Gu Long

Xiong YaohuaJune 1938 September 1985, better known by his pen name Gu Long, was a Taiwanese novelist, screenwriter, film producer and director. A graduate of Cheng Kung Senior High School and Tamkang University, Xiong is best known for writing wuxia novels and serials, which include Juedai Shuangjiao, Xiaoli Feidao Series, Chu Liuxiang Series, Lu Xiaofeng Series and Xiao Shiyilang. Some of these works have been adapted into films and television series for numerous times. In the 1980s, he started his own film studio, Bao Sian, to produce film adaptations of his works.

In 1960, Xiong published his first wuxia novel, Cangqiong Shenjian , under the pen name Gu Long. From 1960 to 1961, Xiong published eight novels but did not achieve the results he desired. He moved to Ruifang District in New Taipei City and lived there for three years, after which he changed his perspective and adopted a new writing style. Between 1967 and the late 1970s, he rose to prominence in the genre of modern wuxia fiction for his works. As the sole representative of excellence in the wuxia genre from Taiwan for an entire decade, Xiong was named along with Jin Yong and Liang Yusheng as the Three Legs of the Tripod of Wuxia.While he was still in university, Xiong lived with a dance hostess, Zheng Yuexia , and had a son, Zheng Xiaolong , with her. However, he started a relationship later with another dance hostess, Ye Xue , who also bore him a son, Ye Yikuan . Shortly after that, he met a senior middle school graduate, Mei Baozhu , who became his first legal spouse and bore him his third son, Xiong Zhengda . His extramarital affairs caused him to break up with Mei eventually. ........

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