Berger, the only son of Cai Gong, was born in a poor alley. Timid as a mouse, "afraid of cattle as a tiger"; Gifted, well-read, proficient in music, poetry and songs, yin and yang ephemeris, sound spectrum and all other famous things. His ethical outlook on life is "I want to be poor and I want to be filial" and "my parents are here, not far away", in order to serve the filial piety of Gaotang.
Cai portrayed in the works, starting from the contradiction between his filial piety and the pursuit of fame and fortune, has gone through "three disobedience" (that is, he tried, but his father refused; He wanted to resign, but the emperor refused; He wants to break off his marriage, and Master Niu is disobedient. The conflict of a series of events shows the image of his dutiful son who is loyal, filial and righteous. However, this kind of loyalty and filial piety can not be balanced, which leads to the death of Cai Gong and Cai Po in grief and indignation, the tragedy of Zhao Wuniang's two-month separation, and the fact that Prime Minister Niu got married and was adopted by her husband.
Berger deserves to be a learned man who reads thousands of books. He thought that he was born in the flourishing age of civilization, and he should do his filial piety according to feudal ethics and be a filial person. What's more, there are two-month-old wife Zhao Wuniang and 80-year-old white-haired parents at home, and it is even more necessary to "make the best use of water and be content with salt" in order to "make husband and wife harmonious and parents happy". Ai Bo does not envy fame and filial piety, which shows that it is not without ideological foundation that he is difficult to follow the three directions in the future, and also depicts that what he pursues in his heart is family happiness. But his thoughts and pursuits are incompatible with his father, Cai Gong. Cai Gong's ethical point of view is that loyalty and filial piety are needed in life before he can be a husband. Because his theoretical basis is: "Filial piety begins with serving the relatives, while serving the monarch in the middle, and finally becoming self-reliant", and "it is unfilial not to be an official". Therefore, when Gao Tang called him for his birthday, he ordered Xie Bo to "go to Beijing to take up his post" on this New Year's Eve, hoping that he could one day "take off his white clothes and hang green clothes to save the world and save the people". This is the feudal ethics of "loyalty and filial piety" Cai Gong, as he said when he was forced to try, and it is nothing more than pursuing "changing the purple belt of the gold list as soon as possible" in order to show his ancestors. This is the significance of his demand for "great filial piety" and the purpose of his "loyalty and filial piety". Because Abel's thoughts and pursuits are different from his father's wishes, the opinions of father and son are also very different. This contradiction was more prominent when Cai Gong forced him to try. Berger insisted on "being willing to be poor and filial", while Cai Gong warned Berger to be "filial" and "both loyal and filial". Hao Bo was bent on "serving his parents" and unwilling to try, so it was difficult for him to obey his father's orders. Cai Gong had to pursue fame and gain, glorify his ancestors and force him to try. Although this contradiction was solved by Zhang Taigong's "commitment" to take care of Cai Gong, Cai Po and Wu Niang, Uncle finally obeyed his father's orders. In fact, due to the shackles of feudal ethics, since it is the order of my father, how dare my uncle disobey and "disobey my relatives", what's more, my uncle still wants to pursue fame in his heart. When Zhao Wuniang said goodbye in Nanpu, he revealed Uncle Bo's real psychological activities. She said, "Officer, although you can leave your husband and wife for two months; Snow and frost, but I don't think about my 80-year-old parents. What makes the idea of fame and fortune forgotten? " Hit the nail on the head broke the secret in his heart and exposed his pain. Although Ai Bo keeps talking about "poverty" and "filial piety", he vividly depicts his psychological activities of "wealth" and "fame". The so-called difficulty in obeying father's orders will naturally lead to obedience, and the so-called "filial piety" will inevitably become an empty talk.
Since he has to do filial piety to serve his parents, and because his father forced him to be filial, and he was sad for his fame and fortune, his heart was full of contradictions. Although Wu Niang said goodbye to Nanpu, who complained that it was not pleasant to say, he denied that he had "thought about that fame", but he "tried his best, but could not refuse his father's order"; Although he swore to Wuniang that he would backchat "I would like to love willow, I would like to be a flat stalk" and complain that "a humble person has parents in the hall, how dare he stay at home for a long time", but what kind of results will the pursuit of fame bring to him and his family is really unpredictable!
Although Ai Bo did not live up to his reputation, he won the first place in the literary field selection, and the joy of winning the "fame" in his heart was naturally beyond words: "Today's ambition is revealed, the cloth robe is Luo Yituo, and the waist is tied with a gold belt. The horse saddle is really beautiful. " He won the championship, and the official is the official. This article, official position and blessing seem to meet the requirements of the mother-in-law of the current Prime Minister Niu Taishi for her daughter Miss Niu. How can the prime minister treat it lightly, not to mention that the marriage owner is the current emperor? Who dares to violate this imperial decree! April's heart is full of contradictions. He thought twice and was worried. He is determined to make it clear to the matchmaker that his family has a wife and it is difficult to remarry. In order to resign, he was determined to resign from the emperor. However, Prime Minister Niu, relying on his power, insisted on this marriage. Even if he did not obey it, it was futile to submit any resignation. The angry prime minister has made it clear: "I can't have any wealth for my husband." A scholar turned upside down and refused, so he had to resign from the government. " "I want to play the knowledge palace first, but I can't teach him to go to the toilet." From this perspective, if Bor wants to resign, the old cow will definitely not follow him; Third, even if the emperor resigns, it is impossible to withdraw the imperial edict. The reason is that even though Berger put forward various reasons in the complaint, such as "the mechanic has been diligent in self-cultivation and no longer covets wealth and wealth", "my old age is white and my physical strength is exhausted ..." The saddest thing is that he is willing to provide letters, so I ate Lu. ..... you should strictly abide by your duties and don't have any firm words. He can ask the teacher about the marriage he discussed. " For the sake of this inviolable imperial edict, although it was always difficult for Ai Bo to resign, he still tried his best to ask Huang Men to leave, and even personally "worshipped the imperial edict". However, for the monarch is more important than filial piety, for the country is more important than forgetting home, loyalty and filial piety have an imperial decree, and Aibo's refusal to marry and resignation have no results. These two kinds of disobedience and three kinds of disobedience profoundly reflected the contradiction between wealth and poverty, loyalty and filial piety, which led to the tragedy of the separation of Zhao Wuniang and Cai Bozhen.
Hao Bo can neither refuse to get married nor resign without authorization; I don't know the news of Zhao Wuniang, and I don't know the white-haired parents and teenage wife in my hometown in the year of famine. I can't tell and discuss his plight and his mixed feelings and uneasy mood. He had no choice but to take a son-in-law and marry Niu girl. How can you accept your son-in-law without making him sad and resentful? He is "full of worries and grievances." "How much do my parents know about him? What if I can't get rid of my name? How can I avoid my future enemies? " Blaming "fame and fortune" has brought him all kinds of painful situations; He didn't laugh in the bridal chamber, although he saw that "the new couple was laughing, but I didn't know my old friend was crying"; He is in the prime minister's office and thinks he is poor; He played the piano in front of Miss Niu, and the palace merchants were all confused. He played not the sound of joy, but the tone of sadness. He was unhappy all day long, and in Worry about Officials, he complained deeply that "he was forced by his relatives to vote, and was forced by the monarch to negotiate with him, and he was married and powerful." These three are all strong, let him eat coptis. He said he was in pain, so he had to hide the truth from Miss Niu for fear that Prime Minister Niu would be forced to return home. All this profoundly depicts his ambivalence, describes the pain caused by fame, and illustrates the contradiction between loyalty and filial piety.
Finally, because of Miss Niu's encouragement, Abel confided the sad truth to her: "Marry yourself for two months, but don't kiss for several years." After many protests to the Prime Minister Niu, Miss Niu was finally allowed to return to Chen to visit relatives. Zhao Wuniang's begging to go to Beijing to find her husband touched Niu's father and daughter and promised to reunite with her husband and wife. Monogamy came to Chen and continued to serve Cai Gong's wife. In this way, Cai is neither a "unfilial son" nor an "unlucky person", nor is Zhang Taigong angry when he saw the officials of Niufu: "He became the number one scholar in 1967 and left his parents and wife behind." However, the imperial edict granted him both loyalty and filial piety: "Negotiator Cai Yong devoted himself to filial piety. Wealth is not enough to solve worries, and the purpose is often about missing. Although it is against the will, it has a good name. I made an appointment to mourn, and the voice was particularly loud. " Officially awarded the corps commander. Of course, for Ai Bo, due to the shackles of feudal ethics, he had to obey his father's orders, the emperor's orders and the teacher's orders. However, "three disobedience" has completely freed him from the guilt of "three unfilial", which is incredible. The fundamental reason lies in the contradiction between the rich and powerful and the poor for fame and fortune. "Three disobedience" objectively makes him the son of "three unfilial sons who can't be raised in life, buried in death and sacrificed in burial".
It should be noted that the result of Cai Bozhen's trial was that his parents starved to death; His wife, Zhao Wuniang, served her in-laws and pawned all the jewelry, but she ate the dross and hung it together like peas and carrots. He left his parents and wife and married Miss Niu alone. The real filial piety should be Zhao Wuniang, not Ai Bo. The image of his unfilial son is an image of "abandoning his parents and betraying his wife for violent killing" in the folk operas of Song and Jin Dynasties (see Xu Wei's "South Ci Xu" in the Ming Dynasty), while the image in Pipa Story has become an image of a dutiful son and loyal minister, thus making the tragedy of Zhao Wuniang's separation from Ai turn from sadness to joy. This is purely subjective imagination of the author. In the "Lieutenant Debut" at the beginning of the work: "It has nothing to do with weathering, and it is useless to be good." In order to promote feudal ethics, the author thinks that the characters created in the works should be closely related to the weathering of the times, so he wants to create a character image of "husband is filial to his wife", so Cai Boxiao becomes a "dutiful son".