The Story of Shengfeng: The Only Chivalrous Emperor in the History of Zhao Kuangyin, Song Taizu and China.

The Song Dynasty gave the impression that it was an empire ruled by literati. However, the founder of this empire was a professional officer named Zhao Kuangyin. Before becoming a professional officer, Zhao Kuangyin was an out-and-out martial artist. He may be the only emperor in the history of China who was born as a knight-errant.

It is said that Zhao Kuangyin is good at martial arts. Shaolin Temple, the first martial arts school in the Jianghu, is said to have been created by Zhao Kuangyin. The full name of Shaolin Changquan is "Song Taizu 32 Changquan", also known as "Taizu Boxing". After ending his ranger career and becoming a professional officer, Zhao Kuangyin sorted out 32 potential boxing methods to train infantry, summarize martial arts and integrate battlefield combat experience. Later, Zhao Kuangyin became the first emperor of the Song Dynasty. In the past, foot soldiers consciously raised the price, so they taught Zhao Kuangyin's 32-potential Changquan among the people, which was called "Song Taizu's 32-potential Changquan".

In order to revitalize Shaolin Boxing, Master Fuju, the abbot of Shaolin Temple in the early Song Dynasty, invited 18 martial arts masters from all over the country to learn from Shaolin Temple, and Song Taizu Changquan was one of them. Zen master's post-fu method integrates the strengths of various factions into Shaolin Boxing, which is also the origin of Shaolin Boxing. When I was 2 1 year old, I bid farewell to my wife He, who had been married for three years, and wandered alone. The year was 948 AD. Just a year ago, the northern Khitan invaded Kaifeng, the capital of the Jin Dynasty, and occupied Shi Zhonggui, the emperor of the latter Jin Dynasty. After the demise of the Jin Dynasty, Qidan was renamed Liao in Kaifeng.

At the same time, Liu Zhiyuan proclaimed himself in Jinyang, east of Houjinhe. His name is Liu Zhiyuan, Emperor of the Later Han Dynasty. Later, the Khitan commander Ye Deguang of Lu robbed soldiers and was driven out of Kaifeng by the people of the Central Plains. Liu Zhiyuan invaded Luoyang and Kaifeng. When Zhao Kuangyin left his hometown, Liu Zhiyuan had died and the throne passed to his son Liu Chengyou. Zhao Kuangyin's home was in Kaifeng, then the capital. Zhao was the founder of an imperial examination school in the late Eastern Han Dynasty. In such an era of regime change, emptiness is common, people are in danger in the war, and the families of soldiers can have food and clothing. They are well paid. Compared with ordinary people who are arbitrarily ravaged and plundered, the lives of soldiers and their lives are the safest. Therefore, promising men joined the army at that time, and discerning women wanted to marry powerful young officers.

When Zhao was young, he had no choice but to wander around. Later, I came to Dujiazhuang on the outskirts of Luoyang and met with heavy snow. Zhao hid in front of Dujiazhuang. The owner of Dujiazhuang Village is very hospitable on weekdays. So the servant saw a strong man in Dujiazhuang village and invited him into the house to entertain him. Soon, the owner of Dujiazhuang took a fancy to Zhao and married his daughter to him. He became the fourth son-in-law of Du family, and later gave birth to three men and three women with Miss Du. The eldest son died, and the other two sons were He He and Mao He.

It is said that there used to be a small pond called Shuanglongtan in front of Dujiazhuang, symbolizing the arrival of two emperors. Zhao Kuangyin was born in such an officer's family, and it is difficult for future generations to understand why he left his parents and wandered around when he was 2 1 year old. Some people think that Zhao's career at that time was not good, and it was difficult to arrange a suitable position for his son. Perhaps based on Zhao's years of experience, he knew that if his son started to serve in the imperial army as an ordinary infantry, he would have no future. Instead, let your son visit the warlords. If given the chance, he might find a more suitable job.

However, Zhao Kuangyin's novel Fei Long tells us that Zhao Kuangyin is a naughty boy who is disobedient. Parents let Zhao Kuangyin study in a private school, but Zhao Kuangyin doesn't study hard. He associates with those bad teenagers in the street, often commits deviant behavior, and even violates the criminal law, and finally develops to the point where Zhao wants to sever the father-son relationship with him. Although this is a record of the novel, it is very consistent with the common sense of running away from home. Just like the Liangshan heroes in Water Margin, most of them were forced to kill people to "commit Qin Feng".

In sharp contrast to Zhao Kuangyin, Zhao Kuangyin's younger brother Zhao Kuangyi is always as serious as an adult and studies as hard as his parents expect. Zhao Kuangyin is big, strong and open-minded, which is different from others. More importantly, Wushu is very strong. Since Zhao Kuangyin left his hometown to wander around, another chivalrous man has appeared in the Jianghu. His stories spread all over the world, and many stories and legends were incorporated into speeches and operas at that time. Zhao Kuangyin's Flying Dragon is one of the famous works. In Kaifeng, Hangzhou and other cities in the Song Dynasty, there were some entertainment places called Wazi.

There, many small and large huts dedicated to performance and rap were built side by side to perform dialogues, dances, songs, plays and so on. And they are active all day. Since the mid-Northern Song Dynasty, these speeches have performed celebrity stories in addition to the chronicles of the Three Kingdoms and the customs of the Five Dynasties. In the Southern Song Dynasty, there were many themes such as love and marriage, ghosts and gods, legends of case-solving and heroes. Books in these basic languages will be developed and expanded into novels, such as Water Margin and Romance of the Three Kingdoms. There were still many dramas in the Song and Yuan Dynasties, among which New Editions of Five Dynasties Pinghua and Beijing Popular Novels were some famous dramas.

Unfortunately, Zhao Kuangyin's Feilong, which tells the legendary story of Zhao Kuangyin at that time, has been lost. In fact, "Zhao Kuangyin Longfei" was very popular with ordinary people at that time. There is a book in the early Ming Dynasty.

I bought Feilong in Zhao Kuangyin and Journey to the West in Tang Sanzang. Besides the legend of Zhao Kuangyin's flying dragon, there is another one.

It is said that Zhao Kuangyin was a nosy chivalrous man when he was young. When he sees a rugged road, he will draw his sword to help others. Because of the disaster in Kaifeng, he broke the law and was forced to flee the capital. Along the way, Zhao Kuangyin continued to punish villains everywhere. When he came to Taiyuan, Shanxi, he met his uncle Zhao. At that time, Zhao became a monk in a Taoist temple called Jingguan and lived there.

I happened to see a beautiful girl in a closed temple in Taoist temple. After investigation, it turned out that the young girl was from Zhou Pu, where she was robbed by robbers. After hearing the girl's tragic experience, Knight Zhao Kuangyin decided to send her home. On the way, they were attacked by robbers who robbed the girl, but soldier Zhao Kuangyin repelled them one by one and finally sent the girl back to her hometown safely. The girl's parents were overjoyed and treated Zhao Kuangyin warmly, hoping that he could stay there for a long time and promised to marry his daughter. But Zhao Kuangyin resolutely refused and left immediately.

The girl's parents can't get what they want. They want to know: a young man and a young girl walked thousands of miles. Their relationship should be close, but the young man abandoned his daughter and left alone. What a heartless man! So she asked her daughter to tell her true relationship with the young man. My daughter has repeatedly stated that Zhao Kuangyin is an honest and pure young man and a gentleman of Liu Xiahui style, but her parents still don't believe him. The girl felt very sad. To prove that her relationship with Zhao Kuangyin was perfect, she committed suicide and jumped into the well.

According to a Japanese scholar, the central meaning of this article is that although the Song Dynasty was inferior to the Han and Tang Dynasties in many aspects, its monarch was much better than the Han and Tang Dynasties in not being greedy for women. Zhao Kuangyin, a young man who appeared in novels and plays, is a great and omnipotent hero. He often became sworn brothers with a group of noble but ordinary villains. Most people think that this may be just a fictional artistic image of a Quyi writer.

But unexpectedly, some historians think that the true image of Zhao Kuangyin may not be far from what these words describe. Even when he became emperor, Zhao Kuangyin still kept many brave habits peculiar to rangers, such as drinking from a big bowl and deciding state affairs at banquets, especially traveling incognito.