What happened to the Lantern Festival in the world of serial stories?

I finally found the first volume of Strange Tales from a Lonely Studio. I'm so excited. The four-volume "Notes and Comments on the School Meeting of Strange Tales from a Lonely Studio" published by Shanghai Ancient Books Publishing House is my favorite. Unfortunately, I don't know where I left the first volume, but I can't find it. Everyone knows the pain of playing mahjong and poker. Fortunately, it's a great feeling that the things I sorted out have been unexpectedly found recently. Today coincides with the Lantern Festival, so let's take the opportunity to tell the story of "Yuanxiao" in Liaozhai.

in the ancient customs of China, Shangyuan Festival (Lantern Festival), Zhongyuan Festival (Orchid Festival) and Xiayuan Festival (Shuiguan Festival) are collectively called Sanyuan. The custom of burning lanterns on Lantern Festival originated from the Taoist theory of "three elements". The fifteenth day of the first month is Shangyuan Festival, the fifteenth day of July is Zhongyuan Festival, and the fifteenth day of October is Xiayuan Festival. The officials in charge of the upper, middle and lower three elements are heaven, earth and man respectively, and the heaven official is happy, so the lantern festival should be lit. Strange Tales from a Lonely Studio mentions the Lantern Festival in a few chapters, but it is wonderful. And listen to me one by one.

1. Getting rich-"The first bucket of gold in life" ("Wang Cheng")

This is a story about how a poor boy got rich. Wang Cheng, a poor boy, was down and out, and his family was surrounded by four walls. One day, he found a gold hairpin, which turned out to be left by his deceased grandmother. Her grandmother pitied him for his difficulties and made a policy. She invited Wang Cheng to go to Yandu Ge for funding and told Ke to leave a day ago, not later. However, if we were caught in the rain, stopped for a while, and went to Beijing, then Baylor House had to buy it and had to sell it at a low price. I saw someone selling quails, and the harvest was good, so I used all the remaining money to buy quails. Unfortunately, only one quail died. Just when he was heartbroken and tried to die, the innkeeper guided him: "This is like a British thing. The death of the quails is not necessarily a fight. You have nothing to do in your spare time. Please take it. If it is good, you can make a living by gambling. " Domesticated for a while, Wang Chenggong took it to gamble with other quail customers on the street. This quail is really powerful, and always wins, which makes him taste the sweetness.

but this is just the beginning. The turning point of his life was the Lantern Festival.

"First of all, the big prince is good at quail, and every price is worth Yuan, so it is necessary to let the people put quail into the palace." It turns out that in ancient times, there was a custom of fighting quail among the people on the Lantern Festival. The prince's quail is very powerful, and everyone who comes to fight is defeated. So, Wang Cheng made a move. "Strange Tales from a Lonely Studio" wrote: "(Pro) Wang Xiangzhi said,' The eyes are full of anger, and this feather is also healthy. Don't underestimate the enemy." He who takes the iron beak should take it. Jumping again and again, and the king quail failed. Choose it better, and it is easy to lose again. The king urgently ordered to take the palace jade quail. "At this time, Wang Cheng played a clever trick, deliberately wanting to praise first and restrain: kneel down and beg, saying," Your majesty's quail is also a sacred thing, lest it hurt my poultry and lose my career. " Wang said with a smile, "If you die from fighting, you should pay for it."

I'm sure you've expected the ending. The prince suffered a crushing defeat, and his jade quail fought and retreated until it was defeated and fled.

seeing something good, the prince naturally won't let it go, so he proposed to buy it. So there was an interesting conversation: Wang said, "If you don't lose money, you will get 2 gold." Shake the head. Increase by another hundred. Cheng looked at his master, but he remained unmoved. He said, "Please reduce your price by 1% according to your majesty's orders." The king said, "Stop! Who is willing to pay 9 for a quail! " The quail is ready to go. The king called out, "If the quail people come, they will actually pay 6 yuan. If they are willing, they will sell it, otherwise they will be deaf." Being a master, the master is still self-possessed. I am full of wishes, but I am afraid that I will lose time. I said, "It is really discontented to sell this number. But if you don't make it, you will get a big deal. If there is no one, it is like a king's life. " Wang Xi, that is, pay by scale.

This dialogue is very life-like. When Wang Cheng came to fight, the innkeeper followed. The innkeeper told him in advance that you can only sell it if I nodded, but Wang Cheng thought that the price had reached the psychological price, so he didn't bargain.

This reminds me that when I was a child, I followed my mother to Siqian Street to buy clothes. They were all self-employed shops. When my mother saw a dress, she would make a counter-offer. After several trips, she was finally threatening to leave, and the store would chase it out and say, "Here, here!" The wisdom of "making a quail want to walk" is among them.

These simple life wisdom tells us that the more you keep calm and calm, the more you can accomplish something. On that Lantern Festival, Wang Cheng properly earned the first bucket of gold in his life. So, today's Lantern Festival wishes you a fortune!

2. Love-"Just because I saw you in the crowd"-"Ying Ning"

In another Lantern Festival, a scholar met a beautiful woman and became homesick.

"Wang Zifu, a native of Luodian, Juzhi, was lonely early, absolutely intelligent, and entered Panpan at the age of fourteen. Mother loves it best, and she is not allowed to swim in the countryside. Hiring Xiao, he died unmarried, so he didn't ask for a burn.

At the meeting, Wu Sheng, my uncle's son, invited me to look out, and then I went outside the village. My uncle's servant came to invite Wu. Life sees a wandering girl like a cloud, and she swims alone on the spur of the moment. There is a girl with a maid and a plum blossom, and Rong Hua is peerless, smiling. Life is so focused that it forgets scruples. When the woman went to count the martial arts, she looked at her servant and said with a smile,' A son is burning like a thief!' Leave the flowers on the ground and laugh away. I was disappointed when I picked up flowers, and I lost my mind, so I went back.

this is the beginning of the story. Shangyuan Festival is a good time to meet. In this way, the prince's clothes have to meet women in the outing. Pu Songling's writing style is superb, with a few words, and the characters are vividly on the paper. Wang Zifu saw that the beautiful woman "kept her eyes fixed, but forgot her scruples", and she was a nymphomaniac. And Ying Ning smiled and said, "A son is burning like a thief!" The posture of laughing and going away from the flowers on the ground naturally reveals lively beauty.

This encounter during the Lantern Festival made the prince feel like he was in a fog, and he didn't know what he had. He picked up the plum blossom that Ying Ning had thrown away, pressed it under the pillow and made it into dried flowers. Every day, he faced it, and his tea and rice were getting thinner and thinner. No way, Wu Sheng, the cousin who invited him to travel with him that day, had to make up a lie and tell him that the girl had found it and it was her little cousin. It's just a little far. "In the southwest mountains, it's more than 3 miles away." He can propose marriage on his behalf. Heart disease still needs a heart medicine doctor. Since then, Wang Zifu's diet has recovered immediately and recovered as usual. But Wu Sheng was a lie, so he never came back. Finally, Wang Zifu couldn't wait, so he left without saying goodbye and went to find the woman who left the flowers.

everything comes to him who waits. She really found him. When I met an old woman, it was really what Wu Sheng said. The flower survivor was her aunt and the old woman was her foster mother. This prince's costume is very interesting. In a chat, one build what did not build, I deliberately asked the old woman how old Ying Ning was. When she learned that she was 16, she immediately said that she was 17. The old woman naturally understood that when she saw that he was unmarried, she said that Ying Ning was really suitable for him. After a while, Ying Ning came in, and when she saw the prince's clothes, she couldn't stop laughing. The prince's clothes were so cute again, "the eyes are burning and the thief's voice has not changed." The old woman is very attentive and considerate to keep him here for a few days.

The next day, Ying Ning climbed a tree to play, and when she saw the prince coming, she burst into laughter. I fell down, and I couldn't stop laughing when I got up. "You can't lean against a tree, but it will take a long time." Then there was a very interesting conversation.

When she finishes laughing, Wang Zifu shows Ying Ning the flowers she picked up last time in her sleeve. Ying Ning took it and said, "It's all withered. Why do you still keep it?" Wang Zifu respectfully said, "You left this on the ground last Yuan Festival, so I want to keep it." Ying Ning asked, "Why do you keep it?" The prince said, "Show my love." Ying Ning said; "What is this? I spend a lot of money here. I'll ask the servant to come over and tie a bundle for you to take back. " The prince was shocked: "Sister, are you stupid?" Ying Ning said, "Why do you call me stupid?" The prince said, "I love you, not flowers." Ying Ning said, "We have only met once. As for love?" Wang Zifu said: "All relationships that are not aimed at marriage are hooligans. When I say love, I don't mean ordinary love. I want to marry you and get a certificate! " Sister said: "Is there a difference between love in love and love in marriage?" The prince said, "When you get married, you have to sleep together!" " My sister bowed her head and thought for a long time and said, "I'm not used to sleeping with strangers." .....

seeing this, do you feel sorry for the prince's clothes? Ha ha ha! Really tired! But what's even funnier is that after a while, they met Ying Ning's foster mother, and the old woman asked where she had been. Ying Ning said she was talking to her brother, who said she wanted to sleep with me! Yes, you heard me right, that's what she said! Let's look at the embarrassment of the prince's clothes: I am so anxious. The woman smiled and stopped. Fortunately, I didn't smell it, but I still talked about it. I am anxious to cover it up with other words, because I blame my daughter for small words. The woman said, "Should I not say this?" Sheng said, "This is a bad language." The woman said, "If you carry others, do you have to carry your mother? And sleeping places are also common, why not? "

It is such a silly silly woman who likes to laugh, but Wang Zifu likes it and loves it to death. "Just because I saw you in the crowd!" It's really a mistake in the Lantern Festival for life. For the follow-up of the story, please go and read Strange Tales from a Lonely Studio. I don't need to say anything here.

III. Murder-"The first head change?" (judge lu)

Lantern Festival is very lively, but busy places are often dangerous. There is not only the possibility of trampling, but also the time when theft and robbery occur frequently. Strange Tales from a Lonely Studio? Judge lu mentioned a murder case that happened at midnight snack.

"Wu Shi Yu's daughter is very beautiful, but she lost her second husband when she was unmarried, so she is still young in the 19th century. When Shang Yuan visited the Ten Kings Palace, the tourists were very mixed, and rogue thieves peeped at it, so he visited Curie in the shade and entered by night ladder. Sleeping in the cave, killing a maid under the bed, forcing a woman to have sex with her. If a woman refuses to shout, the thief will be killed if he is angry. "

to serve the imperial court and supervise the imperial court. In the Ming and Qing Dynasties, there was a special supervision suggestion, which was transferred to Duchayuan, and others were sent to inspect the local area, namely, patrol press, patrol press suggestion in the Qing Dynasty, patrol the capital in the Qing Dynasty, patrol the city suggestion, supervise the suggestion and inspect the grain transportation, patrol the grain suggestion and so on. The story is about a beautiful daughter of Wu Yushi, who went out to play during the Lantern Festival and was seen by a pervert. When she saw it, she followed him home, climbed a ladder into her boudoir at night, and first killed one of her handmaiden, trying to rape the woman. The woman protested loudly, and the rapist was angry, so she was killed as soon as possible.

but it's not over yet. The Wu family stopped at the corpse hall, but after a night, the corpse was there, but the head was gone. The Wu family tortured the maid, and the maid only said: the dog ate it in his stomach. Wu waited on the court officer, but he didn't solve the case for three months. Later, it was discovered that there was a man named Zhu Erdan in the same county. His wife had recently changed her head, and she looked exactly like the Wu's dead daughter. The Wu sent someone to spy on it, thinking that the Zhujiajian would definitely kill her daughter with black magic and take her head away and replace it with her own woman. Zhu Erdan (Xiaoming) was sued. It's the first time I saw someone named Xiao Ming in ancient times. ) But Xiao Ming is wronged!

It turns out that Xiao Ming got to know Judge Lu of the underworld. Because Xiao Ming thought his wife was ugly, judge lu often ate his good wine and food, so he helped him pick up a beautiful head from the dead and put it on. Who knows, it hit the gun. At the end of this case, judge lu told the Wu's dead daughter to give her parents a dream, which showed the truth. Finally, the real criminal was brought to justice, and Xiaoming became the son-in-law of the Wu family because of his wife's head.

Not long ago, I saw a news story about a head switch, which was questioned by people because of ethical problems.

In fact, this story of Liaozhai has revealed the ethical dilemma behind it. Who is this person after the change of head? For example, is the woman who changed her head in the story still Xiao Ming's wife? We can see that this woman who successfully changed her head has also changed Xiaoming's identity subtly, and he has turned into the son-in-law of the Wu family who was not related before!

These are the three stories in Strange Tales from a Lonely Studio that happened on the Lantern Festival. Read the original if you are interested.