未上梁山的好汉王进:避往边庭与“不知所踪”

Hiding in the Frontier and Missing——Wang Jin,A Hero Who Didn’t Go to Mount Liangshan

作为好汉,王进有其明显优点。高俅进入“体制内”并任高官后与王进的对立,为“体制内”的正邪对立。王进出走后,他与高俅的对立就转为“体制内”奸恶与“体制外”忠善的对立,而后者又演化为朝廷与江湖的对立。史进往延安寻不到师父王进,其实表明他想在边庭安身立命难以实现。就好汉个人而言,上边庭之路走不通,上梁山为不得已但又具现实性的选择;就好汉群体而言,其聚义不能在边庭军营中,而只能在梁山山寨中。这些其实都在暗示上梁山的必然性与正义性。王进的“不知所踪”还暗示并非所有好汉都上梁山,而梁山好汉也非天下无敌手。

As a hero,Wang Jin had obvious advantages of his own.The opposition between Wang Jin and Gao Qiu was the confrontation between justice and evil in the official system.After Wang’s leaving,the opposition between them turned into the one between evil within the system and loyalty outside the system,and then evolved into the opposition between the imperial rulers and the masses.Shi Jin failed to find his master Wang Jin when he went to Yan’an,which showed that he couldn’t realize his wish of settling down in the frontier.For a heroic individual,the road to the frontier was impassable and he had to go to Liangshan,which was a realistic choice.For a hero group,gathering cannot be in the frontier military camp,but in Mount Liangshan fastness.In fact,all these implied the inevitability and justice of joining in Liangshan revolt.Wang Jin’s missing also implied that not all heroes went to Liangshan,and Liangshan heroes were not invincible in the world.