Speaking of "Water Margin", everyone must be impressed by the character of Lu Zhishen, and in the book, the story of Lu Ti's fist beating the town of Kansai is even more well-known. Zhen Kansai was originally a butcher who sold meat and forcibly married Jin Cuilian as a concubine, and not long after, Zhen Kansai's wife drove her out again. Jin Cuilian's father and daughter, who came to Weizhou to join their relatives, really had no place to go, so they had to sell songs in the restaurant.
Lu Zhishen, who had always been righteous, heard the two crying, and after asking for the reason, he found Zheng Tu in a menacing manner and beat him to death in two clicks. In order to avoid the pursuit of the government, Lu Zhishen, who was cornered, became a monk.
Image: Lu Zhishen shaved and sent out stills of home
In fact, art originates from life, and is higher than life, and the same is true of literary works, most of the characters in it are based on the prototype and blueprint of the real people in reality, and then modified and sublimated, and finally present us with a flesh-and-blood, comprehensive and diverse person.
So does Lu Zhishen also have a character archetype?
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It is said that this character is not simple at all, and his legendary experience is even more ups and downs, who is he?
This person is Zhou Taizu Guo Wei, he is the founding emperor of the Later Zhou, Shi Nai'an transferred the legendary deeds of Guo Wei to Lu Zhishen, only to achieve an artistic classic figure, and then we will talk about the founding emperor.
Photo: Guo Wei ascended the throne to claim the throne stills
First, Lu Zhishen prototype - Guo Wei
Guo Wei was born in the fourth year of Emperor Zhaozong of Tang, his father was Guo Jian (郭簡), a subordinate of the King of Jin, who was later killed by Liu Gongren.
When his father was killed, Guo Wei was still young and could only follow his mother all the way to escape, but he did not expect that his mother died of illness on the road, and Guo Wei became an orphan without a father and a mother.
His mother's cousin Han felt that Guo Wei was very pitiful, so she left him at home to take care of him, and Guo Wei felt a little maternal love. However, Han Shi doted on Guo Wei too much and obeyed him in everything, causing Guo Wei to gradually become a problem teenager, who did not like to read, only liked to fight with others, and also had a special love for flying eagles and lackeys, doing bad things and causing trouble every day.
In order to highlight his uniqueness, Guo Wei let people tattoo a flying finch on his neck, so he got a nickname "Guo Queer". At the age of eighteen, Guo Wei wanted to do a big job to prove himself, so he bid farewell to his aunt and ran to join the army and became Li Jitao's subordinate. It didn't take long for him to become a low-ranking officer by his own efforts.
Image: Still the officer's Guo Wei stills
After joining the army, Guo Wei's previous personality not only did not converge, but became more and more intense.
He still likes to drink and fight, and when the road is not usual, he will definitely step forward and insert a hand.
One day, Guo Wei and a few friends went to the street after drinking, and suddenly saw a pork stall that was very lively and gathered a group of people. Driven by curiosity, Guo Wei and his friends looked up, and only then did they realize that the butcher was beating and cursing a customer, very arrogant and arrogant, and did not pay attention to Wang Fa at all.
After some inquiry, Guo Wei learned that it was the butcher who was not rude in business, saying that the meat was short of two pounds, which caused the dissatisfaction of customers, but the butcher had a backer behind him, and there were several subordinates, and ordinary people had nothing to do with him.
Image: Stills of the butcher scolding customers
Guo Wei hated those scoundrels from the bottom of his heart, and he bullied the good people at will with a little money and backstage, which was really a terrible crime.
So Guo Wei, with the psychology of punishing those villains, rushed to the meat stall, pretended to help the government to buy, and directed the butcher to cut thin and fat.
The butcher saw that Guo Wei was tall and burly, dressed in military uniform, and did not dare to provoke right and wrong, so he honestly cut the flesh. However, Guo Wei began to pick up all kinds of problems, finding excuses to scold the butcher, trying to provoke him to do something to him.
At first, the butcher was still able to patiently cut flesh and swallow the fire into his stomach, who expected Guo Wei to become more and more excessive, provoking him to the extreme. The butcher suddenly ripped open his clothes and yelled angrily at Guo Wei, "If you have the ability, you will stab me!"
Saying that it was late and fast, Guo Wei was really a little angry with him, plus he drank too much and was a little irrational, and really took up the knife and stabbed the butcher's stomach. As a result, the butcher died on the spot, and Guo Wei was immediately imprisoned, but not long after, Guo Wei was released by his superior Li Jitao and continued to be appointed.
Image: Stills of the butcher's death on the spot
Second, the similarities between Guo Wei and Lu Zhishen
Based on the story above, we can find that Guo Wei and Lu Zhishen have several similarities. First of all, the identities of the two are similar, both are low-level officers in the north, Guo Wei is from Luzhou, and Lu Zhishen is from Weizhou. The personalities of the two are also similar, easy to get angry, like to drink and fight, and love to fight unevenly. Secondly, the place, object and method of the two crimes are similar.
The people they killed were all butchers selling meat, in the crowded downtown area. The method is very similar, both ask the butcher to cut the meat according to his own requirements, and then provoke the butcher in the process of chopping the meat, which then provokes him, and then kills him in the process of arguing.
Image: Stills of the butcher chopping meat
In the end, the two people's anti-riot motives were also similar, at that time Guo Wei felt that he was the "boss" of that piece, and no one could steal his limelight, and the butcher who sold meat actually did whatever he wanted in the market, completely ignoring him, which ignited the anger in Guo Wei's heart and wanted to severely punish the butcher.
And Lu Zhishen beat Zheng Tu, in addition to wanting to uphold justice, there is another important reason that he does not want Zhen Guanxi to flaunt his military might on his own turf, otherwise he will lose his face.
It is not difficult to see through the comparison of the above points
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The character of Lu Zhishen is based on Guo Wei's portrayal.
Photo: Lu Zhishen beat Zheng Tu stills
Third, the legendary life of Guo Wei
Guo Wei and Lu Zhishen, although the trajectory of life in the first half of life is very similar, the road in the second half of life is very different. After Lu Zhishen killed Zhen Guanxi, he fled immediately, and became a flower monk, and later ran to Liangshan to become a grass monk. After following Song Jiang Zhao'an, he marched south to the north for many years, and after the great victory of Fang La, he finally died in Hangzhou.
But Guo Wei broke out of his own world in the chaotic world,
He followed Li Jitao, Li Cunxun, Shi Jingyao and others, and the last superior was Liu Zhiyuan.
After Liu Zhiyuan became emperor, Guo Wei naturally became the most powerful assistant around him, but he did not expect that a year later, Liu Zhiyuan died of illness, and Guo Wei became a minister of life.
Not long after, the rebellion in the three towns broke out, and the imperial court sent people to quell the rebellion one after another, but it did not achieve any effect, and later Guo Wei was ordered to quell the rebellion.
In addition, Guo Wei also
He was good at befriending military generals and civilian subjects, and had a good relationship with them, and was also deeply loved by low-level soldiers.
It is said that when a soldier makes meritorious achievements, he praises and rewards, and when a soldier is defeated and injured, he personally comforts and encourages.
Image: Stills of soldiers defeated and wounded
No matter who makes the suggestion, as long as it is a good suggestion, he can accept it with an open heart. In addition, he went straight forward and never remembered revenge, even if others offended him, he could smile and take revenge, so that Guo Wei twisted the generals into a rope, which greatly improved morale.
Later, just as Emperor Yin was about to eliminate Guo Wei's men, Guo Wei adopted Wei Renpu's clever plan and forged an edict, claiming that Emperor Yin was going to kill the major generals. This made it difficult for the generals to sit still and decide to follow Guo Wei in rebellion, and later the vast majority of Jiedushi also defected to Guo Wei. Subsequently established after the week.
After becoming emperor, Guo Wei cherished this hard-won position
Day by day, diligent and earnest, do not dare to slacken off in the slightest.
As an emperor from a commoner background, Guo Wei was well aware of the difficulties of the people's lives and implemented the frugality throughout the palace.
Photo: Stills of following Guo Wei's rebellion
In order to lead by example, he smashed the precious treasures in the palace in front of everyone and said:
Whoever is an emperor, use this
。 He never put himself in a very high position, but went deep into the people, deeply understood the sufferings of the people, and eventually became a generation of Ming Jun. It is no wonder that Shi Nai'an likes him so much, and uses him as a prototype to create Lu Zhishen, who is uneven, chivalrous and heavy in righteousness.
Article author: Dahui
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