Yesterday, I had a casual chat with my family and said that some people forcibly distorted the facts in order to prove his subjective conclusions. That is to say, many people's view of right and wrong follows their subjective consciousness, and as long as they can prove what they want to prove, they can completely ignore or even ignore the facts.
So we mentioned Shan Tianfang, although Shan Lao's commentary is very good, but what makes it most difficult for the audience to accept is his tampering with historical facts and the contradictory shaping of characters. It's true that the characters are in the service of the story, but forcibly whitewashing and discrediting certain characters for the sake of so-called values and the right themes makes listeners feel awkward.
Among them, the most typical is Shan Tianfang's portrayal of Shengying's master and apprentice. "Three Heroes Sword" is a very famous commentary by Shan Lao, and it is also one of Shan Lao's masterpieces. This book is different from other commentaries, the protagonist is not a young man in his twenties and thirties, but an old man, this person is the Holy Hand Kunlun Xia Shengying, there is a long list of nicknames about him, this is not important, the important thing is that Shengying is a very loyal old man.
To what extent is Shengying loyal? Although he has a good martial arts, he never provokes right and wrong, and others take the initiative to provoke him. The old man will never do anything with others until he has to, and even after he does, he will be merciful. In short, Seungyoung has a perfect personality.
Among them, the most serious thing that was whitewashed by Shan Lao was that he killed Qin Tianbao, the father of the flying rat Qin You, on the grounds that Qin Tianbao did bad things, and Shengying couldn't persuade him, and finally the two of them made a move, Shengying accidentally injured Qin Tianbao with a dart, and the latter was killed. Shengying regretted it very much afterwards, so he raised Qin Tianbao's family, and Qin Yan was also indirectly raised by him.
But Qin Yan will take revenge, and his life's work is to kill Shengying, but unfortunately he fails every time, and Shengying has a chance to turn out this nephew every time, but he can't bear to do it, and finally when Shengying reaches the end of his life and is terminally ill, Qin Yin has a chance to kill Shengying. Of course, there is a version that says that Qin Yan also failed to fulfill his wish because Shengying died of illness.
So whether it's listening to a book or reading a book, I really can't listen to the words of a family, and at first many listeners thought that this was the plot of the original book, but who knew that after listening to the comments of other storytellers, they knew that it was not the case. Sheng Ying was actually afraid that his friend's kung fu was too good, so he took the opportunity to kill Qin Tianbao directly. There are many examples of this, such as a grain of money Hu Jingchun is Shengying's apprentice, but Shengying doesn't teach anything, and in the end, even Shengying's senior brother can't stand it anymore and begins to teach Hu Jingchun kung fu.
Therefore, Shan Lao's adaptation of important characters is very serious, and it is understandable to say that his commentaries do not match the versions of other storytellers, and he himself contradicts himself when he says other storytellings. In Shan Lao's "Three Heroes Sword", Huang Santai is a humble gentleman like his master, adhering to the motto of "I'd rather let the world bear me, don't let me bear the world", but in the storytelling "Serial Set", there was another 180-degree turn.
is also because the protagonist of "Serial Set" is the copper-headed iron Arhat Dou Erdun, who was born in Xiangma, and is naturally on the opposite side of the officials of the Qing Dynasty. And Huang Santai is a person who has received the imperial title and has been rewarded with a yellow coat, and the two can be described as different furnaces. So in order to establish a positive image of Dou Erdun, Shan Lao said that Huang Santai was a traitorous villain.
To what extent was Huang Santai treacherous? As the head of the upper three gates, he actually used a hidden weapon when he was competing with the iron arhat, and although he injured the iron arhat and won the competition, he completely lost his character. This is very different from the inactive and gentle Huang Santai in "Three Heroes Sword". So that the audience can't figure out which version is right.
Shengying's master and apprentice have changed from a gentleman in "Three Heroes and Swords" to a treacherous villain in "Serial Set", and this personality change is too big to be convincing. Therefore, the more I listen to Shan Lao's storytelling, the more I feel fake, because most of the characters he creates are face-painted and flawless, which is not in line with the personality of normal people at all.
Although Shengying and others are characters in the novel, they don't have to be too serious, but since it is recorded in the original book, they should be relatively respectful of the original work, not to mention the feeling of changing the characters to black and white, which is not advanced. In fact, Huang Santai in "Serial Set" is more in line with the original book, in order to exchange for some fame, he took the initiative to "lick" Emperor Kangxi, and deliberately created a series of rescue scenes, so he became a lackey of the Qing court.
And Seungyoung is also a jealous person, he is afraid that others will surpass him, so he will do some drastic things. The two masters are still good people, but everyone has character flaws, which is not surprising, and there is no need to forcibly clear their name. Of course, Iron Arhat Douerdun is not a perfect person, since he is a ringing horse, then he will naturally be a little reckless, killing people and setting fires is simply a routine operation, so Douerdun is by no means a good person.
It is not the first time that Shan Lao has tampered with characters, such as Luo Cheng and Qin Qiong in "Romance of the Sui and Tang Dynasties", the two brothers have had an experience of being each other's masters and apprentices, and both of them have taught each other martial arts with all they have, so their skills have increased greatly. In fact, Luo Cheng was selfish, he deliberately left three tricks and did not teach Qin Qiong, and Qin Qiong was the same.
And when the heroes of Wagang Mountain defected to the Tang Dynasty, Shan Xiongxin, the fifth of Jia Liulou's forty-six friends, was captured by the Tang Army because of his loyalty to Wang Shichong, and Shan Xiongxin, who was tied up by five flowers, looked up and saw that they were all acquaintances, all of whom were brothers who kowtowed to Jia Liulou and worshipped their sons, but there were not many people who really pleaded for him, Luo Cheng actually wanted to put Shan Xiongxin to death for a long time, but he has been pretending to be a brother.
Because Shan Xiongxin did not surrender to the Tang Dynasty, Luo Cheng tearfully beheaded Shan Xiongxin. Coincidentally, Second Brother Qin, who had the best relationship with Shan Xiongxin, was absent at this time, and when he came back, Shan Xiongxin had already fallen to the ground, and he was in pain.
In fact, the real plot should be that Luo Cheng has always had a grudge against Shan Xiongxin, but because of his cousin Qin Qiong's face, he couldn't do it, so he endured it for many years, and finally had the opportunity to kill Shan Xiongxin at the last moment, and Luo Cheng was angry. And Qin Qiong didn't want to keep Shan Xiongxin alive, because he knew that Shan Xiongxin was stubborn, and it was impossible for him to surrender, so Qin Qiong hid directly.
If Qin Qiong is here, then it will be too troublesome, Li Shimin will definitely execute Shan Xiongxin, and Qin Qiong is a general of the Tang Dynasty, so he naturally has to listen to the emperor, so in order to keep his reputation of loyalty, he directly chose to avoid this matter. This conclusion can be verified, in Shan Lao's commentary "Tang Thunder" there is a young general named Shan Tianchang, he only wants to avenge his father Shan Xiongxin, if it is really Jia Liulou's forty-six friends worthy of Shan Xiongxin, how can he take revenge?
Of course, this single day often appeared in "Luo Tong Sweeping the North", was won by Luo Tong in one round, and finally returned to the Tang Dynasty, but was used as cannon fodder. But under Shan Lao's version, it became a mess again.