When it comes to what the ancients wanted to do the most, it must be to be a sage. For ancient readers, being a sage is their closest dream, although the difficulty coefficient is relatively high, and it is necessary to have the idea of passing on thousands of generations, but in order to be enshrined by future generations, readers are still dreaming like this.
But is it really particularly blissful to be a sage? Not really. For the creators of ancient texts, the emperors and generals, the talents and the beautiful people, and the sages and masters were the most suitable for use as creative materials. In order to express their dissatisfaction or hope for society, these fallen disciples often arranged some gossip for the sages. It seems that it is very interesting to take off the mask of a particularly serious man and replace it with an emotional drama.
During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, the various factions of Confucianism and Taoism prevailed, and it can be said that during that period, not only all kinds of talents and monarchs were abundant, but also saints. Unfortunately, the descendants could not memorize works such as the Analects, and the matter of Zimi Nanzi was endlessly debated. Even Han Feizi, a serious representative figure of the Fa, has now been installed with various scandals. For example, in "Qin Shi Liren Mingyue Xin", Han Feizi was arranged with a Han Chang envoy. Seeing this, we can't help but ask, why do the creators of the script like to arrange sages and women together so much?
This question, Feng Menglong found the answer for us. As the most daring novelist in history, he not only arranged various evil fates for monks and nuns in the novel, but also arranged a scandal for Zhuangzi, the representative of the Taoist school, and recreated the story of Zhuangzi knocking on the pot.
One day in 369 BC, the spectacle of the Tengu Eclipse Sun suddenly appeared in the sky. On this day, a baby named Zhuang Zhou was born. Just when the King of Wei was very upset and Han Zhao was bullying people in Turbidity, the baby born with the eclipse took leisure as the joy of life in the years to come.
In this year, Gongsun Ji, the grand master of the State of Wei, entered the State of Zhao and Korea from the State of Song to borrow troops to help Gongzhong slow down the struggle for the throne. Korea and the Zhao state began to annex the State of Wei, but eventually lost this opportunity due to civil unrest.
With the passage of time, this Song dynasty child born in the year of the eclipse also gradually grew up. Others were busy seeking officials in various countries, but he did not take the usual path and decided to inherit the mantle of Taoism and be a person who was at ease.
Soon, Zhuangzi's name was known to the nations. For example, both King Chu Wei and King Hui of Wei once asked Zhuangzi to become an official. Feng Menglong also interspersed the plot of the Monarch of qi in order to win Over Zhuangzi and arrange a clan maid to be his wife, which arranged an identity for the historical Zhuang Zhou wife. However, in fact, zhuangzi, as a fallen nobleman of the Song dynasty, could only be the daughter of the fallen nobles of other small countries.
In the whole story of Zhuangzi drumming into a road, Zhuangzi's attempt to test his wife is very interesting, in order to test his wife, Zhuangzi actually greened himself. In the story, Zhuangzi encountered a sexual encounter, that is, a beautiful woman who had just died of her husband, because she was not willing to be lonely, she actually took the initiative to seduce Zhuangzi. When Zhuangzi's wife heard about this, her first reaction was to scold the woman for being unsympathetic and swear that she would never do so. However, after she herself saw the handsome Chu Wangsun that Zhuangzi had become, she changed her original idea and even decided to take Zhuangzi's brain marrow to please the Chu Wangsun. Seeing that Zhuangzi was suspended from death, this woman actually wanted to reconcile with Zhuangzi. In the end, shame and suicide are also destined to be so.
In this story, Feng Menglong uses the technique of borrowing ancient metaphors from the present. The feudal selfishness of men at the end of the Ming Dynasty and the yin and yang of women are vividly described in ancient stories. Compared with the Zhuangzi in the story, the real Zhuangzi is very open-minded. He only became a minor official because he did not want to get involved in the disputes of the Six Kingdoms, and because his friend Keiko sent someone to assassinate him, he finally decided not to go to Wei. In the year of his death, his motherland was eventually divided up by the State of Qi and other countries, so the State of Qi was regarded as the target of public criticism, its strength was greatly reduced, and the situation in the Warring States gradually became clear.
Why do readers like to add a lot of emotional drama to the sages? The answer is simple, that is, to sell well. Words satisfy the desires of the hearts of the low-level people who have been ruled since ancient times. For those who can't sit on high-ranking officials and ride horses, riding sages can be used as an interpretation of the spirit of Ah Q. When ridiculing the ancients, they will always think triumphantly, although I am poor and uneducated, but I do not mess around. Seeing people's psychology like this, people who read books began to write all kinds of such paragraphs, making money while committing adultery, and opening their brains in hunger and cold.
Seeing this, I know you will ask me a question like this, is the story of the bare stick and the widow counted as a script? I just want to answer, don't make a fuss, it's a two-person turn.