Life is everywhere.

Life is everywhere in the Jianghu, and we are just a fish in the Jianghu. My understanding of "Jianghu" is a complex social interpersonal relationship, in which the secular world is full of troubles and there is a dispute between you and me. It is a false proposition to say that life is not complicated, but the heart is complicated. If there is only one person left on the earth, it is not complicated to live. As the Bible says, at the beginning of Genesis, Adam and Eve were created on the ground, but it is complicated when snakes appear. It is true that there are rivers and lakes where there are three people.

Speaking of rivers and lakes, it is easy to think of the phrase "It is better to forget the rivers and lakes than to care for each other" in Zhuangzi's "A Generation of Masters". The surface of rivers and lakes here refers to rivers, lakes and seas, but actually refers to the vast world. Since I can't give you happiness, let's put aside each other and seek happiness. It is also said that rivers and lakes refer to the four corners of the world, where people live in seclusion, and who make a living by selling art and buying medicine for divination.

In fact, everyone is in the Jianghu. Throughout human history, compared with the traditional settled farming people, nomadic people are wandering in rivers and lakes, while farming people are honestly not running around in a water area. When I was a child, storytellers, actors and acrobats were everywhere, such as underworld forces, and circle metaphors about deep water and shallow water.

Reading a little history, the biggest feature of rivers and lakes is to fight disputes. In fact, our society is full of competition everywhere. Look at human war, organ failure, separation and integration; On the surface, chickens crow and dogs bark, singing and dancing; The sun rises, the sun sets and dusk, and the turmoil in the rivers and lakes will never stop. If you watch those harem fighting dramas and watch the rabbit die and the dog cook, you will see it thoroughly, retire from the Jianghu and remain silent, leaving the country for future generations to fight.

People can't live without rivers and lakes just as fish can't live without water. From the moment people come to this world, people have no choice at all. Competition and Jianghu rules always exist: "Big fish eat small fish, small fish eat shrimp, and small shrimp eat mud." The reason why Jin Yong's chivalrous biography is popular is that literature talks about human dreams, and the reality hits a wall everywhere, but dreams can be invincible. "People can't help themselves in rivers and lakes" and "People can't help themselves in rivers and lakes". In this case, drowning without being eaten really requires skill.

People didn't really understand Lu Xun until middle age. Lu Xun wrote that "man eats man". Lu Xun wrote about people's warmth and warmth and human flavor, all about rivers and lakes. People don't really appreciate the life in books until they study in middle age. It is true that romance is only a short shot on the surface, but the longest is not a sword.

The world is like a tide of people, just sighing for a few people in the Jianghu. You and I are both mortal.