Xiajingqu

Xiajingqu

Xia Jingqu (1705-1787) was born in Jiangyin (now Jiangsu Province) and was named Maoxiu. He is fond of learning, including the history of classics, and the study of various schools of thought, rites, music, military punishment, astronomy and arithmetic. He was conceited of his talent and learning. He traveled to Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Anhui, Jiangxi, Shandong, Hebei and Shaanxi provinces and made friends with famous officials at that time. In addition to Yesou Puyan, there are also Gangmu Juzheng, huanyuxuan poetry anthology, Tang poetry conjecture, medical mengfa, etc.

Book Introduction

"Exposed words of the wild old man" was written by Xia Jingqu in his later years. The novel takes Chenghua and Hongzhi dynasties of Ming Dynasty as the background to narrate Wenbai's heroic achievements in his life. Wen, a plain minister with white characters, is a "true Confucian with great ambition" and "a famous scholar who does not know the heat" (the first time). When he saw that eunuchs were good at power, raped monks and parents, and state affairs were changing day by day, he traveled all over the world. Along the way, he got rid of the bad and helped the poor, and successively rescued beautiful talented women Xuangu, su'e, and Xiangling. Later, they were all taken as side rooms. After entering the capital, he treated the emperor and the prince, showing the skill of bringing the dead back to life. The prince of the East Palace respected the teacher's etiquette and bestowed it on the Imperial Academy. When he heard that King Jing in Beijing was plotting treason, he immediately went to the capital to rescue the crown prince of Donggong, and went to Shandong Laifu to protect the emperor and eliminate the traitors. The prince of the East Palace ascended to the throne, and the prime minister was the great scholar of Huagai and Jinshen, and also the Minister of Li and Bing, with the princess as his left wife. Su Chen gradually leveled off the Japanese and made new achievements. The son of heaven added rites and called him Su Fu. He built a mansion and separated his two wives and four concubines on the sixth floor. Su Chen then made great efforts to denounce Buddhism and Taoism. He also conquered Japan in the East, Mongolia in the north, and India in the south, so that all countries worshiping Buddhism worshipped Confucianism. Sun Fanyan, the son of prime minister, was given a high official position. At the end of the novel, on New Year's Eve, Su Chen's four generations had the same dream, which means that Su Chen should be listed in the ranks of sages and sages, and his status should not be under Han Changli.

Creative process

The author casts his talent and life dream on Wen Suchen. The author was not elected, and Wen Su Chen was No. 1, but he finally became a national teacher and prime minister in white. The author is familiar with the classics and history, and knows medical poetry and military calculation. Wen Su Chen is also a female disciple of medical poetry and military calculation. The author's life was full of frustrations, but he longed for fame and wealth, so he wrote Wen Suchen, who was a supreme minister and enjoyed all the glory and wealth in the world. The novel describes Wen Suchen, who is full of exaggeration, and finally regards him as a saint. Many of the descriptions in the book are unnatural and against the laws of nature. The image of Wen Su Chen is very big according to the scale of Taoists, but he is untrue. This untrue image truly reflects the psychology of feudal Taoists.

evaluate

There has been a long history of using novels to show off talents and learning, and the wild old man's exposed words can be regarded as a representative work. The content of the book is just like the "general rules" which says, "narrative reasoning, discussing classics and history, teaching filial piety and persuading loyalty, planning and decision-making, military art, poetry and medical calculation, feelings of happiness, anger, sorrow and fear, preaching Taoism, exorcism, depicting spring state, longitudinal banter". The author often transfers large sections of the original text of his classics and historical works into novels. For example, 78 chapters on the Three Kingdoms and 87 chapters on the doctrine of the mean are not easy excerpts. As for the incessant ostentation in medical mathematics and natural science, it is a mixture of superstitions in science that cannot be trusted. In this way, the historical theory can't become the historical theory, the classical interpretation can't become the classical interpretation, and the novel can't become the novel. It makes Yesou exposed words have a strange face. "The wild old man exposes his words" is basically a copy of the novels of gifted scholars, beautiful ladies and gods and demons in art. It is a common practice in novels about gifted scholars and beautiful ladies to write about Wen Su Chen's separation and joys with his four concubines, and to write about Wen Su Chen's killing demons and eliminating evils, which is invincible in the world and does not follow the pattern of novels about gods and demons. because of the author's extensive knowledge and deep experience, the description of local conditions and customs in the society at that time is of certain value. The plots and scenes of some market life are also vivid and vivid. For example, in Chapter 14, the description of the rich man's scheming not only describes his greed in trading, but also describes his study in detail. The description of the environment just sets off the scheming character of stinginess and greed. Most of the characters involved in the imperial court in the works are based on the following facts: King Jining, Wang Chenhao, Anji, Wan'an and Liu Ji, eunuch Jin Zhi, Wang Zhi and Liu Jin, Chen Fang and Wang? Attached to Jin Zhi, Chen Yue and Wang Yue attached to Wang Zhi and Jiao Fang and Zhang? Attached to Liu Jin. The author combines the histories of Chenghua, Hongzhi and Zhengde in Chenghua and Hongzhi, and makes a lot of processing and fabrication, This kind of attitude is not only a feature of the novel, but also reflects a tendency in the creation of the novel at that time. The author of "the wild old man exposes his words" regards himself as a Taoist, but there are a lot of obscene words in the novel, which is also the exposure of the Taoist's soul. There are 152 copies of the book in huizhenlou of Xiling in the seventh year of the reign of emperor Xinsi of Guangxu, which is the original of the first engraving, and 154 copies of the book in the eighth year of the reign of emperor Renwu of Guangxu, which is the supplement of the original of the first engraving.

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