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How does Yu's Dark Corner of History describe villains?
Scholars in China in past dynasties promoted gentlemen and were wary of villains. When we give up this division for a long time, villains will flood and burst their banks like thieves who have lost control. As a result, I don't want to talk more about the history of villains, but the shadow of villains is getting stronger and stronger. They have formed many dark corners on the roadside of the crossing, which makes the already difficult ethnic groups stumble, become confused, even turn around, or can't afford to drag the ground. Even the light of wisdom and the blood of soldiers are helpless to these moldy corners.

Beggar villain

It is sympathetic to beg for a living because of a temporary famine, but begging for a living has become a habitual occupation, which in turn breeds a group psychology and cultural way, which is bound to become a public hazard and has no positive significance. The basic point of beggars' psychology is to quickly occupy other people's property bit by bit in a way of self-turbidity and self-weakness. Beggar villain has no clear concept of belonging. They think everything in the world is not their own, but also their own. As long as they are willing to sacrifice their personality image to gain people's pity, things that don't belong to them may be transformed into their own. Their feet will always step on the pulley to change ownership. Before they got it, their tone was sincere enough to make people cry. When they got it, they immediately turned against each other and denied people. Of course, this practice will be criticized, and the way to face criticism is to play hooligans to save themselves. They will swear to heaven that what they just begged for was born by them and broken by the anti-puppet benefactor. The benefactor thought that in this case, they would stop giving and shout loudly that there was a robbery. Shouting calls for onlookers, and bored onlookers like to hear dramatic events that go against common sense. So, a robber who didn't need to rob robbed a robbed person who couldn't be robbed. What an incredible and sensational story. As the protagonist of this story, the beggar villain watched it for a long time with depressed charity and was deeply satisfied. Unlike the hooligans in the market, the beggar villains never abandon their misery, or show off their residual limbs, or show off their rags, or emphasize aging. Everything seems to have come to the end of their lives, deceiving good people to the last line of defense of human nature.

Once beggars form gangs, no one is easy to deal with. "Beggars for Clearing Banknotes" states: "In Huai, Xu, Hai and other places in Jiangsu Province, there were hundreds of groups begging in counties and neighboring provinces, most of which were in the early years of Guangxu." The strangest thing is that these mighty beggars in northern Jiangsu still carry passports with official seals, and begging in one place has become a kind of official business. After begging, they will inevitably go to the government to beg, and then build an official seal, which will become the "visa" for begging at the next stop. Although the government frowned, it could not bear to be persistent. Poor people, begging is not illegal, so stamp them one by one. Lenovo from this example, as long as someone is willing to make up his mind to get something by begging, he will achieve his goal sooner or later. Seemingly poor but eager to see, condescending but insatiable, once obtained, they will immediately cheat, which is the basic ecology of beggars.

Rogue villain

All villains are full of hooliganism. When the slave villains are finally expelled by the last master, when the beggar villains are finally unwilling to play a sad role one day, when these villains completely lose their social orientation and even pretend to be value principles, they become the most licentious and illogical harassers of social order. This is a rogue villain.

The vitality of rogue villains comes from shameless. Some people in the west say that human beings are the only animals with shame and are not suitable for hooligans. In the history of the Ming Dynasty, there was a man named Cao Qincheng, who clearly knew that he had become the magistrate of Wujiang and entrusted eunuch Wei Zhongxian as his father. In the end, even Wei Zhongxian himself couldn't stand the scandal of flattery, called him a scum, and withdrew from his office. He even said on the spot: "The righteousness of the monarch and the minister has been decided, and the grace of the father and son is unforgettable." Soon Wei Zhongxian's plot was exposed, and Cao Qincheng was put on death row as an accomplice. He has nothing to do with it. He robbed other criminals of food in prison every day and was full. This Cao Qincheng was undoubtedly a slave villain at first, but when he lost his master and went to death row, he naturally became a rogue villain. I am a county magistrate. So what? How dare you take food from the killer's mouth and stuff it in! Will you call? I swallowed it. Anyway, sooner or later, I will be beheaded, but I still dare not fight. -when people come to this step, they can really be said to have entered a certain realm.

Rogue villains who are not in prison are more active than other types of villains. They alternately play tricks such as framing, spreading rumors, alienating each other, eavesdropping, threatening, bullying, breaking promises, being betrayed, luring snakes out of their holes, and moving westward. Like magic tricks, others are full of tears, but they are laughing and laughing, and they don't care at all. One of their great advantages is that they are not only proficient in rogue technology, but also familiar with the normal rules of the world. Therefore, they are good at deliberately confusing the two and inducing ignorant good people to mistakenly think that there is reason to argue with them. I don't think they know the truth, but they already know it; I thought they misunderstood for a moment, but in fact they never misunderstood. You reason with them, and all they want to despise is everything. When you know this secret and just want to go back, they enthusiastically handed over the most normal truth, making people feel that you are the one who finally despises the truth. Qu's History of Beggars in China quoted many examples collected in Lei Junyao's Painting a Skillful Road, and concluded: "If you ignore such people, you will inevitably be tied up anyway." This statement may affect many readers. On the other hand, around us, some people get along with each other for many years, while others, who claim to be their proteges, will soon breed endless troubles, probably hooligans.

Rogue villains seem to be mostly young people at first glance, but they are not necessarily. What they do is the result of time accumulation, so they are probably a little older. Xie guozhen once described a man named Gu in Shaxi, Taicang, Jiangsu Province in the late Ming Dynasty. He worked as a domestic slave, sold illicit salt and worked in yamen. His life experience is extremely rich. When he was old, he organized a group of hooligans and constantly teased the rural people. The evaluation of history books is three words: "old and tired", which briefly summarizes a typical rogue villain who is really in place. Young people who play hooligans in the market are generally outside our scope.

Literati villain

When the above-mentioned villains acquire a cultural carrier or cultural mask, they become literati villains. I think, in the history of China, it is difficult to name a large number of villains with good literary talent. Song Zhenzong kept frowning when he didn't catch fish for a long time. In the Song Dynasty, a scholar named Ding Wei immediately recited a poem: "Fish are afraid of catching fish late." The poem was so ingenious that Song Zhenzong immediately cheered up. To be a cultural attendant of the court, you must have at least such skills. As for whether such a cultural follower is a scholar or not, it depends on how many bad things he has done.

Literati are actually cultural hooligans. Different from ordinary hooligans, they should also pay attention to improving their cultural image. From time to time, they are willing to write some calligraphy and legends, pretend to be academic generations, wipe a cultural signboard, pretend to be a celebrity teacher, and publicize that they have made friends with a master. More importantly, they know a little about the basic latitude and longitude of cultural character, so they always make great efforts to dress up impassioned, as if they are the last representatives of national integrity and cultural character, and they are just people who help each other when they see rough roads today. Sometimes, they will argue, screw things up and get a good reputation for upholding justice. As literati, they are particularly aware of the importance of discussion, so they have spent a lot of thoughts on the ways and means of rumors. In ancient times, ambitious Wang Mang was the most upright man in the world, and it was these people who pushed him to the throne of the emperor. In modern times, it is these people who pour a lot of stolen water on the weak woman Ruan, leaving her speechless and having to write down her last words of "awesome words" to commit suicide. These people are immoral, unprofessional and shameless, but they have to dress up as moral defenders from time to time and plant their most feared traits on others. They hold a pen in their hands, but they have hardly done anything decent for the cultural construction of the Chinese nation except flattery and slander. I remember a contemporary art master who had a deep understanding of the world once said with deep feelings: "If a cultural person has not achieved any real cultural career in his life, but still cheated a little nickname in the cultural circle, then he can only live by speculation and continue to be a literary geek in his later years." Literati villains are especially camouflage and destructive in China, a culturally backward country, because they turn the local filth of other villains into a common social pollution after decoration. Imagine a group of street hooligans throwing stones, throwing dirty water and making a scene when they see well-dressed pedestrians. This kind of evil behavior is easy to see. How many people can see it if a few people who are dancing and splashing ink are replaced by the literary tone of which magazine? Maybe it's all literary criticism and artistic discussion.