Everyone has seen the tv of the four famous works, but there are very few people who can read these four novels.
In fact, the real ideological essence of the four famous works is only shown in the book, and the TV shows only the plot and scenes.
If you don't have time to read these four novels, let's read the beginning and end of these four novels today. You'll find that in fact —
The deepest taste of life is vividly displayed at the beginning and end of the four masterpieces.
Reading it will definitely make you suddenly enlightened!
/ Dream of the Red Chamber /
The wind and moon are long, and after all, it is a dream
A dream of the Red Chamber is like a drama in life.
Dream fans wake up, inside the play outside the play, the dream is absurd, the outside of the play is desolate.
The dream is absurd
From the novel itself, the opening words of the Red Chamber are the "Introduction".
Open up Hongmeng, who is the love species?
All for the wind and moon.
Take advantage of this day of sorrow, the day of sorrow, the time of loneliness,
Try to dispel foolishness.
Therefore, on, perform this dream of the Red Chamber with gold and mourning jade.
Cao Gong said that the Red Chamber "has a great purpose to talk about love", and the dream of the Red Chamber is a love and hatred of the sea. The people of the world, one by one, are all kinds of lovers, wandering on the wind and moon field of the world, with true feelings and delusions, human feelings and desires.
But what about the results? It's not just helplessness, sadness and loneliness. Even if it was once full of gold and jade, it was still a memorial and mourning. The wind and moon in the human world are nothing but a delusion.
That's what life is all about.
Think about your life, how many ends and endings have been made?
At the end of the Red Chamber, it is a dispersal
The song is sad at the end, and the prosperity is over, and the two expanses of life and death are endlessly desolate. As the closing poem of the novel itself, the poem "Birds Throw Themselves into the Forest", says:
For the official, the family business withers.
Rich and noble, gold and silver are scattered.
There is grace, escape from death.
Ruthless, clear retribution.
Those who owe their lives have been repaid.
Those who owe tears, the tears are gone.
The retribution of wrongs is not light, and the separation and aggregation are predetermined.
If you want to know your life and ask about the previous life, it is really a fluke to be rich and noble.
See through, escape into the empty door.
Obsessed, lost his life.
It's like eating a bird throwing into the forest,
The land is so clean!
All kinds of life are in poetry, and the results are also lamentable. Just like there are thousands of human desires and paths, but the end is the same fate - in the end, the mirror flowers and water moon are empty, the dream bubble is really like a dream, and finally a white expanse of land falls, clean.
So what have we ever fought for, what have we enjoyed, what have we cried, what have we been in pain, what have we struggled, and what can't we let go?
Perhaps, after all, the eyes must see all the vicissitudes, the heart must taste desolate after all, and some things can no longer be concerned.
This may be the so-called path of life.
Until then, maybe it's just what to do. But at least, knowing in your heart, is always good.
Outside the play is desolate
The Red Chamber, there is another kind of opening and ending, that is the author's own situation. The performance is more real and more cruel.
The first poem of the Kojimoto says:
Floating life is very hard to run, and the feast is finally dispersed.
Sorrow and joy are as illusory as ever, and dreams of ancient and modern times are absurd.
The red sleeves of the rambling are heavy, and there is more love and hatred for a long time.
The words seem to be blood, and ten years of hard work is unusual.
The opening verse goes on to say:
Full of absurd words, a handful of bitter tears.
All cloud authors are stupid, who understands the taste!
The epilogue reads:
When it comes to bitterness, the more absurd it is.
From the same dream, Hugh laughs at the world's foolishness!
It can be seen that for this sea of love and hatred, the person who wrote the story still can't put it down.
Alas, it is inevitable that life will be grumpy.
Although the beginning of the story tells us that it is a dream, the end of the story also tells us that it is a void after all. But that's more of the author's obsession, and yearning.
Just like each of us has our own peach blossom source in our hearts.
Zhang Ailing said: The times are so heavy that we are not allowed to realize it so easily. Even if you understand too many truths, you still can't live this life well. This is the most helpless truth in life.
The story of the Red Chamber is still ethereal, it is a kind of awakening after a dream and suffering through the heart.
So we can still hold out a hope:
It is believed that all suffering will not be in vain, all tears will not flow in vain, all unbearable will have its own end, and everything will come naturally.
/ Romance of the Three Kingdoms /
Heart machine, heavenly machine, opportunity
The story of the Three Kingdoms, from the beginning to the end, is actually a consequence.
Only by understanding the process and seeing the ending can we understand the beginning, perhaps this is the so-called return to the truth.
The beginning is also the end
The opening chapter of the Three Kingdoms borrows a poem by Yang Shen, a scholar of the Ming Dynasty University:
"Linjiang Immortal"
Rolling waters of the East Yangtze River,
The waves exhaust the heroes.
Success or failure turns empty.
The green mountains are still there, and the sunset is red a few degrees.
White-haired fisherman on the river Nagisa,
Accustomed to watching the autumn moon and spring breeze.
A pot of turbid wine is a happy encounter.
How many things in ancient and modern times are in the process of laughter.
This word is used in the three countries, and it is most appropriate.
It is as if we see a white-haired old man who has once been in the limelight and has read the successes and failures of the world, standing at the bow of a small boat in the distance, holding a glass of wine, singing this song, and the song is full of anger.
This realm is too high. Even the heroes who stirred up the storm in the Three Kingdoms have always fallen into this gladiatorial arena, unable to escape and escape.
Each of us, in the vortex of reality, is not like this.
But at least we can know: epiphany, it is necessary to jump out, to jump out of the entanglement of human interests; just like we, as outsiders, watch the success or failure of the Three Kingdoms turn their heads and turn their heads, and the waves of history exhaust the heroes, in order to laugh and talk in the autumn moon and spring breeze.
Unfortunately, most of the people in the world are fighting for the authorities.
The end is also the beginning
At the end of the Three Kingdoms, there is a long poem that talks about the heroic era of the Golden Iron Horse. The most profound is the last sentence:
The world is endless,
The number of days is unavoidable.
Three points has become a dream,
Posterity complained in the air.
This reminds me of the last sentence in the "Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Zhuge Liang's Biography": Gai Tianfeng has a destiny, and we cannot fight for it wisely.
That's the number of days.
So we can better understand the meaning of the opening word--that kind of open-minded person, not only experienced and jumped out to see, but also needs to see and understand the "number of days" thing.
The ancients said that "the plot lies in man, and the success lies in heaven" and "the mandate of heaven cannot be violated", and also told us that "do your personnel and settle down the destiny of heaven". In fact, what people can do is to do their best, and they cannot and should not be too attached to the result and too concerned about it.
Sometimes, it's often this phrase that works best: This is fate.
From this, life begins to understand.
The beginning is also the end, the end is also the beginning, and the story of the Three Kingdoms is like a closed circle.
Human strife is such an endless cycle.
In the story, there is the heart machine; outside the story, there is the heavenly machine. For epiphany, it is an opportunity.
/ Water Margin /
Dust to dust, soil to earth
Water Margin, in general, is a story of righteousness first, but it was destroyed for the Skywalker, a heroic spirit, a jianghu chivalrous righteousness, and thousands of words and sorrows.
Therefore, the opening words exude such a temperament:
Try to read the hidden place of the book forest, a few more handsome and elegant streams.
Fame and profit are not concerned, cutting ice and snow,
Talk and laugh at Wu Hook.
Commenting on the former king and the later emperor, dividing the true and false to occupy Zhongzhou,
Seven male disturbances disturb the Spring and Autumn.
Rise and fall like brittle willows, life is like a virtual boat.
See countless fame, countless name,
There are countless more escapees.
Suddenly, the crescent moon descends the Changchuan River, and the rivers and lakes become the ancient road of Sangtian.
Asking for fish edge wood, imitating poor apes to choose wood,
Fear of injuring the bow far away from the curved wood.
It is better to cover the cup in the palm of your hand and listen to the new sound curvature.
It is as if smiling proudly, and it is like being independent in the world.
For the story of the Water Margin, this is really the mind of the complete viewer, like drinking tea and listening to the commentaries and singing songs.
Shui Po Liang Shan is a tragedy, and the reality in it is heavier and more real than the tragedy of the Red Chamber.
Therefore, the dashing and cold eyes in this opening word may be pretended to be -- what looks down on fame and fortune, hidden books, and Confucianism and handsomeness are clearly a kind of helplessness and unavoidable in the face of reality.
This sentiment is finally clearly revealed in the poems at the end.
First of all, Liangshan 108 good man:
Heaven has returned to the Celestial Realm,
The ground brake should also enter the ground.
For all ages, the gods have eaten temples,
Evergreen History Broadcast Hero.
It seems that the gods have returned to their places, and they are forever enshrined in incense, and Qingshi has left his name.
I can think of the stories and endings of the heroes of Liangshan, but I have some sadness of "dust to dust, soil to soil". This is a kind of transparency, but also a kind of helplessness.
Then the poem says:
Mo Ji xing hid his grievances against god, and Han Peng was also pitiful that day.
Single-mindedly conquering the day of the front, fighting a hundred battles to break the enemy year.
The Stars of the Curse of the Curse are now gone, and the thieves are still there.
I knew that the duck poison buried the yellow fish, and learned to take the bird yi pan fishing boat.
For the Heavenly Path, to make meritorious achievements, to be loyal to the country, but what is the use of "slandering the thief is still the same"? Knowing this earlier, it was better to learn Fan Li and return to the hidden rivers and lakes and go rafting. This helplessness and the grief in my heart are even heavier.
The last poem says:
Born to be a death-eating marquis, a man's life has been paid.
The iron horse hissed at night and the moon was dark, and the ape roared in autumn and the clouds were thick.
There is no need to seek the truth from the source, but it is good to be loyal and good.
Thousands of years of tateshina buried jade land, falling flowers and birds are always worried.
This may be "doing your best and obeying the destiny", even if it is useless, it is not ashamed. Even if there is no reluctance in the heart, the regret and sorrow that linger in the heart are no longer regrettable.
The taste of life is like this. The mysteries of life are elusive. I had to do my best and be ashamed.
/ Journey to the West /
It begins with compassion and ends with enlightenment
"Shadow of Dreams" says that Journey to the West is a "book of enlightenment". Compared with the above three films, its theme is more direct and the tone is more warm - of the four famous works, only the journey to the west is a "comedy", although it has also experienced ups and downs, but it has a happy ending and no longer wants more.
This is a story about the Buddhist family. The Buddhist themes are only two: compassion and enlightenment. The same is true of Journey to the West.
The opening verse says:
Chaos is not divided into heaven and earth, and the vastness is invisible.
Since Pangu broke the Hongmeng, opened up from Zi Qing turbid discernment.
Covering the crowd to look up to benevolence, inventing that all things are good.
If you want to know the Yuan Gong of the Creation Society, you must look at the Journey to the West.
From the beginning of the world, the word "benevolence" was used as the first word, which is the compassionate spirit of the journey to the west.
At the end of the Journey to the West, there are two poems:
The holy monks worked hard to compile the scriptures, and Xiyu Zhouliu flowed for fourteen years.
The arduous journey has suffered hardships, and many have been affected by mountains and rivers.
After completing eight or nine, nine is added, and three thousand and three thousand are fulfilled.
Dajue Miaowen returned to shangguo, and the eastern soil will remain forever.
Unity is really like turning to dust, and the four phases of unity and four phases are restored.
The five elements are still silent, and the hundred strange names are always incomprehensible.
Zhengguo Tan took refuge in great enlightenment and completed the degeneracy of his duties.
It is said that the grace of the world is broad, and the five saints are high in the door.
The final quote is the Buddhist return to the recourse:
May this merit solemnize the Pure Land of the Buddha.
Report the fourfold grace, and the next three ways of suffering.
If there is anyone who has seen and heard, he has bodhichitta.
Do your best to repay yourself and live in the blissful country together.
At the end, the theme of compassion and enlightenment remains, and it is said that only by living compassionately can one be enlightened.
Speaking of which, the theme of Journey to the West seems much simpler. But don't forget, in the middle of the beginning and the end of the ninety-nine eighty-one difficulties, the countless misunderstandings and grievances, setbacks and experiences. Enlightenment is never easy.
Compared with the other three masterpieces, the preciousness of the journey to the west lies in the fact that the will to endure hardships, the courage to overcome setbacks, and the perseverance of perseverance all come from compassion and the desire for enlightenment, rather than from desire and obsession.
This is not forgetting the original intention.
Don't forget your original intention, you have to be consistent.
The stories and themes of the four masterpieces are different, but the endings invariably lead to the realm of enlightenment.
It is also a kind of fate.
Life is always to be enlightened, and no matter how beautiful the dream is, it is a dream after all, and it is necessary to wake up after all.
This is the last choice and the only way, the difference between people, only in the depth and shallowness of obsession.
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