《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 [[LiShui|《理水》]] and [[QiSi|《起死》]] rather than the more familiar 《铸剑》 or 《非攻》. That choice lets the episode connect [[LuXun|鲁迅]]’s humor to [[GushiBian|古史辨]], Disaster Aestheticization, [[Zhuangzi|庄子]], Daoist afterlives, and Instrumental Belief Critique.

Connections

• [[LuXun|鲁迅]] - author whose complex, humorous, and critical position the episode reopens.
• [[LiShui|《理水》]] - flood-control myth rewriting centered on [[YuTheGreat|大禹]], scholars, officials, and suffering.
• [[QiSi|《起死》]] - skull-resurrection story centered on [[Zhuangzi|庄子]], [[YangDa|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.