The original sentence of Xiao Shenyang's farewell poem is correct:
This is a 50-year dream, and now it's time to give it up.
He always thinks that cigarettes are the back of his body.
-the question of Xiao Shenyang before his death.
This was a great event of the imperial court at that time: it was rainy last summer, and a lot of water came from the Yellow River. In June, Suizhou (now Suixian County, Shangqiu) was in danger. On the night of August 29th, Suizhou flood overflowed first, and then the levee burst, forming a mouth of 150 feet and rushing down. Because the crevasse appeared in Suizhou reach, there was an ancient place name Suikou, so the river personnel called it Suixun and Suikou. After construction, it was originally planned to be blocked years ago. Sima Yi, the prefect of Donghe River, played in the twelfth lunar month, saying that although Suikou (the entrance of Suigong Dam) is only 18 feet, it can be frozen by heavy snow for several days, and there is a lot of ice on the river head, so he requested to suspend the river closure. At that time, due to illness, the emperor stopped reading the throne, and Emperor Jiaqing issued a letter to allow the dragon to be sealed after warm freezing.
A yellow river flowing freely with its mouth open is always a big worry for the emperor and important officials in the pavilion. The dying little Shenyang expressed in his poem that he still hoped to keep his mouth shut and the flood would end. Every time the Yellow River bursts, it is the big news of the imperial court. As usual, the capital will send 20 sticks of Tibetan incense to the river god.
Let's read these two poems again: "He always thinks cigarettes are his back." Waiting for the day when I shut my mouth and the dragon, you will see my loyal soul offering sacrifices to God in the curling cigarette. So, this is the meaning of the last sentence. It can be seen that Xiao Shenyang is a loyal state activist. At the time of inscription, Xiao Shenyang probably no longer expected the pardon of Emperor Jiaqing, but thought that he would regret it one day.
Xiao Shenyang is very clever. He is by no means an idiot. However, "the authorities were fascinated and lost their lives", and many smart people were fatally misjudged because they were too confident. Although he is on death row, he can still choose the most appropriate behavior: he doesn't jump up and scream, curse, scold, or even hunger strike or cry, but associates his death with solving the river disaster, borrowing his name sounds like a river god, so he expresses his final loyalty through poetry. This is a small Shenyang.
Now let me talk about the wrong version,
This is a 50-year dream, and now it's time to give it up.
He thinks cigarettes are the back of his body.
This is the wrong version, please don't get me wrong! )
Some people use this wrong version to spread rumors that he is the reincarnation of Cixi, which is sheer nonsense. It's okay to fool around, but historical experts can't verify the real data.
How did the mistake come about? Explain it to everyone!
What is the explanation of the word "full of water and dragons"?
I have checked some historians' books, including several important biographies of Gan Long and Xiao Shenyang, and there are many quotations without explanation. It seems that there is no need for textual research. In fact, this is a rumor-a word freak caused by misreading and misreading twice. There is no such allusion at all and there is no way to solve it. Historians have long passed on the wrong information and solved the wrong information with the wrong information, which has become an academic mystery and cannot be distinguished.
Let's talk about the second mistake first. It exists in Meng Sen, a famous expert in the history of Qing Dynasty, in the Zen Certificate of Emperor Gaozong in Qing Dynasty. After quoting the relevant words in A Record of Korea, he said:
Poetry is like a poem, like a rumor, which is not easy to solve. Or "Water Full of Dragons" seems to use the story of Xia Tianlong, which is a manifestation of filial piety; Xiao Qin may be addicted to cigarettes, but it is unknown that Xiao Shenyang got this addiction in the early years of Jiaqing. At that time, few people could smoke foreign cigarettes, and it was not surprising that they were salty, harmonious and light. But knowing this means that rebirth is the chief culprit of the demise of the Qing dynasty, and I want to retaliate against myself. This nonsense is an anecdote, but its explanation is equivalent, and it is also inferred from the Record of Korea. (Meng Sen's Collection of Historical Works of Ming and Qing Dynasties)
It is clearly recorded in the Record of North Korea that the word "full of water and dragons" means "like a song, but not quite solvable". Although the story of Xia Long and the omen of Cixi's disaster are recorded later, even the hobbies of Xiao Shenyang and Cixi are pulled out, which is still regarded as nonsense.
This poem is recorded in Qing Tong Jian, which is in 156. In the notes at the end of the volume, the editor said it was taken from the May 1st volume of A Record of King Zhen of Li Dynasty. And check the Historical Materials of China in the Record of the Korean Li Dynasty compiled by Mr. Wu Han to make it "full of water and dragons". Check this volume "A Record of the Korean Dynasty" again, which is also "full of water and dragons". The original text was presented by Xu Youwen, a North Korean apology official, in Wen Jian, which described Xiao Shenyang's theory of arrest, treatment and death in detail. The following is an excerpt from the relevant part of this poem:
On the eighteenth day of the first month, send silks to yourself. Xiao Shenyang wrote a poem on his deathbed. He said, "This dream has been realized for 50 years, but now I give up and thank the world for it. During the flood, he knew that cigarettes were behind him. " He hanged himself. (Record of the King)
This passage was discovered on March 30th, 23rd, Li (1799), and it was also recorded by Meng. The calendar of the Li dynasty is the same as that of the Qing dynasty, the suzerain country, that is, March 30, Jiaqing four years. In this country's system, whenever an envoy comes to China, he should make a list of what he has seen and heard in time. At this time, shortly after the death of Little Shenyang, the poem "Getting Dressed" just began to spread. Xu Youwen thought it over, recorded it and reported it to his king, which became the original record of this poem. The poem Xun is similar to Pan (now called Pan), but Mr. Meng Sen copied it wrongly and used it in later books. Postscript words that are regarded as nonsense are also regarded as true solutions by some people, and then rendered and extended.
The first mistake, which is also the most important one, occurred in North Koreans: either Xu Youwen's deviation in recording and writing, or his misjudgment in sorting out A Record of the Li Dynasty, first changed the word "Sui" in the original poem into "water" with similar pronunciation; Compound words will be "merged" because it looks like "containing" the wrong book. When there are dragons in the flood season, it should be "dragon flood". Therefore, the correct original sentence of Xiao Shenyang's "Desperate Poetry" is:
This is a 50-year dream, and now it's time to give it up.
He always thinks that cigarettes are the back of his body.