Chapter Forty-Nine: Jin Shengsi's Manuscript: Wu Song's Ximenqing Annotations
The first treasure point of light, the silver treasure, is in the countryside of Suzhou, in a small hill.
Han Zhou drove to the end of the road, got out of the car and left.
Walking up the hill, there is a trail, apparently carved out by someone. But it is overgrown with weeds, and it is presumed that no pedestrians have passed by for many years.
Han Zhou climbs the mountain.
Climbed for more than an hour.
Turn around a bamboo forest.
See a ruined temple.
The broken handwriting on the plaque is faintly visible with the word "Guanshan".
Enter the ruined temple and see a carved wood Buddha statue.
The Buddha statue has a calm face and a smile. Extremely clean and quiet.
Han Zhou zoomed in on the treasure map and found that the point of light was behind the Buddha statue.
He went around to the Buddha statue.
Suddenly, there was an unusual noise.
Han Zhou turned his head to look.
A bat fluttered and flew out.
Bats, commonly known as oil rats, are the only mammals capable of actually flying. All over the world.
Usually bats have poor vision, but their hearing is unusually developed, and they are able to fly freely and catch food with unmistakable accuracy at night or in very dim environments.
Bats are strange in some ways. The body temperature of many bats varies greatly, up to 56 °C (from -7.5 to 48.5 °C), some large fruit eaters, due to their different physiological and behavioral characteristics, the body temperature is relatively constant, and the vast majority of small insectivorous bats are typical of paratherms.
The body temperature is high and the metabolism is very fast, so the heart rate of the bat reaches more than 1,000 times per minute. The ultra-high metabolism means that bats can renew their cells much faster than the average mammal.
Because metabolism is too fast, it has evolved a DNA damage repair superpower, so it ensures that cells can metabolize quickly without making mistakes.
So bats have a super immune system, super self-healing ability.
Therefore, there are many super viruses that are not harmful to bats themselves, but they are very dangerous to other animals.
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Seeing the bat flying out, Han Zhou subconsciously avoided it.
There are too many viruses in bats.
He carefully observed the temple and found no other bats before continuing his search.
Behind the Buddha statue is a pedestal, which was gently patted and found to be hollow.
Find the gap and open it.
It was a cloth bag, tattered.
Open it. Inside are several layers of plastic bags, with the kind of strips that can be sealed by pinching.
The air was evacuated, and several layers of vacuum plastic bags protected a roll of yellowed paper.
The small print is densely packed.
Han Zhou put on white gloves. Open the plastic bag layer by layer.
Take out the paper and look through it carefully. only to find out that it was the content of the novel "Water Margin". The section of Wu Song Ximen Qing.
But next to the text of the original Water Margin, a lot of children were densely written.
Han Zhou looked at it carefully.
After reading it for a long time, I realized that it was someone's annotation to the Water Margin.
I saw a line of small words again: "Jin Lian is so foul of Wu Song, Wu Song is suspected of being his sister-in-law, and he has accepted it, and he has not argued, and the future generations of the world have no one who knows that it is like ice and jade." ”
Suddenly remembered.
Baidu took a look.
Sure enough, it was the original annotation of Jin Shengsi.
Han Zhou said: "Could it be the original manuscript of Jin Shengsi, how could it be in the ruined temple?"
Because it was wrapped in a plastic bag, it must have been left by modern people.
It can be found by the treasure map, so it must be ownerless.
Han Zhou didn't think about it. Pack this manuscript well. Prepare to take it back to the capital, authenticate it, and if it is genuine, use it as a private museum collection.
Jin Shengsi's manuscript is indeed a good thing.
Jin Shengsigh, famous, if the word is picked. One said that the original surname was Zhang.
He was born in Wuxian County, Suzhou in the late Ming and early Qing Dynasties. After the death of the Ming Dynasty, he changed his name to Rui, the word sage, and called himself Master Xi'an. Famous writer and literary critic.
Jin Shengxi is a great master of literary criticism, and has commented on books such as "Water Margin", "The Legend of the West Chamber", "Zuo Chuan" and Du Fu's Tang poems.
He creatively put forward the theory of "Six Talented Books", which raised the status of popular literature, made novels and operas go hand in hand with traditional classical poetry, and was regarded as the pioneer of the Chinese vernacular literary movement and occupied an important position in the history of Chinese literature.
The so-called six books of talents, namely "Zhuangzi", "Lisao", "Historical Records", "Du Gongbu Collection", "Water Margin" and "West Chamber" six books.
There's a lot to say about it. The first four, the so-called subsets of classics and histories, and the works of famous artists, have always been sought after by orthodox literati.
The latter two are popular novels and miscellaneous dramas, although the level is extremely high, but it is difficult to wait for elegance in the traditional Shilin.
Jin Shengxian dared to juxtapose the latter two works with the first four works, believing that they were all "talented" books, which was a slightly deviant move, which caused a high degree of discussion at the time. In the end, it brought him prestige, and also improved Shilin's recognition and evaluation of popular literary works at that time.
The statement of "Six Genius Books" may also have inspired the evaluation of the later "Six Strange Books", namely "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", "Water Margin", "Golden Vase Plum", "Journey to the West", "Dream of Red Mansions" and "Confucianism".
After the founding of the People's Republic of China, "Jin" and "Confucianism" were deleted, which is the so-called "four famous works".
Regardless of talent, Jin Shengsi's person is also very interesting. Leaves a lot of allusions.
Jin Shengsian did not die of natural causes. Instead, because of the "Wailing Temple Case", he was sentenced to death.
Jin Sheng sighed with emotion, "Only killing the head is the most bitter in the world", but he had no choice but to die.
Before he died, he left a secret for his family.
is also the most famous story in history:
"Peanuts and dried tofu are chewed together, and they have the taste of ham. ”
There are many versions of this phrase circulating. First of all, peanuts and dried tofu are two things, dried tofu is sometimes used as tofu, but it should not be right, how to chew tofu softly. It should be that the northerners don't know what the dried tofu is, so they created it and spread it.
Ham is sometimes used as walnuts. It's not hard to understand. But I always feel that walnuts are not as delicious as ham. Ham has a meaty flavor after all.
Moreover, Suzhou is close to Jinhua, and Jin Shengsigh should eat Jinhua ham, which is famous. It is made of two black cats, a native pig breed in China.
Back to the sentence itself.
Many people don't understand what Jin Shengsian means by this. I just think it's wonderful.
Or you want to experience the spirit of Jin Sheng's black humor before his death.
Not really. In ancient times, many scholars were not wealthy and could not afford to eat meat.
Every day, I lit up all night, read hard in the cold window, and always have to prepare some snacks.
Small snacks such as peanuts are common.
But it's also very tiring to eat these meatless ones every day. It's not like rich people can eat big fish and big meat.
Suddenly, one day, the hard-pressed poor scholar Jin Shengxi unexpectedly discovered that peanuts and dried tofu, two civilian foods, could be chewed together, and the taste of ham meat could be chewed.
It has achieved good results at low cost.
Since then, he has had more fun and increased his efficiency when he reads hard.
So, before he died, he told his son this "secret". If he dies and the family declines, future generations can at least use this family secret skill to make the boring reading career more colorful.