In ancient times, there was a strange-looking child. The distance between his eyebrows is one foot wide, and people call him an eyebrow ruler.
Eyebrow ruler is the son of a master swordsman. His father spent three years building a sharp sword for the king of Chu. The lieutenant knew that the cruel king of Chu was afraid that he would cast swords for other kings again and would kill him. Before he died, he left a sword and told his wife that he would avenge his unborn child in the future. After the lieutenant died, his wife Mo Xie gave birth to a boy, the eyebrow ruler. When Mei Chi was a little older, his mother told him about his father's murder. Ruler Mei is determined to avenge his father. He found the sword left by his father, said goodbye to his mother and strode to the capital.
The king of Chu had a ghost in his heart and dreamed that Mei Jun was coming to kill him. He hurriedly had a portrait painted with an eyebrow ruler, posted it everywhere, and offered a large reward for catching the strange child.
After learning this, Mei Chi ran to the deep mountain to hide. He was deeply saddened to think that his father's revenge had not been avenged. Just then, suddenly a man in black came over and said to the eyebrow ruler, "Bring your head and sword, and I will avenge you." The eyebrow ruler thinks that only in this way can he avenge his father. He immediately drew his sword and cut off his head. He held the head and sword in his hands and handed them to the men in black. The man in black said, "Don't worry, I won't let you down." The body of the eyebrow ruler fell down.
The man in black went to see the king of Chu with an eyebrow ruler, and the king of Chu was overjoyed. The man in black said that this head should be cooked in a soup pot, otherwise it will play tricks in the future. The king of Chu agreed, and put the eyebrow ruler's head in the soup pot for three days and nights without boiling. The men in black suggested that the king of Chu go to the pot to have a look himself, and use his prestige to suppress evil spirits and let his head rot. The king of Chu came to the pot, and the black man suddenly drew his sword. Suddenly, the king of Chu's head fell into the soup pot.
Eyebrow ruler immediately bit the ear of the king of Chu, and it was difficult to tell the winner at the moment. At this time, the black man cut off his head and helped the ruler between his eyebrows to beat the king of Chu. After seven days and seven nights, Meichi finally won. You and I can't be separated when three heads are boiled to a pulp. People had to divide the contents of the pot into three parts and bury them in three places, and build a tomb, commonly known as the "tomb of the three kings."
The relevant records of Lu Xun's novels, first named "Eyebrow Ruler" and later renamed "Casting Sword", are included in "New Stories", and the content is slightly changed compared with the legend.
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The story of Mei Chi can be found in many ancient books, but the content is similar. Here are a few questions related to story text and collation:
Roy's biography is 1. According to Wei Wendi's Annals of Sui Shu, The Biography of Liey is recorded in three volumes. Later, the book died. Lu Xun's "Ancient Novels Catch Shen" series, the story of casting swords, this one is recorded from the 343rd volume of "Taiping Magnolia". However, the article compiled in the 343rd volume of Taiping Yulan, Seventy-four Swords of Ministry of War, was not written by Cao Shi, but by Han and Liu Xiang. Its text is as follows:
Mei Chi's Biography of Martyrs said: It took three years for the generals and Mo Ye to cast swords for the Jin Army. The sword has a public mother and is also famous all over the world. It is the person who gives the monarch a female sword and keeps his male sword. His wife said, "I hid my sword in the shadow of Nanshan and the sun of Beishan;" On the turquoise, the sword is inside. "If you think so, kill me and I'll give birth to a boy to tell you. "When you feel it, kill the leader. My wife gave birth to a man with a red nose. I have to tell him. Red nose is the pine of Nanshan. You can't use a sword. You can think in the pillar of the house and get it. Kim was alone, with wide eyebrows and a desire for revenge. I was in a hurry to buy it, but I escaped to Zhuxing Mountain. When you meet a guest, you should repay him. This is the first thing. Just wait on Jin Jun. The guest ordered a wok to cook and jumped for three days. It didn't rot. You see, the guest leans on the gentleman with a male sword, and the gentleman falls into the iron pot, and the guest commits suicide. The three heads rot and cannot be separated, so they are buried separately, which is called the "Three Kings Tomb".
At the end of this article, there is a saying: "Biography says that Mo Ye built a sword for the king of Chu and hid his heroes. Seeking God is also called making swords for the king of Chu. " I know the same thing. "This paper and its proofreading are very important. First, it shows that the original publication of The Story of Mei Jun is Biography, not Biography, nor is it Wu Yue Chun Qiu. Second, the school notes pointed out different versions of the story of Mei Chi. According to the different versions pointed out in this school note, Lu Xun revised the eyebrow ruler story in the biography of martyrs and directly incorporated it into Cao Zhi's biography of martyrs-it is judged that Lu Xun corrected it first, and this problem will be analyzed later. The text edited by Lu Xun in Biography is as follows: "Making swords for the Jin army" was changed to "Making swords for Wang Chu"; Keep men "was changed to" hide men "; The word "notice" was changed to "notice", thinking that the "change" in the house column suddenly got the ";"in the house column. Meng Le, who was changed to Jin, was changed to "serve the king of Jin" to "serve the king of Chu"; "Jump for the first three days and three nights" was changed to "Jump for the first three days and three nights" ("Three days and three nights" was a mistake); Change "monarch's subjectivity" into "solitary view"; The words "the guest leans on the monarch with the public sword, and the monarch's head falls in the wok" are changed to "the guest leans on the monarch with the public sword, and the monarch's head falls in the wok". For the text of Lu Xun, please refer to the notes of the first volume of Lu Xun's Collection of Ancient Books and the second volume of Lu Xun's Complete Works, New Stories and Casting Sword. Lu Xun corrected the Biography of Martyrs all the way because the records in Yue Jue Shu and Wu Yue Chun Qiu proved that the story of casting swords could not have happened in the State of Jin. Both books recorded the history of wuyue, and General and Moyer were also passed down as Wu people. Lu Xun found an enlightening proofreading note in Yulan when compiling the Biography of Liey, even if he found a written basis. However, this proofreading note in Magnolia shows that Cao Pi's Biography of Martyrs does not take seriously the statement that Biography of Martyrs is "a sword for Jin Jun". The country has changed, so has the protagonist. How can the words between the two be similar enough? The so-called "Yu Xi Tong" in school language should mean that the content is the same and the words are roughly similar, rather than the whole article can be copied. "Biography says that Mo Ye equipped the sword for the king of Chu", but Lu Xun didn't copy it, so he can only refer to other books to write "Mo Ye" as "dry general Mo Ye (evil)", which is very telling; Moreover, collating not only refers to Biography, but also includes Search, and although the content of Search is the same as Biography, the text is completely different. Obviously, just correcting a few words is not an escape from Sue Ji Shen. Therefore, it is doubtful whether the story of eyebrow ruler compiled in the ancient novel Biography is written by Cao Pi.
What I want to explain here is that Lu Xun's "Ancient Novel Arrested and Sinked" was not finalized and was not published before his death. The Collection of Lu Xun's Ancient Books published by People's Literature Publishing House 1999 (Volume 1) was compiled as "Capturing Shen in Ancient Novels" and "preliminarily sorted out according to manuscripts and original quotations". Biography was originally quoted from Taiping Yulan, and Congbian was collated from Matsui, so the author also took Matsui as the basis (reduced Matsui by Zhonghua Book Company, 1935 edition, 1960 edition, 1998 reprint). Of course, if you don't collate, you won't find any problems, as in Volume 8 of Complete Works of Lu Xun (1938 edition). However, since the collation has been done, and the compilers of the original books have provided this convenience, all the cited books are marked with the title and volume number, there is no reason not to write the collation, especially in the case that the title and author are inconsistent (Liu Xiang's Biography of Lieshi has become Cao Pi's Biography of Lieyi), and the compilers of the original books have made corrections, so they should explain and point out their similarities and differences. Moreover, the author thinks that if only Jing Song edition is used for collating, there may still be a problem: Song edition is superior to all kinds of copied editions, but Lu Xun is unlikely to use Song edition when collating Shaoxing ancient books. Later, when he came to Beijing to compile Ji, he could only be compared with the Qing dynasty's Bao-engraved copy of Taiping Magnolia. 1927 Lu Xun bought Li's Nanhai Qingben in Guangzhou, probably just copied the block-printed version of the bag. It was not until the end of 1935 that Lu Xun made an appointment to buy a set of Jingsongben, which was just published by the Commercial Press. However, it was the last year of Lu Xun's life, and he didn't have time to rearrange the ancient novels that Jing Matsumoto was arrested. Due to the long circulation time and numerous versions of Taiping Yu Lan, the characters in each version are different. Will Lu Xun's words compiled according to the Ming and Qing editions be different from those published in the Song Dynasty? This can't be inferred out of thin air, obviously it needs comparison. Therefore, when People's Literature Publishing House edits and publishes Lu Xun's Ancient Books Series, it should not only seek rare editions, nor should it only collate Biography with Song editions. We should also collate the versions used by Lu Xun and study their similarities and differences, so that if we encounter different languages, we will know whether they are versions or collations. If proofreading proves that there are differences due to different versions, then the responsibility of changing Lieshi Biography into Lieyi Biography is not Lu Xun but the copy of Ming and Qing Dynasties.
The position of the story of casting sword in the performance of eyebrow ruler 2. Although The Spring and Autumn Annals of Wu Yue, Searching for the Gods and Biography of Lieyi compiled by Lu Xun all believe that the story of casting swords took place in the Three Kingdoms of Chu, if we look for more information, we can know that the location of this story is not limited to the Three Kingdoms of Chu, but also spread in the Three Kingdoms of Zhao. Jin's Northern Expedition said: "Wei Huiwang immigrated here (according to ancient Songcheng County, now it belongs to Henan) and was killed by Mei Zhi." Three people were buried together, hence the name Sanling. ""Sanwangling is 45 miles northwest of (Song Cheng) county. "In addition, the" County Records "said:" There is a big pool in the southwest of Linfen County, and one person turns over the pot pool, that is, boiling the red spot between the eyebrows. "The wok is turned over, and there are still oil stains on the water because there is a pool." (Quoted from Yuan Ke's Dictionary of China Myths and Legends, Shanghai Dictionary Publishing House, 1985 edition) These folk anecdotes are consistent with Liu Xiang's Biography of Martyrs. During the Wei and Jin Dynasties, Liu Xiang's theory can also be taken as an example: in Zi Xu Fu written by Sima Xiangru in the Han Dynasty, it was said that "the pearl flag of the Ming Dynasty should be dragged and a cadre's halberd should be built", and in Hanshu, Wei noted that "a cadre is also a master". "Men's halberds with @ ① on their beards were made by generals." Historical Records Liu Songpei yρn @② Ji Jie and Zhang Shuo. The Biography of Martyrs was written earlier than Wu Yue Chun Qiu, and Liu Xiang was earlier than Zhao Ye. Liu Xiang, the fourth grandson of Chu Yuan Wang Jiao Liu, was born in 77 AD (Zhao Hanyuanfeng's fourth year) and died in 6 AD (the first year of Han Ai Emperor Jianping). He lived in the imperial court for decades, and later his job was to proofread ancient books. The achievement of his life was proofreading books, which made him the originator of bibliography in China. Zhao Ye, the author of Wu Yue Chun Qiu, was born in Yinshan Huiji (now Shaoxing, Zhejiang). Born in the early Eastern Han Dynasty, he worked as a county magistrate in his early years. Because I was tired of being an official, I avoided Sichuan as the capital (now Ziyang, Sichuan). The most important work in his life is Wu Yue Chun Qiu. Because he is farther away from ancient times than Liu Xiang, more than 100 years later than Liu Xiang, and lives in a remote place, his chances of getting close to the first-hand raw materials of ancient history are obviously much less. Therefore, the value of Lieshi Biography as miscellaneous historical materials is not lower than that of Wuyue Chunqiu, and the stories recorded in it are also worthy of study and attention, and should not be replaced by Lieyi Biography, which appeared later.
Into a story of filial piety, and later into a model of filial piety. The 343-volume "Taiping Magnolia" series contains "Biography of the dutiful son Wen Yi", which also says: "Make swords for the king of Jin, hide men and send women." "If you break a column with one foot, you will get a sword, and you want to report it to the King of Jin." "See the ruler-headed sword for the King of Jin." This is different from Biography and Search for Ji Shen, and it also acknowledges that the story of sword casting took place in the northern Jin State, not in wuyue. The Biography of Filial Piety is contained in the Annals of Sui Shu, such as the Biography of Filial Piety 15 by General Jin Xiao Guangji, the Biography of Filial Piety 10 by Yuan Wailang Zheng Jizhi in the Southern Song Dynasty, and the Biography of Filial Piety by Shi Jueshou in the Southern Song Dynasty (Lu Xun's materials about Lao Laizi can be obtained from the teacher's works). But Yu Lanqing's series is not marked. Liu Xiang also has a biography of his dutiful son, which was lost in the Sui Dynasty. The story of "Guo Ju burying his son" mentioned by Lu Xun in Shuo Wen Jie Zi was actually found in Liu Xiang's Filial Piety Map, not the Biography of Filial Piety, which is probably a popular reading. Obviously, Wen Yi in the novel Biography of the Filial Son, a series of Yulan, followed the saying in Biography of Martyrs, not Biography of Liey, which deserves attention. But it is funny to list the ruler of eyebrow as a dutiful son: the revenge of the ruler of eyebrow is not to resist violence but to do filial piety. In this way, loyalty and filial piety can't be satisfactory, because to avenge his father, you must kill the king, and Zhong Jun can't be a dutiful son. However, Confucianism has a good explanation: "Killing a husband is unheard of, and regicide is unheard of." This is what Mencius said to Liang when he lobbied Wei ("See Mencius Liang"). It seems that Mencius foresaw it long ago, and later it was said that Liang was killed by an eyebrow ruler. Therefore, it is not a problem to praise the brow ruler as a righteous man and a dutiful son.