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There is such a story in the Hunan flower drum drama: Han Yu and his wife, because they cared for Han Xiang's nephew, married him a wife named Lin Ying, and as a result, the daughter-in-law married into the door, but did not have children for many years. Han Yu's wife was in a hurry and knocked Lin Ying, saying that the hibiscus only blossomed and did not bear fruit, so that she would cut it down. Lin Ying's reaction was also very interesting, she replied, "Blame only Xiangzi lazy cattle do not cultivate the field, where do you call my roots?" (Hunan Flower Drum Drama "Lin Ying Guan Hua") Why doesn't Han Xiangzi lazy cattle cultivate the fields?" The daughter-in-law marries into the door and practices in the individual", Han Xiangzi is also seriously "practicing", but the focus is not on "ploughing the field and sowing seeds", but on seeking immortality.
"Lin Ying Guan Hua" Aunt and Lin Ying visit the garden
It is not that mortals do not become immortals, but that mortals are not strong in their hearts. Immortals have never been done by mortals, and my fate is up to me. Probably many people who have had the glorious years of "Secondary Two" have a clear understanding of the ideas of these poems, and Chengxian has always been a dream with a long history of our nation, so there are many legends of ordinary people becoming immortals. One of the folk idols we are most familiar with, "Eight Immortals", their chengxian stories are different, today we first talk about the "lazy cow" Han Xiangzi, summarize and summarize several elements of "chengxian" for the reference of xiuxian enthusiasts.
< h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > element one: real but not explicit</h1>
Although becoming an immortal is a vain thing, if you want to become an immortal, you must first exist realistically. In history, Han Xiangzi did have his own person, but there is not much ink recorded, basically only a few pieces of information: Han Xiang, the character Beizhu (a Qingfu), changqing three years of ceremonial attendant Wang Qixia Jinshi ("Tang Caizi Biography"). He was the nephew of Han Yu, a Tang Dynasty literary scholar and one of the "Eight Great Masters of the Tang and Song Dynasties", and Han Yu's second brother Han Jie had a son named Han Laocheng, who was Han Xiangzi's father. Although Han Yu and Han Laocheng were uncles and nephews, but the age difference was not much, when Han Laocheng died of illness, Han Yu was devastated and wrote a eulogy for him, which is often mentioned in the history of literature. At that time, Han Xiang was only ten years old, and Han Yu regarded him as if he were raising him well, and later Han Xiang passed the jinshi examination and became a petty official, and then there was no follow-up. Masashi put pen to paper here.
"Lin Ying Guan Hua" Han Xiangzi went to Beijing to catch the examination road and met a fierce tiger, and Lü Dongbin rescued him and took him to practice
However, Han Xiangzi's "Chengxian" road has only just begun, and when Zhengshi stops, the folk wild history will follow. Han Xiangzi Chengxian's "first step" was completed by Duan Chengshi. Duan Chengshi's "Youyang Miscellaneous Tricks" contains many folk legends and stories, one of which is called "Dyeing Peony Flowers":
Han Yu Shilang had a nephew from Jianghuai, and was very young. Han Ling's companions in the academy, the children are all humiliated. Han Zhizhi studied for the false monastery in the west of the street. After ten years, the temple master re-sued his frenzy, and Han Ordered him to return. And he rebuked: "There is still a good thing in the city's unbridled camp, but what is ru doing!" Nephew Bye Xie, Xu Yue: "There is an art, hate uncle does not know." Because he pointed to the former peony, he said: "Uncle wants this flower to be blue, purple, yellow, and red, but he is also destined." "Han Daqi gave it to him what he had to try." It is a vertical foil curved ruler covering the peony bush, not peeping. Digging on all sides, deep and its roots, tolerant of people's seats, only the powder ore light pink vermilion, Dan Twilight cures its roots, where seven days is to fill the pit, White Uncle Day: "Hate the school late January." When the beginning of winter also. Peony is purple, is the flower hair color white red calendar green, each flower has a poem, the word color is clear purple, is a rhyme of Han's poem when he was an official, that is, "Where is the family of the cloud across qinling, the snow embraces the blue guanma is not moving forward" Fourteen characters, Han was surprised, and the nephew resigned to Jianghuai, and he did not want to shi.
Zhang Daqian Peony
The story is that when Han Yu was a waiter, there was a "nephew who was neglected", that is, a distant nephew came to him from Jianghuai, because of his young age, Han Yu let him go to the academy to study with the children of those nobles of similar age, probably because of the school violence, Han Yue knew about it and borrowed a monastery in the west of the street to read for him. After a while, the owner of the monastery came to tell the parents, and Han Yu said that this doll was very "crazy", there was no one in sight, disturbing my Buddhist door purity, Han Yu took the child home and said to him: "Those poor people in the street market are still a little skilled, what kind of person do you want to be?" After the eldest nephew apologized, he said, "Unfortunately Uncle, you don't know that I have a skill." Then he pointed to the peony in front of him and said, "Seeing this flower, I can make it whatever color you want." Han Yu suddenly felt curious, so he let him try. So he used something like the greenhouse now to surround the peony bushes, and the people outside couldn't see anything, so he dug up the flowers every day, dug them out, and then took the colored powder to smear the roots of the flowers, and then carefully planted them, and said to Han Yu to wait a month. At that time, the peonies on the market were basically purple, and it was early winter, and as a result, the peony of the Han Yu family bloomed at this time, not to mention, there were still any colors, and each flower also had a poem in purple font: "Where is the family of the cloud across the Qinling Mountains, and the snow embraces the blue guan and the horse does not move forward", which is the neck link in han Yu's "Left Migration to Lan Guan Show Nephew Sun Xiang" written to Han Xiang when he was demoted from Chang'an to Lantian. Han Yu was suddenly suppressed, so the eldest nephew bid farewell to his uncle and returned to Jianghuai, unwilling to enter the dynasty as an official.
This story was originally a realistic story, this method of artificially cultivating peonies is not surprising, the only magic thing is the poem on the flower, which was written by Han Yu when he was degraded before. And this nephew, nameless and surnameless, we only know that he is from Jianghuai, but because Han Yu's poem was written for Han Xiangzi, this nephew can easily be associated with Han Xiangzi.
The story is even more exciting in the fifth generation, and at this time, Han Xiang has taken a big step on the road to Chengxian. Volume 54 of the Taiping Guangji cites the Five Dynasties Daoist Du Guangting's "Immortal Transmission collection" to record such a story:
The nephew of Han Yu, a tang dynasty official, whose name is unknown, has been indulgent since childhood, probably not good at reading, and can be famous for drinking. When he was about twenty years old, he went to Luoyang to visit his relatives, who knew that he ran to the monastery halfway and had not heard from him for nearly twenty years. During the Yuan and He years, he suddenly returned to Chang'an, his clothes were dirty and tattered, and his behavior was strange, after all, it was the return of the missing people, and Han Yu had always tolerated him and let him study with his cousins in the academy. Interestingly, this nephew did not read poetry, gambled with his servants all day, and sometimes got drunk in the stables for three days and five days... Omitting a lot of "magic powers" in the middle... One autumn, he and Han Yu said that they could make the white peony in the family turn green, and the number and color of the flowers were very clear, and then they dug open the white peony root, put the medicine on it, and left, not knowing where to go. In this year, Han Yu greeted the Buddha bone to anger Long Yan, was relegated to the Chaozhou Assassin History, when he walked to Shangshan, he suddenly saw this nephew standing in front of him, he had been sending Han Yu to Dengzhou, Han Yu wrote a poem to say goodbye to him, that is, the historical poem "Left To Languan To Show Nephew Sun Xiang". The next spring peony blossoms, the number and color of the flowers are exactly in line with what was said before, and there are words in each leaf of the flower: "Where is the cloud across the Qinling mountains, the snow embraces the blue and the horses do not move forward." At the end of the story, it is written: "If it were not for the magic of immortality, you would be able to immediately perceive the future, how could you achieve this state?" Some people said that after that, Han Yu saw his nephew again, and he also got his Taoist cultivation method, but the immortal traces were not obvious enough. (The non-gods have the word, and see the prophets.) Why? Or the cloud, which the officials see again, and also get the way of the moon and the world. And the traces are not revealed. ）
At this time in the development of the story, the "where is the family of the cloud across the Qinling Mountains, the snow embracing the blue and the horse is not moving forward" used to connect the content has become a kind of prophecy, and it is obvious that the nephew in the text at this time is related to the historical Han Xiang, and also has the ability of an uncertain prophet. The story has been evolving methodically according to this progress, and Han Xiang finally "ranked xianban" in the Song Dynasty, and this "soaring" step is the Song Dynasty Liu Axe's "Green Lock High Discussion". "Qingsuo Gaoyi" is a collection of Zhiwei novels, many of which are rewritten from "Search for God" and "Youyang Miscellaneous Tricks", of which "Han Xiangzi" evolved from the above two stories. In "Qingsuo Gaoyi", the previously unknown nephew (or nephew) of the distant house has been confirmed as Han Xiangzi, and the key content of the story - the opening of various colors of flowers - has become "instant flowering", that is, the flowering of the spot in seconds, which is already a fairy immortal, and it is far from the peony discoloration planter of "Youyang Miscellaneous Tricks".
From this, we can learn the prescription of "becoming immortal", and we can know that we are in the "mystery". First of all, there must be a person, and secondly, the biography cannot be too clear but not complete, otherwise it is not easy to play with materials, of course, the reason why Han Xiangzi will become the "son of heavenly choice" among so many people who meet these two conditions, there is another important reason.
< h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" > factor two: to have a strong backer</h1>
Who Han Xiangzi's patron was, it was obviously Han Yu. If there is no such famous writer in history, people probably have little interest in Han Xiangzi, it can be said that Han Xiangzi is because of his uncle Han Yu, from a male partner to a hot male protagonist. Because of the circulation of Han Yu's story, the story of Han Xiangzi is meaningful, and Yang Erzeng's "Complete Biography of Han Xiangzi" in the Ming Dynasty is probably the highlight of Han Xiangzi's "Chengxian" story.
Regarding the specific figures of the "Eight Immortals", it was not until the Ming Dynasty that they gradually stabilized, and in this ups and downs of the "personnel turnover", Han Xiangzi has always been firmly among the Eight Immortals, and Han Yu's historical status and the historical fact of "writing poems for you" also played an important role. In later development, the story of Han Xiangzi was combined with other folk literature themes and evolved into many stories, and the two people who could not move in these stories were Han Yu and Han Xiang.
Let's talk about what happened next. Interestingly, folk deify a character while at the same time like to pull down the character on the altar. There is such a story in the Han Xiangzi story series: it is said that after Han Xiangzi became an immortal, he wanted to temper Han Yu, and as a result, Han Yue did not accept it, just when there was a great drought in the world, Xianzong let Han Yue ask for snow (the background of the story is winter), and after Han Yu received the will, he fooled Han Xiang, saying that you help me to ask, when it snows, I will obey you, and I will follow you to cultivate without saying a word. When Han Xiang heard this, he proposed various preparations for the sacrifice of rain, and said how thick the snow would fall when the time came, and the result was that as he said, the snow on the ground at the lowest and highest points was so thick. At this time, Han Yue repented, because Xianzong remembered him and asked Xue to have meritorious promotion, and he was reluctant to be rich and noble. This routine went back and forth several times, Han Xiangzi did not do it, packed up his things and left, went back to unite Lü Dongbin and Han Zhongli, disguised as a monk to let Xianzong welcome the Buddha bones, and then set up fierce tiger beasts and robbers on Han Yue's southward migration road, so that Han Yue had an epiphany in the moment of life and death. Han Yue said that he would not go to Chaozhou, and with an iron heart followed Han Xiangzi to cultivate, and Han Xiangzi then became Han Yu to go to Chaozhou as an assassin, and also used immortality to drive away crocodiles for the locals. Then he came back and took his uncle to become a monk. (Qing Dynasty miscellaneous drama "Lan Guandu") In this story, the Wengong who "rose from the decline of the eight generations, and the drowning of the Daoji world" has become a secular person, and the people have shaped Han Xiang into a god, and then pulled the Wengong off the altar, and the "rebellion" of folk literature can be seen. Of course, there are also plots that involve conflicts within the family. As mentioned at the beginning of the article, it is also solemn and harmonious, which is really interesting. There are many related stories, and if you are interested in finding out what you are interested in, I will not repeat them here due to the limitation of space.
In summary, Han Xiangzi's road to Chengxian was paved by the people, and in the process of continuous circulation of the story, the character image was constantly enriched, and the process and results of becoming immortal became more and more solid, and indeed everything was just as Marx said: "The masses of the people are the creators of history." "The road to Chengxian is long, only when the story is watched." Chengxian has risks, and you need to be cautious when entering the pit and talk about it as a joke.
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