Is Ji Xiaolan really a man five times a day?

Is Ji Xiaolan really a man five times a day?

Text/Ma Qingyun

Recently, there is a gossip book called "Sage Please Remove Makeup". Rumor has it. A reader of Lao Ma Liao Sao came to consult me ??with the passage in this book about Ji Xiaolan being a maniac and asked whether it was true or not. When this book contains a chapter about Ji Xiaolan's indulgence in lust, it can be described as eloquent and erotic. As for Ji Xiaolan's "indulgence in sexual desire" story, the author of this book only heard it from hearsay. Judging from his article, he did not do any valuable reading, let alone any textual research.

If you search "Ji Xiaolan Indulges in Sexual Desire" on Baidu, you will find that the Ji Xiaolan chapter of "Sage Please Remove Makeup" is based on Internet jokes as "historical basis". Among the online jokes, there is a more interesting saying that Ji Xiaolan has to have sex five times a day, once before morning, once in the morning, once at noon, once in the evening and once before going to bed. Among these jokes, there are also stories about Ji Xiaolan being able to eat meat and eating ten kilograms at a time, and about Ji Xiaolan's childhood special ability of being able to see at night, etc. Common jokes are harmless enough to be used as conversation starters. However, there are indeed scholars who process "jokes" and make "academic research" gestures, such as the literature and history bibliography "Small Sections of Big History - Alternative Observations of Modern Chinese History" by teacher Zhou Yingjie of the Shandong Provincial Writers Association.

In the first chapter of this book, teacher Zhou Yingjie excerpted a few sentences from Qing people's notes based on popular jokes, and then determined that Ji Xiaolan was a prostitute five times a day, and thus came up with a false belief of his own. Conclusion——Ji Xiaolan vents her castrated soul through the indulgence of sexual desire. The most frightening thing is that Teacher Zhou did not do any research on the supporting notes he listed, and directly concluded that Ji Xiaolan indulged in sexual desire, and added a little bit of information about Lao Ji Xiu Siku Quanshu being castrated by the Qing emperor, and just said it openly. Ideological castration leads to excessive sexual indulgence. This is academically sloppy and will inevitably lead to loopholes and even errors.

Of course, teacher Zhou Yingjie’s article and the articles mentioned above are just hearsay. The author can speculate that the authors of those articles did not even provide the supporting materials they listed. I didn't read it carefully or even read it hastily. Taking the notes quoted in those articles as a breakthrough point, we might as well see whether they can stand up to scrutiny.

The articles that say Ji Xiaolan indulged in lust and even had sex with women five times a day, without exception, all quoted the following note:

Zhao Qiang in "Xiaoting Miscellaneous Records" It is also said in Volume 10 that "(Mr.) is already eighty this year, but he still has a lust for food. He eats dozens of kilograms of meat a day and does not eat a grain of rice all day long. He is a really strange person."

Zhao Qiang belongs to the category of people who don't worry about eating. A declining official who was worried about drinking and could not hold on to hunger, he wrote ten volumes of "Xiaoting Miscellaneous Records". Later, he became addicted and made up several more volumes. This book is written paragraph by paragraph, a bit like a chronicle of current customs, but it also records the history that the author himself has heard and seen. In the study of Qing history, historians have always regarded it as a necessary supplement to official history. In this book, Zhaoqiang specially opened a section about Ji Xiaolan in the tenth volume, but of course there are not many.

Ma Qingyun