In Jiafu, if you ask who is the number one talent, the answer is none other than Jia Jing. He was the only intellectual elite in Jiafu, but he chose to abandon his official position and pursue monasticism and become a hermit. This is undoubtedly worse for Jiafu. The two brothers, Jia Yan and Jia Yuan, once made great achievements for the family and created the foundation of Jiafu. The children and grandchildren have been stained with the glory of their ancestors and have a hereditary title. However, with the consolidation of the emperor's foundation and the advent of peace and prosperity, heroes gradually lost their usefulness, and the war knives that once won the world also rusted.
In the peaceful and prosperous era, if it wants to continue to win the emperor's favor, Jiafu must carry out a drastic reform. Jia Daihua's generation has been aware of this problem, and has created a family school within the family, naming the names of the first children and grandchildren in Wen to engrave the family aspirations.
Under the careful cultivation of the family, an outstanding person finally emerged in Jiafu, and he was Jia Jing.
Jia Jing won the Jinshi, which is good news for Jiafu. However, Jia Jing's subsequent behavior was disappointing. When his career was bright, he chose to retreat bravely and live a life as he wanted. Thus, his sins also surfaced. In **, the life without Jia Jing in Jiafu is described as follows: Now I don't care about my father. Zhen Ye also doesn't study, he only cares about the pursuit of high happiness, and his family is decadent, and no one dares to ask.
Jia Rong is even better. As the eldest son of Jia Fu, does Jia Jing feel guilty about Jia Fu?
What was really going on in his heart?
Jia Jing chose to enter the Tao and cultivate immortals, which in itself revealed his guilt towards Jiafu. He tried to pray for the blessing of Jiafu through his practice, hoping to achieve the goal of benefiting his family.
However, this practice has a pseudo-hermit flavor. Lu Xun once said that a real warrior dares to face the cruelty of life and face the bloody reality. In contrast, the "hiddenness" of the hermit is often an escape, or a means of "retreating as advance", or a choice of helplessness. So, which kind of Jia Jing's semi-concealment belongs to?
In **, there is a detail that shows Jia Jing's psychology of atonement.
On his birthday, he hurriedly burned an article called "Yin Qi Wen", and prepared to print and distribute 10,000 copies to everyone. The full name of "Yin Qi Wen" is "Wenchang Emperor Yin Qi Wen", and the author is Wenchang Emperor Jun, which is also known as "Wenqu Xing". Although Wen Quxing belonged to Taoism, he advocated the widespread practice of yin and the improvement of moral cultivation. The reason why Jia Jing wanted to print and distribute "Yin Qi Wen" shows his psychology of wanting to atone for his sins.
He chooses to be reclusive, but he wants others to be aggressive, and this contradictory behavior is incomprehensible.
In Jiafu, Jia Jing knew everything about his son Jia Zhen's behavior, and it was impossible for him not to know about it. Therefore, Jia Zhen always avoided seeing her father, and even sent Jia Rong to greet Jia Jing on Jia Jing's birthday. This shows that the relationship between Jia Jing and Jia Zhen is not harmonious, and Jia Zhen can do nothing but hide.
This father-son relationship is quite similar to the relationship between Jia Zheng and Jia Baoyu. Jia Zheng's strict supervision of Jia Baoyu also changed from strict to relaxed, and finally evolved into abandonment. Therefore, in the hearts of Jia Jing and Jia Baoyu, there is a helplessness that they are powerless to change reality, and they try to achieve the ideal world through seclusion.
Although Jia Jing's qi channeling technique was diligent, it was too illusory, resulting in his final poisoning and death.
He did not hesitate to take the risk of taking pills and tried to become an immortal through cultivation. However, in the end, his choice was only a dream shattered, and he became an immortal unsuccessfully. Cao Xueqin harshly criticized Jia Jing, attributing the blame for the decline of Jiafu to Jia Jing, who regarded him as the sinner of the family. Therefore, it is written in "Lifelong Mistake": "Ji Qiu is all respectful, and the first sin is the death of family affairs." ”