Song Jiang
Among the characters of "Water Margin", the most complex and multi-faceted image is Song Jiang. He is both good and evil; both true and hypocritical; both beautiful and wretched; both loyal and rebellious; he laughs and then cries; he is both a well-known "timely rain" and a thief of Liangshan who has done many evil deeds...
Between completely different roles and lives, Song Jiang has struggled: what kind of person to be? Is it to be a thief forever on the day when the grass is happy and happy, but there is no longer a head, or is it to accept sanctions under the laws of the country in order to turn around and become a full name festival?
His loyalty and filial piety in abiding by the law and his heart of merit and fame that is not willing to sink are expressed through a person, Song Taigong. Song Taigong is a multi-faceted side of song jiang, another me of song jiang. What Song Taigong said is Song Jiang's self-dialogue and self-struggle.
Song Jiang killed and left Song Taigong, his loyal and filial heart, and successively hid in Tibet in Chai Jinzhuang, Kong Taigong, and Hua RongZhai, at this time Song Jiang was able to hide for a while in order to evade legal sanctions, but in Hua Rong, there was another accident, and Hua Rong was tired, and he made a big fuss in Qingzhou, and Shunshi took a vote of people and horses, and he was desperate and planned to defect to Liangshan Dazhai, and when he saw that he had reached Liangshan Po, Song Jiang changed his mind, because at this time the imperial court had a new policy for the prisoners: (Entrusted to the mouth of Taigong, In fact, he is weighing it up himself)
"Recently, I heard that the crown prince of the imperial court has issued a pardon letter, and there should be people who have committed serious crimes, and they have been reduced by one degree, and they have been implemented everywhere. Even if it is revealed to the official, it should only be a sin of a disciple, and it is not a crime to harm one's life. ”
He was shaken, afraid that "he would be thrown into the grass for a while, and be a disloyal and filial piety person", and "I was fortunate to see the lawsuit." tomorrow...... Hiding in the rivers and lakes, bumping into a group of brothers who killed people and set fires, and hit them in the net, how could they meet their father. He was cut off in his foreign capital, and there must also be a limit to the journey, and when he returned to farm in the future, he would have to serve his father for life sooner or later. ”
He had been struggling in his heart until he approached Liang Shanbo, and finally made up his mind: to return to his hometown to accept leniency, preferring to migrate rather than fall into the grass.
Therefore, there was a Shi Yong who descended from the sky, brought a family letter, Yan Taigong died, Song Jiang left everyone in a hurry, and returned home, of course, the old father was fine, Song Taigong was just Song Jiang's "that me".
prisoner
He surrendered himself and was sent to Jiangzhou.
At this time, the Liangshan brothers were eagerly looking forward to Brother Gongming, so "I opened this road and handed over my brother!" "More afraid than the two gongren is Song Jiang. He reminded himself countless times:
"If they come down from the mountain to rob you of your company, do not follow him and teach people to be unfaithful and filial." Keep this section in mind. ”
Therefore, in the face of the people who came to "save" him, Song Jiang avoided it, at this time, falling grass was not his choice, and he could see that this way out was going to be blocked by his brothers, how he was not in a hurry!
National law
But his thoughts, Hua Rong still did not understand, Hua Rong said, "How not to open a shackle with your brother?" Song Jiang said, "Brother Xian, what are the words!" This is the law of the state, how dare to move! As soon as this remark came out, Wu Yong understood, knowing that Song Jiangben was not accidentally caught in the funeral, he just went home and turned himself in.
Chao Gai once again issued an invitation to join the company, and Song Jiang moved out of his father:
"Father... I was willing to teach Xiao Keming to eat a lawsuit, to make a quick decision, and to frequently ask for payment; when he was leaving, he gave me thousands of instructions, teaching me to rest for happiness, to harm the family, so as not to tire my father from panicking. Therefore, his father clearly taught Song Jiang, and Xiao Ke did not argue to obey his brother, that is, he went against heavenly reason, disobeyed his father's teachings, and did disloyalty and filial piety in the world, although he was born of any benefit. ”
Saying that the falling grass is "against heaven and against the father..." Unfaithful and filial piety..." Such words, and said that before wanting to fall into the grass is a momentary confusion: "The former took advantage of the moment to throw ,...... Tianxing guided him home", which shows Song Jiang's resistance and disgust to joining the gang at this time, he is unwilling to classify himself as a thief, and deliberately keeps a distance from everyone and draws a clear line.
This was the result of his trade-offs and self-struggle: Song Jiang, who had a heart that was not willing to sink into the fame of Song Taigong, defeated Song Jiang, who had a heart to let himself go unruly; the prisoners who still had the hope of turning around within the "law of the state" defeated the thief who had no future and was "buried in all kinds of disasters."
Song Jiang embarked on his path to Jiangzhou as he wished. But his inner struggle did not stop until the Xunyang Lou "anti-poetry" incident made him have no way out.
When he first arrived in Liangshan, he was uneasy that his father did not go up the mountain, that is, he was uneasy because he was about to lose "that self", and he was anxious to take his father up the mountain, that is, he was anxious to end and had to end a divided self.
As Song Taigong ascended the mountain, the other me who made him worry about and fight with him disappeared, or was regrouped in another form; with the leaders "congratulating Song Gongming father and son reunion", Song Jiang also realized his self-unity.