《故事新编》
《故事新编》 is the Lu Xun collection discussed in 75.故事新编：骷髅被复活后会感激庄子吗？. The episode presents it as a late, uneven, and deliberately slippery body of myth rewriting rather than as a solemn school-text monument. Its ancient stories keep being invaded by modern scholars, officials, political speech, and social habits.
The source focuses on 《理水》 and 《起死》 rather than the more familiar 《铸剑》 or 《非攻》. That choice lets the episode connect 鲁迅’s humor to 古史辨, Disaster Aestheticization, 庄子, Daoist afterlives, and Instrumental Belief Critique.
Connections
- 鲁迅 - author whose complex, humorous, and critical position the episode reopens.
- 《理水》 - flood-control myth rewriting centered on 大禹, scholars, officials, and suffering.
- 《起死》 - skull-resurrection story centered on 庄子, 杨大, and practical survival.
- Classic Reading Complexity and Non-Instrumental Literary Reading - reading frames for returning to a familiar canonical author beyond textbook memory.