Author: Hou Guoping
Reading "Water Margin", the good han of Liangshan held high the apricot yellow flag for the Heavenly Path and launched a vigorous peasant revolutionary struggle, and the revolutionary slogan they shouted was, only anti-corrupt officials, not anti-emperor.
Translating into the vernacular means maintaining ideological consistency with the feudal system and vigorously carrying out anti-corruption in action. On their ranking list of unequivocal anti-corrupt officials, Gao Li, Tong Guan, and Cai Jingjing are in sight, and the biggest corrupt official is Cai Jing.
(1) Master Cai: A corrupt official
Cai Jing was a dynasty, an official to a master, a power to the opposition, a protégé and a former official all over the world, one person to the Tao, the chicken dog ascended to heaven.
His son-in-law, Liang Zhongshu, the garrison of Daming Province, in order to wish Cai Jing a happy birthday, looted 100,000 gold and silver treasures and set up a gift-giving team, led by the blue-faced beast Yang Zhi himself, and traveled thousands of miles to Beijing. As a result, on the road, there was an unexpected incident of outwitting the birth anniversary, thus unveiling the prelude to the revolution in ShangliangShan, and the officials forcing the people to rebel.
The rampant, violent, and corrupt officials represented by Cai Jing are one of the reasons for social injustice. As a high-ranking government official, Cai Jing was busy all day pulling together gangs and factions, plundering the people's wealth, and oppressing the people, and was bound to become the leader of the corrupt officials in the mouths of the people, be criticized and criticized, and eventually become the concentrated representative of the good people of Liangshan who only opposed corrupt officials.
(2) Cai Jing: Great calligrapher
However, cai jing, as a representative of corrupt and ugly corrupt officials, has another little-known side.
That is, he has a certain literary literacy and artistic temperament, especially a good handwriting, his calligraphy achievements, self-contained, outstanding, and become the object of worship of calligraphy lovers. Nearly a thousand years have passed, and it is still talked about and regarded as a treasure.
There is a thousand-year-old temple in Pingdingshan City, Henan Province called Xiangshan Temple, and it is said that Buddhism came to the west, and there is a glorious image called Guanyin Bodhisattva, which is a male body. Here there is also a legend of the third daughter of King Chuzhuang saving the suffering and saving the suffering, so the local people took the image of the three emperors and turned the Guanyin Bodhisattva into a female body, and from this point on, it spread throughout the country, and the Xiangshan Temple was therefore called the Guanyin Ancestral Garden.
In this Guanyin ancestral court, there is also a treasure of the town temple, that is, the "Great Pessimistic Sound Sermon History Stele" written by Jiang Zhiqi, the prime minister of the Northern Song Dynasty, and re-engraved by the Yuan Dynasty imitation of Cai Jing's handwriting. The stone stele of Cai Jing's original book was destroyed in the Song Dynasty. It can be seen that people at that time admired cai jing's calligraphy art. A thousand years later, this inscription re-engraved in Cai Jing's handwriting is still pleasing and convincing to read every word and painting.
(Cai Jingxing Cao ZhiMu admired the "Palace Envoy Post")
(3) Virtue and art, the two heavens of ice and fire
Cai Jing also has a praise side, which is a bit difficult to accept, how can the bad guys have a good side?
According to the popular saying at present, Cai Jing's artistic quality is still good. Can a person's moral character and artistic quality be separated and coexist? From Cai Jing, we can see that he is an evil ghost on one side and an angel on the other. He is not only a corrupt official who is hated by his teeth, but also an outstanding talent with superb calligraphy art. It is really virtue and art, ice and fire.
When Mr. Lu Xun abandoned medicine and literature, he believed that literature could cultivate sentiments and change the bad national nature. But without the company of religion, it is difficult for the bachelor of literature to go further, and the effect of changing the national character is not satisfactory.
From the great corrupt official Cai Jing, we can clearly see a big corrupt official who brutalized the people, and at the same time was an outstanding calligraphy talent with high artistic attainments.
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