The sentient beings in The Golden Vase of Plums are rich and poor, and everyone is miserable

Mondo Culture Updated on 2024-01-31

There is a very classic sentence in "Golden Vase Plum", which is often unsatisfactory, and it can be said by others. In this life, whether it is material pursuit or spiritual pursuit, there is a high probability that the so-called happiness is imagination and hope, and it has been exhausted to be able to do it without trouble. Suffering is the norm, not suffering is an example, and feeling happiness is commendable.

I realized the saying that everyone in the world is suffering very early, and I was still in school at that time. The classmate took a copy of "The Golden Vase of Plums", at first out of curiosity, but after gradually reading it, there was a kind of enlightenment. People live in the world, rich and poor, rich and low, everyone suffers, and suffering takes different forms and thousands of differences.

Some people don't know what to suffer. Ximenqing is a person who walks with desires, and his greed has no limits. For example, women, those who come do not refuse, he looks at beautiful women, and beautiful women are also looking at him, rich and leisure, and lustful, and has become the object of hunting by many women. What a woman values is his money, and what he values is a woman's sex. Everyone was happy in Ximen Qingle, but they didn't know what to do, and all the money earned by pickling and pickling was made wedding clothes for others. People revolve around for the sake of profit, and in the end, they have a bad reputation, a bad body, and a violent illness and death. Many people regard the satisfaction of desires as happiness, but in fact, the dimension of life is too low, and the phantom that cannot see through the color is the demon of the heart, and the satisfaction of the desire that cannot be seen through is a disaster.

Some people make it worse for themselves. Ximenqing's concubine Li Bei'er actually had a very hard life, first gave Liang Zhongshu as a concubine, and when the bandits in Liangshan attacked the city, the man ran away despite her. Later, he married Hua Zixu and was occupied by the flower eunuch. Later, he was deceived into marrying by Jiang Zhushan's rhetoric, and finally married Ximenqing. Li Bei'er got married, her husband was worse and worse every time, but she was richer and richer every time, it stands to reason that she has money to be able to make her own decisions, I don't know if it's a love brain or nymphomania, and she can never escape the man's routine, and in the end, Ximenqing's property was cheaper, and she also fell ill and died.

Some people are happy in suffering. Earl Ying and other helpers lived in poverty, idling all day long, and lived by helping Qinglou pull business. These helpers rely on their mouths to mix up their bellies outside, how do their wives and children live at home?Earl Ying did not leave any money to his children until his death, and his family was so poor that he clanged. Are these people suffering?Fighting the autumn breeze everywhere every day in order to fill his stomach has neither dignity nor future. Bitter unconsciously, bitter and self-satisfied.

Human suffering is only self-aware. Wu Yueniang is Ximenqing's wife, facing her husband who sleeps all day long, and the concubines at home are eyeing each other, she doesn't sleep steadily, and lives in fear every day. If the concubine gave birth to a child, she was more bitter than Coptis chinensis because she did not give birth to a child. The concubines were even more uncomfortable when they were favored by Ximenqing, and she was always worried that the concubines would replace her. Ximenqing's daughter and son-in-law are even more bedridden, and she can't sleep peacefully every day. Wu Yueniang is kind on the surface and never goes against others, but in fact, her heart is full of hatred. There is nowhere to complain about the grievances, and there is no one to say about the thousands of sorrows, how miserable these days are. After Ximenqing's death, she grasped the power of the family, chased out the concubines, and killed Ximenqing's daughter and son-in-law.

The world events written in "Golden Vase Plum" are the lives of people from ancient times to the present. The book says that only the two sentences of the "Diamond Sutra" are said well, he said: "Like a dream bubble, like electricity and dew." "Seeing that there is no one in the world, there is no need for one, and at the end of the day, there is no need for one. With your divine power, in the end, you will have to be weak and numb;By the luxury of your copper mountain and gold valley, it is just right to dissipate the ice and snow. If you forgive your appearance of closing the moon and being ashamed, when you reach the eyebrows, everyone will cover your nose and pass by.

In this way, all living beings are suffering, is it a lie?

In the four strange books of the Ming Dynasty, "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", "Water Margin" and "Journey to the West" are all adapted from folk legends and mythological stories. Although the story of "Golden Vase Plum" comes from the "Wu Song Killing Sister-in-law" fragment in "Water Margin", there are very few parts where the plot intersects with "Water Margin".

Its biggest criticism is that the book has thousands of words, and in the long story of more than one million words, this part of the content is negligible, but if it is completely deleted, it will affect the coherence of the book. Even the content of *** is exquisitely written.

For the tinkling little brother Changzhi Festival, Ximenqing extended a helping hand. Sister Li Gui, the fan who deceived his feelings several times, did not wait for an opportunity to retaliate. On the contrary, when Sister Li Gui was involved in a lawsuit, he also used his power to rescue her.

The Golden Vase is the first realist masterpiece to depict family life. The book "Dream of Red Mansions" that we are familiar with is influenced by "The Golden Plum Bottle", and it can be said that without "The Golden Plum Bottle", there would be no "Dream of Red Mansions". "The Golden Vase of Plums" is about the daily life of the common people in the market, while "Dream of Red Mansions" is about the daily life of an aristocratic family. All dynasties and dynasties have their own history books, but the history books have always only recorded the affairs of the court and the major events in the world, and there are few detailed records of the daily life of the ancients. "The Golden Vase of Plums" opens a door of time and space for us to understand the lives of the people in the Song Dynasty and even the Ming Dynasty.

Mr. Lu Xun wrote in "A Brief History of China": "The author's understanding of the world is extremely insightful. At the same time, there is no above". Zheng Zhenduo said: "If all obscene chapters are removed", "Golden Vase Plum" "is still a first-class **."

Therefore, I recommend the ** "Golden Vase Plum" to readers, and many publishing houses have deleted the ** description, and there is no problem in reading. We can draw some lessons from it, and at the same time, we can recognize the critical significance of **.

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