Yunhai Yugong Yuan
| Author | Liang Yusheng |
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| Original title | 雲海玉弓緣 |
| Language | Chinese |
| Genre | Wuxia |
| Set in | 18th-century China |
| Publisher | New Evening Post |
Publication date | 12 October 1961 – 9 August 1963 |
| Publication place | Hong Kong |
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| ISBN | 9789861465708 |
| Preceded by | Bingchuan Tiannü Zhuan |
| Followed by | Binghe Xijian Lu |
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| Traditional Chinese | 雲海玉弓緣 | ||||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 云海玉弓缘 | ||||||||||
| Literal meaning | Romance of the Cloud Sea and Jade Bow | ||||||||||
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Yunhai Yugong Yuan (雲海玉弓緣), literally Romance of the Cloud Sea and Jade Bow, is a wuxia novel by Liang Yusheng. It was first published as a serial in the Hong Kong newspaper New Evening Post from 12 October 1961 to 9 August 1963. The novel is the seventh instalment in the Tianshan series. Within the series, it is considered the second part of a trilogy starting with Bingchuan Tiannü Zhuan and ending with Binghe Xijian Lu.
Set in 18th-century China during the Qing dynasty, the novel continues the adventures of Jin Shiyi, a character first introduced in Bingchuan Tiannü Zhuan. Jin Shiyi gets entangled in a love triangle with Gu Zhihua and Li Shengnan, while confronting the lingering feuds and moral dilemmas of the wulin.
Yunhai Yugong Yuan is regarded by scholars as one of Liang Yusheng's works from the "mature" phase of his writing career, and a representative example of the "new school" wuxia genre that emerged in the mid-1950s in Hong Kong. The novel has inspired several film and television adaptations, including the 1966 film The Jade Bow and the 2002 television series Lofty Waters, Verdant Bow.