The Deer and the Cauldron (simplified Chinese: 鹿鼎记; traditional Chinese: 鹿鼎記; pinyin: Lù Dǐng Jì; Jyutping: Luk6 Ding2 Gei3) or The Duke of Mount Deer is a Wuxia novel by Jin Yong. It is also the last of Jin Yong's Wuxia works.
The novel is initially published as a serial, the first installment published on October 24, 1969 in Ming Pao and ran for 2 years and 11 months until September 23, 1972.
The choice of the novel's title, which literally mea...
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The Deer and the Cauldron (simplified Chinese: 鹿鼎记; traditional Chinese: 鹿鼎記; pinyin: Lù Dǐng Jì; Jyutping: Luk6 Ding2 Gei3) or The Duke of Mount Deer is a Wuxia novel by Jin Yong. It is also the last of Jin Yong's Wuxia works.
The novel is initially published as a serial, the first installment published on October 24, 1969 in Ming Pao and ran for 2 years and 11 months until September 23, 1972.
The choice of the novel's title, which literally means Tale of the Deer and the Cauldron, is alluded to in a section in the first chapter, in which a scholar has a conversation with his son.
The scholar recounts that both the deer and the cauldron serve as metaphors for the Central Plains and the empire.
It is written in volume 92 of the historical text Book of Han "The deer lost by Qin was hunted by all under Heavens (《史记•卷九十二》：“秦失其鹿，天下共逐之。” ), an illustration of the rise of numerous rivalling warlords contesting for supremacy to capture the prize, the empire lost by Qin.
During the Zhou...
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