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Li Kui is another character deliberately portrayed in "Water Margin". Some people say that Li Kui kills people regardless of the target, and some people say that Li Kui has such and such problems. However, "Water Margin" has always portrayed Li Kui as a positive hero.
Jin Sheng sighed that Li Kui was "naïve to the end", and some people were not convinced, in fact, Li Kui was really like this! This person, what he has in his heart, what is in his mouth, has nothing to hide. He is simple in his dealings, simple in his thinking, and not so many twists and turns. Due to his personality, he often has some funny actions, but behind these actions, there is still a sincere heart. Now let's look at li kui's story as a person.
What Li Kui has is filial piety. Filial piety comes first and filial piety is an important tenet that the good men of the green forest follow. For those who are not filial, everyone looks down on them. Li Kui's filial piety is prominently embodied in receiving his old mother on Liangshan. After Song Jiang went up the mountain, he quickly took Song Taigong to the mountain to live with him. At this time, Li Kui's eyes were hungry, and he thought, your eldest brother Song can take his father up the mountain, and I Li Tieniu can't also pick up my mother, so I urgently made a request. Song Jiang and the others naturally agreed to pick him up. Li Kui's home was in Yishui County, and when he arrived home, he persuaded his mother to follow him up the mountain and carry the blind old mother on her back. On the mountain road, he was afraid that his mother was thirsty, so he put her in a place and went to the mountain stream to get water himself. When he returned to his mother's side with the water, he found that his mother was gone, only a pile of white bones. It turned out that after he left, a tiger came and ate his mother. Originally, it was a good thing to pick up his mother, but now that there was this file, Li Kui's anger could be imagined. Armed with a knife and gun, he found the tiger's lair and killed all four tigers in one fell swoop. Li Kui's filial piety is no different from Song Jiang's filial piety, except that Song Jiang's wish to pick up his father has come true, and Li Kui has an accident in the middle of picking up his mother.
Li Kui has loyalty. Li Kui's loyalty was prominently reflected in his treatment of Song Jiang. Li Kui and Song Jiang met in Jiangzhou Prison City. Li Kui killed people in his hometown and fled to Jiangzhou to serve as a prisoner under Emperor Daizong. After meeting Song Jiang, he felt Song Jiang's righteousness and charm, and from then on he followed him, in the water and in the fire, and even took his own life. This kind of loyalty has not been much in the past. When he robbed the law field in Jiangzhou, Li Kui was the one who worked hard to save Song Jiang and Dai Zong. At that time, the execution site was set up at an intersection, surrounded by more than five hundred officers and soldiers, Li Kui jumped from the restaurant, wielded two plate axes, first cut down the hands of two executioners, and then, all the way to the river, to open a way for Liangshan to save Song Jiang and DaiZong.
With Li Kui's personality, few people in Liang Shanbo could bind him, but for Song Jiang's words, he was resolute and unambiguous. After the Liangshan heroes were seated, at the chrysanthemum meeting, when LeHe sang Song Jiang's "Looking forward to the Heavenly King's Edict to Summon An Early", Li Kui shouted: "Zhao An, Zhao An, Zhao An, Zhao Xian Bird An!" "Kicked the table over. Song Jiang was furious and wanted to push Li Kui out and behead him. Everyone pleaded, and Song Jiang agreed to imprison Li Kui. When the enforcement officers came to detain Li Kui, Li Kui said, "Are you afraid that I dare to struggle?" My brother didn't complain when he killed me, and he didn't hate me. ”
The most typical is that at the end of the "Water Margin", Cai Jinggao's corrupt official clique plotted to kill the leader of Liangshan and sent poisoned wine to Song Jiang to drink, and Song Jiang was afraid that after his death, Li Kui would rebel again, so he let Li Kui, who was the governor of Runzhou, come to Chu Prefecture, where Song Jiang was serving, and also drank poisonous wine. After Li Kui knew the truth, he said, "Stop, stop, stop!" When he was born, he served his brother, and when he died, he was just a little ghost under his brother! "So, is Li Kui foolish?" Nor can it be simply concluded that way. Because Li Kui said this when he had already drunk poisonous wine, according to his character, he would definitely have to pull up the people and horses for a second rebellion, and from this point, we can also see the resoluteness of Li Kui's attitude toward the uprising. It is a pity that a peasant-born lower strata of society has only a simple sense of society, not much social thought, and can only obey the arrangements of the leaders.
It is also said that Li Kui is not foolish and loyal, but also that even in the case of a big brother like Song Jiang, who shares hardships and hardships, Li Kui also takes justice as the foundation. If he felt that this big brother was unkind and unjust, he would definitely not accommodate it. Next, we will see from the righteousness, how Li Kui did it.
After the Lantern Festival in Tokyo, Li Kui and Yan Qing returned to Liangshan, took a big detour, and suddenly walked to jingmen town, which is 60 or 70 miles north of Liangshan. Staying here, at night, I heard Liu Taigong's two old mouths crying incessantly, and when I asked, I learned that Liu Taigong's daughter had been robbed by two strongmen, and Taigong also said that the strongman was Song Jiang, the leader of Liangshan Po. As soon as Li Kui heard that Song Jiang had robbed the girls, he immediately became angry. Li Kui did not hide it either, and directly revealed his identity: I am Li Kui, the general of Liangshan, and the one who came with me is Yan Qing. If it is really Song Jiang who robbed your daughter, I will not spare her. Together with Yan Qing, Li Kui came up to Liangshan, and without saying a word, he first cut down the apricot yellow flag, tore the four words "for the Heavenly Path" to pieces, and reprimanded Song Jiang: "I often do you a good job, but you are originally a beast!" You've done such good things! Song Jiang drank, "I and two or three thousand military horses came back, if two people leave alone, how can they hide from everyone?" If you rob a woman, it must be only in the village, but you go to my room to search! Li Kui said, "Brother, what bird gossip are you talking about!" The cottage is full of your men, protecting you a lot, where is not hidden? I originally respected you as a good man who was not greedy, but you were originally a drunkard: if you killEd Yan Po Xie, it was a small sample; when you went to Tokyo to raise Master Li, it was a big sample. You don't have to rely on it, send your daughter back to Lao Liu early, but there is a discussion. If you don't return your daughter to him, I'll kill you early, and kill you late. Song Jiang was the eldest brother he respected very much, and he mistakenly thought that Song Jiang had done something that coveted women, and he was just as angry, and this was Li Kui. Seeing this, can you still say that Li Kui is a fool? Who can not praise Li Kuiyi's thin cloudy sky? He was loyal to Song Jiang, and the fundamental reason was that he regarded Song Jiang as the embodiment of benevolence and righteousness.
Song Jiang was also resentful, he had no problem of harming the women of the good family. Therefore, he and Li Kui went to Liu Taigong's house to confront each other, and made a military order, and whoever lost would beheaded. Song Jiang asked Li Kui to go first, afraid that he would say that Song Jiang was colluding with others. After Liu Taigong and his family confirmed that it was indeed not Song Jiang who robbed the women, Li Kui no longer blamed Song Jiang. However, the problem is coming again, the military order is there, how to deal with it? Li Kui recognized that his eldest brother was innocent, and even if he was beheaded, he was willing. At this time, the well-behaved Yan Qing gave him an idea: the old general of the Warring States was honest and honest, and he was guilty of Jing's request. Li Kui also had to follow Yan Qing's advice, carry a bundle of thorns, and come to Song Jiang, saying that he would let Song Jiang whip him. Of course, Song Jiang would not beat him, but only let him wear the guilt and make meritorious deeds, catch the bad guys, and rescue the woman of the good family, this matter will pass, I think, Song Jiang should praise him Li Kui's righteous heart in his heart.
Li Kui and Yan Qing, from Jingmen Town to the north, searched for several days, and finally found the two bad guys in a broken temple on Niutou Mountain. These two people, one named Wang Jiang and the other named Dong Hai, usually kill people and set fires without evil, this time robbing Miss Liu and taking turns to rape her. Li Kui and Yan Qing killed the two evil men and let Miss Liu ride a horse, but they followed the horse and sent Miss Liu to their parents. This is also enough to prove that the good men of Liangshan uphold justice and specially punish those who harm nature and reason. Li Kui's act of saving the United States this time is the same righteous act as Lu Zhishen's rescue of Liu Taigong's daughter in Taohua Village, and Wu Song's rescue of Zhang Taigong's daughter at Centipede Ridge.
Li Kui has some bad habits, and he also has gambling and other behaviors. However, his essence is good, and in the big aspects it is worth affirming. He does not approach women, does not steal possessions. On the way home to pick up his mother, he encountered Li Ghost robbing property in his name, and he was very angry and taught Li Ghost a harsh lesson. If it weren't for Li Ghost's deception that there was an elderly mother in the family who had no one to provide for him, Li Kui would have almost killed him. Li Ghost used this false filial piety to deceive Li Kui's sympathy, but he did not expect that this Li Ghost actually sued Li Kui to the officials, which was really a revenge.
In the previous battles organized by Liangshan, Li Kui always charged ahead and played an important role. In order to save Chai Jin, he and Daizong went to Jizhou to ask Gongsun Sheng. Gongsun Sheng did not want to go out of the mountain and deliberately hid it. Dai Zong and Li Kui couldn't see it and were very anxious. Li Kui was rough on the outside, but sometimes very delicate on the inside, he saw that Gongsun Sheng was at home, but he didn't come out, so he took advantage of Gongsun Sheng's filial piety to his mother, pretending to kill Gongsun Sheng's mother, forcing Gongsun Sheng to come out to meet him, and finally went out of the mountain with them. In the battle to save Chai Jin from Gao Tang, he played a very magical role and won the battle. After opening Gao Tang, it is necessary to save the dying Chai Daguan at the bottom of the well. Regardless of the danger, Li Kui reported himself bravely and took the initiative to go down the well to save people, and it was not until he rescued Chai Daguan that he came up to the well, which also showed that at the critical moment he could stand up and use it.
Of course, Li Kui sometimes behaves a little stubbornly, he is like a clown on the stage of the theater, always doing something unusual, making people laugh. For example, because of his negligence, he caused trouble in the city of Tokyo, which disrupted Song Jiang's plan to use Li Shishi to communicate with the emperor.
There is also a story that makes people can't help but be funny, that is, Li Kui sat in Shouzhang County. After Li Kui fought with Yan Qing at the foot of Mount Tai, he came to Shouzhang County alone. At that time, when the noon court had just dispersed, Li Kui shouted at the gate of the county gate: "Liangshan Po Black Whirlwind Daddy is here!" "Frightened, everyone in the county was numb and unable to move." It turned out that this Shouzhang County was the closest to Liangshan Po, and usually heard the five words of "Black Whirlwind Li Kui", and even children did not dare to cry again, and now that Li Kui has really come, how can the people of the official court not be afraid of it! Li Kui went directly to the Zhixian chair and sat down, shouting in his mouth: "Come two come out and talk, if you don't come, I will set fire!" Everyone in the room under the corridor discussed: "I have to go to a few people to promise, otherwise, why can I coax him away?" Two officials came out of the hall and prayed four times, knelt down, and said, "When the chief comes here, he will have instructions." Li Kui said, "I'm not here to disturb the people in your county, because I'm passing by here, I'm hanging out of your county, and I'll meet him." The two went and came out to talk back: "Zhixian Xianggong just saw the leader coming, opened the back door, and didn't know where to go." ”
Li Kui didn't believe it, and went to the back hall to look for it, but he saw that there was a suitcase of clothes and clothes there. The head is an ancient turban, which should refer to the main part of the official hat. The corners are ornaments in which the official hat stretches to the sides. In the Song Dynasty, the spread angle was relatively long, and in the Ming Dynasty, it became shorter and wider, and it became a yarn hat wing. Regarding the exhibition corner, there is such a saying: After The Song Taizu Zhao Kuangyin won the throne, because the ministers were his original colleagues, they were very unserious when they went to the court, and they often exchanged heads and ears, and Zhao Kuangyin was not good at saying anything, so he deliberately designed a long corner, and the corner of the official hat was half a meter long, which opened up the distance between the ministers, and the ministers could not turn their heads and ears. It seems that Song Taizu is really very smart.
Li Kui twisted the lock, took out the head, inserted the corner, put the official hat on his head, put the green robe on his body, put on the soap boots, took the locust Jane, walked out of the hall, and shouted: "Officials and pawns are coming to see!" "The crowd had no choice but to go up and say yes. Li Kui said, "Am I dressed like this?" The crowd said, "Very proportionate." Li Kui said, "All of you will give me a platoon, and if you don't follow me, I will turn this county upside down." "The people were afraid of him, so they gathered some public servants, took the staff, beat the drum three times, and went forward to obey the order.
Li Kui laughed and said, "Among you people, two of you have also come out to complain." The official said, "The leader is sitting here, who dares to file a complaint?" Li Kui said, "I know that no one has come to file a complaint, so you are looking for two people to pretend to be a complaint here." I didn't hurt him again, just a joke. The public officials and others discussed for a while, but they had to let the two prisoners pretend to be beaten to complain, and the people outside the county gate came to see it. The two knelt in front of the hall, and this one said, "Poor thing, he beat the villain." The one said, "He scolded the villain, and I beat him." Li Kui said, "Which one was beaten?" The plaintiff said, "The villain was beaten." Then he asked, "Did that hit him?" The defendant said: "He scolded first, and the villain beat him." Li Kui said, "This man who hit people was a good man, let him go first." This one who did not grow was beaten by others, and gave me a shackle to show the public in front of the gate. ”
Li Kui got up, looked at the plaintiff, and ordered him in front of the county gate before he strode away, and did not take off his official uniform, and the people who saw the liveliness could not help but laugh.
Li Kui's martial arts skills were relatively high, and the two plate axes cut past and whistled the wind, and it was difficult for anyone to withstand it. There are not too many people who have overcome him. He had a fight with Zhang Shun in Jiangzhou, and Zhang Shun could not beat him on land, but he made Li Kui very passive in the middle of the river. Yan Qing could control Li Kui at a critical time, because sumo wrestling kung fu was quite high, and Li Kui could not fall on him, so he had to listen to Yan Qing.
Of course, Li Kui is not very perfect. We don't ask him to be perfect, because perfect people are hard to come by. What we need is people who conform to the real laws of art. Li Kui is killing too many people. For example, when he robbed the law field in Jiangzhou, he did not care about the officers or civilians, and cut it when he saw it. Some people said that in such a chaotic situation, Li Kui's move was forced to do so. There's some truth to that. However, Li Kui still killed too many people. In real history, indiscriminate killings are also not uncommon. In the midst of fierce combat, it is often difficult to discern what is calm.
Another point is that when Li Kui went to Cangzhou to earn Zhu Tong to go to Liangshan, he killed the young prince of Yin, the capital of Cangzhou. Although this was at the behest of Wu Yong and others, although this was for the cause of Liangshan, although this was to cut off Zhu Tong's back road and force him to agree to go up the mountain, although the Cangzhou capital Yin was the opposite of the rebel army, but for a young child, it was so easy to kill, which was naturally criticized by people.
Li Kui was the representative of a part of the peasant uprising contingent who really came from the bottom of society, who came from a humble background, who suffered the most exploitation and oppression, the greatest hatred for the government, and the most resolute revolution. However, they are simple-minded, rough in temperament, righteous in their manners, poorly disciplined, lacking a sense of proportion in struggle, and even carrying the problem of being murderous.
Li Kui's story is seen in many meta-dramas. Stories such as Li Kui Shou Zhang County Sitting Ya and Li Kui Bearing Jing's Request for Double Meritorious Service were all moved from the Yuan Miscellaneous Drama.
Author: Lu Ming, male, born in 1960, pen name Yellow River into the sea. Retired cadre of Yuncheng County CPC Committee, Chairman of Yuncheng County Writers Association, President of County Poetry Society. He is a member of the Shandong Writers Association, the vice president of the Heze Poetry Society, a special researcher of the Shuihu Culture Research Base of Heze University, and a scholar of historical and cultural research in Yuncheng County. He has published more than 100 essays, more than 20 novels, and more than 1,000 poems and poems in various newspapers and online platforms such as Guangming Daily, Shandong Literature, and Times Literature, of which HezeFu was published in Guangming Daily. He is the author of six cultural books, including "Zhengyu Water Margin", "Impression of Water Margin", "Exploration of Good Han Culture", "Yuncheng Literature and History Examination Strategy" (three volumes), and the chief editor of "Selected Literary Works of Yuncheng", "Yuncheng Wenyun", "Water Margin Biography", and "Water Margin Wine Story" four works. In Heze TV, he lectured on the thirteenth issue of Water Margin Culture.
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