Zhu Xiaojian
"Shi Shuo Xin Yu" is a fascinating book, so many scholars have always interpreted it.
As we all know, the people and things recorded in Shishuoxinyu are fragmentary and fragmentary, and are distributed in thirty-six categories, and this is exactly what Dong Shangde focused on in his Shishuoxinyu In the place where people and things scattered in different articles are gathered, "the story of a certain person, roughly according to his life experience, is redone and integrated, referring to the official history, and combining some important information of Liu Xiao's annotations to explain or differentiate in detail. ", to restore the lives of celebrities in accordance with the order of the times, such a unique style has a little more meaning.
In this book, Dong Shangde's list of celebrities is based on Yuan Hong's "Biography of Mingshi" in the Eastern Jin Dynasty. Dong Shangde added the famous people of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, thus splicing out the panorama of the famous people of the Wei and Jin Dynasties.
According to the era when the celebrities of the Wei and Jin Dynasties appeared, we can see that even if they are members of the same celebrities, there are great differences in their personalities in different eras.
Several famous scholars in the Zhengshi era liked to talk about metaphysics. "Their talk of metaphysics led the study style of the two Jin Dynasties and profoundly influenced the spiritual world of scholars and officials. They were the founders of metaphysics and the idols of later scholars. The way is respected as 'the voice of the beginning'." The seven sages of Zhulin lived very flamboyantly, "It is the vulgarity that makes them appear to be down-to-earth living people, not recluses from the world. What can't be ignored is that their There may be some kind of bloody resistance to the will behind the secular, and it also shines with the light of personality aesthetics that the world admires." This is that they were in the period of great changes in the millennium of Wei and Jin, and they were faced with troubled times and life choices.
In the period of celebrities in China and North Korea, the society became stable, and this change changed the lives of celebrities.
The celebrities of the Eastern Jin Dynasty focused on the two major sects of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, "Wang Xie". From their representatives, we can see the political activities and daily life at that time. Therefore, we can observe the specific context of the Eastern Jin Dynasty and interpret the most noteworthy points of the celebrities of the Wei and Jin Dynasties. It is in the subtleties. When we travel through the time and space of history, we can see the cultural features of the Wei and Jin Dynasties.
The life of celebrities in the Wei and Jin dynasties has both a luxurious side and an elegant and vulgar way.
However, in Dong Shangde's view, the demeanor of the Wei and Jin Dynasties has undergone subtle changes with the evolution of the times, and specific to a certain celebrity, there are also subtle differences in different stages of life.
For example, Shan Tao and Ji Kang are the Seven Sages of the Bamboo Forest. When Shan Tao came out to become an official, he strongly recommended Ji Kang.
Ji Kang wrote the "Breakout of Friendship with Shan Juyuan". It is true that such a relationship is a tragedy, but after Ji Kang was killed, Shan Tao took care of Ji Kang's son Ji Shao's growth despite criticism.
This actually reflects his kind side.
Another example is Wang Yan, who has a great reputation, but his "clear talk misleads the country", and even "Three Caves of Crafty Rabbit" became his pronoun, which was despised by the people at that time.
Le Guang advocates Confucianism, and is different from Wang Yan, but because he is the father-in-law of Sima Ying, the king of Chengdu, after the "Eight Princes Rebellion", his life is helpless, sad and tragic.
This also shows that even celebrities are deeply influenced by the great era in their lives.
Complexity and diversity constitute the cultural characteristics of the Wei and Jin Dynasties.
Judging from the history of Chinese culture, this period broke through the Confucian domination of the world in the Han Dynasty. The combination of Confucianism, Taoism, name and law, and the richness of thought also made people's spiritual world more extensive and interesting.
Today, no matter if we regard "Shi Shuo Xin Yu" as a character story or a novel by Zhiren, it is not difficult to see that the characters told in the book are so vivid and interesting, as if they are alive around us.
At the same time, we might as well read the lives of celebrities as the biographies of each celebrity, which also reflects the evolution of Wei and Jin demeanor from different aspects.
This kind of demeanor has almost never been heard in later history, which is also an important reason why later generations admired that era.