As one of the four great Masterpieces of China, "Water Margin" is probably the most unpopular one.
The book is full of bloody violence, capitulationism, darkness, hypocrisy... Therefore, there is a folk saying that "less do not read the Water Margin".
Young people with strong flesh and blood are easily affected by the bad behavior of those so-called heroes and good men in the Water Margin, develop bad habits, and even imitate;
Wise and precocious young people can see the essence through the phenomenon, read the insight into human nature and society behind the Water Margin, and contact the obscure side of society too early, they will lose confidence in the future and produce pessimism.
So as an ordinary adult, what do I see in "Water Margin"?
Forcing Liangshan is one of the themes of "Water Margin", and the author spends a lot of time describing the process of joining the good men.
But it was also forced to go to Liangshan, and it was clear who forced it to liangshan.
For example, the first person in the book to be forced to liangshan is Lin Chong, the leopard head who claims to be the leader of the 800,000 forbidden army.
On that day, Lin Chong originally accompanied his wife to the Xiangguo Temple to make a wish, and accidentally met the flower monk Lu Zhishen, and the two also worshipped the handle. Just happy, even thinking of the disaster from heaven, Tai Wei Gao's Yauchi took a fancy to Lin Chong's wife and changed his life from then on.
It was Gao Taiwei, Gao Yanei, and a bunch of their lackeys who forced Lin Chong up Liangshan step by step.
Another example is Yang Zhi, a blue-faced beast who claims to be a descendant of the Yang family.
As a general in the middle of the family road, Yang Zhi can be said to be unfavorable in the past years, first he lost the Huashi Gang and wandered into the rivers and lakes, it was difficult to get the appreciation of Liang Zhongshu, he wanted to send him a future of wealth, but he also encountered Chao Gai and others "Wisdom to Take the Birthday Gang", which became the last straw to destroy his career, and Yang Zhi had to fall into the grass.
Who forced Yang Zhi to go to Liangshan?
Liang Zhongshu, or Hu Yanzhuo, who was ordered to lead an army to attack the Three Mountains Grass Kou? Or the good men of Liangshan who appeared as rescuers?
For another example, Qin Ming, the "Thunderbolt Fire" of the Qingzhou Terracotta Army, was forced to go to Liangshan?
Qin Ming came from a family of officers and had the courage of a thousand men, and after Zhongji was captured, he listened to Song Jiang Huarong's words and offered to tell Murong Zhifu to eliminate the misunderstanding for them, but Song Jiang and others asked him to join the company, and Qin Ming, who had a hot temper, refused on the spot.
"Qin Mingsheng is a Great Song man, and his death is a Great Song ghost." The imperial court taught me to be the chief of soldiers and horses, and to be under the control of the official position, but I did not lose Qin Ming, how can I be willing to be a strong man and turn my back on the imperial court? When you all want to kill, you will kill me, and you will not think that I will obey you. ”
Song Jiang and others pretended to let him go home, but behind his back, they designed a trap, so that Murong Zhifu would kill Qin Ming's family and pull many innocent people from Qingzhou to accompany him to the funeral.
When Qin Ming saw it, he had eight doubts in his heart, and when he went to look outside the city, there were hundreds of people's homes, but they were all burned to the white ground, a field of rubble, horizontal and vertical, killing countless men and women.
And the lives of these innocent people were all counted on Qin Ming's head. In the face of Murong Prefect's reprimand, Qin Ming was speechless and was desperate, when Song Jiang led a large group of people to make a good person: What is the tightness without wives and children? I'll send you a wife is!
As soon as Song Jiang touched his lips, Hua Rong's good sister was given to Qin Ming as a gift as a wife.
Even after going up the mountain, he knew that he was framed by Song Jiang and his gang, Qin Ming still willingly obeyed the thief.
If it is said that Qin Ming went to Liangshan and had some elements of self-willed depravity, then "Jade Qilin" Lu Junyi, golden gunner Xu Ning, haired Duke Zhu Tong, and the divine doctor An Daoquan were completely "forced into prostitution" by Song Jiang.
On the Liangshan Mountain, in front of the Juyi Hall, there is an apricot yellow flag hanging high, and there are four big words on it: For the Heavenly Path!
This is also another theme of "Water Margin" in addition to "forcing up Liangshan", which runs through the whole book.
"For The Heavenly Path" is a clear banner of the good people of Shuihu Liangshan, and it is a spiritual pursuit, value orientation and basic belief of them, which belongs to the category of typical cultural construction. Because of this clear banner, many good people from all over the world have gathered in Liangshan to realize their "social values".
The above passage comes from the Internet, which also represents many people's understanding of the Liangshan One Hundred Singles and Eight Generals in the Water Margin.
Inspired by the banner of "For the Heavenly Path" and joining liangshan, in addition to those green forests and grasses, there are also former government military figures, such as the general Of Zheng Kou Double Whip Hu Yanzhuo, the Pudong Patrol Inspector who claims to be Guan Yu's descendant, the Great Dao Guan Sheng, the Qingzhou Terracotta Warriors and Horses Capital Supervisor, the Zhen Sanshan Huangxin and so on.
But what kind of way did these good men of Liangshan walk for the Heavenly Path?
This Word is not the Word of Truth, but the Word of Morality.
The morality pursued by the good men of Liangshan has been roughly understood in three ways for hundreds of years:
1. Morality
2. National righteousness
3. Resist oppression
The most expressed in the book is "jianghu morality", such as inserting knives for the brothers' two ribs, Lu Zhishen making a big fuss about wild boar forest to save Lin Chong, Chao Gai rushing thousands of miles to save Song Jiang, Zhu Tong risking his own thunder; there are also those who are righteous and loose, and the representative figures include small whirlwind Chai Jin, timely rain Song Jiang, etc.; there are also those who see uneven roads and draw swords to help each other, which has to mention Lu Zhishen again.
As for the great righteousness of the country, some people say that the Liangshan Good Han Group can be divided into three different eras, the Wang Lun era was the thief who occupied the mountain as the king, the Chao Gai era rose to a large-scale underworld organization, and in the Song Jiang era, it was already a paramilitary combat group with the nature of political power.
However, when the good men led by Song Jiang carried the banner of "for the Skywalker", were they really doing it for the Skywalker?
No! What they did was the work of the mountain thieves and grass thieves.
However, it has developed from robbing past merchants to attacking the forts that ordinary mountain thieves covet but cannot move, such as attacking Zengtou City, Zhujiazhuang and other actions.
If you insist on the great righteousness of the country, then only after recruiting security, send troops to Square La, conquer the Liao country, and beg Tian Hu.
It is reasonable to say that those who are forced to go to the end of the road and raise the banner of "for the skywalker" should be good people.
But strictly speaking, these so-called good men on Liangshan, one hundred singles and eight generals, one counts as one, and none of them are good people.
Don't say that Li Kui, who is murderous, Zhang Qingsun Erniang, who opens a black shop, Mu Hongmuchun, a goon bully, Zhang Shun, who kills people and crosses the goods, Dong Ping, a double-gun general with low character, and Song Jiang and Wu Yong, who are extremely hypocritical, are extremely hypocritical.
Even Lin Chong, Lu Junyi, Qin Ming, and others who were framed by others are also not good people.
Lin Chongchu went to Liangshan and wanted to kill innocent passers-by in order to accept the "name", but he had bad luck and did not succeed. After Chao Gai and his party went up the mountain, Lin Chong actually killed his boss in front of everyone, Wang Lun, who sat at the top of Liangshan Mountain, so fierce that even his brother Lu Zhishen could not look down.
Moreover, when Gao Yanei coveted Lin Chong's wife, Lin Chong only thought about his own future.
How can such a person be called a good person?
Even Wu Song, a tiger hero who was admired by many people, helped the cell boss's son Shi En to watch the scene in the Happy Forest for a little favor, and later splashed the Mandarin Duck Building with blood and killed innocents indiscriminately.
The so-called 108 good men on Liangshan, many of whom originally ate public meals, secretly bent the law for personal gain, pretended to be public and private, colluded with bandits, and they only had personal self-interest in their eyes, not the great righteousness of the country.
If it were not for Song Jiang, Dutou Lei Heng, Zhu Tong, and others in Yuncheng County, Chao Gai, Wu Yong, and others who robbed the Birthday Gang might have been arrested long ago, and there would be no story of Shui Po Liangshan, who was behind the scourge.
Song Jiang and other people claimed that they had been forced to Liangshan by corrupt officials, but in the end they tried every means to seek security, and they wanted to join the corrupt officials who had been scolded by them in the past and even killed.
It turned out that the reason why he hated, shouted and killed, was because the person who occupied that position was not himself and envied?