The story begins when the protagonist is 7 years old and his father cuts off his left hand. In a word, it has achieved fascinating success. Why did father cut off a 7-year-old's left hand? Is he a cruel father, an attractive stunt, or is there other meaning? For readers who have such doubts, please see the second sentence.
Then I got a good explanation. The boy said that in this world, there are gardeners, carpenters and blacksmiths, and craftsmen are the skills of repairing doors. You can dissect a living person between running water like cutting gold and jade, save people from danger and kill people invisibly. Very novel brain hole, refreshing, more interested in finding out.
We say that weapons have no good or evil, and those who use them give them good or evil and meaning. A craftsman's craft is like a peerless sword. Chivalrous people can use it to hoe the strong and help the weak, while adulterers use it to help others. It is a double-edged sword, both sides are equally sharp.
After the protagonist was 7 years old, his father gave him the freedom to choose whether to be a craftsman or not. The protagonist inherited this craft. The protagonist's name is Cheng Shan, and the original intention of his parents to name him Shan moved me very much. I quote my mother in the article: "I know you are better than others, but what you need to learn most is your father's kindness."
Such a unique "power", with what kind of original intention, the effect is naturally different. The word "good" is to keep the protagonist from going astray. "Good heart, good people."
After Cheng Shan finished reading the books handed down by his ancestors, his father opened his eyes for him. After that, he never saw his father again. Here, the author left a foreshadowing. The mother gave her runaway son a black umbrella, a letter and a jade Jue. What she asked was "Don't come back." Obviously, the protagonist is a teenager with a story, destined to have a legend. This can't help but make people more curious about what will happen to the protagonist.
He left home and set foot on the road to Beijing. On the way, the mountain thief at the foot of the mountain said that there were evil descendants of the Cheng family in the palace, who regarded the living as things and ignored human life. This prompted Cheng Shan to enter the palace to find out.
Meet the painter Cai Ming, a lively and playful girl, who is also a mystery. For example, she has a pen that paints a living thing wonderfully, but a dead thing lifelessly. The girl has been interested in letting Cheng Shan open the black umbrella to show her. When Cheng Shan really opened the umbrella, she ran away crying. This is what I have never understood. The black umbrella of the Cheng family is so powerful that it can turn people close to it into paste that even one-handed craftsmen can't resist it.
Cai Ming and Cheng Shan's destinations are both Beijing, but they parted ways halfway, which makes people unpredictable. In the palace, Cheng Shan saw the flowers, stones and plants in the palace with bright colored pens, which was actually lifelike. Since Cai Ming can only be represented by creatures depicting the soul, it can be inferred that every grass, tree, table and chair in the palace were made by the emperor with living people according to his wishes. Cheng Shan's exploration of abandoned human settlements at night confirmed this point.
Soon after, Cheng Shan met the Emperor Won Ruyi and learned that it was Won Ruyi who turned the imperial secretary into an object. It is for this purpose that he wants to have a dynasty that lasts forever, turning people into tables, chairs and flowers.
One thing must be added here. When the emperor was born as he wished, he was actually dead. At that time, craftsman Liang Wen claimed that he could save the prince. Then, he used his craftsman's arm to blend into the prince's body, reshaping Ying Ruyi.
This skill is called casting people, which is the highest skill of craftsmen. If the casting people use a lot of craftsmen's parts, the casting people and craftsmen are very similar in temperament, and even have a heart. If the craftsman uses less parts, it can only be more similar. What should be satisfied is a gentle arm. Therefore, I dare to guess that the evil in Ying Ruyi is somewhat self-indulgent.
Liang Wen claimed that he had done something wrong and planned to ignore the world of mortals and kill a maid-in-waiting. Even so, when I first met Cheng Shan, why did she take action to deny the son of an old friend? If she really wants to be detached, why doesn't she just become a monk and get rid of the secular world, which is pure? Also, he promised Cheng Shan to save Cai Ming. Cai Ming finally died and was made into a face and hung on the wall of the emperor's collection. All this shows that this gentleness is not so simple.
Liang Wen claimed that the emperor had hurt Cheng Shan's parents. He obeyed Cheng Shan's father's wishes, cut off his arms and threw in the "adoptive father" who raised Cheng Shan at the beginning of the article. This also explains why my father opened his eyes for Cheng Shan, who was hard-working but didn't see his father. Because everyone casting has a deadline. When the deadline comes, it becomes mud. Just, I don't understand, since Cheng Shan is far away from the palace, why should he be a craftsman instead of an ordinary person all his life?
So, I think: from the beginning, this may be a big chess game under Liang Wen. First of all, he can't make a man. He didn't turn Ying Zheng into his favorite puppet, but made an emperor who looked like him but didn't listen to him. Not only that, Liang Wen was also subject to the emperor, and they balanced each other. So, unwilling warm-hearted conscience gave birth to a plan. His good friend, Cheng Shan's father, fell in love with the maid-in-waiting (Cheng Shan's mother) and gave birth to Cheng Shan. So he used Cheng Fu against the emperor, but he didn't want to be exposed. Father Cheng was made into a chair and mother Cheng was made into a laundry list.
Therefore, Liang Wen played along, cut off Cheng Fu's hands, made him a "adoptive father", accompanied Cheng Shan out of the palace, and educated Cheng Shan. Go back to the palace one day, avenge, kill Ying Ruyi, and let Liang Wen take his place.
If I think so, then the ending is really tragic, which shows that Liang Wen's final strategy has succeeded. He succeeded in replacing Ying Ruyi with Cheng Shan and became emperor.
"Adoptive father" and "adoptive mother" have been educating Cheng Shan to be kind. The moral of this is that the "adoptive father" was voted by Cheng Shan's biological father, so it continued his father's kindness, or is kindness also a means of gently controlling Cheng Shan? I can't help remembering!
There is still a little doubt, and then come to the end of the article. Cai Ming finally retained a surviving soul with his ancestral cloak. Before she left home, she also had a formula, echoing Cheng Shan's "In case of danger, take an umbrella, go to the realm, read a letter, meet an old friend and hold on tight". Cai Ming's formula is, "When in danger, put on your cloak. To the realm, write. Meet an old friend and hold on. " Obviously, Cai Ming is an old friend of Cheng Shan. In that case, why didn't you recognize each other when we met? This is my biggest doubt, which has not been solved yet.
There are a thousand Hamlets in the hearts of a thousand people. The above views are my interpretation of craftsmen. Perhaps, after reading it, you will have a different view. This is what I think is the charm of this article. In the world, right and wrong are inextricably linked, complicated and mixed with good and evil. There are good and evil, and there are evil and good, which cannot be pointed out. Maybe Cheng Shan saw through Liang Wen's plot, but he had to do it. Perhaps, he is a man of great wisdom, and in the end, the choice is hard to be confused. Everything has to wait for you to see it completely and experience it carefully.
Some personal opinions, welcome to correct me.