Previously, some comments called "Kingdom" as "Hamlet of East Asia" and the "Prince's Revenge" in the East. After reading it in its entirety, I feel that "Kingdom" is very different from "Hamlet". "Hamlet" focuses on excavating the brilliance of people and has a strong individuality. Therefore, the prince is delayed from time to time, while "Kingdom" focuses on explaining Confucian political ethics. , The prince intends to take up the world, therefore, he needs to kill decisively.
That's right, the "Kingdom" drama, under the popular subculture of zombies, is an ancient Confucian spirit. If the characters are not speaking Korean, you may feel that you are watching a drama about ancient Chinese history.
Korea has been a member of the Confucian cultural circle since ancient times and has been deeply influenced by Chinese Confucianism. The scholar-bureaucrats of the ancient Chinese dynasties were all troubled by the interference of foreign relatives and eunuchs' dictatorship. They condemned those who invaded the imperial power with the help of heaven and human beings and the suffering of the people. , ministers, ministers, fathers and fathers, sons and sons", the ruler, the minister, the father and the son must each occupy their positions, otherwise, "if the name is not correct, the words will not go well, and if the words are not in line, things will not be successful", which will lead to the imbalance of yin and yang, the anger of the heavens, and the disaster. World.
Since the dismissal of a hundred schools of thought, the above-mentioned arguments have always appeared in the dynasties of all dynasties, and they have been deeply embedded in the subconscious of Confucianism. Therefore, although "Kingdom" also talks about zombie disasters, it is different from the zombie disasters of "The Walking Dead", "Zombie World War" and other works. Behind the zombie tide in "Kingdom", there is a variant of "natural-human induction". The deceased will become active when the temperature drops, and when the temperature rises, they will return to corpses. The corpse will be prosperous in autumn and winter, and the corpse will decline in spring and summer. The reason why yin and yang are out of balance is because foreign relatives interfere in politics. The Zhao clan of Haiyuan controlled the government, made the monarch as a zombie, and trapped the prince as a great rebel. They had improper names and improper power, so yin and yang were out of balance.
However, the Haiyuan Zhao clan still cares about the status. Zhao Xuezhou wanted to find a collateral bloodline of the royal family to be the king. The lady in the middle palace seemed to have no identity, and the descendants of foreign surnames pretended to be the country's origin, but in fact, she could not escape the cage of the name. She could not give birth to an heir to the throne. In the ancient times when "mother is more important than child", it meant that she had no status, and the threat of power always existed. Therefore, even if it is fake, she has to hold a son.
The Confucian concept of "Kingdom" ultimately points not to the status, but to "people-oriented". "The people take food as their heaven, and the king takes their people as their heaven." Mencius said, "The people are the most valuable, and the ruler is light." civil.
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