Structure
Flying Fox of Snowy Mountain is unique in structure among Jin Yong's novels because it employs a frame narrative as well as the literary devices of unreliable narrators and storytelling flashbacks. The actual time frame of the novel lasts only a day, but the stories encapsulated within stretch back months, years and even decades before.
In the revised afterword to the novel, Jin Yong states that his inspiration does not derive from Akira Kurosawa's film Rashomon (as was assumed by many people). The literary devices used in Flying Fox have been used very often in literature, such as in One Thousand and One Nights and Sanyan Erpai.
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