Hello everyone, I'm Xiao Qi. In 2021, an ancient Chinese folk nursery rhyme quickly became popular on the Internet, "Red umbrella, white pole pole, eat together to board the board, go to the board to sleep in the coffin, and then bury the mountain together." A few seemingly childlike lyrics, but the content revealed a strange atmosphere, people can't help but wonder, who is sleeping in the coffin, and who is buried in the mountain?
Weird nursery rhymes
This nursery rhyme can be sung universally thanks to its catchy and easy-to-understand characteristics. Nursery rhymes refer to popular songs that are sung among children in a relatively short form. Historical nursery rhymes mainly predict or reveal the rise and fall of dynasties, the misfortunes of historical figures, and the precursors of social wars and natural disasters. There is a saying in the Book of Rites: The country will prosper in the past, and there will be Zhenxiang; the country will perish, and there will be demons. Whenever there was a major change in the feudal dynasty, there must be children singing some songs in the streets and alleys, and these nursery rhymes could not find their birthplace, there was no fixed lyricist, and the content was not written for children. Perhaps there are many unclear conspiracies and prophecies.
Throughout history, many of the events prophesied by nursery rhymes have been fulfilled. In the "Records of History" written by the great historian Sima Qian, there is a "History of Zhou Benji" that records: One day in the western weekend year, King Xuan of Zhou inspected the people's sentiments in the capital city of Hojing, and heard a group of children on the street singing: The moon will rise, the sun will be immersed, the arc will be subdued, and the Zhou kingdom will be destroyed. The meaning is that the moon is about to rise, the sun is about to fall, the person who sells mulberry bows and arrows will make the Zhou Dynasty fall, as a ruler, the heights are not cold, the more King Xuan of Zhou thinks, the more afraid he is, so he orders all the people who sell mulberry bows and arrows to be arrested and killed. He thought that would be a good idea. However, in the eyes of the ancients, the moon was feminine and could also represent women, and the sun could also represent men.
The whole country is hunting and killing people who sell bows and arrows. An old couple fled outside the city overnight and found an abandoned baby, so they carried her to the place of the Chu people to settle down, and this baby girl was later the Bao Ji. The leader of the Chu clan used the beauty plan to give the praise to the King of Zhou You, who was overjoyed, and although this Lady was dressed in gold and jade and loved the boundless, she never smiled. This was a great annoyance to King Zhou You. At this time, a villain came in, saying that it was to light a beacon fire and order the surrounding troops to come to the rescue, perhaps to make Bomei smile. This is the later Beacon Theatre Princes. King Zhou You immediately lit a beacon fire, and on the city wall, Qiu Ji looked at the army of the people under the city who were turning on their horses, and couldn't help but smile. King Youwang of Zhou smiled for Bo Meiren and lit the beacon fire twice, and it was these three beacons that eventually led to the destruction of the Zhou Dynasty. It turned out that the nursery rhymes foreshadowed this incident. I don't know if King Xuan of Zhou will be angry enough to jump out of the grave and settle accounts with King Zhou You.
The footsteps of time came to the Qin Dynasty. Since Qin Shi Huang established the Qin Dynasty, he dreamed that his country would be passed down from generation to generation. In Yandi, there is such a nursery rhyme, which was also written by The Alchemist into the "Record Book" dedicated to Qin Shi Huang, who was paraded here, with the content "Dead Qin, Hu Ye." "When Qin Shi Huang thought about It, didn't He mean the Xiongnu?" Therefore, he regarded the Xiongnu as a problem in his heart, and sent the general Meng Tian to attack the Xiongnu and build the Great Wall to resist the invasion of the Xiongnu. Such a huge project, the people complained, the people did not have a good life. Coupled with the harsh government of Qin Shi Huang, who was fiercer than the tiger, the poor army and the military force were finally destroyed at the hands of Hu Hai, the second Qin Emperor. He thought that it was Hu Ren who had killed Qin, but he did not expect that it was actually his favorite young son.
"Red umbrella umbrella, white pole pole, after eating together to lie on the board," the nursery rhyme from Yunnan. It means to educate people not to try this brightly colored mushroom easily and to be careful of poisoning. There are a thousand Hamlets in the eyes of a thousand people. No matter how this nursery rhyme is interpreted, there is a certain amount of fun in it. In fact, it was the people who really had an impact on the rulers of the dynasty. The people are water, and water can carry boats and overturn boats. If a dynasty can truly make the people live and work in peace and contentment and social stability, then no matter how terrible the nursery rhymes are, they will not shake the rule. Wise rulers are adept at using nursery rhymes to create momentum for themselves, so that they can become tools of foolishness. Stupid rulers will verify the authenticity of nursery rhymes. Every nursery rhyme is sung, it is a sign that something big is going to happen. Is it a warning from heaven, or is it a man-made conspiracy to use the pure heart and fairy tales of children to achieve their own ulterior motives?
Decipher spooky nursery rhymes
In the 5,000-year history of China, there are countless nursery rhymes about dynastic changes that have been recorded in the history books. These nursery rhymes more or less dominated the spiritual world of people at that time, and had different degrees of influence on the trajectory of historical development. For example, "the three dukes belong to Sima ". In the third year of Yonghe, Sun Xiu, the lord of Wu, gathered the families of the Shubian soldiers as hostages on the grounds that the foundation of the country's initial founding was unstable. One day, a group of children were playing, and suddenly a strange-looking child came over and claimed to be from Ying Mars. Moreover, what he said next scared everyone present into tears. He said that the three dukes belonged to Sima and then he leapt and disappeared into the sky. When the children called the adults in, they couldn't see anything. It was this sentence that caused panic throughout the country, and everyone was afraid that spreading rumors would be sent to prison, warning children not to spread them. However, the Sima family still took only 30 years to destroy the Three Kingdoms and unify the world.
The most famous political nursery rhyme in history was circulated at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, when Dong Zhuo was in turmoil, and the folk spread "Thousand Li Grass, He Qingqing." Ten days, shall not be born" nursery rhyme. In fact, this nursery rhyme is very well explained from the perspective of word breaking, "Thousand Mile Grass" is the Word for Dong, "Ten Days Bu" is the Word for Zhuo, to put it bluntly, this nursery rhyme is cursing Dong Zhuo to die. Soon after, Dong Zhuo was killed by his close associate Lü Bu. In addition, there is a more famous and strange nursery rhyme, which was sung in the last year of the Sui Dynasty. It is said that Dou Jiande, one of the Qunhao uprisings at the end of the Sui Dynasty, attacked the Tiger Prison Pass, and before the battle with Li Shimin, there was suddenly such a strange nursery rhyme circulating in the military camp: "Beans enter the mouth of the ox, and the situation is not mouthed." As a result, when Dou Jiande went to niukouzhu, he was defeated by the Tang army and unfortunately became a prisoner of Li Shimin.
The power of nursery rhymes is so great that it attracts the attention of the rulers of the dynasty. Therefore, the imperial court sent officials to the folk "rumors", collected these nursery rhymes, and let the alchemists and xiangshi interpret them. In order to prevent problems before they occur. During the xuanun years, there was a nursery rhyme: "Pinch a pinch, count it, xuanun is only two and a half years." When Xuantong Puyi ascended the throne as emperor, he was trapped by complicated rituals, and his father Zaifeng saw this situation and said to him, "It's almost over, it's almost over." This sentence does not know whether it is intentional or unintentional, Puyi only served as emperor for two and a half years, and then issued an abdication edict announcing his abdication. After the fall of the Qing Dynasty, there were no more emperors in history. I have to say that this strange nursery rhyme is really a prophecy of God. Is it man-made or a warning from heaven or a historical necessity? In short, magical prophecies about weird nursery rhymes have been circulating.
What other weird nursery rhymes are more famous in history? "Emperor Fei, Wang Fei Wang, ride away from the North Qiao by thousands of horses." This nursery rhyme refers to the struggle for the throne between the two brothers of The Han Xian Emperor Liu Xie and the Han Shao Emperor Liu Xian. Liu Xie, who was still the King of Chen Liu at the time, eventually became emperor, and Liu Xian was not only demoted to the title of King of Hongnong, but also killed by a glass of poisoned wine. Another example is, "Swallow tail, Zhang Gongzi, Shi Wan, Mumen Canglanggen, Yan Feilai, Peck Emperor Sun, Emperor Sun Die, Yan Peck Ya". At that time, Emperor Hancheng visited his sister's house, saw Zhao Feiyan, who was good at dancing on the drums, and later coveted the beauty of his sister Zhao Hede and was included in the harem. However, the hancheng emperor had many premature heirs, no descendants, and the successor emperors were short-lived ghosts, which led to Wang Mang's usurpation of power. Later generations believed that the two sisters were the red face disaster that caused the Han Cheng Emperor to have no heirs, and even the destruction of the Western Han Dynasty.
Every major historical event will be accompanied by the singing of nursery rhymes. Can eerie nursery rhymes affect the change of a dynasty and the fate of its characters? What kind of mentality did the originators of weird nursery rhymes have to spread songs? Strange nursery rhymes are over-interpreted? Flipping through historical materials, the general feature of China's ancient nursery rhymes is "two more and two less". There are many chaotic worlds, few prosperous times, few early dynasties, and more dynasties at the end of dynasties. Like the Three Kingdoms and Two Jin Dynasties, the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period, and the Yuan Dynasty, these dynasties were politically dark, the country was divided, and the people were displaced, and there were many nursery rhymes that reflected the political struggle in this period. There is also the end of each dynasty such as the end of the Qin, the end of the Han, and the end of the Yuan Dynasty, which is a period of mass circulation of nursery rhymes. This is mainly because some rulers need to use nursery rhymes in their favor to create public opinion, which also becomes fertile ground for the production of nursery rhymes.
On the other hand, the new rulers are tolerant, whether nursery rhymes are good or bad for them. In order to use it as a statement that "conforms to the heart of heaven and conforms to the will of the people". Whether it is a strange nursery rhyme or a mysterious credit knife man, they have left their footprints in the long river of history. To this day, there may still be traces of credit knife people, and strange nursery rhymes are still popular on the Internet. For this song "red umbrella umbrella, white pole pole, after eating a trip to the board", do not over-interpret. It is a well-known and very good nursery rhyme. So what other weird nursery rhymes do you think are worth pondering?
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