"Youyang Miscellaneous Tricks", a Tang Dynasty Zhiwei strange book, written by the late Tang Dynasty poet and Zhiwei novelist Duan Chengshi, this book is similar to the pre-Qin Qi book "Shan Hai Jing" and the Jin Dynasty Zhang Hua's "Naturalistic History", roughly recording the ghosts of the Immortal Buddha, the geography of mountains and rivers, character stories, mythological techniques and even animals, plants, temples and other Zhiwei legendary stories, as well as exotic treasures.
It is said that when Qin Shi Huang "burned books and pit Confucianism", the doctor official Fu Sheng smuggled five carts of books and hid them in this mountain cave, until the death of Qin, he took it out and dedicated it to Liu Bang, the ancestor of Han Gao, and finally kept the culture of the Hundred Sons of the Spring and Autumn Period from being broken, and then used "Youyang" to refer to the precious books passed down.
Duan Chengshi (803–863), courtesy name Kegu, was a native of Fenyang, Shanxi, with a prominent door, whose ancestor was Duan Zhixuan, the tenth of the "Twenty-Four Heroes of Lingyange", whose father was Duan Wenchang, the chancellor of the Tang Muzong Dynasty, and his grandfather was Wu Yuanheng, the iron-fisted chancellor of Tang Xianzong.
Duan Chengshi was on a par with Li Shangyin and Wen Tingjun in the late Tang Dynasty, and because all three were ranked sixteen, they were called "thirty-six bodies" at that time.
Although Duan Chengshi is on a par with Wen and Li, his poetry level is worse than Wen Tingjun and worse than Li Shangyin, and the dozens of poems he left behind are all ordinary poems, and there is nothing glamorous to be seen, and it is not an exaggeration to say that he was a third-rate poet of the Tang Dynasty.
However, Duan Chengshi created an immortal Zhiwei strange book "Youyang Miscellaneous Tricks", which was enough to make him proud of the ancient literary world. Later generations of Zhiwei novelists do not use his work as a template to create, it can be said that "Youyang Miscellaneous Tricks" is an important work of the Six Dynasties, the Lower Qi Song, Ming and Qing Dynasty Zhiwei novels, which has had a greater impact on future generations.
For example, Pu Songling's famous work "Liaozhai Zhiyi" in the Qing Dynasty is a large number of ideas and stories that have absorbed the ideas and stories of "Youyang Miscellaneous Tricks".
Even in the famous contemporary tomb robbery novel "Ghost Blowing Lights", many absurd and bizarre stories are based on "Youyang Miscellaneous Tricks".
Ji Xiaolan of the Qing Dynasty pointed out in the "Compendium of the General Catalogue of the Four Libraries": "His books are strange and unsophisticated, absurd and nonsensical... Since the Tang Dynasty, it has been the leader of the novel. ”
Mr. Lu Xun also called it an "original work" in the "History of Chinese Novels", "which is extensive, so it is rare, it is loved by the world, and it competes with legends (referring to legendary novels of the Tang Dynasty) and drives the first".
In fact, there are many stories that are popular and widely circulated in the "Youyang Miscellaneous Tricks", such as luo Bin Wang's "Seeking Wu Zhi" passed to Wu Zetian's hands: "Then the heavens look at it, 'Moth eyebrows refuse to let people, fox charm is more able to confuse the Lord' Smile, when reading 'a piece of soil is not dry, six feet of loneliness is in', exclaimed: 'How can the prime minister gain or lose such a person!'", such a literary style is simply a stroke of God!
There is also the famous story of Li Bai letting Golix take off his boots, which also comes from this strange book.
In "Youyang Miscellaneous Volume I Tianmi", it tells a twist and bizarre, but also quite literary, similar to the story in "Liaozhai Zhiyi":
Yongzhen Nian, Dongshi people Wang Bu, Zhishu, Tibetan tens of millions, merchants dobinzhi. There are fourteen and fifteen years of female age, gorgeous and intelligent. The polyps in each of the two nostrils are like soap pods, and their roots are like twine threads, long in length, and the heart is painful to the touch. His father broke millions of dollars and treated it with patience. One day, a Brahmin monk begged for food, because he asked Bu: "I know that the king's daughter has a strange disease, but when I see it, I can stop it." Boo was asked to be overjoyed, that is, to see his daughter. The monk takes the medicine, the color is white, blows it in his nose, plucks it, takes it off, and produces less yellow water, all without suffering. Platinum of the Bounty. The Brahmin monk said, "My cultivators are not subject to generous charity." Only beg for this polyp. "Then I cherished it and went away, and I flew like a fly." Bu also means its sage also. Ji Monk went to Wuliufang, and there was a teenager, as beautiful as a crown jade, riding a white horse, so he buckled the door and said: "Is there a Hu monk to nothing?" "Bu Yan entered, describing the hu monk's affairs. His people cried out in displeasure: "Ma Xiao tiptoed behind this monk!" "Cloth is amazed, why? "The two gods who lost the medicine of God, who are closely known to be hidden in the nose of the king's daughter, I am also a heavenly man, and I came to take it on the orders of the emperor, but I did not expect this monk to take it first." I deserve to be sent! "The cloth is a salute, and the head is lost.
Such an absurd story is concise, interesting, completely structured, vivid in plot, and vivid in image, and whoever reads it will shout interesting and interesting.
Let's look at a more bizarre and wonderful story recorded in the "Youyang Miscellaneous Volumes XIV Nogao Records":
In the Great Calendar, there was a scholar Zhuang in Weinan, who died of illness in Beijing, and his wife Liu Shi lived in Zhuang. In the eleventh and twelfth years of the first son, on a summer night, his son suddenly trembled and did not sleep. After three changes, I suddenly saw an old man, dressed in white, with two teeth out of the kiss, and looked at it familiarly. For a long time, approaching the front of the bed. In front of the bed, there is a maid who sleeps well, because of the choking of his throat, the bite is loud, the clothes are broken casually, and the food is grabbed. The bones of the beard are exposed, and they are lifted up to drink their five treasures. Seeing that the old population is as big as a dustpan, the sub-party is called, and nothing is seen, and the maid is already bone-dead. A few months later, there was no him. Shiren Xiangzhai, Sunset, Liu Shilu sits in the cool, there are wasps around its head, And Liu Clan falls to the ground with a fan, and it is a walnut. In the palm of the hand, the Willow clan is long. At first, like a fist, like a bowl, when you are shocked, it is like a plate.? The storm is divided into two fans, rotating in the air, and the sound is like a bee. Suddenly in the head of the Willow clan, the head of the Willow clan is broken, and the teeth are on the tree. Its material cause flew away, and I don't know why.
This third-rate poet Duan Chengshi is so good! In the first half of the story, an old man dressed in white exposes his teeth to his mouth, eats a maid raw, bites with a sound, and only bones are left between his whiskers, how frightening!
The second half of the story, with its incredible imagination and strong stimulating impact, is really to the point of "dazzling and frightening."
If the walnut began to become as big as a fist, as big as a bowl, still within the scope of understanding, and when it was shocked, it was as big as a millstone, and then divided into two fans, like the UFO of the UFO, doing a wheel rotation in the air, suddenly hitting The head of the Willow clan, suddenly shattered, bursting teeth, embedded in the tree like a stray bullet, the description of these crosses makes people almost collapse when they read. In the late Tang Dynasty more than a thousand years ago, there was a similar description of UFOs in modern times, what a fantasy!
There are many bizarre and mysterious short stories like this in "Youyang Miscellaneous Tricks", and readers who like them can collect and read on their own.
In the "Youyang Miscellaneous Tricks", there is also a legendary story of an alien "Jade Axe Repairing the Moon":
Yamato, Zheng Renben's cousin, who does not remember his name, often travels to the Song Mountains with a king Xiucai, and after crossing the stream, he is lost and returns. Will be twilight, do not know what to do. Leaning on the ground, I suddenly felt the sound of snoring in the bushes, and I peeked at it with hazelnuts, and saw a person clothed, very white, and a pillow, and a sleeping sound. That is, to call it, "If a certain person enters this path and gets lost, does the king know the way to the official?" "His man looked up and looked at it, and should not, go back to sleep. Repeatedly, he sat up and said, "Come here." "The two men did so, and asked what they were doing. His people laughed (a word) and said, "JunzhiYue is the seven treasures of the synthesis? The moon is like a pill, its shadow, and the sun shines its convexity also. There are often 82,000 households that cultivate it, and give it is a number. Because of the opening, there were several things chiseled, and the jade crumbs were wrapped in two wrapped rice, and the two people were given: "Divide this food." Although it is not enough to live forever, it can be free of ears in a lifetime. The two of them pointed to a path: "But from this, self-aligned officials." "The words are gone.
The surface of the moon is uneven, the moon itself does not emit light, and the moonlight is the reflection of the sun's light, and we all know this astronomical knowledge.
However, these common senses are the conclusions reached by the Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei after observing the moon with an astronomical telescope in the seventeenth century!
But in this strange book, it can actually be said that "the moon is like a pill, its shadow, and the sun is shining in its convexity", this book was written more than a thousand years ago, "Youyang Miscellaneous Tricks", the content is really "Xuanzhi and Xuan"!