Ju Tong, insect name. I know that this bug is in Zhang Dai's section of "Night Sailing Ship And Bugs".
In this ancient encyclopedia, Zhang wrote: "Sun Feng has a piano that can sound itself, and some Taoists point to a moth hole in its back, that is, there are worms in this, and if you do not remove it, the piano will decay quickly." A bamboo tube is put out of the sleeve, pour a little black medicine, and place it on the side of the hole. A green worm, with a gold thread... The wise man knows: The name of this insect is Ju Tong... The first enlightenment of the Daoist black medicine, that is, the ancient ink shavings also. ”
From this text, we can know that this insect named Jutong, which is green throughout, likes to eat ancient ink chips. Its appearance is antique, and it is accustomed to drilling holes in antiquities.
Has this bug ever appeared? Is it the same as the so-called "strangeness" of Dongfang Shuo in those years, which was also fabricated by the literati?
Answer: I don't know.
The pace of modern industrial society has made antiquities basically wiped out. A music friend told me that the guqin, an instrument, needs to be made of ancient wood. But now, where to find so much wood? Therefore, the price of the guqin should be long. As for jutong, this cute little worm, even if there is, I'm afraid it is rarely seen, right?
But I still wishfully believe that the so-called jutsu may have been a metaphor.
Since the Ming and Qing dynasties, the days of the literati have become increasingly trembling. From the beginning of the Kangxi Dynasty, one text prison case after another climaxed. If you don't pay attention to the poems, a poem will bring a catastrophe.
Over time, the literati became smarter. Thus, the almost useless study of evidence flourished.
This so-called university question is nothing more than a bunch of literati drilling into ancient books and pulling a little ink crumbs from the ancients to support their families. Those who were able to plunge headlong into it, and later called "masters", were nothing more than engaged in some "necrophilia" (Milan Kundera). How meaningful is it to the country and the nation?
So, I suspect, Jutong is referring to those who "turn their ears to the outside of the window and read only the books of the sages."
In this state, in ancient times, there were also people who looked at the fire.
The Qing Dynasty poet Huang Jingren wrote in his poem: "Eight or nine times out of ten, you are a white-eyed, and a hundred useless students are scholars." "The prison of sin in words has stifled the creative talents of countless people, and as for those who have survived the rules, they are hot and cold, and they are bitter and self-aware.
In "Ancient and Modern Tan", there is a story that is more interesting. "Yangzhou Su Yin was lying down at night, and there were several people reading Du Mu's "A Fang Gong Fu" under the smell, and the voice was tight and small. Rushing to open is regarded, there is nothing else, only more than ten lice, which are as big as beans. ”
Su Mou of Yangzhou heard someone reading "A Fang Gong Fu" under the quilt at night. When I lifted the quilt, I saw that it was a group of lice!
That's fierce enough!
More than a thousand years ago, the poet Du Mu wrote "A Fang Gong Fu". He sighed: "The people of the world dare not speak but dare to be angry, and the heart of a single husband is becoming more and more arrogant." Shu Shu shouted, Han Gu Ju, Chu people a torch, poor scorched earth! ”
In the "Ancient and Modern Tan Outline", the words in the mouths of the lice are these sentences!
I don't know, who is the object of their emotion?!
Ancient or some modern readers are parasites in their bones. Many of them advocate empty talk and don't do anything. They can't do anything economically, and they can't do anything else.
In the limited space, they are buried with unlimited talent.
What's good to say?