Zhihu's question, after looking at the answers, I don't quite agree.
Why did you burn down your own home? Some people say that it is a vote, and some people say that it represents the determination ...... the grassIn fact, these statements may be reasonable, but it can be seen from Shi Jin's example that they are not correct.
For specific examples, to analyze them specifically, let's look at Shi Jin first.
Zhuangli Shi Jin and the three leaders, all draped, each person on the gun rack straddled the waist knife, took the Pu knife, dragged it up, and set the grass house behind the village on fire.Shi Jin did set fire to his family's farmyard, but after he escaped, he didn't fall into the grass at all, but went directly to find the ** king to go in. Even if Zhu Wu and others persuaded Shi Jin to fall into the grass, Shi Jin was unwilling.
Zhu Wudao: "My brother is only here to be the owner of the village, but he is not happy. Although the village is small, it is unbearable. Shi Jin said: "I am an innocent man, how can I be willing to defile the remains of my parents." You persuaded me to fall into the grass and never stop the topic again. Shi Jin stayed for a few days and was going to go. Zhu Wu and the others couldn't stay.What kind of name is this? What kind of determination is the grass?
In fact, even if Shi Jin didn't recruit ** later, and he didn't have any money, he didn't go to the grass, he went directly to rob, and he ran into Lu Zhishen because of this.
Shi Jin replied: "Since that day, I broke up with my brother in front of the restaurant, and the next day I heard that my brother killed Zheng Tu and fled. There was an arrest of Shi Jin and his elder brother Jin Lao, so the younger brother also left Weizhou to find Wang Jin. Until Yanzhou, I couldn't find it. When I returned to Beijing, I lived for a while, and I tried my best to find some entanglement here, but I didn't want to meet it. Why did my brother become a monk? ”You see, until this point, Shi Jin can be said to be at the end of the road, and he still hasn't fallen into the grass. During his stay in Beijing, he even met a good friend named Li Ruilan, who later betrayed Shi Jin.
In other words, Shi Jin burned down his own village, not to vote for his name, nor to make up his mind to fall into the grass and cut off his own back road.
In fact, the reason why Shi Jin did this was to attract firepower and facilitate his escape. Therefore, Shi Jin first set fire to the grass hut, and when the people outside went to the back to see, he burned the middle hall again and rushed out.
(Shi Jin) set the grass house behind the village on fire. The bankers each tied up the package. When they saw the fire burning outside, they all ran to the back to look. Let's say that Shi Jin put ** in the middle hall again, opened the door of the village, shouted, and the killing will come out.It wasn't until later that Shi Jin also said that he was trying to save Zhu Wu, Chen Da and Yang Chun, so he set fire to the Zhuangyuan.
After a few days, Shi Jin pondered: "I had to save three people for a while, and I set fire to the village." Although it is a little soft, the wealth of the family is gone. ”To sum up, it can be found that the reason why Shi Jin burned the village courtyard was to save people, and this is the only reason, not for the so-called "casting a name", "cutting off his own back road", "expressing his determination to fall into the grass", etc.
There is also Chao Gai, who burned down his own home, which can also be said to save people, flee for his life, and create chaos.
I saw a wisp of fire in Chaogai Village, burning from the middle hall, gushing black smoke all over the ground, and red flames flying into the air. After walking less than ten steps, I saw about thirty or forty fires in all directions of the front and back doors, all of which were blazing together. Chao Gai told Zhuang Ke to set fire to all around, and he and Gongsun Sheng led more than a dozen Zhuang Ke to go, shouting, raising the Pu knife, and killing the general from the back door.Chao Gai has decided to go to the grass, and his robbery of the Birth Gang has been exposed. There is only one way for him, that is, to escape and go to the grass, that is, whether he sets fire or not has nothing to do with whether he falls into the grass or not.
Another point, when Chao Gai asked Wu Yong to go first, he said something like this.
Wu Yong said: "I waited for some gold and silver, and gave some to him, and then joined the gang." Chao Gai said: "Since the land is settled, it has been discussed." Without further ado! Mr. Wu, you and Liu Tang brought a few villagers, and went to Ruan's house to settle down first, but they came to pick us up on the dry road. I came here after Mr. Gongsun and I merged. ”It can be seen from this passage that Chao Gai and Wu Yong have already discussed that they want to go to Liangshan to settle the grass. Also, Chao Gai has to "fight" with Gongsun Sheng before he can go.
There are two meanings, one is "to clean up, clean up", and the other is "to put together, to put together". Here, the meaning of Chao Gai is obviously the first type. In other words, Chao Gai burned his house to clean up things.
What is it? I don't know, but I can speculate.
Chao Gai was Baozheng in the village before, and people who knew Song Jiang and other county officials estimated that there were also things that "could not see the light" (letters, treasures, etc.), because they could not be taken away (or there was no need to take them away), so they could only be burned. Because if he doesn't burn it, he will definitely be raided and things will be exposed.
Song Jiang's father, Song Taigong, and Song Jiang's younger brother Song Qing, also burned down their homes when they went to Liangshan.
Mrs. Song said fairly: "The two brothers of Zhao Neng have sent people to guard us every day, and when the official document of Jiangzhou arrives, they will arrest my father and son and send them to the lawsuit." I heard you knocking on the door behind the village, and at this time there was already a ** local soldier in the grass hall in front, and then disappeared, and somehow drove out. By the time of the third watch, more than 200 people opened the door of the village, lifted me on the sedan chair, and taught your brother Shiro to pack up the cage and set fire to the courtyard. At that time, I didn't have to ask why, so I came here. ”Since Song Jiang has fallen into the grass, Song Taigong and Song Qing can only fall into the grass, so there is no need for them to decide to set fire to their homes for the sake of casting their names and falling grass.
Judging from Song Taigong's words, his family is also secretly targeted by officers and soldiers, and may be surrounded at any time. The fire should have been set by the leader of Liangshan to save Song Taigong and Song Qing while the chaos was in place. What's more, Song Jiang, as a small official, filial piety Hei Saburo, should have dealings with many Jianghu people, or other officials, and many things in the house have to be cleaned up, so the house must be set on fire.
Like Sun Xin and Gu Sister-in-law, they had made a decision before to save Xie Zhen and go to the grass on the beam. However, they did not set fire to the house, but instead rescued the treasure, and after killing Mrs. Mao's family, they set fire to Mrs. Mao's family.
A group of heroes shouted, and the killing was going to enter, so they killed Mao Taigong, Mao Zhongyi, and all the old and young, leaving no one. I went to the bedroom and found more than a dozen bags of gold and silver treasures, and in the backyard I led seven or eight good horses, and carried four of them. Xie Zhen and Xie Bao picked out a few good clothes to wear, and set fire to the courtyard.In this case, setting fire is actually for one purpose - to vent anger.
After Liang Shang's heroes killed Huang Wenbing's family, they set fire to their homes, also to vent their anger. Li Kui set fire to Hujiazhuang, also to vent his anger.
A similar example is Zhang Qing.
The man said: "The villain's surname is Zhang Mingqing, and he was originally a vegetable garden in Guangming Temple here. In order to fight over some trivial matters for a while, he killed the monks of the Guangming Temple and set fire to the ground. Later, there was no right one, and the lawsuit did not come to ask, and the villain only cut the path under the slope of the big tree.Zhang Qing's move was also to vent his anger, or for another purpose, that is, to destroy the corpse and destroy the traces, so as not to leave clues.
And when it comes to destroying corpses and destroying traces, Lu Zhishen and Wu Song both have such behaviors.
Two torches were tied in front of the stove, dialed **, the charcoal was lit, and the flames burned the back hut first, and burned to the front of the door. Tie a few more torches, go straight to the back eaves of the Buddha's palace, and burn them. The martial artist put the two corpses in the fire and burned them, inserted the sword, and crossed the mountain overnight.Lu Zhishen and Shi Jin killed Cui Daocheng and Qiu Xiaoyi, and Wu Song killed Daotong and Wang Daoren. If everyone is killed, why do they set fire to it again? Apparently to destroy the evidence.
In addition, after Yang Xiong killed Pan Qiaoyu, he went directly to Liangshan to fall into the grass under Shi Xiu's introduction, and he did not burn his house; Zhang Heng, Zhang Shun, Li Jun, Li Li, Mu Hong, Mu Chun and others also made a decision to rob the Dharma field. Once you rob the Dharma field, can you still go home and live in peace? It's impossible, it's just the grass.
However, knowing that the grass was going to fall, they did not set fire to their house.
Mu Hong later set fire to his family's farm, but he had already made up his mind to fall into the grass. He wants to burn the courtyard, but I'm afraid that he doesn't want to burn the furniture that he can't take away, and he can't cheap the officers and soldiers. After all, what can be taken away is soft, and the valuable big guy can't take it away.
Mu Hong cleaned up the village, put up more than a dozen torches, burned the courtyard, left the fields, and threw himself into Liangshan.If you really force people to fall into the grass, then you will set fire to their courtyard, such as Li Ying's Shangliangshan.
Wu Xuexue smiled: "The big officials are poor. The treasures have all been taken to the cottage, and the fire in Guizhuang has been burned to the ground, but the officials are going back there? ”There is also a situation where the people of the mountain, in order to show their determination, will set fire to the village after deciding to join Liangshan.
Song Jiang thanked Taiwei Su, returned to Shaohua Mountain, and discussed with the four heroes to pack up the money and grain of the cottage and set fire to the village. In a few days, he pulled the oxen and the horse, rolled up the cottage money and grain, carried the luggage, gathered the people and horses, burned the zhaizha, and returned to Liangshanbo with Song Jiang and other teachers.Therefore, I personally think that it is not right to say that a good man burned his house before falling into the grass, in order to vote for his name, in order to show that he has made up his mind to fall into the grass. Maybe this is the case in other ** and history, but it is obviously not in the Water Margin.