Perhaps due to my shallow experience, I was a little speechless in front of this long and delicate classic, just like a trickling stream accidentally entering the sea for the first time. The unattainable artistry and ideological quality of "A Dream of Red Mansions", even among the world's literary works,
, and it should be second to none.
If you read "A Dream of Red Mansions" simply as a love tragedy, you will underestimate its connotation.
Bao Dai's love tragedy certainly reflects the autocracy of the feudal era and the helplessness and pain of lovers who were unable to get married at that time. We can understand it as Cao Xueqin's attack on the feudal system.
And can all the characters in the Jia family represent some typical characters in the feudal era? Can the rise and fall of the Jia family insinuate the rise and fall of China's entire feudal society? Of course, these are all macroeconomics.
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Personally speaking, is the fate of Jia's family also the fate of Cao Xueqin and his family? Does his advanced thinking imply complaints about his lack of fame? These are indeed what we should expect after reading "A Dream of Red Mansions"*
** knowledge, but behind those gorgeous and vivid words, what I read are mostly Cao Xueqin’s sincere teachings to future generations.
Whenever I read about Jia's rich family property, such as thousands of taels of gold, thousands of taels of silver, and how many pieces of silk and satin, I always worry about whether such a wealthy family can successfully continue. After all, the law of "no wealth can last more than three generations" seems to be
Rarely broken.
As expected, there were few diligent figures in Jia's family. Most of them were playing music and singing endlessly and playing drums endlessly. As a result, they could not escape the fate of decline and decline.
This can’t help but sound the alarm for us: from simple to luxurious and easy, from luxurious to simple and difficult.
Another vivid example is the group of Wuling teenagers who were once active in the history.
Most of them are descendants of royal relatives. They are rich and have no worries about food and clothing. They don't have to worry about their studies or make a living. The life of having enough food to eat makes them bored.
In order to pass the time that they couldn't pass away, they compared each other, showed off their wealth, committed evil, and lived in debauchery. What was the result? They were eventually abandoned by the world and forgotten by history.
Nowadays, Chinese people often have a mentality of getting rich suddenly, and all kinds of luxury goods cannot satisfy their desire to spend all their money. What is even more frightening is that this trend is gradually spreading to the younger generation of students, and
It happens to you and me.
It is not difficult to imagine that this kind of unbridled enjoyment will eventually evolve into national character, causing the entire Chinese nation to lose the desire to move forward and make it even more difficult to complete the mission of rejuvenation.
This is not alarmist. A butterfly flapping its wings in Brazil can trigger a tornado in the United States. How can it be that generations of "hearing and seeing" will not lead to an unbearable tragedy! I don't want to denounce it anymore. Mr. Bo Yang has already made a deafening speech.
Scream, I just want to cultivate myself alone, but I can't bear the torture of responsibility.
The general atmosphere of the entire society is no longer something you and I can control. It is the wish of Mr. Zhou Guoping, Mr. Yu Qiuyu, Mr. Wang Meng, etc., and all conscientious scholars to maintain a pure land in their hearts.
I would like to be such a practitioner, live a simple and quiet life forever in my heart, and practice my beautiful prayers.
Mr. Cao Xueqin must have meant the same thing. Between the lines, he seemed to be telling us that all prosperity is just a dream in the Red Mansion. Why bother struggling with the love of your children? Why bother working around the world? Why bother arguing about trivial things? Why bother pursuing pursuits?
Money is a waste of hard work, so why bother adding endless troubles.
Peace of mind is home.
Although "Dream of Red Mansions" is only a literary work, it really describes "human beings": the beauty of human beings, the wisdom of human beings, the bad nature of human beings, and the sorrow of human beings.
By reading such works, we understand ourselves, our families, and our nation.
Pay tribute to Mr. Cao Xueqin, because of him, we have a clear view of the rise and fall of honor and disgrace, and the warmth and coldness of human nature.
Pay tribute to those patriots who work hard to cultivate their moral character. Heroes make the situation happen, and I hope they will no longer be legends.
After reading the 50-word chapter 2 "Journey to the West" is an ancient mythological novel.
It tells the story of the four masters and disciples of Monk Tang, who went through untold hardships and eighty-one difficulties to retrieve the scriptures from the West.
Among them, among Tang Monk, Sun Wukong, Zhu Bajie and Sha Seng, the one who impressed me most was Monkey King, the Monkey King.
I was impressed by Sun Wukong's lack of fussing and his great tolerance.
The story tells that 500 years ago, the Monkey King, the Monkey King, made a big fuss in the Heavenly Palace, and was later suppressed by Tathagata Buddha under the Five Elements Mountain.
One day, Tang Seng met Sun Wukong by chance on the way to learn Buddhist scriptures, and he accepted Sun Wukong as his disciple. Tang Seng had expelled Sun Wukong from his disciples many times because Sun Wukong hurt people's lives for no reason.
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Just say "three strikes of white-bone demons" and let's get back to it.
The white-bone spirit transformed into a human form three times, but Tang Monk was a mortal with naked eyes. I don’t know if it was the demon who transformed into a human form to confuse Tang Monk.
Sun Wukong killed the goblin, but Tang Monk mistakenly thought that Sun Wukong had killed three people, so he kicked Sun Wukong out of the school.
Sun Wukong had no choice but to return to Huaguo Mountain with wisdom.
Until the goblin turned Tang Seng into a tiger, making people mistakenly think that Tang Seng was a goblin.
Thanks to Sun Wukong, he was able to save Tang Seng by helping him regardless of his past grievances.