monthly", Jin Yong also bluntly said that the publication was against the Cultural Revolution, which was specifically demonstrated in the record of Peng Dehuai's achievements and the publication of Wu Han's "Xie Yaohuan" script, which vigorously defended traditional Chinese culture and criticized mistakes.

Cha was denounced by Hong Kong leftists as a "traitor", a "lackey", and a "jackal"; After returning to Hong Kong, he was under special protection by the Hong Kong government until the end of the 70s of the 20th century.

In the spring of 1973, Zha Liangyong went to Taiwan and met with Chiang Ching-kuo. After the Cultural Revolution, Jin Yong visited Chinese mainland in 1981 and 1984, and met with Deng Xiaoping and Hu Yaobang in Beijing.

Subsequently, in 1985, the Drafting Committee for the Basic Law of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region was established, and Jin Yong, as one of the members, served as the head of the Hong Kong side of the drafting group for the political system of the Basic Law and a member of the drafting group for the economic system.

Because Hong Kong's constitutional plan is the most central and controversial of the Basic Law, it was not yet formulated until 1988. In 1988, Jin Yong and Zha Jimin proposed the controversial "Constitutional Coordination Plan" (also known as the "Double Investigation Plan" and the mainstream plan).

This plan was relatively conservative compared to many proposals put forward by various circles at that time, so it was considered to hinder the democratic process and was not supported by the Hong Kong people.

In fact, Cha Zhi originally intended to leave room for the democrats Lee Chu-ming and Situ Hua, but the two were silent in protest that day, so that the most conservative plan could be passed, much to Cha's expectations.

However, the central government thought that this was the bottom line, so it was later amended and incorporated into the Basic Law to this day. In 1989, there was an 89 democracy movement in Beijing. On May 20, the day the "Capital Martial Law" was issued, Cha Liangyong resigned from the Drafting Committee and Advisory Committee of the Basic Law, ending his political career.

Jin Yong expressed sadness at the use of force to suppress the students. In the same year, at the tea party celebrating the 30th anniversary of the founding of Ming Pao, he announced that he would step down from the position of president and only serve as the chairman of the group. (To be continued......)