Origin: After Cao Cao eliminated the Yuan brothers, he stayed in Yecheng. In the middle of the night, he saw a golden light rising from the ground. The next day, he dug up and found a bronze sparrow. Born Shun. The bronze bird was obtained today, which was also an auspicious sign. Cao Cao was very happy, so he decided to build the bronze bird tower on the Zhang River to demonstrate his achievements in calming the four seas.
Related allusions
In the Chinese classic "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms", when Kong Ming used his wisdom to stimulate Zhou Yu, he tampered with Cao Zhi's "Tongquetai Fu" , changed "Connecting two bridges to the east and west, like locusts in the sky." to "Take two bridges to the southeast, and enjoy spending time with them day and night."
As we all know, Erqiao, that is, Da Qiao and Xiao Qiao are the wives of Sun Ce and Zhou Yu respectively. In order to prompt Zhou Yu to unite to fight against Cao Cao, Kong Ming specifically used provoking methods to irritate Zhou Yu. After Zhou Yu listened to Kong Ming recite the revised version of "Tongquetai Fu", he was immediately angered. He left his seat and pointed north and cursed: "Old thief is bullying." I am too serious!" He immediately said: "I accept Bo Fu's trust, how can I bow down to Cao Cao? As Shi Lai said, I have been determined to go to the north since I left Poyang Lake. , It's not easy to change his ambition! I hope Kong Ming can help me to defeat Cao's thieves." So, Kong Ming's aggressive method worked.
Of course, Luo Guanzhong’s record is not unfounded. As early as the Tang Dynasty, the famous poet Du Mu had such a poem in "Red Cliff": "The east wind does not agree with Zhou Lang, and the bronze bird spring is locked in two Qiao." It can be seen that we can fully speculate that Luo Guanzhong was to some extent when describing this period. Be inspired by this poem. This is also confirmed in the new version of "Three Kingdoms". In the new version of "Three Kingdoms", Cao Zhi had already died before Zhou Yu wrote this poem. Director Gao Xixi grasped it very accurately, which further confirmed that Kong Ming's tampering with "Tongquetai Fu" was just speculation. That’s all.
The origin of the name of the Tongque Terrace
When Luo Guanzhong introduced the Tongque Terrace in Chapter 34 of "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms": "It is said that Cao Cao dug out a bronze sparrow in the golden light. , asked Xun You: "What is this sign?" You said: "Shun's mother dreamed that the jade bird was in her arms and gave birth to Shun. Now she has a bronze bird, which is also a good omen." Cao was very happy, so he ordered a high platform to celebrate it. . So that day, they broke down the earth and cut the wood, burned the tiles and ground the bricks, and built the Bronze Bird Tower on the Zhang River." This theory is baseless, but it reminds Luo Guanzhong that when he conceived the story of the Three Kingdoms, he also thought about the origin of the name Tongquetai, but he couldn't figure it out, so he invented this plot. The ancient poem "Song" provides a clue to the origin of the name of Tongque Terrace:
There is a pair of bronze sparrows on the two-member tower in the west of Chang'an City. Once the grain is heard, the grain is ripe, and then the grain is ripe.
In the first year of the Taichu period of the Western Han Dynasty (104 BC), Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty built the Jianzhang Palace in Shanglin Garden in the western suburbs of Chang'an. The double round palace is a group of buildings in the Jianzhang Palace. In order to show off their power, in ancient princes' mansions, pairs of towers were built on both sides of the gate, called "que". There are often bird-shaped decorations on the top of Hanque. The double round towers are two towers sandwiching the north gate of Jianzhang Palace. On the top of the towers, there is a pair of bronze phoenixes, which are the bronze birds in the ancient poem "Song". Zhang Heng's "Ode to Xijing" of the Eastern Han Dynasty described the double round palaces standing high in the sky, like a pair of peaks rising from the sea. Later ancient times also gave specific figures: the double-sided que was "twenty-five feet high" and the bronze phoenix was "more than ten feet high". One foot in the Western Han Dynasty is equivalent to 23.2 centimeters in today's metric system. After conversion, the total height of the tower plus the copper bird is more than 60 meters. Whether it was possible to build such a tall building based on the technological level at that time remains to be demonstrated by architects. In 26 AD, when the Red Eyebrow Army withdrew from Chang'an City, they set fire to the royal palaces inside and outside the city. Jianzhang Palace was reduced to scorched earth, and both round palaces were destroyed.
One hundred and eighty-four years after the burning of Shuangyuan Que, Cao Cao built a high platform named "Bronze Bird" on the city wall of Yecheng. Unlike the double round tower, there is no bronze bird installed on the bronze bird platform. Jian'an literati, including the Cao family and his son, did not mention the presence of a bronze bird on the bronze bird platform in any of their poems. "Ode to the Capital of Wei" written by Zuo Si of the Western Jin Dynasty lays out the mountains, rivers, products, palaces, gardens, and cities of Yecheng. When talking about the three towers, he only mentions them with the sentence "the three towers stand tall and towering". The most detailed extant ancient text that records Ye City is the "Shui Jing Zhu" written by Li Daoyuan of the Northern Wei Dynasty. When introducing the three terraces, it only said: "The middle one is called the Tongque Terrace, which is ten feet high and has one hundred rooms." It also did not say anything. There is a bronze bird on the bronze bird platform; when describing the renovation of the bronze bird platform by Shi Hu, Lord of Later Zhao, he said, "There was also a bronze bird on the top of the building, with its wings relaxed as if it were flying." This was already in 336 AD, when the later Zhao Dynasty moved its capital to Ye It’s a matter for the future. When many later works quoted this passage from "Shui Jing Zhu", they did not subdivide the Tongque Tower in the Three Kingdoms period and the Tongque Tower in the Sixteen Kingdoms period, causing readers to have the illusion that there was always a bronze bird on the Tongque Tower. Cao Cao did not install a bronze bird on the bronze bird platform, probably because he was bound by the etiquette system. The styles, colors, and additional decorations of Han people's clothing, vehicles, and vehicles were all required to be commensurate with the status of the user. This is described in detail in the "Book of the Later Han Dynasty" "Yufu Zhi". There are similar regulations for buildings, as evidenced by the biography of Huangfu Song in the "Book of the Later Han Dynasty": "Song went to Ye to attack Zhangjiao. When he saw that the house of Zhao Zhong, the regular servant, exceeded the regulations, he confiscated it." The relevant provisions have been lost. . At that time, Cao Cao was serving as Prime Minister, and his title was Marquis of Wuping. He had not yet ascended to the throne of Wei King, so he might not be qualified to use phoenixes as decorations on the top of buildings.
So this name should be given by Cao Cao.