Jiànxiá Qí Zhōng Qí Quánzhuàn 劍俠奇中奇全傳
The Complete Story of the Wondrous Among Wonders of the Swordfighting Knights by 春越溪外史 (撰)
About the work
Jiànxiá Qí Zhōng Qí Quánzhuàn 劍俠奇中奇全傳 is a vernacular martial-arts adventure novel (jiànxiá xiǎoshuō 劍俠小說 / zhānghui xiǎoshuō 章回小說) in 48 huí, attributed to the pseudonymous late-Qīng author 春越溪外史 (Chūn Yuèxī Wàishǐ, “Unofficial Historian of the Spring on the Yuèxī Stream”). It narrates the adventures of a gallery of swordfighters (jiànxiá 劍俠) in a setting nominally within the Hàn dynasty, following the hero Hǎo Luán 郝鸞 and his network of chivalric allies through rescues, judicial redress, supernatural encounters, and finally a royal reward. The narrative belongs to the genre of martial-knight fiction that flourished in late-Qīng print culture, combining elements of gōng’àn 公案 casebook fiction and wǔxiá 武俠 adventure.
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Abstract
The text opens with the downfall and wandering of a formerly wealthy chivalric hero, Hǎo Luán 郝鸞, and quickly develops into an episodic cycle of martial rescues, romantic entanglements, supernatural encounters with immortal masters (xiānzhǎng 仙長), and the vindication of the wrongly accused before imperial courts. The final chapter (第四十八回: 衆公侯奉旨團圓) ends with an imperial audience and rewards for the principal heroes.
The pseudonymous author Chūn Yuèxī Wàishǐ 春越溪外史 cannot be identified from independent sources; no biographical record has been found in CBDB or standard Qīng bibliographies. The title-page attribution reads “(清) 春越溪外史 著.” The work was not included in the Sìkù quánshū 四庫全書. Dating is uncertain; the late-Qīng period is indicated by the style and genre conventions.
The novel’s chapter-title numbering has a scribal error visible in the TOC (第二个七回 for 第二十七回), which may indicate a hastily prepared print edition.
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Links
- Wikipedia (zh): 俠義小說