In his view, this funny hero is actually in the game, and the secret truth is secretly transmitted.
For example, the Tang priest in the novel is just an ordinary monk with dirty bones. He always exposes the weakness of human nature, selfish, mediocre and pedantic, just like someone in reality.
When he explains The Journey to the West, you will sigh the deep meaning behind all kinds of evil interests: all these absurd things allude to all kinds of ugliness and corruption in society at that time.
1. Lu Xun's evaluation is:
The Journey to the West, a humorous story written by Wu Cheng'en, contains Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism. It's a mythical work, which means resisting feudal rule. Cheng En is good at joking. The monster's joys and sorrows he told are close to human feelings, so everyone likes to watch them.
2. Evaluation of the South:
Westerners think that The Journey to the West is just a fairy tale of China, but they don't know that it contains the religious thought of the Indian and China people's harmony between man and nature, and it also contains profound truth. I watched 755-79000 four or five times. I read it verbatim a few years ago. I really want to pick up a pen and criticize it word by word. It's really well written, including all the principles of monasticism and hard work.
3. Evaluate the contemporary French comparative writer Edenburg:
I never stopped reading The Journey to the West, just as I never stopped reading Tolstoy or Dostoevsky. Novel. It is bold for a man like him to talk about novel theory.
4. Professor Peking University Bai's evaluation is:
055-79000 is the pinnacle of his novel imagination and superb world. The personalities of the main characters are also very distinct. In Xian Yi, people of all ages read widely. The side effects of this book are minimal, and it is a book that encourages people to strive actively, never lose heart and persevere in achieving their goals.
5. Hu Shi's evaluation is:
This Journey to the West is nothing more than a funny novel and a fairy tale novel. He didn't mean anything obscure, but he was a little cynical at best. This cynicism is also obvious; He doesn't want to hide it, and we don't need to delve into it.
How to evaluate Zeng Guofan?
Zeng Guofan was born in poverty. But with his years of cultural accomplishment, moral standards and wisdom in dealing with people, he has gone quite smoothly in his life. He not only made his own contribution in his lifetime, brought a little vitality to the Qing Dynasty, but also left enough spiritual wealth for future generations, which influenced China people from generation to generation. When he was young, Chairman Mao spoke highly of him. It can be said that Zeng Guofan's life is a perfect achievement.
Zeng Guofan is another master of Confucian culture after Wang Yangming, a model of being both civil and military in the history of China, a famous politician in the modern history of China and the initiator of the Westernization Movement.
Zeng Guofan (1811-1872), a native of Xiangxiang, Hunan, received a good education since childhood. 2 1 year-old monk He became a scholar at the age of 27 and later became an official in North Korea. He is a very inspirational talent, not very talented, but he studies hard. There is a story about his endorsement in the study at night when he was a child. If a thief comes to steal something, he will carry it again and again until late at night. The thief was really impatient and came out and said that I already knew how to recite. Why the harbor? Do you remember? Although it is a joke, it can at least show his diligence and self-restraint.
Zeng Guofan's life is full of literary talent and martial arts, which comes from his hard study and good research. He is well-read and has his own unique views on history, neo-Confucianism, ancient poetry, military history and politics. For example, he once suggested that rulers should be saints inside and kings outside, and should be proficient in using Confucianism and Legalism to govern the world. He studied under Qi Jiguang, and established the A Xiang Army, whose fighting capacity was stronger than that of green camp soldiers. This is a shrewd manifestation of his flexible study of the art of war. In the battle to wipe out the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, the Xiang army turned the tide and lasted for decades for the Manchu Dynasty.
Zeng Guofan, such as Li Hongzhang, Zuo, Liu Mingchuan and other famous ministers in the late Qing Dynasty, all grew up with his support. Under his initiative, the Qing Dynasty built the first ship, the first ordnance school, printed and translated the first batch of western language books, arranged the first batch of students studying in the United States, and created countless firsts, which can be said to be the pioneer of China's modern cultural construction.
Zeng Guofan praised Zhu Cheng for taking Neo-Confucianism as his teaching all his life. On the basis of learning from others, he expounded the close and inseparable relationship among righteousness, textual research, classics and words. He also studied China's ancient prose, ci and calligraphy. He really did it all his life, cultivating self-cultivation and ruling the country.
1872, Zeng Guofan died of illness and was named Zheng Wen, which was the highest praise from the imperial court. In history, few ministers can get Zheng Wen's posthumous title. I only know Fan Zhongyan, Lu Ye, Cai Chucai, Li Dongyang and so on. I wonder who else you can name?
Thank you for reading.