Ah Q is a man who wants face, and maybe he wants to get decent all his life.
Because he didn't have a beard, he looked down on Wang Hu, and as a result, he was beaten up, which was very faceless. Because he had braids, he looked down on the fake foreign devils, and as a result, he was beaten again, and his face and inside were lost clean. In the end, I had to bully the weak little nun, which was a very humiliating thing, but in Ah Q's view, this is a matter of face, because you can get the applause of the tavern guests.
Even in the last moments of his life, when he was painting: he was afraid of being laughed at and determined to draw a circle.
Death is to face the guilt.
One
Xiang Yu gave a bad head to the future generations.
I think back then, your Brother Xiang was infinitely powerful and invincible, and Tai Shi Gong described him like this: He was more than eight feet long, and his strength could carry the crown, and his talent was outstanding. The height is one meter eighty-five, the strength is infinite, the standard male model figure, the key is also very talented.
So what about combat effectiveness? In the early days of entrepreneurship, in the battle of Shou Yintong, the historical record: "Tens of hundreds of people were killed by the bookhouse", yes, he killed one hundred and ten people, and a proper hundred people were beheaded. Regarding this record, I believe in one thing, that the myth of one enemy and one hundred enemies is real, and it was created by your brother Xiang.
As a representative figure of the military situationist, Xiang Yu created a record against the sky: more than seventy battles, all won, the most famous battle is the Battle of julu: 50,000 to 400,000, the great destruction of the Qin army.
Qin Hanchao's first-class war gods were pressed to the ground by him and rubbed recklessly, and he was the enlightening teacher of Han Xin and Yingbu's art of war.
However, because there was a little contradiction within the team, it was calculated and lost. This grandfather is really cruel, fiercely even he does not let go of himself, leaving a sentence "faceless to see Jiangdong father and elder" and kill himself. In contrast, Han Xin, who defeated him, could endure even the "humiliation of the crotch". Sometimes I feel that where this is a contest of martial arts, it is obviously a thick-skinned contest, and a thick-skinned contest is invincible.
Many people have discussed that if they cross the Wujiang River, whether Xiang Yu has a chance in the end, in fact, Xiang Yu will consume Liu Bang even if he consumes age, he is 24 years younger than Liu Bang.
So why did he kill himself? Just like he said, "Faceless to see Jiangdong father and elder", what is faceless? It's just faceless, I'm sorry.
The Tangtang Western Chu Overlord did not die at the hands of others at all, but died in face. After a lifetime of winning battles, just because I lost one in the end, I felt that I had no face and killed myself.
Is it strange that such a glass-hearted person has been eliminated by history?
Two
Speaking of face, there is a more bizarre thing.
One day, two senior executives of Zheng Guo, Zigong and Zijia, went to Zheng Linggong's boss as a guest. Walking to the door, the grandfather suddenly stopped and said: Today, the boss must have prepared delicious food with us, do you believe it?
The zi family said that they would believe it and be suspicious.
After entering the palace, sure enough, the imperial dining room was cooking a large turtle. It turned out to be a guest of Chu Guo who gave it to Boss Zheng, who felt that solo music was not as good as zhongle music, so he ordered the imperial kitchen to cook the big turtle and entertain the executives.
This time, the family was convinced, and the punched son who couldn't help but give a thumbs up. Coincidentally, Boss Zheng saw it, thinking why these two people were talking to each other, and couldn't help but frown and ask, "What are you laughing at?" ”
The Zi family explained the situation outside the palace gate just now, and Zheng Linggong listened to it and said vaguely: "Oh, is there really such a spiritual experience?" He said nothing more.
When the executives were all there, the big turtle cooked with ding was put into a basin by the cook, first to Zheng Linggong, and then to the adults. Zheng Linggong tasted it first and praised: "The taste is good!" "Motion for everyone to eat together." Everyone ate it with relish. However, the son sat stupidly.
It turned out that there was nothing on the table in front of him. Obviously, this was arranged by Zheng Linggong. Zigong was embarrassed, and his face was red and white. He looked at Zheng Linggong, who ate very well, and while laughing with the doctors, he didn't seem to notice him at all. He looked at the Zi family again, and saw that the Zi family could also eat hard, and while still grimacing at him.
ZiGong thought to himself: I am one of the top executives in our company, the power is in hand, the boss made me really faceless, and I didn't care if Zheng Linggong did not agree with it, suddenly stood up, walked to the front of Dading, stretched out his finger and dipped it, tasted the taste, and then walked out with a big swing. This is the origin of what later generations call "encroachment."
This is not the end, Zheng Linggong saw that Zi Song was so rude and wanted to kill him. Zi Song was so angry that he took the lead and killed Zheng Linggong, causing civil unrest in Zheng.
Zheng Linggong was clicked because he did not give people face, and he was very depressed.
It was a real bloody case caused by face.
Three
Xiang Yu committed suicide because he had no face. Zheng Linggong was killed for not giving face to others.
It can be seen that face is related to the life of the family.
But why do we Chinese die for face? The answer still has to start from Xiang Yu's last words. What is "faceless to see Jiangdong father and elder"? Who does Xiang Yu feel guilty about? It is "Jiangdong Father and Elder". Who is Jiangdong's father? The villagers in their hometown are old and fathers.
Shame on the people of his hometown is the root cause of Xiang Yu's suicide.
Similarly, Zigong killed Zheng Linggong, he was not angry because he did not eat turtles, but because the boss was playing with himself in front of his colleagues and felt very faceless, he would "infect" Zheng Linggong.
What is the root cause?
Teacher Yi Zhongtian said that the ideological core of Chinese culture is group consciousness, and everyone is not an individual, but a person living in a certain social relationship. Everyone has an "object" that is "opposite" to himself and must be able to "face" others at all times. If you can't face it, you lose your "relationship" and you are "not human."
This requires "face".
In fact, it is precisely to face others. If you have no face, or if you hurt the face of others, you cannot "face" the object of the group.
Therefore, Chinese to die and want face, even if it is like Xiang Yu, even if he takes his own life.
Suddenly, it was realized that the great hero Xiang Yu and the big waste material Ah Q were the same kind of people.
Four
It can be seen that face is really the most important thing in the daily life of Chinese people. Chinese care about face, but what they maintain is their own face and dignity. There are usually three situations of loving face, one is that you "want face", and the other is that others "fight for face". Or both, just like Ah Q, Xiang Yu, and Zigong want to lose face, they do stupid things to fight for face, even if they lose both sides of the fight, and the head is broken and bleeding.
So about the matter of face, everyone is fighting, so what is face in the end? Oniguzi said: The powerful, the decision of the stakes, the power of change.
Oniguzi believes that the essence of the so-called face is actually "potential", and whoever gains the power will have face. Whether you have face or not, whether you give face to others, often depends on whose "momentum" is great. Therefore, potential is the determining factor of success or failure of interests and the root cause of improvisation.
In the final analysis, behind the face is the inside, and the fight is the strength. There is a good saying:
Face is a mask and a shackle that people design for themselves when they grow up.
Know how to put down your face, is the real strong.