Ancient Chinese Literature - Wu Jingzi", "Mr. Ma Er's Tour to the West Lake"

Wu Jingzi, Zi Minxuan, Trumpet Grain People. In his later years, he called himself the Old Man of Wenmu. He is famous for his novel The History of Rulin, and is the author of poetry, prose, and historical research. The collection of works "Wenmu Shanfang Poetry Collection".

His "Mr. Ma Er's Tour to the West Lake" is selected from the second half of the fourteenth part of "Ru Lin Wai Shi", which vividly portrays the image of a reader who is kind and sincere, but also pedantic and rigid, and is deeply poisoned by feudal dogma, revealing the narrow and mediocre spiritual outlook of intellectuals under the eight-strand system of taking scholars. "Mr. Ma Er's Tour to the West Lake" This article captures the basic characteristics of the characters and uses white painting techniques to write about some ordinary people and things.

The original text "There is a newspaper posted in the store, which reads: 'Mr. Ma Chunshang of Chuzhou selected "Three Branches of Cheng Ink Holding Luck" to sell here. ’”。 It can be seen from this that Mr. Ma Er selected and compiled this book. Ding Xian: Refers to Ding Yehe, a Qiantang man of the Yuan Dynasty, who is said to have ascended to heaven on a crane, and his descendants built a shrine for it on Mount Wu.

"Mr. Ma Er was startled and hurriedly put on a whole turban" "Respectfully and respectfully went upstairs, danced in dust, and prayed for five times" It can be known that When Mr. Ma Er saw Emperor Renzong's imperial letter, his action was to rush to worship.

"Mr. Ma Er's Tour of the West Lake" is divided into three parts: the first part writes about The scene of Mr. Ma Er's first day of visiting the West Lake; the second part writes that Mr. Ma Er visited the West Lake again and met Hong Xianxian; the third part writes about Mr. Ma Er's deception and Hong Xianxian's illness and death, as well as the aftermath of Mr. Ma Er.

The original text of "Mr. Ma Er's Tour to the West Lake": Mr. Ma Er suddenly realized: "He originally befriended me to borrow me to deceive Hu Sangongzi, fortunately, the Hu family's luck was high, and he could not be counted." The "he" here refers to the hong xian who has died.