Let's continue to talk about the four heroes of the Red Chamber, after talking about the drunken King Kong Ni Er, Feng Ziying, the son of General Shenwu, and today we said Leng Erlang Liu Xianglian.
This Liu Xianglian is a descendant of the family, and the original text has a small biography about him, saying that he "can't study well, his parents died early, he is a cool man, he is informal, he is cool to play with guns and swords, gamble and eat wine, so that he sleeps in the willow, plays the flute and plays the kite, and does everything." ”
Many people judge Liu Xianglian with today's eyes, believing that he is also a scumbag and negative man who lingers in The Flower Street liu lane, and is a typical clumsy disciple. But if we look at it from the perspective of the ancients, Liu Xianglian should be a ranger who walks the rivers and lakes as a home.
The role of the sword in "Huan Zhu Ge Ge" is very compatible with Liu Xianglian's identity, and his poem is also in line with Liu Xianglian's identity: a sword walks the rivers and lakes, and a pot of wine is hated through the ages. Two feet on the earthly road, with the sky as the cover of the earth.
Liu Xianglian, this person, from the perspective of making friends, is still worthy of fellowship.
Lai Shangrong, the grandson of Grandma Lai, donated an official and set up a banquet at home to invite guests, Liu Xianglian was naturally invited because of her friendship with Lai Shangrong, and Liu Xianglian not only participated, but also gave enough face to her friends, at the request of Jia Zhen, stringed two plays to help her friends.
It can be seen that this Liu Xianglian, as a friend, is still very interesting. For him, the string drama is a piece of cake, he originally likes it, and can help his friends, why not enjoy it?
Liu Xianglian's righteousness towards her friend is not just to say, he spends money and does things, especially for Qin Zhong, which can be said to be personally done, and he is not afraid of trouble at all.
Bao Yu asked him if he had gone to Qin Zhong's grave, and Liu Xianglian said, "Why don't you go?" A few of us had let go of the eagle the day before, two miles from his grave. I think this summer's rain is hard, I'm afraid his grave can't stand. I walked behind the crowd and took a look, and sure enough, I moved a little. When I came home, I got a few hundred dollars, went out early on the third morning, and hired two people to clean up. ”
It can be seen from this that Liu Xianglian, Jia Baoyu, Qin Zhong and others are friends with each other and have very good personal relations. And Liu Xianglian, who wandered around and traced the waves, was actually able to work from the summer rain, thinking that Qin Zhong's grave might not be able to stand, and then took a look at it himself. After finding out that it was moving, he immediately tried to find a way to get money to hire someone to add a grave to Qin Zhong, and Qin Zhong should be relieved if he knew that there was a friend like Liu Xianglian.
Bao Yu was worried about Qin Zhong's grave, and also sent someone to look at it, Liu Xianglian said: "You don't need to worry about this matter, there is me outside, you only have it in your heart." "You see how bold Liu Xianglian talks, as a friend, he knows that Baoyu is inconvenient to travel, unlike himself, who has no father and no mother, where he wants to go, so his words are not only The heart of Kuan Baoyu, but also the best portrayal of his cheerful and righteous personality.
For Liu Xianglian, Qin Zhong is his and Jia Baoyu's mutual friend, since Baoyu is trapped at home every day, he can't be the master at all, he Liu Xianglian is convenient, he should run more errands, not only to do his friendship with Qin Zhong, but even he also brought Baoyu's share.
Reading the Red Chamber carefully, we found that Liu Xianglian's circle of friends is very wide, and his relationship with Jia Zhen, Jia Lian, Jia Baoyu, Qin Zhong, Lai Shangrong, Xue Pan and other people is good, and people with such a wide range of communication are obviously not what we understand.
It should be said that people like Liu Xianglian are very righteous and enthusiastic about real friends, and they are willing to spend money and contribute, at all costs, and for those who he can't look up to, he will naturally put on a face that is difficult to approach, and even fist and foot towards each other.
His friendship with Xue Pan is also the most well-known. Xue Pan is a dumb bully with longyang, thinking that Liu Xianglian, who likes to string plays, is a wind and moon disciple, and as a result, he angered Liu Xianglian, and was tricked by him into beating him violently in the suburbs, and it can also be seen that Liu Xianglian's jealousy is like a vendetta, giving people teasing, he can't swallow that breath.
But later the story reversed, Xue Pan on the way back from a game, encountered robbers, but just happened to meet Liu Xianglian, who was trailing in the waves, and saved Xue Pan and others, so the two worshiped as brothers of life and death.
From this, it can be seen that Liu Xianglian is not a person who remembers revenge, he is the kind of ranger who is really happy to take revenge, although Xue Pan once misidentified him, but he also gave Xue Pan a lesson, and the two of them are clear. When he met xue pan again this time, he naturally would not sit idly by when he saw Xue Pan abducted by the robbers.
It was also because of his rescue that Xue Pan was so grateful that the two turned enemies into friends regardless of their former suspicions and became brothers. It's probably friendship between men. It will not be because of a small matter, but often because of a small matter to become a life and death friend.
Liu Xianglian was most criticized by the world, probably because of his relationship with You Sanjie. You Sanjie was obsessed with him, not that he did not marry, and Liu Xianglian learned that the third sister was a person, and hurriedly withdrew from the marriage, which eventually led to You Sanjie drawing a sword and killing herself.
In this matter, many people put the responsibility on Liu Xianglian, thinking that he himself was sleeping in the willow, why did he ask You Sanjie to be innocent? From our perspective today, this is true, but if we look at it from the perspective of the ancients, there is nothing wrong with Liu Xianglian.
Ancient women were of low status and had no right to speak. Men can have three wives and four concubines, while women can only serve one husband for life, and the importance of women's perfection is often even greater than their lives. A woman, if there is a problem with her conduct and discipline, no one dares to ask for it.
Cao Gong probably wanted to express sympathy for the fate of ancient women with the death of You Sanjie, and at the same time, it was also to show Liu Xianglian's character, as a ranger walking in the rivers and lakes, Liu Xianglian was naturally well-informed and humane, he thought that You Sanjie was an obscene and shameless stream, but he did not expect to be such a strong person, so he touched his corpse and cried when he returned to God.
It was also because of the death of Third Sister You that Liu Xianglian suddenly had an epiphany, cut off ten thousand strands of trouble, and drifted away with the Daoist. This also shows that Liu Xianglian has long been unencumbered and has seen through the red dust, which is also a true portrayal of his simple and cool personality.
In the end, the jianghu was exhausted, and Leng Erlang, who returned from half a life, let go of the worldly idea of marrying a beautiful woman as a wife, let go of the righteousness of friends with Baoyu Qin Zhong and others, let go of the jianghu love vendetta that had once fought the sword to go to the end of the world, let go of the heroic righteousness of drawing the sword to help each other, and let go of the human feelings of the half-life wandering...
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