People say: "At the beginning of man, nature is good", and they also like to say: "People are equal to each other." ”
The reason why we all like this is that just like flowers and trees like sunshine, it can inspire and motivate a person when he is most hopeless.
However, if people want to survive in good times and adversities, improve their ability to resist risks, they need to see the sunshine at the same time, understand that the world also has darkness, to have a precise positioning of themselves, to put it bluntly, is to have self-knowledge.
In the first episode of the TV series "Golden Branches Desire", two important male characters appear, namely Kong Wu and Chen Shuang.
When I first watched this TV series, I was still young, and at that time, I hated people like Kong Wu — he was cold, selfish, and constantly climbed up like a clockwork machine.
On the way to escape after being chased by the Tianli Sect, Kong Wu first threw off Yuying, and then learned that Yuying was the daughter of the governor of Huguang, and then turned back, saving people and immediately going to seek benefits, at this time, he ate extremely ugly.
And Chen Shuang, in comparison, seems to be more humane.
When Kong Wu said that he would sneak down the mountain with the tribute, Chen Shuang said, "We have promised those show girls, there is no reason not to take them with us to leave." ”
When Yuying fell from the carriage, it was Chen Shuang who desperately tried to save her; on the day that Li Jiao chased after her, Kong Wu took everyone away, and it was Chen Shuang who said that he had to wait for Yuying...
Such a person, if he is a friend in reality, should feel warm and reassuring more than Kong Wu.
As I grew older and more experienced, when I brushed "Golden Branches desire" for the second, third, and fourth brushes, I felt more and more that Chen Shuang was not as good as I thought before.
Thinking about it carefully, Chen Shuang wants to help the show girls, not because the show girls are weak and pitiful, but because the show girls are beautiful.
Chen Shuang had several arguments with Kong Wu and insisted on taking Xiu Nu away, all because Yuying pulled his arm and begged first.
And Chen Shuang shot several times, sacrificing his life to protect, and also the most beautiful Yuying in the show.
Rather than saying that Chen Shuang wants to help Xiunu, it is better to say that he wants to help Yuying.
When speculating whether Kong Wu and Chen Shuang would come back to save them, Yuying said, "That poor big brother just saved me, and now even people have been killed, it is impossible for him not to come back to save me." ”
- Please note that "I" is talking about here, not "we"!
It can be seen that in Yuying's heart, Chen Shuang saved these show girls because of her, and saving her was because of beauty.
Such a person who is confused by his own beauty, Yuying has seen a lot from childhood to adulthood, will he take Chen Shuang as the same thing?
Perhaps in Yu Ying's heart, the two were just willing to fight and one wish to be beaten.
From the later plot, we will find that Chen Shuang's rescue of Yuying is not completely without attempts.
When Kong Wu and he were arranged to enter the Forbidden City to repair the palace, Chen Shuang said, "Maybe you will meet Lady Yuying." ”
It can be seen here that even if Chen Shuang does not dare to think about what really happened to Yuying, he will still think that he has a place in Yuying's heart, and maybe he still has a good feeling.
There is no doubt that Chen Shuang is really self-made and sentimental.
Kong Wuze was much more sober, he said: "Those show girls will not be the women of the emperor's side in the future, or the close associates of the Three Banners nobles in Manchuria, will they remember who we are?" No, it won't! ”
Just because Kong Wu can recognize his position in the hearts of the show girls, he does not intend to have any deeper entanglement with the show girls, so after saving Yuying, he went forward to ask for benefits, handed over one hand and received a "recommendation letter" with the other hand, clearly marked the price, clean and neat, as for whether it is good to eat or ugly, he does not care.
So, is Kong Wu really ruthless?
Nor is it.
In the later plot, he plucks his heart and lungs out at Anxi, and lends a helping hand to Rufei...
However, what Kong Wu did was not for no reason, he was really able to clearly realize that he had a position in the other's heart, was recognized, and the emotions of both sides were fluid, not one-sided.
And Chen Shuang?
Whether on the road of finding feelings or on the road to career, he runs and bumps like a headless fly.
At first, he had a good feeling for Yuying, but later found that the pursuit of Yuying was hopeless, and he set his sights on Baochan again.
Unfortunately, Bao Chan was not interested in Chen Shuang from beginning to end, and she was also very impatient when talking to him, but Chen Shuang chose to block all this information, caught Bao Chan stealing things to sell for him and Kong Wu to buy officials, and firmly believed that Bao Chan loved him and died for him.
Because of this misunderstanding, Chen Shuang was not wrong, and the "big brother" did not want it, and even his life was gone.
He blended into the ranks of the Tenrikyo Sect and led the bandits into the palace, hoping to avenge Baochan with a blade like a concubine.
From this point of view, kong Wu set fire to the tablet of the imperial ancestor in the Fengxian Hall in order to promote his rank, is there a much lower line?
Much more restraint?
When people are young, they may also like Chen Shuang's so-called "arrogance", once they are old, they have become a family, have another half, have children, and are most afraid of contacting people like Chen Shuang who are emotionally unstable, they are like those criminals on the street who indiscriminately attack others, you don't know which string he has not matched, you have to jump up and fight with others.
The reason why Chen Shuang has become such a person is fundamentally because he lacks the most basic self-knowledge.
In the relationship, he has no self-awareness, always falls in love with people who can't climb high, or people who originally hate him, mistakenly think that people are interested in him, and then, because they "can't get" and are not willing.
This reluctance is then transformed into jealousy of Kong Wu and Anxi, resentment towards the people around them, and even anger at fate.
In his career, he is also not self-aware, not knowing what he can do and what he wants.
When he was around "Big Brother", the dream of "Big Brother" was his dream, and when he was in Tenrikyo, the dream of Tenrikyo was his dream.
His whole life was like duckweed, going with the flow, and when he came to the last moment of his life, he finally became a fool.
TV dramas are sometimes a mirror, and we will see our own shadow in the mirror.
In real life, how can we not be as confused as Chen Shuang, and have done the same stupid things as him?
Mainstream culture always encourages us to explore outward, to gain a sense of accomplishment in houses, cars, and tickets, to see the dreams of most people around us as our own, to pursue those who are recognized as "good" people or things.
Few people tell us how important it is for a person to know ourselves before we know someone!
And Chen Shuang in "Desire for The Golden Branch" used his confused life to warn the world: without self-knowledge, you will lose your life!
May we take this as a warning and encourage us together!
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