"Water Margin" tells the heroic story of 108 heroes headed by Song Jiang, from Juyi Liangshan Bo to Yamen, to the defeat of Liao soldiers, and finally to wipe out the rebels. After reading the whole book, the word loyalty and righteousness lingered in my mind.
Loyalty means doing your best for your motherland, your relatives and friends around you. Song Jiang is still loyal to the motherland under various threats and inducements, which is loyalty; Lin Chong's wife humiliated Gao Qiu's son after Lin Chong was forced to rebel. She would rather die than surrender, and finally hanged herself. This is also loyalty.
Righteousness includes two aspects: one hundred and eight brave people go through fire and water for their brothers and friends, which is righteousness; Anti-violence and peaceful people are also righteous. To live up to the word "righteousness", we must have considerable courage, and even the determination to exchange one life for another.
People who can achieve "righteousness" are people with noble spirit. Ancient and modern, Chinese and foreign, how many heroes, died for righteousness. Aren't they afraid of death? They can risk their lives for righteousness and truth. A person who does not believe in the word "righteousness" will not understand this.
Apart from admiring the words loyalty and righteousness embodied in the story, I am a little insensitive to some scenes in the story. Revenge for my brother and kill my sister-in-law and Song Wu of Ximen Qing; His blood spilled on the mandarin duck upstairs, and he took it out on others, even watching the horses ... after all, it's human life, how precious it is. Even if his sister-in-law cheated, he wouldn't have to pay with his life. The old man watching the horse has no resentment against Song Wu. Is it necessary to kill innocent people like this?
The words "loyalty" and "righteousness" embodied in the story are touching, but in the current legal society, it is not advisable to solve everything by force like Song Wu. Therefore, due to the changes of the times, we can only look at this book from the perspective of appreciation, and we must not blindly learn how to do things.
Reflections on The Arabian Nights
Arabian Nights is an ancient book, which tells many ancient stories. According to legend, a king marries a woman every day and kills her the next day. A girl wanted to stop him from doing so, so she was willing to marry the king. She told the king a story. Every time she tried to kill her, she only told the wonderful part, so the king had to stop killing her. She talked for a thousand and one nights and finally brought the king back.
In fact, these stories have condensed the wisdom and talents of the Arab nation, and some of them have become household names, such as Alibaba and the Forty Thieves, The Magic Lamp, and The Adventures of Sinbad.
They are full of twists and turns, vivid in imagination and mostly touching. The Adventures of Sinbad tells the story of a businessman who went out to sea seven times, and every time he went out to sea, he encountered all kinds of hardships, and he overcame these difficulties one by one and finally became a rich man. The Magic Lamp tells the story of an idle child who gets the magic lamp with the help of an evil wizard. So he used the magic of the magic lamp and his wisdom to make his family rich, married a princess, killed the wizard who stole the magic lamp and his brother who wanted to avenge the wizard, and finally became king. However, the story of a child prodigy who tried a case that even a clever judge could not decide tells us that we can't ignore the details. However, what impressed me most was the story of three sisters. It tells the story of three poor sisters. When talking about their wishes, the three sisters said that they wanted to marry the baker, the chef and the king himself. The king happened to pass by and immediately realized their wish. Jealous that she was the queen's sister, the two sisters floated her two princes and a princess with bamboo baskets, saying that the queen had given birth to a dog, a cat and a stick. The king imprisoned the queen. Three children were picked up and raised by the director, but the director died young. These three children live in his house. Once, the princess learned that there were three treasures in their yard: "talking bird", "singing tree" and "golden water", which no one could compare with. So the two princes went to look for the treasure one after another, and both turned into black stones on the way. So, the princess went out in person and went through all kinds of hardships to find the baby and save her two brothers. After returning, the "talking bird" used its intelligence to let the king know that he had wronged the queen, recognized the child, and the family was reunited. In the story, I hate what my two sisters did, sympathize with the queen, and am moved by the brother-sister relationship between the two princes and the princess. I admire the perseverance and courage of the princess.
There are many such stories in Arabian Nights, some of which carry forward the spirit of courage and adventure, and some praise the resourcefulness and kindness of the lower classes and dare to fight evil forces. Arabian Nights deserves to be regarded as a treasure in Arabic classical literature and a brilliant treasure in the world literature treasure house.