The vast majority of smart people and brave and powerful people are proactive.
Moral standards divide them into two categories: those who work hard to benefit the majority of people are good people; those who only focus on their own power, status and material desires while harming others are bad people.
The size of a good person or a bad person is determined by the number and extent of their blessings or harms.
In politics, bad people are in power most of the time, so there are always people who want to replace them; some people want to carry out reforms, and another type of people have no hope for reforms and do not want to join the ranks of those in power.
Their choice is to withdraw from the whirlpool of struggle and live alone.
So there have always been establishments, rebels, reformers, and hermits.
China's traditional concept encourages people to "learn well and become officials" and learn from Confucius to "know what is impossible and do it".
However, it also has a very high evaluation of hermits and considers them to be noble.
Hermits make no positive contribution to society, but their behavior is completely different from those who strive for power and gain, providing another example.
Chinese people have very lenient moral requirements for people.
As long as they don't harm others, they are considered good people.
The Analects of Confucius records many hermits, such as Chenmen, Chu Kuangjieyu, Changju, Jiedong, He Diaozhangren, Boyi, Shuqi, Yuzhong, Yiyi, Zhu Zhang, Liu Xiahui, Shaolian, etc.
Confucius said a lot about them I respect them very much, although I don't agree with their style.
Confucius divided the hermits into three categories: like Boyi and Shuqi, who do not give up their will and do not sacrifice their dignity, "do not lower their ambitions and do not humiliate themselves"; like Liu Xiahui and Shaolian, who have limited will and dignity.
Sacrifice, but match words with deeds It is reasonable to "lower one's ambitions and humiliate one's body, be honest in words and considerate in actions, that's all"; like Yu Zhong and Yi Yi, they escape from the world and live in seclusion, speak out frankly, do not do bad things, and do not participate in politics, "live in seclusion and speak freely" , the body is pure, and the power is abolished."
Confucius spoke very well of them, and obviously thought that hermits also had a positive side.
To participate in political activities, you have to give up your will and dignity.
There is no choice.
Liu Xiahui was a judge and was dismissed from office three times.
He was advised to go abroad.
Liu Xiahui insisted on justice and replied: "If you serve people with a straight way, why go to the country of your parents if you don't follow the way and serve people in vain?"
The Analects of Confucius.
The key is to "do things to people".
To engage in politics for the benefit of the public must be done by people: stick to principles and serve the public, and do not care about fame and wealth.
Although you have to obey orders from superiors, you can also be said to be a "hermit" As for the hermit in the general sense, the basic requirement is to seek liberation and freedom of individuality without having to worry about others.
When I write martial arts novels, I want to write about human nature, like most novels.
This novel attempts to depict some common phenomena in China's political life for more than three thousand years through some characters in the book.
Allusive novels are not of much significance.
The political situation will change very quickly.
Only by depicting human nature can it have longer-term value.
Desperate seizure of power is the basic situation of political life at home and abroad in ancient and modern times.
This has been the case for the past thousands of years, and I am afraid it will still be the case for the next few thousand years.
People like Ren Woxing, Dongfang Bubai, Yue Buqun, and Zuo Lengchan were not mainly martial arts masters when I imagined them, but political figures.
Lin Pingzhi, Xiang Wentian, Master Fang Zheng, Taoist Chongxu, Master Dingxian, Mr.
Mo Da, Yu Canghai and others are also political figures.
Such various characters exist in every dynasty, and probably in other countries as well.
The slogan "unify the world for thousands of years" was written in the book in the 1960s.
It is a common phenomenon of human nature to allow people to be corrupted by holding great power.
These are not additions or changes after the book was written.
When The Swordsman was serialized in Ming Pao, 21 Chinese, Vietnamese and French newspapers in Saigon were serializing it at the same time.
During debates in the South Vietnamese Congress, members often accused the other party of being "Yue Buqun" Hypocrites or "Zuo Lengchan" are those who seek to establish hegemony.
Probably because of the political turmoil in South Vietnam at that time, ordinary people were particularly interested in political struggles.
Linghu Chong was born a "hermit" and had no interest in power.
Yingying is also a "hermit".
She has the power of life and death over the powerful figures in the world, but she would rather live in seclusion in the back alleys of Luoyang and entertain herself with the piano and flute.
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In her life, she only values personal freedom and the expansion of personality.
The only thing that matters is love.
This girl is very shy, but in love, she is the initiator.
When Linghu Chong's affection was tightly entangled with Yue Lingshan, he could not be free.
Only when he and Yingying were in the same cart on the road outside the Qingsha tent, and his infatuation with Yue Lingshan finally disappeared, did he gain spiritual relief.
At the end of the book, Yingying reached out to clasp Linghu Chong's wrist and sighed: "I never thought that I, Ren Yingying, would be locked with a giant monkey for the rest of my life and never be separated again."
Yingying's love was fulfilled, and she Although he was satisfied, Linghu Chong's freedom was locked again.
Perhaps, it was only in Yilin's one-sided love that his personality was rarely restrained.
In life, full and perfect freedom is simply not possible.
It is not possible for ordinary people to free themselves from all desires and achieve great enlightenment.
Those who are keen on power are driven by the desire for power in their hearts and can't help themselves and do many things that go against their own conscience.
In fact, they are very pitiful.
In traditional Chinese art, whether poetry, prose, opera, or painting, the pursuit of individual liberation has always been the most prominent theme.
The more turbulent the times are and the more painful people's lives are, the more prominent this theme becomes.
"People can't help themselves when they are in the world."
It is not easy to retire.
Liu Zhengfeng pursues artistic freedom, attaches great importance to the friendship that is true to his heart, and wants to wash his hands in a golden basin; the four friends of Meizhuang hope to remain anonymous in Gushan and enjoy the fun of music, chess, calligraphy, and painting; they are unable to do so, and die because the power struggle does not allow it. .
There should be greater moral affirmation for heroes like Guo Jing who risked their lives and knew what was impossible.
Linghu Chong is not a hero, but a hermit like Tao Qian who pursues freedom and individual liberation.
Feng Qingyang is discouraged, ashamed and dejected and retires.
Linghu Chong was born to be unruly.
On Heimuya, whether it is Yang Lianting or Ren Woxing who holds the power, anyone else's casual smile will lead to death, and arrogance is even more serious.
The freedom of "Smiling Proudly in the Jianghu" is the goal pursued by characters like Linghu Chong.
Because what I want to write about are some common characters and common phenomena in life, this book has no historical background, which means that similar scenes can happen in any dynasty. 19805: