The protagonist is a young monk. What makes him different is his stuttering state, which has always brought him a strong sense of inferiority since he was a child. Everything around him has become exquisite and hateful in his eyes. For example, in the face of flying snow, he will have doubts about "why doesn't snow stutter" and relieve his depression in the melody of doubt. Only the Golden Pavilion, with its unparalleled beauty, may lead him at any time.
Before seeing the golden pavilion, there were golden pavilions everywhere; After seeing the gum kuo restaurant, he became a gum kuo restaurant himself, or it was hidden in his destructible body.
Whether it is a golden pavilion surrounded by dust and noise, or a golden pavilion that faces silently and alone, a golden pavilion in the dark and a golden pavilion in the sun, it has sheltered his life and protected his life. The golden pavilion has become an elf-like existence, time has given beauty, and eventually it has accumulated into beauty, making things elf-like.
Jin Geyi appeared at any time when he was ashamed. Whether he leaves the cypress tree to escape, stays at the top of the mountain with the landlady, or faces the excessive despair of the flower arranging girl, the Golden Pavilion will become a destination that he can't even perceive and become a sedative to block all desires.
What excites him most is that everything that destroys him can also destroy the golden pavilion, so that danger becomes the medium between him and the golden pavilion. An interaction of "I don't know whether Zhou's dream is Zhou or not" was born, and there was a balance between Brother Jin and him.
The imagination of the destruction of the Golden Pavilion has sprouted in the hearts of many air strikes in World War II. Until finally, the young monk burned the golden pavilion himself, gained a new life, and turned the passive into the active darkness, which had to be said to be an ideological explosion.
Thousands of ideas about the destruction of the Golden Pavilion, such as the possibility of destroying solid beauty, the contingency of fire and the historicity of arson, are actually a kind of responsibility transfer, aiming at rationalizing this cruel idea and providing moral feasibility for crazy actions, just like the young monk's wish to become a tyrant in his mind. Destruction is perfection, and until the end, it is still bound and tired by beauty.
Apart from the Golden Pavilion, the people and things around the young monk have special significance to him. Although this is a very subjective assumption, there are still traces to be found. His good friend Chuanchuan, for him, is a symbol of life and light, almost like a golden pavilion. Chuanchuan's sudden death hit him hard. He comforted himself that the pure beauty destroyed by accident is its ultimate destination. However, when Mu Bai finally told him the truth of Chuanchuan's death, at that moment, his imagination of pure beauty collapsed instantly and turned into a pile of ordinary glass slag. I think this is one of the important reasons that prompted him to burn down the Jingu Temple. Pure beauty should be attributed to nothingness, and beauty mixed with the world should be reduced to ashes.
The young monk lived before and after Japan's defeat, and the war rarely mentioned in the book was a deeper hidden spiritual killer. For those who haven't rushed to the front, war seems not to exist at a certain moment, and it seems to be only a spiritual event, but the impact of war on people is far from physical. In Yesterday's World, Zweig wrote at the beginning of World War I, "A city with a population of two million feels that it is experiencing world history, and strangers are talking in the street. At that time, people knew nothing about war and conflict and were still looking forward to a bright future. " That kind of trance reflects people's trance spirit, and the distortion of human nature by war is intangible and profound.
All the female characters in this book can't get rid of the sadness created by the times. War is a huge curtain in their lives and emotions, which brings them a shadow that they can't see the margin. The navy deserter who fell in love with the wanderer had no way to escape after being surrounded by military police, so he had to double suicide; The dissolute flower arranging woman also had a sad love story before her lover died in battle; The geisha was forced to stillbirth because of the bullying and tyranny of American soldiers. All this had an indelible influence on the young monk's spirit, and finally made him a murderer of arson.
The young monk seemed to want to catch the last straw before burning down the golden pavilion. The appearance of the Zen monk was not very hostile to him, and was even understood by unspeakable emotions for the first time. I don't know whether that short and Zen talk comforted him or made him more determined. In short, his spirit felt relaxed for the first time. However, straw is straw after all, and compared with the vortex below it, that kind of relief is short-lived.
"Beauty is enmity" is the core of the book "Golden Pavilion Temple". Everything man-made can destroy beauty, war, arson and humanity. How to treat beauty and how to deal with it is only at the moment of consciousness that how to master the weapon of consciousness is the eternal goal of mankind.
Reading Bibliography: Yukio Mishima's "Golden Pavilion Temple"
Bibliography: Zweig's Yesterday's World