Once, me and my Love

On an outing, I saw a group of magpies flying southeast from the top of my head, and I casually chanted "Magpies fly southeast, wandering for five miles." ”

Love

He looked at me again and again, but didn't make a sound.

After walking for a while, she suddenly stood down and said, "What you just recited is not right, it's not 'magpie flying southeast', but 'peacock flying southeast'!" ”

I laughed.

"The peacock flies southeast, wandering for five miles" We are familiar to the extent of confusion. When we were in the first year of high school, we listened to the teacher's explanation sentence by sentence with curiosity about lingering love, which was roughly like this:

The story takes place in the Jian'an period at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty.

The girl Liu Lanzhi has been a female celebrity since she was a child, is good at playing the piano, and can recite poetry and books. Married Jiao Zhongqing at the age of seventeen (hearing this, we all beat the drum in our hearts: "Can you get married at the age of seventeen, will the relevant departments let you?") "Actually, if it's really the Han Dynasty, you didn't get married until you were seventeen years old, and you belong to the boss and no one wants that gang. Marriage at this age is not a marriage custom in the Han Dynasty).

After marriage, Liu Lanzhi worked hard day and night and was diligent in housework, but she was not tolerated by her mother-in-law, so she wrote to her husband, who was working as a small official in Lujiang County Government, telling her unbearable suffering.

Zhong Qing came back to intercede for his wife, but was reprimanded by his mother and ordered her to divorce her wife and marry another. Zhong Qing knelt down and said, "If you send this woman today, you will never marry again", and her mother was furious.

Because he still had to rush back to the county government to take office, Zhong Qing had to ask his wife to go back to her parents' house first and take refuge for a while. Laneige naturally understood that such a farewell would be like abandonment, and it would be difficult to see each other again in the future, so he left his commonly used sachets, makeup and other items to Zhong Qing as a souvenir.

After the rooster crowed at dawn, Laneige carefully groomed herself, said goodbye to her mother-in-law and sister-in-law, and boarded the car in tears. At this time, Zhong Qing was already waiting on the side of the avenue, and the husband and wife met. The two of them attached to each other, bowed their heads and whispered, "Swear that the sky will not be disappointed." ”

Liu Lanzhi was sent home for more than ten days, and the county order immediately sent a matchmaker to propose marriage to his son, but Lanzhi politely refused; A few days later, Taishou also asked the county to come to the door to propose marriage, and clearly said that the five sons of Taishou had not yet married, and they were willing to marry the Liu family for a hundred years, but they were refused.

This has annoyed Laneige's thunderstormy big brother. The brother's fate was difficult to disobey, and Laneige was forced to do everything, so he had to arrange everything. The matchmaker over there reported that the Liu family had agreed to the marriage.

Just three days later, it was an auspicious day, and Taishou immediately sent people around to prepare a golden silk dowry, and people and horses and boats and cars, so as to complete the marriage as soon as possible. Zhong Qing heard of this change when he was in office, and hurriedly begged for leave.

The next day, Laneige was silent all day, just cutting clothes with tears. Suddenly, I heard a familiar neighing of horses, and when I went out, I looked at each other from a distance, knowing that it was an old man.

Laneige stroked the saddle with his hand and told the truth one by one.

Zhong Qing mentioned the oath that day, and the two had to meet "see each other under the Yellow Spring" and went home separately.

After returning home, Zhong Qing said to his mother, "Today, the strong wind blew the trees, and the orchids in the yard were covered with severe frost; The child's life is like the sunset on the western mountain, and the mother should take care of her in the future."

Then he bowed again and sighed and left.

On this day, the carriage and horses to welcome the relatives were particularly lively, and the bride had already entered the door. After dusk, the crowd gradually dispersed, and the night was deep and silent, and Laneige committed suicide by throwing herself into the water. Zhong Qing learned that wandering under the tree also hanged himself. The latter two were buried together next to Huashan.

- I'm just simply describing it, and I want to translate it into the vernacular sentence after sentence, which will cost 5,000 words!

As long as the general meaning is understood, we know such a tragic story that happened in the early years of the Three Kingdoms at the end of the Han Dynasty, and I suspect that this is the prototype of "Liang Zhu".

From this long narrative poem, we understand Liu Lanzhi as a loyal woman. In fact, we really admire such women. A woman should be loyal, because if she is "two", she may have sequelae.

In 1924, in order to welcome the Indian poet Rabindranath Tagore, Liang Qichao gave a speech in Beijing, mentioning the writing age of "Peacock Flying Southeast".

He said, "Works like "Peacock Flying Southeast" and "Mulan Poem" all originated in the Six Dynasties, but there was nothing before. ("Peacock Flying Southeast" has always been considered a Chinese poem, but I suspect that it is from the Six Dynasties, and I have no research.) The Praise of the Buddha's Deeds, now translated into four books, turned out to be just a poem. …… The people of the Six Dynasties read it together with almost everyone. That kind of warm emotion and rich imagination are of course a lot of input into the hearts of our poets, but I am afraid that the long narrative lyric poems along the way in "Peacock Flying Southeast" are also indirectly affected, right? ”

Liang Qichao's "other research" was not published later, but he expressed his negative opinion.

He said that Liu Kezhuang's "Poetry of the Hou Village" suspected that this poem was not a Han work.

He said that the Han people did not have such long narrative poems, and that they should be written for the people of the Six Dynasties.

"I used to think it was a novelty, and I quite agreed. But on closer study, the people of the Six Dynasties will not have such simple pen and ink. The original preface said that Jiao Zhongqing was a native of Jian'an, and if this poem was written in the last years of Jian'an, it would be closely connected with Wei's Huang Chu. At that time, such as Cai Yan's "Poems of Grief and Indignation" and Cao Zhi's "Gift to the White Horse Wang Biao", they were all very long. However, it is also possible that "The Peacock Flying Southeast" was written in that era, and it is better for us not to turn over the old case (see "The Beauty of China and Its History"). ”

Later, there were still many people who advocated that "Peacock Flying Southeast" was composed in the Six Dynasties.

The reasons for various research can be summarized in the following three points:

1. According to the "Youyang Miscellaneous" and "Northern History: Qi Benji", it is pointed out that the "Qinglu" in the poem "the bride enters the Qinglu" is the custom of the newlyweds in the Northern Dynasty.

2. According to the "Song Shu • Zang Zhi Biography" and "Yuefu Poetry Collection", it is proved that the "four-horned dragon flag" in the poem is the fashion of the Southern Dynasty.

3. There is a sentence in the poem that "the two families seek to be buried together, and they are buried together in Huashan", which believes that the people of Lujiang will never be buried in Huashan, Shaanxi, and Huashan is just a metaphor here, and it is a story of "Huashanji" when Emperor Shaodi of the Song Dynasty was used.

According to these reasons, it is believed that the customs, fashions and deeds of the Six Dynasties cannot appear in the poems of the Han Dynasty, and these internal evidence of "Peacock Flying Southeast" reveals the era when it came out.

But these arguments are still far-fetched and not sufficient to constitute a complete reason, because:

1. Although Duan Chengshi's "Youyang Miscellaneous Tales and Etiquette" records that "the wedding of the Northern Dynasties, the green cloth curtain is the house, inside and outside the door, it is called 'Qinglu', and the woman is worshiped here." "But this passage can only prove that there was such a wedding in the Northern Dynasty, but it cannot prove that there was no such wedding in the Northern Dynasty before." "Qinglu" existed in the Han Dynasty, and the name "Qinglu" appeared in the story of Cao Cao in "The World Says New Words, False Words", which also shows that "Qinglu" has been used in the late Han Dynasty, not in the Northern Dynasty, but in the Northern Dynasty, it is just that the Northern Dynasty used Han customs.

2. Although there is a record of "Longzipan" in the "Song Book • Zang Zhi Biography" and "Yuefu Poetry Collection" quoted in the "Ancient and Modern Music Records", the "flag" has been very popular in the late Han Dynasty. "Dragon flag" was once seen in "Three Kingdoms: Wu Zhi". Therefore, it is natural for the "four-horned dragon flag" to appear in "Peacock Flying Southeast", and it cannot be said that it is a unique fashion of the Southern Dynasty.

3. The martyrdom plot in the story of "Peacock Flying Southeast" and "Huashangi" is of the same type, and they are both typical in folklore. The location of the story of "Peacock Flying Southeast" is in Lujiang, and the location of the story of "Huashanji" is in Zhenjiang. There are many hills with the same name in various parts of China, not necessarily "Peacock Flying Southeast" is a copy of the place name of "Huashangi", and it is not accurate to say it by metaphor.

- I'm interested in dialectics, and I think you'll be interested too. However, I'm not a scholar, and I'm just a duck listening to thunder. Although I don't know what era this work was written, I am sure of two things: first, the story takes place in the early years of the Three Kingdoms at the end of the Han Dynasty; Second, it was written after the Jin Dynasty.

Because, before the Jin Dynasty, in addition to the compound surname, men's names were all two-character "words", and there were generally two-character "words", like Cao Cao, the surname "Cao", the name "Cao", and the word "Mengde"; Liu Bei, surname "Liu", name "Bei", word "Xuande"; Like Sun Quan, the surname is "Sun", the name is "Quan", and the word "Zhongmou". And so on, and so on. As long as it is a man from the Three Kingdoms, he is not exempt.

At that time, the overflowing view was that "one word is expensive, and two words are cheap".

Women in the Three Kingdoms are not necessarily, there are women with three names in the Three Kingdoms, like "Cai Wenji", "Wang Yuanji", "Huang Yueying" and so on.

And the protagonist in this poem is called "Jiao Zhongqing" by the man and "Liu Lanzhi" by the woman. This situation only existed after the Jin Dynasty.