From Lin Chong's forbearance, it can be seen that the obscenity of power is everywhere, and the little people are powerless to fight

The hero's forbearance and outburst

Like Lu Zhishen, Lin Chong is also the most famous hero in "Water Margin". Because Lin Chong's story is closer to the general public than Lu Zhishen's story, more humane, and more sympathetic, since the publication of "Water Margin", Lin Chong's story has been adapted into storytelling, drama, and script; with the development of science and technology, it has been adapted into movies, television, animation, and picture albums and widely disseminated; now the "excerpts" have been included in middle school Chinese textbooks, and the original works have been set by the education department as compulsory extracurricular reading, so Lin Chong's story is almost a household name in China and everyone knows it.

Lin Chong's life trajectory runs through the whole process of the "Water Margin" story, until he was finally paralyzed by a stroke and died of illness in Hangzhou Liuhe Temple half a year later. But after going to Liangshan, Lin Chong just mixed in the collective to charge, fight and kill, although he showed his true character as a hero, but he did not leave a deep impression on the reader. And the reader is most impressed, and what comes to mind when he talks about Lin Chong is the tragic story of his endurance before he became a hero (the seventh to the twelfth chapter). This article is based on this story and talks about the understanding of Lin Chong's image.

Lin Chong, as the head of the 800,000 forbidden army in the capital, belongs to a member of the government system, has a stable position and income, has a beautiful and virtuous wife, and lives a peaceful and happy middle-class life. However, when there is nothing to do at home, disaster comes from heaven. Lin Chong accompanied his wife to the Yue Temple to burn incense, and his beautiful wife was molested by the lewd and corrupt second-generation official Gao Yanei. It was absolutely a great shame in the feudal era for his wife to be molested in broad daylight, and Lin Chong, who was known for his martial arts, could not tolerate it! But when he raised his hand and was about to beat the hooligans, he saw that it was the adopted son of his boss, Gao Taiwei, and put down his raised hand softly. He endured.

Gao Yanei, who did not succeed, was depressed and unhappy, and helped the idle villain Fu An to come up with a crooked idea to be lured by Lu Qian to Lin Chong to go out to eat and drink, which deceived Lin Niangzi to Lu Qian's house and let Gao Ya commit rape. After the matter was revealed, Lin Chong was furious, and went crazy to find Lu Qian to settle accounts, but he didn't dare to find the real main culprit Gao Yanei. After looking for a few days and not finding it, "Since then, I have been eating and drinking on the street with Zhishen every day, and I have slowed down this matter." He endured it again.

Gao Yu designed to trick him into bringing a knife into the White Tiger Festival Hall, and secretly communicated with the trial agency to "convict Yang", but fortunately, someone understood the facts of the case and did not convict him of a capital crime, but convicted him of a stab in Cangzhou City. Obviously, this was a big injustice, but Lin Chong knew that Gao Taiwei was bent on harming him, and it was useless to resist. He confessed and endured it again. Since then, on the way to be escorted, he has called himself a "villain".

On the way to be escorted, he was bribed by Lu Qian and tortured Lin Chong until he reached the wild boar forest, and he said that he was instructed to kill him. Fortunately, Lu Zhishen suddenly appeared to protect Lin Chong. When Lu Zhishen wanted to kill the tolerance of the murderer, Lin Chong came out to intercede and protect the tolerance. He didn't want to tear his face with the government and specifically with Captain Gao for this. He endured it any longer.

went to Cangzhou and was sentenced to prison camp. The little man in charge almost dialed Lin Chong to see if he didn't send money, and scolded Lin Chong with a bloody squirt on his face. Lin Chong ignored him, and waited for him to scold before he accompanied the smiling face to send silver: "Send my brother, some small gifts, and don't say a little." Lin Chong felt that he was now a "criminal", and even endured the humiliation of a small desertion.

The reader is anxious about Lin Chong's patience and patience, and he endures, endures, and endures vigorously, and thinks that he is a coward, and how can the head of the 800,000 forbidden army be so cowardly and temperless? Hegel said that everything that exists is reasonable. It means that everything that is rational is realistic, and everything that is realistic is rational. From this point of view, there must be a reason why a person with heroic potential is so "forbearing". So how to understand Lin Chong's "forbearance" and his final outburst?

First of all, we see that the obscenity of power is everywhere, the little people are powerless to fight, and forbearance seems to have become people's habitual thinking and philosophy of life. As the saying goes, "people are under the roof and have to bow their heads"; Endure the spring flowers, let the willows and flowers shine";" endure the calm for a while, take a step back and open the sky"...... (There are countless aphorisms and aphorisms in China to persuade "forbearance").

In the feudal era, the relationship between superiors and subordinates was not an equal working relationship, but a relationship of personal dependence with clear differences. Your position is given to you by your boss, and if you make him happy, you will have your position, and if you make him unhappy, he will deprive you of your position. Once deprived, the social status, economic income, personal future, and family happiness attached to the position are all gone. So at that time, almost no one in the social system dared to confront their bosses.

Lin Chong is a martial arts instructor in the army, and Gao Yu is the highest leader of the army, although there are many differences in rank, but because they are in the capital, and Lin Chong's martial arts are world-famous, the two know each other, and they usually have contacts. Just as Gao Yu Ma Zai Fu'an said: Lin Chong "Now that his subordinates are obeying the call and asking for a great invitation, how dare they harm the captain? Fu An's words show the relationship between Gao Yu and Lin Chong - everything you have is in my hands, if you are obedient, I will pinch you to death if you are disobedient. Under such circumstances, how dare Lin Chong confront Gao Yu? He let Gao Yanei go, ostensibly to see Gao Yu's face, but in fact he did not dare to gamble with his own life and dare not compete with the power in Gao Yu's hands. What should I do if I can't bear it?

Lin Chong is a gentleman and a decent person, and his "forbearance" is the obscenity of power; and those scoundrel villains, such as Lu Qian, Fu'an, and others, are not attached to Gao Yu's personal attachment? If you have power, you will be a grandson, and once you don't have power, the first person to step on you may be these villains around you. Dong Chao, Xue Ba, Guan Ying, and Cha Pao, who have a lower status than Lu Qian, are always slaves in front of their superiors, and they are all flattering to power in their bones.

Reading "Water Margin" and other works that describe the life of officialdom in feudal society, you can feel the aura of power everywhere and feel the power radiated by power. From this, you can understand why people at that time were so addicted to officials - just as a high-ranking official in the Yuan Dynasty said in his heart: "It is better to live ten years less than to be without power for a day"; it can also be seen from this that whether it is compromise and forbearance with power, or stammering, flattering, and clinging to power, it is because of the obscenity of power.

Second, we must also realize that the underworld and evil forces are intertwined, colluding with each other, taking advantage of each other, arrogant, and difficult to contend with with their individual strength.

The underworld forces that Lin Chong faced were from Gao Yu, the supreme leader of the army, to Lu Qian and Fu'an, who surrounded him and worked hard for him, and at the bottom were servants and slaves, such as Dong Chao and Xue Ba. These people form a layered, dense, criss-crossing network from top to bottom, Gao Yu waved his hand and threw it down, no one could run, and he wanted to cover whomever he wanted. In the face of such a big net, how could martial arts instructor Lin Chong break through it? Lin Chong was in it, knowing very well the depth of its black hole and the secret of the network, and he estimated himself and fought with his own strength, which was undoubtedly a blow to a stone with an egg and brought about his own destruction. In the face of the underworld forces, personal strength is always weak, kindness is always bullied, as the so-called gentleman can't fight the villain, so he chose forbearance and compromise.

Thirdly, it is naïve and naïve to have dark hearts and illusions about the underworld and evil forces.

Reading Lin Chong's story, we are often amazed at the darkness of people's hearts. How can you devise a trick to trap your decent and capable subordinates in order to satisfy your adopted son's evil lust? And he usually has a good relationship with you! What is even more incredible is that in order to get his hands on Mrs. Lin Chong, he actually arranged for someone to kill Lin Chong twice. There is also Lu Qian and Lu Yuhou, you and Lin Chong are friends, usually the two of you are good to you, regard you as a close friend, and talk to you when you have hardships in your heart, how can you ruthlessly design to harm Lin Chong, and step by step, and finally personally lead someone to kill him? This heart is not ordinary black!

Also, tolerance Dong Chao and Xue Ba, how can you bear to kill Lin Chong because of those five taels of silver? Where is your humanity gone? Has your conscience allowed the dog to eat it? There is also the management camp and errand of Cangzhou Prison, openly asking for bribes and blackmail, beating you to death if you don't give money, and immediately changing your face and smiling when you give money, your personality is worth these dollars? Why is it so cheap? What's even more shocking is that when Lu Qian and Fu'an asked him to conspire to kill Lin Chong, he happily joined the gang and acted as a pawn. It can be seen that giving money is a mother, and giving more money and having the right is a mother!

Seeing the performance of these people, people were disgusted and shuddered, and were surprised that the human heart was so vile, lowly, degenerate, filthy, and dark! Was Shi Nai'an exaggerating in his art? Looking at history and proving it with reality, we found that he did not exaggerate, but wrote the truth of the world in a realistic manner. People often say that there are more than 100 people, and there are all kinds of birds; when the forest is big, there are all kinds of birds; Shi Tiesheng said that the difference between people is greater than the difference between people and pigs. There are gentlemen and villains in the world, there are good people and evil people, and gentlemen and good people often cannot understand villains and wicked people. Or that although you know how small and evil they are, you don't expect them to be so small and evil—only what you didn't expect, nothing he can't do.

Lin Chong is like that. He would never have thought that these villains and wicked people were so cruel and vicious. He lived the belly of the villain with the heart of a gentleman, thinking that he had endured humiliation and grievances, hoping to get Gao Yu's understanding and understanding, and seeing that he might be able to move a little sympathy and pity to let him go. If you can really let him go, all the wrongs he has suffered for this will be worth it. But he was wrong, he didn't expect that the wicked would be different from him. Wicked people have no conscience, there is no bottom line in life, and pinning hope on wicked people is absolutely naïve and naïve, and it is an illusion. In the life topic of understanding human nature and grasping people's hearts, Lin Chong, like most kind people, failed.

Again, from forbearance to outbreak, it is a matter of course.

The law of development of things is that things must be reversed, and forbearance to the limit is an outbreak - when you can't bear it, you can no longer endure it. Just as Lu Xun said, silence, silence! If you don't explode in silence, you will perish in silence. When Lin Chong found that all his forbearance was exchanged for extermination, his hopes were completely shattered, proving that all his efforts were meaningless. In other words, fate forced him to a dead end, so he finally broke out and neatly cut off the heads of Lu Qian and the other three.

I don't remember which celebrity said that on the issue of fate, those who are willing, follow along, and those who do not want to be dragged along. Lin Chong was even more unlucky, he was worse than being dragged away, he was forced to go. was finally forced to the point where there was no way out, so he turned back and took another path.

Killing Lu Qian and others means breaking with the ruling group represented by Gao Yu, and it means the end of the well-off life of the middle class in the first half of his life. The central theme of "Water Margin" (the first half) is chaos from above, the officials forced the people to rebel, and forced to Liangshan. It should be said that Lin Chong is a typical representative of "forcing Liangshan" and is the best image that embodies the theme.

Some readers may say, if you knew today (outbreak), why bother (forbearance) in the first place! Today is today, and the beginning is the beginning. Standing today and looking at the beginning, it is a road with a clear chain of cause and effect, but standing at the beginning and looking at today, it is a blank, a fog, with many possibilities and countless paths. As the mandarin duck in "Dream of Red Mansions" said, things in the world are unpredictable. People's destiny is sometimes in their own hands, and many times they can't be controlled by themselves (such as Lin Chong, he never imagined that he would come to this point today). What one can do is to try to grasp every possible opportunity and let destiny develop in one's favor.