The story of Yanagishita Hui sitting in the air has been circulating for a long time, but this story does not appear in the main history, and the earliest appearance is told when Mao Heng at the end of the Warring States period is making annotations for "Xiangbo". This story was not perfected until the Yuan Dynasty. Let's look at the experience of this story developing and changing.
First version. Yanagishita stayed in The Gate on a snowy cold night, and in the middle of the night, a beautiful woman with nowhere to live came to stay. In the face of this weak woman who was shivering in the cold night, Yanagishita Could not refuse, so he let her sit in his arms, untied his clothes and wrapped the woman to protect her from the cold.
The two spent the night following the rules and did not transgress the etiquette. Everyone should pay attention to the fact that the incident occurred in The Gate, the time was a cold night of heavy snow, and a homeless woman called for help.
The second version, Tao Zongyi's "Record of Quitting Cultivation" at the end of the Yuan Dynasty, records that: "Liu Xia Hui stayed at Guomen overnight, and a woman came to stay with her, afraid that she would freeze to death, and sat in her arms until dawn." "This record says that the story took place at Guomen, which is the city gate. Did not say that there was no snow, the time is still night, let the woman sit in the arms is to prevent the woman from freezing to death. Still not violating the etiquette overnight.
In the third version, on a summer day when heavy rain was pouring, Liu Xia Hui returned from a friend's house, and suddenly it rained heavily, And Liu Xia Hui was drenched in clothes, and in a hurry, she walked into an ancient temple to avoid the rain, and suddenly found a young woman hanging naked in the temple. Yanagi quickly withdrew from the temple and sat under the locust tree, no matter how the woman invited, Yanagi did not return to the temple until the rain stopped. Later, it was passed down as the story of "Yanagishita Hui sitting in the arms (locust) is not chaotic". The story is even more wonderful, the time is summer, the place is an ancient temple, and the sitting has become sitting under the locust tree.
The time, place and scene of the three versions are different, and the sitting has become a sitting locust, which shows that the sources of this story are diverse, not only one source. That's why different versions will emerge, that is, the story will be constantly being processed and changed in the process of circulation. Is this story true? Let's look at the situation of Yanagishita.
Liu Xia Hui was a native of lu during the Spring and Autumn period. Both Confucius and Mencius are said to have praised this man. It shows that Yanagisha Hui will not be later than the era in which Confucius and Mencius lived. History records that Yanagishita Kei was an upright man who served as a judge, the official in charge of the prison, and was deposed three times because of his integrity, but he was still upright. It shows that this person is a person who does not succumb to power, is a person with a firm will, not a person who covets power and material desires, and it is credible that such a person does things that are not chaotic.
In addition, Confucianism at that time was not the mainstream ideology, let alone official ideology, so there was no need for Yanagisha to flaunt herself as a Confucian real gentleman and then win some false fame or other benefits. On the contrary, in order to flaunt their own doctrines, the Confucian sages wrote Liu Xia Hui into history as an example and benchmark, which is equivalent to the Confucians using Liu Xia Hui to expand their influence and light the lintel.
Therefore, the matter of Liu XiaHui should be true, at that time, a hundred schools of thought were in contention, all schools were equal in status, and many schools and Confucian schools were seriously opposed, so Confucians did not dare to make up blindly, otherwise the schools that were seriously opposed to Confucianism at that time would spare no effort to attack Confucianism, and would test the Confucian school to suffer a heavy blow, which was a loss that the Confucian school could not bear, and the story of Liu Xia Hui sitting in the Confucian classics should be reliable.
Third, China during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period was an era of collapse and bad etiquette, feudal etiquette did not take shape at all, let alone shackle people's thoughts and actions, at that time people's thoughts and actions were very bold, and feudal ideas such as men and women who had a great influence in later generations had not yet been formed, and the social atmosphere was relatively open. Yanagishita's behavior at that time could be said to be maverick and extraordinary, so it was remembered.
In the Han Dynasty, after Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty deposed the Hundred Schools and exalted Confucianism alone, Confucianism became an official doctrine with a super high status, and Confucian intellectuals took the opportunity to delete and revise a large number of books, destroying the books of the Hundred Families of Sons and Hundreds of Families that differed from the Confucian views, leaving only the classics that did not contradict Confucianism.
In the Yuan Dynasty, the rule of the Mongols was constantly resisted by the Han People, and at the same time as the military suppression was carried out, the rulers of the Yuan Dynasty began to use the Han culture to restrain the Han people for cultural and ideological suppression, so the stories of twenty-four filial pieties and Liu Xia Hui were packaged and vigorously publicized, with the purpose of maintaining the order of feudal rule and safeguarding the interests of the ruling class.
So this story was finally perfected in the Yuan Dynasty. The ruler through this story high number of ordinary people, Yanagisha Hui can sit still, that is, there is no non-division of thoughts, so ask the people not to have non-divisions and to endure oppression, in order to reduce resistance.