In the last issue, we enjoyed the story of the ancients flying up in the Legendary Novel of the Song Dynasty "Yi Jianzhi" about the ancients flying in a boat and meeting aliens, and today we introduce you to an ordinary and strange small animal that appears in Yi Jianzhi, what is it? Let's take a look. Like friends can pay attention, your attention is the driving force of my creation, welcome to comment, insist on updating ancient legendary events every day, and tell you the strange story of the prosperous era and prosperity of the Southern Song Dynasty.
Mention of toads, everyone is certainly not strangers, friends with dense phobia may also feel goosebumps, in fact, in ancient times, toads are both awe-inspiring and like animals. Today is to tell you a story about toads in Yi Jianzhi, what is so strange about it? Let's take a look.
Story: It is said that near the military camp station in the west of Caizhou City (present-day Runan County, Zhumadian City, Henan), there is a temple called Tiantai Mountain Temple (located 2 kilometers south of Runan County, formerly known as Tianzhongshan), I don't know why the name of the temple is so called, there is a stone inside the temple, about three feet high (about 1 meter), there is water in the stone eye, even if it is a dry season, it will not dry up, once someone dug this stone, the bigger it is, the deeper it is, it cannot be dug to the end. A small toad is often seen in the stone eye water, the whole body is snow white, the eyes are red, often frolicking in the water, sometimes running to the homes of people around, is regarded as a good sign. Zhu Shengfei (字藏一, 蔡州人, Southern Song Dynasty) was a local.
In the spring of the fourth year of Chongning (1106), when he found this little white toad hidden under the door of the hall house, Zhu Chengxiang quickly served it with clean porcelain, and sealed it tightly with things around it, and secretly prayed in his heart: If it is really very magical, please return to the temple yourself. When the porcelain was opened at night, it was found that it was missing, Zhu ChengXiang directly ran to the temple to see, and found that the little toad was in the water.
(Original: Caizhou Chengxi Military Camp. There is a temple known as Tiantai Mountain Temple. I don't know what it means. There are stones in the temple. Three feet high. Stone eye has water. Although the dry years do not dry up. Taste it for people to test it. The deeper the bigger. Inexhaustible. There are also small white toads. Snow colored and Vermilion. Often in the water. Or to people's homes. Then it is an auspicious omen. The Duke of Chulu won the non-county people also. Chongning 4th Spring. It is obtained from the limit of the house where you live. Cover it with a purifier. The surroundings are very close. Congratulations. If the psychic. When the temple returns. Until the Twilight Lifter is invisible. Go straight to the temple to visit. It's in the water. It is the year Zhu Gongdengdi).
In this way, this little toad is indeed a spiritual animal, such as the bangs in the mythological story of the golden toad and so on. Although the Song Dynasty could not have accurately classified frogs and toads as modern biology did, Chinese have long known that they are two similar but completely different creatures, so the two developed completely different cultural meanings.
If frogs are used as a characteristic local food, the meaning of toads in Chinese culture is much more complicated. Since ancient times, toads have been regarded as a long-lived creature, baopu Ziyun: "Toads live to a thousand years old, have horns on their heads, and danshu eight characters under their chins." "Daoist monks who pursue immortality naturally will not let go of this creature that may allow them to continue their lives.
It is said that Liu Liang of the Southern Dynasty used white toads as a material to refine Dan for longevity, but in the end, not only did he not survive, but he was killed by Dan Medicine. "Song Liu Liang combined the elixir, the white toad, the white bat, and the death of the obedience." Probably because I learned too many similar lessons, Chinese gradually learned the inedible characteristics of toads.
For example, the "Maoting Guest's Sayings" records: "There is a man who eats eels and turtles and shrimp toads, and these three things cannot be killed, the big ones are poisonous to kill, and the shrimp and toads are also constipated and painful under the navel, and there are dead people." And the white toad that killed Liu Liang was also endowed with supernatural characteristics, such as when the Later Shu was about to be destroyed by the Northern Song Dynasty, "there is a village mane with a white shrimp toad." Its quality is very large, the eyes are like Dan, and the people who gather their eyes are all cloud meat zhiye. There are medical workers whose surname is lost, and it is a city of one. When it returns, it is feared that it will go into hiding, because it will be a great usu. To the eclipse, the stone mortar is transparent like a candle cage. Wang was stunned. ”
Seeing this, everyone may think that this is all a legendary story, where in the world is there a white toad? Still red-eyed, very good question, there really is such a toad in the world, but it is very fierce.
According to the U.S. national website, scientists in mississippi in the United States have found a new type of frog species, called the highly toxic white toad, this toad is white throughout, the eyes are indeed red, although it is very rare and extremely precious but its toxicity is also very frightening, it is said that its toxicity can poison a large fat pig, and compared to other toads can lay thousands of eggs each time, the white poisonous toad gives birth to one child each time, for mice can also eat at once, very powerful.
The ancients honestly do not deceive me, I do not know whether the American highly poisonous white toad and Zhu Chengxiang's white toad are related, but the facts tell us that what the ancients recorded is not necessarily a legend, but it may also be a new species that we have not yet discovered.