Guo Jing's father, Huang Yaoshi, was an important character in Jin Yong's novel, The Legend of the Condor Heroes. Huang Yaoshi was a highly skilled martial arts master who was proficient in Taoist martial arts. He was also an erudite person who was good at medicine, poetry, zither, chess, calligraphy, painting, and other fields. Guo Jing was the second son of Huang Yaoshi. Because of his father's special identity, Guo Jing had received strict education and training since he was young and became an outstanding martial arts master. In the novel, there was a touching love story between Huang Yaoshi and Guo Jing's mother, Huang Rong, which was also one of the important plots in the novel.