"Three hoops on the altar mountain, not out of the niangniang out of the governor." This nursery rhyme, which is widely circulated in the Yicheng District of Zaozhuang City, sings a "Jia Du Tang" of the Ming Dynasty. This is Jia Sanjin, who is known to everyone in the local area. This person's character Dexiu, the number of Shi Yan, also known as Shiwu Shanren, Lanling Shanke and so on. Son of folk writer Jia Menglong.
Jia San is near
In the thirty-seventh year of Jiajing (1558), Jia San was nearly 24 years old, participated in the Shandong Provincial Township Examination, and won the championship in one fell swoop; in the second year of Longqing (1568), Jia San was ranked first in Shandong and was elected as a Hanlin Jishi. Later, he successively held the positions of Household Branch, Taichang Shaoqing, Dali Temple Secretary, and Bingbu Right Attendant.
Jia San is a man of integrity and frankness, is not afraid of the powerful for the officials, speaks out, and benefits the people. Since he was a child, he has read a lot of books, learned many arts, poetry and song endowments, all of them are exquisite, and he has compiled books such as "Dongye Songcao" and "Zuoye Manga", but unfortunately none of them have been handed down. "Jin Ping Mei" is a work that reflects the life of citizens in the middle and late Ming Dynasty. Who is the author? This issue has been debated for a long time in the academic community, but there is no conclusion. The opening chapter of the Inscription of the Golden Plum Dictionary of the Ming Dynasty Wanli Period once reads "Xinxinzi Sequence". The author of this preface writes that the author of "Jin Ping Mei" is "Lanling Xiaoxiaosheng". "Lanling" is the place of origin of the author, like Zhao Zilong of Changshan and Guo Fengxiao of Yingchuan in the Three Kingdoms. "Laughing and laughing" should be the author's pen name.
Illustration of the golden plum bottle
If "Laughing And Laughing" is just the author's pen name, then the question is, is he the Jia Sanjin we mentioned above? There is also a Twenty Gong "Golden Bottle Plum Trek", the first sentence of the "Twenty Gong Bao" says "The Legend of the Golden Bottle Plum, a huge apartment speech for the Temple of the World." This means that the novel of Jin Pingmei was written by a literary giant of the dynasty. And The Ming Shen Defu "Wan Li Ye Zhi Zhi" said that "JiaJingjian Daimyo's handwriting." This means that the cultural common sense and life experience of this novel are the works of everyone in the Jiajing period of the Ming Dynasty. Since the author is Ming Jiajingjian "Great Celebrity" and "Giant Duke", hiding his real name, the reason should be that this book was banned in feudal society at that time, so as not to invite disaster. Another is that the author may want to use this book to satirize the powerful and achieve some other purpose.
Many people think that this person is Jia Sanjian, a Zaozhuang person, and Zhang Yuanfen's "New Certificate of Golden Plum Bottle" published by Zhang Yuanfen is the most famous. The evidence lists ten articles, but there is more far-fetched and there is not sufficient historical evidence, but it is only subjective speculation, as follows: (1) The ancient Lanling is now Zaozhuang and the nearby area, and Jia Sanjin is a native of Zaozhuang County; (2) Jia Sanjin is a Ming Dynasty civil official, with a higher official position and a good reputation, which can be "Jiajingjian Daimy" :(3) The age of jin pingmei's writing coincides with Jia San's life era; (4) he is a zhengsanpin official, and his experience is enough to create a large number of dialects in the book "Jin Ping Mei (V)", which has a large number of dialects and has more local characteristics. Jia Sanjin once lived in these areas, such as Yixian County, Beijing and other places; (6) There are several high-level chapters in the novel, and Jia Sanjin is good at this way(7) Some character events in the novel are similar to Jia Sanjin; (8) The novel has many opera descriptions, and Jia Sanjin has this accumulation of life: (9) He has lived at home for ten years and has a time guarantee for creation: (10) Jia San has the ability to write novels.
Golden plum bottle
However, I believe that jia sanjin, as a senior official of the Ming Dynasty, although he had been idle at home for a period of time due to political frustration, but the playthings were lost, and it was too unlikely to borrow books to satirize the present. He was more upright, dared to advise and speak out, and when he was dismissed from his post at home, he still had a zealous heart for the officialdom, hoping for a comeback, and it was unlikely that he would take this risk to write such a novel. Moreover, in the end, Jia Sanjin did re-enter the temple and serve as the right attendant of the military department, and died in office.
Jia San's former residence
At present, this question remains to be examined. But there is no doubt that Jia San recently occupies an important place in the history of ancient Chinese literature.