Reading is an extremely high threshold activity, not to say that it will test a person's cognitive level, and the requirement of consuming time or energy alone dissuades a considerable number of people.
Because it is rare, it is precious. Whether it's showing off, sharing or sharing, even if it's purely for record, just like if you play an extreme sport and post a circle of friends, the difficult sport of reading is also, it has always had a function for ordinary people to show off - pickling girls is naturally not a problem.
Adhering to the principle that scarcity is precious, when you go skiing in Northeast China, you should not go to the Swiss Alps to wave around and be worth forking, you should go to the rural ditches and ponds to dig eels to catch grasshoppers, and you should not go to the African savannah to lead the big lions.
If one person is reading "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" and one person is reading "Three Kingdoms", people will probably have more respect for the latter, and if one person is reading "Dream of Red Mansions" and one person is reading "Qingping Shantang Script", people will probably still respect the latter more.
People express more respect for "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", that is because reading "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" requires more knowledge than reading "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", and "Qingping Shantang Script" is more superficial than "Dream of Red Mansions", but why can it get more reading respect?
What Qingping Shantang Tales and Three Kingdoms have in common is that they are both less readable, and this distinction may mean higher professionalism and therefore more respectable.
If I continue to have an impure purpose, if I want to read "Journey to the West", what version should I choose?
"Li Angang's Criticism of Journey to the West" is especially worth your consideration!
After reading this version of "Journey to the West", you don't even have to finish reading it, just look through so many dozens of pages, and you will definitely be surprised to say: ""Journey to the West" can still be read like this?!"
"Journey to the West" can really be read like this, this is the pleasure brought by reading and opening up the realm of knowledge!
What kind of characteristics and charm does "Angang Lee's Criticism of Journey to the West" have?
1. There should be no unnecessary limitations
"Journey to the West" is a classical novel, and modern people will add or delete when it is published.
For example, the modern "Journey to the West" publication with the Qing Dynasty Huang Xing Zhou Dingben as the mother book will cut out a lot of "dark" content, and many readers like to taste the people and sophistication in it when reading "Journey to the West", and such deletion will bring a devastating blow to such interest.
"Li Angang's Criticism of Journey to the West" does not have this problem, it should be based on the Shide Hall book of the Ming Dynasty.
Whether it is "The Golden Vase of Plums", "Dream of Red Mansions" and "Journey to the West", this is the basic question that we need to pay most attention to when reading classical masterpieces.
If the version is different, obviously everyone thinks that they have read "Journey to the West", but you see the love between Zixia Fairy and Supreme Treasure......
Therefore, the first point I highlight is the issue of its version, which is also a problem that cannot be bypassed.
2. Thoroughly understand "Journey to the West" with the true meaning
Unlike most of the authors of "Journey to the West" you see signed "Wu Chengen", the author of this version of "Journey to the West" is signed "Anonymous", that is, the critical author of this book, Mr. Li Angang, believes that "Wu Chengen is definitely not the author of "Journey to the West"!
Mr. Li Angang believes that "Journey to the West" written by Wu Chengen is just a travelogue-style article, which you can understand as the meaning of "all the way to the west", and since the birth of "Journey to the West", until the twenties of the last century, the author's signature has always been Qiu Chuji, the founder of the Taoist Quanzhen Dao Longmen School.
In addition, Mr. Li Angang also cited the three major impossibilities of Wu Chengen as the author of "Journey to the West", if you are interested, you can check it in the preface of this book.
Since the author of "Journey to the West" is a professional Taoist priest with high professional qualifications, his creative intention cannot be to arrange a funny and interesting story for everyone, although Mr. Li Angang does not object to everyone interpreting "Journey to the West" in this way, because of course laymen can watch the excitement, which is a good thing!
Mr. Li Angang believes that "the cultural prototype of "Journey to the West" is "The Essence of the Gods of Life and Double Cultivation".
"The Essence of the Double Cultivation of Life and Ten Thousand Gods" is a classic of Taoism Quanzhen Dao, which is said to have come from the hands of Yin Zhiping, a disciple of Quanzhen Zhangjiao. ”
"Journey to the West" uses the enterprising spirit of Confucianism to actively use the world, with the help of the Taoist wisdom of taking the law from nature, to achieve the realm of non-action of the four major emptiness of Buddhism, and interprets the true meaning of life in "The Essence of Life and Cultivation of All Gods", which expresses the art of human life and the inner spiritual world and the physical world, not the external reality. All attempts to find the characters, themes, structures, events, and prototypes of "Journey to the West" from reality, and take their seats, will be in vain. ”
Looking at "Journey to the West" from this basic standpoint, Mr. Li Angang's interpretation is full of true meaning, which is refreshing, or unclear.
In Mr. Li Angang's view, the five congregations of Tang monks and apprentices correspond to metal, wood, water, fire and earth, and the main contradiction to be solved in "Journey to the West" is Sun Wukong and Zhu Bajie, that is, the contradiction and harmony between monkey and pig, sex and life, gold and wood, water and fire, heart and kidney, etc.
There is no such thing as a "wonderful" or wonderful, but here are a few more examples.
In the second episode of "Journey to the West", a "Demon King of the Mixed World" came to Huaguo Mountain to occupy the Water Curtain Cave.
I'm sure you've seen a lot of interpretations of "Journey to the West", but very few people will pay attention to what the "Demon King of the Mixed World" is, or even if you do, it won't be as clear as the version introduced today.
In this version, Mr. Li Angang explained the "Demon King of the Mixed World" as: "The Demon King is an evil mind of the world, and it is the psychology of the world, hence the name 'Mixed World'." It must be cut off, and it cannot be sanctified. Later, in "Dream of Red Mansions", this title was given to Jia Baoyu. ”
For example, in the fourth time, Sun Wukong was dissatisfied with Bi Ma Wen's treatment, and the Jade Emperor learned about it, so he immediately dispatched troops to arrest Sun Wukong, and the third prince of Tota Li Tianwang and Nezha took the initiative to ask for help.
"The Jade Emperor is overjoyed, that is, Li Jing, the king of Tota, is the generalissimo of demon subjugation, and the third prince of Nezha is the god of the Three Altars of the Sea Society, and he will immediately raise the lower realm. ”
How does Mr. Angang Lee explain this paragraph?
"Li Congmuzi, the son of wood is fire, and the earth is clean where the fire passes, so it is called Li Jing. Fire gives birth to earth, the tower is earth, located in the middle palace, and can subdue demons as marshals. ”
"Nezha ranks three, Jinzha and Muzha are under the gold and wood that is water, so he commands the water army and is the god of the sea meeting. Both father and son are fire and water, which are the fundamental destructive force and an important factor in the Dan Dao. Burn the gold pill with fire, and bathe the gold pill with water. ”
This is really viewed from the perspective of the Tao, and the whole book is reasonable.
The two examples I gave are quite simple, so it seems that the purpose of "Journey to the West" is not to serve the average reader at all.
If you are very ordinary, it is still okay to use it to show culture, don't be pressured.
3. It may help to sublimate the realm of copulation
A systematic interpretation based on the above true meaning.
Tang Seng all the way to the west, encountered so many female goblins, if you are very perceptive, you may be able to comprehend the true meaning of Taoism's "double cultivation".
After all, "The Essence of the Ten Thousand Gods of the Double Cultivation of Life" is a classic of Taoism Quanzhen Dao, and it is said that it came from the hands of Yin Zhiping, a disciple of Quanzhen Zhangjiao.
Let's take the rat essence that always gluts Tang Seng's body.
In the eightieth chapter of "Journey to the West", the five masters and apprentices heard a woman calling for help on the way to the west.
In the novel, it is written: "The elder fixed his feet and asked him, 'Female Bodhisattva, what is the matter with you that you are tied here?'"
If it is in the popular version of "Journey to the West", there should be nothing worth interpreting, but in the opinion of Mr. Li Angang:
However, Teacher Li also said, "Dan Taoism talks about yin and yang copulation, and 'Yin Girl' is matched with 'Kan Man'." In fact, this is just a symbolic statement, which is nothing more than the synthesis of its own yin and yang. "However, many evil sects understand this as the real copulation between men and women, cultivation in the room, and the method of collecting yin to supplement yang, and staying up in battle. As a result, not only did they not gain immortality, but they were lost in yin virtue and suffered endless damage. ”
I have already explained the interpretation of this version and Mr. Li's warning, as for how to read it, that is your adult business.
Finally, if there are any shortcomings in this version of "Journey to the West", there are obscure annotations everywhere, which is both a phenomenon and possibly a reason......
I feel a little that Mr. Li is a little suspicious of looking for evidence with a conclusion, once a certain conclusion is determined, no matter what he looks at, he is verifying the correctness of the conclusion.
Of course, I'm just a layman who watches the excitement, and when the connoisseur makes a move, I can only be unaware of the dazzling profundity