Reading Mr. Ma Er is like tasting wine in the middle of the night. When you are quiet, you can see through your heart and taste the ups and downs.
Mr. Ma Er was undoubtedly the victim of the feudal imperial examination system. Not only did he suffer from it without knowing it, but he also instilled this idea of "promoting to a higher position and making a fortune" into all kinds of people he met. This is a tragedy in itself. When Mr. Ma was written by Mr. Wu, he presented a real Mr. Ma with an almost sketchy technique without any emotion.
My understanding of Ma Er is this:
First of all, Ma Er is warm-hearted. He met Kuang in Hangzhou. Through understanding, he learned that Kuang loves reading and has filial piety, so he generously helped him go home to serve his parents and gave him the capital to make a living. Imagine meeting a stranger just because I took one more look in the crowd, which created a legend. In today's society, such people are rare. It can be seen that Ma Er's goodness is sincere and unpretentious.
The second thing is that Ma Er happened to meet Guo Gongsun, so he took out his own small silver to help Guo Gongsun solve the disaster.
If the above two things show Mr. Ma's enthusiasm and chivalrous spirit, and then he encountered the "immortal" incident, it shows that Mr. Ma lacks common sense of life and is easy to trust others' superficial life. Ma Er, who takes benevolence and righteousness as his life dogma, almost became an accomplice in defrauding Hu San's money. Fortunately, the "fairy" fell ill and died. Otherwise, Mr. Ma Er really got caught up in this scam, which will be a stain on his life. ? In this incident, although the "immortal" died, Mr. Ma Er did not ignore the family of the "immortal" because he was deceived. Instead, he helped clean up the mess and sponsored his family to return, which reflected Mr. Ma Er's simple kindness and ignorance.
When Mr. Ma Er visited the West Lake, he couldn't see the beauty of the West Lake at all. His own feelings are completely indifferent, whether it's Broken Bridge in Snow or Autumn Moon in Pinghu, whether it's Spring Dawn in Su Causeway or Smoke on Six Bridges. His feeling is "I can't walk clearly, it's disgusting." It can be seen that in Ma Er's mind, there is only utilitarianism. If there is anything else, it is two other things. One is to watch women change clothes in the distance, and the other is to swallow seafood at the elbow by the kitchen window. Mr. Wu Lao wrote two details to revive such a seemingly decent horse. Confucius said that "food and color are also natural", and with a slight poke, the image of fireworks between the two horses jumped from the paper, which made people laugh. Write a song that Mr. Ma Er will go to the temple to worship God and draw lots to see fortune telling, which makes people laugh and cry. It seems that all of Ma's Confucianism is inseparable from money, women and taking care of his stomach. A bird flying in the sky needs to touch the earth.
Mr. Ma Er doesn't have many quotations. Here, I might as well extract a few for everyone to relax:
1. Scholars always focus on articles;
2. Being a juren and a scholar will be honored immediately, and the name is filial piety;
3. Every time my brother comments on his predecessors, there are some romantic words that are seen by those younger generations, so if they want to embark on the road of poetry and songs, they will definitely burn their bridges;
4. The sick father sleeps in the bed. There is nothing to eat, so he heard the sound of your reading, and his heart was filled with flowers. It is better to be sad than to be sad, and there is no pain there.
5. Always make a comment and do it in the middle of the night. If you don't want to put pen to paper, it will be good for readers to read it and realize that they have come up with more than a dozen truths.
? From Mr. Ma Er's quotations, we can realize that this is a figure poisoned by the eight-part feudal style of writing. His words and deeds are applying these decadent mechanisms. Confucian classics is his whole life, so he doesn't know Gong like Jin Fan, or even Li Qingzhao. In this way, reading these books and taking these "occupations" will add another hammer.
Learning to apply has always been the essence of Confucianism, but in Mr. Ma, it has become the only way to choose scholars, which has long run counter to the purpose of reading.
I hope this tragedy of Mr. Ma Er won't happen again.