As the saying goes, there are a hundred Hamlet in the eyes of a hundred readers.
In my opinion, in the eyes of a hundred readers, there are also a hundred Qiao Feng.
Eight dragons, eight dragons.
What should "Dragon" watch? How to read it?
0 1
Look at people.
People are the biggest characteristics of the "dragon".
Mr. Chen once highly summarized the "Eight Dragons":
No one is unjust, and all beings are guilty.
What does this sentence mean by incisive and reasonable summary? To put it bluntly, it is "all poor people." It is true that "Tian Long Ba Bu" is magnificent and enjoyed by all kinds of people. The number of characters covered in it is the largest among all martial arts novels, and each has its own pains and grievances. It is a vivid version of the ancient costume "Ukiyo-e".
Take some people for example!
Martial artist Qiao Feng was brave and withered, but he couldn't open a knot in life-he personally killed his beloved;
Duan Yu, who did not love martial arts all his life, decided to succeed to the throne and continue the war in troubled times;
Mu Rongfu was greedy for power, unscrupulous, disloyal and empty-handed.
Even Jiu Mo-zhi's greed for martial arts, resentment against Duan's family and Youtan's infatuation with A Zi also represent the three poisons of "greed, anger and delusion" in the world.
It can be said that the characters in Tian Ba Long Cloth are all sentient beings in the real world, and we can see familiar figures around us in each character:
How many people, like Qiao Feng, are not accepted by the world and regret one thing for life;
How many people, Rainbow Yuyan, love someone until they are scarred and finally disheartened;
How many people, like Mu Rongfu, are unfamiliar with their almost abnormal pursuit of fame and fortune.
"All the hustle and bustle in the world is for the benefit, and all the hustle and bustle in the world is for the benefit." In the real world, no one can escape the suffering of the characters in Ba Long.
There was always a poetic feeling when I read Gu Long's novels. That is the most beautiful person, the most handsome horse, the strongest wine and the fastest sword. It's an ideal Jianghu, which makes people feel very comfortable.
But Jin Yong's Jianghu is just the opposite. Jin Yong's Jianghu is a realistic Jianghu.
Just like in Dragon, can you say who is the good guy and who is the bad guy? In fact, only the poor.
We are all poor.
So everyone likes Chu Liuxiang and Li Xunhuan, but no one likes the people in Dragon Eight Branches. To put it bluntly, they are too much like ourselves.
Looking at the dragon, we often sigh involuntarily, which is a sigh for people, a sigh for reality and a sigh for ourselves.
Any two heroes are invincible, ambitious and unjust, and everything is in vain.
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Reading theory.
Reading a book depends not only on what the author has written, but also on what the author wants to express.
A passage in The Condor Heroes left a deep impression on me:
Yang Guo left Lu Wushuang without saying goodbye. Cheng Ying comforted Wu Shuang and said, "Third Sister, look at these white clouds gathering and scattering, gathering and scattering, and life is ups and downs. Why bother you? " At this point, she couldn't help crying.
"The clouds are smooth and smooth, and life is divided and combined." This sentence, borrowed from Cheng Ying, actually contains Mr. Jin Yong's perception of "impermanence of life".
"People have joys and sorrows, and the moon has ups and downs. This matter is ancient and difficult. " That's probably what it means.
In the passage of Eight Dragons, there are also many life sentiments. For example, Mo Ji, the pigeon, obtained a six-pulse sword spectrum and attacked the enemy before the enemy. He wants to exchange the original works of the three wonders of Shaolin Temple for a six-pulse sword spectrum. This business is cost-effective, and even several eminent monks in Tianlong Temple have been moved. He asked Master Ku Rong to make up his mind. Let's see what Master Ku Rong said:
Master Ku Rong asked, "How far have you practiced your one-yang finger?" Ben sweated on his forehead and replied, "The disciple's roots are stupid, but he failed to improve, and he only got Grade 4."
Master Ku Rong asked again, "As you can see, the one-yang finger in Dali is better than the three fingering methods in Shaolin: picking flowers, leafy fingers and robbery-free fingers." The reason says: "fingering is neither good nor bad, but skill is high."
Rong said, "If you live to be a hundred years old, how many achievements can you achieve?" Ben came down with sweat on his forehead and trembling. "I don't know." Rong asked, "Can you win the first place?"
The local voice said, "I can't make up my mind." Master Ku Rong stopped talking.
Benyin said, "Uncle Shi's words are very good. "Our own Yang refers not to study well by ourselves. What do we need other people's martial arts classics for? Wang Ming has come a long way to wait for a fast in our temple to welcome him. " So, naturally rejected the request of Wang Ming.
Master Rong's words tell how many people are confused.
All successful people are experts in one thing. Rome wasn't built in a day. But in reality, most people are "greedy enough to swallow an elephant" and want to do everything, but they can't do everything well.
This passage is really Mr. Jin Yong's warning to the world: to be a man and do things, you must be expert and avoid impetuous greed.
Reading Mr. Jin Yong's book depends not only on fighting and killing, but also on the reasons he wants to express.
The so-called "big talk, great wisdom is foolish, great wisdom is foolish." The truth is often the most unpretentious, which is passed down from mouth to mouth, but few people practice it, but if they can all do it, it is no different from a saint.
03
Read the Tao.
What is Tao? It is the law of Gankun's operation and fate turning.
More specifically, it is the "causal theory" of Buddhism and the "fatalism" of Taoism.
Mr. Jin Yong is a great man in the world, and Tianlong Ba Bu is a metaphor for cleverness and clumsiness. I still remember that Jiu pointed out the origin of Rong's participation in Zen:
"There is impermanence, double trees wither and flourish, east and west, north and south, neither virtual nor virtual!"
What does this sentence mean? It turns out that the world knows that Sakyamuni died in Borneo between two trees, but few people know that there are actually two trees in the east, west, north and south, and the two trees on both sides are called "four withers and four glories". According to the Buddhist scriptures, the oriental double tree means "constant impermanence", the southern double tree means "with me and without me", the western double tree means "with me and without me", and the lush tree of glory means positive, always happy, with me and a net; Dead trees mean just the opposite, impermanence without happiness, without me without purity. Tathagata died between these eight realms, that is to say, he was neither dry nor honorable, nor empty.
Let's look at the names of the key figures in the virtual bamboo line:
Born out of Zhuangzi, Master of Health Care, Infinite Son: "My life is limited, but my knowledge is also limited. With infinity, it's almost there! "
Su Xinghe's "New Ode to Yutai": "Looking at the mountains and rivers, there is no similarity, and the Milky Way is still discernible."
Ding Chunqiu's "Happy Tour in Zhuangzi": "There are ghosts in southern Chu, 500 years old is spring, and 500 years old is autumn; There are big stumps in ancient times, eight thousand years old is spring, and eight thousand years old is autumn. "
Even the name of the bard is taken from the name of Xiaoyao; The magical power of the northern ghost, a martial art of Zhenpai, also originated from the fish in the northern ghost, named Kun. I don't know how big it is, but it is thousands of miles away. "
This shows that Mr. Jin Yong has profound attainments in the study of Buddhism and Taoism.
Throughout the book, all characters are doomed, nothing more than "cause and effect" and "fate".
What is cause and effect? That is, "good is rewarded with good, and evil with evil."
Ding Chunqiu defied his teacher, but in the end he lived and died together, and all his disciples abandoned him like dirt.
Duan had countless negative people in his life, and finally he realized that he had hurt others and himself. Even his only son is not his own.
Kang Min was greedy for vanity, killing her husband and hurting others, but she was scared to death by her appearance because of her conceit and beauty.
This is called "good is rewarded with good, and evil is rewarded with evil."
What is fate? That is, "heaven and earth are heartless, and everything is a grass dog", and to put it bluntly, "heaven is impermanent."
Qiao Feng is a contemporary hero. He spent half his life defending DaSong and killing Liao people. In the end, it was not accepted by the Song people and could not let go of their own country and world. He must sacrifice for the peace of the people. So sad!
Look at Xu Zhu again. He was born stupid and ugly. He learned unparalleled martial arts by mistake, and was the leader of the bard and the son-in-law of Xixia. How lucky!
This is called fate, life and death are life, wealth is in the sky, and fighting is futile.
Some people think that the way of rivers and lakes is not only "cause and effect" and "fate" can be clearly stated.
Like Xu Zhu, the first half of his life was bumpy, because his parents planted it, but the second half of his life was really strange. But it is not because of his bodhisattva heart and kindness that he solved the pain of the "symbol of life and death" of the owner of 36 holes on 72 islands and won everyone's loyalty, but he should also be "as you sow, so you reap."
Cause and effect and fate are morally contradictory. But everything in the world is elusive, between constancy and impermanence.
The only way to survive is to go with the flow, do the right thing, do good things with cause and effect, and resist fate with a normal heart. I think this is what Mr. Jin Yong wants to tell us.
Reading "Eight Dragons" is to read people, reason and Taoism, to look at all beings and to look at yourself.
The rivers and lakes in the book are swords and shadows. When we come out of the book, we have to face the intrigue and insincerity of the real world. The purpose of reading is to know yourself in the book, examine yourself, stick to your true heart and do the right thing, so that you can face the dangers in the Jianghu, because no one can really quit the Jianghu.
Some people have grievances and rivers and lakes. People are Jianghu. How did you quit?
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