Baoyuan Story and Waheiji Story in Military Stories

Baoyuan Story and Pingzhi Story are three military stories with Baoyuan Uprising and Waheiji Uprising as their themes respectively. Moreover, there are many similarities between the structure and articles of the two books, so it is popular to think that the author is the same person. But I can't help wondering about it.

In a sense, the two books are very similar. Focus on the chaos of Baoyuan or Pingzhi: the whole article is neat and unified, unlike the story of Pingjia, which is written a little and then a little; Therefore, describing this battle constitutes the center of this book. The representative stories of fighting for the protection of Yuan include the night attack on Baihetang and the battle of waiting for Xianmen (note 1). In terms of characters, the story of Baoyuan, the warrior who plays the leading role, is promising in the DPRK, and the story of Pingzhi is justice; The samurai who become their opponents, the former is the righteous dynasty, and the latter is the heavy sheng; The actions of the core figures of the government and the Elbow Warrior have no good end. The former is Lai Chang and the latter is trust (Note 2). These aspects are really similar, but can they be evidence that the author is the same person? In my opinion, this similarity will also appear when other authors refer to previous works, and it is more natural. It is more important to compare the ideas reflected in the content with the handling of historical facts than the formal comparison. If there are differences in this respect, it is hard to say that it was written by the same author; If you reluctantly think that it was written by the same person, you should think that it has undergone a considerable period of ideological change. I think there are great differences between the two books.

The first difference is that Baoyuan's story has the simplicity of record, while Pingzhi's story has a strong literary decoration. Of course, this is not to say that all descriptions of Baoyuan's story are correct. It also has many modifications and fallacies, but the narrative form pretends to be a record, it is a record. One of the facts, for example, proclamations, official symbols (decrees) and the original text of news were inserted into Baoyuan Story, but they were not inserted into Pingzhi Story. This is a great difference in narrative spirit.

The second difference is that there are many rhyming jokes and poems (poems satirizing current affairs) in the story of Pingzhi, which were written by Zheng Tai's minister Yitong in many cases (Note 3). There is no such joke in the meta-story. In addition, the author wrote more articles with lessons and explanations in The Story of Pingzhi than Baoyuan Story. Baoyuan Story is always a plain record of the facts, and in such a place, Pingzhi Story has added lesson rhetoric and explanatory articles.

Based on the above differences, I question the statement that the two books were written by the same author. People think that Baoyuan's story ranks first, and Pingzhi's story ranks last. It is probably only after the incident that onlookers are in no hurry about the story of Pingzhi, but the detailed record of Baoyuan's story can be written without such a long time.

For another example, the sequence of the two books is illustrated by specific notes, that is, the notes on the restoration of the death penalty during the first year of Bao. After the Baoyuan Rebellion, more than 70 people, including Wei Yi, were beheaded in Yuanping (Note 4), and it was emphasized that the death penalty, which had been suspended for 347 years since Hong Ren Yuan (8 10), was resumed. The story is recorded in both stories, the facts are basically the same, and both stories illustrate their significance. However, the story of Pingzhi added a paragraph after this note: Record outside the palace (Note 6) Note: Zhong Cheng was shot in the forbidden area (Note 7), so it was not really beheaded. This passage shows that the author wants to put the beginning of the suspended execution of death penalty in an era earlier than the year of Hong Ren. This is an expression of feelings trying to explain more strongly the significance of restoring the death penalty in the first year of Baoyuan, and it is a revised opinion after seeing Baoyuan's story. Obviously, the author of "Biography of Pingzhi" referred to this article in "Biography of Baoyuan", wrote his own article, supplemented the knowledge recorded outside the palace, and put forward some suggestions for revision.

Secondly, the relationship between Baoyuan story, Pingzhi story and Pingjia story. According to Dr. Sataro from Fujioka, the popular view is that Pingjia's story comes first and Baoyuan Waheiji's story comes last. I agree with this statement. It's just that I think the story of a flat armor mentioned here probably refers to the three-volume story of a flat armor written before Cheng Jiu. However, in the period when the popular form was completed (Note 8), two books should have appeared. The two books, especially the story of Heizhi, repeatedly talk about Genji's greatness as a samurai, and can also be used as proof that the two books are the works of Genji's general era.

1. Night attack on Baihe Temple: 1 156. 1 1 At dawn in July, Masahito's Pingqingsheng and Minamotono Yoshitomo raided the rebel stronghold Baihe Temple (east of Hetaochuan, at the foot of Damen Temple) and won a great victory. Battle of Daixian Gate:1159 65438+On February 26th, Chen Ping Chongsheng led an army to attack the Minamotono Yoshitomo army from Daixian Gate (one of the twelve gates outside the palace), and the two sides fought fiercely, but Yuan Yi fled and was killed.

2. Minamotono Yoshitomo: The source is Yi Changzi; The source is the DPRK: the source is the righteous eight sons; Laichang: Minister Zuo. During the Baoyuan Rebellion, Minamotono Yoshitomo sided with Masahito, and its source was that North Korea sided with Chongde Huang Shang and Fujiwara Laichang. Yuan: the eldest son of Minamotono Yoshitomo; Trustee: Zhong. They and Minamotono Yoshitomo were both defeated and killed in the Pingzhi rebellion.

3. Jiutiaoyitong: 1093- 1 165, Minister Taisheng.

4. The source is righteousness: 1096— 1 156. The military commander stood on the side of Chongde in the Baoyuan rebellion and was defeated and killed.

5. Qin Shihuang: The 52nd emperor, who reigned from 809 to 823. Fujiwara Nakamori: 774-80 1 year, participated in the Senate, was the planner of the Yaozi Rebellion in 8 10, and was the shooter of the Imperial Army.

6. Records outside the palace: Diary of Foreign Affairs Bureau of Zheng Tai officials.

7. The forbidden area is the prison.

8. Year number. Renzhi,1240-1242; Length: 1249- 1255.