Who is the most filial in the Water Margin, worthy of our study?

Filial piety is the fine tradition of our Chinese nation. Since ancient times, for their parents, there is a special feelings of respect. Although in feudal society, when the concept of the inferiority and superiority of men and women was particularly serious, the filial piety of children to their mothers was not affected by it.

Even in literature, there are many stories of filial piety, such as the "twenty-four filial piety" story, basically in the folk widely spread. Anyone who disobeys his parents will be unanimously condemned and reviled. Even in literary fiction, there are many such examples.

So, as our four great masterpieces, "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", "Journey to the West", "Water Margin", "Dream of the Red Mansions", these four books, basically every Chinese people can not completely bypass, more or less always have some understanding. So, in your mind, which one of the characters in these four famous books is the most filial to his mother? Perhaps we can relate the novels to the authors, or even to the context of the novels, so that we can have a deeper sense of our national heritage.

In my opinion, the timeline of the four great novels, from the end of the Han Dynasty to the Tang Dynasty, and from the Northern Song Dynasty to the Ming and Qing Dynasties, basically runs through our Chinese civilization, the entire history of the strong period. Each era, naturally, should have its own filial representative, written into the book by the author.

First of all, let's talk about Romance of the Three Kingdoms. In my opinion, in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, there are basically not too many representatives of filial piety to their mothers. Look at Cao Cao, Liu Bei, Sun Quan, accompanied by their horses and horses to fight their whole life, just the sword, not much human love. Only Liu Bei appeared, there is a reference to his mother, but also just said "weaving mats for a living", not much ink between mother and son.

The more famous filial sons in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms are Xu Shu and Jiang Wei. Xu Shu, because of his mother, chose to give up Liu Bei, and from then on lived a life in Cao Ying heart in Han, Jiang Wei also because of his mother's reasons to surrender Zhuge Liang. However, there is not much record of the life between mother and son, so there is basically no representative "mother and son" in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms.

Then again, "Journey to the West", the four great masterpieces, may be the most widely spread should be it. But as a mythological novel, "Journey to the West" in the son of filial piety mother virtuous, may be restricted by the plot, inconvenient to mention, almost can not find any filial piety mother's story. Take the Tang monk to barely say, the mother endured humiliation for eighteen years, the last Tang monk or a monk, not only cut off their own incense, not to mention for the mother to redress the grievances and hatred, on the mother and son affection, it should be very insufficient to do.

"Dream of the Red Chamber" is a description of the daily life of a family, according to reason, there should be a lot of mother and son love description. Unfortunately, it is very sad that the two families of Rongning and Rongning in Jiafu can hardly find a filial son or a virtuous grandson. Although on the surface, the mother of Jia is respected by everyone, but that is only the product of the system, or rather feudal etiquette dictated, almost can not see how much from the heart of the kinship flow.

In my opinion, on the contrary, there are really many examples of filial piety to mothers in Water Margin. Even if a small person, no prominent status, and even once become the shadow of Song Jiang, they do not have a lot of opinion of the people, but also can do to his mother's obedience, he is Li Kui, black turn wind Li Kui. This Li Kui is a small gangster, not afraid of the world, before meeting Song Jiang, the only person who is afraid of is the bad eye of the old mother. Because of the often muddy, and other people fight fight, that is a red-eyed cow, no one can persuade.

To make Li Kui stop, the only way is to move his old mother, as long as the side gently said, "black, you are fighting again. Li Kui could stop immediately, and even let others dispose of his anger. The only requirement is not to mumble, do not let his mother know that he is fighting and worry. Later, Li Kui went to Liangshan Mountain, and at first he was restless, because he was living a good life in Liangshan Mountain, and his mother was suffering at home. So he went home at night to pick up his mother to enjoy the happiness. But Li's mother did not have the blessing, in the Yiling killed in the tiger's mouth.

So, in the four great masterpieces, only Li Kui, the little man, is the most filial to his mother. Of the four great masterpieces, Water Margin has always been unpopular and one of the least sought after. Is it true that we really don't care much about filial piety and respect for our parents in modern times? We should know that filial piety is the first of all good things, what is the reason that we gradually forget that the most primitive feelings of gratitude? This is worth our deep reflection.

When this Mother's Day comes, I wish the world's mothers, good health! The Water Margin" in a lot of good men, which filial son naturally also a lot. Only as a narrative of loyalty and righteousness of the work, the author Shi Nai-an in this regard has not done much description. And four of them, as the representative characters of Liangshan good men, Shi Naian also representatively recounted the filial piety of these four people.

Conclusion

Most of the heroes and heroines of Liangshan were loyal and righteous people, and there were many of them who were filial. The behavior of these four men is only a partial representation of Liangshan. Here is just a generalization to share. The first thing to do is to observe the filial piety, which should be the most basic part of our lives.