Chapter 4 Three Teachings and Nine Streams
My grandfather's name is Zhang Xingchun, who is a noodle factory, Jiangsu is rich in wheat, and many farmers in the village will bring the harvested wheat to my grandfather's house, and my grandfather will use the machine to beat it into flour, but my grandfather did not do this in his early years. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
Zhang Xingchun gradually grew up, Xishun also gradually got older, although the Qingwu preface is difficult to understand, but after so many years of exploration also know the general meaning, although the book is not like the family heirloom cheats described in some novels, what skills will be gained after learning, but one thing is for sure, the book records a large number of cultural customs, feng shui geography, and things that should be paid attention to in all walks of life, Xishun has also become a "cultural person" in the village who understands almost everything, but because it is a fragment of many mysteries still do not understand. There is some prestige in the village, the more you know, the heavier the burden on your shoulders, the village is not very rich, usually you have to help the peasants, but also to do storytelling and teaching, in short, you are very busy, and you don't have much jurisdiction over Zhang Xingchun.
Zhang Xingchun was born playful and didn't like restraint, plus it was in the Xinhai Revolution at that time, and the people themselves were in dire straits and had no intention of doing things, so they didn't have a serious job in their twenties. It's not easy for a man to be idle without a job, but it's hard to talk about his daughter-in-law, seeing that Zhang Xingchun is also a big man, Xishun passed this fragment to Zhang Xingchun. The purpose is not very big, but I just hope that as a boy, I can understand the doorways and taboos between various industries. Choose one that suits you and raise your family well.
The three hundred and sixty lines are summarized as three religions and nine streams, and the three religions refer to Confucianism, Taoism, and Buddhism in ancient times. The focus here is on the nine streams, which are divided into the upper nine streams, the middle nine streams, and the lower nine streams. There is a smooth mouth in the upper nine streams: first-class Buddha, second-rate immortals, third-rate emperors, fourth-rate officials, fifth-rate potters, sixth-rate dang, seven-rate merchants, eight-guest, and nine-class fields. The same is the ninth stream: first-class juzi, second-rate medicine, third-rate feng shui, fourth-rate batch, fifth-rate danqing, sixth-rate phase, seven-rate monk, eight-way, nine-qin chess. Lower nine streams: first-class witches, second-rate prostitutes, third-rate gods, fourth-rate gangs, five shaved heads, six blowers, seven plays, eight called flowers, nine selling sugar; The nine streams represent the division of all walks of life, of course, there are different statements.
In fact, in ancient times, although there were mixed opinions about the division of the industry, they were all accepted after all, which also derived why it was called the champion of the industry, and there were some great masters in every industry. However, there are eight kinds of industries that are not in the list of regular business, do not belong to the genus of workers, peasants, soldiers, scholars and businessmen, and are not accepted by the state and society, commonly known as the eight outer lines, and the outer eight lines are divided into: golden points, beggars, ringing horses, thieves and thieves, inverted buckets, walking mountains, leading fires, and collecting water, collectively known as "five elements and three families". It seems that there are only eight trades, but in fact, these eight doors include almost all the side doors on the rivers and lakes. The golden point is a line of fortune telling, a beggar is a line of begging for flowers, a horse is a line of roadblock robbery, a thief is a line of stealing hands and feet that are not clean, a line of inverted buckets is a line of tomb robbery, walking the mountain is a deception, leading the fire is a trick, and collecting water is an official prostitute.
Therefore, Xishun always taught Zhang Xingchun that he could do anything, and he must not enter the outer eight lines.
Zhang Xingchun has many hobbies, usually the most is to like to watch dramas, Lu Xun wrote an article on "Social Opera". It is probably written in the countryside life of Pingqiao Village, the twists and turns before the play, the moonlit night boat to watch the play, the bow of the boat to watch the play, and the return voyage under the moon to steal beans and eat five episodes. And Zhang Xingchun, like Lu Xun back then, also likes to watch dramas.
Zhang Xingchun's father called him to him one day and said that since you like to watch dramas so much, I will introduce you to a singing troupe, I don't want you to learn singing, after all, you are a ninth-rate, but you can also eat by doing chores in it, and the most important thing is that you can watch the drama often, Zhang Xingchun agreed.
Zhang Xingchun planned to do so in his heart, saying that he would not let me learn drama, and I could learn it secretly. In fact, entering the industry does not mean that you can just like it, you can complete it if you are willing to apprentice. No matter what industry you are, you pay attention to a talent, that is, to see if you are suitable for this, and the jargon is called to see if the ancestor will give this bite to eat. Although there are people who overcome congenital obstacles through acquired efforts, they are only a minority after all.
A lot of things are always mysterious and full of anticipation before you know it, but when you are exposed to it every day, you will inevitably get tired of it, which is why many people say don't treat your hobby as your career. Although Zhang Xingchun was responsible for serving tea and pouring water for each actor in the troupe at the beginning, preparing props, building the stage and other tasks. But after doing it for a while, I started to get agitated. In addition, those who run around to perform in various places, the jargon is called running the rivers and lakes. So I left the troupe early. Since he came out of it, he was exposed to singing all day long, so he could hum twice even if he was a miscellaneous person.
When he returned home, Zhang Xingchun didn't have any thoughts of playing, and began to help his family do things. The Zhang family still had a little money at that time, and with Xishun's reputation in the village itself, Zhang Xingchun still married his daughter-in-law relatively smoothly. Once a man has a family, his natural sense of responsibility is much stronger. Not long after getting married, the civil war began in China, and it was also at that time that he moved to Jiangsu.
No matter in any era or place, there are the outer eight elements, if there are no outer eight elements, then the world is really peaceful, but that is impossible. What really made the peasants feel the pain of that era was the ringing of horses, thieves stealing, and inverted fights in the eight outer elements. Robbery and theft, especially in the most frequent wars, in fact, many people still don't want to take this road, but they were too poor at that time, many people couldn't eat, and people died for money. Most villages are not directly protected by officers and soldiers, and if a person dies or is robbed in a village, it is normal, and those who report to the police will be punished for disturbing official business. Therefore, most villages protect themselves and have their own security teams, the most targeted of which are bandits. Whoever has a gun has the right to speak, and if a stranger comes to a village, he must be strictly investigated.
Let's talk about some things that often happened at that time, which village found a strange thief and would be killed directly, firstly, the villagers were very resentful of the thief, and secondly, they were also afraid that the ringing horse on the mountain would send someone down to step on the point, and for the sake of safety, as long as they caught it, they would not be put back. If a woman does something against women's morals, she will be directly immersed in the pig cage, that is, by putting people in the pig cage and throwing them into the water to drown, even if the parents are present, there is no way, the rules must be observed. There are four major lack of virtue among the people: eating confinement milk, deceiving honest people, picking up widows' doors, and digging up household graves. There is also a smooth saying: beating the blind, scolding the dumb, deceiving the fool, kicking the lame, stumbling and crippled, chasing the madman, stealing beggars, eating little widow tofu, throwing the blind probe rod, splitting the lame crutch, defecating at the door of others, lacking virtue and lacking virtue, not only will they be punished but will also be cursed for future generations. Therefore, many children who are born with problems say that their ancestors did something evil before.
Zhang Xingchun has also seen some cases, so no matter how naughty he usually is, he will not do too much, and now he is married, and it didn't take long for me to have my father, and in my father's generation, the society has already developed steadily, plus in the 60s, the country carried out the "abolition of the four old, the establishment of the four new" people's minds emancipated, and the book has been kept by my grandfather, and my father never knew. That book is gradually not turned up by grandpa in the new society, the society is developing people's traditional concepts have changed, and when grandpa is older, he always has to do some practical work to support his family, so he used the savings of the family to make this noodle shop, although he can't make too much money, at least he is rich enough, and then there is me.
Speaking of which, Grandpa got up and took out the book of "Qingwu Preface". My father was already in his profession, and he felt that the old things of the new society were outdated. I was the only one who was particularly interested, so I asked my grandfather to lend me a few days. Grandpa said to me, what I told you today is indeed true, the country is to promote innovation, science. But the things handed down by the ancestors, no matter when they go, they can't be completely abandoned, set off, take it and read it if you like, remember a sentence, sometimes you must have it in your life, and you can't force it in your life.