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Historical person
1148–1227
Qiu Chuji was a leading Quanzhen Daoist and the founder of the Longmen lineage. He travelled across Central Asia to meet Genghis Khan and advised the conqueror on spiritual discipline and the preservation of life. Jin Yong makes him a major martial mentor and political conscience in Legends of the Condor Heroes.
Jin Yong’s fiction uses this historical figure within a narrative that blends documented events, popular legend and wuxia invention.
Series
Legends of the Condor Heroes begins in 1205, when the Southern Song court has lost northern China to the Jurchen Jin dynasty and Temüjin is uniting the Mongol steppe. Guo Jing, the son of a murdered Song patriot, grows up among the Mongols before returning south, where his…
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