First, the biography of Jigong is especially like a chivalrous biography. Jigong traveled the countryside in the southeast, punishing the strong and the evil, cutting off the big thieves, helping the needy, curing the sick and rescuing the people, simply according to the model of the human chivalry molded in the human world of a true lone warrior. He often said "to kill the evil is the good idea", whenever he saw the grievances of the sky with his eyes, a mantra is "this matter, I monk how can I not care about the reason". He led a group of chivalrous disciples, "specializing in human injustice, cut off the evil and peacefully happy", the ideal of chivalrous personality has completely become the pursuit of the value of the Lohan.
"Jigong Quanzhuan" comes from the folk, but also rooted in the folk, stories and legends of the influence of the whole biography more rich in connotation, Jigong's artistic image is also unique, in the hearts of the people have a very distinctive personality characteristics: witty, humorous, unrestrained, rags, but all day laughing, although the life of the game in the world, but every moment to practice the idea of universal sentient beings. Jigong's stories and legends are a cultural phenomenon in our history and a true folklore. His stories affect all aspects of society, culture and life. Jigong is a historical figure, people in the admiration of the gradual rise to faith, in his death there are more manifestation of the holy spirit of the legend appeared, which is not lacking in intentional or unintentional deification and Buddhism, so that Jigong to the altar. To this day, most of the places where Jigong lived and moved around have become holy places of worship. Jigong has also rightly become a sacred monk and a living Buddha in people's minds.
Ji Gong repeatedly punished corrupt officials such as Wang Shengxian, Qin Heng and Bian Hu, and also helped the government to catch Hua Yunlong, a flower thief in Xichuan, and suppressed Shao Huafeng's rebellion. The most impressive aspect of the book is that Jigong, while practicing chivalry, leads a group of chivalrous disciples who go out of their way to serve a certain Qing official, which is very reminiscent of the Qing official-chivalrous model of public chivalry novels of the same period. It is only that Jigong is different from the individual chivalric disciples who are submissive and subservient to the government; Jigong has always maintained his individual independence of personality, and on the contrary, he is obeyed and worshiped by the government, and he has no scruples and is completely egotistical, even in the presence of the prime minister, Qin Hsi. In the feudal relations of production is not yet to the end of the time, objectively has its own significance, the people of that era to overthrow their own country, such as the Kangxi time of the Sanfan rebellion, Jungaldan rebellion, etc. can not be on the heart of the sky, under the people's wishes, does not accord with the trend of history.
Two, in its depiction of town life, Jigong Quanzhuan also touches upon the issue of changing human relations in the late feudal period. In the feudal era, feudal ethics and morality were important pillars in maintaining the rule of the landlord class. As the landlord class went into decline, feudal ethics gradually collapsed. The veil of warmth and affection of the patriarchal system was torn away, and the power of money began to haunt people's minds. In the towns and cities, some people robbed on the road, or opened black stores and murdered people; some people pretended to be gods and goddesses and cheated people; the government offices were dark and the officials abused the law. It gives people an impression of chaos and light. In the midst of all the clamor, the main theme that constituted the era was the oppression of the people by the feudal forces. In China, from the middle of the Ming Dynasty onwards, the mother-fruit of the feudal economy had already nurtured the tender shoots of capitalism, but the natural economy was still dominant. It was still the feudal bureaucrats and landlords and gentry who dominated the destiny of all classes in the towns and cities, which is truly reflected in The Complete Biography of Jigong. The author also writes that blackmail has become the main motive for some people in the towns to commit crimes. In the street, everywhere there are selling fake medicine, even the monk also pinched the cake into a ball, swindled that this is a panacea; some monks pretend to be lame, in order to hide people's ears, at night so that they can go to steal money; some people break the bridge, "ferry blackmail". "People die for money, birds die for food", so there are incidents of fighting for each other's business and gathering people to fight. For the sake of money, some people put "propriety, justice, honesty and shame" of the cloth simply thrown away. In the forty-first time, the author wrote down a wonderful scene: filial piety Lian Li Wenfang's brother died, his wife at home widowed. Li Wenfang "discovered" that she had an adulterous affair with someone else, so he shouted and said that she had dishonored the family, and drove her back to her mother's home. The truth of the matter is that Li Wenfang wanted to monopolize the family's wealth and went out of his way to trap his sister-in-law to death. It is very clear that it is the temptation of money that makes Xiaolian Gong lose his heart. As mentioned above, the author writes that in the towns where Jigong traveled, there was a lot of competition for money and profit, and "the noise was like a fly sucking blood". This picture, superimposed in front of the reader's eyes, makes one feel strongly that the relationship between people in the late feudal period has begun to be infused with new factors.
The lower class of the disaster-prone people needed stability more than anything else, and war and turmoil often meant more misery, suffering, and even loss of life for them. So while people longed for immortals and chivalry to rid them of injustice, they also longed for stability in the country, the so-called peace and prosperity of the Confucian cultural ideal. After the middle of the Qing Dynasty, the country was unified and the political situation was stabilized, the mentality of the scholars to restore the Ming Dynasty had been worn out, and in the later period, when internal and external troubles intensified, people hoped that the country's society would be more stable. From this point of view, the works written about gods, demons and chivalrous persons helping the government, eradicating evils and eliminating the strong, and pacifying rebellions were, to a certain extent, also in line with the wishes of the people. Modern martial arts novelist Jin Yong said, "For the sake of the country and the people, the greatness of chivalry", that is, this is also said.
Three, "Jigong Quanzhuan" to promote Buddhism, in line with the "Buddha figure only to start, the idea of the road with the birth; if you believe in the words, Xi Guan Daohua ...... precepts strict, this is to achieve the great way; playful play, but also free of the mystery" of the guidelines, depicting the characters, play the story. In this way, not only to avoid the conceptualization, formula, and make the characters more real, vivid; plot more full of life, rich in attraction. Jigong's way of punishing the wicked is even more original: he wants to punish the rebellious son, just a finger with his hand, the rebellious son's legs will keep running up; teach a lesson to the money-hungry dilettante slaves, turn a piece of stubborn stone into a beautiful jade, so that they are carrying seventy to eighty pounds of fake goods running back and forth. This way of punishing the wicked is mixed with mockery and ridicule, and only a character like Jigong can use the means of punishment that makes people laugh their asses off. In the book, the author writes that Jigong's actions are like the pranks of an urchin, and that his struggles are comedic in nature. He not only wants to put an end to all the tragedies in the world, but also to turn them into comedies; he not only wants to avenge the oppressed, but also to make the oppressors show up and make the bystanders laugh before he stops. Jigong firmly guards a creed: put down the butcher's knife and become a Buddha on the ground. In Jigong, both ordinary humanity and extraordinary divinity are embodied, which is an organic combination of the mediocre and the sublime. Therefore, it is more approachable to the readers. The idea of Jigong's punishing the evil and promoting the good is realized in the playfulness and laughter, showing Jigong's infinite magic power and compassionate heart to help the world.
The Complete Biography of Jeet Kune Do writes about heaven, earth, and hell; it combines gods and demons, martial arts, and public crime novels in one book, which is especially interesting. The plot is vivid, colorful and elegant **** appreciation. However, it is mainly written about the life of the citizens and caters to the aesthetic needs of the general public. Jigong Quanzhuan (The Complete Biography of Jigong) is also aimed at persuading the good and punishing the evil. The author will be reason, things, feelings organically combined together, the Zhuang in harmony, teaching in fun, the use of realism and romanticism combination of creative methods, successfully shaped the artistic image. The author's ideological tendency is naturally revealed through the image, without any suspicion of didacticism. During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, the idea of the unity of the three religions of Buddhism, Taoism and Confucianism became the mainstream of civil society thinking, and he further destroyed the religious thinking of the Chinese people, who were originally not devout. In this context, the religious color of Jigong novels gradually faded, to the "Jigong biography" and its sequel religious meaning and religious tendencies have completely disappeared, whether it is the gods and goddesses, Buddha and saints or demons and monsters, is more like an ordinary mortals, the gods and demons here, but rather than the gods and devils of the fight, but rather than the competition between masters of the jianghu more aptly described. And the magic treasures and formations in here are nothing new to speak of. Demons of the magic treasure is nothing more than "bind immortal rope", "mixed stone", "cover immortal bell" category, still not free from "Journey to the West", "the list of the gods" of the old trick.