Yayu Book House Gossip Water Margin: "Water Margin" praises the Taoist family and derogates the Buddhist house

Speaking of "Water Margin "'s attitude towards religion, it can be summarized in one sentence, that is, respecting the Buddha. Although the novel is not a religious textbook, and the source of the novel is not the same, it is impossible to have a unified religious attitude, but the general religious attitude of "Water Margin" is an obvious tendency to respect the Buddha.

From "Who is the Nine Tianxuan Girls?" "In the article, we can see the important role played by the Jiu Tian Xuan Nu as the Taoist deity in the Songjiang Uprising process, which has explained the author's kindness and favors of Taoism. In addition, from the overall book, it can be said that the story of the whole book is arranged in the myth of Taoism. The reason why Liangshan Haohan would gather together to do a business together. According to the narration of the beginning of the novel, it was because the plague of the capital was spreading. I didn't want this to be careless, and put out 108 Tianxingxingxing in the Shangqing Palace. These Xingjun descending worlds are the good men of Liangshan. The God of Heaven and Hero received by Liangshan is the Taoist family. In addition to the help of Jiu Tian Xuan Nu, before Gong Jiyi, Gongsun Sheng hosted a Taoist ritual to surpass the undead and pray for blessings. Song Jiang led the brothers to begging the emperor to show the induction under the altar. As a result, the eyes of Tiandi opened, rolling the next stone 碣, the names and star numbers of 108 people, and "the way to the heavens, the loyalty and the double". The command. All these solemn and sacred characters have no Buddhism at all.

On the road of successful roads in Liangshan, Liangshan often won the victory with Taoist spells, and never asked to help the Dharma. The master of Liangshan was entering Yunlong Gongsun Sheng. He ranked fourth in Liangshan Zhongyi Hall, only under Song Jiang, Lu Junyi and military division Wu. His master Luo Zhenren is also half -fairy, and he is unpredictable. Relying on Gongsun Sheng's mana, Liangshan good man is not good. Under him, both Fan Rui and Zhu Wu also learned and practiced spells to make a good contribution to Liangshan's career. There is also a Shenxing Tai Bao Dai Zong, a fast scout and transporter, with great credit. Although he is not a Taoist priest, his divine practice makes it easy for people to associate with the mysterious and miscellaneous ways of Taoism. All in all, through these contents, it is easy to make readers form such a feeling and impression: Taoist spells are not only justice, but also high.

On the contrary, the monk monk in "Water Margin" — here is a real monk, not a temporary monk who is just a Buddhist gate and Wu Song just forgive the Buddhist gate and does not hold the scriptures. Have done good deeds. Not only did they never help the Liangshan career, but they often endangered the cottage. "The Biography of the Water Margin" once wrote that there was a monk Deng Yuanjue under Fang La's hands to help the abuse, killing many good men. Those who have seen seventy times will not forget. Liang Shan's pioneer, the king of the lord of Liang Shan, killed the Buddhist gate: he misunderstood the words of the two Fahua Temple monks in Zengtou City, fell into the ambush of others and lost his life. Essence

The author of "Water Margin" has spared no effort to slander the words and deeds of the monks. For example, in the story of the famous Yang Xiong Da Cuiping Mountain, Pei Ruhai became a monk because of the beauty of Pan Qiaoyun's beauty, and then became Pan Qiaoyun's father's son, and he tried every effort and finally hooked up with Pan Qiaoyun. There are more than one monk with prostitution. In the sixth time, he wrote that Lu Zhishen met the raw iron Buddha Cui Daocheng and Feitian Yaosan Qiu Xiaoyi in the Wa Coffee Temple. He not only occupied the temple to be overbearing, but also had a young woman. When describing Pei Ruhai and Pan Qiaoyun, the author also said, "But the monk is the most tight." The reason is that they have good men and women to support, but they are delicious and delicious. In fact, this may not be used to talk about the Taoist priests, but the author of "Water Margin" never couldn't bear to do so. So why is the author of "Water Margin" so favored Taoism so much?

We know that from the day of it, Taoism has been incomprehensible to the green forest uprising. Starting from the yellow scarf uprising of Zhang Jiao and others, there were many green forests in the past, using Taoist teachings and spells to promote and organize the people. This religious tendency of "Water Margin" is an integral part of this historical phenomenon. Judging from the historical reality of the Song Dynasty, the Song Dynasty also worshiped Taoism as a national religion, and there were emperors with the emperor. When officials are degraded, they are often exiled to the Guan Gong Temple. On the contrary, the Golden people believe in Buddhism, and the "Three Dynasties and North Alliance" records that after they captured Jingjing, they went to the famous temple in the city to listen to the scriptures. The Liangshan armed forces who were loyal to the Song Dynasty chose Taoism as the core of the leadership, and adopted an attachment to the Buddha's door, which is reasonable.

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