Author: Insight Morning Sunset
It's not that the times can't tolerate him, but that the times don't deserve him.
On August 7, 1661, the morning of Jiangning was foggy.
Eighteen prisoners on the execution ground knelt neatly in a row, seventeen of whom were dead-faced, with the exception of one.
This person's face does not change color, and his expression is leisurely.
After a while, he opened his mouth and asked the executioner for a bowl of wine, and as soon as his hand was raised and his head was lifted, the kung fu bowl in the blink of an eye was empty, and then he shouted at the crowd:
Cutting off your head is painful; drinking is happy; drinking before cutting your head is really painful, painful!
Seeing that the executioner was right in front of him, he said mysteriously:
I have 200 taels of silver in my ear, kill me first, and these silver tickets will belong to you.
After taking the knife in his hand, two slips of paper slipped out of his ear.
The executioner hurried forward to open it, only to see one with "good" and the other with "pain."
Even death has to play the terrier, in Chinese history, Jin Shengsi can be regarded as an unprecedented person who has never come after the ancients.
01
In 1608, Jin Shengsi was born in Suzhou, and his family was poor and lonely since childhood.
But Jin Sheng sighed that he was a great reader, and it was reasonable to say that it was possible to take the exam.
At the age of 15, Jin Shengsi took the imperial examination for the first time.
At that time, many readers, ten years of hard reading, in order to seize a meritorious name, but he handed in the paper in less than five minutes.
At that time, the title of the scientific expedition was: "If this is the case, is it possible to be at ease with the heart" or not."
Gongsun Ugly asked Mencius, if you are a high official and can implement your own ideas, then the State of Qi may become the hegemon of the world.
Mencius replied, "No, I haven't been convinced since I was 40 years old." ”
Based on this material, write an essay.
Jin Sheng sighed and wrote:
In the middle of the empty mountains and poor valleys, there is a golden two, and there is a beautiful person outside the dew and white leaves, and I would like to ask the master if he is moved? say:
Move, move
Move, move, move
He wrote 39 movements in one breath, and after the examiner read it, he gritted his teeth in anger and waved a large stroke: zero points.
Others asked him why he wrote 39 movements.
He said, didn't Mencius say that he had been unmoved since he was 40 years old? That means he will be moved before he turns 40.
The second exam, the title is "Xizi Laiyi".
Let everyone write an essay based on the historical fact that Yue Guoxi saved the country.
After getting the exam questions, Jin Shengsi only wrote a poem on oil:
Out of its east gate, the west son does not come;
Out of its south gate, Xizi does not come;
Out of its north gate, the West Son does not come;
Out of its west gate, the west son?
Xizi came.
After writing this time, Jin Shengsi also picked up the volume and seriously admired it, feeling that his logic was clear, reasonable, and perfect, but the chief examiner looked at it and was angry enough to doubt life.
After reading it, the examiner also commented on eight big words: Show to go! Show to go!
There is no suspense, and it is once again on the list.
The third exam, titled "Mencius Will Reign the King".
The title is from Mencius, which tells that the King of Qi did not go to see Mencius on the grounds of typhoid fever, so he sent someone to ask Mencius if he would like to come to see him, and Mencius replied: "I am also sick." ”
This originally reflected the meaning of Mencius's "arrogant", but Jin Shengsi wrote a "call" in each of the four corners of the test paper.
After writing, I was quite satisfied, and then I walked out of the examination room with a big wave.
The examiner looked at it and rolled his eyes in anger.
When asked why he wrote the four "appeals", Jin Sheng sighed and said:
"When I mention Mencius in the 40th question, I don't need to write it again; when it comes to the king of the dynasty, I used to see King Hui of Liang, King Xuan of Qi, etc., all of which are counted as kings of the dynasty, and I don't need to write any more."
The title is five words, and the only word that can be written is the word 'will'. When I watched the stage to act, when the king went to the dynasty, he first came out with four internal servants and made a 'call' sound, so I wrote four 'calls' on behalf of the king. ”
The sage Mencius, whom the reader believed in, was in his eyes nothing more than a layman, and the sacred and inviolable examination in the eyes of the world was only a tool for him to play the human world.
The more you use the Eight Strands to control my thoughts, the more I will challenge your authority with debauchery.
Jin Sheng sighed, really crazy people also.
02
Jin Shengsi's uncle Qian Qianyi was a very spineless person, when the Qing soldiers came to the city, he and the famous prostitute Liu Ru made an appointment to jump into the river and martyr the country, and as a result, after he tried the water, he actually said a sentence "The water is too cold to go down."
As soon as the words fell, Liu Ru desperately tried to jump down, only to be pulled by Qian Qianyi.
Greed for life and fear of death is enough, qian Qianyi also surrendered to the enemy twice.
This spineless style made Jin Shengsi look down on him.
In the eighteenth year of Shunzhi, Qian Qianyi's eightieth birthday, Jin Shengsi did not want to go to worship Shou at all, but he could not resist the persuasion of his wife and mother.
At that time, Jin Shengsi, with his outstanding talent, had long been famous in Suzhou City.
During the banquet, a charming literati said to Qian Qianyi:
"I heard that Ling Nephew is a talented son of Jiangnan, can you make a pair, let us see."
Although Jin Shengsi was not accustomed to their faces, he did not resign.
In full view of everyone, he wrote seven big words with a pen: a small flower face of a civilian official.
Qian Qianyi originally waited for his nephew to praise himself, and his face turned livid in an instant, and the others also took a breath of cool air, focusing their eyes on Jin Shengsi's pen.
Only to see him write four more words: "Elder of the Three Dynasties."
Qian Qianyi's face eased up a little, and he also praised Jin Shengsi as a talent.
Jin Sheng sighed and smiled coldly, then wrote down the last three words with a stroke of his pen, and left without looking back.
When the crowd looked, they saw that the pair he had written was:
A civilian official with a small flower face, the elder of the three dynasties.
Qian Qianyi, who had been consciously wise all his life, was actually tricked by his nephew and almost vomited blood.
Whether you are a high-ranking official or a magnate, he never pretends to be a snake and flatters to pander.
Jin Sheng sighed, really proud of the bones also.
03
After the establishment of the Qing Dynasty, in order to control the Han people ideologically, they successively implemented the literal prison, and many literati at that time shut up in order to avoid the disaster of killing themselves.
In such a depressing environment, Jin Shengsi was also very depressed, but he did not remain silent, but chose to express the block in his chest in the form of a book approval.
In his pen, Song Jiang, who everyone touted, became a hypocrite who was inconsistent in words and deeds, and in the one hundred and eight generals, he pitied everyone, but song Jiang was worthless.
In addition to annotations and comments, Jin Shengsi also directly deleted them.
The first seventy times of "Water Margin" are full of resistance, and people's blood is boiling, but the last fifty times are actually adopted by the imperial court, and the good man of Liangshan is too depressed.
Jin Sheng sighed that the last fifty times was Shi Nai'an's "horizontal addition of dog tail", directly deleting it, and there was no such thing as Zhao'an or Zhengfangla.
At that time, Jin Shengsi's behavior made many well-educated people very dissatisfied, and even scolded: "It's just nonsense." ”
Unexpectedly, the deleted version of "Water Margin" was very popular after its listing, and it continued to be popular for three hundred years, almost the only genuine version.
After approving "Water Margin", Jin Sheng sighed addicted, and he used the same method and routine to comment on "West Chamber".
He countered the view that the Book of the West Chamber was rated as an "obscene book", and also said: "Breaking is not an obscene book, and breaking is a wonderful text."
As soon as the new version of "The Tale of the West Chamber" was released, it became a top-notch work.
Not to mention ordinary literati, even many people in the imperial court who had originally criticized Jin Shengsi bought it back and secretly looked at it, even to the point of falling in love with it.
For a time, Jin Shengsi's annotated book became a hit and became a grand situation of Luoyang paper.
Of course, the higher the voice, the higher the opposition, and there were many people who scolded Jin Shengsi, but he didn't care.
Jin Sheng sighed that instead of changing his personality due to the world's vision, he became more and more confident, and even threatened: "I am the only one who is a big talent, and I am the only one who sinks the saint." ”
In fact, with Jin Shengsi's talent, it was easy to become an official and get rich, but he chose the most difficult path to take, and how many times he was pushed to the cusp of the storm, but he never wanted to turn back.
Jin Sheng sighed, really brave people also.
04
Because of his unique personality and extraordinary talent, in the early years of the Qing Dynasty, Jin Shengsi was famous, and even the Shunzhi Emperor admired him.
But the gun shoots the head bird, and any person who is too popular in any era can easily become a thorn in the eyes of others, and often the ending is not too optimistic, and Jin Shengsi has not been able to escape this law.
In 1661, a new county order came to Wu County, Suzhou, and when he first took office, he paid a lot of heavy taxes and miscellaneous taxes, and the people complained, and the local scholars were very dissatisfied, and decided to unite and use actions to create public opinion pressure on the county order.
Therefore, the 18 celebrities led by Jin Shengsi went to the "Weeping Temple", but unexpectedly provoked the disaster of killing themselves.
On the same day, Jin Shengsi and others were convicted of treason, first imprisoned in a gloomy prison, and then sentenced to death.
He was about to die, but Jin Shengsi was not afraid, and he felt bored during the days of being imprisoned, so he called the jailer and said that he had something to tell.
The jailer thought that he was going to confess some secret, so he quickly took pen and ink and waited reverently, who knew that he pointed to the meal sent to him by the jailer and wrote: "Peanut rice and dried beans are chewed together, and there is a great taste of walnuts." ”
In the face of death and the heart to entertain others, probably only Jin Sheng sighed.
On the day of the execution, the son was crying a lot, and Jin Sheng sighed and comforted: "Don't cry, don't cry, come to the right son!" ”
"Renko's heart is bitter."
The son's grief was still too late, who was in the mood to face the son, and after a moment Jin Sheng sighed and read it to himself:
"Pear belly acid."
The "lotus" in the upper link is homophonous with the word "pity", which means that he deeply pities his son when he sees his son weeping in sorrow; the "pear" in the lower link is homophonous with "leaving", which means that he is about to part with his son, and his heart feels sour.
When the son heard it, he cried even more fiercely, and even the people outside the execution ground wiped their tears, the scene was very desolate, but Jin Shengsi's face did not change color.
When the time of execution came, the executioner raised the large knife in his hand, only to see the cold light flash, Jin Shengsi's head fell to the ground, and two paper balls rolled out of his ears.
The executioner picked up the paper ball and opened it to see that one paper ball had the word "good" written on it and the word "pain" written on the other
A generation of "geeks" bid farewell to the human world in this way.
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Some people say that Jin Sheng sighed that he was not born at the right time and did not end up with a good ending.
Some people also say that Jin Sheng sighed deviantly, so it was incompatible with the times.
But in fact, Jin Shengsi has been doing himself all his life.
Preferring to endure poverty rather than succumbing to the powerful, in a filthy world, he has always been alone and has become a clear stream.
When we read Jin Shengsi today, we are reading his performance art, his talent and backbone, and even more his unwavering adherence to his heart.
When people live in the world, it is inevitable that there will be times when they lose their way and lose their original intentions.
But no matter when, please keep your original intention, do not go with the flow, do not blindly follow the crowd.
May you go through a thousand sails and return as a teenager.
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