Text: Dutou Yun Ge (author's original authorization)
Before, the author and everyone read the 140th time of the "Lang Kou Zhi" (the sequel to "Water Margin", written by Yu Wanchun in the Qing Dynasty), Chen Xizhen guided Chen Liqing and Zhu Yongqing to enlighten, and Emperor Huizong of Song asked Zhang Shuye about the good strategy for governing the country and the state, and from then on he enjoyed peace forever. Today we read the last time of "Dang Kou Zhi", that is, the knot "Niuzhu Mountain Group Of Demons Return to Shi Jie, Feiyun Peak Heavenly Female Apparition Trail" to see how the final result is.
Synopsis: After Liangshan was pacified, strange things happened in the uneven valley of Niuzhu Mountain in the north of Jiangnan Pingnan province, originally from liangshan after the good man appeared to be killed or injured, there was a black gas in this place, and then the black gas gradually became larger, and even emerged from the valley, and went to the town of Fanchang, opposite the diaoji, causing many casualties, and some people saw a big snake appear in the black gas. At first, Taishou spread the male yellow on the valley mouth, and the black qi did not come out for the time being. After three years, the black gas suddenly appeared again, and there were casualties in fanchang town, and some people saw a fierce tiger appear in the black gas. The local officials ordered people to bombard the black gas with cannons, but it did not work, but a red light appeared in the black gas, and an old woman appeared, asking people whether they wanted to receive it, and no one dared to respond. In order to prevent further damage, the local townspeople moved away. After another fifty or sixty years, one day a shepherd boy happened to pass by, the old woman asked if he wanted to collect it, the shepherd boy replied to collect, so the heavens sent thunder, the black qi was suppressed, and when the locals went to Niuzhu Mountain to look, they saw that a stone jie had suppressed the black qi, and it said Yongzhen goblin. At that time, the Taishou was Ren Daoheng, who played the matter, and then a thunderstorm came one night, sealing the valley mouth, and Shi Jie was forever hidden. Later, Ren Daoheng went out to Lingnan, and happened to rest in a Taoist house at Feiyunfeng, and it turned out that the Daoist was Chen Liqing, who rewarded Ren Daoheng Lingxiao with a cup of Qiong Pulp, and told him that in five hundred years, yu Zhonghua would write "Dang Kou Zhi" to show her deeds, and finally appeared XianRong, who soared away and there was no trace. Ren Daoheng lived until the Yuan Dynasty and was named a relic of the former Song Dynasty. Yu Wanchun believes that this is the final end of the good man of Liangshan, and the whole book is over.
(Illustration of the knot of "Dangkozhi")
Du Tou: This is the final return of "Dang Kou Zhi", which can also be regarded as half a part of the story. The main content of the book "Dang Kou Zhi" is the story of Lei General and Sanxian destroying Liangshan, and as of the 140th time, the whole story can be said to have been told. So why did the author "draw a snake and add enough" and add a knot?
I think there are two main reasons.
First, because the book "Dang Kou Zhi" is a sequel to the Golden Batch "Water Margin", both in structure and content deliberately pursues to correspond with the prequel, because the Golden Batch has a wedge in front of it and a text seventy times after it, so in order to achieve the purpose of symmetry, "Dang Kou Zhi" is also the main text seventy times, and finally add a knot to symmetry with the wedge.
The second reason is that "Water Margin" and "Lang Kouzhi" are novels with divine and demonic colors. In the novel, although the 108 good men of Liangshan were physically destroyed by the officers and soldiers, the author believes that the story of Hong Taiwei mistakenly walking the demon at the beginning of the original book of the Water Margin is to express the meaning of 108 people as demons, so after destroying their flesh, they must also suppress the demon body to cut the grass and remove the roots, so chen Liqing designed the plot of black gas suppression to express this idea, but in fact, the original Water Margin more than once mentioned that the 108 people of Liangshan were the stars of the upper realm and were not extraordinary demons, so this design actually ignored the setting of the original work.
Speaking of which, let's first look at the historical allusions involved in this review.
(Illustration of the knot of "Dang Kou Zhi")
There are three allusions involved in this return, the first of which is that after the novel was written after Liangshan was pacified, the folk gave up four songs, called: "Heaven sends the devil to kill uneven, and the unfair people kill the unfair people." Those who are uneven and kill those who are uneven, and those who are not square and peaceful are killed. Fan Jinmen commented at the end of the sentence [The last sentence is closed.] The four sentences and six uneven sentences of this biography received Taiping, but they stopped at the end, but they packed up the prequel and this biography together, and the strength of the pen and the strangeness of the chapters could not be repeated. These four sentences see Lang Yingxiu's seven revision drafts. Its third sentence is that the unfair person kills the uneven person, so that Lang suspects that it is repetitive, because it is changed to uneven, it is originally a difficult person, so it is colorless. Nowadays, Zhonghua uses the original, but the character is changed to another character, the meaning is more obvious, and the word is clearer. Fu Tianbiao and Xi Zhen are gentlemen who are also unfair, and they are also said by the times. When the imperial road is clear, Yi Han and Tu, why is the imperial court not peaceful? But there were many bases in the four suburbs, and the living beings were destroyed, so the princes raised their arms, threw themselves into the cries, rushed to the crown and were angry, and fought with their swords, and the uneven situation was seen. Chang Li Yue: Everything can not be peaceful, although Yi Zhou is still uneven with the number of uneven, and the situation is other! The "Seven Revision Drafts" is a literary note novel written by Lang Ying of the Ming Dynasty, and because the book is quoted from the relevant materials and is ignored by the history books, it has a high historical value. The four ballads written by Yu Wanchun here are from the "Seven Revision Drafts" volume 31 • Poetry "Semantics and Meanings": [The Record of Quitting Cultivation has a poem cloud: Heaven sends the demon army to kill uneven, and the unfair people kill the uneven people. The unequal people kill the unequal, and the killing is not square and peaceful. But Yu Wanchun changed slightly, because the second sentence already had two uneven people, and the third sentence was repeated with uneven people, so Yu Wanchun changed the uneven person in the third sentence to uneven again, so that it seemed to be better connected with the previous sentence and looked less repetitive. As for Han Changli's sentence, it is from the "Preface to Sending Meng Dongye", which is a gift preface made by Han Yu for Meng Jiao to go to Jiangnan to serve as a lieutenant of Liyang County. "Great things must not be flat and sound" ostensibly refers to the sound of objects vibrating because of uneven placement, but in essence, it means that people will express their thoughts and opinions when they encounter uneven things.
The second allusion is that Ren Daoheng waited until Feiyunfeng Chen Liqing's house to avoid the rain, and Chen Liqing told everyone to enter the house, "The crowd has already coaxed into the grass hall, and Dao po then came in." Fan Jinmen commented, "Gai does not wait for the request of the Dao po." Flame man ant looks out of the square, often so. Shaoling Yun: Since arriving at Qingcheng Mountain, do not spit on Qingcheng Land. There are a few such elders. Shaoling is the poem Saint Du Fu, and the two poems quoted here are from his work "Zhangren Mountain", the original poem is "Self-made Qingcheng guest, do not spit on Qingchengdi." For ai zhangren mountain, Danti is close to the seclusion. The Ancestral Hall of the Zhangren Temple is full of gas, and the edge cloud intends to live on the highest peak. Sweeping away the white-haired yellow essence, Jun looked at him when the ice and snow looked. Fan Kinmen here is a mistake in remembering the first sentence of the original poem, Du Fu once went to Zhangren Mountain, and in the poem he described himself as a "Qingcheng guest", which shows that although he is a foreigner, he still has infinite love and awe when he first arrives at Zhangren Mountain. In the novel, Ren Daoheng's men entered the house without waiting for the other party's invitation because they saw that Chen Liqing was a Taoist woman, which was very unreasonable, and Fan Jinmen lamented that there are many small people in the world who tend to be inflammatory, and there are really very few elderly people like Du Fu.
The third allusion is that Chen Liqing appeared in front of Ren Daoheng and others, "Everyone was shocked, only to see that a female general appeared in the open space, still jade and flower-like, wearing a golden phoenix wing crown, wearing a scarlet chain of golden armor, riding the jujube mule charcoal flying electric horse." Fan Jinmen commented, "Or suspect that Ma He Yixian, do you know that Jingyang pulls up the house, and the chicken and dog are rising." The Jingyang mentioned here is Xu Jingyang, one of the four great heavenly masters of Taoism (the other three heavenly masters are Zhang Daoling, Qiu Hongji, and Ge Hong). Xu Jingyang, whose real name was Xu Xun, was a native of the Wei and Jin dynasties, and he was very kind and virtuous from an early age. Because he served as the commander of Jingyang County and achieved great political achievements, he was revered as "Xu Jingyang". After abandoning guan dong and returning to his hometown, he practiced dan in Xishan, Xinjian County, and it is said that he once captured the dragon, except for one side of the great harm. According to the Taiping Guangji, volume 14, quoting the Biography of the Twelve True Emperors and Xu Zhenjun, "On August 1 of the second year of the second year of emperor Taikang of the Jin Dynasty, in the western mountains of Hongzhou, the family of forty-two people, uprooted the house and left. That is to say, Xu Xun lived to the age of 136, and became an immortal in the Western Mountains, when the whole family of 42 people ascended to heaven together, even the house and the chicken and dog flew together, and the legend that "one person gets the Tao, the chicken dog ascends to heaven" Is from this. Fan Jinmen pointed out that some people suspected that Chen Liqing had become an immortal, why even the horse he rode had become an immortal, so he cited xu Jingyang's story as an example, believing that in addition to their own attainment, people or things close to them could also attain enlightenment.
After talking about the allusions, let's finally talk about the two plots in this return. We know that the novel "Dang Kou Zhi" is an alternate history, the author in order to express the idea of "honoring the king and destroying the Kou", the author wrote the Northern Song Court into the dynasty of the Ming Emperor and the Wise Ministers, after the destruction of Liangshan, and even contrary to historical common sense to write that the Northern Song Dynasty "hundreds of millions of years of peace and boundlessness", but the real history is very clear to everyone, in the history of the Song River Uprising failed a few years, there was a Jingkang change, the Northern Song Dynasty perished. Although the author in the "Lang Kou Zhi" tried his best to avoid describing this real event, he still could not completely avoid it, leaving some traces, so it seems that the whole book is somewhat "contradictory", such as the 111th time when writing zhang Mingke and Zhang Shuye's ending, it is clearly stated that "to Jing Kang changed the yuan, the Jin people went south, Shu Ye served the Qinzong Codex, led 30,000 people to serve the king, and Ming Ke was a staff officer." After four consecutive days of fighting with the Jin people, he beheaded the two golden ring generals and won a great victory, and his plan was half out of Mingke, and the emperor praised him. The reinforcements of the Naizhu Dao did not arrive, so that the city fell, and the Second Emperor hunted north. Ming Ke went from Shu Ye to the Jin Army, and Shu Ye did not eat millet all the way, but drank soup to wait for death. When it came to the Baigou River, it was the Jinren Realm, and MingKe suddenly said, "Crossing the boundary gate!" Uncle Ye shouted at the sky, and died without a word, and Ming Que also drew his sword and killed himself. In the knot, the novel also writes: "Unconsciously, it is fifty or sixty years, and it has reached the ,...... of emperor Lizong's Chunyou years" "That Ren DaoHengguo lived to be one hundred and eighty-one years old, until the yuan shun emperor was still in his last year, and Emperor Renzong had named him a remnant of the former Song dynasty, and people thought that he was loyal and filial piety." Here the author not only mentioned the Song Lizong of the Southern Song Dynasty, but also wrote out the Yuan Dynasty that destroyed the Jin Dynasty and the Southern Song Dynasty, which shows that the author's heart still has not completely overridden history, so the so-called "Northern Song Dynasty for hundreds of millions of years of peace and boundlessness" naturally appears to be illusory, in fact, it is more likely that Yu Wanchun borrowed the Northern Song Dynasty to photograph the Qing Dynasty's ass in disguise in order to please the Qing court at that time.
Let's talk about the plot of the snake and tiger appearing in the black qi in the knot, and finally being ambushed by Chen Liqing. Fan Jinmen said in the final comment of the knot: "The snake and tiger of the Nai'an wedge do not hurt people, and the holy sigh thinks that one hundred and eight people always praise, which is also a big mistake. The meat of the cross slope, the soup of the refreshing wine of the Qingfeng Ridge, the small ya of Cangzhou, the only non-human being! The original intention of The Temple is to be a gentleman and a loyal servant. If a snake and a tiger are told not to hurt anyone, gai thinks that if the lieutenant can be cured by Shengming, even if the snake and tiger that hurt people can also eliminate their fierceness and tame it violently, so that no one can be hurt. The snake and tiger hurt people, and the sins of the lieutenant are also; the snake and the tiger do not hurt people, and the merits of the lieutenant are also. One merit and one sin are all in the lieutenant. The snake and tiger are not degraded, and the snake and tiger are not enough to praise! If a husband is a snake and a tiger, he will not hurt anyone, and if he does not hurt a man, he will not be able to see a snake and a tiger, and the holy sigh will not be seen. The prequel wedge produces a snake and a tiger, and the original wedge also produces a snake and a tiger, and it is particularly determined to hurt people, so it is violent and righteous, and the system is strict. 】
Fan Jinmen's criticism shows the difference between Jin Shengsi and Yu Wanchun's attitude towards the good man of Liangshan in "Water Margin", Jin Shengsi has a contradictory mentality when criticizing "Water Margin", he loves and hates the good man of Liangshan, and Yu Wanchun is bound to get rid of it quickly. In the view of Yu Wanchun and Fan Jinmen, the people of Liangshan are vicious snakes and tigers, and if they are snakes and tigers, they will definitely hurt people, which means that the 108 people of Liangshan will definitely embark on the road of rebellion against the imperial court, rather than accepting the offer, so it is necessary to kill them all before they are quick. However, Yu Wanchun and Fan Jinmen may have forgotten that as long as there is oppression, the resistance will never stop, and only by relying on force to suppress it can only stop the boiling of the soup and cannot solve the fundamental problems, and whether the world can be peaceful or not depends on the ability and deeds of the rulers.
Everyone, unconsciously seventy times plus a knot of the "Dangkou Zhi" has been interpreted to the end, thank you for your support and encouragement to Dutou, I hope that everyone in this journey to the Dangkou to gain, some progress, we will have a period later.