The Condor Trilogy (traditional Chinese: 射鵰三部曲; simplified Chinese: 射雕三部曲; pinyin: shè diāo sān bù qǔ) is a trilogy of three wuxia fiction novels by Jinyong. Pinyin, more formally Hanyu pinyin, is the most common Standard Mandarin Romanization system in use A trilogy is a set of three works of art usually Literature, Film, or Video games, that are connected and can be seen either as a single work or three Wuxia or Wǔxiá ( Mandarin ùɕiɑ̌ Hanyu Pinyin: Wǔxiá, Cantonese Pinyin: mou5 hap6 Taiwanese/Hokkien bu hiap Louis Cha, GBM, OBE ( born 6 February 1924) known with his pen name Jin Yong ( is one of the most influential modern Chinese-language The trilogy began with the decline of Jin Dynasty and Song Dynasty and the rise of Mongolian Empire. This is an article for the Jurchen Jin Dynasty (1115–1234 For other Chinese dynasties whose names are also rendered "Jin" in Pinyin, see Jin Dynasty The Song Dynasty ( Wade-Giles: Sung Ch'ao was a ruling dynasty in China between 960&ndash1279 CE it succeeded the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms The Mongol Empire ( Mongolyn Ezent Güren or mn Их Mонгол улс Ikh Mongol Uls; 1206–1368 was the largest contiguous Empire The story ended more than a hundred years later with the establishment of Ming dynasty. The Ming Dynasty ( or Empire of the Great Ming ( was the ruling dynasty of China from 1368 to 1644 following the collapse of the Mongol -led The characters in the trilogy played significant roles in the rise and fall of these nations.
Although the English name of the trilogy is "The Condor Trilogy", it is most likely a mistranslation, as the characters in the first two novels are associated with eagles, not condors (the word 鵰 in the Chinese titles implies eagle, not condor).
The books in the trilogy are:
- The Legend of the Condor Heroes (射鵰英雄傳) (1957)
- The Return of the Condor Heroes (神鵰俠侶) (1959)
- The Heavenly Sword and the Dragon Saber (倚天屠龍記) (1961)