Guo Xiang (fictional)
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Guo Xiang (Traditional Chinese: 郭襄; Simplified Chinese: 郭襄; pinyin: guō xiāng) is a fictional character in The Return of the Condor Heroes, a wuxia novel written by Jinyong, and later mentioned in The Heavenly Sword and the Dragon Saber.
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[edit] Biography
- Family name: Guo
- Given name: Xiang
- Gender: Female
- Birth: November 25, 1244 (early versions) / October 27, 1244 (3rd revision)
- Death: (unknown)
- Father: Guo Jing
- Mother: Huang Rong
- Husband: (none)
- Brothers and sisters: Guo Fu, Guo Polu
Guo Xiang was the daughter of Guo Jing and Huang Rong, and sister of Guo Fu and Guo Polu. As an infant, she was born with her brother as twins, and later was kidnapped by Li Mochou, who thought she was a daughter of Yang Guo and Xiaolongnü. Yang Guo, who begins to develop a fatherly love for the child, selflessly rescuing and protecting her from family's enemies despite the knowledge that her parents were possibly responsible of his father's death. After, she would become one of most important women in his life. She would meet Yang Guo again sixteen years later when she becomes deeply attracted to him in an innocent way. Yang Guo became very fond of her, in a brotherly manner. His affection for her was so strong, that he was willing to agree not to commit suicide at Broken Heart Cliff when he thought his beloved wife was dead.
Like her sister, Guo Xiang also developed an affectionate feelings for Yang Guo. However, she knew that he loved only Xiaolongnü and his feeling for her were only brotherly. She sincerely wished Yang Guo happiness with Xiaolongnu. After Yang Guo succeeded halting the Mongolian Invasion on Xiangyang led by Möngke Khan, he gave her his treasured weapon Heavy Iron Sword (玄鐵重劍) as a gift and Xiaolongnü taught her some of her skills. After Yang Guo and his wife left the city, she tried to find them.
A few years after Yang Guo and Xiaolungnu departed from the Central Plains, she took to wandering to relieve her heartache. There, she reunited with a young Zeng San Feng and inadvertently started him on the path to becoming one of the finest martial arts masters. Zhang Junbao and Guo Xiang were able to incorporate various principles of the martial art manual Jiu Yang Zhen Jing into their personal kungfu and the kungfu of the sects they eventually founded, Wudang Pai and E'Mei Pai. With Jiu Yang Zhen Jing, she became a well-known heroine and finest martial art master in her own right able to rivaling her own father and grandfather.
Thirteen years later, after Mongolian troops finally conquered the Southern Song Empire under the leadership of Kublai Khan, her parents and brother have died after defending the city of Xiangyang. However before that, her parents melted Yang Guo's sword and made into two weapons: The Heaven Sword and the Dragon Sabre. Hidden within the Dragon Sabre was the military textbook (Wu Mu Yi Shu) written by the late great Sung Dynasty general Yue Fei; similarly, hidden within the Heaven Sword was a scroll detailing the powerful martial art Jiu-Yin-Zhen-Jing and (legends told that Guo Jing wrote the Dragon Subduing Palms or Xiang Long Shi Ba Zhang manual along with Jiu-Yin-Zhen-Jing). The former was given to Guo Jing and Huang Rong's son while the latter was bestowed upon her. She became the founder of the Emei Sect, continuing her family's missions to defend her people from Mongolians' oppressions, and searching her family's lost Dragon Sabre until the day she died. Her family's missions was continue through her disciples and successors of the Emei Sect on The Heaven Sword and Dragon Sabre.
[edit] Name
Guo Xiang was named after Xiangyang, by her mother Huang Rong, while her twin brother Guo Polu was named by his father Guo Jing.
[edit] Introduction
Guo Xiang is the second daughter of Guo Jing and Huang Rong. She was the founder of the martial arts sect Emei.
[edit] Adaptations
Many actress have played Guo Xiang, including:
- Theresa Lee (李綺紅)
- Lin Xiang-Ping (林湘萍)
- Yang Mi (杨幂)
