Those readers who have read the adult Wu Shei novels will never fail to know the great name of this famous novelist.
This popular and well known novelist is not only welcome by all the readers, he is also taken by some readers to put him in the same social prestigue and level as our most wonderful Wu Shei novel writings: Jin Yong.
Whether this is true or not, I will discuss later. But undoubtedly, this writer's novels definitely deserve our high recommendations and enjoyment. He has written 1 long novel and 4 short stories. It is this long novel - "Ten Sceneries in a piece of Silk" - that attracts the readers most.
To be a successful novel, we demand a good plot and background, a meaningful theme, a clear cut characterization of the major and minor characters, an excellent choice of dictions to show the writer's command of the Chinese literacy, the structures of the whole novel and a good conculsion of the whole novel.
This story has embodied all the qualities mentioned above. It starts with very breif instroduction of the story which has immediately given us the background of the story: The barren plane blows with breeze while the setting sun is gradually dipping in the west. From here, we know not only the story takes place at a remote part of the northern China, we immediately taste the smell of the famous writer is coming with his high command of Chinese language. The opening quotations of some Chinese poem, even though it is short, has showed not only the writer's proficiency in Chinese, but also indirectly given us the background of the story which is carried forward by two boys and one girl, who grow up together and start to explore the brave new world of excitement which is full of bloodshed, killing, murdering and love.
The theme of the story is clearly reflected in the topic of the novel: "The ten sceneries in the piece of Silk" (translated by me). It is said there are some hidden secrets of very wonderful knowledge about Wu Shei in the silk pieces. Any one who has collected all these ten scenes will obtain the highest knowledge and power of Wu Shei.This theme is started with series of plotting, killing, murdering and nasty bloodshed. Unlike the other novelists who talk about the hilarious happiness of the main character who has finnaly acquired the treasure, this novelist successfully given us an advice at the every end of the whole novel when the main male character has finally got the secrets of the silk: He questions the Heaven what is the use of having obtained so great a knowledge of Kong Fu on the expense of the deaths of so many lives. Is it worthwhile to do so when so many people have been killled and crippled?
Such a sad and moody ending reminds us the most recent international tumultuous financial earthquake when the banking systems have failed. People of different social lev