Wu Xueliang
In some traditional drum music sections, the seemingly simple content is filled with rural slang, with a strong local atmosphere, which can be savored, but the content contained in it is very rich.
Once, I occasionally listened to Mr. Jia Youran singing the Le Ting big drum book section "Tianshui Guan", and remembered that there was such a drum phrase: "Wear a collar, cover the armor robe, embroidered with a conch umbrella cover flower jar fish length." "I often hear someone say "Yunluo umbrella cover flower jar fish intestine", can not help but have some doubts, and later learned that "Yunluo umbrella cover" should be a false rumor, originally "wheel snail umbrella cover".
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There are also "snails" in the "wheel snail umbrella cover flower jar fish long" written as "Luo", "long" written as "intestines". So which one is correct? After consulting the information, after understanding, I knew that the original correct should be the wheel, luo, umbrella, lid, flower, jar, fish, and long.
Wheels, luo, umbrellas, covers, flowers, pots, fish, and lengths are the Buddhist "Eight Treasures", also known as the "Eight Treasures of Auspiciousness". They are the Falun (golden wheel), the Conch (conch), the Bao Umbrella, the White Lid, the MiaoLian (Lotus), the Treasure Jar (the Treasure Vase), the Goldfish (Pisces), and the PanChang (auspicious knot and the immortal knot). You see, writing "snail" as "luo" and "long" as "intestine" is a kind of miswriting caused by harmonic sounds. Because this "eight treasures" have an auspicious meaning, they are highly respected in China's folk. In the past, there were not many literate people after all, and it should be said that such mistakes occurred in the folk.
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