Victor's Pursuit of Serenity Chapter 25

The version we usually read now was revised by Mao Zonggang and his father. Mao Zonggang was a corrupt scholar in the early Qing Dynasty, but he mistook his corruption for passion. He once discussed more than a dozen wonderful points of Romance of the Three Kingdoms. I often suggest that people who want to read Romance of the Three Kingdoms should read Mao's half of the text first. If they don't laugh after reading it, they might as well read Romance of the Three Kingdoms, because it doesn't matter whether they read Romance of the Three Kingdoms or not.

Don't Read Water Margin

The Qing dynasty banned Water Margin, saying it encouraged thieves. Today, people criticize Water Margin, saying it promotes "the aesthetics of violence" --- I don't understand this term, but writing it down gives me a sense of self-improvement.

There is another part in the middle, "Water Margin" is not available in the market, that is, due to the "feudalism, capitalism, revisionism" and other poisonous weeds, it was sealed in the greenhouse, so that people of my generation who appreciate it below the level of a master would not accidentally get sick from reading it. In fact, among the poisonous weeds with the word "sealed", "Water Margin" was the first to be unbanned, in 1975, when I was still in elementary school, and I felt like I had found a treasure. I read it two or three times with criticism, but I didn't think it was very violent. For example, when children at that time played "fighting", they didn't imitate the Liangshan characters at all, they didn't even have guns, it was too lame; when we played, we had to have at least the equipment of Yang Yucai and the little furnace maker.

Speaking of banning a book, or anything, as long as you have the heart to take the world as your own responsibility and care about other people's brains more than your own, there is no reason to find a reason. --- If a book does not have any handle that can make us imagine that someone will have bad thoughts after reading it, and as a result, we will be scared to jump up and want to write a letter overnight to ask for a ban on its circulation, then such a book does not need to be banned, and it will not sell a single copy. Of course, some books provide more horror materials for my simple imagination than other books. --- I originally wanted to write "Don't Read "Xiaoya"" today, because I found that there are many strange words in the Ya poems, such as "A gentleman trusts thieves, and chaos uses violence". What kind of words are these? How can we not delete them? There are also a lot of words that are easy to misunderstand, such as "The people's false words, it is better not to punish them". The original meaning is barely acceptable, but with new interpretations emerging one after another today, who can guarantee that no one will say that false words can be tolerated? So it should also be deleted, at least changed to "The people's false words, sentence him to ten years".