Although Water Margin ranks among the four famous works, the controversy of this book is very large, especially after the modern era, there are more and more criticisms about him.
Among the four famous works, the most special thing about Water Margin is that it is the only book where the protagonist is hated, basically few people will like Song Jiang, especially Jin Sheng sighed and commented on Water Margin, that is only if Song Jiang appeared on the scene, it was not pleasing to see how Song Jiang was.
But even if it is the characters inside, there are all kinds of problems and controversies, and the evaluation of the characters by the water margin in the past generations is inconsistent, but there is a person who everyone likes, and the evaluation is very high, this person is Li Kui.
Jin Sheng sighed and said that Li Kui was a superior figure, and the writing was really naïve to the end, and Li Yan even said that the first living Buddha of Liangshan Po was also for good and evil, and he had no intention of doing it.
This is really a bit of an exaggeration, and Li Kui is exaggerated to the point that there is no edge to this, the problem is that even according to the logic in the Water Margin, the good men drink wine and eat meat, and the road is uneven and roars, and they have not seen Any big moves by Li Kui.
Not to mention, according to today's standards, Li Kui was the most bloodthirsty and indiscriminate of the good men in Liangshan, and he killed an unknown number of melon-eating masses in the field of robbery.
What is even more exaggerated is that other people's women are dating their lovers, Li Kui is entrusted by her daughter's father to find out the truth, and you say that you cut and killed the man, even if it is barely reasonable.
You even slash and kill women, and the next day you have to ask the old man for money, such a person really doesn't know how to be liked by so many people, not only outsiders want to kill, but also their own people, once almost even Song Jiang also wanted to kill.
Even through the Water Margin, Li Kui is the only one who has specifically described cannibalism, yes, it is eating people, Sun Erniang's black shop also sells human meat buns, others have also mentioned cannibalism, but only Li Kui is a positive direct description of him eating people.
Do you think that Li Kui is like a beast, a beast that completely relies on nature, I like to do it, without a little modification, will not hide it.
Perhaps it is the characteristics of the beast that has led to many critics in the past who have liked Li Kui very much, because the beast has no hypocrisy, that is, the truth, just because of this real word on Li Kui's body, so that this image has been loved by people since its birth.
Why a true word can be sought after by countless people, these are essentially the role of Yang Ming Xinxue, and most people respect that true realm.
There is also the ancient social intellectuals, living too depressed, living too hypocritical, they urgently need a person who has the courage to express their true self, Li Kui is such a person.
Because in reality, everyone is hypocritical, even Wu Songlin Chong has his own small calculations, Song Jiang is useless, let alone a human spirit, these people are simply filthy compared with Li Kui.
Why Li Kui praised Li Kui the most, because Li Kui lived the most repressive and the most depressed life, and it was the people who wanted to break free from the shackles of hypocritical Confucianism in that era, who were eventually arrested because their ideas were too radical, and finally committed suicide in prison.
In the face of such a Li Zhen, you can understand why Li Kui was able to become a Buddha in his heart, and perhaps that kind of unadorned truth is the highest spiritual realm that Li Zhen is painstakingly pursuing.
But in any case, Li Kui still looks very cruel, why so many people ignore this, this is mainly because the people who write book reviews are literati, and most of the literati, in essence, do not know what is violence, let alone what is killing, they just rely on imagination to write the aesthetics of violence.
Speaking of violence, in "Master", Jiang Wenli has a very wonderful sentence, we have so many people here, do you know that after the knife cuts a few people, the knife will become blunt, and then the killing knife will be deformed.
This is very real, very real, killing people needs a knife, and how many people can a knife kill, whether it will be deformed after looking into it, the fist hits the face, what is it, the people who can write out the Water Margin, certainly do not know, this feeling is only known by the little, but this does not prevent the three fists of Lu Tizhi to kill the town Kansai wrote so wonderfully.
Therefore, when many literati commented on Li Kui, the violence in their hearts was completely out of imagination, and they did not take him seriously, but just casually exaggerated writing, the purpose was entirely to show Li Kui's true disposition, as to whether to kill eight or twelve, no one cared.
Literati do not understand violence, and those who know violence cannot write books, so that the violence written by literati can only be like chopping melons and cutting vegetables, which looks very cool, but it cannot produce awe, and it is impossible to see Li Kui's brutality.
On the whole, Li Kui is the highest-rated character in the Water Margin, mainly under the oppressive environment, people prefer to have a person who is completely unadorned and does not have any intentions.