Each of the four middle sentences uses an allusion.
The third sentence uses the story of Zhuang Sheng dreaming of butterflies in Zhuangzi The Theory of Everything. Zhuang Sheng, the philosopher Zhuangzi in the Warring States Period, is said to have dreamed that he turned into a butterfly and flew freely, but he didn't recognize his butterfly when he woke up.
The fourth sentence uses the story of the cuckoo weeping for blood in Huayang Guozhi, hoping that the emperor, the ancient Shu monarch Du, died in advance and his soul became a cuckoo. Every spring, he cries until he bleeds.
The fifth sentence uses the story of Jiao Ren (the mythical mermaid) in the Caspian Sea in natural history. Legend has it that pearls are made from Jiao Ren's tears in the sea.
The Biography of De Renjie in the New Tang Dynasty uses "the pearl of the sea" as a metaphor for talent being buried. The sixth sentence comes from Gambao's Searching for God in the Southern and Northern Dynasties. According to legend, during the Spring and Autumn Period, Yu Zi, the youngest daughter of Fu Cha, the king of Wu, adored Han Zhong and wanted to marry him, but she failed, so she died of depression. When Han Zhong came back from studying abroad, he went to her grave to pay his respects. Suddenly, Yu Zi showed his true colors, gave a pearl to Han Zhong and sang for him. Han Feng wanted to hug her, but Yu Zi disappeared like smoke.
In the Tang Dynasty, Dai Shulun described poetry as "the sky is warm in the daytime and jade is full of smoke" (see Si Kongtu's Book of Jipu). Each of the four allusions has an image, which implies the author's painful reflection on his love, career, ideal and pursuit in this life and present. Zhuangzi daydreaming, a saint, was bewitched by butterflies and aspired to be empty; The king emperor's longing for love is crying in cuckoo, and he is disillusioned. The exquisite Haizhu, which was originally a rare treasure, is now just a "pearl tear" reflected by the bright moon and abandoned in the sea alone; The goal one pursues is like the blue fields breathing their jade at the sun, which can be seen, but can't be placed before it is imminent.
The king's longing for love is crying in the cuckoo.
Can Cong was the first king of Shu in ancient times. He once taught local people how to raise silkworms. Driven by Can Cong, sericulture in Sichuan has gradually developed. The original meaning of the word "Shu" means silkworm. Can Cong's eyes are very special, and they are straight. After his death, he was buried in a sarcophagus, and people followed his example. Later generations called this grave buried with a sarcophagus Cong Mujia. After Can Cong died, Guan Bai became king, and then Yufu became king. Under the leadership of Yufu, the life of the people in Shu has been continuously improved. Yu Fu later became a fairy when hunting. This is basically people's understanding of the ancient Shu kingdom.
Time passed before you knew it. I don't know how many years later, a young man named Du Yu suddenly fell from the sky and became the king of Shu and the king of the year. When Wang Di became king, he was very concerned about the lives of ordinary people, taught them how to grow crops, and told them to observe the farming season and do a good job in production. He loves the people, so the people support him very much.
There were frequent floods in Shu at that time. Wang Di also tried his best to control the flood, but he couldn't eradicate it fundamentally. One year, a man's body suddenly drifted upstream from the river. People are very surprised to see it. Because things on the river always go downstream, how can this body go upstream? The nosy man salvaged the body. What's even more surprising is that as soon as the body was salvaged, it came back to life and began to talk, calling itself the Chu people, named, who drifted here from their hometown because of falling into the water. When Wang Di learned the news, Wang Di asked him to see it. As soon as we met, we hit it off, chatted very speculatively, and felt that it was a long time since we met. Seeing that Master Roshi was a rare talent, Wang Di appointed him as the prime minister of Shu.
Soon after the arrival of Master Roshi, a big flood broke out. This flood is almost as big as Yao's flood. The people suffered greatly, dying and fleeing one after another, and the country fell into chaos. The population of Shu decreased by 60% to 70%. Turtle spirit was appointed by Wang Di to undertake the task of flood control. In terms of water control, turtle spirit has shown great talent. He led the people to control water, opened Wushan Mountain, and made water flow from Shu to the Yangtze River. In this way, the flood has been alleviated and the people of Shu can live and work in peace and contentment again. Master Roshi made a great contribution to the water conservancy, and Du Yu was very grateful, so he took the initiative to give up the throne to Master Roshi, and Master Roshi abdicated, called enlightened emperor, also called Congdi. After Wang Di died, the soul became a cuckoo. He loved the people before his death, but he still missed their lives after his death. Every Qingming Festival, Grain Rain, Changxia and Xiaoman, he flies to the fields to sing. When people hear this voice, they all say: This is our King Du Yu! So remind each other: Fast seeding. Or: when the time is up, transplant the seedlings quickly. Therefore, people call cuckoo a robin and an inspiring bird.
Du Yu passed the throne to Gui Ling, who passed it on to future generations. Later, they moved to Chengdu. At that time, the powerful state of Qin often wanted to annex Shu. However, the terrain of Shu is dangerous. As the saying goes, one person's strength is above ten thousand people, and it is not easy for an army to pass. This is obviously not the way. In the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Wargo's army attacked Shu and succeeded only by sneak attack. The cunning King Hui of Qin came up with a clever plan: He made five bull heads and put a pile of gold on Shi Niu's ass every day, falsely claiming that Shi Niu was a Taurus and could pull a pile of gold every day. The greedy king of Shu heard the news and wanted to get these so-called Taurus, so he asked the king of Qin for it, and the king of Qin immediately agreed. But Shi Niu is very heavy, how to move it? At that time, there were five Hercules in Shu, who were very powerful and were called Wu Ding Lux. King Shu told them to cut the mountain and bring Taurus back. Five Ding Lishi finally opened a Taurus road, pulled these so-called Taurus back, and returned to Chengdu, only to find that it was only Shi Niu, only to know that he had been cheated. The queen of Shu came to a client, severely scolded the monarch of Qin for his bad faith, and shipped these Shi Niu back to Qin. The king of Qin said that he was very happy to hear that Jinniu Road had been opened. However, I am afraid of Pentax, because its power is infinite, and I dare not attack immediately. So another plan was born. The trustee told Shu Wang: There are no Taurus, but we have five little girls like fairies, which are more precious than gold. If Shu Wang wants it, he is willing to give it selflessly. The original intention of the king of Qin was to confuse the king of Shu with a honey trap. The honey trap is more effective than the thirty-six trap, and the hero is sad to pass the honey trap. King Shu is a lecherous, and he was ecstatic after listening to it. Once again, I asked five Hercules to go to Qin State and let them bring back five beautiful women as soon as possible. On the way home with five beautiful women, Wu Ding Lishi passed Zitong and suddenly saw a big snake drilling into a cave. One of the five Ding Lishi rushed up and grabbed its tail and pulled it out in an attempt to kill snakes and people. But the snake was too big to be dragged by one person, so five brothers came together. At this time, the head of the snake has entered the hole and the tail of the snake is at the hole. Several of them joined hands to drag the snake's tail. After a while. The giant snake was dragged out of the cave bit by bit, and the two brothers were very happy. Suddenly, the demon wind was at work, only to hear a loud noise, the earth shook and the mountain collapsed. Five strong men and five beautiful women in the theater were crushed to death and turned into blood mud, and one mountain turned into five peaks! Hearing the news, King Shu was heartbroken. He never dreamed that he could get these five beautiful women for his enjoyment. He personally climbed these five mountains, flagrantly mourned, and named them five women. As for the death of the five strong men, he was not distressed at all. The people are very disgusted with this bad king's behavior. They love these five Hercules very much, so they call these five mountains five Ding.
When the King of Qin heard that the five strong men had died and the Shu Road had been opened, he knew that the time was ripe to attack Shu, and he could not help but be elated. He sent troops to attack Shu from Jinniu Road, and soon destroyed Shu and killed the king of Shu. At this time, the cuckoo, who was looking forward to the emperor's spirit in heaven, was very painful to see the demise of the old country. Whenever the peach blossoms are in full bloom, she cries one after another. Better go home, better go home. As soon as the people of Shu heard this voice, they knew that their monarch missed his old country again.
These legends are reflected in Li Bai's poem "Difficult Road to Shu": it is difficult to get through the Shu Road, and it is difficult to go to the sky. Until the founding of the two rulers of this area. Forty-eight thousand years have passed and it has something to do with Qin Sai. On the other hand, to the west, there is still only one bird path, which reaches the peak of Emei. It was once broken by an earthquake, and the brave died, and then the stairs and stones were stacked.
There are many legends about the imperial cuckoo. Here are two more legends: First, during the flood control in Master Roshi, Wang Di had an affair with his wife at home. After Master Roshi came home successfully, Wang Di felt sorry and ashamed for Master Roshi, so he went to live in seclusion in the mountains. Then he died and his soul became a cuckoo. Although Wang Di has some shortcomings, he loves the people. On the whole, he is a good monarch. As soon as people hear the cuckoo's cry, they think of the benefits of Wang Di's life, and naturally feel that the cuckoo's cry is full of sadness. Second, the turtle spirit failed to control the water, hoping that the emperor would give him the throne and live in seclusion in Xishan. The Turtle Elf took possession of Wang Di's wife. Wang Di was in great pain when he heard the news. But Master Roshi was in power, and the emperor couldn't cope with him, so he had to cry all day long. Later, when Du Yu was dying, he said to Du Fu in Xishan, "Call me Du Fu and tell the people my feelings." . Since then, cuckoos have been flying around in Shu, moaning day and night until their mouths bleed.
Later generations criticized Wang Di less and sympathized more. Because in any case, Wang Di is a love loser. And there is a hatred of national subjugation. Li Shangyin: Saint Zhuangzi daydreaming, bewitched by butterflies, cuckoo crowed by the emperor. This poem mainly tells about Wang Di's dissatisfaction with love. He and his beloved can't be together, so he has to use the voice of Du Fu to express his infinite thoughts about his lover.
Maybe it's because of such a legend.
Blue fields breathe their jade to the sun,
It is said that under the scorching sun, lantian jade will produce special jade smoke. Of course, this kind of jade smoke will only be found when you pay special attention.
Long before the birth of Hetian jade, lantian jade was famous in China, hence the name Lantian County. There are many poems about lantian jade sung by poets in past dynasties, especially the sentence "Mermaid tears shed on the green sea of the moon, Lantian spits jade at the sun" in Jin Se by Yu Huosheng, which not only praises the famous lantian jade, but also implies a beautiful legend about the origin and characteristics of lantian jade.
According to legend, a long time ago, Lantian did not have a town governed by a big county, and of course there was no such good name as Lantian. At that time, there was a small villa next to the ancient post road in Zhong Nanshan. In the villa, there was a young scholar named Yang Boyong. His family is poor, so he has to plant a little land and study by himself. Although he is poor and indifferent, he also has a good time.
Besides farming, reading and poetry, he is also good at traveling. Beautiful mountains and rivers and ancient post roads around his hometown are the places where he often sets foot. He was very sorry to see the travel-stained travelers, businessmen, postmen, craftsmen and monks sweating and thirsty in the scorching sun, but there was no spring water to drink on the long post road above the hill. So he set up a thatched pavilion beside the post road on the mountain, where people could rest and bring water from the mountain to quench their thirst. Some people are not used to drinking cold water, so he set up an earthen stove beside the grass pavilion, put on a big pot, chop wood and boil water for passers-by. Later, he thought it was a waste of time to run back and forth, so he simply moved to the grass pavilion on the mountain and waited for passers-by to fetch water and soup at dawn every day. When he saw passers-by drinking spring water and quenching their thirst, he wiped his sweat and smiled with satisfaction. In the cold winter, he kept cooking soup with snow, bringing spring-like warmth to passers-by.
Winter goes and spring comes, but cold and summer are easy to pass. Yang Boyong has been drinking water on Mount Zhong Nanshan for three years. For more than three years 1000 days and nights, he didn't sleep a wink and didn't accept a penny from passers-by. He also generously helped passers-by who were hungry and cold. Therefore, a little meager income at home has also been lost. Some people ridiculed him as a "bookworm" and "accumulating small favors does not lead to long-term goals." However, he said generously: "money is a thing of the past;" If you use it to help others, you will get what you want and get what you want. " Look, he is thirty years old, not interested in his career, not in a hurry to get married and start a family, and still helping others.
One day, a poor old man fell to the ground in front of the grass pavilion, foaming at the mouth. When Bo Yong saw it, he quickly helped him into the grass pavilion, washed his face, wiped his body, fanned him and fed him water to bring the old man back to life. He served his lunch to the old man, and swallowed his saliva while enduring hunger. The old man wolfed down his food and drank three bowls of soup. He took a bucket of stones from somewhere and handed it to Bo Yong, saying, "If you plant these stones in the ground, you will grow Baoyu, and you will get a good wife for it. Take it! " Bo Yong was about to push when suddenly the old man disappeared, leaving only the bucket of stones at his feet.
According to the old man, Yang Boyong put stone seeds in the Shan Ye and got a lot of huge and glittering jade. He doesn't take them all as his own, and often uses them to help the poor and solve people's difficulties.
During this period, he heard passers-by say that the daughter of Xu Gonggong, who is to be married in Beiping, is very beautiful, dignified, intelligent and wise. Many people came to propose marriage, but Xu Gong refused. When Yang Boyong heard that there was such a good girl, he liked it very much, so he went to the door to propose marriage with the desire to have a try. Xu Gong said that if he could take out a pair of white walls as a dowry, he could marry his daughter immediately. Yang Boyong took five pairs of white walls from his jade field as dowry for Xu Gong, so that he could get a satisfactory wife.
After the marriage, the young couple were extremely loving and connected. They are open-minded and generous, and in a few years, they have used up the beautiful jade born of a bucket of stones.
Three years passed quickly. One day, the old man who gave jade seeds appeared in front of Yang Boyong and said, "I know that the beautiful jade you produced has been exhausted by helping others. Here I give you three stones and six barrels of jade seeds. You should cherish it this time and don't give it away easily. You can leave it to future generations and let them enjoy wealth forever. " After that, the old man disappeared again.
After a long discussion, the couple thought that the blessings of their children and grandchildren should be created by themselves. Gifts left by parents' immortals are not a long-term strategy, and they will also develop the bad habit of getting something for nothing and enjoying the success. Such people either die of hunger and cold, or live by exploiting the blood and sweat of others! So, they decided to return the fairy's gift to people all over the world. Every day, they plant mother jade on the Zhong Nanshan Mountain in this area. Finally, they plant all three stones and six buckets, but they no longer collect their own jade, but live by their own farming and weaving. They also posted notices on the roadside of the post, telling people that all poor people can go up the mountain to collect jade by themselves.
As a result, people who have no land and no job in the world come to the mountains to collect jade, and those who go can return home with a full load.
Later, the emperor and dignitaries also sent people into the mountains to collect jade. Many years later, the jade on the surface was plundered by them.
In this way, it is difficult for the poor to collect jade when they enter the mountains, so Yang Boyong prayed to heaven. One day, the old man Taibai Jinxing, who sent the jade mother stone, said to him in a dream, "Jade pickers can enter the mountains at sunrise on a sunny day. If you see a faint smoke rising from that mountain, there will be jade. " Yang Boshuang told everyone about this method immediately after he woke up. As a result, when the poor enter the mountains, they can see that some places are rising faintly, which is really based on the traces.
When emperors, generals and dignitaries heard of this method, they all sent people in droves to grab the five stones. But strangely, no matter how round and big their eyes were, they could not see the wonders of the warm sun and could not find a place to dig jade! They became angry from embarrassment, so they sent more people to dig everywhere, and some deep jade was dug away by them before it fully grew. This immature jade is slightly blue, so it is called "Lantian", and it is called "Lantian" because Yang Boyong first planted stone jade in fertile fields. From then on, any place that produces jade is called "X field", such as "Hotan". The famous sentence "Lantian is breathing their jade against the sun" in Yu Huosheng's poem "Jinse" is written according to the above legend.
On the other hand, because Yang Boyong's wife planted jade as an eternal story, she later called the marriage of two families "the fate of planting jade". Or simply called "Yucheng", but the meaning of this word has been extended.