Chapter 29 volume six

Just as Kong Shangren approached Li Xiangjun and Hou Fangyu through the trek of words, I also approached this scholar through this way.His words light up my eyes, keep them awake all night, glowing in the dark. "Using the feelings of separation and reunion to express the sense of rise and fall." Kong Shangren's understanding of desolation is amazing.He is good at capturing events that lurk silently in the dark, and then writing them clearly.As if he had personally experienced those disputes, he wrote them vividly, and the past events were vivid in his writing. The beauty of diction, the depth of thought, and the truth of emotion are the first among the four dramas of Zaju.What is even more amazing is that he is not a down-and-out scholar in the secular sense.His background can be described as extraordinary, and his ancestor is Confucius, who is most respected by scholars.The emperors of all dynasties made good use of the descendants of Confucius and dared not neglect them.

In the same year, when Kangxi returned from his southern tour to the north, he went to Qufu to pay homage to Confucius. The 37-year-old Kong Shangren gave lectures in front of the imperial court. He was appreciated by Kangxi.At the age of thirty-nine, he was ordered to go to the south of the Yangtze River to control the floods, which lasted four years.Footsteps almost all over the hometown of Nanming. With the in-depth friendship with a large number of Ming Dynasty adherents with national integrity, the creative concept of "About" more than ten years ago has become more and more clearly presented in my mind.

He couldn't resist the urge.As a literati, he knows how meaningful it is to write history. His ancestors once wrote "Spring and Autumn", which made the rebellious officials and thieves have nowhere to hide. In the dark night, he was trembling and dared not reach out to approach the bamboo slips.Loyal ministers and martyrs shine through the annals of history and will not be forgotten.His narration is with the sun and the moon, and goes deep into time.It is still thrilling to read after thousands of years. I must say that Kong Shangren is lonely, and his great sense of loneliness and uncertainty made him write about the fidelity of life and death, and the faithful love between men and women.

But in the end, the lingering lingering to death could not resist the nothingness that devoured everything in his heart.He asked Li Xiangjun and Hou Fangyu to end their relationship in Qixia Mountain and bid farewell to the world of mortals. See you again.It is Qixia Mountain.Magnificent sunset. A war destroyed a city, fulfilled them, but failed to fulfill them.They are also children of troubled times, with different fates.Cause and effect cannot be determined. The love between Hou Fangyu and Li Xiangjun is no different from the world, and their separation and reunion are also ordinary.To a large extent, their excellence is due to the light of that eccentric and chaotic world.Love is just a crystal ball to catch the eye.What deserves more attention is the enlightenment given by the person who controls this crystal ball.

What is really touching in the novel is Kong Shangren's in-depth analysis of separation and reunion, rise and fall. In the end——he pointed it out through the mouth of Taoist Zhang: "Hey! Two idiots, look where the country is, where the family is, where the king is, and where the father is. It's just this little love root, can you keep cutting him off?" ?” It's a pity that your sons and daughters are so delicate, regardless of the change of Sanghai.The obscene words are too rambling, telling the future of the brocade, pulling clothes and shaking hands.How do you know that the marriage book has been canceled for a long time; the winged mandarin ducks dream of waking up and making friends, and the reunion mirror is not strong after being broken.Shyly answering the others who made a fool of yourself on the spot laughed, and advised you to run away as soon as possible.

The voice was old and calm, like a bell breaking through the sky in the morning and evening.The dark world of mortals is suddenly bright, and the hot spring is cold. When Hou Fangyu and Li Xiangjun heard the words, they had a sudden epiphany and left behind.This ending has been questioned for a long time, thinking that the two reunited after untold hardships, and the pain of lovesickness has not yet been relieved. How could they suddenly let go of everything because of a few words from a Taoist priest. This idea seems reasonable, but in fact it is limited by love and shallow and narrow, which misunderstands the author's painstaking efforts.Kong Shangren did not deliberately separate the two to create a tragedy, but he had insight into the world and the power of epiphany in a single thought.

Letting go is liberation. According to the ending that is closer to history, Li Xiangjun finally followed Hou Fangyu to be good.He concealed his background and entered Hou's house. Later, his identity was exposed, and his father-in-law Hou Xun refused to forgive him and expelled him from the house.After all, the integrity can't beat the origin.But Hou Fangyu couldn't resist the temptation in the end, he went to take part in the provincial examination of the Qing court, and only got in the second place.Returning to his hometown in disgrace, he renamed his study "Zhuanghuitang".And because of being separated from Xiangjun, he died of depression soon...

Is this ending better than Kong Shangren's arrangement? Kong Shangren didn't want to write about a love, he wanted to escape a love to write history, to write about the rise and fall.He thought his story would be a wake-up call to the world, but the eyes of the world are only focused on love. at the end of.Kong Shangren wrote "Aftermath".In the aftertaste it comes down to—— I have seen that the jade palace in Jinling is singing at dawn, and the waterside pavilions in Qinhuai are blooming early. Who would have thought that the ice would melt away easily? Seeing him get up from the Zhulou, seeing him entertaining guests, seeing his building collapse.I once fell asleep on this pile of moss and green tiles, and watched the rise and fall of fifty years.The surname of Wuyi Lane is not Wang, the ghosts of Mochou Lake cry at night, and the owls on the Phoenix Tower.The dream of the remnant mountain is the most real, and the old environment is hard to lose. If you don't believe that this map has been changed.Make up a set of "Sorrowing Jiangnan", let the mournful voice grow old.

I suspect that how many people can understand the perishable impermanence he perceives, the ubiquitous hesitation and helplessness, even after such painstaking efforts and pouring out all he can? There is Taoist Zhang, and there is Zhen Shiyin who entered the Tao and the lame Taoist singing "Okay Song".Kong Shangren or Cao Xueqin, the final condensation and embodiment of their thoughts are displayed through the image of a Taoist, and the greatest mystery of life is conveyed through the mouth of a Taoist.This is not a coincidence, let alone a kitsch romance perfunctory.The thinking of Chinese literati tends to return to the Tao, and eventually returns to the world of Laozi and Zhuangzi intentionally or unintentionally.

The world is a big dream, and life is cool in autumn.