Chapter 32 What has time proved for you and me?

——I am in Liang, and my fish and bream are widowed I am in Liang, and my fish and bream are widowed.When Qi Zi returned to his home, he followed like a cloud. I am in Liang, and its fish are fish.When Qi Zi returns, he follows like rain. We are in Liang, and our fish is the only one.When Qi Zi returns to his destination, his follow-up is like water. —— "Qi Feng·Wu Jian" Both Xuan Jiang and Wen Jiang were unlucky.The two countries of Zheng and Wei were originally places where prostitution was blazing, a place where men and women were promiscuous, and their sexual views were very open.These two natural beauties happened to be betrothed to these two countries, and as a result, their private lives were messed up.

The eldest daughter married her father-in-law by accident, and the younger daughter had an affair with her brother for no reason.Qi Xigong did not expect that his adopted daughter would be so frightened, so in order to avoid trouble, he refused to let them both go back to their parents' home.Xuan Jiang was very wronged, and Wen Jiang had no choice but to be the wife of Lu Guo with peace of mind and gave birth to two sons.The eldest son is named Ji Tong, and the second son is named Ji Jiyou.Duke Huan of Lu was very satisfied with this solid and beautiful wife, but Wen Jiang couldn't forget his old love. When he dreamed back at midnight, he often thought of his elder brother who was in love with him. She never put Jiang Zhuer down in her heart.

In the fourteenth year of Duke Huan of Lu, Duke Xi of Qi died, and Jiang Zhuer became the king of the country, that is, Duke Xiang of Qi in history. Wen Jiang's son, Ji Tong, was also thirteen years old.Wen Jiang originally planned to go to the capital of Qi to congratulate her husband, Lu Huangong, and wait for an opportunity to regain their old love and reconnect with each other. However, at that time, the princes of the big country and the new king were just established, and many princes from small countries came to congratulate, fearing that it would be inconvenient. There is no companion.

Four years later, Wen Jiang finally urged Lu Huan to take her to visit Qi together.This matter was admonished by the Minister of the State of Lu. According to "Zuo Zhuan Eighteen Years of Duke Huan": "In spring, the general will have a trip, so he is on the same level as the Jiang family. Blasphemy. It is said to be courteous, and if you change it, you will lose.'" Woohoo, looking at what happened later, it was Mr. Shen who said it predictably.Etiquette is not good if it is strict, like trees that are too dense to cover the sun; But this time Duke Huan of Lu was unable to evade his wife, after all, eighteen years had passed.In the past eighteen years, Wen Jiang has never returned to China.First, when Duke Xi of Qi was alive, he was afraid that a pair of young children would be overwhelmed by love and do something shocking to the world, so he repeatedly refused Wen Jiang to return to Qi to visit his relatives; The elder brother's emotions were extraordinary, and he deliberately interrupted Wen Jiang's chance to meet her elder brother, and it dragged on for eighteen years.

But this time, Duke Huan of Lu finally agreed to bring Wenjiang back to Qi, whether it was to show his prestige as a monarch or to show his courage as a husband and to please his wife.Not only did he go, but he went with great fanfare.It's a pity that he still took it lightly, and underestimated the turmoil of emotions.This deficiency made him not only a broken fish basket ridiculed in the end.Lost face and died in a foreign country and lost his life. The Poetry "Wu Jian" alludes to this poor honest man—— The broken basket was blocked on the weir, and the bream and kunyu were not alarmed.Qi Guowen and Jiang went back to her natal family, and her entourage was as numerous as clouds.

Broken baskets are blocked on the weir, and the bream and silver carp are not guilty.Qi Guowen and Jiang went back to her natal family, and her followers were as numerous as rain. The broken baskets are blocked on the weir beam, and the fish come and go without worry.Qi Guowen Jiang returned to her natal family, and her entourage was as numerous as water. Fish and water often allude to the relationship between the sexes.This metaphor has profoundly influenced the culture of later generations, and the love between men and women is often called the joy of fish and water. The satirical art in "Wu Jian" is extremely successful. Although it talks about human relations and ethics, it doesn't mean to preach with a straight face, nor does it forcefully criticize, but writes from a distance and let others write.Using Bixing's method, it starts from the fisherman's fishing. The broken fish basket is set up on the beam dam, and the fish cannot be caught naturally, but it becomes more free and unrestrained.Duke Huan was incapable of controlling Wen Jiang, and he was also unable to guard against idleness, so naturally there would be a situation where "Qi Zi returns to stop, and his follow is like clouds, rain, and water".Wang Anshi's "Shi Yi Gou Shen" quoted Lu Shinong as saying: "Its follow is like clouds, and it is not determined to follow the wind. Clouds combine to form rain, so rain follows it, and rain falls to form water, so water follows it." At the end of each chapter It ends with "clouds, rain, and water", with puns. It not only describes the large number of followers, which is a metaphor, but also uses the implicit word "sex" of "clouds and rain" to symbolize "the joy of fish and water", which is Xing.Such comparisons of both the good and the opposite, and the harmony and concealment of the middle, can be seen from the ingenuity of the Chinese people's irony.

Mr. Wen Yiduo made a new point on top of the old one, which I think is worth mentioning. He said that the bar is a symbol of a woman who has no integrity, and only those who come and go freely, symbolize the men she comes into contact with.Said in this way, it has a wider symbolic meaning, and it is also in line with the social atmosphere of Qi women in the Spring and Autumn Period. When Duke Xiang of Qi heard that Duke Huan of Lu and his wife were visiting, he was overjoyed and went to the border to meet his sister whom he hadn't seen in eighteen years.Brother and sister, the couple who fell in love in the dark 18 years ago, a lovesickness in the dark for 18 years, the two lovers who are worried, finally meet again in the sunshine.One is a powerful monarch in his prime, and the other is the wife of a monarch in his prime.From the moment Zhu'er saw Wen Jiang again, eighteen years of lovesickness instantly turned into a lingering love to the death.

The lover of first love, and the brother who loves the most.The relationship between people is so strange, distance and time can destroy it, and can also make it more coquettish, more vigorous and wanton. Love is like joy, clouds fly, rain falls, waves surge, in the face of desperate love and desire sinking into the deep sea, all ethics and morality, the husband who doesn't love, go to hell in the vortex of bliss. Everything is intertwined in front of the eyes.The white horse passes through the gap, and the eighteenth spring is over.The moment you intertwined with my blood and bones again, I finally knew that for eighteen years, you were the ray of light that I always wanted to hold on to.

Forgive me for indulging in short-lived bliss, forgive me for falling in love with my brother who shouldn't be loved, forgive me for spending eighteen years to prove that the so-called tenderness between me and you is not worth a night of lingering with him. Forgive us for killing you in the name of love with blood on your hands.