Recently, I saw the passage of the Taoist priest of the Song Dynasty, which is very ridiculous, can be carefully tasted, quite sad, and shared with you:
After the death of the Taoist priest Yang Yixiao, he was buried in the Luming Mountain in Yunmeng Jersey, and his epitaph: Chu Congwen, 3 years not in the middle; after learning martial arts, the school field issued a arrow, the drum official, expelled; so he studied medicine and achieved some achievements. Write a good recipe, serve the pawn.
A short paragraph of text is almost vernacular, there may be a few places that are difficult to understand, a simple translation: at the beginning I wanted to take the road of the imperial examination, and I tried it for three years.
Feeling that there was no hope left, he abandoned Wen Congwu. After practicing for a while, when he was teaching martial arts at the school grounds, he shot an arrow, but he mistakenly hit the drummer, and was thrown out of the school grounds.
Wen and Wu were not successful, and they could only go to study medicine. I feel that I have learned something, so I will write a formula for myself to supplement my body, according to the formula, I grabbed the medicine, and after eating it, I poisoned it.
When I watched it for the first time, I felt that the paragraph was very funny, and people couldn't help but be funny. A small taste, and a little sour.
The ancients said: Those who have aspirations, things can be accomplished.
From this story, we see the cruelty of reality! What you do, you don't have to work hard to succeed.
Since ancient times, there have been many hard-working people, but few successful people.
Because this passage implied a deep meaning, it aroused interest, so I checked the source on the Internet: some people said that it was a story in the "Laughing Forest Guangji", but they read the book and found that there was no similar content; some people said that it was from the "There are Song Famous Scholars", but the investigation was fruitless.
The story did not find the root cause, but found the character of Yang Yixiao. The real person is more legendary than the epitaph says.
The historical Yang Yixiao was originally named Liu Zeen, the number Ling Xuanzi, and the number yi dou Daoren, who was a god in the Song Shenzong period!
Why is it called God? Because he speaks and acts with a "fairy" atmosphere!
Someone asked him, why did he take the name Of a Laugh? Lao Dao claims to take the Zen story of the Buddha picking flowers and smiling at the leaves. A laugher, go out and laugh at the river, and sing wild songs all over the world.
What did the Song people say about him?
"Pedantic heavenly beings, talented in ancient and modern times, have unpredictable opportunities, and seize the secrets of heaven and earth creation, such as the divine dragon sees the head but does not see the end, and its dragon is like a dragon?"
Confucius once said, "I see the old (Li Er) son now, and his dragon is also!" ”
This is the ancients compared Yang Yixiao to Li Er, to know that Li Er is the originator of Taoism, in the eyes of the ancients, it is an old god-like existence!
What magical things did Yang Yixiao do?
He was often disheveled, wandering between the wells of the city in tattered clothes and using magic to divinate and cure diseases, which was often very psychic.
When rich and noble families come to tell fortunes and seek medical treatment, he charges fees normally; when poor families come to seek medical treatment and ask for medicine, he does not take anything, and he also gives medicine for free.
Yang Yixiao's reputation grew bigger and bigger, and right and wrong followed.
One day, a powerful minister in the imperial court wanted to ascend to the heavens one step at a time, so he asked Yang Yixiao to do things for him. Yang Yi couldn't afford to laugh, so he disappeared and never heard from him again.
The above has a history to check, and it should be a real person. But the epitaph at the beginning of the article is like a mocking word of future generations. Modern people who do good, but also P a tombstone map, there are careful people can find a few flaws from below? Welcome to leave a message.