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Review of the "Legend of the Swordsman of Shushan" by Huanzhu Tower

Yang;

After a while, the music is played, the sound is full of passion, the charming and tenderness are swaying.

The sound here is lively, and at the southwest corner, there is a lot of sadness on the ground.

Voice. First, a burst of sad crying like a mourning examination and approval, and then the crowd rose up.

Like a lonely army in the dangerous city, the fields cross the island! Seeing the enemy facing the enemy, strong hatred is approaching, and the food is exhausted.

Immediately, I am unwilling to surrender the thief and cause revenge, and I hold the heart of dying, and cry out in pain there, and sound

The voice was sad and angry! (Omitted) The three of them were trying to endure themselves, and the group sounded and heard a sudden sound. After a while,

Like when I first came, countless sounds in the vast world - from heaven and earth

The changes of wind and thunder, as small as insects and autumn rain, dark noise and spring sunshine - everything is amazing, can

The sad and cola, the abomination and anger are all mixed together. (Note: The above is

The realm of "sound".)

Suddenly, the colorful flowers rain came down from the sky, and there were many people surrounded by the clouds and feathers.

The scattered flower goddess, each holding a dancer, came gracefully; before the three of them sat, they danced

After a while, suddenly disappeared. Then there were groups of people, all-encompassing;

When you see the five colors, you will be confused. (Note: The above is a state of "color".)

After a while, all the illusions are empty, and the strange smell suddenly sounds at the nose. It is like going to the room of Zhilan, with a clear fragrance.

It attacks the brain, warm and sways the soul; it is like entering a bay of abalone, with a fishy smell and a foul smell.

There is a world where all kinds of beautiful air and odor come one after another. The most unpleasant smell is a warm fragrance.

The smelly and stinky aura is mixed with extremely difficult to describe, which makes people feel dizzy and upset, and they are jealous and want to vomit.

(Note: The above is a state where there is "incense".)

In an instant, the nasal scent disappeared, and the odor suddenly appeared in the mouth: sour, sweet, bitter, spicy, salty,

Light, astringent, numb and all kinds of strange tastes, all in your mouth, all of which are very affectionate

To be sure; that will make the recipient feel uncomfortable and can't be said at the moment.

(Note: The above is a state of "taste".)

After suffering from the mouth, all kinds of signs appeared on my body: some pain, some itch,

Some are sour or numb. Sometimes it is like waking up after sleeping in spring, and laziness is dizzy; sometimes it is like scraping and cracking

The skin hurts the heart. This devil is more powerful than the previous sufferings. (Note:

The above is a state of "touch".)

Itchy and numbness finally came to endure it; suddenly the emotions were like tide, and they were all over the place

Come up. The mind is so heartless that you can't hold back. The past and future are out of the way

All the wealth, poverty, worries, suffering, ghosts, gods, immortals, Buddhas, six

The seven desires and countless thoughts all come one by one. As soon as this thought is stopped, his thoughts arise again!

(Note: The above is a state of "dharma".)

It turns out that the devil in the book uses the six senses and six consciousnesses of the person involved as the medium of "defeating the way", and uses magic to lure the other party to have an illusion and fall into the dust realm of the soul, such as sound, color, fragrance, taste, touch, and law (fantasy). If the person involved cannot control his mind, his mind will be shaken and he will immediately be rid of the devil. This is the most difficult hurdle of the "three disasters of heavenly calamities", which is beyond the imagination of ordinary people. However, the author writes it in a song and sings, and it is vivid and vivid, and it is actually a serious matter; and his description of the Buddhist theory of devil is terrifying and terrifying, and it is also extremely mysterious and shocking!

Not only that, this storyline is not just about telling the strange story of the strange, but especially reflects the author's "being kind to others". Therefore, in order to commend Tianhu to change from evil to justice, the disciples of Emei sect rushed to help thousands of miles away, and set off defenses without any effort. After the god Camel Yixiu came to fight for the injustice and resisted the powerful enemy. Finally, when the three people including Tianhu and the Dharma protector were in stalemate with the demons, the author began to arrange the three immortals of the East China Sea to take action with righteousness and use the supreme magic power of the Xuanmen to disperse the demons; those who have achieved the right result for the cultivation of the aliens will leave a story for the eternal legend.

(B) "Three Turns of Falun" to transform the haunted villain - See the first chapter of the original book's twenty-four episodes (207 in total). The main purpose of the story is to describe the heart of the Bodhisattva of Shen Nifentuo, which cleverly seizes the fortune; to use the supreme Buddhism to turn the "destined" into the haunted villain's Sha. Mi Erxiao "transformed" into the wonderful experience of the adult within seven days (24).

According to the Buddhist theory of "Three Turns of Dharma Wheel", the author extends it to "the wonderful method of transforming three vehicles into three vehicles", which makes sand and Mi Er Xiao rely on the power of Fenta Buddha to enter the cycle of reincarnation similar to the "time tunnel" of people; he has experienced the past, present and future sufferings of ordinary people, and has accumulated 300,000 good deeds in the "three-life appearance" virtual realm. In this way, taking virtual as real, moving back to front, and allowing the second little to pre-cultivate the merits of the next life and always "focus on the Tao" at all, so that the original fetus in the "small turns" method can be cultivated and transformed innate physiques. After seven days, he will be "quickly accomplished" to become a normal person; however, the author particularly emphasizes: "The 300,000 good deeds accumulated in the "three-life appearance" virtual realm must be practiced one by one in the future... Otherwise, the merit will be difficult to achieve, and even the reincarnation will be established and return to its original state!"

This whim of "inverting the fruit is the cause" and "man conquers nature" not only rewrites history, but also creates the future; compared with the myth of God's "creation" within seven days in the Old Testament Bible, it is similar and more humanitarian.

(C) Master Ren’s “Love Passion and Cross Tree” was transformed by tears——The fourth chapter of the original book’s twenty-fourth episode (209). The main purpose of the story is to describe the so-called “My Buddha’s compassion”, which is nothing more than the word “love”. When the author explained the background, he said that Master Shenni Ren was sitting in Xiaohan Mountain and practicing hard for three hundred years, and his merits were fulfilled, and he should have achieved the fruit long ago; just because when he made a vow in front of the Buddha, he "accidentally had a thought of dust"——Because Buddhism’s most important cause and effect, this thought was “sow cause”.

Therefore, we must practice the "result" before we can get rid of it. However, the author did not explain why his "dust thoughts" were written in a song pen. After three hundred years, the two daughters Lin and the two daughters "feel moved" when they passed by Xiaohan Mountain, as if there was a "very dear person" waiting there. Then they were guided by Qingpan and Sandalwood, and they could not help but feel admiration and attachment. However, they could not fly into the thatched empty door where Master Ren was sitting (only hanging a horizontal tree).

Following the author's meaning of "The Buddha said it is indescribable", the two women Ying and Lin are the "fruits" that Master Ren had in his previous life, and now they have returned from a disaster; and the horizontal wood gate is gathered by Master Ren's "Vajra Vow Power" (i.e., "energy" transformed from willpower). They cannot be liberated without "exploring the love barrier"; no matter how powerful the outsiders have, their magic power cannot enter, and they cannot "jump" out! But in the end, the two women's tears fell on the horizontal wood, which is indeed wonderful. The author once sighed through the mouth of the book: "It can be seen that the sages, immortals, Buddhas, heroes, heroes, and heroes are inevitably burdened by the word "love"!" It really contains "endless compassion" and "using softness to overcome hardness", which is thought-provoking and thought-provoking!

From another perspective, the "emotional barrier" is the "inner enemy" of Master Ren himself - his Dharma name is "inner", which means he has "attached to appearances" - which is what Buddhism calls "heart demon". With this "attachment", it is as firm as metal and stone; except for one's own understanding, it is difficult for immortals and Buddhas to "break"! As the author said: "Until that time is free, no matter how much talk is, he will not understand it." The ideological connotation of this story is almost involved in the "I" and "defense" of the Xuanlei master of the Tang Dynasty. However, the author can understand it easily and exert it to the extreme of the novel art. The high artistic conception is almost beyond the reach of people.

(Ding) The full-top "Transferring the Lamp" to talk about Zen - See the third chapter of the original book's twenty-six episodes (217 chapters in total), including "The Golden Wheel of the Universal Delivery", "A wake-up call", "One-sounding method", etc., which is the crystallization of the artistic conception of the supreme mind of Mahayana Buddhism by the master of Huanzhu Lou; the essence of the story is to write a process of "responsive law" and "enlightenment".

The so-called "passing the lamp" is a Buddhist saying, which specifically refers to the profound and subtle Buddhist teachings that can break the "darkness" of sentient beings, like illuminating the lamp, and also means to pass on the law and save people. The book vaguely implies that there was a complex and difficult love triangle between Master Ren and Xie Shan and Ye Bin in the past. The former is sitting in meditation, and in addition to attracting Yingying and Lin, he also needs to settle a cause and effect between the latter two - that is, waiting for the two immortals to be saved and converted to Buddhism (25).

The author starts with the opening of the Emei Mansion and the immortals watching the wonder of the Buddha's light in the golden summit, and then tells the story of "Western Pushi Golden Wheel" appearing in the air. Suddenly, the treasure is announced to save those who are destined to be saved. According to the saying, the "Public Pushi Golden Wheel" is the manifestation of the "spiritual light and wisdom bead" of the Tianmeng monk who has already participated in the highest merits in Buddhism. In order to make a "wish heart" made a thousand years ago, I came to the Emei Golden Wheel to attract Xie, who had a relationship with Buddhism in his previous life, and Ye and the other immortals took refuge and returned to their original state. But as the saying goes, "It is difficult for sentient beings to save others"! The people you save must be voluntarily and cannot force them at all; otherwise, those who practice this "Public Pushi Golden Wheel" Buddhism will suffer on their own and mislead others and themselves!

Regarding the story of this wonderful Buddhist truth, the author's writing is extremely subtle. It turns out that the two immortals had never thought of taking refuge at the beginning, waiting for the other monks around him to remind him: "At this time, people should understand it long ago, have you not come forward to receive the Buddha's light yet?" The two immortals were comprehensible and bowed to the ground. But they realized that the Buddha's light had just covered their whole body, "wisdom was suddenly empty, like a fertile dew, and the heart was cool; all the experiences of the calamity were like stone, fire, and lightning, and they glanced through their minds; all the causes and consequences were all clear."

The wonder of this great event is that the two immortals have never realized themselves at first, and they still have "attachment to Dharma" in their hearts; therefore, even though they have been illuminated by the Buddha's body by the "Public Golden Wheel", they still have not been able to achieve great enlightenment; and it is necessary to wait for Zen Master Tianmeng to give Xie Shan a "snap" and Master Fentuo to "show the Dharma in one voice" to truly understand the original nature.

The author wrote that Xie Shan still had a "holding" in his heart, and wanted to ask Zen Master Tianmeng to include it, and he passed it on to Buddhism. As soon as he was bowing down, the Zen Master suddenly reached out and slapped him, shouting, "You already understand, why are you confused? I didn't ask yourself, but I came to look for me?"

Xie Shan was awakened by this "snap". He was as if he was awakened and his heart was clear and clear. He immediately bowed: "Thank you for your kindness and guidance, and his mind was full of mercy and guidance." The Zen master smiled and said, "How can you see it?" Xie Shan stood up and pointed his hand at Emei Ningbi Cliff, but saw:

It is the flowers that are full of smiles, and they are all fragrant, auspicious and auspicious, and colorful shadows.

The sky is clear and foggy, and there are no clouds; the lakes on both sides of the Hongqiao Bridge are bright waves like mirrors; the lake is blue and white

The lotus flowers are blooming all over the place, the flowers are as big as buckets, the plants are planted in a pavilion, and the fragrance is sent slightly. That round

The cold moon is shining on the heart of the waves. The bell of the Hundred Eight Pestles to welcome the monk in front of the Hongyufang is coming

The ending sound is difficult to draw the clear scenery, and the secluded immortals and mortals are rare.

At this point, Xie Shan has already realized the truth by observing the scenery; and the author uses the artistic technique of "waves and waves to create waves" to describe Tianmeng and Xie Shan fighting each other to express the supreme ideological realm of "passing the lamp". Let's look at the following dialogue between Xie Shan and Zen Master Tianmeng:

Xie Shan replied: "The moon is cold in the waves, the green lotus on the pond, I am truly like this, and I am observing the great freedom."

The Zen master shouted, "Du! Originally, what should I do to you? Han Yue is you, can you pay attention to it?"

Xie Shan said, "I am the Han Yue, please pay attention to it." The Zen master smiled and said, "Okay, okay, go!

Don’t let me in any more.” Xie Shan also smiled and clasped his hands, “Go, okay!”

Here, the dialogue uses "you go" instead of "I go", which means you can see Gao Ming.

Finally, the author wrote that Ye Bin also wanted to pray to Master Fentu, who was present, to be accepted as a disciple; but before he could speak, he was raised with a smile by the master, saying, "Fate is the end of this." Ye Bin originally had wisdom and knew that he had "no fate", but he hoped that the master could briefly show the Zen technique and give the Dharma name to practice by himself. When he was speaking, the bell on the clouds outside the hall was hitting the "No Pestle".

The master smiled and said, "Since you ask humbly, you can tell how many bells sounds outside the hall are.

"Ye Bin bowed and replied, "The bell sounds hundreds of eight pestles, only one sound." The master asked again:

"The clock has stopped colliding, is this sound still there?" Ye Bin replied again: "It has not stopped, why

Not here? If it is not here, what if it hits it?" The master smiled and said, "You understand why

Still come to ask me? Someone treats her in Xiaohan Mountain, ask her to go!" Ye Bin realized his great enlightenment.

Smile and stand with a respectful attitude, no longer asking questions.

Therefore, the two immortals converted to Buddhism and took the Dharma name "Hanyue" and "Yiyin".

Let us take a look at the story of the two immortals' enlightenment. The author not only cleverly used the "strike the light" and "study the chorus" in the records of Zen Buddhism. "Shoot the Moon" and dealt with it highly artistically. At the same time, in the novel skills, he can also violate and avoid it, and has the wonder of different flowers and fruits. As for whether the reader can understand the samadhi of "Buddhist literaryization", the author is loyal to art and is arrogant but not secular. As the Vimalakirti Sutra says: "The Buddha preaches the Dharma with one sound, and all sentient beings follow their understanding." Trustworthy!

For example, the master of the Huanzhu Tower described the two women in the Xiandu "flowers bloom and see Buddha" and realized the state of existence and non-formity. It also fully demonstrated that he was able to integrate Buddha and his great attainments; as for the description of the god Tuo Yixiu's tumbling on Tongyao Island, the immortals of Emei joined forces to eliminate the strange disasters in the center of the earth; the Zen Master Zunsheng saved the old man of the corpse; the description of Jiu Panpo who was lucky to protect his soul when he was in a disaster due to his occasional kindness, etc. (26), all of them showed that the power of "benevolence" in the center of life philosophy - humanitarian thought - "benevolence"; because he could move the sky and the earth, he could transform danger into a barbarism. All of this was in line with the Confucian way of loyalty and forgiveness, rather than just talking about mysterious verses, and the strange power and chaos of the gods were able to do it!

Conclusion: A treasure mirror reflecting the phenomenon of society in troubled times

In short, the appearance of the master Huanzhu Tower and the release of the series of works "The Legend of the Swordsman in Shushan" are by no means accidental! The inquiry has certain causes and consequences, and it can also be said to be "born from the times"

As for the background of the novels in Huanzhu, in the 20th year of the Republic of China, the government invaded China, but the government was invaded by both sides due to "internal and external troubles", and the war was not determined. People's minds changed; they either advocated fighting against Japan and saving the country, or retreated and were eager to get "magical relief" from the chivalrous knights. For example, when the first chapter of "Shushan" was written about the hero Li Ning and his daughter who died in the world, he sighed through the mouths of the book: "That's the way my home country looks back in the moonlight! Such a country fell into the hands of Manchus. When will it return to my hometown?" This was a kind of allusion and emotion of the puppet Manchukuo government after the fall of the three northeastern provinces. It also reflected the psychology of some of the public at that time. It was almost unquestionable.

However, if you read the first few episodes of "Shushan", it is not surprising that you have a strong idea of ​​escaping from the world and avoiding chaos. It is similar to ordinary martial arts novels, but also about the world's knights and the grievances of the world. But why do you become more and more weird and enter the "other space" as you write? The author believes that this is the result of the stimulation of internal and external factors:

1. Internal factors - first, there are many time and space restrictions in martial arts novels, and they cannot fully exert their freedom and imagination. Secondly, he tried his best to get rid of the pattern and influence of the "Legend of Jianghu Heroes" of Pingjiang Buxiaosheng's "Strange Swords, Hard, Light and Hidden Weapons" and the Sword Immortal (Standard Swords, Magical Weapons, Magical Powers and Illusions). Therefore, only by turning and changing shapes and becoming more fetish and passing by themselves can we communicate with the spirits like a dragon and fly away through the wall. Moreover, Emei is called "Light Mountain" in Buddhism and "Daoism Cave Heaven" in Taoism, which are very well-informed, so there is room for divine theory.

2. External factors - as the situation becomes worse and worse, the whole Chinese people suffer from war and trouble, but they are not happy even though they are alive; while the Japanese invaders advance step by step, burn, kill, and plunder, and do everything. When the full-scale war of resistance broke out, it caused the century-old tragedy of the "Nanjing Massacre". The deaths of military and civilians always had more than 300,000 people, and the Japanese army even enjoyed killings: such things were shocking! He felt deeply that "the world was floating, life was dewed", and he could only support the power of immortals and gods and Buddhas to save the world; the other was even more hated that the Japanese army was extremely cruel and violated humanity. It was "the devil's fortune was prosperous" and "my way should be prosperous". Although it could not be controlled in the real world, in the novel, he could "eliminate demons and defend the way" and commend justice and fairness in the world.

Because of the reason, "Shushan" has become more and more strange since the sixth episode; on the one hand, it writes about swordsman practicing Taoism, practicing mysterious skills, and saving lives as a career; on the other hand, it also writes about demons dancing around, tea poisoning the world, killing people, and eating people as a pleasure. Because the theme of his novel is to practice the way for heaven. Evil cannot defeat righteousness, and the content is strange and all-encompassing; for the public in the society who are in troubled times, reading this book not only allows you to "escape" reality, but also get psychological "compensation" and "transfer" effects. Of course, you are still enjoying it and fascinated. From the beginning of the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, Shanghai Zhengqi Bookstore reprinted the book advertisement slogan "The Legend of Swordsman of Shushan" to summarize its popular social appearance:

This book is a work that made a name for itself and deliberately became famous.

After the publication of the collection, the reputation became famous; readers welcomed it like crazy and hoped that the sequel would be hungry

It is thirsty. Liang is the master of the building to cultivate profound knowledge and knowledge; he travels through famous mountains and rivers, and has a wide range of knowledge.

Hearing the heaven and earth asking about strange things; writing novels, easy to understand, and appreciated by both the elite and the masses. Therefore, he can

It spreads wildly, allowing readers from far and near to return home, with a huge momentum and unrivaled appearance.

Although the magical and strange thing is incredible, it is chewed with all the ancient and modern philosophies.

External affection; it is definitely not something that can be compared with those who speak nonsense. All the rise and fall of the body

The truth, the momentum of evil and righteousness, the change of wind, clouds, thunder and lightning, the difference between love and lust, the landscape and flowers

The beauty of grass, the suffering of birth, old age, sickness and death, etc., are all extremely practical. Otherwise, how can it be achieved?
To be continued...