Today is the story of the first nobleman of the Silla Kingdom during the Tang Dynasty, "Jingo", the distant ancestor of "Pang Shu (yí)".
Silla is the present-day Korean Peninsula
There is a younger brother, the younger brother's family is very rich, but the family is very poor, the family only has an acre of thin land, want to plant some grain, not even seeds, he can only go to his brother to borrow some silkworm eggs and rice seeds. His younger brother is rich and unkind, his heart is not very good, these two things are steamed and then given to him, we all know that silkworm eggs can not hatch when steamed, seeds can not sprout when steamed, this brother is determined to harm him.
But the side did not know his brother's bad thoughts, happily took the silkworm eggs and seeds back, said that it was also strange, there was a silkworm egg actually hatched successfully, hatched silkworm day and night, can grow more than an inch long a day, not long to grow as big as a cow, the leaves of several nearby mulberry trees are not enough.
Such a strange thing happened, all four miles and eight townships were spread everywhere, and the younger brother of the side was naturally aware of it, and could not help but be jealous of the fire, taking advantage of the fact that the side was not at home, secretly sneaking in and killing the giant silkworm, and after one day, the silkworms within a hundred miles flew to the side of the family (is this the rhythm of the memorial meeting and participating in the collective farewell ceremony?). The villagers all said that this giant silkworm must be the silkworm king. Although the giant silkworm was dead, it had already vomited a little silk and formed half a cocoon. Neighbors all come to reel silk (boil the cocoon and then pull out the silk), so many people can't help together.
In addition, those boiled rice seeds, after planting, only one plant grew, but this rice plant was surprisingly tall, the light rice spike was one foot long (according to tang dazhi conversion, about 30cm), learned the lesson of the giant silkworm killing, the side of the river guarded this huge rice plant every day, suddenly one day came a big bird, the side patronized the defense, did not prevent this trick from falling from the sky, the big bird "clicked" a bite off the rice spike, and flew away in the mouth. The side of the river is counting on this rice plant to live, how willing to give up, jump up and chase.
The bird flew in mid-air, ran on the ground, chased for five or six miles, chased into the mountain, only to see the bird plunge into a small stone crack and disappear, the side of the stone to see, this stone gap is very narrow and do not know how the bird drilled in, but he could not open the stone crack no matter how he tried. At this time, the sky was already dark, and it was impossible to see the way down the mountain, and the people next to it were all gray, so they could only crouch on the edge of the stone, trying to survive tonight and wait for the dawn to go down the mountain.
This night was the night of the full moon, the moon in the middle of the sky illuminated the woodland by the stone, suddenly heard the sound of someone laughing and playing from near and far, the side of the side hurriedly hid in the grass by the stone, just after hiding, I saw a group of children dressed in red running to the stone, for the first child asked his companions: "What do you want?" ”
A companion said, "Ask for wine." ”
The chief took out a golden awl and struck the stone, and the "uh- and", at once, it conjured up a wine jug and a wine glass.
Another companion said, "I still want to eat." ”
The leader did the same, knocking on the stone to make cakes, cakes, soups, roast meat, meat and vegetarian combinations, everything.
A group of children ate, drank, played and played, and after a long time to leave, they saw that they were in a hurry, and they actually inserted the golden awl in the crack of the stone and forgot to take it away, and they could not help but be overjoyed, and pulled out the golden awl and brought it home.
From then on, what the side wanted to eat and use, just take out the golden awl and knock it, and immediately he could do what he wanted, and soon he became a rich man who was rich and invincible. After he became rich, he did not hate his brother, but often sent gold and silver jewelry to his brother, and the younger brother was ashamed and apologized to his brother, saying: "I thought I should not have given you boiled silkworm eggs and rice in the first place, but my brother you were also blessed by this misfortune, and got the silkworm king and this precious golden awl." Brother, can you tell me how the golden awl came about? I learned the method, maybe I can get a golden awl? ”
However, the younger brother had to tell the truth, the younger brother listened, and also went to raise boiled silkworm eggs, but only got an ordinary silkworm; he went to plant boiled rice, and this time he also planted a rice plant, and when the rice was about to ripen, sure enough, a bird came to take the rice spike away, and the younger brother was very happy, and also chased the bird into the mountain, but there was a child there, and he bumped into a group of ghosts!
The leader of the ghost said angrily, "Are you the thief who stole my golden awl?" ”
The younger brother said no, and where the ghost king allowed him to explain, he grabbed him and said, "Now there are two roads for you to choose, one is to build three walls for me with chaff; and the second is that I will lengthen your nose by one inch." ”
When the younger brother heard that the nose was long, was there still a person? Busy said, "I chose to build a wall." ”
Chaff is the shell of rice, as the saying goes, "chaff" and "chaff", chaff is the most crisp, but how can you build a wall? The younger brother tried for three days, hungry and tired, and did not succeed, knowing that the ghost was deliberately teasing him, he knelt on the ground and begged bitterly, but the ghost king said that he would not let go of him, grabbed his nose and pulled hard, his nose instantly became longer, as if the Oriental version of Pinocchio, but the pinocchio was made of wood, the nose was still strong, and the nose of the brother was fleshy, and after elongation, it was dragged to the ground like an elephant trunk.
The ghosts laughed and let him go down the mountain, who in the village had ever seen a man look like this? They all came to watch, and the younger brother was ashamed and angry, and he had a serious illness, and soon he died.
Later, his descendants played with the golden awl and knocked on the wolf dung, but when they saw lightning and thunder, the golden awl disappeared.
The story of [Silla Kingdom] is found in the Tang Dynasty's famous Zhiwei novel writer Duan Chengshi's "Youyang Miscellaneous Tricks", "Youyang Miscellaneous Tricks" has the first 20 volumes, the continuation volume of 10 volumes, this [Silla Kingdom] is the first story of the sequel, it can be seen that Duan Chengshi himself is also very fond of this story. Some of the stories in "Youyang Miscellaneous Tricks" were written by Duan Chengshi himself, and some were collected, and this story is likely to be reprinted from ancient Korean folklore.
The story of such a loyal and kind brother (brother) and an insatiable brother (brother) is actually very common in the folklore of various ethnic groups in China and abroad, such as the story of Mainland Shun and his brother Elephant, such as the story of Jute and his two brothers in "One Thousand and One Nights", the "White Bones That Can Sing" in Grimm's fairy tale and so on. It is probably to persuade people to be loyal and good, although poor has its own natural help; do not be greedy for evil, otherwise the organs will do everything in their power to miscalculate Qingqing's life.
Interestingly, the stories of Eastern legends are mostly good brothers and bad brothers, while Arab and Western stories are a combination of bad brothers and good brothers, and this interesting cultural phenomenon is worth playing.