Chapter 34 Essay Commentary: The Four Questions of Liaozhai and Others Chapter 34 Falling into the River and Dying

"The Lord did not cross the river, but the Lord crossed the river. He fell into the river and died, what will happen to the Lord!" When I first saw these sixteen-character ancient poems when I was young, I still couldn't fully understand their meaning. I felt like I was struck by a thunderbolt, and I bit my fingers in a daze for a long time, as if I wanted to cry but couldn't cry. Many years later, I spread out a collection of Yuefu poems: "The "Konghou Yin" was written by Gao's wife Liyu, the son of Jin Jin of the Joseon Dynasty. Zigao got up in the morning to stab the boat, and there was a madman with a white head. When crossing, his wife stopped after him, but she fell into the river and died when she couldn't make it. So he assisted the harp and sang, "Your husband did not cross the river, but you crossed the river, fell into the river and died, what will you do!" The sound was very sad, and the song ended. He also threw himself into the river and died. Zigao returned and spoke to Liyu. When Liyu hurt him, he cited a harp and wrote its sound. Everyone who heard it would cry. "Introduction." At that time, I kept thinking, if the song "Gongwu Crossing the River" is still handed down, what kind of sad voice hovering between heaven and earth?The qin master caresses this song, and at the end of the song, will he lose control, throw the qin on his lap and break it, and cry bitterly?

Recently, I dug up the whole Tang poetry and read it from the beginning. When reading poetry, it is always late at night.Night is magical, and all subtle feelings will be magnified and magnified during this time.Sitting there, those beautiful spirits, biting your heart gently.Quietly listening to the little voice in my heart, colliding with and kneading with the blossoming spirits... There is a kind of tenderness mixed with sadness and joy. Revisiting would have been very utilitarian.The goal is clear, and it is designed to supplement nutrients.So do it as homework, make a plan, four volumes a day, and just take a look at the flowers.Also take some notes by the way, which may be useful in the future.At the beginning, it is still possible, but the further you go down, it is like entering a fairy island in the mountains. The beautiful scenery in front of you is endlessly changing.I regretfully think that even if the original plan is followed, it will take at least half a year to read through it. Now, it may never be completed.What a luxury it is to sit there and read poetry slowly in a busy life.Thinking about it for the rest of my life, my mind is so discouraged, I simply let myself go, it doesn't matter how much I read.

So I slowly crawled to the 19th volume, and reunited with "Gongwu Crossing the River". From far away to close, from vague to clear, the previous feeling comes back bit by bit, adding a new taste.In an instant, I understood what had moved me for so many years. The public did not cross the river, but the public actually crossed the river.If you fall into the river and die, what will you do! Its themes are madness and death.In the Chinese culture that emphasizes the golden mean, such a clear aesthetic object of madness and death is particularly frightening. yes, death.The trap of fate, the impulse of death.The waves are ahead, the destiny is fixed, and the advancement is death, but they still ignore it.This kind of obsession stems from the insanely powerful personality force, and it is destined to do a hopeless struggle.

These four sentences—— The public does not cross the river: exhortation.Everything shows that it cannot be crossed, and it should not be crossed.To cross the river is to die.This is well known to all, even the crosser himself. Gong actually crossed the river: questioned.Why cross the river?Since all the reasons tell the absurdity of crossing the river, why did they still go?What is the power beyond the fear of death that makes him act resolutely? Falling into a River and Dying: The Ending.Death from crossing the river.This tragedy, even, could have been avoided if he had obeyed any of the reasons for not crossing the river.But a thousand reasons for not crossing the river cannot overcome the urge to cross the river, and tragedy is doomed to happen.

General Nai Gonghe: Remembrance.Tragedy happened, and the latecomers cried and shouted, but they were powerless to hide and change.In the end, I returned to the original confusion: why cross the river?What is it that drives a man to haste to death? There is only one answer: an insanely powerful personality. We have become accustomed to a mediocre and reasonable life. Even if we often encounter inexplicable injuries and setbacks, we hope that the world will always be in order.People with strong personality often refuse to accept this mediocrity, and always want to parade outside the order.So we put them on the same level as lunatics.Crossing the river is an image that freezes the extreme of struggle and the moment of death.

Not everyone will try to explore and interpret it, but almost everyone can directly feel its impact. After understanding this level, let's go back and look at Tang Ren's works. There were five people who wrote this title together in the Tang Dynasty: Li He, Li Bai, Wang Jian, Wen Tingyun and Wang Rui.It is not necessary to follow the original meaning of the old titles of Yiyuefu, but the works of these five people are all about singing skills. If it's public, it's like carrying a pot.Qu Ping and Shen Xiang are not admired enough, and Xu Yan is a fool when he enters Haicheng.It's fair and fair, there are suga mats and fish on the bed, a good brother in the north, a sister-in-law in the east, oil, millet and gourds in the long acres, and turbid mash and ants floating on the tiles.The millet can be eaten, the mash can be drunk, and the public lives in the house, so what is it like to be sent to the water?Brother Xian and sister-in-law are crying.

Li He quickly grasped the core of this question: there are many, many reasons for not being able to cross the river.Including rationally, I also know that crossing the river is "foolish".Life seems normal: not only material satisfaction, but also emotional sustenance and spiritual pleasure.But he still abandons "normality" like a blind shoe, willing to seek death rather than survival. Or, that's what the last sentence said: "Those are all good, but I just don't like them." Li He expressed the four meanings of the ancient words perfectly.His usual style is exaggerated and strong, but here he didn't waste a bit of talent, not even superfluous embellishments, as if he broke through the door, and sadly pulled back and asked: "Why? Why? Why?" Interleaved with long and short sentences , read it in one breath, until people want to cry and shout but can't.

The Yellow River comes west to conquer Kunlun, roaring thousands of miles to touch the dragon's gate.The waves are overwhelming, Yao consults and sighs, Dayu manages all rivers, and children cry without peeping at home.To kill the turbulent flood, Kyushu began to silkworm.The harm is gone.Dazed by the wind and sand, the old man who was sent mad and insane.In the early morning, the runoff wants to be ridiculed, but others do not hesitate to stop their wives, and the public does not have to cross the river to cross it.Tigers can be fought, but rivers are difficult to rely on. Gong Guo drowns and flows into the Mekong River. There are long whales with white teeth like snow-capped mountains.It's public and public, and the bones are hanging in it, and the sorrow of Konghou will not be returned.

Li Bai's works, from below the "Yellow River" to "Jiuzhou beginning silkworm", in terms of majestic momentum, are still above Li He.He seems to want to use a "big history" background to increase the tragic color of crossing the river.As far as the description is concerned, it is a success. This is Li Bai's classic brushwork, and no one can match it.However, just because this description is too classic, it can be included in any of Li Bai's poems about wandering immortals, but it weakens the theme.Talented people are often reluctant to restrain their talents and insist on showing what they are best at.Fortunately, he didn't get lost in the end, and he was still asking: "The flood is over, the world is peaceful, everything is fine, why do we still have to cross the river?" So at the end, "Gongguo drowned in the sea, and there is a long whale with white teeth like a snow mountain. It's public and public, and the bones hang in it, and the harp doesn't return the sorrow." This image is extremely shocking.

Compared with Er Li, Wang Jian's writing power is obviously weaker. The two sides of the ferry are far away, and the waves clog the river like stacked banks.Fortunately, there is no white blade to drive forward, so why abandon yourself.Flood dragons eat blood, and the yellow mud falls straight down without the blue sky.If a man despises a woman's language, he must take his life.The woman was unable to pull off her clothes, and the boat sank to death, and regrets were hard to chase.The public does not cross the river, the public does it on its own. Different from the previous two miscellaneous words, Wang Zuo is Qiyan. "Fortunately, there is nothing to drive forward, why use to abandon yourself", "fortunately" and "what's the use", such virtual characters are too soft, and the power is greatly reduced.The performance of the scene of "Crossing the river and dying, what can I do" is not as real as Li He's, and Li Bai's strange rise.However, he changed his angle and was still struggling to find out the reason for crossing the river. "The public does not cross the river and the public acts on its own", which is finally attributed to the result of personal will and self-choice.But when he said "regret", he was wrong. If there was even the slightest "regret", the drastic act of crossing the river would have been completely impossible.

Wen Tingyun's work is even worse. The angry waves of the Yellow River came to the sky, and the noise was like thunder.Longbo drove the wind and dared not go up, and Baichuan sprayed snow to Gao Cuiwei.The twenty-five strings are so sad, please don't cross Li Peihui.Underneath there is a wild dragon with a saw as its tail, and a cracked sail cuts off a whip and grinds its frost teeth.God's cone chisels stones to fill the Shentan, and the white horse takes advantage of the red dust.The public leaps the horse and raises the jade whip, and the high hoof is wiped out, and the day is thousands of miles away. In fact, his method is the same as that of Li Bai.That is to take in from the distant view, zoom in to the moment of crossing the river, and then wait for the aftermath of crossing the river.His portrayal isn't bad, but it's not highly personal. "Please don't cross" has greatly damaged the power of the language. In the end, "the public leaps the horse and raises the jade whip, and the high hooves are wiped out." and daydream, but almost completely obliterate the color of tragedy. Wang Rui's works have deviated from the theme. The turbid waves are full of condensed dawn fog, and the public has no way to cross the river, and the public is struggling to cross the river.The wind blows and the water is so loud that you can't hear it. Lift the pot and watch it flow into the middle.Clothes are swaying in the waves, and the corpses are buried deep in the caves of Jiao Chi.Jiao Chi is completely drunk and the king's blood is dry, and the yellow sand is rolled out to spread the king's bones.At that time, when the king died and his concubine was suitable, the waves merged with the soul.Willing to hold Jingwei's title of stone heart, and poorly take the source of the river to plug the spring veins. Wang Rui tried to write an article about "how to deal with Nai Gong", but simply replaced the protagonist and pushed the wife of the man who crossed the river to the foreground.The doomed tragedy of those who cross the river is secretly transformed into a tribute to constancy.The tone is soothing, not like music.The whole poem is sad and beautifully written, but lacks that strong, straightforward impact. Therefore, among these five poems, Li He should be the first, Li Bai the second, Wang Jian and Wen Tingyun the second, and Wang Rui the worst.Although there is no certain standard for the quality of poetry, there is still a standard after all. However, when it comes to facing the bleakness directly, it is still those sixteen words: The public did not cross the river, but the public actually crossed the river.If you fall into the river and die, what will you do! In addition to poetry, the imagination is full of imagination.Every absurd thing in the world seems to be avoided with a little more rationality, but it happens that people with great talents often do it.If he happens to be in a position that can affect the fate of many people, it will inevitably bring great disaster.Our culture calls it "doom".These people are "born in response to the calamity", and they often have to use their own lives and the lives of others to complete the calamity.The so-called inescapable, is exactly what it means.When I read history when I was young, I never believed that history could be so absurd.Because it is thought that with the wisdom of ordinary people, mistakes that are completely avoidable will eventually lead to bloodshed, war, killing, and loss of life.Historians can tell us from all aspects of the times that this is the result of the interaction of multiple forces, but no matter how well the words are said, there always seems to be something absurd pushing it.Of course, it can also be said that the era singled out people with such personalities and pushed them to the top of the wave.However, this is still a "doom". I want to see the moment when Fu Jian "crossed the river" more than a thousand years ago... So many people warned him that he should not cross the river, but no one could stop him.The moment his master went south, looking up at the sky and the earth, was his heart filled with a kind of extreme pleasure?Even if he foresaw the consequences of his death and the country's destruction, this kind of pleasure would not be lessened in the slightest?How many times have you come here in your life?Crazy, just be crazy.Sorry, I'm not talking about history, I'm just talking about poetry. On November 3, 2003, as soon as he joined the company, he held a sea puppet and picked up a few petals.Whoever taught the two places became deeply impressed and paid to those who crossed the water at that time.