According to the "Narrative of Differences", during the Southern and Northern Dynasties, there was a young man surnamed Wang who encountered a strange incident while fishing. He caught a bunch of crabs and put them in the crab cage, but when he was ready to go home, he found that all the crabs in the cage were gone, and there was a strange shape of wood inside.
Strange wood
The young man picked up the wood and looked at it, thinking that since the crab was gone, he would take this wood back as firewood, and said it with his mouth in his heart. Who expected that all of a sudden, this wood turned into the appearance of a monster, and there were words in his mouth: "I just love crabs, please let me go, I am a mountain god, I can let you catch many crabs every day." ”
Unmoved, the young man grabbed the youkai and threw it into the fire, and the youkai struggled to ask the boy's name. Eventually the youkai disappeared into the fire.
The mandrill debuted in such a embarrassing appearance. According to legend, you can't let the mandrill know your name, otherwise, it will take revenge on you.
Mandrill roasting crab
If you are not familiar with the story of the mandrill's first appearance, then the next thing related to it is familiar to every Chinese.
According to the "Jing Chu Dynasty", which was the same period as the "Narrative of Differences", the people would set off firecrackers on the first day of the first lunar month to drive away mandrills. This "Jing Chu Dynasty" is the earliest preserved record of the New Year in ancient China, which records that people burn bamboo on the first day of the first lunar month, and the moisture in the bamboo is heated to make the bamboo into a very loud sound, which is used to drive away mandrills.
Burn bamboo
Later, this custom spread to the northerners, but there was not so much bamboo in the north, so people replaced it with homemade cannon fights, and at the same time, there was no legend about mandrills in the north, so driving mandrills became driving away beasts.
Up to this point, the mandrill has been disgusted and driven away.
But in the Tang Dynasty, mandrills had a new skill - driving tigers. With this skill, the mandrill became the object of worship for those who crossed the mountain. It is said that after offering a tribute to a mandrill, the tiger on the mountain will behave like a kitten in front of you.
A mandrill that is enshrined
In addition, because the mandrill is fair and just, it also farms the land with the farmer, who is responsible for the cultivation and it is responsible for the rest. And after the crops are ripe, they are divided equally with the farmers. It is obviously a mountain god, but it has no shelf at all, and it has slowly become friends with humans.
Just when the mandrill coexists in harmony with humans in the role of a human friend, one person completely changes this situation.
It is recorded in the "Taiping Guangji" that Tingzhou assassinated Shi Yuan and betrayed and killed the mandrill family, causing the mandrill to be angry and kill his entire family in retaliation.
Although the mandrill was not at fault, the mandrill has once again become the target of disgust and expulsion. Until the Qing Dynasty, Ji Xiaolan was still in "Yuewei Caotang", giving the mandrill a grievance.
In fact, mandrills have always been mountain gods from the beginning to the present. But it was treated differently for doing different things.
The story of the mandrill is the same when applied to people. That's what matters is not what role you are, but what you do.
Take Wei Zheng and Qin Hui for example.
Wei
The same is the prime minister, a mirror that the emperor called himself a man, a fountain through the ages; One was scolded by the world, leaving a name for eternity. The reason is that although they are all prime ministers, one is working hard to make this country better, and the other is a traitor for glory.
Qin Juniper
In fact, we are the same at work, whether you are the lowest employee, the grassroots manager or the big boss. What really matters is not what role you are, but whether you take everything you face seriously and responsibly. #Chinese Monster Story Club#