Many people say that after reading the first few times of "Jin Ping Mei", there is always a feeling of reading "Water Margin".
This sentence makes sense and does not make sense.
It makes sense because the main plot of the first ten episodes of "Jin Ping Mei" is similar to the twenty-third and twenty-seventh times of "Water Margin". It is still said that Wu Song beat the tiger, the golden lotus play uncle, the queen mother said the style, adultery and murder and other stories.
It doesn't make sense because the protagonist of the first ten episodes of "Jin Ping Mei" is Ximen Qing, while "Water Margin" is unfolded from Wu Song's perspective.
Wu Song fights the tiger
As mentioned earlier, Ximen Qing is a scoundrel and Wu Song is a hero. The hero pays attention to happiness and revenge, you kill my brother, I want your life. The rogue pays more attention to the philosophy of survival, and can't fight, run. Anyway, stay in the green mountains, don't worry about firewood.
Different perspectives, different perceptions of the story. In Ximen Qing's eyes, Wu Song was indeed very powerful, and ordinary people could not do such a thing as killing a tiger with their bare hands. However, the brave Wu Song also has a fatal flaw, that is, he is too emotional, or has no brains. Emotions come up, don't care about anything, it's all up to sex.
Therefore, Wu Song in "Jin Ping Mei" is a mangy man with "developed limbs and a simple mind".
Some people say, isn't this "black" Wu Song? It's really not, and this kind of personality is also reflected in "Water Margin". A typical example is the blood-spattered Mandarin Duck Building, Zhang Dujian and others really should be killed, but what crime is the zhang mansion's servant, in addition to the adoptive mother yulan, what is the crime of the subordinates of the Zhang mansion. Just because they obeyed Zhang Dujian's orders, they became Wu Song's sword ghosts.
Blood spattered Mandarin Duck Tower
This personality of Wu Song was amplified by Lan Ling Xiaoxiaosheng and written in "Golden Bottle Plum".
In the face of such a person seeking revenge, Ximen Qing is definitely unable to defeat it. There was only one thing he could do, and that was to run. It is a pity that the innocent Li Soap official has become a tool for Wu Song to vent his anger. Wu Song was eventually assassinated in Mengzhou, after which Pan Jinlian became Ximen Qing's fifth concubine, and Ximen Qing's philosophy of life not only saved his life, but also finally embraced the beauty.
The hero bowed his head, and the scoundrel was laughing wildly. All we can do is shed tears.
There is no doubt that Wu Song represents the side of justice. His brother Wu Dalang was poisoned by Ximen Qing and Pan Jinlian. Wu Song once wanted to let the Qingtian Grand Master "uphold justice", but in the hearts of the county officials, the law was far inferior to the money given by the Ximen officials, and Wu Song failed.
Reluctantly, Wu Song picked up the park knife again and raised his fist as large as a casserole. But Ximen Qing is not a tiger, and the Lion Building is not Jingyang Gang. This use of force brought Wu Song not glory, but endless darkness. Li Soap was dead, Wu Song's hope of revenge was gone, and he failed again.
Why did Wu Song lose again and again? The reason is that his power is not as good as Ximenqing, his wealth is not as good as Ximenqing, and his relationship is not as good as Ximenqing. The so-called law is the game of the rich, and the justice that the poor desire is a fairy tale woven by the "meat eaters".
Ximen Qing
Wu Song had the ability to lose so badly. What if it were replaced by us ordinary people? What should we do in the face of the obscenity of Simon's officials? Three feet of white Aya, may be the best choice, a pot of poisonous wine, may be the final destination.
When death became the only form of resistance of the commoners, such a society was undoubtedly perverted and deformed.
The magic of "Jin Ping Mei" is that it does not directly write about the darkness of society, but it is revealed everywhere between the lines that this is a society that "only recognizes the right to money, no justice".
Living in such a society, people's values will also be distorted.
A typical example is the combination of Ximen Qing and Meng Yulou. To tell the truth, among Ximen Qing's six wives and concubines, I admire Meng Yulou alone.
Meng Yulou is the widow of a businessman, she is not as obscene as Pan Jinlian, nor as stupid as Sun Xue'e, nor as "split personality" as Li Zhen'er. In the face of Wu Yueniang, she is not humble, never deliberately greets, in the face of Chen Economy, she has courtesy and etiquette, and uses her brain to fight back. But it is such a woman who is married to Ximen Qing, which really makes people feel resentful.
The golden hairpin can't lock the jade building, but "money" and "power" can make Meng Shi obey, which is sad and lamentable.