The Tang Dynasty has a pivotal position in the history of China, has a wide and far-reaching impact on China and even the whole world, and now Chinatown can often be seen in foreign countries, which is inextricably linked to the prosperity and strength of the Tang Dynasty, and foreigners call Chinese Tang.
There is no doubt that the Tang Dynasty at its peak was extremely prosperous, but "things will decline, no pole Tai Lai", after the glory, the Tang Dynasty also went into decline. At this time, there was a young man, who had the dream of saving the country from the world, came out of Henan, went through a series of examinations, and finally had a place in the official field, this person was Han Yu.
Speaking of Han Yu, this person is not simple, in the history of China's literary world is definitely a well-known figure, ranked among the "Eight Greats of the Tang and Song Dynasties", along with him are Liu Zongyuan, Ouyang Xiu, Su Shi's family, Wang Anshi and Zeng Gong, all of whom are well-known literary heroes.
After Han Yu took the meritorious name, on the way to Chaozhou, he encountered a special headache, that is, he was troubled by the local crocodile, and he used a very strange method to solve it.
The crocodile plague in Teochew
According to all the animal records in the Chaozhou area now, there are no wild crocodiles in the Chaozhou area, some are only farmed crocodiles, and it is still a matter of recent years, and in history, there have indeed been crocodile attacks on people in the Chaozhou area, and the historical documents left by the Tang Dynasty have a lot of records in this regard, saying that crocodiles often lurk at the water's edge to drag the livestock that drink water by the water to eat, not only that, people are the same, the people, the government is very headache about this.
In fact, the crocodile injury incident appeared very early in ancient times, there were once in the Three Kingdoms, Cao Cao and a bunch of people eating by the water, the result of a crocodile came out of the water, but also bit a person, Cao Cao he immediately decided, with a sword and the crocodile slashed up, Cao Cao he cut the crocodile at least more than ten times, and finally stabbed the crocodile's eye, drove the crocodile away, Cao Cao also said afterwards, it is really scary, this crocodile is not afraid of pain, full of bones, The sword could not do anything to him at all, or because his eyes were the shortcomings of animals, he could save people, if his eyes were in other places, I am afraid that this person would not be able to save him, which shows that people were helpless to crocodiles at that time.
Three things Han Yu did
When Han Yu arrived in the Chaozhou area, he knew that there were many crocodiles here and that the people were threatened, and he said that the new officials had three fires, and Han Yu was no exception, and on the first day of his arrival, he told his ambitions in front of his fathers and fellow villagers in the Chaozhou area, and vowed to clean up the crocodiles.
Han Yu ordered people to go to the river north of the city to build a sacrificial altar, and the craftsmen thought that Han Yu was going to celebrate after killing the crocodile, so they didn't ask much. The second thing is to buy pigs, cattle and sheep, and the people who are ordered to work know that the purpose of buying pigs, cattle and sheep is to lure the crocodiles out, and tell the vendors who sell pigs, cows and sheep that the vendors do not want money and send them directly.
This third thing many people can't guess, because Han Yu locked himself in the study and didn't know what to do, he only let people send him paper and pen and ink, and he also commanded that if there is anything else, let others manage it temporarily, and he has to consider how to deal with crocodiles, many people are speculating about what Han Yu is doing, some people say that Han Yue is grinding knives, some people say that Han Yue is making bows and arrows, and some people say that Han Yue is making poison, in short, there are many opinions, no one says clear, know what day the crocodile is clear, Everyone was stunned.
It turns out that these three things are like this
On the day of the removal of the crocodiles, all the people of Chaozhou went to see, Han Yu led a bunch of people and horses, those various weapons, the people looked at these soldiers and felt dazzled, but the clear-eyed people could see at a glance that something was wrong, it was not like going to the clearance, like going to a military parade.
Sure enough, when he got to the altar, Han Yu asked all the soldiers to line up, and then he said to the river below, you listen to the crocodiles in the water, the people of Chaozhou didn't have a festival with you, why hurt them, and then he threw the cattle, sheep and pigs into the water, said, This is a meeting gift, and then took out the article he had written in the room before, he called this article "Sacrifice Crocodile Text", and then Ula Ula said a bunch, everyone was blindfolded, and a little girl also said, Is his mother reasoning with the crocodile?
Another reader said that this was playing the piano against the ox, but the highlight came, after saying that he wanted this pile, he asked his bows and arrows to shoot arrows, and also said that within seven days, all of them must withdraw from this river and go to the southern region, if there is still a stay here and do not leave, ten thousand arrows will be sent out in unison, it is strange to say, since this time there have been no more crocodile attacks on people, Han Yu still has the ability.