Silk script calls this three-faced monster "a reminder of money." Some people say that it is the Hao Tao in Shan Hai Jing, while others say that it is not a god, but a combination of human beings, animals and plants. The man's "three sides" are actually owls. I looked at it carefully for a long time, but I couldn't tell it was an owl. Save it until I'm surprised.
As a result, a famous owl, a jade seal, was unearthed in Hou Yin's tomb, which was shaped as a button, and scholars inferred it as an "owl".
At this moment, it suddenly occurred to me that there was a so-called "Chang Yi Duo Xiao" in Biography of Wu Wu Zi, which said that Xuan Di, the Emperor Gaozu, acceded to the throne, and he was very afraid of Liu He. In the second year of Yuankang, the messenger gave the book as a satrap, and ordered him to guard against thieves and observe passers-by. When Zhang Chang got the news, he went to see the deposed emperor Liu He and inspected him. In his submission to Xuan Di, he said: "I wanted to find a topic to observe his heart, so I tested him with evil birds and said,' There are many owls in Changyi'." Liu He said,' Yes, I used to go west to Chang 'an, and there were no owls at all. When I came back, I went to Jiyang and heard the owl's cry again. " "
Therefore, the fate of Liu He, the king of Changyi, seems to be closely related to the evil bird owl. So, what can we learn from this conversation? Maybe we can't see any criticism of Ramology at all, but we can see Liu He's ruthlessness. No wonder Xuan Di finally put his hanging heart back into his stomach after reading Zhang Chang's Echo. Incredibly, it was unusual for Liu He to use a recognized raptor as a private button. Is there any hidden information in the button of this seal that Liu He brought to the grave?
As for owls, there are many decorative patterns on bronzes and jade articles in the Zhou Dynasty, and there is also an article "Owl" in Poetry.
He said, "Owl, owl, since you took my son, you didn't destroy my room." Ensi Qinsi, Xunzi's people thought. If it doesn't rain, it is time to save your family. Nowadays, women are not as good as the people, but still dare to give. " This poem describes the accusation that a bird destroyed its family, and there is a tragedy. I remember last year I wrote a small poem of the Han Dynasty with a similar theme, so I have to feel that there is no constant standard for such a thing as concept. ?
Indeed, even the same classics, the ancient people's interpretation is different from today's. In the eyes of the Han people, this poem is just the ambition of the Duke of Zhou to settle down and become a king. There are allusions in it, which means that after the Duke of Zhou was regent, Guan, Cai and others rumored that he was going to rebel and be king, so he was wary of Duke of Zhou. In order to prove his innocence, Duke Zhou resigned from the post of Sangong and took the initiative to live abroad. Before he left, he wrote a poem for Wang Cheng, this one. Obviously, this is the explanation that The Book of Songs entered the era of Confucian Classics. At that time, the Duke of Zhou had naturally become a saint, so Owl was naturally regarded as the work of the Duke of Zhou. However, Mencius also quoted this poem, saying that Confucius praised: "Does the poet know?" Who dares to insult the country that can rule it? "Since this poem was written by the Duke of Zhou, how could Confucius be crazy without touching his palm?
After witnessing the original appearance of this poem, let's take a look at how the preface comments. The preface says, "The owl saved the chaos." Wang Cheng didn't know the ambition of the Duke of Zhou, who left the king for a poem named "Owl". "As we all know, in the Spring and Autumn Period, the Book of Songs existed more importantly as a diplomatic rhetoric, and its ambition was mostly related to politics. In the Spring and Autumn Period, "writing poems to express one's will" is not to write poems by oneself, but to quote popular poems to express one's mind. Some time ago, I read Zuo Zhuan, and saw that Zhao Meng used poetry to look at the aspirations of the seven sons (Dr. Zheng Zichan, Bo You and other seven people), but the seven sons did not give creation, so they wanted the poems left by the Duke of Zhou to be true. But the secret is, what is the intention of Duke Zhou to quote this "Owl"?
Fortunately, there is a document in Tsinghua Bamboo Slips, which says that "the Duke of Zhou replaced the King when he was ill" is a history book, but its content is quite different from the golden book seen today. Tsinghua's bamboo slips said, "Duke Zhou lived in the East for three years, and thought of virtue was the cause of the disaster. Later, the Duke of Zhou left Wang Zhi and said "Diaoxiao".
The so-called "ambition" is the title of a poem. This is a poem dedicated to Wang Cheng who returned from his drought-striken fields. Why should I give Wang a poem? Because there is a sentence at the back of the essay, "Wang did not violate the public." This is crucial. At this time, when King Cheng saw the return of the Duke of Zhou from the East Expedition, his heart was filled with arrogance and fear, and he refused to meet the enemy in the suburbs. Duke Zhou naturally understood the feeling of becoming a king, so he left a poem for the king at this time to avoid doubt.
Let's see what Duke Zhou said to Wang in this poem. Who said that the owl that destroyed my room was not a traitor like Wu Geng? Now that the traitor has been pacified, why doesn't the king feel at ease? Yes, yes, there must be insults from the people. We know that the Duke of Zhou made great contributions to the stability of the Zhou Dynasty. Just before the crusade, some nobles thought it impossible to levy and advised them to violate the divination. Many people inside and outside the palace doubted the Duke of Zhou's eastward expedition, and he pushed his way through the crowd before marching eastward. After returning from victory, the monarch and his subjects still had bad feelings towards Duke Zhou. In this difficult situation, everything the Duke of Zhou did was inescapable, and he only presented a poem to the king to show his heart.
Unfortunately, scholars who have interpreted this poem since ancient times have always regarded this poem as the cry of the oppressed and the bullying of the strong to the weak. As we all know, it is clearly written in the poem that "today's women are inferior to the people, or dare to humiliate them", which means that "inferior people" humiliate their superiors. Is there such absurd behavior in the world that the weak can despise their superiors and the weak can bully the strong? From this point of view, many chapters of poetry have been formed for a long time, and owls are no exception. Zhou was originally a small country, but he could bully the powerful Shang Dynasty. It is natural for the weak to bully the strong, but it is abnormal for the strong to punish the weak. Is this logic correct?
Why did Liu He leave an owl-shaped button? This seems incredible today, but after reading the Book of Songs, is it suddenly clear? Liu was so despised by him, not only because he lacked the qualification to be an emperor, but also because he made a serious mistake. He could not bear to win honor for Changyi's old friend, and even lost his dignity, which was hopeless in the court's view. When Lu was nineteen years old, he looked like a child, and he was worried that he would endanger the country. "So I knew it couldn't end." And in the sight of this Liu He, only 27 days the emperor will see waste, really need to be cautious. Although we can't rule out the power ambition of Huo Guang and others, we can't deny the hidden political rules of our family. But if we think about the abolition of Liu He, isn't it because we didn't curb the evil of villains (villains under immoral concepts)? What useful role can those villains who want to ascend to heaven by hiding beside Liu He play besides trapping the king in injustice? Therefore, the essence of "owl" is only eight words: abandon evil spirits and plan ahead.