Mo Yan, China's first Nobel laureate in literature, once said publicly: "All my works are inferior to "The True Biography of Ah Q". ”
He was even willing to exchange all his novels for a "True Biography of Ah Q".
"A Q Zheng Biography" is a novella in Mr. Lu Xun's novel collection "Scream", which has been sought after and favored since its publication.
The protagonist of the novel, Ah Q, is a humble to the bottom of the small character, Mr. Lu Xun wrote his absurd life with absurd language.
Ah Q, who does not even deserve a serious name, is pitiful and hateful and ridiculous, but laughing and laughing makes us see the cruel truth of life.
Suddenly, I found that the poor and ridiculous adults written by Mr. Li would always exist in reality.
Losers always escape reality
Who is Ah Q?
A complete loser from the bottom of society.
He has no name, no name, no place of origin, no home, no experience, no fixed occupation, and such a person is destined to be despised. As a "six nothings" person, he is not ashamed and is accustomed to it.
Once, Ah Q drank two bowls of yellow wine, and then he danced and told others that the local respected Zhao Taiye was originally from the original family, and he was three generations older than his Xiucai son.
When Grandpa Zhao went up, he gave him a mouth: "How can you be surnamed Zhao -- where do you deserve the surname Zhao?" ”
Ah Q didn't say a word on the surface, willing to lose his name, but in a moment he figured it out: My son will be much wider!
This kind of self-consolation gradually formed his unique "spiritual victory method", that is, "defeating the enemy in the imagination", and every actual setback had to be compensated by doubling the "spiritual victory".
For example, when he was beaten by someone, he had no power to fight back, but after the man left, he thought in his heart: "I have finally been beaten by my son, and the world is really not the same now..." Treating that person as a "son", and raising himself in the generations for no reason, he can also be satisfied.
Even if he really tasted the pain of failure, he gambled hard to win a lot of money but was robbed, so he beat himself, felt as if he had hit the other party, and went to sleep contentedly.
Failure is failure, why doesn't A Q admit and face it?
Because he was "broad before", had high knowledge, and "could really do it", after falling to the bottom, he still had a very high self-esteem.
He lost the motivation to change reality because of his lazy temperament, and his spiritual victory was carried by three points of pride, three points of resentment, and four points of insensitivity.
Only in fantasy can I complete masturbation again and again.
In modern society, many people blindly learn A Q, and the spiritual victory method is not uncommon:
The leader scolded the surface smile in the heart of the two sentences, see others successful career success on the belly of his family misfortune, the public questioned the ability of a certain flow of fresh meat business can also be beaten by fans: "Do you know how hard he works?" ”
Use the spiritual victory method to attribute defeat to the outside world, and abandon self-reflection and habitual lying flat.
Over time, spiritual victory became the last fig leaf to escape defeat.
Life is difficult, the pressure is very high, the mood is very anxious, and the only way for people in it to dare to face reality and face themselves can they resist the invasion of failure.
Such courage and optimism are the real spiritual victories, and they will also bring about the victories of reality.
The weak prefer to bully the weak
Don't look at Ah Q's failure to do things, being a cowardly person, being bullied will only look at him with anger, and his spirit will be victorious, but he will bully people who are weaker than him.
Grandpa Qian's son entered the western school in the city, came back and cut his braids, Ah Q called him a "fake foreign devil", and when he saw him, he cursed secretly in his stomach.
Once, somehow, I was confronted with a scolding of "Bald." Donkey..." Came, and immediately took the head-on punch.
When he was beaten, Ah Q not only did not dare to fight back, but also pointed to an innocent and weak child next to him and said:
"I said him!"
This is his usual trick, whenever he argues with someone, he will first evaluate the opponent:
If you face a rich and powerful person such as Grandpa Zhao, you will only promise and let you fight and scold.
In the face of Wang Hu and the like, who were more powerful and more arrogant, they only dared to weakly shout a sentence: "Gentlemen do not move their hands!" ”
But as Mr. Lu Xun said, "The cowardly are angry, but they draw their blades at the weaker ones." ”
A Q was bullied on the front foot, and the back foot met the little nun who went out to run an errand. Ah Q, who originally regarded women as "aliens", greeted them with a mouthful of spit.
Seeing that the little nun had avoided it, he went up again to touch the man's freshly shaved head.
"How do you move your hands and feet..." The little nun's face was full of red, attracting the attention of the people in the tavern next to her, which made Ah Q even more energetic, as if his own merit was appreciated, so he twisted the little nun's face hard, and said words that did not distinguish between meat and vegetables.
In the midst of the little nun's desertion and the laughter of the crowd, the self-esteem and conceit that Ah Q had just been trampled on seemed to be satisfied and inflated.
Like many people, when they do not have a sense of achievement in their career life, they do not feel sorry for the same kind or weak people, but instead play tricks on them, find fault, dismissive, and even scold at will, inflict their own pain on them, indulge in the pleasure of deception, and cover up their weakness.
These people fail not only materially, but also spiritually unsavorable poverty.
Therefore, it is conceivable that when they have a soaring sky, they will be more ruthless in stepping on people who are inferior to themselves.
The loss of basic humanity in the Fall is the real sorrow of the weak.
The real strong, pleasure never comes from flattery or deception, but focuses on how to step by step from scratch, from weak to strong, in the grind to find a sense of existence, in the transcendence to get satisfaction.
People with low self-esteem love fictitious success
A Q bullies women, bullies the weak, not unreported, the time has not come.
After flirting with the little nun and being cursed by the sentence "cut off children and grandchildren", Ah Q pondered "no filial piety has three, no queen is greater", and for the first time he had a desire and fantasy for women.
So when he was working at Mrs. Zhao's house, looking at Mama Wu, who was chatting with him for a few words, he suddenly pounced on her and knelt down: "I am sleepy with you!" ”
In fact, Ah Q has always been prejudiced against women, believing that they are all good at seducing men's "false canons", but this kneeling exposes his inferiority -
A man who wants to have sex with a woman doesn't even have the ability to flirt.
Repressed desire became the trigger for his impulses, and he was punished for his impulses. Mama Wu cried and ran out to complain.
The whole Zhuangzi knew about Ah Q's indecent behavior, and he lost his job and had to leave his hometown.
No one cared about how Ah Q lived in other places, but when Ah Q returned half a year later, people suddenly found that he was wearing a new jacket, and his shot was very generous, and soon, Zhuangzi spread all over the place, and Ah Q made a fortune.
Ask him where his wealth comes from? Ah Q said that he was helping at the house of the old man. Being able to be seen as the only person in the city to help must be some ability, and the people who heard it were immediately in awe.
Ah Q then boasted about what he had seen in the city, so it was very good to show off, and his status was about to catch up with Zhao Taiye.
This was the only highlight of AQ's life.
But what are the facts?
In the fluttering of the stars and the moon, Ah Q was finally told the truth:
His so-called development is nothing more than joining a gang of thieves, and even in the gang, he can only be a little minions who look forward to the wind. This is even more contemptible.
Creating a sense of superiority with fictional success is a bottoming out after people are extremely inferior.
Because they care more about "being envied by others" than "how to achieve real success".
So such people, most of whom have not succeeded, have become ren first.
In life, we often see many people drying high-end party luxury jewelry, three sentences do not leave their fitness, travel, flower arrangement comfort, deliberately use this "success", so that the "social animals" who are struggling to live are envious. "Looking at achievements in school and looking at fame and fortune in society" has become the direction of their efforts to disguise.
But a person a few pounds, no need to investigate, after several dealings, you will know.
What is true success?
Kai-Fu Lee said that it is to be the best version of yourself.
Success is not how much better than others, but how much better than yesterday's self.
There is no shortage of spectators in every era
In Mr. Lu Xun's article, there is no shortage of "spectators".
Spectators do not distinguish between class, between rich and poor, between strong and weak.
Every time Ah Q is bullied, he can't help but laugh at the people around him. Ah Q watched in the city as the revolutionary party was killed, and when he came back, he laughed and told the zhuangli people: "Cough, look good, kill the revolutionary party." Alas, good looking ,......."
When the revolutionaries rushed into Zhuangzi and robbed Old Lady Zhao's home, the people on Zhuang were panicked, but they were also a little more happy, and so was Ah Q.
Four days after the incident, Ah Q was sent to the prison in the city by the army, and he did not know what mistake he had made, but only signed a "deed"——
A crooked circle, which became evidence of the revolutionary party's rectification of robbery and theft and "punished one hundred people".
When Ah Q was pressed onto the execution ground, he looked to the left and right in confusion, followed by many open-mouthed spectators along the way.
The eyes of these people seemed to be united, blunt and sharp, like hungry wolves, not only had they chewed on what he could not say, but they were also there to bite his soul, never to follow him near.
For the first time, he felt frightened.
After Ah Q's death, public opinion about him naturally said that Ah Q was bad, but more of them were not satisfied, thinking that shooting was not as good as killing the head, and this ridiculous death row prisoner swam in the street for so long, and did not sing a joke, so that they followed in vain.
Verified mr. Lu Xun's viewer psychology:
They don't really believe it, they just think it's funny and interesting, "At this time, if you go to dialectics, it will make everyone unhappy."
Ah Q is dead, but Mr. Lu Xun's visitors are still alive.
From real life to social media, the range of visitors is expanding further. The spectators still do not distinguish between class, rich or poor, strong or weak.
Screenwriter Liu Liu, who once stood in line when the momentum of a certain top stream was rising, now can't withstand the pressure of the collapse of the top stream, and tries to stand back in public opinion, deliberately putting himself out of the matter as a "spectator":
I didn't think well of explaining to him (my son) the vicious psychology of the melon-eating masses and the cunning mentality of voyeurizing other people's privacy, and I also saw that it was not too big to be hilarious, and inappropriately issued unhealthy views in the public media.
Yes, it is human nature to hunt for curiosity, and it is not illegal to watch.
If everyone were like this, it seemed that they would not feel cold and numb, nor would they find this society cold and cruel.
However, as everyone knows, the further development of modern spectators is by no means an indifferent bystander or a crowd of melon-eating people, but can become accomplices fueled by the evil of human nature.
If A Q's life is sad, it is the death of the times. Then we give up our own goodness and compassion because we want to live in society, that is our sadness.
Although Ah Q is a humble and small figure born in the last century, it is a huge name in China.
In modern society, how many people like Ah Q deceive themselves by spiritual opium, "What he asks for is not this kind of thing; what he is asking for, he himself does not know." "Living a murky life.
How many people like Ah Q have used ignorance and numbness, vanity, depravity, and indifference and weakness to jointly weave a large net that cannot be broken, causing the tragedy of their own or others' lives.
A Q, like a multi-prism, let us see ourselves clearly, reminding us not to fall into the crooked circle of his pen, but to always remain optimistic and self-motivated, keep striving for self-examination, and maintain kindness and modesty.
Only in this way can we achieve what Mr. Lu Xun expected:
"Greet the tragic doom with a smiling face, and cope with all misfortunes with a hundred times more courage."
Author | There are good in the north, enjoying the little girl Bo and observing the social love life
Image | Stills from "A Q True Biography"