Jin Yong finished all his works between 1955 and 1972, but during the era of martial law, because the authorities in Taiwan suspected that Jin Yong's The Eagle-Shooting Heroes was per haps making an allusion to a line of Mao Zedong's poetry, "Pulling the bow to shoot the eagle," Jin Yong's works were banned in Taiwan. The vast majority of Taiwan readers didn't know of Jin Yong.
但是在戒嚴時期，由於台灣當局認為金庸的《射雕英雄傳》有影射毛澤東所作「彎弓射大雕」詞句的嫌疑，金庸小說因而一直在「禁書」的目錄中，大多數台灣讀者並不知道金庸。