The full name of Fisherman's Wood is Zhu Taishou Fishing in the Snow. Because the "Zhu" in the title of the play is the "Zhu" of Zhu, the play was later renamed "Wang Xue Fishing for Wood", which mainly tells the story that although he was poor when he failed to become famous, he did not change his will and did not forget his old friend and repay his kindness after he became famous.
Zhu Maichen's son-in-law and Liu Ergong's family make a living by collecting firewood. He studied for ten years, was brilliant and knowledgeable, and devoted himself to fame and fortune. But half buried, always meet each other. Although learning to be a "modest gentleman" is better than being an "ordinary person", it can't be a "Pengcheng Wan Li trade wind"; Although there are "geniuses", there is no "safe place"; His ambition is to "work in imperial academy", but now he has been "transferred from Chaicheng"; He "learns in seven steps, but grows up in six feet", but he has no official position. "Mixing firewood in the snow, the fisherman gains" and "sighing at home every day" make him unable to believe that fame and fortune are days. But he still comforted himself with "As the saying goes, Heaven rewards diligence" and went home to read ancient books. "Being hungry and cold is like living in hell" and he can bear it. He has a firm belief: "although I don't do real slaughter", "I can accompany him to spread his reputation forever." When he was drinking and chatting with his sworn brothers Andao Wang and Yang Xiaoxian on the boat in the snowstorm, he talked about the wealthy families in Huiji City. In this snowy day, the red pavilion is warm, the carpet curtain is low, the animal charcoal silver bottle, the sheep wine, the beautiful song, and the beauty drink together are useless! Such people, even if they are talented in Sima Xiangru, can't compare with "Kuajin Valley in Shi Chong". But "ice is different from charcoal" and "wise men and fools don't live together", so those rich people know how to "show off a few good makeup combs" and pretend to be "a scholar-bureaucrat". In fact, they are "stupid, pretending to be Confucianism", "lying, screaming" and their stomachs are empty. "They don't study, but they are curious and see the wise, and they say fallacies every time. It can be seen how much he despises those rich people who have no talent and no virtue!
Yan Zhu, a great Stuart who started from Confucianism, traveled all over the world on the orders of the emperor, interviewed literary scholars and arrived outside Huiji City in the snow. And bowed their heads and walked against the snow, hitting Yan on the head. Yang Xiaoxian was just beaten away, and Zhu Maichen put down the rope board and stood by the road with a book beside him. Yanzhu learned that he was a poor scholar and asked him why he didn't make progress and become famous, but made a living by paying nothing for clothes. "Is it shameful?" He answered Yanzhu unhurriedly: "My Lord, since ancient times, there have been many sages in trouble." Seeing that he is "poor, he is poor, climbing the present and visiting the past, like a learned man", Yanzhu asked him, "How many sages are embarrassed?" He raised: pulling out the building, sealing the slaughter; Ni Kuan held a hoe, and later Emperor Wu was an ancient doctor; Singing for Shangqing; Han Xin used to fish, and later he became the king of the Three Kingdoms. Tian Lei was born a soldier and became General A Qin. Sue didn't have half an acre of land and almost froze to death, becoming the prime minister of the six countries; Gong once chased pigs in the East China Sea and became the prime minister of the Han Dynasty. Guan Ying once sold shoes and later became a general ... These former sages were all "poor first, then rich". Although Zhu Maichen is 49 years old, he compares himself with Jiang Ziya: Jiang Ziya "used to be a butcher in Katsuragi and a fisherman in Panxi River, and he didn't meet King Wen until more than 80 years of wind, frost, snow and rain". Seeing that he was a learned sage, Yan Zhu asked his name, knowing that he was Zhu Maichen, and hurriedly dismounted and said, "I have heard a lot about the name of a sage. It's a blessing to meet you today and be an official." After reading Zhu Maichen's long-winded strategy, Yan Zhu was full of praise: "It's really a dragon and snake, a stone sentence." He volunteered to be the emperor and told the minister: "There will be an election next spring, and I recommend you to be an official." Cloth is also full of confidence. Now, "I will hide everything that is out of date" and "I'm afraid I won't (can't) overwhelm the Confucian group", which makes people all over the world "surrender". He wants to "use it to cut Huang Sang's axe, (really) he will go to heaven alone, and then he will fall (meaningless, the first word), and I will cut off Na Yue's loyalty, honesty and wealth and eradicate it". In this way, the playwright made a ten percent discount at the beginning. Through his contempt for the rich and uneducated, he encouraged himself and wrote thousands of words about the past, showing Zhu Maichen's poor and frustrated character and sentiment.
On this day, Zhu Maichen braved the snowstorm and freezing to get home, and his wife Yu Tianxian called him "poor boy", "poor boy with short life" and "poor disciple boy" indiscriminately. Then "left slap (guāi slapped) to right slap", but his neck could not be lifted because of the snow, and it was difficult to open his mouth because of the ice. He only shouted, "The Liu family invited you and me to win a family fire." The Liu family did not give him fire, but taunted him. He blamed his wife for "not lifting the house every day", and her wife complained that he didn't bring back silks and satins; He once said that his wife was "free and easy", and she said that she wanted to be "comfortable" with him, a "poor and short-lived, poor disciple and ugly student": although he said that he was poor, he "never lacked money or owed debts", and his wife said that if he lacked money or owed debts, he would cut off his poor ears, gouge out his poor eyes and skin him. The wife shouted at the poor husband, "son, don't talk nonsense, there is no food in the pot at night." He scolded his wife for being "the dead elephant of the bad guys", and her wife called him "poor short life, poor skinning, poor cutting meat and poor broken bones"; He said that his wife "should not ruin her husband's success in this way", and she called him "my son", claiming that "I am not afraid to talk to him"; He said that "good family law is good family law", and his wife is "bad family law", "only learned such a bad thing for nothing". His wife also called him a "poor disciple with short life" and cursed him for "never making a fortune". In desperation, he had to let his wife scold him and said to himself, "Save some heat, I will warm my stomach." . The "bad wife" leaned against the door with her chin in her hand, just putting down her "crazy good" (disobedience to teaching). Yuxian "sees the poor dagger" and asks for a divorce. Zhu Maichen explained to her: "Someone will count me as an official next year. If I am an official, you will be a princess." . Jade fairy didn't listen, but she was cynical. I want the daughter of a sage to learn from jade immortals. Laughing is "laughing like Jia's wife just to shoot pheasants" and crying is "crying like Meng Jiangnv". Don't talk nonsense and turn him into a gray man. You should treat him like Qi Mei. No matter what he does, Yuxian keeps asking for a divorce. He called Yu Tianxian "stubborn" (hateful), "cheap" and "too poor to love the rich" without "three obedience and four virtues". Although he is a cold Confucian, he is a pillar and is not afraid of being scolded. Yu Tianxian dared him to say, "You are a man, tall and straight, with eyes and eyebrows, and you are still fighting." "Progress" and "You have progress", put the tablet in front of him: "Then this is your business". These words hurt the buyer's heart, but he thought it was all his luck and fate, and "I don't know my fate, I don't think I am a gentleman." Just as Liu's daughter brought paper, ink, pen, inkstone and table, and was about to start writing a divorce certificate, she reminded me again: "Everyone will count me as an official next year. If I get an official phone call and give someone a lady's name, you won't have to work hard for 20 years "and ask Liu's daughter to" think about it later ". Liu's daughter has never wavered and is determined to divorce Shulan. Zhu Maichen had to get a divorce certificate for this "cheap talent" and asked to borrow a chair to recommend her son and stay in the outhouse until dawn. Yuxian coaxed Andao Wang out with the lie that he came to find him, and drove him to walk in the snow. Zhu Maichen scolded Yuxian for not knowing jade, being an "eyeless sparrow", not knowing "Jin Peng with wings", "folding Ganoderma lucidum to feed cattle and grass, playing Kirin as a sheep to sell, throwing heptachlor as firewood" and "destroying Daphne odora and cutting that smelly elm". He believed that he was a cold-resistant pine and cypress. "He left a heart and a skeleton, but there are eight Japanese officials, ranking third, and the sky turns a thousand steps, with soap on his head. During this period, who dares to say that I am taking a negative salary? " At that time, he was going to Kowloon Hall to discuss the long-term strategy, just in front of Wufeng Building. In a word, if he "can't change his official name", he will change his shirt and crown, and the Liu family will cry bitterly and bow down in mourning. He will sit on the horse, drunk and ignore her!
It turned out that Yuxian and Zhu Maichen made a scene and demanded a divorce. This is all arranged by Liu Ergong. Liu Ergong, seeing Zhu Maichen's "clinging to his wife", fell in love with his girl, Yuxian, and refused to make progress and become famous. When will he get rich from the firewood in the mountain? Therefore, the design asked her daughter Yu Tianxian to find a buyer for a divorce certificate and forced the buyer to go to Beijing to get an official; I secretly prepared twelve taels of silver and a cotton-padded coat for Andao Wang, the sworn brother and fisherman of the buyer, to let Andao Wang take the exam in court, and change his home if he is tight. Zhu Maichen came to bid farewell, and Andao Wang sent Liu Er's car and silver cotton-padded clothes. The buyer said, "Gratitude is ingratitude, romance is elegance, and gratitude is not human nature." He asked Andao Wang's brother and Yang Xiaoxian's brother for good news. He wanted to "become famous in the world" and "take away a golden dress".
Officials in Zhu Maichen are kind and just to his relatives and friends, except for conferring the prefect of Huiji. His uncle in the country, Zhang Pigu, is a peddler with distorted goals. He has a good temper. On March 5th, he went to Huiji City to inspect the object, which coincided with the welcome of Zhu Maichen, the new satrap. He was called by his first name and brought before the purchasing minister by a group of big men. I don't blame him for being generous, but I forgive him for looking up. As soon as he saw that he was a country uncle, he got off his horse, put down the silver chair by the roadside, ordered two public servants to put Zhang Pangu on the chair, bowed his head twice, and then persuaded Zhang Pangu to eat three cups of royal wine he had never eaten before, saying, "Uncle, you boy!" Michael came back from riding a horse for a while and asked the uncle Zhang Pigu, "How is brother Andao Wang?" ? "What happened to Yang Xiaoxian's brothers?" I asked all four villages, aunts, aunts, brothers and sisters, "How are you?" Zhu Maichen dialed back the horse's head and then dialed back the horse's head for the second time and asked, "Are there any other girls in Liu Ergong's family?" ? When you met him, you said your nephew was so good. After Zhang Pigu promised, he turned to find the village and shook the snake drum. "If you meet Mrs. Zhu Taishou, please ask him to send a burning letter." He thought to himself, it's cruel that this little * * * has ignored relationships for twenty years.
Zhang Pigu came to the door of Liu Ergong's house, and Liu Ergong asked him who was Li Ren's new official? Zhang Pigu told him that the new satrap was Zhu Maichen, and he divorced Liu Ergong the year before last, saying that although he was an official, he was "not too poor, no matter how big things are" and "you can ask your wife from the beginning". Liu Ergong asked his daughter to see Zhang Pangu, who ironically called Yuxian "Mrs. Grandma". Yu Tianxian told him that he had asked Zhu Maichen for a divorce certificate. Zhang Pigu deliberately said: "Grandma is not the kind of person who is not virtuous." Yu Tianxian said that he really filed for divorce and asked Zhang Pangu: What did Zhu Maichen say? Zhang Pigou said, "He hates you"! Yu Tianxian scolded Mai Chen for "forgetting people's kindness, remembering people's little hatred, and changing the bad apprentice who died early"; Zhang Pigu asked her why she didn't buy a minister. "Life is the same, and death is the same." Yu Tianxian defended himself and said, "I snuggle up to my wife and rely on her every day. Forty-nine years old, he doesn't care about fame. I forced him to seek an official position. I came with an evil purpose. " ? Zhang Pigu quoted the book "King of Zhuang Dongtou": "His gentleman can be divided into solid and defensive points." Liu Ergong said that Yuxian had never remarried. "Now he is an official and doesn't know my family. What he sees is ingratitude." Jade fairy eagerly asked what else Zhu Maichen said? Zhang cheated on her and told her, "He told her that you don't agree with your relatives, but you are a fierce woman." He is "gentle and sincere" to the buyer, making the buyer take advantage of "axe, sickle, rope, harp and sword" all day long. Yu Tianxian asked the buyer what he used to look like. Zhang Pigu answered her: the appearance changes with the fortune and is difficult to identify. In the old society, "Huang Gan was black and thin, and his clothes were worn out." "Today, the white horse has a new color, and a group of boys (factions) are handsome enough to line many official kettles and silver kettles." Liu Ergong suddenly woke up from his sleep and said, "This is not what he said, but what you said." . Yuxian also suddenly realized that these words were commonplace and outspoken. "I didn't have time to make it up, but I lied." Zhang Pigu insisted that the buyer asked him to convey this. Yuxian pretended to be a lady, claiming that the buyer would not do anything to her. Before leaving, Zhang Pigu warned her: "He gave you everything" and "He wanted to prove your divorce grievance".
In order to make Zhu Maichen "never forget the past", Andao Wang arranged a banquet on the left side of the levee circle along the Cao 'e River and invited him to hold a banquet here. Buyi also understood his brother's intention and went to eat. He "looked at this smoky fishing country and thought of a snowy restaurant." I saw some misty clouds and smoke, and I shrugged my shoulders and leaned against the bank, still shivering. After seeing Andao Wang, the buyer dismounted and asked, "How are the brothers?" ; Then he took the initiative to talk to Andao Wang about his parting words: "Last year, it was also Zhu Maichen, and this year, it was also Zhu Maichen. Ungrateful people are romantic and elegant. Don't repay kindness, don't be human. " Say, bow down to Andao Wang. At this time, he also came to the party and called him "Zhu Maichen's brother Lai". Zhang Qian hit Yang Xiaoxian when he heard his taboo about bribing the minister. I don't know who the bearer is first, but I blame Zhang Qian for being rude, not me. Tan Zi hit him with that horse club, and you are guilty. " He was about to hit Zhang Qian when he heard that it was Yang Xiaoxian, only to remember that he had "shared wealth with fire and slept together", and it was "every other year" from today. He heard that Yang Xiaoxian "still lives on firewood" and lamented his brother's "life is so bad".
Three brothers were drinking when a woman came to kneel and said, "Xianggong is so happy, I know you are not a poor man." Zhu Maichen accused Zhang Qian of letting a woman in while his brother was drinking, and ordered Zhang Qian to "punch out" the woman. When Andao Wang told him that this was his wife's arrival, the buyer was furious and revealed that Yu Tianxian said, "You said you were young, young, and you said you had to paint your eyebrows, know how to tailor, know how to sew, don't have children, get involved with each other and don't marry a big official." "There will be no reunion today." "I didn't teach myself, but you cried that the Great Wall fell to a saint." Yuxian asked Yue Se, and Zhu Maichen ordered Zhang Qian to "take it out". At this moment, Liu Ergong also came to recognize his son-in-law. Zhu Maichen accused Zhang Yue of being an outstanding prince and grandson, saying that "a woman who moved from Wen Jun was too poor and cheap" and refused to recognize him. Andao Wang refused to recognize him and went fishing, while Yang Xiaoxian refused to recognize him and went to find firewood, threatening to buy a minister, but to no avail. Yuxian made a determined effort and said, "Zhu Maichen, if you don't know me, I won't ask where I am. I will jump into the river and run to a well. What do you want with my life? " ! Zhu Maichen drank "silence", saying that even if she jumped into the well and rushed into the river, she would never "pity each other". In a word, Zhu Maichen was driven out of the house because of "cold wind and heavy snow" and "no clothes, no food in his stomach and no money in his arms". He was hungry and bitter. He asked Yu Tianxian to throw a basin of water on the ground and asked her to put away the spilled water and "get married again". Only then did Liu Ergong tell the truth that he encouraged the ministers to forge ahead and help each other secretly, and lamented that "Yuan came because he changed his plane and caught a good man instead of fishing". The new satrap was "shy and silent" because of his heartless attitude towards Mr. and Mrs. Zhang Yue just now. He said, "Now his thoughts have changed, and his gender has changed." His family was reunited.
At the end of the play, Si Tuleideng came and praised Zhu Maichen for "hard work and self-sufficiency". Although on the road, I don't waste songs, and I will add two thousand stones to make up the salary in the special year. " Jade fairy is shaped like jade and has a long tongue. Although divorced, it should have been abandoned. Nai obeyed her father's orders and became her husband's name. After my aunt broke up, she was together as before. "Andao Wang, Yang Xiaoxian, Liu Ergong etc. "Although I don't admire Jin Rong in seclusion, I can give you 100 acres of land and be exempt from service for life." Zhu Maichen and others and Xie Huangen are like the sun, the moon and the rain; Snow, fish and firewood are passed down from generation to generation.
This play is based on the story that Zhu Maichen became famous in the Han Dynasty. However, due to the creative processing of the author, the characters, plots and themes are quite different from folklore. The purpose of folklore is to condemn his wife's snobbery and vulgarity. She left because her husband was poor, and later returned to the garden because her husband was asked to get an official position. The play also satirizes Zhu's wife's "long tongue" (mainly in the second and third folds), but the main theme of the whole play is to show the character and sentiment of being poor and persistent, being rich and not forgetting the old, and even in the second and third compromises, it has not left this main theme. Moreover, because the author's writing of Yu Tianxian's two letters of divorce is Liu Ergong's strategy to motivate the official buyers, his condemnation of Yu Tianxian is extremely limited, exposing Zhu Maichen's character of being poor and persistent, rich and not forgetting the old.