1. Guo Jing is the fictional protagonist of the wuxia novel The Legend of the Condor Heroes by Jin Yong.
36 Facts About Guo Jing
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Guo Jing appears as a supporting character in the sequel, The Return of the Condor Heroes, and is mentioned by name in The Heaven Sword and Dragon Saber.
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Guo Jing is a descendant of Guo Sheng, one of the 108 outlaws from Mount Liang in the classical novel Water Margin.
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Guo Jing is killed during the Battle of Xiangyang along with the rest of his family except his younger daughter, Guo Xiang.
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Two years after their marriage, Guo Jing Xiaotian was killed by a group of soldiers led by Duan Tiande during a raid ordered by Wanyan Honglie.
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Li Ping, who was pregnant with Guo Jing then, was captured and held hostage by Duan Tiande, but managed to escape later.
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Guo Jing fled north and arrived in Mongolia, where she gave birth to Guo Jing.
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Guo Jing befriends the Khan's children and followers, and becomes anda with the Khan's fourth son, Tolui.
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Guo Jing later meets the "Seven Freaks of Jiangnan" and learns martial arts from them.
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Guo Jing meets his future wife, Huang Rong, and they go on adventures together and are eventually married.
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Guo Jing plays a significant role in the capture of the city of Samarkand and returns home in triumph.
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Since then, Guo Jing has dedicated his life to defending his homeland from foreign invaders.
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Guo Jing appears as a supporting character in the sequel, which is set several years after the end of the first novel.
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The adult Guo Jing is a prominent figure in the wulin and a highly revered hero in Han Chinese society.
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Guo Jing had previously named the boy 'Yang Guo' in the hope that the boy would redeem his family's honour, which had been tarnished by Yang Kang's villainy.
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However, Yang Guo Jing sees the couple as enemies because of the roles they played in his father's death, even though they did not kill him.
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Guo Jing becomes an active member in defending the city of Xiangyang from Mongol invaders.
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Guo Jing uses his knowledge and experience from his earlier campaigns to counter the Mongol invasion.
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Only Guo Jing Xiang survived, and she founded the Emei School later.
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Guo Jing has thick eyebrows, large eyes, a sturdy and strong stature, and a complexion somewhere between dark and fair.
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Guo Jing is described to be "dumb", slow in learning and inarticulate.
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Guo Jing is the most powerful martial artist of his generation, and one of the most formidable in the wulin in his lifetime.
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Guo Jing was trained in his early days by the legendary archer Jebe.
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Guo Jing was first introduced to Chinese martial arts by the "Seven Freaks of Jiangnan", a group of seven martial artists from Jiaxing.
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Guo Jing is able to understand the basis of Quanzhen's Big Dipper Formation after reading the Nine Yin Manual and observing the formation being deployed in actual combat.
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Guo Jing meets Hong Qigong by chance while out on adventure with Huang Rong.
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Guo Jing meets Zhou Botong on Peach Blossom Island and becomes sworn brothers with him.
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Unexpectedly, the slow learning Guo Jing manages to master this technique in a short period of time, whereas his more intelligent wife is unable to grasp it at all.
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Guo Jing has been forbidden by Wang Chongyang to learn the skills described in the book so he lets Guo Jing learn.
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Guo Jing learnt military strategy and tactics from the Book of Wumu, a military treatise written by the Song general Yue Fei.
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Guo Jing finds the book by chance on Iron Palm Peak.
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Guo Jing reads it thoroughly and employs some of the strategies during the Siege of Samarkand, proving that he is not thick-witted as some believed, but actually smart if not having remarkable intellect like his partner Huang Rong because of his comprehension of the complexity of the art of war.
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Guo Jing wrote the Nine Yin Manual from memory during the siege of Xiangyang.
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Guo Jing wrote a martial arts manual for the 'Eighteen Dragon Subduing Palms'.
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Guo Jing recorded all his military experiences and knowledge from the Book of Wumu on a piece of cloth.
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Guo Jing Jong is a main character in the 2000 role-playing video game Shachou Eiyuuden: The Eagle Shooting Heroes, released by Sony Computer Entertainment for the PlayStation.