preface
Predicting the future has been fascinating from ancient times to the present. A large number of divination and stargazing in ancient societies revealed the importance of predicting the future in ancient times. In modern society, looking at palms, five elements of fortune, etc., are all topics of relish. It can be seen that even in the current scientific society, foreknowledge is still the interest of people.
When the plague appeared, when it occurred in the winter season, and what the result of the plague was, it would cause a large number of deaths. The back of the inscription also indicates that the plague will last for several years.
The author of this inscription is Liu Bowen, Liu Bowen is He Xuren, he is a person who has the reputation of "Zhuge Liang in three parts of the world, liu Bowen in the unification of the country", and is even worshipped as a god in Taoism. Could he really foresee the future?
Let's take a look at the historical Liu Bowen.
Liu Bowen and his people
Liu Bowen was born in the last year of the Yuan Dynasty, which was a time of war and chaos. In the last years of the Yuan Dynasty, there was corruption and bribery up and down, the people were anointed, and the people were miserable. As a local official, Liu Bowen has never been corrupt and seriously handled cases for the people, and has been loved by local residents.
However, how can there be no room for a light person in the muddy officialdom? The powerful gentlemen who had been disposed of by Liu Bowen hated him to the bone, and often falsely accused him of causing trouble, hoping to punish Liu Bowen through this method. Despite the protection of the chief, Liu Bowen could not stand the turbidity of the official field and chose to live in seclusion.
Liu Bowen's second appearance was in Hangzhou. At this time, the world was already divided, and there were countless robbers who took advantage of the fire. In Hangzhou, there was a thief named Fang Guozhen, who plundered everywhere and messed up the lives of the people. Under Liu Bowen's strategy, Fang Guozhen even ate his heels and had to restrain his edge.
Later, the Yuan Dynasty was unable to cope with the rebellions throughout the country and realized the policy of surrender, and Fang Guozhen accepted the surrender and became the right-hand man of the Yuan Dynasty. Fang Guozhen took this opportunity to retaliate against Liu Bowen.
Fang Guozhen's method of revenge on Liu Bowen is also very simple, that is, he keeps making small reports to the imperial court and letting them wear small shoes. Liu Bowen resented the darkness of the official field, resigned in anger and returned to his hometown, he never coveted the dignitaries and dignitaries, only sought a clean body.
After that, Liu Bowen appeared again, which was the period of Zhu Yuanzhang. When Zhu Yuanzhang was recruiting the world's sages, someone recommended Liu Bowen and introduced Liu Bowen to a god, Zhu Yuanzhang was greatly interested after hearing it, so he decided to summon Liu Bowen. The scene where Liu Bowen and Zhu Yuanzhang met is like today's job fair, not only the boss selects employees, but also the boss.
Zhu Yuanzhang was very satisfied with this employee, as soon as the two met, they began to discuss the situation in the world, Liu Bowen analyzed the forces of all parties and the trend of the world to Zhu Yuanzhang one by one, and pointed out a bright future to Zhu Yuanzhang, which is like the "Longzhong Pair" in Maolu, between talking and laughing, it determines the special path of the future.
Does Liu Bowen approve of this boss? Zhu Yuanzhang was born as a peasant and attached great importance to the interests of the broad masses of peasants; his army was different from other armies, with strict military discipline and love for the people. And judging from zhu Yuanzhang's solicitation of people everywhere, he still has the ambition to take the world. Zhu Yuanzhang's characteristics made Liu Bowen approve of the new boss.
The trajectory of Liu Bowen's life since then has never left the Ming Dynasty or Zhu Yuanzhang. The myth called Liu Bowen also began from this.
Ingenious
Liu Bowen made indelible contributions to the Ming Dynasty. From persuading Zhu Yuanzhang to leave Xiaoming For independence in the early years of the founding of the People's Republic of China, analyzing the various forces of all sides to break through and establish the Ming Dynasty, to improving the construction of the imperial court system in the Ming Dynasty and helping Zhu Yuanzhang fight against official corruption. The legend of Liu Bowen has never left these stories.
Can you imagine that "The Song of Burning Cakes" is actually from the dialogue between Liu Bowen and Zhu Yuanzhang. One day, Zhu Yuanzhang ate burnt cakes in the courtyard. At this time, Liu Bowen walked in, Zhu Yuanzhang was interested, he covered the burnt cake he had bitten into with an upside-down bowl, and when Liu Bowen walked in, he asked Liu Bowen what was covered in the bowl.
Liu Bowen stared at the bowl for a while and blurted out: "Half like the sun and half like the moon, once bitten by a golden dragon." The previous sentence alludes to burnt bread. The latter sentence is even more intriguing, Zhu Yuanzhang himself took a bite of the burnt cake, while Liu Bowen said that he was a golden dragon, which means that Zhu Yuanzhang was the embodiment of the dragon and the orthodox emperor.
In addition to admiring Liu Bowen's improvisation, this story should also see Liu Bowen's clever calculations. Obviously, he didn't see anything, how he calculated that the bowl was burnt cake, and it was the burnt cake that Zhu Yuanzhang had bitten.
The story of Liu Bowen's death is even more confusing. Zhu Yuanzhang was suspicious of ghosts in his later period, especially after Empress Ma's death, Zhu Yuanzhang's killing of the founding fathers reached an incomparable point. As the top priority of the founding fathers, Liu Bowen naturally speculated and questioned Zhu Yuanzhang.
And Liu Bowen certainly wouldn't let Zhu Yuanzhang easily solve himself. In Zhu Yuanzhang's later years, Liu Bowen applied to return to his hometown and spend his old age in peace. Zhu Yuanzhang, who had a heavy heart, would never allow such a clever world to leave his jurisdiction.
However, at this time, one of the officials recommended by Liu Bowen made a big mistake, and Liu Bowen used this to apply for resignation as a punishment, and Zhu Yuanzhang agreed. After Liu Bowen returned to his hometown, Zhu Yuanzhang became more and more uneasy, so he ordered Liu Bowen to return to Beijing.
But at this time, Liu Bowen completely disappeared from the world. Under the whole world, it was not the king's land, and Zhu Yuanzhang ordered an all-out search for Liu Bowen's whereabouts, but he could not find it. According to legend, Liu Bowen also left a book that could destroy the Ming Dynasty, and Zhu Yuanzhang searched this book all the time, until his death, and did not find it.
During the Republic of China period, the Nationalist army was stationed in Nanjing. Near the Jinling Pagoda in Nanjing, strange noises were often made, and at this time, in order to appease the people, Chiang Kai-shek ordered the tower to be demolished, and in the process of demolition, an inscription was found, and everyone did not care much at that time.
As the text cracking work progressed, the inscription of that year was also cracked. The first sentence of the inscription is "Liu Jiji, Jieshi demolition."
Liu Ji is Liu Bowen, and jinling pagoda is also the place where Liu Bowen once went, and the meaning of this inscription does not need to be said. Everyone was shocked by Liu Bowen's material like a god, and they were also surprised that he could calculate things so long ago.
epilogue
Inscriptions such as those left behind by such characters are interpreted, and words such as prophecies go away. However, it is not so much a prophecy as a combination of legend and coincidence.
Although Liu Bowen has a life like a god and a man, this is ultimately the fantasy of posterity, and folklore adds color to it. In fact, many things are slightly explained, and then a little far-fetched, it is possible to have a lot of mystery out of thin air.
What is recorded in the "Rescue Inscription" is to exhort the good and punish the evil, and to help the poor, and it is not a prophecy. It's just that Liu Bowen in folklore, coupled with an interpretation of the current environment, makes it have some prophetic meaning.