Ji Xiaolan in the film and television drama
Ji Yun, the character Xiaolan, a qing dynasty directly subordinate to Xianxian people, successively served as a bachelor of hanlin academy, the chief editor of the "Four Libraries", the rebbe Shangshu, the Bingbu Shangshu and other important positions, but Ji Xiaolan of the Qing Dynasty would never have thought that there would be a form of entertainment in the form of television a hundred years later, let alone that he would be "famous for eternity" because of the TV series "Iron Tooth Copper Tooth Ji Xiaolan". Similarly, many people do not know that Ji Xiaolan, who is the chief compiler of the Siku Quanshu, has spared no words like gold, and no anthologies or history books have been handed down, leaving only the "Notes on Reading Wei Caotang", a "small book" dedicated to collecting strange and strange things. "Notes on Reading Wei Caotang" consists of five parts, a total of more than 1200 stories, mainly including daily life, official anecdotes and strange things, in the book the author built a folding space for us to coexist with people and ghosts, in this folding space ghosts are not only not facial monsters, but also have their own family, social relations and joys and sorrows, and even have close interaction with people, in this world, human beings are also accustomed to living with ghosts, and formed a set of their own way of doing things.
1. What are the types of ghosts?
In fact, there are many kinds of ghosts, some sinister and cunning, some greedy for good wine, of course, there are also clear things, like the ghosts of literary and elegant manners, and even the ghosts of the hermits, and listen to me one by one.
In "The Ghost of the Cup", the butcher Xu Fang took two altars of wine to rest under the tree at night, and when he saw a ghost coming from the grass, he was very frightened, so he took a flat burden and hid. The ghost was very happy to see the wine, drank one altar after another, drunk and fell to the ground and could not move, Xu Fang saw the ghost drank his wine, very angry, plus this ghost did not seem to have any ability, he rushed out, took a flat shoulder and beat it, only to see the ghost slowly turn into smoke, more and more faint, and finally disappeared. Since this moment, this ghost no longer exists. This is a cup-greedy ghost, not only people drink wine wrongly, even ghosts can not get rid of the temptation of wine.
Of course, there are many ghosts in this world who want to harm people, but it is difficult for them to directly launch physical attacks, and they can only confuse people's hearts and make people go to the abyss through illusions. For example, in "The Abandoned Courtyard Dufan Building", a man and a woman secretly have an affair in the idle courtyard, and find that there is a ghost walking outside the house, and they are afraid to move. At this time, the dog in the family found the female ghost, barked wildly, the family thought that it was a thief, so they rushed in with torches and weapons, and the ghost saw that the cause was hidden, and the private affairs of men and women were also discovered. Later, the maid felt landless and tried to commit suicide many times, but she was saved, and the master had no way to send her home. Only then did the crowd understand the sinister intentions of the ghost, she just wanted to lead others in to find the man and woman, and then force the maid to commit suicide, thus harming others.
But many ghosts are also very polite, as long as they treat each other with courtesy, they can coexist peacefully. In "Many Ghosts in the Abandoned Temple", Ye Shoupu, an old doctor in Texas, rushed to the road at night to do things, encountered wind and rain, only got the abandoned temple to avoid the rain, but the door panel of the abandoned temple was written with white powder "There are ghosts in the temple, pedestrians do not live" Several big characters, but the wind and rain outside, there is nowhere to go, Mr. Ye had to pray: "I am a person who rushes to the road, the road encounters wind and rain, and I hope that the gods will take me, and when the rain stops, I will leave, and I will not stay here for a long time." Don't say, the ghosts in the abandoned temple actually replied: "I am grateful for your politeness, but today I drank too much to receive you, you yourself rest against the east wall, there is a scorpion nest in the west, I am afraid they will bite you." Dr. Yip was so scared that as soon as the rain stopped, he left. It can be seen that ghosts are also reasonable, as long as people are polite, they will not hurt people.
Among the ghosts there are even hermits and gentle ghosts. In "The Land of Ghosts", a person surnamed Song in the Ming Dynasty encountered a heavy rain in the mountains of Anhui, so he went to the cave to avoid the rain, and a voice came from the cave: "Don't come in, there are ghosts in the cave." The man was very surprised and asked, "Then why are you inside?" The man replied, "I am a ghost." Song Shusheng was not afraid, went in to talk with him, and asked him why he was here? The ghost talked about his life, he was originally a county order during the Shenzong period, disgusted with the officialdom, resigned from the official home, after death told Yan Luo that he did not want to be reincarnated as a human, Yan Luo appointed him as an official in the underworld according to his rank, did not expect that the underworld is also a miasma of black smoke, and the official field in the world, he resigned again and returned to the tomb, but the surrounding neighbors were noisy, he moved here, escaped from cause and effect, immersed in the study of natural things, did not know the years, only the four seasons. Before leaving, the ghost also reminded Song Shusheng that he was going to move elsewhere, and Song Shusheng would not be a Wuling person to come again. Before leaving, the scholar wrote the word "ghost" on the stone at the entrance of the cave.
In "The Realm of Illusion", Yi Shusheng encounters the ghost of elegance twice. The first time was in Beijing, Shusheng met another reader B, the two talked about exchanging strange things from all over the place, Shusheng B said that the environment here is very good, that is, more cemeteries and more ghosts are annoying, Shusheng advised: "Ghosts are also many different kinds, some ghosts are very elegant, I met a person when I was playing in the West Mountain, the literary talent is remarkable, write a good sentence such as 'The deep mountains are late to see the day, the ancient temple is born in early autumn', I originally wanted to invite him to have a drink, but this person laughed and said that you don't hate me very well, how dare you cook?" In the blink of an eye, I knew that this person was a ghost, so ghosts are not necessarily all terrible. Shusheng B felt very interesting after listening to it, and said: "It is very interesting to hear you tell this story, so how do you know that you are telling a ghost story to people?" In the blink of an eye, Shusheng B disappeared, and Shusheng suddenly realized that the person who listened to the story was also a ghost. Through the experience of the students, we can know that ghosts are also knowledgeable and educated, can chant poems and paint, and learn from people.
Second, where to meet the ghost
Since there are many kinds of ghosts, under what circumstances did the people in the "Notes on Reading Wei Caotang" encounter ghosts?
According to the analysis, the four elements of encountering ghosts are: 1, late night; 2, deep mountains; 3, empty house; 4, death.
First of all, the time to meet ghosts is mostly late at night, which is also very easy to understand, the sun is too strong during the day, the ghosts are naturally not good to come out, the night is quiet, it is a good time for ghost activities, and there are few pedestrians on the road at night, which is conducive to the play of ghosts, after all, people are more powerful, and it is easy to kill ghosts with mutual courage. Therefore, the ghosts in the "Notes on Reading Wei Caotang" appear most of the time in the middle of the night, and the places where ghosts appear are mainly concentrated in the mountains and empty houses, after all, people are afraid of ghosts, and ghosts are not necessarily willing to live with people, so they often choose places with fewer people to settle down. When the two factors of late night and deep mountains and empty houses are superimposed, the probability of encountering ghosts will be greatly increased, which also constitutes the time and space elements of the story.
All of the above is easy to understand, but the most surprising thing is that many people in the "Notes on Reading Wei Caotang" have proved with their own practical actions the truth of life that they will not meet ghosts without death. Many people encounter ghosts are caused by death, in "Courage and Humiliation", Geng is a warrior, once beat a tiger, heard that a temple is often haunted, even volunteered to go to fight ghosts, the result of fighting ghosts is not successful but was flirted with by the group of ghosts, after Geng mou reformed, the fierce spirit disappeared, becoming a docile person.
In "Fake Ghosts Lead To Real Ghosts", it is directly pointed out: "Demons are prospered by people", A is very timid, B wants to tease him, so he lets his servants hide in the house to pretend to be ghosts, and the result is that he did not expect to attract real ghosts, frightening the two people to flee, which is a typical representative of not dying.
3. What should I do if I encounter a ghost?
When encountering ghosts, don't panic, after all, ghosts are only the yin and yang qi between heaven and earth, and you can't hurt people for half a minute, as long as you are not afraid, ghosts can only be bored with themselves.
In "Three Rules of Not Fearing Ghosts", Teacher Yan explicitly denied the existence of ghosts after seeing ghosts, and also took up the ring ruler to fight ghosts, and the ghosts fled into the wilderness. Another scholar encountered a ghost in the courtyard, although he did not carry a ruler, but decisively stood on the moral high ground to criticize the ghost: "You have also been a person, why are you so ignorant of etiquette and run to other people's yards in the middle of the night?" "The ghost walked away in shame. The last Mr. Shen, lost in a rainy night, saw an abandoned temple, it is rumored that there are many ghosts inside, Mr. Shen not only did not hide, but also went to the temple around the hall to ask the ghosts for directions, there was no echo in the hall to rest at dawn and set off for the road. Through these stories, we can know that ghosts are also reasonable and shameful, as long as you are humble and courteous, ghosts will also treat each other with sincerity.
In addition, when encountering ghosts, you must be hard steel to the end, don't instigate. In the article "Giant Ghosts", someone claimed that he was never afraid of ghosts, rented an empty house, and at night the ghosts appeared, changing into various terrible appearances, asking him: "Are you really not afraid of ghosts?" He replied, "Yes." The ghost listened to it and eased up a bit, and said, "I don't have to drive you away, but I have no face like you, as long as you say a word of fear, I will leave immediately." Who knew that the man said with a hard mouth: "Not being afraid is not being afraid, you can do whatever you want." The ghost listened to the anger and left. Afterwards, some people reproached him and said that it is common for people to be afraid of ghosts, but what about you say that you are afraid? Who knew that the man replied, "I don't have a very high concentration, I can only rely on righteous qi to suppress, if I was discouraged at that time, I would be taken advantage of by the ghost, and the ghost kept giving me a set, fortunately I was not deceived." From this, it can be seen that when you are unfortunate enough to meet a ghost, you must maintain your concentration, do not instigate, face to face, once discouraged, then you will lose. Because the ghost himself admits that he can't get close to the person who hurts the "qisheng", in "Tian Dissatisfied with the Night Walk meets the skeleton", Tian Dissatisfied stepped on the skeleton on the road, and the skeleton actually threatened: "You dare to step on my face, you are going to have disaster." Tian dissatisfied and shouted, "Who let you stand in my way?" Whoever put you here is going to go to? The skeleton said helplessly, "That man is full of momentum, and I can't do anything to him." Tian was dissatisfied and scolded: "Am I angry?" Bully soft and afraid of hard, you count something! Then walk straight away. It can be seen that the best way not to meet ghosts is to go to bed early and get up early, exercise, and maintain a good mood, so that ghosts do not dare to treat you like this.
Ji Xiaolan expressed his views on people and ghosts through the tone of the ghost, in "Ghost Leaning on poplar", a person dodged the enemy family and ran into the mountains, saw the ghost leaning under the poplar tree and did not dare to move, the ghost saw it and smiled and said: "Why are ghosts afraid? Whoever has made the king upside down to this point, the man Yesheyah? This story can be called the finishing touch of this book, the ghosts in the whole book are the karma of cunning people, and even if the righteous gentleman encounters a ghost, he either treats him with courtesy, or angrily rebukes the ghost, and retreats from the whole body, it can be known that Ji Xiaolan does not think that ghosts can hurt people by half a point, everything is a cycle of cause and effect, and the people who hurt people the most, and those who make people upside down are people.
Wen Shijun said
Ji Yun was a young man with high-ranking officials, which can be said to have realized the dream of thousands of soldiers: to worship the general. However, Ji Yun, who has been in the eunuch sea for a long time, has a deeper understanding of the officialdom and human nature, in the book "Notes on Reading Wei Caotang", people and ghosts are intertwined, people are also ghosts, ghosts are also people, suddenly it is impossible to distinguish whether some words are said by ghosts or ji Xiaolan borrowed the mouth of ghosts, after reading this book, there is a feeling of "I am afraid of ghosts, ghosts have not hurt me half a point; I am not afraid of people, but people make me scaled all over my body". You say that the most terrible thing in the world is man? Or a ghost?
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(Qing) Ji Yun: Notes on Reading Wei Caotang.
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