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Post by galvatron prime on Mar 29, 2020 2:21:38 GMT
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Post by siuyiu on Mar 29, 2020 3:59:29 GMT
There's about 4 years age gap. Textual proof: wuxiasociety.com/return-condor-heroes-chapter-6/4/YG is about 14 when he first meets XLN. Textual proof: wuxiasociety.com/return-condor-heroes-chapter-5/Just skimming the online translation, since it's been years since I've read the books: at the start of the story, YG is about 13, so he spent less than a year with GJ and HR before he was shipped off to the taoist sect and was there a short time before he was "rescued" by the granny of ancient tomb sect.
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Post by Admin on Mar 29, 2020 9:09:35 GMT
wow. thanks a lot siuyiu I had always thought that their age gap was 6 years old. YG was 12 and XLN was 18 years old when they first met now apparently YG was even older and their age gap was only 4 years.
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Post by reinafu on Mar 29, 2020 10:54:46 GMT
I only watched the version with Carman Lee (as series) and the Shaws' movie with Leslie Cheung, and they seem to be around the same age. When I tested the discs of the CTV 1976 series, it even seemed that the actress playing Xiao Long Nü was younger than Luo Le Lin...
Thanks for the precision about the difference of ages.
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Post by siuyiu on Mar 29, 2020 15:41:49 GMT
I vaguely remember doing the math: by the time they reunited 16 years later, XLN was close to age 40. Which meant that, for that era, they had a child(ren) very late in life! (GJ & HR were age 30 and 26 at the start of ROCH, and GF was already old enough to be the spoiled brat that she continued to be into adulthood. And given that GF was around 16 when her twin siblings were born, it means HR was also of advanced age to birth them, given the era and especially the life expectancy. )
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Post by reinafu on Mar 29, 2020 15:46:38 GMT
I vaguely remember doing the math: by the time they reunited 16 years later, XLN was close to age 40. Which meant that, for that era, they had a child(ren) very late in life! (GJ & HR were age 30 and 26 at the start of ROCH, and GF was already old enough to be the spoiled brat that she continued to be into adulthood. And given that GF was around 16 when her twin siblings were born, it means HR was also of advanced age to birth them, given the era and especially the life expectancy. ) Well...It's a novel, and it's wuxia with a little bit of fantasy, so, everything is possible...
My maternal grandfather was born when his mother was 45 years old, so...It may be unusual, but it sometimes happens...
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Post by siuyiu on Mar 29, 2020 19:54:29 GMT
reinafu oh, it's definitely possible for women in their 40s and even early 50s to give birth, it was just very unusual back in the day. don't forget, this is the song dynasty we're talking about, the 13th century. people didn't usually live past 65 in those days, which is why a 60th birthday celebration was (and still is) such a big deal for the chinese.
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Post by kyc on Mar 30, 2020 12:26:25 GMT
Didn't Xiaolongnv take some nectar or pollen which froze her age?
I mean, it doesn't really matter. JY can find some strange reason to make her young again. Look at Tianshan Tonglao.
She can conceive as long as it's before menopause...
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Post by siuyiu on Mar 30, 2020 22:36:46 GMT
kyc well, very clearly she did manage to conceive before menopause!
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Post by Admin on Apr 3, 2020 12:41:09 GMT
I vaguely remember doing the math: by the time they reunited 16 years later, XLN was close to age 40. Which meant that, for that era, they had a child(ren) very late in life! (GJ & HR were age 30 and 26 at the start of ROCH, and GF was already old enough to be the spoiled brat that she continued to be into adulthood. And given that GF was around 16 when her twin siblings were born, it means HR was also of advanced age to birth them, given the era and especially the life expectancy. ) but in wuxia world, those heroes seemed to have old ages. Zhang Sanfeng reached 100 years during Zhang Wuji time
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Post by soengyee on Apr 3, 2020 19:16:33 GMT
Anyone other than me ever think the two never actually had a child but actually adopted one? The answers sister Yang gives later in HSDS is very ambiguous. Because the child (or children) the two would later have, would end up getting married and conceiving their own child thus sister Yang is born (or adopted again, who knows). If they had decided to retire from the Martial Realm and mind their own business, did this child they ended up having, sneak out of Ancient Tomb to get married and find their spouse? Jin Yong never gives us a clear answer, but isn't it possible they adopted an orphan and taught their martial arts to this child but this child did not actually live with them in the ancient tomb? Perhaps this adopted child didn't even know they were adopted... And perhaps by the time the two are already old enough and deceased, sister Yang (their supposed grand daughter) decides to go reside in Ancient Tomb and adopts a few disciples of her own and inherits all of martial arts.
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Post by Admin on Apr 4, 2020 14:13:15 GMT
Anyone other than me ever think the two never actually had a child but actually adopted one? The answers sister Yang gives later in HSDS is very ambiguous. Because the child (or children) the two would later have, would end up getting married and conceiving their own child thus sister Yang is born (or adopted again, who knows). If they had decided to retire from the Martial Realm and mind their own business, did this child they ended up having, sneak out of Ancient Tomb to get married and find their spouse? Jin Yong never gives us a clear answer, but isn't it possible they adopted an orphan and taught their martial arts to this child but this child did not actually live with them in the ancient tomb? Perhaps this adopted child didn't even know they were adopted... And perhaps by the time the two are already old enough and deceased, sister Yang (their supposed grand daughter) decides to go reside in Ancient Tomb and adopts a few disciples of her own and inherits all of martial arts. Is there any clue in HSDS mentioned that YG and XLN resided in the ancient tomb again? I remembered that the ancient tomb was somehow ruined and destructed by Jin Lun Fawang's disciple Ho Tu and the Mongolian. I don't think that they could live there anymore. I had always thought that they left the martial realm, - in which means they lived probably as ordinary peasants in a remote place where nobody could recognize them, but didn't return to ancient tomb. I might be wrong.
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Post by atumiwa on Aug 10, 2020 14:00:45 GMT
Anyone other than me ever think the two never actually had a child but actually adopted one? The answers sister Yang gives later in HSDS is very ambiguous. Because the child (or children) the two would later have, would end up getting married and conceiving their own child thus sister Yang is born (or adopted again, who knows). If they had decided to retire from the Martial Realm and mind their own business, did this child they ended up having, sneak out of Ancient Tomb to get married and find their spouse? Jin Yong never gives us a clear answer, but isn't it possible they adopted an orphan and taught their martial arts to this child but this child did not actually live with them in the ancient tomb? Perhaps this adopted child didn't even know they were adopted... And perhaps by the time the two are already old enough and deceased, sister Yang (their supposed grand daughter) decides to go reside in Ancient Tomb and adopts a few disciples of her own and inherits all of martial arts. Is there any clue in HSDS mentioned that YG and XLN resided in the ancient tomb again? I remembered that the ancient tomb was somehow ruined and destructed by Jin Lun Fawang's disciple Ho Tu and the Mongolian. I don't think that they could live there anymore. I had always thought that they left the martial realm, - in which means they lived probably as ordinary peasants in a remote place where nobody could recognize them, but didn't return to ancient tomb. I might be wrong. yes, they recruit some maids to guard ancient tomb , Guo Xiang did come to ancient tomb looking for YG, but he was not there, only to find their maids
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