When I was a child, books with only a few pictures were forbidden by teachers. The first picture book I received was Twenty-four Filial Piety Pictures from an elder. Among them, the two things that puzzled me the most, even made me sick, were "Lao Lai entertaining relatives" and "Guo Ju burying children".
Accusing this feudal filial piety of disregarding children's lives and taking "nausea as pleasure" and "Guo Ju's filial piety, however, is an act of killing children, which is contrary to human nature and the Confucian concept of" the nature of heaven and earth is precious to human beings ". Take unkindness as a training, slander the ancients and teach future generations to be bad.
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There are many allusions in Twenty-four Filial Piety Pictures, and the author has his own understanding of each allusions (children's perspective). The combination of the two presents another path of literary creation.
Example: Guo Ju buries children.
Allusions say that the Guo family is poor, too poor to worship their mother. They think they can raise their son without them, but there is only one mother. So I'm going to bury the baby and raise my mother. His filial piety touched heaven and earth, so he dug a pit, dug up gold and saved the child.
The author was frightened by the story (when he was a child). He said that he was not only afraid to be a dutiful son, but also afraid that his father would be a dutiful son. Because my family is getting worse, I'm afraid my parents will learn from Guo Ju in the story. Isn't that the buried child himself? Who can guarantee that the digger is really smart enough to dig up gold?
In this article, Lu Xun quoted allusions and skillfully combined the free translation of this sentence of childhood filial piety, which can also be understood as: the combination of allusions and real life, as well as the personality of the characters, produced a new literary structure.