First of all, the fourth episode should be renamed from "Feast Kaifeng" to "Wild Fire", which is a small matter.
Then talk about the Water Margin Liangshan.
As far as I am concerned, writing articles will have a habit, the plot is not mine, I do not write. But how the plot becomes "mine" depends on being able to understand a certain image, then it can be shaped in the brain, it can be substituted, and then the feeling can be arbitrarily transmitted in my way, usually before I write something, there will be such a digestion process.
If you want to use an analogy, there are usually some fanfiction - I have seen some before, but I usually don't like it, because the traces of animation are too heavy, and the author gave up his own things for the things that belonged to animation in his heart, such as listing Some "stalks" and the like, after reading it, readers completely think of cartoons, which they find interesting, but in fact, this is not the way to write a book.
Of course, this is just my personal likes and dislikes.
I have no personal feelings or prejudices about Water Margin, really not. Because before this, I have not read the Water Margin completely, of course there will be fragmentary impressions, when it is usually positive, I like Wu Song, I like Lu Zhishen, I like Lin Chong, and I like Hu Sanniang. After the initial release of the clues of Water Margin, when facing the third episode, I once considered whether to have a martial artist Liu Xigua, because at that time there was still a choice, that is, when Ning Yi went north, I might be able to write about it. Hu Sanniang, and there were already red grapes at that time, if there were more watermelons, Sanniang would be a bit redundant.
In the end I chose watermelon.
Then when the plot of Water Margin was really about to be written, I made up for Water Margin for a while, in order to really digest the characters and clarify the clues. I must grasp the psychological activities of each character clearly, because for example, Ning Yi kills Song Jiang, I have to not only replace Ning Yi, but also Song Jiang. I have to regard myself as Song Jiang, and make sure that he has the greatest fear in his heart... Ning Yi's nagging, many people thought that I was preaching something to readers, such as the nihilistic view of good and evil, that there is no good and no evil, but it's not. In fact, what Ning Yi said was: Bring out the good and the evil, and I will kill you. Putting aside the good and evil, I must kill you today. His gods held it in order to give Song Jiang the greatest sense of fear and trampling. When a person can't argue with theory about his own life, that is, he can't even say a word, that is the biggest trampling on that person. "I will kill you, please understand."
Therefore, in the process of digestion, I encountered a lot of psychological obstacles. How did Qin Ming feel Song Jiang's "loyalty", and then bowed his head. When Hu Sanniang was killed and then forced to marry, in the book It was written "feeling the leader's loyalty..." How exactly did she feel.
Ordinary people commenting on the Water Margin will say that Hu Sanniang has no personality, or that Shi Naian has contempt for women or something. Comments can be made like this, but I want to write, and I can't think like this. Everyone's mood must be causal and as reasonable as possible. Once written, I have to speak in this role myself, and I have to see how his character came from. I can only do my best to make up my mind. For example, Hu Sanniang, her family was killed, her fiancé was killed, Zhujiazhuang was killed, and all the people she knew were killed in front of her. She may have been a more assertive woman before, this At that time, she was also frightened. I can only walk this line by seeing an ancient woman who was terrified by the many evil deeds.
Then a lot of people have to make up their minds and try to make these characters "understood" by me. I still thought about "accepting" some people at first. But later, when I really understood, the plot developed like this. There are quite a few book friends who attribute it to Banana's prejudice against the Water Margin. I really don't. Some people will measure my likes and dislikes. There is a world in my mind, of course I can push him, add some things, see how it evolves, and find interesting ways to evolve, but I never change because of my likes and dislikes. This part of Water Margin is more about The process of letting them develop on their own, under the laissez-faire deduction.
Then, reading a book and assuming a role can be very refreshing, or it can be very relaxing. If Ning Yi is substituted, it is more likely to have a thrill of killing the Quartet - if most people feel it, it is my success. But in this, there are some things that I want to say after seeing it now.
We are weak!
This sentence is very important, so I repeat it again: we! is the weak!
I am used to writing beautiful things, but the world and conflicts I describe are very cruel, because what I have seen myself is so cruel, it is unreasonable. Promoting the beauty of the world has no meaning for us to do things. What is meaningful is that we can find beautiful things. But good things are fragile. Ning Yi's methods are ruthless, because some good things have been broken.
Haruki Murakami has a saying: when strength itself becomes a morality, strength will be defeated by strength.
Some book friends believe in a nihilistic view of good and evil, thinking that there is no good or evil in this world, only interests and butts. I don't like such things, but in fact, nihilism is very easy to appear when a person is exposed to a lot of social information, unable to distinguish and control his inner morality, and it also makes people feel that he Very smart. But in fact, this stage of life is usually no different from secondary two.
We are weak. Why, in fact, there are many book friends who are still very powerful in themselves, or have flourished in society, but even such people, if they are only measured by strength, the stronger will always exist. But if there is really no good and no evil in the world, the strong bully the weak, or there is really no need for a reason.
The world is cruel, so beauty is precious. There are some things that you need to fight for and protect instead of playing a house. In this world, we are all weak, the things in our hands may be taken away, and the beauty we have may not be guaranteed. If one day, someone tramples over, can the law fully protect you? Now whoever has an accident at home is looking for a relationship. For example, a billionaire, you offend him, and they spend money to kill you, may be able to settle things easily. There are such examples all over the world. In a world with a nihilistic view of good and evil, people who want to step on you will step on you recklessly. What can really protect you, what can prevent strong people from being reckless, what can make people as equal as possible, is morality.
And as far as I can see, the less wealthy people are, the more people at the bottom of the society, the more they despise morality, good and evil. But on the contrary, he can walk a little higher, and can be somewhat in awe. I'm not on top, I'm at the bottom like everyone else, and when I write these things, I feel fear.
One day, those who were pushed to the extreme could only pick up guns and kill people in the streets, or go to kindergartens to kill children, just like Ma Jiajue killed his classmates. One day, such a thing may land on you and me, with bad luck, nowhere to go, and nowhere to go. The people of Liangshan are also similar to this.
But the only thing that can protect you and me is morality and good and evil. The concept of morality and good and evil determines what everyone can and cannot do in a truly equal way. It is not necessarily to learn from Lei Feng, but to give everyone an equal bond, what is right and what is wrong. No matter how strict the law is, there are levels. For the weak, I think this should be more clearly recognized.
There may be reasons for evil in the world, but the so-called world is a whole composed of each of us. We are powerless, but we are part of it, only one in 1.3 billion, and we are all part of this evil. .
Oh, I always want to spare no effort to say this, we may become Water Margin, but we may not become Gao Qiu. And a society, after the collapse of the bottom, will often usher in the collapse of the top. For the past five thousand years, we all played to ourselves. In fact, the upper echelons are not necessarily unaware of such a situation. In recent years, they have been promoting morality more and more vigorously, learning from Lei Feng's slogans, and criticizing Pleasant Goat for being too violent... This kind of propaganda may not be powerful. Many times what we see is just satire, but perhaps It is only out of the law that overcorrection must be overcorrected.
If we were in the Song Dynasty, we might not be able to do anything until the social order became rigid and collapsed, and people were inferior to dogs. But we are indeed in a new era that has not been seen in thousands of years. The reason is that everyone has read the book, and when they read the book, they will make a sound, and the above will receive it, and it will cause a change, and this change will be slow, not intense. So I always want to say, we don't need to learn from Lei Feng, we just need to talk, say the right thing to the right thing, say the right thing to the wrong thing is wrong, never talk about it, there will be a huge Span, and society will get better.
In fact, I originally planned to talk about these things after I finished writing the whole book. Oh, in my conception, it will be a long essay, the title is "Summary of the Son-in-law: For those I love and those who hate us". This book has written the face of an era, explained clearly why a world is declining, why we should resist, why we should fight, why we should be patriotic, and after clarifying exactly what patriotism is, perhaps that article will be more convincing. But suddenly seeing some nihilistic views of good and evil made me want to say something first.
This is something that is both retreat and pragmatic, but after reading it, you can actually forget it. The retreat side of it is that I think that can change the world, if everyone speaks up, it can change the world. The pragmatic point is that I don't advocate for everyone to learn from Lei Feng, I just hope that people can speak for good and evil. It's that simple. But of course everyone can forget about these, I just hope that when everyone has had a good time and relaxed, there will be a trace of fear left.
- We are weak.
Of course, part of the evil of Liangshan people is due to the world, and there are reasons for corrupt officials. Just like Lin Chong, being forced to that extent, he can only rebel. As far as his blood feud is concerned, there is no upper limit or lower limit for the revenge of the enemy, but he cannot go to the capital and perish with Gao Qiu, no matter whether he does it or not. To or not want to die, can be understood. On Ning Yi's side, there are the same legitimate reasons. Because when something really happens to someone, the only thing left is to resist. If the reason is right, please say the truth. If the reason is not right, please resist with force, and the resistance must be so fierce.
This is my "Water Margin", I can only guarantee that I have sincerely understood it, some people will think that it is different from his understanding, some people think that I just like Lu Zhishen, that is everyone's freedom. There are also people in the book review area who think that the protagonist, as a modern person, should tolerate ancient people and promote some universal values. If someone wants to kill your quan family, no matter if they kill all or only half of them, after this fact , you are willing to preach universal values to him and forgive him inclusively, that is also your freedom, it is none of my business...