Yesterday, we interpreted the plot description of the "Middle Way" in the story of "Liaozhai Lotus Fragrance". What we want to interpret today is the connotation interpretation of the story that is more grounded and more alert to people's "prodigal son turning back, knowing that mistakes can be changed", this meaning, for the reader, has more value in guiding thinking.
Sang Xiaosang Ziming, a scholar from Honghuabu in Yizhou, Shandong, is the protagonist of the story that was explained at the beginning of the story, with a name and a surname, and a family origin. Friends who are familiar with the story of "Liaozhai Zhiyi" actually know that when Mr. Pu Songling created the story of "Liaozhai Zhiyi", for some characters with bad characters, they generally did not name them individually, and most of them would use certain personal pronouns to replace the role, such as a certain A, a B, a certain envoy, etc.
For example, in the story of "Nie Xiaoqian", the master servant of Lanxi Shusheng who lost his life because of greed for money and lust has no name. Then in the story of our "Lotus Fragrance", the author gave Sang Xiao Sang Ziming's name in full, and there are words, so it proves that the character of Sang Xiao can be recognized by Mr. Pu Songling.
However, in the first half of our story, Sang Xiao is a person with a lonely temperament, does not like to communicate with people, occasionally has classmates to chat, and he also likes to brag and talk big. After the fox essence Lianxiang and the female ghost Li Shinu both came to him, he coveted sexual pleasures again, and when Lianxiang advised him to be restrained, he did not listen to anyone's advice, until he was terminally ill and dying, and he did not know that he regretted it.
Such a tragic character, it seems that there are no good qualities worth singing! So why did the author instead express recognition and appreciation for his personality? This is to say that in the second half of the story, after Sang Xiao did not die in the great difficulty, he finally realized that he had changed his former wrongs, and when he treated Lian Xiang and the female ghost Li Shi, the two confidants with red faces, he really did not abandon and treated equally, if he used the lines in the TV series, it was really "rain and dew are evenly dipped".
Sang Xiaoming knew that his body was weak and almost gave up his life, which was caused by the fact that Li Shi's daughter was a female ghost. However, after the Li daughter no longer appeared, Sang Xiao did not hate the Li daughter because of this, but was full of thoughts about the Li woman. When the news of Li's daughter borrowing a corpse to return her soul came out, Sang Xiao tried to go to the door to propose to her, and treating Li's daughter can be said to be completely gracious.
Then Sang Xiao forgave Li's daughter, was it purely to covet Li's beauty? That depends on Sang Xiao's attitude towards Lian Xiang. Sang Xiao married Zhang Yan'er, and there was a lotus incense, which was the biggest obstacle in this marriage. And Sang Xiaoyi did not ignore Lotus Xiang, and Second, he did not dislike That Lotus Xiang was not a human being, but the identity of a fox spirit. He still tried his best to maintain his intimate relationship with Lian Xiang, which was enough to see that Sang Xiao was also affectionate and righteous to Lian Xiang.
Even after Lian Xiang's death and the corpse changed back to the prototype of the fox, Sang Xiao did not look at the fox corpse with a strange eye, but still buried the fox corpse in the same way as his lover. Later, Sang Xiao made his fortune and became an official, and more than ten years have passed, and he can still maintain his attachment and affection for Lotus Xiang.
Sang Xiao's change of temperament, one after the other, is another key connotation that our story of "Lotus Fragrance" wants to tell. People will not make mistakes all their lives, and they can really be corrected after making mistakes, that is, "the prodigal son will not change his gold", which is a valuable quality worthy of recognition and praise.
In addition, the female ghost Li Shinu is the same. When Li Shinu first met with Sang Xiao privately, she was full of hostility towards the existence of Lotus Xiang. Later, I learned that the real reason for the mistake was that I had also made substantial self-changes. Because of this, she has the opportunity to be a person again and regain her love and happiness.
Especially at the end of the story, Zhang Yan'er identified herself and Lianxiang's two lifetimes of kindness, and took the initiative to request that the body of her daughter Li be buried together with the body of Lianxiang Fox Essence, and thus it was passed down as a good story. This also explains the life principle of "knowing mistakes can be changed, and good is not great".
People, in fact, many times, can know what their weaknesses and mistakes are, but it is easy to admit mistakes, and it is difficult to correct mistakes. For example, everyone knows that smoking is harmful to health, but when it comes to the onset of smoking addiction, it is difficult to really restrain their strong desire not to smoke a mouthful, and even many people have made up the reason that "smoking cessation cannot be completely quit at once, otherwise the body is not used to it" to excuse themselves for not being able to really correct their mistakes!
Well, since it comes to the topic of change, then the story of our "Liaozhai No Lotus Fragrance" tells the plot fourteen times, and Twice after reading the feeling, it is time to change the next story. The next article of the trailer "Liaozhai Zhiyi", the 28th story of volume 2, is also a relatively long famous story "Ah Bao", which tells the fantasy story of an infatuated man who, for love, does not hesitate to self-harm and transform into a bird.
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