Scold ducks in Strange Tales from a Lonely Studio

I stole the neighbor's duck for nothing, and I grew duck feathers on my body. Finally, I had to confess to my neighbor and let him scold myself before the duck feathers faded. This story reveals a profound truth to us in an absurd way: a person has shortcomings or done bad things, and only by exposing them and criticizing them bitterly can he really get rid of them.

A resident of Baijiazhuang in the west of the city stole a neighbor's duck and cooked it. At night, I feel itchy; It hurts to look at it in the morning and touch it. Great fear is incurable. A man said to him in a night dream, "Your illness is a natural punishment. Those who gain or lose will be scolded and your hair will drop." Neighbors are elegant and elegant, and every lost thing has never been found in the sound. A treacherous man told Weng, "The duck was stolen by a certain armor. He hates swearing, and swearing can also be a warning to the future. " Weng smiled and said, "Who has leisure to scold the wicked!" Soldiers don't scold. A certain profit is embarrassed because it is true to tell the neighbors. Weng was scolded and recovered. The waiter said, "What a pity! Busy people are afraid: when they are busy, duck feathers are born! " What's more, people who scold should quit: once scolded, the crime of stealing will be reduced! However, if you are good and skilled, the people who live next door will scold those kind people. "

A resident of Baijiazhuang, a county in the west, stole a neighbor's duck and cooked it. At night, I feel itchy all over. When I saw it at dawn, it turned out that my whole body was covered with furry duck feathers, which hurt when I touched it. The man was afraid, but there was no doctor to treat this strange disease. One night, he had a dream. In the dream, someone told him, "Your illness is God's punishment. You need to be scolded by your master before the duck feathers will fall off. " However, the old neighbor has always been generous. He usually loses things and never shows it emotionally. So, the duck thief lied to the old man and said, "Your duck was stolen by one person because he was most afraid of being scolded." You can scold him or warn him not to steal again. " As a result, the old man smiled and said, "Who has leisure time to scold those wicked people?" In the end, he didn't scold, and the man felt even more embarrassed and had to tell the truth to his old neighbor. So, the old man scolded him severely, and the man's illness soon recovered. Yi Shi (the author Pu Songling himself) said, "It's amazing. People who steal things are terrible. Once they steal, they will grow duck feathers. " It's amazing. Swearing people should also pay attention. Swearing can mitigate theft. However, there is a way to be kind, just like the old man next door, who uses this special way of swearing to express his kindness! "

The moral of this story gives people at least two inspirations: first, warn the bad guys who are thieves, "People don't know, ghosts don't know." There is no windtight wall in the world, no matter how well he pretends, he will be discovered by others sooner or later, so don't do anything bad that goes against your conscience. The second is to persuade those victims to report and expose the bad guys. Only in this way can they crack down on his bad habits and stop him from endangering the world. Only appropriate punishment can make these people wake up and turn over a new leaf. This story reveals a truth to us in an absurd way: if a person does something bad, but thinks that others will not know, trying to cover it up and muddle through will inevitably lead to serious consequences.

The story described in "Scold the Duck" is just an allegory in the eyes of contemporary people. Is it different? Or it is regarded as a good wish in the author's ideal life. In the nearly thirty years of ideological accumulation, we have been trying to dilute the traditional cultural accumulation like Pu Songling. In recent years, people live in a cultural environment that respects the law but ignores it, despises justice and uses it. It is not surprising to understand the cultural thought of scolding ducks in this way. However, the cultural phenomenon expressed in Duckling has never been touched by western culture, and it was not until recent years that introspective psychology began to explore and study it, which is a cultural phenomenon on which China culture depends. It reflects the great harm caused by the violent conflict between the basic social and cultural environment and self-behavior values. There are many examples and documentary evidence like this, and I just pay attention to searching to support my belief. Wu Zixu turned white overnight after Zhao Guan, which is a physical and mental change caused by a strong sense of anxiety and anger. Zhuge Liang was so angry that Zhou Yu became angry from embarrassment, his blood vessels burst and he vomited blood and died. Similar to "uneasy, such as sitting on a nail felt; A frightened bird, a bow and a snake shadow; Words like "the wind is trembling and the grass is full of soldiers" abound. In real life, there are many such cases. After several police officers of the Taipei Police Department were arrested for dereliction of duty, there were collective demonstrations and protests by police officers' families. The reason is that their husbands were inhumanely abused in prison. After investigation, the authorities confirmed that there was no such thing at all. It turns out that the family members of the police usually learn about the way the police treat criminals from their husbands. After his arrest, the psychological pressure of his family is of course different from that of others, imagining that he was brutally abused. They couldn't stand such mental torture and spontaneously organized protests. Emperor Taizong fought all his life, but at the end of his life, when his faith could not overwhelm his behavior value standard, he was tortured to tears. When the spirit was unbearable and he could not bear this kind of self-mental torture, he finally turned to Buddha and staged a trip to learn from the West. Emperor Taizong was a wise monarch, but still, besides, other things. As the saying goes, you are not afraid of ghosts knocking at the door in the middle of the night if you don't do anything wrong. Only a few people in this world are not stupid. How many magnanimous gentlemen have no ghosts in their hearts and a clear conscience? The Times once reported that a cleaner worked under high-voltage lines all the year round, and he was always worried that the high-voltage lines would fall. One day, while he was working, the high-voltage line really fell and hit him. He was really electrocuted. After dissection, it was found that his liver and heart were ruptured, which was completely a symptom of electricity, but the missing line was a dead line. We modern people don't have to be afraid to grow duck feathers, because in the past 30 years, we have accepted such a value: every man for himself, the devil takes the hindmost; Time is money and money is everything. Conscience and conscience gradually faded completely in the tide of commodity economy. This extreme consciousness inspires us to create wealth by any means, because we are afraid of poverty. We got out of such a difficult situation. For 30 years, we have been constantly denying our previous beliefs, and for 30 years, we are also edifying the next generation with new values. However, under the impact of the struggle between the two values, we are immature, tool-less, and blank, wandering in the fringe. Fortunately, we have come from difficulties and hardships. How much harm will this ideological struggle do to the younger generation who have grown up on the basis of new values and new materials, when their thoughts conflict with new cultures and new values in the future? When another value concept becomes the mainstream consciousness of society, how will the next generation we cast integrate into society? What can we do now to minimize their self-harm? This is a constantly changing society, and the younger generation is so smooth that they have hardly suffered any setbacks. They still have a long way to go. "If you go out, it won't hurt anyone, but if you go in, it will hurt yourself." This is already a serious social problem. Can we still look at the problems revealed by "Scolding Duck" with a relaxed mood?