Sunday, October 29, 2006

半截英雄

沁园春《雪》
一九三六年二月

北国风光,千里冰封,万里雪飘。
望长城内外, 惟馀莽莽;
大河上下,顿失滔滔。
山舞银蛇,原驰蜡象,欲与天公试比高。
须晴日,看红妆素裹,分外妖娆。

江山如此多娇,引无数英雄竟折腰。
惜秦皇汉武,略输文采;
唐宗宋祖,稍逊风骚。
一代天骄,成吉思汉,只识弯弓射大雕。
俱往矣,数风流人物,还看今朝。

以上这首诗乃毛泽东先生所做,是国汇(即贪睡小姐之夫君也)的爸爸建议我收录在此的。

我虽然对中国历史甚感兴趣,但兴趣却不包括近代史。前几年还是因为看了中国摄制的《走向共和》才开始去认识甲午战争前后到满清政权灭亡的历史。但对中华民国建立以后的军阀混战和国共斗争的历史仍然不甚了了。而对毛泽东先生本人,我的看法是偏向负面的。虽说他有功也有过,但我比较认识的是他的过失吧!特别是文革时中国人民所受的苦难,和对中华文化遗产的破坏,令我尤感痛心。

柏杨先生曾经评论中国历史上出现过许多半截英雄。半截英雄指的是那些在早年创业之时表现高度的智慧,才能和谦逊而达到成功的人,却在成功后或年老时失去了令他成功的品质,使到早年奋斗的成果遭到破坏。历史上实在不乏这种人物,齐桓公姜小白、吴大帝孙权,唐玄宗李隆基等。略略看了毛泽东先生早年的诗作,意气风发,大有壮志凌云、气吞山河之气魄。就说以上这首诗吧,似乎对秦始皇赢政、汉武帝刘彻、唐太宗李世民、宋太祖赵匡胤和成吉思汗铁木真等人都看不上眼。而他自己虽然战功彪炳,击败了不论组织、装备和训练等方面都优于己方的国民党军队,治理起国家时却似乎不太内行。单就这一方面而言,上述的李世民先生和赵匡胤先生恐怕就比他强吧!李世民先生的贞观之治将中国带入黄金时代,而赵匡胤先生的 “ 杯酒释兵权 ” 表现了高级的政治手腕,与文革成为强烈的对比。

毛泽东先生是否半截英雄?或许我该深入地研究他的生平事迹,以便更了解他的是非功过吧!

3 Comments:

Blogger heibao said...

Many thanks for this posting and your comments. Chairman's greatest achievement was to unite the broken country. This was the most difficult job knowing that China was a vast nation where leaders of different provinces did not listen to each other. In the later years, Chairman had lost control to his wife (the gang of 4)who started the devasting cultural revolution that almost destroyed the entire China. Anyway, your brief comment on Chinese history is very interesting. I like to exchange more views with you. By the way, are you great fan of 天龙八部?
(Note: I wish to express my view in Chinese, but I am very slow in typing Chinese.)

10:50 AM  
Blogger Parrots of the Currybean said...

没关系,打中文是比较麻烦的。

我确实比较偏爱《天龙巴部》,因为故事错综复杂,气势澎湃。段誉和萧峰也是我最欣赏的两位金庸武侠小说主角。段誉的痴情,萧峰的悲壮,令我很感动。

关于毛泽东先生,我不否认他有他的成就。但我认为我们这一辈后来者很幸运,能够带着更少的个人感情和更客观的态度,能够依靠各方对他更全面的研究,来了解他的一生功过。

在中国漫长的历史中,总有野心勃勃的枭雄,打着为国为民的旗号,争夺主宰天下的至高权力。等到他们统一天下,当初的动机已不再重要,重要的是他能为百姓做些什么。个人的功与过,历史自有公论,或许我不该妄下断语吧。

”半截英雄轮“是台湾作家柏杨先生提出的,并非我个人的见解,我不敢掠美。不过我很认同柏杨先生的许多历史观点和评论,今年读过一些他的历史作品,获益匪浅。

11:05 PM  
Blogger heibao said...

I am Chinese educated and grew up in a totally Chinese background with Chinese culture, tradition, custom or even religion. I have great concerns about China. Western countries criticized China about its poor human right records. This is very unfair to a country where its people have just recovered from the the century long night-mare of war, starvation and invation. Deng Xiow Ping has once said, "able to fill the stomach of our hundreds of million of people is our best human right records". I used to explain to Starsaphire that the Chinese had been under monarchy system for the past many thousand years. As such they could not adapt to democracy system over night. Just look at Sun Yat San's democratic revolution, the country was divided and its people suffered greatly. I agreed that communisim is only good to unite a broken and divided nation. But it will not help the country to progess and develop into a country measured up the the standard of a western country. Though China has progressed during the past 25 years, its social structure is still very weak. The world has to give them time to change, 50 years are not enough for such a huge country with such huge population.

9:44 PM  

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