The story of Jin Wen Gong's heavy ears and meson push has been sung through the ages and touched generations of people. The word "foot" has thus become an honorific title for others. The "Cold Food Festival" has also become an important festival in ancient times.
However, when I reread the story today, I was a little embarrassed. How to see, how to feel these two people, from beginning to end full of shows and performances. Why do I say that?
(Jin Wengong stills)
First, is the meson really cutting the flesh on his own thigh?
During his escape, Jin Wengong was very hungry at one point. Ask the people for food. But the people gave him pieces of earth. Although the following minister said, it was a symbol that you were about to get territory. However, such comforting words do not relieve hunger. At this time, the meson pushed out. After going out, he picked some wild vegetables, cut a piece of meat from his thigh, and boiled it into a broth for heavy ears to eat together with the wild vegetables. After eating such a delicious broth, I was very touched to know that this meat was cut from the thigh of the meson push.
I think this is very questionable. As we all know, ancient medical technology was very poor. Even doctors are often helpless to break large wounds. The root cause is that there were no anti-inflammatory drugs in ancient times. When a huge wound appears, in order to prevent suppuration, sometimes it is even necessary to burn the soldering iron red and forcibly burn the wound to reduce inflammation. What the meson pushed was a piece of meat cut from the thigh, and it had to be heavy enough to eat, so how traumatic was it? Meson Tui is not a doctor, how can he cure such a big wound?
Therefore, the piece of meat that the meson pushed to boil the soup was probably not cut from his body. Maybe it was cut off from other animals, or from poultry and domestic animals, and then the meson pushed to touch the ear and deliberately cut a knife in his leg.
(Meson push still)
Moreover, if the real meson does not seek fame, why should he write a grumbling poem? The poem goes like this: "There are dragons flying all over the world." The five serpents followed it and assisted it. The dragon rebelled against its homeland and got its place. From it, the four serpents received their dew and rain. A snake was ashamed and died in Nakano. ”
It is said that it is because the neighbor of the meson pushed The solution zhang saw this poem and hugged the meson push. In the evening, he quietly pushed the poem written by the meson and shot an arrow at the city gate to let the heavy ear know.
If you don't seek fame and want to live in seclusion, you have to hide far away. If you still want to write poems and complain, it must be that there is an unfairness in your heart. Looking at it this way, it feels that the meson push is really putting on a show.
(Jin Wengong on the road to exile)
Second, is Heavy Ear really trying to push the meson out of the mountain?
The meson did not seek fame and hid in the mountains with his mother. Heavy Ear sent someone to ask him, and he didn't come out again. Therefore, Heavy Ear decided to set fire to the mountain and wanted to push the meson out. As a result, the meson was burned to death under a willow tree with his mother.
For this matter that Jin Wengong did, I also seriously doubted his sincerity. Heavy Ear really wants to find the meson push, he has so many troops, is there anything he can't find? In ancient times, fire burning mountains was a very serious natural disaster. Once a fire is lit in the forest, it is basically impossible to extinguish. Moreover, the development speed of the fire is very fast, and the people on the mountain cannot win at all, not to mention that the meson pushes with an old mother. In this case, the heavy ear should be very clear. He was well aware, but he ultimately chose to take that approach. This has to make people wonder whether The heavy ear really wants to push the meson out or burn the meson push.
Some people will ask, why did the heavy ear burn the meson push? The reason is simple. Meson pushes with his actions to show that Heavy Ear is an ungrateful person, and Meson push does not forgive such a person. This made Zhong'er feel very unhappy. But even if he is unhappy, he can't show it. If he shows it, then he will really become an ungrateful person. That's why he found this way to not only kill the meson push, but also make him win a good reputation for love and affection.
I hope I'm not right. Human nature should be warm. But many of the details of what these two people did really can't stand up to scrutiny and have to be doubted.
(References: "History", "Spring and Autumn Biography")