<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > preface</h1>
In the hearts of many young people, there was such a dream, holding a three-foot blue front and sweeping away the unfair things in the world.
Rangers in ancient China are a very special group of people, they despise the law, fight fiercely, but also have the righteous act of hoeing the strong to help the weak and help the poor.
All in all, the Rangers are a group of free and unruly people who are proud of the prince.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" >What is a Ranger? </h1>
The appearance of the Ranger
Regarding the emergence of the chivalrous, some say that it comes from the Mo family, some say that it comes from Confucianism, and some say that it comes from Shangjia, and these statements all have his reasoning, so we will not discuss it. According to the existing data that can be found, the earliest explanation of "xia" was Han Fei in the Warring States period.
In the "Han Feizi Wuyin" there is such a saying: "Confucianism is chaotic with the law, and chivalry is forbidden by force."
For a disciple of the Law family like Han Feizi, the free and uninhibited Rangers who ignore the law are naturally a factor of social instability, because these Rangers often kill people in the street, or fight with weapons. Today, these rangers are wanderers on the streets and do nothing. The dharmaman who values the law naturally does not like such a person.
Unlike the Legalists, Taishi Company Ma Qian has a positive attitude towards rangers.
Sima Qian believes: "Now the Ranger, whose deeds follow the misdeeds and justices, but his words will be believed, his deeds will be fruitful, his promises will be sincere, he will not love his body, and he will go to the hardships of the soldiers; he who has existed in this life, but he will not be ashamed of his virtues" ("History of the Rangers").
Sima Qian fully affirmed the heroic wind of the rangers who must do what they say and are not afraid of life and death.
Rangers are a group of people who wander between the worlds
In the ancient Chinese ranger culture, the "hero" was a group of people who were separated between the ruler and the people, who were not willing to obey the ruler's legal ethics, but also assumed the role of upholding justice and doing righteous acts that benefited the majority of the people.
These are the heroes, a group of free and uninhibited people, but with the hearts of all people.
Judging from the earliest expositions, "chivalry" appears in the image of a warrior, mainly in the image of fighting with people and roaring at the uneven road.
Later, the concept of "chivalry" was also used to refer to some scribes with "chivalrous" temperament, so there was a distinction between literary chivalry and martial arts.
Wenxia is like Lu Zhonglian, whom Li Bai mentions many times in his poems, while Wuxia is Jing Ke, specializing in such assassins. However, whether it is a literary hero or a martial artist, its main characteristic is to pay attention to morality and courage.
For example, "insert a knife for the brother's two ribs", this "two ribs inserted knife" Many people are easy to look at the literary righteousness, saying that it is inserted two knives in their stomachs, in fact, it is not, the correct meaning of this idiom should be that friends have difficulties, so they put two knives under the ribs on both sides to help friends.
This is actually a very barbaric righteousness, why do you say that? Because whether he is a friend or not, as long as his friend is bullied, then I will put on two knives to help my friend out. I don't think about what consequences will happen, it is a very barbaric kind of righteousness, but this righteousness is very praised by many people.
This is one of the reasons why chivalry is admired, just ask, who wouldn't want a friend who is willing to help you regardless of the consequences?
And the more chaotic the times, the more barbaric the period, the more admiration for this so-called righteous chivalrous. This is also the reason why the style of rangers prevailed in the pre-Qin period.
In addition to the pre-Qin period, the ranger atmosphere of the Tang Dynasty was also very popular, largely because of the Tang Dynasty's martial arts.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > what was a ranger during the Tang Dynasty? </h1>
The Tang Dynasty ranger style prevailed
The Tang Shangwu, from the Li family of the Guanlong nobility, because of their long-term contact with Xianbei, were extremely rich in the characteristics of the Hu people who were fierce and brave. Moreover, the Sui and Tang dynasties had just ended the turmoil of the Sixteen Kingdoms of the Southern and Northern Dynasties, and the long-term instability of society had created the people's reverence for force, followed by the chaotic world of the twenty-eight roads at the end of the Sui Dynasty, so it gave the ranger culture the soil to breed.
In many records of the Tang Dynasty, we can also see that many generals of the Tang Dynasty also bear the name of heroes. For example, Li Jing, the story of the Three Heroes of Wind and Dust is familiar to many people, the bearded guest, Li Jing and the Red Breeze Girl, their chivalrous stories believe that many people can say a little, even if they can't say it, the names of these three people are also known.
In addition to Li Jing, there is also a great general Li Ji, who is also a chivalrous guest, speaking of the name Li Ji, may not be very familiar to everyone, but people who have seen "The Legend of Sui and Tang Heroes" must know a person named Xu Maogong, which is Li Ji.
In the Sui and Tang Jia Dialects, Li Ji is said: "When I was twelve or thirteen years old, I was a rogue thief, and I killed everyone; in the fourteenth and fifteenth, when I was a thief, if I was unhappy, I did not kill him; seventeen or eighteen was a good thief, and to fight was to kill; in the twentieth year, I was a general in the world, and I used soldiers to save people from death." ”
From these records, it can be seen that the Tang Dynasty is still martial, and the wind of rangers is prevalent.
The Spirit of the Ranger in Tang Dynasty Poetry
In addition to these great generals recorded in the history books, the poetry of the Tang Dynasty also has a lot of heroic style and a lot of heroic spirit.
In the "Quan Tang Poems", there are nearly sixty poems with the theme of "Youth Line", and there are no less than 100 poems that mention "Xia", and Wang Wei, who is good at doing landscape idyllic poems, has also written poems with a strong ranger spirit such as "Four Songs of Young People's Travel". Jia Dao, who is poor and has a bad career, also has sentences such as "ten years of grinding a sword, frost and snow have not tried". Throughout the Tang Dynasty, the entire social trend of thought was to praise and promote the Ranger.
Among the many poets of the Tang Dynasty, the most heroic is the great poet Li Bai. The verse "Kill one person in ten steps, leave no line for a thousand miles" in "Chivalrous", is full of heroism.
Li Bai himself also had the heart to repay the country with fists and fists, and during the Anshi Rebellion, Li Bai became an aide to Li Xuan, the Yong King, but Tang Suzong believed that Li Xuan was a rebel, so he sent troops to pacify Li Xuan. And Li Bai was also imprisoned for this. Exiled to the Kingdom of the Night. In the second year of the first century, Li Bai learned that Li Guangbi was in Linhuai and pursued Shi Chaoyi, and at that time Li Bai was already sixty-one years old and was plagued by diseases, but Li Bai still resolutely wanted to join the army and serve the country despite his old age and physical decline.
Wrote "Wen Li Taiwei raised millions of Qin soldiers, went out to conquer the southeast, cowards asked for help, Ji Shen used it for cutting, half-way illness returned, and left Jinling Cui to serve the nineteen rhymes", the poem said: "Heaven seizes the heart of a strong soldier, and long calls to say goodbye to Wu Jing." Unfortunately, the timing was not good, and Li Bai fell ill and died of Tu.
Throughout his life, Li Bai was proud of the prince and regarded chivalry as his duty, and although the times were unlucky, he never changed his mind. The world knows that Li Bai's poetry is absolute, but it is not known that in addition to poetry, Li Bai is also a generation of heroes.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > what are the types of Tang Dynasty Rangers? </h1>
Most of the Rangers of the Tang Dynasty were young langs
The Tang Dynasty Rangers can be said to be the most distinctive and powerful ranger group since the Han Dynasty. Judging from the specific situation of the Rangers in the Tang Dynasty, most of them are around the age of twenty, that is, teenagers in adolescence, and rangers in this age group include almost all classes of Rangers.
In fact, it is not surprising that people of the first age are the age of blood and impulse, for the free and uninhibited state of the rangers, it is a great attraction for these people, just as the influence of the Hong Kong movie "Ancient Puzzle Boy" in the early years was almost a whole generation of views on brothers together, and the praise of the ranger atmosphere in Tang Dynasty society was also a huge attraction for these young men. In fact, what is said in "Ancient Puzzle Boy" has some similarities with the situation of the Ranger.
Ranger teenagers of all walks of life
The rangers of the elite class can be regarded as the most prominent among the rangers of the Tang Dynasty, most of them are the sons of the royal family and the powerful courtiers, and these people are prominent in the family, which is what we call Yannei. These people relied on the status of this father and ancestor to make friends with the dead, and often fought fiercely, and made friends with three talents as a means of gaining fame.
The ranger behavior of these powerful people is actually more to serve their own political purposes, to recruit talents for their service, or to win fame. And these powerful teenagers mostly serve as "three guards". The "Three Guards" were the emperor's guards, so they were often filled by the sons of these powerful people.
And the behavior of these powerful rangers is mostly manifested as cockfighting, drinking and playing, or hiding and stealing adultery, and playing with prostitutes. In the Old Book of Tang and the New Book of Tang, many records of these powerful teenagers can also be found.
The second category is the teenage Rangers in the homes of the rich. The rangers of this class are mostly local rich people, that is, the sons of merchants, and in ancient times, most of the merchants were in contact with the market, so there was a tradition of Renxia, and because these people were rich in their families, they also had some contact with the powerful Rangers.
These people's Rangers are similar to those of the powerful Rangers, but they are mainly manifested in hedonistic play.
Because the laws of the Tang Dynasty stipulate that "industrial and commercial miscellaneous categories must not be predetermined by the soldiers" (Old Book of Tang and Food Commodities Chronicle).
Therefore, many of these rich merchants do not read and linger in the city to do the things of rangers.
There are also Rangers in the Border Plug area, and Li Bai is actually from the Border Plug Ranger if he wants to calculate it. There are three main types of rangers in the border plug, the first type is the teenager born in the border plug, these people have lived in the border plug since childhood, influenced by the customs of the border plug, and have been a warrior since childhood.
Although these people are not in the military, they will also go to their posts heroically in the face of war, and for these border plugs who were born in the border plug, it is necessary for them to protect their own place of survival.
The second is the Ichijing Bo apprentice recruited through recruitment, and it can be seen in many verses that the imperial court recruited these Ichijing rogues to go to the side of the city, such as tortoise Meng's "Miscellaneous Irony" No. 8: "Is there no evil young man, indulge in drunkenness in the valley." Recruited as a death army, to rebel against the pawns." And these people came to the border for only one purpose, that is, they hoped to have a good future with military merit and get a knighthood, but after all, only a few people were given the title, and most of them were still white-headed and dead on the frontier.
The third is the forbidden army teenagers, most of whom are the disciples of the generals, and the marquises that the Ichijing disciples who are recruited into the army are mainly sealed by this group of people.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > summary</h1>
Looking at the rangers of the Tang Dynasty, there are free and unruly people, there are those who are good at eliminating violence, there are also people who save the people of the world, and even many people are not good people, but there are small sections that are losses, but the great righteousness is not lost. That's why the society at that time was so respectful of these rangers.
In ancient society, rangers also won a place in history with their unique and arrogant personalities. Although it is not comparable to the prince, it is also praised by the world.
bibliography:
"Han Feizi Five Beetles"
Chronicles of the Rangers
Quan Tang Poetry