"Qiao but Lingling" is a folk proverb that Yongzhou folk highly summarized the original Lingling County people in history, and people still often hang on their lips and use it several times from time to time.
When this sentence began to arise, it is really uncertain for a while. But one thing is for sure, it is inseparable from the long history of Lingling County. Jiang Zhisong said in "Why Qiao but Lingling", "'Qiao but Lingling' originated from the famous Eastern Wu general Huang Gai during the Three Kingdoms period."
(Three Kingdoms period Lingling County, Quanling County, Huang Gai)
Huang Gai was a native of Quanling County, Lingling County (now Lingling District, Yongzhou City) at that time, and it was Huang Gai who exerted the "Qiao" strength of the Quanling people to the extreme in the practice of the "Three Qiaos" of Qiao Cao Cao, Qiao County, and Qiao Shan Thieves, thus forming the saying that "Qiao is not enough for Lingling". Of course, "Qiao but Lingling" is not derived from this, it is only the words of one person, which needs to be further demonstrated.
The key word in "Qiao but Lingling" is the word "Qiao". Since the formation of the folk proverb "Qiao but Lingling", people's understanding of the word "Qiao" has always been a matter of opinion, mixed praise and criticism, and has never stopped arguing about it.
(Lingling Ancient City Building)
Some people say that the word "skillful" here refers to the meaning of intelligence, ability, shrewdness and flexibility, and is the "skillful" in words such as spiritual skill and skilled craftsmanship. Some people say that the word "qiao" here refers to the meaning of stealing and slipping and being good at calculation, and it is "clever" in sharp and slippery and opportunistic. The people use the word "clever" to describe the behavior of those who always refuse to suffer losses, monopolize others, and take advantage of the collective and the state, such as: that person is clever, good and sharp, and so on.
It can be seen from the above that the word "qiao" here can be either a verb, referring to a certain behavior, or an adjective, referring to the result of various acts. As for whether it is a verb or an adjective, which aspect is the specific direction, a thousand people will have a thousand specific understandings and different understandings, which is difficult to describe.
Lingling County people will do things, especially good at skillful work, that is, good at judging the hour and size up the situation, good at seizing opportunities, and developing by leaps and bounds. For example, Liu Zongyuan wrote a sentence in the "Snake Catcher's Saying" that "the wild snake of Yongzhou", and the people of Lingling District made the "strange snake" into a local industry, which was developed as a fist product, including raising snakes, selling snakes and making snake wine, as well as the deep processing of various products of snakes, making the ancient city of Lingling once become a famous snake city. In the words of a certain leader, it is "drinking the wine of the snake, and urinating without hands." ”
Suddenly, the different snakes are no longer different, and the ancient city has a new look. Strange snake wine is even greater than WeiGe, becoming the best choice for Gifts in Yongzhou, and is deeply loved by men, especially middle-aged and elderly successful men.
(Lingling Strange Snake Villa)
Lingling County people not only do things, but also very good at playing. Playing mahjong, fighting landlords, playing chess, cheating gold flowers, running beards, etc., there is no one in Lingling County who can't, and there is no one who is not skilled. "Playing cards is not a coincidence, just sit well on the opposite door", "Play cards are not afraid of losing, you are afraid of sitting on the door of a pig", this is not only a summary of the experience of the people of Lingling County, but also a mantra often hung in the mouth of the people of Lingling County. Often, as soon as people sit down, victory or defeat is already solid. One beard, two cats, three realms. Honest people beat beards, flexible people pull beards, and sharp people run beards. That's really only the skilled craftsmen can afford to play, and the cleverness is full of energy.
There is a story that spreads widely. It is said that a woman in Lingling, who has raised a very beautiful daughter, has reached the age of marriage. The daughter was already in love, and one day she told her mother that she wanted to bring her boyfriend home and show it to her parents. Her mother replied cheerfully, "Well, you bring him home for dinner, let him accompany the old woman and run away from my beard, and see if he is my son-in-law, qualified or unqualified." ”
Look at the mother-in-law in Lingling County, even the way to choose a son-in-law is unique: running beard! You can only be a son-in-law if you have a good beard. Here, the brand becomes the character, and the card skill becomes the human skill. A clever word is like a doctoral science, doing things for people, everything melts in it.
(Lingling man's beard)
Of course, in the aspect of Qiaoqiao, the most talked about outstanding representative of the Lingling County people is Qu Mazi. Qu Mazi was born in Lingling County in the late Qing Dynasty, and the people of Lingling County referred to him as Avanti by his side.
This Avanti-style Qu Mazi has left two of the most famous stories left to the people of Lingling County, one is the tiger skin coat of the rich man, and the other is a couplet with Guilin Xiucai.
One winter, Qu Mazi went to catch up with the troublemaker, and coincidentally on the road, he met a rich man from the same village who also went to catch up with the troublemaker, and the two went all the way together. Because the distance to catch the trouble was relatively long, the rich man walked and walked, and his whole body sweated, so he took off the tiger skin coat he was wearing and asked Qu Mazi to help him hold it.
Qu Mazi was already very poor, there was no mosquito net in summer, no clothes to wear in winter, and he had long wanted to get a piece of clothing from where to put it on, so as to survive the cold winter of March 9. Now that I have such a good opportunity, isn't it a good thing that sleepiness touches the pillow and can't ask for it? He quickly took the tiger skin coat and quickly put it on himself, feeling that it was too cool, so he had the idea of cleverly taking the tiger skin coat for himself. He smiled secretly in his heart, and took advantage of the fact that the rich man was not paying attention, and secretly burned three small holes with cigarette butts in the corner of the tiger skin coat.
After arriving at the troublemaker, not long after resting, the rich man felt a little cold, so he shouted to Qu Mazi to take off his tiger skin coat and wear it for himself. At this time, Qu Mazi not only refused to take off his tiger skin coat, but also said that how could he take off the coat he was wearing for him (the rich man) to wear?
(Quarrel between men)
So the two quarreled, and you dragged me, which attracted a lot of people from the side to watch and discuss. There, Qu Mazi and the rich man, preached that the public was justified, and the mother-in-law said that the mother was justified, so that the crowd of onlookers did not know who to believe.
Later, a onlooker said, since you all say that the coat is your own, then everyone will say the most unique sign or mark of the coat, and whoever is right, the coat is whoever is right.
The rich man secretly cried bitterly, bought his own clothes to wear, which one also remembered what unique signs and signs the coat had? He spoke for half a day, and he did not say what unique signs and marks he bought in this tiger skin coat.
After Qu Mazi and other rich men could not say the characteristics and marks of the tiger skin coat, they did not hesitate to say to the onlookers: When I bought this tiger skin coat, because there were three small holes in the corner of the clothes, it was also 10% less than me. If you don't believe me, you can come and check your coat to see if there are three small holes.
After saying that, Qu Mazi turned out the three small holes in the corner of the coat, and when the onlookers looked at it, the crowd of onlookers said almost in unison, What else is used to fight for this?
At this time, the rich man of the same village truly realized that what is called dumb eating yellow can not even be said bitterly, and what is the thing that jumps into the Yellow River cannot be washed away.
(Mountain in the Water)
The second story is that Qu Mazi and Xiucai from Guilin are compared to the couplet.
In ancient times, Xiucai's best specialty was couplets. After two shows in Guilin heard about Qu Mazi, they specially rushed to Lingling to find Qu Mazi to compete in person.
After the three of them met, Qu Mazi asked Xiucai, who had come from afar, "What do you want to compare with me?" Xiu Caijia said, "Let's compare the couplets." ”
After qu Mazi heard this, he laughed: "You come to our Lingling to compare couplets, there is no need to look for me at all, the men and women on this street, young and old, just shout one at will." ”
(People on the left side)
The two Xiucai didn't believe it, and Qu Mazi had no choice but to say, "Then you should go out of the upper league first." ”
Xiu Caijia confidently said to Qu Mazi, "There is a purple mountain in Guilin, less than three feet three feet from the sky. When Qu Mazi heard this, he immediately replied, "There is a rolling corner tower in Lingling, which is involved in the clouds of half a day." ”
Xiu Caijia said, "Where are you on the couplet?" It's not right at all, it's just a slip of the tongue. ”
An old man next to him interjected at this time: "Although our Mr. Qu's right xialian is not very right, the meaning is still very clear, that is, we lingling are not only smarter than you guilin, but even a small building is higher than your highest mountain!" ”
(Show talent couplet)
Seeing this situation, XiuCai Yi pointed to the Huilong Pagoda on the edge of Xiaoshui and said, "A tower is majestic, with six edges and eight corners on all sides." ”
At this time, it happened that there was a small milk cub who was playing in the Xiaoshui River on the side of the dock waving his hand, and Qu Mazi saw it but just nodded his head and did not answer. XiuCai Yi thought that Qu Mazi was stuck, so he said, "Mr. Qu is just like that!" What's going on? Is it not right to go up and down? ”
Qu Mazi pointed to the little milk cub who was not there and said, "Little milk cub, you shake your hand again and show them." ”
After the little milk cub shook her hand in response, Qu Mazi said to the two Guilin Xiucai, "You all saw the little milk cub's shaking hand, right?" Our little in Lingling can casually face your lower link. ”
When the two Guilin Xiucai were in the clouds and fog, Qu Mazi said triumphantly: "Only one hand is swinging, five fingers, three long and two short." Listen, is this the next link you want? ”
(Old Town and Ancient Street)
As soon as the two Guilin Xiu heard this, they left Lingling County in a gray and slippery manner.
From these few stories, you should have felt what the meaning of the word "qiao" in "Qiao but Ling ling" is.