"Pink Butterfly", a record of the adventures of the ancients written by Pu Songling, but saying that it is an adventure always has a little mythological color. This story is not a bizarre twist, roughly telling the story of a scribe named Yang Yuedan who encountered a large whirlwind while playing at sea and mistakenly entered an overseas fairy island, where Yang Yuedan learned the skill of playing the piano and exchanged admiration with a maid named Pink Butterfly, and eventually achieved a beautiful and happy life.
Pu Songling's adventures always carry a strong worldly purpose, which is nothing more than to harvest a beautiful wife, obtain a good worldly name, have offspring, and finally form a happy family. Therefore, you will find that there is a very subtle difference between the "adventures" of the ancients and the "adventures" of modern people, and behind this subtle difference reflects the completely different life ideas of ancient and modern people.
What it reflects is the change of the times, the change of society and the change of thinking.
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After the protagonist of "Pink Butterfly", Yang Yuedan, drifts to a small island called "Immortal Island", he encounters a "peach blossom source" world written by Tao Yuanming, and there are many residents living on this island. Here, he learned to play the piano with the islanders, and all day long he "drummed himself to the candle; over time, he suddenly realized the mysterious enlightenment", and also became a person with slight achievements in piano skills.
Later, he met a maid named Pink Butterfly, only to see that she was "clear in autumn water and charming in will", and Yang Yuedan couldn't help but feel admiration. However, the island did not allow outsiders to live for a long time, and soon Yang Yuedan had to leave reluctantly. After returning home, after a year of waiting, Yang Yuedan finally married Hesheng, the reincarnation of Pink Butterfly, and the two finally lived happily together.
The reader who examines this Pu Songling-style adventure will find that it has a strong worldly purpose, and its strange nature is manifested as a layman meeting a god or a ghost, but its encounter is not simply an encounter with a god, but more like a suggestive purpose, which is expressed as a worldly desire. Ru Yang YueDan eventually had a lover with Pink Butterfly and eventually became a family member.
For example, in the "Mirror Flower Edge", which is also called an adventure novel, the protagonist Tang Ao has no hope in the human world, and finally crosses the ocean, experiencing strange things such as the Black Tooth Country, the White Republic, the Lady Country, the Two-Faced Country, the Dog Feng Country, etc., and its wonderful degree even "Robinson Drifting" sighs to himself. In the process of the adventure, Tang Ao also acted as a "Don Quixote-style" chivalrous hero, bravely saving twelve flower fairy reincarnated girls, and also obtaining the magic powers of bearing weights and leaping high, and finally becoming a god in Xiao Penglai.
It can be said that it is the originator of modern fantasy novels, and behind the adventures, in addition to the personal fantasies of the author, it also shows that the "adventures" under the ancient society inevitably have the idea of "coming out" or "entering the world". Adventures are not just experiences, but more like adventures with some purpose, which does not seem to be an exploration of the world, but the fulfillment of worldly unattainable wishes in the adventures, such as Tang Ao becoming a god, Yang Yuedan marrying a beautiful wife, and the adventures of the ancients seem to be more like a "adventure treasure hunting" fantasy journey, which takes the form of the pirates under "Pirates of the Caribbean", although they have encountered various adventures, but the ultimate purpose is always to obtain gold.
Even in Tao Yuanming's pen, this adventure is also full of "birth" atmosphere. "Peach Blossom Garden" symbolizes another fantasy of the ancients about the world, in that lost state of the world, a small group of people live comfortably, away from the world's troubles, away from the noise of the crowd. This is exactly the pastoral life that Tao Yuanming seeks to "more than ten acres of square houses and eight or nine grass houses", which shows that not only modern people envy pastoral life, but also ancient people are tired of the noise and disturbance of society.
Tao Yuanming's "Peach Blossom Origin-style Adventure" is a kind of birth, which is a very mainstream idea in Chinese culture. Readers who examine the connection between the thinking and nature of the Chinese literati will find a very interesting phenomenon: when they are frustrated, they always live in seclusion in the mountains, which is called birth, such as Su Dongpo, who planted land on the eastern slope of Huangzhou City after the "Wutai Poetry Case"; and when they were famous and virtuous, they would leave the mountain forest, which is called joining the world, such as Zhuge Liang, who planted land in Nanyang, to assist Liu Bei.
The utilitarian spirit of the ancients was far heavier than that of modern people, but they could place their affection on the landscape and vent the bitterness in their hearts in the natural economic era. Modern people in the industrial age seem to be able to only send a negative energy full of dynamics in the circle of friends to vent the hurt in their hearts. Therefore, the people of the industrial age, or the adventures of the industrial age, emphasize first and foremost: growth and transformation.
For example, in the well-known "Robinson Crusoe" by the British writer Daniel Defoe, the protagonist Robinson Crusoe did not drift to Pu Songling's fairy island when he was shipwrecked at sea, but drifted to an uninhabited island. On this small island, Robinson finally survived on this small island with amazing perseverance and will, and finally returned to his hometown after 28 years, 2 months and 19 days.
This story is almost more like a life feat of prehistoric human survival in the harsh natural environment, and there are no sharp knives, shovels and matches on the island, which belong to modern humans, only two feet, two hands and a brain that is always tense. The so-called ideal has become unrealistic, and the primary purpose is to survive.
This is very much in line with the adventurous and enterprising spirit of people in the era of capitalist development, daniel Defoe created this story deeply influenced later adventure novels or movies, such as in the movie "The Fantasy Drift of the Young Pi", the protagonist did not encounter the fairy island, it faced only the harsh natural environment, and various difficulties, and in this dilemma a person has only two choices, as Shakespeare said: survival or death.
To change this philosophical saying slightly, to transform nature into a modern industrial society, becomes: growth or decay. Indeed, in the era of industrialization, machines replaced people's thinking, fantasies were nothing more than a set of cold data in front of cold electronic devices, and poetry and distance became distant "Don Quixote" ideals. The naïve, romantic, even bizarre, and exaggerated elements of the adventure are all destroyed, and then the adventures of modern people are gradually filled with words such as growth, acceptance, and transformation.
The adventures of modern people no longer become fanciful dealings with immortals, and there is no longer a romantic fantasy in the adventures of modern people, in other words, a modern person going to Tibet will most likely not encounter the immortals, but the plateau is hypoxic, and the harshness of nature is just like our lives that need to be surpassed and overcome, just like the "young faction" in the process of adventures continue to harvest powerful elements, and eventually transform and grow.
And this is the adventure of modern people in the industrial era, which is the difference caused by the background of the times and the fact that people face a society that is completely different from the ancients. In the era when Pu Songling and Tao Yuanming lived, the world obviously carried a certain ancient mysterious color to them, so the adventures of the ancients were always exaggerated and bizarre, almost a myth.