Appreciation of Characters in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms
(1) Cao Cao
The most recognized figure in the Three Kingdoms - Cao Cao. From the Northern Lieutenant of Luoyang, to the Cavalry Captain during the Battle of Yingchuan, from Sikong, Sikong, who fought against Yuan Shao's army, to the prime minister of Chibi who conquered the world. What runs through it all is the courage and self-confidence of others. As a minor official with six hundred stone, he killed his own uncle Jian Shuo, the powerful servant of Zhongchang, and then completely ignored his own life and death, directly denounced Chao Gang's corruption; facing the demon Dong Zhuo who killed people casually, he dared to talk: "Do you think Is Luoyang the whole world?" It's not so much his awe-inspiring righteousness, but his innate temperament of "Destiny is mine." The Cao Cao in the book is amazingly talented, uses troops like a god, and dares to defy all rules. He wants to use his own talents and courage to create a new world, and he will never flinch for this. The deadly battle with Yuan Shao in Guandu is the final decisive battle between this completely innovative idea and the power of the old clan. In the book, everyone who meets him for the first time is shocked by his temperament. After the Xingyang War, Dong Zhuo's fierce general Xu Rong, who almost killed Cao Cao, only said four words when Dong Zhuo asked how he felt about Cao Cao - helpless Discussion: Zhou Yu, a child from Jiangdong, mistakenly thought that Cao Cao was dead during the Battle of Chibi and aroused his ambition to conquer the world. However, when he learned that he was still alive, his legs became weak in shock and he did not even have the strength to stand up. However, he was completely happy and lived by himself, and he did not hide his ferocity, cunning, and cruelty. When he was a child, when he killed the robbers who attacked him in the street, he would say loudly: "Anyone who betrays me will receive double retribution!" When he destroyed Ye City, he fought for the Zhen family with his son, brutally killed the Dong Cheng family, and used the law to kill Kong Rong who disagreed with his political views. These are all the continuation and growth of this spirit. Worthy of being a traitor of a generation.
(2) Liu Bei
With Cao Cao like that, there must be Liu Bei like that. Cao Cao wanted to use his own talents to control and change the world, and use his own abilities to control talents; but Liu Bei, on the other hand, was a man who wanted to tolerate the world with his mind. The Liu Bei here breaks away from the image of a "Ming Lord" who is blindly tolerant and strives for the world in previous literary works. The book openly writes about his ambition and naivety. When he was weaving mats in Zhuo County, when he first met the righteous hero Guan Yu, Guan Yu asked him what his purpose in life was. He replied: "I like money, beauty, power, but what I want to see even more is for all the people in the world to be happy." One sentence convinced Guan Yu, and a well-known legend began. Ambition, in troubled times, who doesn’t have his own ambition? But being able to subordinate one's own ambitions to the interests of all people, isn't this what I think of Liu Bei, the true hero in my mind? Liu Bei in the book has mediocre talents and does not have superb martial arts skills, but he has something that Cao Cao will never have - a heartfelt care for the people. In the book, due to countless failures, he also lost his way several times. For his own comfort, he also thought about giving up the world, but he was able to stand up again every time. When he fled from Xuchang to Xuzhou, he faced the oppression of countless people. Cheering, Liu Bei struggled in his heart and finally shouted: "From now on, I will no longer hold the world with Cao Cao!" Then he personally beheaded the chariot and the horse under the horse in public, cutting off the possibility of reconciliation with Cao Cao. Liu Bei is a big skin, which is empty in itself, but can accommodate all kinds of things, and there are countless heroes and lofty ideals, and the people of the world have voluntarily thrown themselves into this skin. How big is this skin? Maybe I can tolerate the world. Personally, I undoubtedly admire Cao Cao's talents, but if I had to choose a monarch in troubled times, I would choose Liu Bei without hesitation, perhaps just for freedom and laughter. The "sky" in Cao Cao's heart is himself; while the "sky" in Liu Bei's heart is the people. Like Cao Cao, this is the best Liu Bei I've seen so far.
Appreciation of Characters in Dream of Red Mansions
Shi Xiangyun
Shi Xiangyun is one of the characters that Cao Xueqin focused on portraying in "Dream of Red Mansions". She ranks among the best among the "Twelve Beauties of Jinling" and occupies a very important position in the complex image system of "A Dream of Red Mansions". Her image has played an important role in profoundly exposing social contradictions and broadly expressing her works.
In the judgment against Xiangyun, it is written: "What is wealth and honor? Parents are disobedient in their infancy. In a blink of an eye, the slanting light is hanging, and the water of the Xiangjiang River passes away, Chu Yun flies away." The judgment summarizes that Xiangyun was born in wealth and grew up in wealth. Worrying, he lost his parents when he was young, and suffered a tragic fate, so he could only spend his life in poverty and misery. Because her life was extremely varied, her personality also changed with the changes in her life circumstances.
Because she had lived in a high-walled courtyard under feudal rule since she was a child, and was imprisoned in the feudal residences of feudal lords. Her long-term standard feudal upbringing made Shi Xiangyun accept a set of outdated traditional thoughts. concept. In Chapter 31, Shi Xiangyun talks about yin and yang with his maid Cui Lu: Shi Xiangyun believes that "the world is endowed with the two qi of yin and yang, which may be good or evil, strange or strange, and ever-changing, all of which are in harmony with yin and yang." Contrary, how many people are born with rare surprises, but the truth is still the same." When Cuixi said: "From ancient times to the present, the world has been yin and yang", Shi Xiangyun called her "confused" and scolded her for "farting". , and then further explained his point of view: "Everything is yin and yang, how can there be a yin and yang? The two words yin and yang are just one word. When yang is exhausted, it becomes yin, and when yin is exhausted, it becomes yang; It’s not that when yin is exhausted, another yang is born, or when yang is exhausted, another yin is born.
"This grand essay by Shi Xiangyun highlighted how deeply she was poisoned by feudal idealism. It exposed her feudal class nature.
In this article, Xiangyun and Baochai have the same idea. Systematically. When she first appeared in Jia's house, she slept on the same bed as Lin Daiyu, and when she responded to the invitation to join the poetry club on the 37th, she was dragged by Xue Baochai to live with him in Hengwuyuan. Once, when she saw Jia Baoyu trying to eat rouge, she slapped the rouge away and scolded him, "How long ago did he get over this problem of not making progress?" "From then on, the feudal Taoist spirit of this aristocratic girl began to be revealed. Then she used Xue Baochai's accent to persuade Jia Baoyu to make friends with Jia Yucun and others and take the road of official career and economy. These Xue Baochai-like remarks, This made Baoyu very angry, and he immediately denounced it as "bastard talk" just like he did to Xue Baochai in the past, embarrassed her, and drove her to sit in another room. This shows that Shi Xiangyun still has deep-rooted feudal ideas in his heart.
However, with the unfortunate experience of her living as a dependent, the decline and ruin of the four major families, and the turmoil in the Grand View Garden, the "Catkins" written at the last poetry meeting clearly showed her unwillingness to feudalism. The class's "spring farewell" and the infinite attachment and mourning for the complete loss of heaven.
However, the biggest change in Xiangyun's character occurred in Chapter 76, on the day of the Mid-Autumn Festival that year, Jia. My mother led the whole family to have a banquet in the Grand View Garden to enjoy the moon. Although they cheered up and had fun, playing drums, drinking, composing poems, and telling jokes, an atmosphere of solemnity and decay surrounded them. Coupled with the sobs and melodious flute sounds that came from them, the sensitive and sad Daiyu naturally felt sad and leaned over the fence and shed tears. When it was late at night and Xi Sanren returned, only Shi Xiangyun, who was suffering from the same illness, was left to comfort her. Lin Daiyu. As she talked, she couldn't help complaining to Baochai, "I hate Sister Baochai. She talks about our love every day. She has already said that in the middle of autumn this year, we should all enjoy the moon together. We must get together. Let's join forces today. Abandoned us and went to admire the moon by myself." Xiangyun, who had experienced major changes in the Jia family, was neglected by Baochai, and experienced the harshness of the world, finally became isolated from the feudal forces. She and Daiyu sang together "Han "The shadow of the crane crossing the pond, the soul of the flower buried in the cold moon" is a dirge of decadence and despair before the aristocratic class was destroyed. In addition, in Shi Xiangyun, we can also see the "heroic and broad" character and "needing the moonlight scenery" and his outstanding talents. Wait for a series of images below.
As a successful artistic model, Shi Xiangyun’s dialectical character plays a very important role in revealing the social contradictions expressed in the work itself.
2. Appreciation of Characters in the Dream of Red Mansions: Jiao Xing
The first chapter of "A Dream of Red Mansions" tells the story of Yan Jian, a poor scholar in Jia Yucun who "sold his writings and made calligraphy" in the Calabash Temple. He met the young squire Zhen Shiyin and was invited When they got together at home, the conversation was interrupted because "Master Yan came to pay homage", so Yucun was reading books indoors to relieve his boredom. At this moment, Yucun suddenly heard a woman coughing outside the window, so he got up and looked outside. It turned out to be a girl. Huan, pinching flowers there: She has good appearance and delicate features. Although she is not very pretty, she is still attractive.
The maid of the Zhen family pinched her. When Hua'er was about to leave, she suddenly looked up and saw someone in the window. She was wearing old clothes. Although she was poor, she had a round waist and a thick back, a broad face and a square mouth. She also had sharp eyebrows, starry eyes, a straight nose and square cheeks. This maid was busy. Turning around to avoid it, he thought to himself: "This life is so majestic, but so ragged. My family does not have such poor relatives and friends. I think he must be the Jia Yucun that the master often talks about. - The strange saying also said that he must not be long-term. People who are in need often want to help them, but there is no chance. "Thinking like this, he couldn't help but look back once or twice.
When Yucun saw him turning around, he thought that this woman was interested in him, so he couldn't help being ecstatic, saying that this woman must be a big-eyed hero and a confidant in the world. .
Not long after, Jia Yucun was appointed as the county magistrate. He came to take office wearing a black hat and a robe and sitting in a sedan chair. By chance, Jiao Xing, the maid of the Zhen family, was buying thread at the door. He was seen by Yucun who was in the sedan chair, so he sent someone to give him a gift, and "Jiao Xing" was welcomed into the Yamen in a small sedan chair that night.
But he said that Jiao Xing was the girl who looked back on that time. It was unexpected that Yucun had such a strange relationship just by chance. Unexpectedly, he came to Yucun and gave birth to a son in just one year; and half a year later, he had a son. Yucun's first wife suddenly fell ill and passed away, so Yucun made him his wife. It was precisely because of this that he became a master as soon as he looked back.
Chapter 2 of the Jiaxu version of "The Story of Stone", In the place where "I just passed by our door because I saw Jiao Xing, that girl buying threads", there is a note saying Jiao Xing, "It's a lucky thing. " He also said: The excuse is that the girl looked back on that day, so today is just a lucky chance. It is not a true hero in the world. It is not comparable to the red brush and purple smoke in recent novels.
Zhi Pi said that a beautiful apricot is a "lucky person". How should we explain its meaning? According to the book, many young women are all beautiful and unlucky, and their lives are unfortunate. For example, Ying Lian is actually "Ying Lian", and Jia Ying Lian is "Ying Lian". The four Chun Yuan welcomes the visit, which is actually "a sigh of relief". As for Daiyu, Qingwen, Yuanyang, Siqi and the You sisters, although they all ended in different ways, Jiao Xing was a maid. Compared with other young women, her ending should be said to be an exception.
From the description of the original book quoted above, we know that Jiao Xing and Jia Yucun "remembered each other by chance" and got married. success.
This is the only "happy" marriage in the novel "Dream of Red Mansions", which can be described as a "lucky" one!