The poster, Mr. Ding Yonglin, is from Liangshan, Shandong. He has made great achievements in studying Water Margin and promoting Water Margin culture for many years. Many books have been published successively. A few days ago he left me a message saying:
Say hello! There is an opening word in Water Margin, which looks like a "word" in terms of "form", but I couldn't find out which word brand it belongs to in the information at hand, which became a problem for me. If it is "word", I would like to ask you to explain it.
Try to see how many handsome scholars there are in the secluded place of the book forest. I don't care about the false reputation and small profits. I cut ice and snow, talk and laugh and watch Wu Gou. Reviewing the merger of the former king and the later emperor, distinguishing the true from the false, occupying Zhongzhou, and the seven heroes circled around and caused chaos in the Spring and Autumn Period. The rise and fall are like brittle willows, and the life experience is like an empty boat. See countless fame, countless pictures, and countless escapes. In an instant, under the new moon, Changchuan falls, and the rivers, lakes, and mulberry fields turn into ancient roads. I am surprised to ask for a tree that is close to the fish, and I am like a poor ape choosing a tree, but I am afraid of damaging the curved tree that is far away from the bow. It is better to hold the cup in your palm and listen to the new music.
Since Mr. asked, how dare I not put in the effort? After checking the information at hand, I replied to Mr. Ding:
After seeing this article, I took the time to check "Rhythm of Tang and Song Ci Ci" and then checked "Ci Zong". I don’t know which word brand this poem belongs to. I thought: Could it be a "self-titled song"? In other words, the author did not follow the old lyrics, but created a new tune? My husband has studied Water Margin deeply, and there are many experts in the circle. I am just imagining it on my own. Best wishes.
At this point, the matter should have come to an end. Unexpectedly, I read this poem several times, and I always felt that the theme it expressed seemed to be familiar. Have you seen it there? Can't tell. So, I came up with the idea of ??compiling the opening lines of the classic novels I had saved into a volume.
This arrangement is not a big deal, and a problem was discovered.
"Water Margin" actually begins with one word and a poem. The lyrics are the one mentioned above. The poem is like this:
Five generations have been in chaos, and once the clouds clear, the sky will be seen again.
The grass and trees are covered with new rain and dew for a hundred years, and the ancient mountains and rivers are covered with thousands of miles of history.
Chen Luoqi walks in the ordinary alleys, and orchestras are played on several terraces.
People enjoy peaceful and uneventful days, and the orioles sleep high all day long.
The author of Water Margin wrote immediately after this: Here, we do not need to find out who this Shao Yaofu is. It is just that the author of Water Margin clearly marked the source of this poem and did not rob anyone. The beauty is very worthy of admiration.
However, this poem was not so lucky when it was with Shi Yukun.
Shi Yukun's "Three Heroes and Five Righteousness" also uses this poem as the opening line. Did Shi borrow it directly from Shao Yaofu, or did he borrow it from Water Margin? He didn't even give any explanation!
There are also those who use other people’s poems or lyrics as the opening words of a novel without any annotation.
The opening line of "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms", which is the song "The Rolling Waters of the Yangtze River Passing East" that was sung all over the country a few years ago, was originally a song by the great writer Yang Shen of the Ming Dynasty. It is not the work of Luo Guanzhong. But when Luo Guanzhong quoted it, he did not indicate the source!
The opening words of "Tang Sanzang's Journey to the West" written by Zhu Dingchen are:
An ancient tune on the right: Chaos is undivided, the sky and the earth are chaotic, and there is no one to see it.
Since Pangu broke through the Hongmeng, he opened up the distinction between the clear and the turbid.
Encourage all sentient beings to look up to the benevolence and discover that all things are good.
If you want to know the origin of creation, you must read "The Legend of Journey to the West"
This opening line was taken intact by Wu Cheng'en and made into "Journey to the West" Opening words! Likewise, no source is indicated!
Another example. The opening words of "Shuo Tang" revised by Chen Ruheng are:
Prosperity waxes and wanes like floating clouds, and immortality requires great achievements;
A strong strategy wants to hold up the sky but the sun is falling, but ambition can never be achieved. Ni Qun;
In times of crisis, the heroic aunt buried her traces, and the hero was transported to the king early;
It is strange that the history books cannot be collected, so I used colored pens to fill in the strange words.
The Zhuxi Shanren's "Pink Makeup House" only changed a few words and made its own opening line:
Time passes like light clouds, Immortality requires great achievements.
A strong strategy wants to support the sky and the sun falls, but how can ambition be compared to the group of slaves?
But it is fate that Yun Gu buried her traces, and she will meet you early in the Chang period.
Because the history books cannot be collected in full, I wrote some strange words with colored pens.
After just two days of browsing, I found several examples of repeated borrowing of other people’s poems without any explanation. If you dig deeper, you may find more.
I am not going over the ancient accounts here. The above situations all occurred in the novels "Hua Ben" and "Imitation Hua Ben", and of course they were related to the misuse of the speakers at that time.
But after being compiled by the literati, they are a cultured and knowledgeable class. Why haven't they noticed this problem? Why can't he explain it like the author of Water Margin when borrowing other people's works? (Why does this phenomenon occur? I hope to see explanations from knowledgeable people) It seems that "copyright" was not taken seriously in the eyes of some of our ancestors! So much so that nowadays, plagiarism, plagiarism and other incidents continue to occur, and the source can be traced.
Speaking of this, I think back to last year when I accidentally discovered that a certain website posted my stuff on them without any markings, and even shamelessly marked it as copyright, which made me unhappy for several days. It really belongs to There is really no need to be angry