Notes on Two Kinds of Autumn Waters Volume 1 136: Chishui River

chishui river

The river is red, which is called "the road of weeping blood". See Jin Zhanghua's Natural History. Four words are thrilling.

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[Press] "Natural History" Original: Rivers are all red, called blood and tears. The road involves a skeleton, and the river also. There is something wrong with the interrogative sentence here.

1, Zhang Hua: (232-300) Maoxian, Fanyang Fangcheng (now Gu 'an, Hebei Province), 16th grandson of the Western Han Dynasty, 14th ancestor of Zhang Jiuling in the Tang Dynasty. Politicians, writers and bibliophiles in the Western Jin Dynasty. Zhang Hua compiled China's first natural history book, Natural History.

Zhang Hua was versatile when he was young and was appreciated by people at that time. In Cao Wei, he successively served as Doctor Taichang, Yuzhong, Lang and Zhong Shulang. After the establishment of the Western Jin Dynasty, he worshipped the assistant minister of Huangmen and sealed the Hou. He reads widely and has a strong memory, and is compared to Zi Chan. Later, thanks to the secretariat order and the addition of regular servants, Du Yu firmly supported the establishment of Sima Yan in Di Chin and served as a minister in wartime. After the downfall of the State of Wu, he made great achievements by entering Fengguangwu County and leaving Youzhou Town. After entering the DPRK, it was too common. After Emperor Hui Jin succeeded to the throne, this exhausted official took three secretaries as his official residence, Zhong Shujian, and was entrusted with the important task of governing the country by Queen Jia Nanfeng. Zhang Hua made every effort to help keep the world relatively peaceful. After sealing Zhuang Wujun, he moved to another place. In the first year of Yongkang (300 years), Zhao Wang Sima Lun staged a coup, and Zhang Hua was killed at the age of 69. Sui Shu Jing Ji Zhi has ten volumes of Zhang Ji Hua, which has been lost. Zhang Pu, Amin, edited Zhang Maoxian. Zhang Huaya loves books and is proficient in bibliography. She worked with Xun Xu and others to sort out the classics according to Liu Xiang's Bielu. Xuanhe Pu Shu has his cursive script "De Shu Tie" and running script "Shi Wen Tie".

2. Natural History: A collection of China's ancient myths and strange stories compiled by Zhang Hua in the Western Jin Dynasty, which recorded exotic things, ancient anecdotes and fairy stories in different places, was the first natural history book in China. The contents of this book are mostly ancient books, including mountains and rivers, legends of historical figures, strange descriptions of plants, fish, insects, birds and animals, and fantasy stories of fairy tales, etc.