Over the years, I have been quite puzzled by the phrase "Hezhou Ranger" that is common in ancient poems, because the people of Taiyuan are now all honest and honest, and the loess under their feet makes people look so down-to-earth. This "Ranger" is roughly equivalent to the later jianghu grass reckless, who likes to violate the prohibition of martial arts. In Rong Yu's poem "Out of the Army", it is written:
"The dragon wrapped around the rod and the beast full of flags,
The camp is like snow moving.
A squadron of three thousand horsemen of the Chinese army,
It's all a state ranger. ”
In addition to the heroic momentum of the poem, just from the poet's other eyes on the "Hezhou Ranger", it also makes people see that the blood is fierce, and the warriors guarding the Chinese army must be like tigers, leopards, and bears, and this most awe-inspiring warriors are a group of elite descendants from Hezhou!
Looking forward five or six hundred years, Cao Zhi's "White Horse Chapter" also wrote: "The white horse is decorated with gold bonds, and even the northwest gallops." Borrow to ask whose son, Secluded Ranger. His immediate kung fu of these "Rangers" is described as follows: "The control string breaks the left, and the right hair destroys the moon branch." Pick up the flying fox and lean over to scatter the horse's hooves. "This unique skill is no less than that of the heroes under Mr. Jin Yong." In a word: Where righteousness lies, although there are millions of people, I am going to die! What is even more infuriating is the last sentence: "Famous and brave people must not take care of selfishness." It is difficult to sacrifice one's body to go to the country, and it is difficult to see death as a sudden return. It turns out that the origin of the idiom "treat death as a homecoming" is here, and the parties are these "Rangers" who were active in the land of seclusion!
For the definition of ranger, Baidu explained it this way: "In ancient China, the rangers who were active in the frontier areas of Hebei, Shanxi and Liaoning in today's hebei, Shanxi and Liaoning were called rangers with the mission of helping the poor and solving difficulties and serving the country. ”
Cao Zhi's poems do not hesitate to praise the Rangers, people are highly capable and righteous, and they can still focus on the country, such people are really like the morning star, and it is reasonable to praise them well.
If you think about it, the northern part of the merger state to Qianghu in that year was the northern edge of the Chinese farming cultural circle, located in the north to the central plains, and has always been the area where the agricultural civilization and the nomadic civilization have collided the most, which has given birth to a batch of chivalrous guests like Hou Wei like Zhu Hai and Yu Rang like Cheng Bao like Gongsun Pestle. They were just as Li Bai wrote, "Three cups of Turannuo, five Yue poured light." After the eyes are glazed over, the spirit is fresh. Moreover, even a reader like Li Bai has a record of him - "Young Renxia, hand blade several people." ”
Song Ci said "and the knife is like water"! Not only are such arrogant and dry people, but also can create such a vigorous weapon, it seems unreasonable that Taiyuan is not a ranger.
When Li Shimin was a brother in Taiyuan, it was also a BMW light qiu, fighting righteousness and neglecting wealth, as described in Wei Yingwu's poem: "The body is in the middle of the horizontal, and the family hides the outlaws." Towards the holding of the Fan Pu Bureau, Twilight steals the East Neighbor Ji. ”
Look at the current Taiyuan people seem to be less in line with the "Ranger". The development of society and the progress of history can change many things, but we often hear an old saying called: "The country is easy to change, and the disposition is difficult to move." "Is it true that the yellow sand has blown old for years and weathered the hearts of our heroes?"
There is such an explanation, "After the Tang Dynasty, the group of rangers was mostly belittled by the ancient literati because their image of good martial artists did not match Confucian orthodoxy. Its way of violating the prohibition by force also conflicted with the founding system of the feudal state, so it was severely cracked down by the government, and the Tang and Tang had disappeared since then. ”
In fact, this is only an external factor, the development of Taiyuan's economy and the evolution of civilization may be the internal cause, so by the time Wang Changling wrote "Plugged Song", it seems that there are already some ironic elements: "Never a guest, all dust and sand old." Mo Xue Ranger, praise Zi Lu good. ”
The role of indoctrination was obvious, and by the time of the Ming Dynasty, the Taiyuan Fuzhi Customs quoted the Taiyuan Tujing as saying that the Taiyuan folk customs were "thick and unpretentious, diligent and thrifty and studious." "Rangers" seem to have become relics.
But is the bloodiness of the Shanxi Taiyuan people really consumed? Nor is it, the great enemy is in the present tense, and the warm-blooded men of the state generously go to the country to suffer, and the death is still smelling of the bones of the heroes. When the Japanese hit Shanxi, they really couldn't move, and they couldn't cross the Taihang Mountains when they arrived.
The dawn moon on the Great Wall reflected the cold blood stains on the bricks and stones, the valley of Xinkou still echoed with the sound of the killing of the brave soldiers, the head of Taiyuan City, the green yarn account, the Yellow River, the anti-Japanese death, not the usual day Kou vowed not to return home, that blood is still rushing on the earth.
Yellow sand can blow old age, but the wind and sand can't shake the blood marks printed in history. For thousands of years, the "Hezhou Ranger" is like a petroglyph, passing through the years and coming to life.