In Chinese literature, there are three very famous dreams, which refer to the wonderful text of the philosophy of life. One is the Nanke Dream by the Tang Dynasty Li Gongzuo; one is the Handan Dream; and the other is the Butterfly Dream of Zhuangzi. Even though Nan Ke woke up from his dream, he still refused to give up. When you die, you still want to ascend to heaven, to another Buddha's kingdom, and maybe there, you can satisfy the desires that cannot be satisfied in this world.
A dream called Nan Ke Meng, also called Huai An Meng, also appeared in the Tang Dynasty Notes Novel.
One day, the reader was tired of reading and fell asleep. In his sleep, he himself went to the examination for meritorious names, took the examination for the title, and then went to see the emperor. When the emperor saw this young man, he liked it and married his daughter to him. Later, the husband and wife loved each other, gave birth to children, and made great contributions to the country. After several decades, one day foreign troops came to fight, and he served as the commander to fight the enemy. This battle was fought, defeated, the country died, and he himself was killed. A knife cut him down and woke him up, and he saw that the ants in the tree were fighting. After waking up from a dream, I probably went to monasticism as well. Nanke Dream is actually a fable, set Handan Dream.
A dream is a Dream of Handan, which appears in the "Tang Dynasty Notes Novel", saying that it was a Scholar surnamed Lu in the Tang Dynasty, who went to Beijing to take the exam for meritorious names, walked to the Handan Road, tired and wanted to rest, next to an old man who was washing Huang Liang rice well, and wanted to cook under the pot, so he lent the pillow to this Lu Sheng to sleep. This scholar leaned on his pillow and fell asleep, and in his sleep he had a dream, dreaming that he had been admitted to the meritorious rank of jinshi, married his wife and had children, and soon became the prime minister, and he was a prime minister, and forty years of rich and noble merit, for a time, he was prominent, and as a result, he committed a crime, and he was about to be killed, and like Li Si, the prime minister of Qin II, he was pulled out of the East Gate to beheaded. When the knife fell, he woke up in fright. Looking back, the old man's yellow beam rice next to him was not cooked well. The old man saw that he was awake, smiled at him, and said, "Forty years of fame and fortune, very enjoyable, right?" "Alas! I'm dreaming, how does he know? He must have been a god to incarnate me. Therefore, instead of taking the exam, he followed the old man to cultivate.
Some people say that the protagonist of this Handan dream is the famous historical god Lu Chunyang, and the old man is his teacher Zhong Lihan. Lü Chunyang has a very famous poem:
The sail force splits the thousand-level wave, and the horse's hooves step on the ridge head spring.
The floating name is as strong as wine, drunk to death.
Lü Chunyang lived a long life, and his status in Taoism was equivalent to that of the Six Ancestors of Zen Buddhism. There are five levels of immortals: ghost immortals, human immortals, earth immortals, heavenly immortals, and immortals. Lü Chunyang cultivated to the Earth Immortals and Heavenly Immortals, and his sword skills were very high. In the famous Yueyang Building of Dongting Lake in Hunan Province, Lü Chunyang wrote a poem:
Towards the North Sea twilight, the green snake in the sleeve is bold.
The three drunken Yueyang people did not know each other, and Lang Yin flew over Dongting Lake.
"Cangwu" is now Guangxi, and "Green Snake" is his sword. He was a god who flew around Dongting Lake, and no one recognized him. In the Song Dynasty, Fan Zhongyan wrote a "Record of Yueyang Lou", the most important two sentences of which are also famous sentences throughout the ages: "The worries of the world before the world are worried, and the happiness of the world after the world is happy." "Fan Zhongyan is a Confucian, Kong Meng's thought, wait until the world is too peaceful, we will enjoy it again." Of course, there are many inscriptions in Yueyang Lou, and a Hunan person also inscribed a pair of pairs in Yueyang Lou for the poems of Lü Chunyang and Fan Zhongyan:
The Lü Dao people were too bored, eight hundred caves, flew over and flew over, a god who was in the eye.
Fan Xiucai is troubled, decades of time, what comes first, what comes after, wanjia is always concerned.
Speaking of handan dreams, by the way, I talk about Lu Chunyang. The story of handan dreams is a didactic, religious and philosophical story, and it requires people to see through life, so in the literature of later generations, in poetry, It often mentions Huang Liang Mi Shu or Huang Liang Mengjue. But then there was a reader who took the opposite view. The man also fell to Handan, remembered the story, and composed a poem:
For forty years, gong and hou, even if it is a dream, it is also a flow.
I am now in Handan Road, and I want to borrow a pillow from my husband.
Even if it is a dream thing, you can live a rich and noble addiction, and the description of human desire in this poem can really be said to be vivid.
The original text of the butterfly dream is: "In the past, Zhuang Zhou dreamed of butterflies, vivid butterflies also, self-metaphorically suitable for Zhizhi and ? I don't know zhou also. Oranjue, then suddenly Zhou Ye, do not know that Zhou's dream is a butterfly, and the dream of a butterfly is a week and a butterfly's dream. The week and the butterfly must be separated, and this is materialization. ”
Zhuang Zhou, a famous man of Zhuangzi, said: "I dreamed one day that I became a butterfly and was flying and flying. At this time, I only knew that I was a butterfly, not that I was Zhuang Zhou, and when I suddenly woke up from a dream, I became Zhuang Zhou, not a butterfly. This raises the question, was it a butterfly instead of Zhuang Zhou when I dreamed, or am I a butterfly instead of Zhuang Zhou now? Is the true meaning of life the butterfly me, or am I the butterfly? Which one is the real me? This is called materialization. ”
This butterfly dream called Zhuang Zhou is equivalent to what Buddhism says, closing your eyes at night is called a dream, and during the day is to open your eyes to dream, but people forget, take the day as true, and take the night dream as fake. Whether a dream is life or life is a dream, the Buddha said in the Diamond Sutra: Everything has a way, like a dream bubble. The Buddha said that the whole life is a dream, death is also a dream, life is also a dream, pain is also a dream, happiness is also a dream, all of which are unreliable. What is the real life? Zhuangzi did not draw conclusions, and when he realized this, he would be enlightened.
Butterfly Dreams, Handan Dreams and Nanke Dreams are well known in Chinese literature. There is also a dream on "Liezi". Called Banana Deer Dream, it is said in the Liezi: There is one, the mind is dizzy. One day, he went outside and encountered a deer, which had been shot by the hunter, who probably hadn't found it. At that time, getting a deer occasionally was equivalent to making an unexpected fortune now. Afraid that others would find out, he dragged the deer to the side of the road, covered them with banana leaves, and prepared to carry them home at night. As a result, I forgot about it when I was doing things outside, and when I woke up the next morning, I met an old friend and said to him, "It's strange, yesterday I had a dream that I found a deer in somewhere, buried in that place, and I covered it with banana leaves." When this friend heard this, he believed it and ran to the place he said, there were really banana leaves, there were really deer. He carried the deer back. Obviously it was true, he was a dream; someone listened to people say that the dream, he was serious, and the result was successful. Life is so interesting.
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