Huang Rong
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Huang Rong is a fictional character in the wuxia
novel The Legend of the Condor Heroes
by Jin Yong. She plays a supporting role in the sequel The Return of the Condor Heroes
.
and Feng Heng. Her mother died shortly after she was born and her father raised her all by himself on Peach Blossom Island. She is intelligent and quick-learning so her father imparted her with all his skills and knowledge. She flees from home after an argument with her father and disguises herself as a young beggar by dressing in filthy rags.
Huang meets Guo Jing
in an inn for the first time while she was causing trouble there. Guo feels sorry for her and decides to pay for her. Huang finds Guo interesting and she orders all kinds of fine cuisine and shares with him. Guo even gives her some gold ingots he received from Genghis Khan
. Guo offers her his prized Ferghana horse
, a rare Central Asian breed, when she asks for it. Since then, Huang is attracted to Guo when she sees that he is a simple, honest and innocent young lad.
Initially, Huang is better in martial arts as compared to Guo, as Guo is slow learning despite being physically stronger. They embark on adventure together even though Guo's teachers, the "Seven Freaks of Jiangnan", dislike Huang Rong and oppose Guo's decision to be with her. They meet Hong Qigong
and Hong teaches Guo his "Eighteen Dragon-subduing Palms" in return for Huang's favours of preparing fine cuisine for him every day during the brief period of time he spent with them.
Hong initially refuses to teach Huang any skills when he realises that she is the daughter of his rival Huang Yaoshi. However, he starts to like her for her cute nature, and especially after she and Guo saved his life from Ouyang Feng
on the remote island. He fought with Ouyang and was bitten by Ouyang's poisonous serpent. He loses all his inner energy
after using them to purge the poison from his body. He teaches Huang his "Dog Beating Staff Technique" after he decides to pass on the position of chief of the Beggars' Sect
to her.
Huang has a role in the death of Yang Kang
although she does not kill him directly. Yang hits her in an attempt to prevent her from revealing the truth behind the murders he committed. However, he hits the spikes on the armour she is wearing instead. The armour is incidentally stained with venom from a rare snake bred by Ouyang Feng and the poison seeps through Yang's wounds into his body and kills him eventually.
Towards the end of the novel, on the summit of Mount Hua
, Huang Yaoshi finally consents to his daughter's marriage to Guo Jing.
. The adult Huang is portrayed as a mature wife and mother, with her former trickster nature downplayed but her strong intuition and unmatched intelligence still remain evident. The couple have three children; Guo Fu, Guo Xiang, and
Guo Polu, and have also accepted the brothers Wu Xiuwen and Wu Dunru as their disciples.
During the first meeting with Yang Guo, Guo Jing accepts him immediately and wants to raise him like a son and groom him into a young hero. However, Huang has reservations regarding her husband's decision. She feels that Yang bears an uncanny resemblance to his late father in his attitude and behaviour and does not trust Yang fully. Yang is only taught literary arts and Confucian values
during the brief period of time he spent with the couple.
However, Huang's attitude towards Yang Guo changes over time as her husband shows high regard for the boy and especially after Yang selflessly saved their family from danger numerous times. At one point, she fears for Guo Fu's life, after Guo sliced off Yang's arm in a heated argument, but Yang forgives Guo and saves her life again later. Huang only trusts Yang fully after he saved Guo Xiang from the Mongols in the later chapters.
Huang joins her husband in the defense of Xiangyang
and provides him with all the moral support to resist the Mongol invaders. In The Heaven Sword and Dragon Saber, it is revealed that after realizing that the fall of Xiangyang
is inevitable, Huang and her husband write their knowledge of martial arts and military strategy onto manuals and hid them separately in the two newly forged weapons; the Heaven-reliant Sword and the Dragon-slaying Saber, in hope that future generations would inherit their legacy of allegiance to the Han Chinese
. Huang is killed along with her husband and children after the city of Xiangyang falls to the invaders on 31 January 1273. Her younger daughter, Guo Xiang, survives and becomes the founder of the Emei Sect
.
memorised and mastered the skills detailed in the manual, he shared them with Huang. Mastering the manual's skills allows both of them to maximise the potential of the various skills they had learnt earlier.
Wuxia
Wuxia is a broad genre of Chinese fiction concerning the adventures of martial artists. Although wuxia is traditionally a form of literature, its popularity has caused it to spread to diverse art forms like Chinese opera, manhua , films, television series, and video games...
novel The Legend of the Condor Heroes
The Legend of the Condor Heroes
The Legend of Condor Heroes is a wuxia novel by Jin Yong, and the first part of the Condor Trilogy. It was first serialized between January 1, 1957 and May 19, 1959 in Hong Kong Commercial Daily...
by Jin Yong. She plays a supporting role in the sequel The Return of the Condor Heroes
The Return of the Condor Heroes
The Return of the Condor Heroes is a wuxia novel by Jin Yong, and the second part of the Condor Trilogy. It was first serialized between May 20, 1959 and July 5, 1961 on Ming Pao. The story revolves around Yang Guo and his lover Xiaolongnü in their adventure in the wulin fraternity, which does not...
.
Character description
Huang is described as a young beggar dressed in filthy clothing during her first appearance in the novel. Her face is stained with mud and her clothes are covered with dust. When Guo Jing agrees to meet her on the riverbank, her appearance has totally changed. She looks completely different from the beggar earlier, now that she is clean and dressed in beautiful clothes. Her appearance is described as "skin as white as snow, extremely charming and gorgeous". (肌膚勝雪，嬌美無比，容色絕麗，不可逼視) Guo is taken aback by her new look.The Legend of the Condor Heroes
Huang is born to Huang YaoshiHuang Yaoshi
Huang Yaoshi is a fictional character in Jin Yong's Condor Trilogy. He appears in the first two novels The Legend of the Condor Heroes and The Return of the Condor Heroes as a supporting character....
and Feng Heng. Her mother died shortly after she was born and her father raised her all by himself on Peach Blossom Island. She is intelligent and quick-learning so her father imparted her with all his skills and knowledge. She flees from home after an argument with her father and disguises herself as a young beggar by dressing in filthy rags.
Huang meets Guo Jing
Guo Jing
Guo Jing is the fictional protagonist of The Legend of the Condor Heroes, a wuxia novel by Jin Yong. He plays a supporting role in the sequel novel The Return of the Condor Heroes as well...
in an inn for the first time while she was causing trouble there. Guo feels sorry for her and decides to pay for her. Huang finds Guo interesting and she orders all kinds of fine cuisine and shares with him. Guo even gives her some gold ingots he received from Genghis Khan
Genghis Khan
Genghis Khan , born Temujin and occasionally known by his temple name Taizu , was the founder and Great Khan of the Mongol Empire, which became the largest contiguous empire in history after his death....
. Guo offers her his prized Ferghana horse
Ferghana horse
Ferghana horses were one of China's earliest major imports, originating in an area in Central Asia. These horses, as depicted in Tang Dynasty pottery representations of them, "resemble the animals on the golden medal of Eucratides, King of Bactria ."-Ancient history:Dayuan, north of Bactria, was...
, a rare Central Asian breed, when she asks for it. Since then, Huang is attracted to Guo when she sees that he is a simple, honest and innocent young lad.
Initially, Huang is better in martial arts as compared to Guo, as Guo is slow learning despite being physically stronger. They embark on adventure together even though Guo's teachers, the "Seven Freaks of Jiangnan", dislike Huang Rong and oppose Guo's decision to be with her. They meet Hong Qigong
Hong Qigong
Hong Qigong is a fictional character in Jin Yong's wuxia novel The Legend of the Condor Heroes and its sequel The Return of the Condor Heroes...
and Hong teaches Guo his "Eighteen Dragon-subduing Palms" in return for Huang's favours of preparing fine cuisine for him every day during the brief period of time he spent with them.
Hong initially refuses to teach Huang any skills when he realises that she is the daughter of his rival Huang Yaoshi. However, he starts to like her for her cute nature, and especially after she and Guo saved his life from Ouyang Feng
Ouyang Feng
Ouyang Feng is a fictional character in Jin Yong's wuxia novel The Legend of the Condor Heroes and its sequel The Return of the Condor Heroes...
on the remote island. He fought with Ouyang and was bitten by Ouyang's poisonous serpent. He loses all his inner energy
Neigong
Neigong, also spelled nei kung, neigung, or nae gong, refers to any of a set of Chinese breathing, meditation and spiritual practice disciplines associated with Daoism and especially the Chinese martial arts...
after using them to purge the poison from his body. He teaches Huang his "Dog Beating Staff Technique" after he decides to pass on the position of chief of the Beggars' Sect
Beggars' Sect
The Beggars' Sect is a fictional Chinese martial arts sect featured prominently in works of wuxia fiction by writers such as Jin Yong and Gu Long. The sect has also found its way into some Hong Kong martial arts films such as King of Beggars....
to her.
Huang has a role in the death of Yang Kang
Yang Kang
Yang Kang is the fictional antagonist and the foil to the protagonist, Guo Jing, in Jin Yong's wuxia novel The Legend of the Condor Heroes.-Birth and heritage:...
although she does not kill him directly. Yang hits her in an attempt to prevent her from revealing the truth behind the murders he committed. However, he hits the spikes on the armour she is wearing instead. The armour is incidentally stained with venom from a rare snake bred by Ouyang Feng and the poison seeps through Yang's wounds into his body and kills him eventually.
Towards the end of the novel, on the summit of Mount Hua
Mount Hua
Mount Hua or Hua Shan in Chinese is located in Shaanxi Province, about 120 kilometres east of the city of Xi'an, near the city Huayin in China. Also known as Xiyuè, Western Great Mountain, it is one of China's Five Sacred Taoist Mountains, and has a long history of religious significance...
, Huang Yaoshi finally consents to his daughter's marriage to Guo Jing.
The Return of the Condor Heroes
In the sequel novel, Guo Jing and Huang Rong play supporting roles in the character development of the protagonist, Yang GuoYang Guo
Yang Guo, style name Gaizhi , is the fictional protagonist of the wuxia novel The Return of the Condor Heroes by Jin Yong....
. The adult Huang is portrayed as a mature wife and mother, with her former trickster nature downplayed but her strong intuition and unmatched intelligence still remain evident. The couple have three children; Guo Fu, Guo Xiang, and
Guo Polu, and have also accepted the brothers Wu Xiuwen and Wu Dunru as their disciples.
During the first meeting with Yang Guo, Guo Jing accepts him immediately and wants to raise him like a son and groom him into a young hero. However, Huang has reservations regarding her husband's decision. She feels that Yang bears an uncanny resemblance to his late father in his attitude and behaviour and does not trust Yang fully. Yang is only taught literary arts and Confucian values
Confucianism
Confucianism is a Chinese ethical and philosophical system developed from the teachings of the Chinese philosopher Confucius . Confucianism originated as an "ethical-sociopolitical teaching" during the Spring and Autumn Period, but later developed metaphysical and cosmological elements in the Han...
during the brief period of time he spent with the couple.
However, Huang's attitude towards Yang Guo changes over time as her husband shows high regard for the boy and especially after Yang selflessly saved their family from danger numerous times. At one point, she fears for Guo Fu's life, after Guo sliced off Yang's arm in a heated argument, but Yang forgives Guo and saves her life again later. Huang only trusts Yang fully after he saved Guo Xiang from the Mongols in the later chapters.
Huang joins her husband in the defense of Xiangyang
Xiangyang
Xiangzhou District is a district of Xiangyang, Hubei, China. The district itself was formerly known as Xiangyang. It was a city famous for the Siege of Xiangyang by invading forces of the Mongol-founded Yuan Dynasty...
and provides him with all the moral support to resist the Mongol invaders. In The Heaven Sword and Dragon Saber, it is revealed that after realizing that the fall of Xiangyang
Battle of Xiangyang
The Battle of Xiangyang also known as the Battle of Xiangfan was a six-year battle between invading Yuan Dynasty armies founded by the Mongols and Southern Song forces between AD 1267 and 1273. After the battle, the victorious Yuan forces pushed farther into the Song heartland...
is inevitable, Huang and her husband write their knowledge of martial arts and military strategy onto manuals and hid them separately in the two newly forged weapons; the Heaven-reliant Sword and the Dragon-slaying Saber, in hope that future generations would inherit their legacy of allegiance to the Han Chinese
Han Chinese
Han Chinese are an ethnic group native to China and are the largest single ethnic group in the world.Han Chinese constitute about 92% of the population of the People's Republic of China , 98% of the population of the Republic of China , 78% of the population of Singapore, and about 20% of the...
. Huang is killed along with her husband and children after the city of Xiangyang falls to the invaders on 31 January 1273. Her younger daughter, Guo Xiang, survives and becomes the founder of the Emei Sect
Emei Sect
The Emei Sect is one of the leading orthodox Chinese martial arts sects in the jianghu in several works of wuxia fiction. Its home base is on Mount Emei in Sichuan...
.
Huang Yaoshi
Huang learns most her martial arts and skills from her father. These skills demand a high level of intelligence and meticulousness to master so they reflect Huang's traits very well. Guo Jing is unable to fully grasp all these skills. Some of these skills are as follows:- Peach Flower Fallen Hero Palm (桃花落英掌) - known in later editions of the novel as "Falling Flower Divine Sword Palm" (落英神剑掌).
- Divine Flicking Finger (弹指神通) - a unique technique of channeling a large amount of inner energyNeigongNeigong, also spelled nei kung, neigung, or nae gong, refers to any of a set of Chinese breathing, meditation and spiritual practice disciplines associated with Daoism and especially the Chinese martial arts...
into a finger and releasing it with a precise amount of strength and control. It is used to propel and fire objects at enemies with both force and accuracy. - Jade Flute Swordplay (玉箫剑法) - a type of swordplay which focusses on attacking an opponent's acupuncture pointAcupuncture pointAcupuncture points are locations on the body that are the focus of acupuncture, acupressure, sonopuncture and laser acupuncture treatment. Several hundred acupuncture points are considered to be located along meridians...
s.
Hong Qigong
Huang meets Hong Qigong while out on adventure with Guo Jing. Hong teaches them his martial arts in return for Huang's favours of preparing fine cuisine for him every day during the brief period of time he spent with them. The skills Huang learnt from Hong are as follows:- Carefree Fist (逍遙遊) - created by Hong in his younger days. It requires flexibility and smoothness as its name "carefree" implies.
- Rain of Petals (滿天花雨) - Hong creates this skill to counter Ouyang Ke and his snakes and imparts it to Huang Rong. It involves using sewing needles as dart-like throwing weapons.
- Dog Beating Staff Technique (打狗棒法) - one of the prerequisites of becoming the chief of the Beggars' SectBeggars' SectThe Beggars' Sect is a fictional Chinese martial arts sect featured prominently in works of wuxia fiction by writers such as Jin Yong and Gu Long. The sect has also found its way into some Hong Kong martial arts films such as King of Beggars....
. This staff technique is one of the best of all staff and spear techniques for its ever-changing styles and movements. Hong teaches Huang when he decides to pass on his position as chief to her. Huang teaches Lu Youjiao this skill later when she names him as her successor.
Nine Yin Manual
The Nine Yin Manual is the most coveted martial arts manual of its time for the incredible inner energy cultivation techniques and extraordinary skills it records. After Guo JingGuo Jing
Guo Jing is the fictional protagonist of The Legend of the Condor Heroes, a wuxia novel by Jin Yong. He plays a supporting role in the sequel novel The Return of the Condor Heroes as well...
memorised and mastered the skills detailed in the manual, he shared them with Huang. Mastering the manual's skills allows both of them to maximise the potential of the various skills they had learnt earlier.
Other skills and abilities
- Tactical formation – Huang is well-versed in the art of laying formations such as the Eight Trigrams Formation to counter enemies' advances. She uses her powers to make huge rocks and boulders to form a powerful array and maze to confuse enemies and force them to retreat.
- Culinary art – Huang is an excellent cook as well. She prepared several fine dishes for Hong QigongHong QigongHong Qigong is a fictional character in Jin Yong's wuxia novel The Legend of the Condor Heroes and its sequel The Return of the Condor Heroes...
once to ask him to teach Guo Jing martial arts. Hong had a penchant for fine cuisine and could not resist the temptation that he had no choice but to keep his promise and teach Guo. - Miscellaneous skills and knowledge – Huang acquired most of her knowledge of geography, medicine, strategy, mathematics, music, literature and other fields from her father.
External links
Huang Rong on Baidu BaikeBaidu Baike
Baidu Encyclopedia is a Chinese language collaborative Web-based encyclopedia provided by the Chinese search engine Baidu. Like Baidu itself, the encyclopedia is heavily self-censored in line with government regulations....