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preface
Since the Sino-British Opium War in 1840, While entering a semi-colonial and semi-feudal society, China has also been forced to open its closed doors to the world, Chinese once again have the opportunity to open its eyes to the world. Today we will look at the protagonist's strange and mysterious European travels through a story recorded in zhiwei novels:
The main text of the story
Qian Siyan, the character Zhongxu, lives in Zhejiang. When he was a teenager with great ambitions, when master Shu taught the Four Books and Five Classics, he put aside and said with a disdainful face: "This kind of learning of biting and chewing words is not worth looking at at all." The eldest husband was like Zong Yu and The Ultimate Army (The Final Army: A diplomat of the Western Han Dynasty, who persuaded the King of Nanyue to submit to Emperor Wu of Han. Ride the wind and waves like that, and make a contribution thousands of miles away. ”
The Qian family is a local rich man, and Qian's father hopes that his son Jackie Chan will be able to shine on the lintel. In order not to disappoint his father, Xiao Qian had no choice but to ask the hometown For advice, and after some hard reading, he finally made a name for himself in the autumn test (the township test held in the autumn of the Ming and Qing dynasties).
Guests flocked to the door to congratulate him, but Xiao Qian found an excuse to avoid seeing it. Whenever he read the article he had written, he couldn't help but feel ashamed: "How can this bull's head not be right for the horse's mouth?" ”
One day a Taoist monk who claimed to be practicing at Mount Emei came to visit. Xiao Qian opened the door to greet him and found that this old Dao Crane had a childlike face and a fairy wind Dao bone. Without waiting for the small money to speak, Lao Dao took the lead: "I heard that there is a thought of escapism under the feet, and the poor Dao Special Mao introduced himself as your mentor." Xiao Qian thought darkly: "I never told others about this idea, how did he know?" It seems that he is absolutely human. So he invited Lao Dao into the inner chamber and asked him to explain the methods of immortality and alchemy.
Old Dao laughed and said, "What you said under your feet is still far from the Dao." The role of Neidan and Outer Dan is different, as long as there is actually no difference after entry. The first is to be pure-minded, meditative, and can only be involved until it is close to the mysterious. No one has ever 'three corpses not beheaded, and five turbidities have not been removed', and they have wanted to fly up to the Immortal Realm by eating immortal elixirs. ”
Xiao Qian was intrigued and asked, "So how can it be achieved?" Answer: "The upper avoidance of the world, the middle of the avoidance of mortals, the lower is still mixed with red dust, normal life." But once the idea is not firm enough, I am afraid that it is still easy to be tempted by the outside world. I don't think it is better to follow me to Mount Emei, and I will definitely gain something. ”
Hearing that he could go to the Kingdom of Heaven to play, Xiao Qian nodded his head: "Good, good, good." Lao Dao smiled slightly, and threw the dust in his hand into the air, and the dust suddenly turned into a dragon with scales and horns, lying on the ground.
Xiao Qian had never seen the real dragon, and was at a loss for words, and lao Dao pushed him: "Don't get in the way, follow me up ~" The giant dragon hunched up the two of them, flew through the sky, and penetrated into the clouds. Xiao Qian looked down, and now there was only a vast sea of clouds, and the wind whistled in his ears like waves lapping at the shore. At this moment, he could only close his eyes and concentrate, put his life and death outside the degree, and let the dragon soar in the air. After a while, there was silence around me, and I heard the old man say, "Here we are." Xiao Qian dared to open his eyes and look around. But see the mountains surrounded, the peaks are stacked, lush and fragrant. Lao Dao introduced: "This is the peak of Emei, ancient and modern people are rarely visited, so follow me to see the master." ”
The two men wandered forward to reach a grotto with two stone doors. Lao Dao gently tapped with dust, and the stone door squeaked and opened automatically. The pavilions in the cave, the cave sky, the birds and flowers, like a fairyland.
After walking for another mile, there was a crystal-like boulder in front of me, and the two big words "Jian Xin" were written on it. Xiao Qian looked at himself and found that the clothes on his body were seen through, revealing his internal organs and blood vessel meridians. He was surprised by the working principle of this thing and stopped, and the old man said, "Now I know that you are righteous and accessible in your heart, and you have no city government, and you are still 'a widow can be taught'." ”
The two men continued on their way, and there was a courtyard at the turn of the peak loop, which was full of banana trees but empty. Lao Dao led the small money up the stairs, twisting and turning, passing through several mountain gates, and finally stopped in front of a large hall with a plaque hanging "Deep in the Green Sky".
The old man explained, "This is my teacher's retreat, and I meditate here every ten days." As he spoke, he was about to report through the window, but before he could open his mouth, a lady lifted the curtain and came out: "The Purple Qiong Fairy has asked the Dao Chief." ”
The old man told Xiao Qian to wait outside, and after entering the room for a long time, he asked Xiao Qian to go in. Xiao Qian crossed the threshold and bowed his head, and Li Bi got up and secretly glanced at it: there was a young girl sitting cross-legged on the lotus platform, with a unique style and generous manners.
Xiao Qian was adored and nervous, unable to speak. The girl gently opened her lips and asked, "Where did Er come from?" Would you like to learn the Tao? The little money stammered and stuttered, and finally the old man replied on his behalf. The girl smiled, "Your heart is not pure, you have come early." ”
The girl ordered Xiao Qian to come forward and put her arm around his shoulder to show him the palm. Xiao Qian had already thought of right and wrong, and actually had the honor of kissing Fangze, the girl's jade arm was soft and fragrant, slippery and incomparable, Xiao Qian's heart was shaking, and he could not help himself. The girl took out a mirror from her chest and asked him to look at it, and Xiao Qian saw that her heart was suddenly pounding and jumping.
The girl covered her face and smiled: "Look at the small sample you want to burn, you should throw a basin of ice water on your back!" You are still far from the path of cultivation, so why bother yourself? It is better to remain in the mortal world and find the pleasures of the world. Being able to comprehend a pure dojo in the midst of the bustling dust is also a way to do it. With that, he dragged the little money to the hall, threw a piece of veil on the ground, and ordered him to stand on it. The veil rose like an Arabian flying carpet, and in an instant, the mountains and rivers and the earth were under the feet.
Xiao Qian was looking down at the bottom, when he overheard a cannon shot, and he fell to the ground with it. Touch the arms and thighs, there is no shortage of parts, and then look at many people around, all wearing Western costumes, holding weapons, majestic. They grabbed Xiao Qian for a while, causing Xiao Qian's face to be full of doubts, but fortunately one of them was a local gentleman who had been to China and called himself "Dechen". He told Xiao Qian in Chinese that the place was called "Yi Li", which was a territory of the British Empire, located near the coastline of Scotland, and that a military parade was taking place that day.
The small money trainee sailor used artillery to shoot at the old ships floating on the sea, and even shot a hundred shots; the training army demonstrated the platoon gun tactics with the newly made flintlock gun, and the ten thousand guns were fired in unison like a dragon spitting flames, and the world fell apart. Xiao Qian looked at it and sighed: wonderful, wonderful!
The crowd asked him, "You have fallen from heaven, do you know any magic?" Xiao Qian didn't want to cause trouble, so he said with a smiling face: "Where is there!" I'm just lost here, and you're all dazzled. "Everyone was suspicious, but after all, there was no video evidence recorded on the mobile phone, and it could only be stopped."
Dechen invited Xiao Qian back to the house for dinner, treated him like a guest, entertained him a lot, and asked his two sisters who were not yet out of the cabinet to come out to meet. The next day, he took him on a tour of Edinburgh, the capital of Scotland. The city is notoriously gorgeous and prosperous, and the specialty is gorgeous and generous beauties. That night coincided with the "Danshen Festival", the nearby people gathered here, xiaoqian naturally could not miss this good opportunity to see the Western scenery.
Original "dance?) It is a kind of dance danced by Western men and women, a bit like the Miaojiang "moon dance", and there is a similar custom in Japan (Awa dance?). ）。 To dance this kind of dance, hundreds of young boys and girls between the ages of 12 and 16 and have good faces are selected, and they are divided into different categories according to the pace and rhythm of the dance, and it takes several years of careful guidance by female teachers to master.
At the time of the grand event, women are dressed up, and men are also groomed, competing for beauty, comparable to exaggeration, so it is not lively. After the dance begins, the dancers are suddenly separated, suddenly entering and retreating, if they are far away, if they are far and near, and the time is scattered and whole; either the man embraces the woman, or the woman leads the man; the two are combined into one place, holding the thin waist, holding the fragrant shoulders, forming in pairs, listed in a square, circling like a circle, there are fast and slow, and the dance posture is wonderful.
The woman also holds a bunch of red and white flower balls in her hands; she is wearing a silk skirt with bare shoulders, dancing with her body, the ribbon rises against the wind, fluttering and beautiful, almost like the scattered flowers of the goddess of heaven; its dance steps are unpredictable, such as fish, such as winning, or jagged like goose rows, or divergent like swallowtails, or staggered like the stars, or dense like the layout of Go, or round or square, or gathered or scattered. The woman's sleeves were still wrapped in three meters of white silk, which swirled like butterflies, fluttering and about to fly into the clouds. They tiptoed up and jumped gently, like white lotus petals sprinkling on the surface of the lake. With the atmosphere of lighting and music, it is simply dazzling and colorful, and the small money is amazing and breathtaking.
The city is inhabited by a female celebrity named "Josie?" (Zhou Xi?). ）。 Xiao Qian deliberately came to the door to visit, and he and this lady met and hated each other. Ms. Zhou Xi took him on a trip during the day, set up a banquet at night, basically visited the surrounding scenic spots and monuments, and Xiao Qian also slightly mastered the basic conversation of English, which can make simple communication with the locals.
Ms. Zhou Xi told Xiao Qian that London is the most prosperous city in the world, and it is impossible not to go and see it. So she led xiao qian to get ready and go by car. Passing through Langholm,, on the border of Scotland and England, there is a magnificent church in which the choir has a hundred female believers, accompanied by sonorous syllables, melodious pipe organs, and the song is like the music of heaven. Among them is the violinist --- Mary?. Lady, graceful and graceful, she and Xiao Qian exchanged greetings and guided them around. When she learned that Xiao Qian was going to London, she expressed her willingness to follow, and it turned out that her uncle was the mayor of London.
After the group arrived in London, the uncle politely received them, and also arranged for more than a dozen servants to lead small money to visit museums, libraries, factories and other places, of which the most admirable thing was the glass house covering an area of 100 acres. And handsome, jade tree wind, he hugged the two beauties on the left and right, and passers-by all threw envious eyes. They went to visit the department store, the clerks are also beautiful and moving girls, see xiao qian such a big handsome guy come in, have squeezed their eyebrows, secretly sent Qiu Bo. When Xiao Qian inquired about the price of commodities, they rushed up, pushed and squeezed, and even directly stuffed the goods into the sleeves of Xiao Qian, so that he experienced the treatment of Pan An's "sheep cart throwing fruit".
At this time, Mei Li asked him: "Gongzi is from China, has he ever been to Paris?" "Not yet." So they left London and crossed the sea to France.
Paris has wide streets and magnificent houses, similar to London. It just so happens that the King of France (Louis XVI?) Go to Versailles for a summer retreat, not in the Louvre. Mei Li then approached the foreign minister and asked him to take a small amount of money for a walk around the Louvre. There are countless antique paintings in the palace, including a dazzling diamond as big as a pigeon's egg, which is a rare treasure.
They visited Switzerland from France, where the mountains and rivers are beautiful, the trees are luxuriant, the birds are singing, and the pavilions and gardens are everywhere. On their way to Berlin, the capital of Prussia, xiaoqian actually bumped into the old road that had taken him up Mount Emei earlier, and the daoist picked up the folding fan and tapped Xiaoqian on the shoulder: "Hey, european tour, happy?" Now you can go back! (No money?) Before Xiao Qian could reply, Lao Dao threw the dust in his hand into the air, transformed into a giant dragon again, and carried the two people into the clouds, and soon disappeared into the sky.
epilogue
The original title of the above story, "Overseas Grand Tour", is from the collection of literary short stories engraved by the late Qing Dynasty scholar Wang Tao (1828-1897) in the early years of Guangxu (1885), "Song Yin Manlu" (also known as "Later Liaozhai Zhiyi Tushu" and "Liaozhai Zhiyi After Drawing"), and the articles were originally published in the Supplement of shanghai's "Declaration" "Pictorial", which lasted more than three years.
The book consists of twelve volumes. Its genre and theme are modeled on Pu Songling's "Liaozhai Zhiyi", because the author is exposed to more new things, so its range of materials is wider than that of its predecessors. However, when the book was written, it was nearly the twentieth century, and the style was still rigidly copied from the classical literature of more than a hundred years ago, such as the Qing Dynasty "Tang Ao" (the protagonist of "Mirror Flower Edge") drifting around the seas and sitting on not a sailboat, or even a "colorful auspicious cloud", and the places to go were also replaced by "Night Fork Country" and "Luocha Country" with "English" and "Citi Country"; the Qing Dynasty "Zhou Place" relied on Western muskets in addition to the three evils; the face-like villain role changed from a mountain thief bandit to a "Taiping Army", "Foreign Devil", and so on, except for some nouns that were slightly "modernized." In addition to the traces of ", its core is still not free from the influence of old literary thinking."
At that time, more than a century after the beginning of the industrial revolution in Britain, and the "foreign affairs movement" promoted by the Qing government has also lasted for more than twenty years, but in Wang Tao's pen, the content of its records is almost completely "advancing with the times", and it is still a strange and strange alien immortal and exotic beast that lacks scientific logic.
In the "Zi Bu Shu" and "Notes on Reading Wei Caotang" written during the Qianlong period, it is still barely reasonable, but in the Guangxu era with railway tracks, trains, phonographs, and Gatling, reading these stories again will inevitably have a "sense of violation" like "Iron Man Fighting Sun Wukong". Moreover, the whole book is generally not divided into priority, the structure is confused, and the language is protracted, which also makes the literary value of this work greatly reduced, and the readability is not high, which is really a failure.
However, in the above story, the author's description of the customs and customs of European countries (including the folk dance of the English Danshen and the meticulous portrayal of the scenery of London, Paris, and Switzerland) can be regarded as opening up foreign meat for readers at that time and experiencing a rather exotic humanistic picture; and the protagonist in the story, Qian Siyan, traveled to Europe, and on the basis of deviating from the "racial discrimination" in reality, he actually saw people and loved people, and even white women rushed to give hugs, and from this side, they could also read the incomprehensible mystery hidden in the author's work." Meaning (dick) obscenity (silk)" reverie.
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