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Post by machete on Jul 23, 2022 12:50:00 GMT
Ok, so Journey to the West came before any wuxia novel but does the style of fighting/combat in the novel bear resemblance to modern day wuxia?(I haven't read JTTW by the way). I would imagine the fight scenes to be described as "Nezha then blew fire out of his mouth" or so and so used so and so skill and Wukong retaliated with so and so spell. I don't know how Wukong's staff fight with Erlang's spear is described but maybe it is described in the same style as how Water Margin is written?
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Post by yenchin on Aug 3, 2022 6:29:30 GMT
The fight between Wukong and Erlang is described like this: Erlang is angered by Wukong and waves his blade but Wukong dodges, and then the author writes a long poem on how exciting the fight went, then "after 300 exchanges" the fight becomes more magic focused with Wukong and Erlang shapeshifting. So it's not quite like modern wuxia with the detailed stances and fighting moves.
The Water Margin is more like a prototype of modern wuxia since it has some limited descriptions of moves when necessary, and there are like a couple of stances named (such as Lin Chong's "撥草尋蛇" and Wu Song's "玉環步, 鴛鴦腳")
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Post by ethanrob on Oct 21, 2022 11:36:39 GMT
In fact, Journey to the West is a Xianxia story. Because martial arts generally refers to the human world.
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