Miscellaneous Talk: The West Seat of Jia Yu Village

Jia Yucun also said that those who were born in response to the catastrophe [Text: Chi You, Gonggong, Ji, 纣, Shi Huang, Wang Mang, Cao Cao, Huan Wen, An Lushan, Qin Hui, etc., are all born in response to the catastrophe. Legend has it that the Yellow Emperor and Emperor Yan defeated the Chiyou tribe, we are the descendants of Yan and Huang, and Chiyou is of course the opposite image. The gods fought, and the co-workers knocked down Buzhou Mountain, resulting in "the sky tilting to the northwest and the earth sinking to the southeast", the sky collapsed into a hole, and the people suffered! Xia Wei and Shang are famous tyrants in history, if you are curious, you can refer to the "Fengshen List". Qin Shi Huang fought every day to annex the world, and the Eastern Zhou Dynasty perished. Wang Mang usurped power and ended the Western Han Dynasty, Cao Cao "coerced the Son of Heaven to order the princes" to end the Eastern Han Dynasty, and the two Han Dynasty terminators were also in war when they were alive. An Lushan was born from the grassroots and committed rebellion, and later his son, the United Minister, killed him. Qin Hui is still carrying the pot that killed Zhongliang on his back, and the only thing that everyone is not familiar with is Huan Wen.

Except for the fact that Qin Shi Huang and Cao Cao's ancient and modern evaluations are not quite the same, Jia Yucun's other statements are similar to today's views. Evaluating historical figures, the angle of standing is different, everyone's opinion is different, we know who the author said through Jia Yucun's mouth. In addition to judging according to the standards that are conducive to the inheritance of Confucianism, Jia Yucun is to repair the positive image of the people who rule the world and scratch the negative image of the people in the world. In the previous article, when he first appeared on the stage, the critic said that he looked like Wang Mang and Cao Cao, and I don't know how Yucun felt about holding the banner of Confucianism and wearing the cloak of benevolence and righteousness.

[Text: Recently, due to the grief and injury of a female student, she was cowardly and sickly, and she violated her old illness, so she did not go to school for several days. The rain village is bored, and whenever the wind is clear, they come out for a walk after dinner. On this day, I occasionally went to Guowai, intending to appreciate the scenery of the village. 】

[Jiaxu Mei criticism: Most people in the world expect this, but they can't do this. Not as good as the other, but the opposite. Therefore, the special book is intended to be in the village scenery, but I suddenly met Zixing's prosperous atmosphere. The critic is lamenting life, wanting to enjoy the scenery of the village, but let you listen to the prosperous weather, how you want to do but what you can't, and you have your own arrangements in the dark.

[Text: Suddenly, I walked to a place where the mountains are surrounded by water, the dense forest is deep and bamboo, there is a temple faintly, the door and alley are declining, the walls are decaying, and there is a forehead in front of the door, with the inscription "Zhitong Temple". And who can do it? A sigh. At that time, Jia Yucun thought he was a wise man, but in fact, he was far from seeing through Hongchen, otherwise he would just be a teacher, and there would be no more rights and wrongs in the future.

[Text: There is another old and broken couplet next to the door, saying: There is more than forgetting to withdraw his hand behind him, and there is no way to turn back in front of him. 】

[A clip batch: First for Ning and Rong to drink first, but for the rest of the drink. I think it's also a slap in the face of Jia Yucun! Those who are not satisfied, the more they want to be prosperous and rich, the more they are ruined, the more they want to have happiness, the more they are sad, the more they have, the more they lose, and the greed is not enough to climb up, and the result is that they climb high and fall heavily!

[Text: Yucun read it, because he thought: These two sentences, although the text is shallow and close, its meaning is deep. 【Jiaxu side batch: the general approval of a book. The approver said: "There is more than enough behind me to withdraw my hand, and there is no way to turn back." "It is a general batch of "Dream of Red Mansions", I also have this feeling after reading it, I want to get all the beautiful things, and I do everything I can to do my best, but unfortunately, the more you have, the more you lose, "Dream of Red Mansions" is a big tragedy, and the author destroys all the good things to show you. It's better to have good thoughts and be content and happy.

Jia Yucun thought to himself, [Text: I have also swam some famous mountains and big brakes, but I have never seen this thing, and one of them must have turned over a somersault, so why not go in and try it? [Jiazhu side batch: The essay brings out the Zen machine, and how many quotations are not in vain. "Turning over the somersault", most people look at the text and interpret the somersault as planting a heel, thinking that they have planted a heel, and then see through the red dust. Can planting a heel represent Zhitong? I don't think so, there are all people who have fallen into a vegetative state, and we should understand it with the help of the text and criticism of "Dream of Red Mansions".

The comment said that "the essay brought out the Zen machine" shows that "the somersault" is related to Buddhism, and Jia Yucun is passing by a broken temple, which is related to Buddhism, which is normal. Who is most famous for "somersaults"? It's Sun Wukong, somersault cloud, a somersault 108,000 miles. In the fifty-fourth chapter of the text, Sun Wukong was mentioned in the joke told by Jia Mu, saying that Sun Xingzhi came on a somersault cloud, and when he saw nine souls, he was going to beat them with a golden hoop stick, so frightened that the nine souls hurriedly knelt down and begged the great sage to have mercy, and then Sun Wukong wanted to pee for them to drink.

Monkey King is a monkey that jumped out of the stone, the first to practice with the Bodhi Ancestor in Lingtai Fangcun Mountain, and wanted to learn the Taoist art of immortality, but unfortunately the Bodhi Ancestor did not teach him, only learned eighteen weapons, seventy-two changes and somersault clouds, out of the three-star cave of the oblique moon, the Bodhi Ancestor did not recognize him, and the master concluded that he was going to have an accident. As a result, Sun Wukong called himself Monkey King in Huaguo Mountain, alarmed the heavenly court, and was deceived by Tai Bai Xing to be Bi Ma Wen, he stole the elixir and stole the imperial wine, gnawed half of the peach orchard, and became an immortal body. If you can't kill the enemy, it's better to integrate into an allied force. Five hundred years later, he followed a second master, Tang Seng.

An ordinary stone in "Journey to the West", because of the nourishment of the essence of the sun and the moon, gave birth to a stone monkey, the stone monkey has the ability to cultivate the Tao, the scenery in the monkey group is infinite, and he also went to the sky to be an official, and soon he was crushed under the Five Elements Mountain, lost everything, even his freedom was gone, and finally converted to Buddhism.

In "Dream of Red Mansions", an ordinary stone was thrown into the nonsensical cliff of the Great Wilderness Mountain because Nuwa exercised and lost his aura, and it was useless, and it was very annoying all day long. Encounter a monk together to turn it into a psychic treasure jade to experience the prosperity of the world, after the prosperity ends, restore the original appearance of the stone back to the bottom of the green ridge peak, red dust and mundane things, such as passing clouds, dream bubbles. If the stone experiences possession and loss of everything, it is a precipice to let go, and it is a real letting go, so that it can have a deeper understanding of troubles and happiness.

Therefore, I believe that the person who "turned over the somersault" refers to a person who has realized after losing everything, and such a person understands the meaning of life better.

Jia Yucun has a relationship with the temple, although he is full of poetry and books, when he is poor, he lives in the gourd temple with one mouth, gets acquainted with Zhen Shiyin, meets nobles to help, and then the title of the gold list, starts a family, and is promoted to make a fortune. Fate with the temple, Jia Yucun's good luck came, and his life went from a trough to a climax. Now that he has been dismissed from office, and it is a low point in his life, he suddenly encountered the Zhitong Temple with a mysterious couplet, Jia Yucun of course longs for another adventure, so that he can run from time to time, he thinks that there is a master in the temple who "turned over the somersault" who can give him guidance. I can discuss with him what it means to "forget to withdraw my hands behind me, and there is no way to turn back." ”

[Text: Thinking about walking in, there is only one old monk Longzhong cooking porridge there. 【Jiaxu side batch: It's the fire of Yucun. Jia Yucun is an anxious person, and he took Zhen Shiyin's money without thanking him in person and went to Beijing to take the exam. When he took office in Daruzhou, he just saw Jiao Xing and sent someone to inquire about the situation overnight. Entrusted Feng Su to ask for Jiao Xing, Feng Su sent Jiao Xing with a small sedan overnight, and Jia Yucun was so happy that he rewarded 100 gold. Jia Min died of illness, and he thought that Lin Daiyu had no time to study, so he was going to change jobs. These things all show that Jia Yucun is impatient, and if he wants to achieve his goal, he will quickly take action, he is short-tempered and easily impatient.

[Text: When Yumura saw it, he didn't care.] 【Jiaxu side batch: fire. Jia Yucun hurriedly looked for a master, of course he didn't care about the old monk who cooked porridge, he went around the temple, there was no one else, so he asked the old monk. [Text: When I asked him two sentences, the old monk was deaf and faint, [Jiaxu side criticism: It was turned over. It seems that he used to be deaf and clear-sighted. [Text: Teeth and tongue blunt,] [Jiazhu side batch: It is turned over. It seems that he used to be sharp-toothed. [Text: Answers not asked.] There was only one unwise and unenlightened old monk cooking porridge in Zhitong Temple, and Jia Yucun asked him what he didn't know, but we knew that Jia Yucun didn't get the answer he wanted. The world is impermanent, not you can do what you want, there are arrangements in the dark.

In response to Jia Yucun's encounter with Zhitong Temple, there are two important eyebrow criticisms. [Jiazhu Mei criticism: After all, Yucun is still vulgar, and he can only know Ah Feng, Baoyu, Daiyu, etc., but he can't know after the proof. This comment said that Jia Yucun was still pursuing more wealth, of course, it was vulgar, and he couldn't see what it looked like to lose all his descendants. The appearance of the old monk in front of him is an example, he doesn't understand, he still has to experience the process of "forgetting to shrink his hand behind him, and there is no way to turn back in front of him".

[Jiaxu Mei Criticism: Before Ningning, Rong and prosperous, but first write a desolate scene; did not write the whole department into the world charming, but first wrote a sober person. Returning to the wind and dancing snow, inverting the gorge and going against the waves, there is no other way. This comment says that the author has not yet written about the prosperity and happiness of the world, but first wrote about the desolate and lonely situation of people who have lost everything.

"Returning to the wind and dancing in the snow, inverting the gorge and going against the waves" is not exactly a flashback as some people say, but the ending of the character's fate is explained first, and then this ending is confirmed little by little through the extension of words. Don't use the corroboration technique, read the text and then look at this paragraph to feel deeper, and it is better to understand the first chapter of a monk to persuade the heavenly stone to say the paragraph: "There are some happy things in the red dust, but you can't rely on it forever, and there are 'fly in the ointment, good things and many demons' eight words are closely connected, and in an instant, they are happy and sad, people are not exchanged, in the end of a dream, all realms are empty, it is better not to go." ”

Zhitong Temple is a dilapidated ancient temple that appeared earlier in the Dream of Red Mansions, this Zhitong Temple, the original text is only one hundred and eighty words, but there are many criticisms, which are annotated by the same person at different times, and there are other people's annotations, which is too powerful

Why are tutors and staff called "Sibin"?

[Text: Yucun is occasionally feeling a cold, sick in the hotel, and will gradually recover in January. One is due to physical fatigue, and the other is due to the lack of money, and I am also looking for a place to fit, so I will rest for the time being. Fortunately, there are two old friends, who also live in this realm, because they heard that Yan Zheng wanted to hire a Xibin, Yucun entrusted their friends to seek to enter, and made a plan to settle down. 】

Yan Zheng is Lin Ruhai, let's explain "Xibin". When Emperor Liu Zhuang of the Han Ming Dynasty was the crown prince, he worshiped Huan Rong as his teacher. When he became emperor, he still often went to the teacher's house to listen to the lectures. In the Han Dynasty, they sat on the ground, similar to today's kneeling, and the indoor seating was respected by leaning against the west wall and facing the east. Emperor Ming of the Han Dynasty was very humble and let the teacher sit in the west to show his respect for the teacher, and since then, Xibin and Xixi have become the honorific titles of teachers or staff in the Han Dynasty, which are still used today.

Many students have studied "Hongmen Banquet", which has such a sentence: "Xiang Wang and Xiang Bo sit in the east, and the father sits in the south-the father, Fan Zengye, Pei Gong sits in the north, and Zhang Liang sits in the west." "King Xiang and Uncle Xiang sat facing east, facing east, and sat on the west side. In the Han Dynasty, on the basis of respecting the west, and respecting the right, Xiang Yu's right hand side is the seat where the guests sit in the south, Pei Gong sits in the north, and Liu Bang faces north and sits in the south. Yafu sits in the south, and Fan Zeng is the companion, sitting on the north side, facing south. Zhang Liang didn't even have a seat, he was standing on the east side, facing west.

The Han Dynasty was different from some of today's etiquette concepts. China's geographical location determines the main orientation of the building, and the architecture pays attention to sitting in the north and facing south, mainly because the lighting surface is in the south. In addition, the wind direction changes throughout the year, and in winter, the cold current in Siberia in the north is the main one, and the north faces south, not only for lighting, but also to avoid the north wind. In addition, in Feng Shui, which gradually developed later, the warm wind and warm wind that blow from the southeast are called yang winds, and it is okay to blow them. The cool breeze and cold wind blowing from the northwest are called yin winds, and if they blow too much, the family road is decaying, and the number of people is scarce.

Therefore, the ceremonial concept of facing south for respect was formed, the palace and temple are facing south, and the emperor's seat is also facing south. Today's self-built houses are located in the north and facing south, generally speaking, the elders of the family have bedrooms in the east house, where the sun rises, and on the basis of sitting north and facing south, they are respected in the east. Jiafu is divided into east and west two provinces, the east mansion is the long, it is Ningguo Gong Jia Yan, and the west mansion is secondary, it is Rongguo Gong Jia Yuan.

If a banquet is held in a hall facing north and facing south, whether it is a round table or a square table, the seat of the elder or leader is the seat of the lord and the leader if there is a distinguished guest who comes to the house, and if the guest does not want to take the host, then the host sits. Once the main seat is seated, the east side of the main seat is the seat of the guest on the left hand, and the seat of the guest on the right hand side and the west side is the seat of the accompanying guest. In the text of "Dream of Red Mansions", it is written, "Jia's mother sat alone on the couch in front of her, with four empty chairs on both sides, Xifeng hurriedly pulled Daiyu to sit on the first chair on the left, and Daiyu was very pushing." Jia Mu smiled: "Your aunt and sister-in-law don't eat here. You are a guest, and you should have sat like this. Dai Yufang took a seat and sat down. ”

If the banquet is not held in the hall facing north and south, then it is generally respected by the seat facing the door, so the elders, leaders, and VIPs should be let in, and the young people who have just joined the work generally take the initiative to sit at the door, and with the growth of age or the promotion of their positions, they will gradually sit inside, and do not be happy too early, and they should be hung on the wall after sitting in it for a long time.

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