Five thousand years in China, the ancients are very wise, handed down a lot of historical allusions, many of which we have heard from childhood, let's follow the small editor to see the small stories behind these allusions!
Why should I give my children money during the Spring Festival?
It is said that during the Northern Song Dynasty, on the night of the Spring Festival, the younger son of Vice Chancellor Wang Shao was unfortunately robbed by gangsters when he was playing with adults in the streets, and wanted to extort Wang Shao a sum of money. During the escape, a government car happened to pass by, the children shouted for help, and the bad guy panicked and fled in a hurry. After the emperor of the Song Dynasty learned of this, he specially gave the child a little money and gave him a little money, and from then on, "pressing the old money" began to circulate in the folk.
The origin of the prime minister's belly that can hold the boat
Wang Anshi, the prime minister of the Song Dynasty, lost his wife in middle age, so he married a concubine, called Jiao Niang, and his age was much different from Wang Anshi. The life of the old husband and young wife made the young lady secretly have an affair with the young servant. After Wang Anshi knew, he was originally angry, but he endured it again and again, and simply induced Jiao Niang to tell the truth when he told the poem during the Mid-Autumn Festival, but Jiao Niang's sentence "The prime minister can hold a boat in his belly" made Wang Anshi know his suffering very well, that is, he gave silver thousand and two and sent Jiao Niang to marry the servant. (It's really the prime minister who can hold the boat in his belly Ha)
Not three, no four" Is the origin of the phrase
According to the idiom dictionary, it is "not like this is not like that, it is not like that." Similar to the meaning of non-class. refers to unorthodox or irregularity". Why not just be the same? It turns out that there is a "yin and yang boundary" between the number of days three and four, and it is like not three or four: no yin and no yang.
In the Tang Dynasty, there was a general, Long Xiang, who was impatient and did not learn any techniques. He did not understand what 'death day' meant, and his subordinates told him that after the death of his parents, he would take leave at home and sit alone in his room and not go out. Later, when Lao Quan encountered a mourning affair, he sat quietly in the room alone, and suddenly a big black dog broke into the room, which was furious and shouted, "Good beast, you dare to break through my death day!" So I immediately decided: redo the death day tomorrow and look after the damn black dog.
Why are all Buddhist disciples surnamed Shi?
The surname Shi is one of the surnames of the Han people, which is generally used by Chinese Buddhist monks and is not included in the "Hundred Family Names". The Chinese monks, who take Shi as their surname, began with the Dao'an Zen master. In the early days of Buddhism, Wei and Jin Shamen took Shi as his surname, so his surname was different. Dao'an thought that the fundamental Daoist master was Shakya Shizun, so he "took the Shi Ming Clan", and later he translated the "Zengyi Ahan", which has the phrase "monks from all over the world, also known as the Shi Clan".