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Historical archives(parts of cultural documents since 1980s) | 1980年代以来与朱大可有关的部分历史文献 watch culture Historical Archives As a cultural watcher, Zhu Dake planned, witnessed or was invited to attend some cultural activities. This library collects related records and documents to preserve those historical memories that have long since passed away. Ancient Myths and Contemporary Narratives ——Zhu Dake’s speech and dialogue at Tsinghua University Ancient Myths and Contemporary Narratives ——Zhu Dake’s speech and dialogue at Tsinghua University Ancient Myths and Contemporary Narratives ——Zhu Dake’s speech and dialogue at Tsinghua University Ancient Myths and Contemporary Narratives ——Zhu Dake’s speech and dialogue at Tsinghua University Ancient Myths and Contemporary Narratives ——Zhu Dake’s speech and dialogue at Tsinghua University How to transform our view of time and space Speech at the "Zhu Dake Salon" of the seventh issue of "Yunjian Wenhui" A literary fantasy drifting ——Zhu Dake's "Ancient Matters" series new book sharing session A literary fantasy drifting ——Zhu Dake's "Ancient Matters" series new book sharing session Summary of 93 China's "21st Century New Space" Cultural Symposium 2010 Shanghai World ExpoFuture Pavilion plan 2010 Shanghai World Expo China Pavilion Planning Scheme 2010 Shanghai World Expo China Pavilion Planning Scheme 2010 Shanghai World Expo China Pavilion Planning Scheme 2010 Shanghai World Expo China Pavilion Planning Scheme

Researh institution relaited to Dake Zhu Research institutions related to Zhu Dake can be roughly divided into three categories: the first category is purely academic, such as research projects or laboratories set up by universities and libraries; the second category is more commercial, such as research institutions in Pudong, Shanghai , whose goal is the incubation and operation of the copyright of Zhu Dake's mythological works; the third category is a multi-combination, such as the New York Research Institute in preparation. 研究机构简介 研究机构简介 研究机构简介 研究机构简介 Monash University launches Zhu Dake's research topic Monash University, a member of the Australian Ivy League, approved a translation research project on Zhu Dake in July 2022, entitled "Deciphering Cultural Metaphors in Zhu Dake's Works", which was led by Xu Zhichang and Liu Hai Hosted by Lan Lan, and received the first phase of financial support from the school, the second phase of research funding will be provided by the Xinjinshan Chinese Library and its foundation. The project aims to go beyond the borders of Chinese geography and Chinese literature, and directly hit the myth/literary scene in the field of East Asian cultural linguistics with a cross-regional and cross-cultural attitude. 上海科技影都AI创制生态中心启动，未来电影就这么拍！ The unveiling ceremony will be held in May 2013 The unveiling ceremony will be held in May 2013 Monash University launches Zhu Dake's research topic Monash University, a member of the Australian Ivy League, approved a translation research project on Zhu Dake in July 2022, entitled "Deciphering Cultural Metaphors in Zhu Dake's Works", which was led by Xu Zhichang and Liu Hai Hosted by Lan Lan, and received the first phase of financial support from the school, the second phase of research funding will be provided by the Xinjinshan Chinese Library and its foundation. The project aims to go beyond the borders of Chinese geography and Chinese literature, and directly hit the myth/literary scene in the field of East Asian cultural linguistics with a cross-regional and cross-cultural attitude. 蒙纳士大学帮助新金山图书馆解码中文文本 New Jinshan Chinese Library in Ballarat, Australia set up "Zhu Dake Works Research Room" Ballary, Victoria, is a famous city formed in the old gold rush era. Chinese gold diggers and their descendants have become important residents of this city. Xinjinshan Chinese Library, founded by Mr. Sun Haoliang, moved from Melbourne to the new location in Ballary last year, and specially set up the "Zhu Dake Works Research Room", which echoes the research project of Monash University, and becomes an important source of Chinese literature for Australian minorities. One of the many items to pay homage to. 新金山图书馆创始人孙浩良先生接受维多利亚信使报记者采访 Established in Shanghai Pudong "Zhu Dake Mythology Shanghai Research Center" Shanghai, as the birthplace of Zhu Dake and a landmark city of modern Chinese civilization, has shown a strong interest in historical traditions. Relevant organizations are preparing the "Shanghai Incubation Base for China's Mythology Industry" and the "Zhu Dake Mythology Shanghai Research Center", trying to transcend the pathological constraints of the pandemic era and reconstruct the relationship between mythology and history with a future-oriented attitude. associated. The unveiling ceremony will be held in May 2013 Preparations for establishment in North America "Zhu Dake Mythology Institute (New York)" As the residence of Zhu Dake, New York is the world's top commercial/cultural gathering place. The Zhu Dake Institute of Mythology (New York), which is under preparation, tries to transcend the distinction between the East and the West, relying on the breakthrough research results of New Energy Science in the United States, break through the disciplinary barriers of mythology, occultism, life energy, natural therapy and psychoanalysis, and focus on Construct a cross-cultural and cross-time and space body and mind healing system. New Jinshan Chinese Library in Ballarat, Australia set up "Zhu Dake Works Research Room" Ballary, Victoria, is a famous city formed in the old gold rush era. Chinese gold diggers and their descendants have become important residents of this city. Xinjinshan Chinese Library, founded by Mr. Sun Haoliang, moved from Melbourne to the new location in Ballary last year, and specially set up the "Zhu Dake Works Research Room", which echoes the research project of Monash University, and becomes an important source of Chinese literature for Australian minorities. One of the many items to pay homage to. The unveiling ceremony will be held in May 2013 The old appearance of Zhu Dake Cultural Creativity (Shanghai) Studio 朱大可文化创意（上海）工作室，注册成立于2016年，原址在静安区永和路汇智广场，是朱大可及其团队进行研究、创作和市场运作的主要基地，从这里诞生了大量文化创意作品。2023年1月，因疫情和其他可以理解的原因，该工作室正式谢幕。此处保存了长达八年的场景记忆，为了那些神思飞扬的岁月......

Online warehouse and exhibition hall of Zhu Dake's works，Contains Dake Zhu's cultural criticism, mythological studies, and historical studies, novels, essays, and research materials about him. "The Great Pail" Derivative Project This is the author's first full-length novel set in exotic Central America. The "core character" of this book, the Feathered Serpent God, originated in the Yin and Shang Dynasties and was formerly known as "Yinglong". Another "behind-the-scenes figure" worth mentioning is Youhouxi. Three thousand years ago, the king of Youhou in the east led 250,000 survivors to flee to the sea because of his failure to succeed. After arriving in America, the Olmec civilization was established with the worship of Feathered Serpent as the spiritual axis. This novel takes this as the historical background and tells the legendary stories that happened in Central America in the eighteenth century. Great Pail’s Audio/Himalaya Radio 前往大桶简介 Report of Great Pail Symposium The Great Pail Story Summary The story takes place in the tropical rainforest of Central America at the end of the 17th century. A mysterious tribe "Tizoke" from "Yindi" on the other side of the ocean has multiplied here for three thousand years and evolved into an independent round city "Tizoke" driven by a perpetual motion machine, commonly known as "Big Barrel". , lingering under the rule of the high priest Hopi. The high priest tampered with the ancient doctrine of Feathered Serpent God, created lies, ignorance and fear, and turned the entire city-state into a solid "siege". With the help of his earthly incarnation, a family that spreads love, through the miracle of birth and death, Feathered Serpent tries to save this lonely city-state that is always spinning on itself, and help it escape the fate of tyranny and destruction. The kind-hearted spiritual guide, Moers, is the earthly son of Feathered Serpent, and has a beautiful family; his son Popoka is a technological genius, keen on making aircraft, and wants to escape from the closed city; his daughter Angie is born with Divinity and magic, was arrested by Hopi for inadvertently "creating visions", and was about to be burned to death as a witch, but she was safe and sound in the fire, showing rare miracles. Hopi then changed her mind and shaped her into a "goddess of death", imprisoned in the temple, and accepted the peeping and worship of the residents, thereby strengthening her rule. Moers tried to rescue his daughter through the vote of the elders. All the elders who supported him were poisoned, and his beloved wife Dana was also murdered in the hospital. The grieving Moers tried to rescue his daughter Angie from the temple, but she was bewitched by Hopi and killed her father by mistake. At this time, the Feathered Serpent God suddenly came and took away the body of Moers in the eyes of all the people. Angie came to his senses, and with the encouragement of his father's old friend, Lao Baozi, he publicly exposed Hopi's crimes to the people. The people were awakened and revolted. "Barrel" restored justice to Feathered Serpent. But the Mole Man family, which manages the underground perpetual motion machine, accepted a mysterious order, abandoned Tizok, and moved to the deepest part of the earth, and the perpetual motion machine stopped rotating ever since. The brothers and sisters Popoca and Angie also bid farewell to their hometown and went to the depths of the rainforest to have children there, avoiding the ultimate fate of the city-state of Tizoc being destroyed by the Spaniards. Read the vat segment Big barrel noun list 【Tizok】 A circular city in the middle of the Central American rainforest sits on a super perpetual motion machine whose outer ring spins like a clock. With hundreds of years of history, it believes in the Feathered Serpent God and is basically isolated from the outside world. 【Feathered snake god】 The main god believed by the Tizoke people, the patron saint of Tizoke City, is in charge of life and birth, and is the spiritual pillar of the residents of the city. 【Perpetual motion machine】 The technological core of Tizok City, the source of its technology is unknown. Managed by the Lorenzo family, its true structure is hidden underground and remains unknown to this day. In 1963, it was ranked first among the "Top Ten Suspenseful Buildings in America" by El Universal, Mexico. 【Guide】 A profession that specializes in soul guidance for the dying is one of the most important spiritual affairs in Tizoke City, because it represents the Feathered Serpent God's care for life. 【High Priest】 The management of Tizok is a structure that combines politics and religion, and the priesthood is responsible for the worship of Feathered Serpent God, as well as the research, interpretation and dissemination of related theology. The high priest is the leader of this group and has supreme power. 【Presbyterian Church】 Consisting of the aristocratic class, it decides the important affairs of Tizok by voting, but its structure is fragile, and it can only survive under the pressure of the priests. Historical speculation on the spread of Chinese civilization to America: Chinese Elements in Mayan Civilization The Dichotomy of Cultural Anthropology Two British and American old men, Toynbee and Huntington, started the debate on the grand narrative of civilization. This is undoubtedly a deconstruction of human history, which has triggered a new wave of historical standardization. As the elite members of human beings, the intellectuals have declared without shame that they have the powerful ability to draw a line with the humble animal kingdom, that is, they have found the four great signs that distinguish humans from animals. The best-selling author Yuval Noah Harari claimed in "A Brief History of Human Beings" that walking upright, having a larger brain capacity, using fire (becoming the earliest cook in the biological world and the inventor of the dark night culture), and being good at socializing are all important. It is the main scale for human beings to differentiate themselves from the animal kingdom, and it is also the four magic weapons for human beings to climb to the top of the biological chain. Although this classification method is crude and uninnovative, it is enough to satisfy the cognitive hunger of the scientifically illiterate public. This kind of standardized operation can also be repeated in the writing of human history. When people need to name some human historical activities in ancient times, they will use "culture" to name them. For example, historians call the remains of human activities discovered in the Yangshao area "Yangshao Culture". And there are four standards to measure this "culture" - The first is to have pantheistic religious beliefs and have professionals such as priests and wizards; the second is to master a complex language system and be able to use this language to start a dialogue with gods/humans; the third is to have mobility/settlement The gathering villages and houses with vegetation/stone materials; the fourth is the use of stone and pottery tools, stone tools tend to be more detailed, and there is a differentiation of tools and decorative functions, and it is possible to fire wheeled pottery (especially painted pottery), And make it an important commodity in regional trade. After the "culture" continued to move forward, people finally waited for the great thing called "civilization". The lonely fireball on the ground slowly illuminates the wise faces of human beings. Green Daniel proposed three signs to measure civilization. The first is writing, whether it is pure pictographic or pictographic/phonetic double-material writing; the second is the emergence of large-scale cities, even with tall terraces, stairs and city walls. And it can accommodate more than 5,000 residents; the third is the ritual building that forms a system, such as the pyramids of Egypt and Maya; Japanese and Chinese scholars also add a fourth sign, which is the metal manufacturing system marked by bronze casting (mining, smelting and casting technology), this "three plus one" system, has become the basic tableware that people use to taste history. This is actually the three "globalization" processes in the history of early human evolution. In the first stage of "gene seeding period", the great migration from Africa achieved the great goal of Homo sapiens globalization; and in the second stage of "painted pottery seeding period", human beings promoted The wave of globalization of painted pottery. In the third stage of the "bronze seeding period", human beings completed the process of bronze globalization by means of escape and trade. Without these three baptisms of "globalization", the cultural miracle of the "Axial Age" would not have occurred. (Click here to read the full article ) Historical background of the story of "The Big Barrel"

Fragment of Create Oracle by Zhu Dake back to homepage Excerpts from Zhu Dake's Novels Ancient Chronicles Volume 1 character one When the boy was lying in the woods and dreaming, the sunlight passed through the dense leaves and hit his face directly, forming some flickering spots, and the light and shadow entered the dream, turning into ripples on the water. He saw himself swimming in the water in the pose of a fish, paying homage to everything in the water. He greets other fish, shrimps and crabs at the bottom of the water, and even snail schools floating on the muddy bank. His heart was filled with great joy. He is free and infinitely friendly to the world. Since he was two years old, he has been indulging in this kind of daydreaming. Every morning, he sneaks into the miscellaneous woods behind the house, and lies under an old flowering locust tree, surrounded by the sun, like wearing clothes. When I put on a robe made of light fibers, the drowsiness immediately extended from my head, chest, abdomen and limbs like tree roots, as if petrified, until I was awakened by my grandmother at dusk. Granny was a witch, and she was the only one who could walk into his dreams, drag him out, spank his ass with a branch, and drive him home. "It's time to eat, my little beast." Grandma bleated like a trembling sheep, "The fish in the water are already waiting for you in the pot." The boy is a mute, born with a missing tongue in his mouth, and cannot describe to his grandmother his happiness in the dream. He grabbed grandma's hand and called, grandma Then he laughed: "Oh, you little bastard, you either sleep or shit." The boy happily ran into the weeds and took a dip in the stinking shit. After finishing, he let out another cry happily, and saw light gray cooking smoke rising from the chimney of the hut. He grabbed two earthworms as shoelaces, and they threaded themselves through the rope buckles of the straw sandals, and tied a bow at the end, and then lay quietly on the sandals. on. He ran into the house with his shoes on, sat by the firepit, and saw a fish with a big mouth and sharp teeth lying in the pot. Across the steaming soup pot, a beautiful little face was looking at him with a smile. That's his cousin Axio. She sneezed loudly and said, "What are you doing in your dream, little bastard today?" The boy pointed at the fish with his finger and pretended to open his mouth to speak again. The girl said, "Oh I see, this fish bit you just now, so you have to eat it." She looked at the boy with a smirk on her face. The boy didn't eat the fish. He quickly ate up the millet in the bowl, and then he went to pull the girl's braids. The girl also dropped the chopsticks and took a bite on his hand, leaving a shallow ring of tooth marks like stamps. . They started playing and fighting around the house. This is their daily homework. Grandma smiled and looked at the grandchildren around her knees, as if looking at the world in a song. Boys tie knots in girls' slender braids. While dodging, the girl said to the boy: "Jie, you are so fierce to me, but I am so kind to you, even if I eat a flea, I will split your leg." The boy laughed loudly, and stretched out a flea to her. The index finger means to give her a finger. The girl added: "If elder brother Jie is a puppy, then younger sister is a small bone for elder brother to run around with." The girl also said: "If we are together in the future, I will make everything come together. I will put my shoes in your shoes, put your socks in my socks, and make clothes with clothes. Pillows and pillows become husband and wife, and my hands and Jie's hands also become husband and wife." Jie became a little shy after hearing this, and stretched out his hand to cover the girl's mouth. The girl pushed his hand away and stuck her tongue into his mouth again. Jie sucked the girl's little meat tongue, like a warm little fish, thinking how soft and fragrant it was, and the body fluid carried the aroma of green grass. The girl said: "Our mouths should also become husband and wife." Jie's head was a little dizzy, and he was shocked by this kiss, as if he had fallen into grandma's steaming tub. For many years afterwards, he could not forget this first kiss of the soul. After late at night, when grandma and the girl went to sleep, Jie entered another state of his own—starting to draw and draw on the mud floor. The creatures of the night have been dispatched, wolves howling in the nearby spring, night owls laughing horribly, and hungry tigers roaring in the valley far away. Jie also let out his own childish howl. Like a little wolf, he sat in front of the house, leaning against the hard and cold door, and began to draw symbols on the mud. This is a technique taught by my grandmother. When the wizards practiced it, they would use ignited carbon strips to draw black runes on banana leaves or sorghum leaves. The way disappears into thin air. Jie drew a talisman in the shape of a tree, and another in the shape of a bird's foot. After erasing, continue to draw the third one, and so on indefinitely. He could feel the energy of these runes, they smiled when they were drawn, but let out a slight sigh when they were erased. There is only one moment from laughing to sighing. Their lives are so short, which makes Jie a little sentimental. The precocious mute boy thought in a dazed way that all these laughter and sighs should be bottled up so that they would not die of witchcraft. His sadness flowed from his fingers and fell into the dry soil. But he kept doing it over and over again. day to day. Dreaming and drawing symbols, this is the only thing in his life. Even when it is windy and rainy, he oscillates between these two states. Cousin Axio sometimes came to interfere in a mischievous way. She covered his eyes with a laugh, played with the round bone on his forehead, twisted his ears, and sent a group of dark-skinned ants into him. collar. Jie is happy when he is dreaming, sad when he is drawing symbols, and happy only when he is teased by Axie. He smiled foolishly, fascinated by the smell of grass on Axie's body. On this day, the witch grandmother dragged him out of the dream, took him by the hand, and led him out of the village called "Hougang" to go to a nearby village to go to the market. Grandma greeted many farmers and women along the way, saying all kinds of strange words. At the market, she again haggled at each stall. In order to buy a handful of vegetables at a low price, she almost exhausted her words of flattery, and even issued a witchcraft-like threat, saying that if she refused to lower the price, she would turn the vegetable farmer's home into hell. In the end, both parties always complete the transaction very amicably. Jie turned a deaf ear to this. He squatted alone by the side of the road, drawing amulets on the ground with his fingers. The villagers all knew this mute boy, and they looked at him with pity, thinking that he was not only a little mute, but also a fool. Sometimes there was a look of contempt on their faces. Yes, humans can tolerate an aphasic, but not an idiot. Jie has long been accustomed to people's eyes. There is always a silly smile on his face, like a charm fixed on his cheek. He draws runes according to the things in the market (chicken, meat, eggs, vegetables, etc.), and then erases them, watching them be born and dying quickly, mourning their short life, and immersing themselves in the tragedy of the circular game of symbols. In joy. After erasing hundreds of talismans, Jie raised his gaze, wanting to see where his grandma was. Grandma was missing, and the crowd was still so crowded and noisy. On a street corner not far away, an old hunchback beggar was being severely beaten. He looked as if he had stolen someone's money, his tattered clothes were covered with dust, and his knotted white beard was covered with blood. Jie was very unhappy. He felt that the old man was very pitiful and needed his help, so he walked over, uttered a cry, and stood majestically between the old man and the crowd with his hips akimbo. Everyone was stunned. The beating man also slapped Jie, causing countless golden stars to appear in his eyes. But he didn't fall down, still maintaining an angry look. Someone next to him recognized him and told him not to beat him. It was the grandson of the witch in Hougang Village. The beater was a little surprised and had to leave cursing. Jie went to look at the old man, but he had already stood up, his hunchback straightened, the blood on his beard disappeared, his ragged clothes became luxurious and shiny, and he looked at him with blazing eyes, as if he had changed into a different person. "I know your name is Jie, and you are the grandson of the witch." The old man smiled, "I have been looking for you for a long time." Jie looked at the old man in surprise, thinking that he was more miraculous than a talisman. He touched the leafy beard with his hand, and found that they were braided into hundreds of strands, each with hundreds of tiny knots, which seemed innumerable. He didn't know if it was a mark of age, or it represented some other more mysterious meaning. The old man laughed and said, "There are 38,000 knots here, which represent my age." If you want to count them, it will take more than 300 days. The old man touched it with his hands, and the knots disappeared completely, and his sparse beard fluttered loosely around his mouth, like a pile of weeds swaying in the wind. Jie was stunned. The old man said: "These are the knotting symbols taught to humans by the gods. You should understand their meaning. Come with me, and I will teach you a new game." Jie followed the old man to a secluded alley. The old man handed him a piece of tortoise shell and a ox blade, and Jie was holding them in his hand to play with, when the old man suddenly stretched out two fingers, quickly inserted them into Jie's eyes, and then pulled them out abruptly. Jie felt a sharp pain, cried out, and squatted down. When he stood up and opened his eyes, the old man had disappeared. Jie felt a little panic, not knowing what happened. Eyes are cooling and seeing more clearly. Looking around, he could actually see two hamsters making out on the chimney more than a hundred feet away. He was taken aback and quickly closed his eyes, thinking he was hallucinating. When I opened my eyes again, the hamster had already escaped, leaving behind a few grains of black and shiny rat droppings. Jie felt a little dizzy. He put away his strange gaze and walked slowly back to the street. Grandma was already waiting there with an anxious look on her face. He followed the grandma who had returned home with a full load and walked home. Along the way, grandma looked at him carefully and said: Why did your eyes become double pupils? What happened to you just now? Oh, you dumb little bastard. " Jie ran to the river, and saw that his eyes had turned into double pupils, that is, in the original dark brown pupils, there appeared a pure black pupil, like a big circle surrounded by a small circle, reflecting the moonlight. Fantastic color. "Why is this?" He looked at grandma in a panic. Grandma was also suspicious. They looked at each other. After seeing the changes in Jie, Axie was also very surprised. She watched it repeatedly for a long time, and said in a fuss: "Brother Jie has become a monster, but I like it very much." That night, Jiexiang sat at the door drawing symbols as usual, and suddenly found that his eyes could still see the nature of things in the dark. The souls of those small gravels are dancing on the ground, shining brightly; the souls of trees are sucking the sap of the earth, and even the weeds become brilliant and emit a crystal luster. A few beetles are still working, they are like some gold carved into insects, shining brightly, making the whole dark night appear brilliant. Faced with this change, Jie was a little at a loss. He stretched out his fingers carefully, and saw that the fingertips were also shining, like the buttocks of fireflies. He tried to draw a "worm" symbol on his palm, and it flew up like a paper-cut, suspended in mid-air. Jie startled the boss. Now the talisman not only laughed and sighed, but became a visible entity, which he had never expected. He drew a "window" symbol with his finger, and a pane made of light appeared in front of his eyes. An old man waved to him from outside the window. He was the one he met in the market during the day. He poked his head out and smiled, "We meet again." Jie wanted to say something to him, but he just let out a cry of surprise. The old man smiled: "It seems that you have forgotten the function of the tongue. Now you can speak. I am the great god Fuxi. From now on, you must use your tongue to praise me and the merits of all the gods." Jie nodded with a smirk. "I want to use your hand to change the world. Make a good sign, and you will become the greatest prophet in the world." Fuxi stepped back and disappeared into the void together with the window frame. In this way, Jie obtained the power of writing symbols from Fuxi God. This is not tribal witchcraft, but an unprecedented supernatural power. Jie drew a "tongue" symbol on his mouth, and something suddenly grew out of his mouth. He looked in the pool water and found that there was really a stretchable light red soft flesh in his mouth. Thankfully, based on the grace of God Fuxi, he found the lost tongue for himself. Jie happily woke up Grandma and Axie, showed them his magic power, showed them his tongue, and explained its origin to them. They were all stupefied by this miracle, unable to speak for a while. Grandma lit a pine light, wrote a thank you talisman, and burned it under the statue of Fuxi. Axie sneezed and said, "Brother Jie can talk, I'm so happy." Since then, Jie has the ability to create characters. He alternates his index fingers with each other and writes various hieroglyphs on the palm in turn. When he draws the character "Deng", there is an extra oil lamp in the house; when he writes and draws "鬲" symbols, there is an extra Li pot in the yard. Grandma said, I won't go to the market anymore, you can make it for me. Jie then drew the "fish" character, and live fish wagging its head and tail appeared in the basket; he drew the "melon" character, and the scaffolding in front of the door was full of melons and fruits; full-bodied crops. He also drew a "turtle" symbol for Axio, and Axio immediately got a charming green turtle. It crawled slowly on Axie's little hand, with a hard carapace and soft eyes. When dusk fell, grandma started steaming rice and cooking fish, and there was a faint smoke from the chimney. Axie said, I don't want the dark, Brother Jie will bring me some light. After thinking for a while, Jie drew a "Sun" symbol on his left palm with his right hand, and a "Moon" symbol on his right palm with his left hand, and then put the two palms together to form a "Ming" symbol. Suddenly, the sun and the moon juxtaposed in the sky. The sun at dusk no longer sets, but the moonlight has risen. One of them is on the west side of the sky, and the other is on the east side of the sky, reflecting each other, making the already dim sky extremely bright. People ran out of their houses to watch, thinking that it was God descending from heaven. Axio pulled grandma out of the house, pointed to the vision in the sky and said, "Look, brother Jie did it." The grandma squinted her eyes for a while, then sighed and said, "My child, you have played too much. I don't know whether this is a blessing or a curse." Neither Jie nor Achoe paid any attention to the witch's grandmother's worries. Continue to play the game of drawing symbols in front of the door. He drew the symbols of "Shui" and "Ye", and another pond appeared beside the pond; he drew the symbols of "Fu" and "Tao", and a pottery kiln appeared beside the pond. Jie took Axio's hand around the pond to the pottery kiln, touched its outer wall, and found that it was a real object. Jie cried with joy, and he said to Axie: "I will draw a beautiful house for you, and put you in it like a little doll." Axie also smiled: "I want to eat and sleep with you inside." At this time, a loud and pleasant sound suddenly came out from the bright sky. Grandma's face was pale, and she said tremblingly: "Oops, Jie angered the gods. I'm afraid our family will be in trouble." She heard the crying of the undead around, snakes and other reptiles passed through the grass and hid in I never dared to come out of my own cave. There was heavy rain in the sky, and corn, fish and vegetables were mixed in the rain, and the people ran out to pick them up, immersed in the carnival of getting something for nothing. Axie said, "Grandma, this doesn't look like a god is angry." Grandma looked at the rainy sky, and at the rice and vegetables on the ground: "Yes, I'm confused too." At the end of the day, a huge rainbow appeared in the sky. They rose from the hill behind Jie's house and disappeared in the opposite hill, forming a semicircular ribbon. Grandma's sad expression became relieved, and she sat on the threshold: "This is a covenant between the gods and Jie. They have reached a reconciliation." Only Jie knew that it was Fuxi's compliment to him. But he didn't tell anyone. He is still used to the silence of the past. Axie fell ill the next day. At first she was referring to a sore throat, cough, and forehead fever, which progressed to chills and a high fever. She said to her grandmother, "My head hurts so much." Jie gave up sleeping and dreaming, and stayed by her side, seeing bruises all over her body, which turned from bright red to purple. On the third morning, she began to vomit incessantly, uttered strange nonsense, convulsed, and fell into a semi-comatose state. When she woke up, she said to Jie: "Brother, I dreamed that this room is my body. It is hot, and I live in it. My sweat turned into mist and rain in the dream. Now I want to go Now, go to a cooler place." Jie started to cry and said he didn't want her to go, he wanted to drive her away the disease, he first drew the "worm" symbol, and then drew the "knife" symbol, combined them together, and wanted to use the knife to kill the insects, but Axie's His condition didn't improve at all. He imagined how his grandmother would write a talisman to pray for gods, so he drew a "begging" talisman and added a "wen" talisman to form a "save" talisman, but Fuxi never responded and appeared as an old beggar. In the middle of the night, Jie suddenly fell asleep uncharacteristically. He dreamed that many black worms crawled out of Axie's five orifices, and even his mouth was full of worms. Even the tears that flowed from his eyes turned into insect. When Jie woke up, the bug was gone. Axie just left quietly, like a light sneeze. Grandma caressed her small body and sang, seeing off her young soul. Jie burst into tears, His tears flowed to the ground, forming a "crying" symbol, and the tears continued to flow outside the house and into the pond. The fish and shrimp were startled at first, and then they all cried. Plants and flowers wept, birds and beasts wept, and the whole world wept. It was only after Jie grew up that he realized that his talisman magic was limited, and he couldn't even save the girl he loved the most. But Jie still grew up in the unfailing sleep. His grandmother passed away when he was fourteen years old, and a locust tree grew on the grave of Axie, and every day the branch swayed in the wind, whispering to him with unclear meaning. Once, he dreamed that Axie looked at him from that world. When he wanted to hug her, she disappeared. He suddenly realized that Axio was too busy and sent a shadow to visit just now. In the infinite solitude, he became a half-god, half-human talisman maker, and a priest in charge of Fuxi. In his dreams, he used his fingers to write strange lines on his belly, thus constantly creating new characters, and as he created characters, corresponding things were also born in the world. People call this symbol "character", and the act of drawing characters is called "writing". Jie calls his own creation "character creation". In this unique "character creation", he created all kinds of brand new things for the world. I don't know when, Jie's character creation is no longer limited to dreams, but quietly transferred to daily reality scenes. He started generating glyphs in his waking state, and everything seemed freer. He hoped to be blessed by the gods, so he made the word "God", and as a result, a statue of Fuxi appeared on the edge of the field; he built a "temple", and a small temple appeared in the village; "" symbol and "you" symbol, a "temple" appeared at the end of the field, and the big roof covered the statue and the field, becoming a larger place for worship. Cangjie lived in the temple he built and became a priest of Fuxi, responsible for conveying the will of God. When he made the character "che", a single wheel and two-wheeled carts appeared; when he made the character "Lv", laws appeared; when he made the character "city", city walls and cities appeared; , instruments and music appeared. However, free characters will also produce some bad characters and typos, just like the self-malignant reproduction of tumor cells-"骉", "粉", "飝" and "Si Lei (pia)", or characters with too many strokes such as "䵴"wait. Jie can only create characters, but cannot eliminate them. He can only wait for those typos to rot over the years, or grow wild like weeds. Until the end of his life, Jie did not find an effective way to eliminate it. Jie began to carry out his character-making activities more cautiously, because every mistake could lead to disaster. In order to prevent the bad words from spreading, he must find easy-to-access containers for the good words. He remembered the tortoise shell and ox bone that God Fuxi once gave him. These two treasures were used as funerary objects and turned into dust together with Axio. Jie first chose the ox blade, and saw that it was covered with ghosts from hell; he tried to put the tortoise shell to his ear, but he heard the faint sound of heaven, as if God was whispering. Jie then chose the tortoise shell. Kunwu, a helper in the temple, was his first disciple. He collected discarded tortoise shells everywhere, cleaned and polished them carefully. Jie engraved the characters one by one on the tortoise shell, and then hung them on the beams of the temple, just like hanging shells from the ocean. The tortoise board swayed in the wind, making a melodious jingle sound like wind chimes, as if greetings from the god of water and wind. The world at this time is divided into two kinds of things, one is original, and the other is produced through word creation. Characters are also divided into two categories: one is the imitation of foreign objects (pictographic), known as "mirror characters", and the other is the creation of foreign objects, known as "original characters", the latter type of characters are spiritual, Tongshen is a higher level of writing. When Jie created 800 characters, the city will present a complete appearance according to his characters: palaces, temples, workshops, warehouses, roads, shops and city walls, new things emerge one after another, dazzling. Thus nations and civilizations are happily born. The people were elated by this. They went into the temple to worship and knelt down in front of the statue of Fuxi. When they saw Priest Jie, they cheered enthusiastically. Cangjie became a little arrogant. He refused to see the people who asked for help, and he refused to help them, because their petty demands were not worth his time. A little girl with a runny nose said to her: "Jie, my clay doll is broken, can you help me make a new one?" Jie looked at her ugly face and ignored her request. Later, an old woman in ragged clothes came. She leaned on a cane and said, "Jie, I have too few clothes. I'm afraid I won't be able to survive this severe winter. Can you help me?" Shall I make a woolen jacket? " Jie smiled and said, "I don't know how to do this, so go to a tailor and make one." It was a day in the depths of winter, and a thick layer of ice had formed on the ground. Jie was repairing his statue. A musician named Shi Xiang walked into the temple with a banjo on his back. He said that his fingers had pointed out the problem and asked him to treat him. Jie flatly refused him. Jie said, "You should go to a doctor or a wizard, not a priest like me." The luthier said, "I can show you my symptoms." Jie smiled contemptuously, ignored it, and turned to leave. But before he had time to walk out of the front yard, the sound of the piano had already resounded throughout the courtyard. Jie was taken aback, turned around to look, and found that Shi Xiang plucked the water sound feather strings corresponding to winter, and played the yellow bell rhythm representing November. On the roof, there is thick snow everywhere. At first Jie thought it was just a coincidence, he picked up the snow, sniffed it under his nose, and said with a smile, "Sir is like a fortune teller, he can predict when it will snow." Hearing what he said, Shi Xiang changed the tune, plucked the wooden horn strings corresponding to spring, and played the bell rhythm representing the early spring and February. Wild flowers are in full bloom, colorful birds are flying in the air, and swimming fish are jumping in the water. The heavy snow and solid ice melted quickly, turning into thin streams of water. Jie was a little dizzy now, he knew that a more powerful character than him was coming. He immediately bowed his hands and said: "Sorry sir, I was rude." Shi Xiang ignored him, plucked the shang strings corresponding to autumn, and played the Nanlu melody representing the golden autumn and August. At the place where the sad piano sounded, a chilly autumn wind suddenly blew, and the persimmon trees in the courtyard quickly borne fruit. Orange-red fruit. The low-ranking priests in the temple rushed over after hearing the sound, and they were all shocked by this strange scene. Shi Xiang said: "You have to understand that in this world, not only words can create things, but music can also create things. There are other ways of creating things." Cang Jie suddenly realized that there is a sky beyond the sky. He knelt down in front of Shi Xiang, eager to worship him as his teacher. Shi Xiang smiled and said, "It's unnecessary to be a teacher. As long as you understand the laws of creation of the universe and know how to treat your people with humility, you will be invincible in the world." Jie nodded. Shi Xiang looked up to the sky and laughed loudly, and left in a hurry. Jie looked at Shi Xiang suspiciously, watching him gradually disappear at the end of the road, guessing that he was the incarnation of a certain god, deliberately trying to enlighten his stupidity and stubbornness. But no matter who Shi Xiang is, he has learned new truths. He begins to understand that the world is inexhaustible because it is defined by the infinity of God. He is just a worm who can build in this world. Shi Xiang made Jie smarter. He became wary of worship from humans. Facing the endless stream of worshipers, he tried to hide in the shadow behind the statue of Fuxi. He was afraid of those fanatical voices. They would vibrate repeatedly in his ears. It will take a long time for this urn-like echo to fade away. Jie couldn't bear the noise of the people, because he was not worthy to be the benefactor of the people, so he had to move out of the temple and hide in a more remote courtyard, where he meditated and meditated, and let new characters emerge in meditation. Every day, young people come to the temple to practice calligraphy. They copied the words on the tortoise shell and wrote them on the wooden blocks they brought. Jie walked into the temple at dusk that day, and saw a young man laying down on the ground practicing calligraphy very seriously. He also made a soft brush out of pig hair, dipped it in charcoal black, wrote the words on the polished bamboo, and then used hemp rope to write the characters. Connect them in series. Jie named him "Mao Jian", and the recording tools he invented were called "writing brush" and "bamboo slip". Bamboo slips have no divinity, and cannot replace tortoise shells as a carrier for inscribing new characters, but they can be taken everywhere, and they are easy to cut, so they should be the best practice tool. Mao Jian was very happy, knelt down in front of Jie, and wanted to worship him as his teacher. The twilight light outlines the boy's neat appearance and clothes, just like his own appearance in the past. A great emotion suddenly surged in Jie's heart, so he accepted his second disciple like this. Because of Kun Wu and Mao Jian, Jie decided to open a school. He made some high-quality wood, expanded the apse of the temple, turned it into a writing library, and turned the side courtyard into a school building, and accepted more than a dozen disciples. They are responsible for organizing those words and classifying them by radicals for easy retrieval. After the skills of his disciples improved greatly, Jie divided the school into two majors, one is character-creation major, and the other is character-recognition major. Fortune-telling with words, medical treatment with words, deformation with words, and so on. In addition to the pictographic method and the knowing method, Jie also invented the method of referring to things and the method of pictophony, which doubled the speed of creating characters and improved the function of expression day by day. He watched with satisfaction the changes that had taken place in the world. 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Online warehouse and exhibition hall of Zhu Dake's works，Contains Dake Zhu's cultural criticism, mythological studies, and historical studies, novels, essays, and research materials about him. "Qingqiu Chronicle" Derivative Project "The Creator of Chinese Characters: A Brief History of the Cangjie Family" (the American version is titled "Chronicles of Qingqiu") will be grandly launched by Huacheng Publishing House in September 2024. It is a mythological epic about Cangjie creating civilization with Chinese characters. Cangjie invented Chinese characters under the inspiration of the great god Fuxi, and created the great Chinese civilization based on them. However, the dark energy hidden in the characters gradually emerged. Ju Song, Cangjie's female disciple, turned from love to hatred and challenged Cangjie's kingdom on behalf of the evil forces. The new civilization faced a catastrophe. How will Cangjie face this crisis? After he was murdered by Ju Song, how will his son Jiagen inherit his father's career, turn the tide, and save the precarious world? This novel is based on the legend of Cangjie's creation of Chinese characters. It uses the "trilogy" as the framework structure and the metaphorical style of "Zhuyu" to describe the strange and bizarre events of the birth of civilization. The book is magnificent, the plot is ups and downs, the imagination is magnificent and fantastic, and the characters are vivid, showing an epic scene like "The Lord of the Rings". It is also a fascinating "Brief History of Chinese Characters". It not only reinterprets Chinese mythology and historical traditions, but also provides a powerful IP prototype for film, television, animation and games. 前往字造者简介 Qingqiu Chronicle Part 1 word making Plot Summary Cang Jie was born dumb and lived with his witch grandmother and cousin Achou. He was gifted with the ability to draw talismans. The great god Fuxi saw his talent and kindness, and not only allowed him to speak, but also gave him the power to create characters. The magic of this magic was that every time he created a character, something corresponding to the character would appear in the world. For example, when he created the character "寺", a temple appeared at the end of the field; when he created the character "池", a pond appeared in front of the temple; when he created the character "陶", a pottery kiln appeared. In this way, he created many things that did not exist in the world, and from then on he became famous and grew up to be a young priest. At that time, the world was divided into the traditional knotting school and the character creation school represented by Cangjie. A fierce battle broke out between the two schools. The two sides competed in the character competition, and the character creation school represented by Cangjie won a great victory. In order to create more oracle bone characters to promote civilization, Cang Jie gave up his priesthood and opened a writing school to create characters with his smart students. He further invented the ideographic and ideographic methods, which increased the speed of creating characters by several times and improved the functions of expression. Cang Jie created a character for himself, "Miao", which transformed into a beautiful and kind girl at night, who became his most beloved lover and wife. The female disciple Ju Song failed to realize her secret love for her master, and turned her love into hatred. She violated the ban and created some words that gave rise to disasters in the world: "adultery", "jealousy", "enemy", "murder", "crazy", "demolition", etc. She also created the words "thief" and "robber", which led to the proliferation of thieves, smuggling on the black market and making huge profits. These dark Chinese characters spread everywhere and brought crisis to the bright world. Cang Jie was very angry and expelled her from his school. Ju Song took the evil dark characters and went to the ambitious Qishe King Hu Zhong to create more evil characters for him. The world began to be filled with injustice, oppression, resentment and violence, and disasters were rampant. Not only that, under Ju Song's conspiracy, Hu Zhong pretended to convene a "nation-wide character competition" and invited Cang Jie to attend the meeting, but took the opportunity to kidnap his beloved wife Miao, in order to force him to create a bloodthirsty super monster. Cang Jie had no choice but to hand over the "demon" character he had created before. Then a vicious demon king appeared in the world. It flew in the sky, attacked the people of Qingqiu, devoured lives, and caused huge casualties. Hu Zhong took the opportunity to attack Qingqiu State, defeated the defenders, forced the king to commit suicide, and the people fell into dire straits. Hu Zhong's son Hu Zheng was a prince with a conscience. While his father was busy with the war, he secretly released Cang Jie. Cang Jie escaped and wandered around the occupied motherland, hoping to create a new character more powerful than the word "demon" to defeat the dark forces, but he never succeeded. He walked along the Luo River and the Yellow River, looking for hermits and masters, and experienced hardships. Finally, he got inspiration from the patterns on the back of the sacred turtle and finally created the word "dragon" - a great mythical beast was born. It won a great victory in the battle with the demon. Under Cang Jie's call, the people of Qingqiu launched an uprising. The army of Qishe, which lost the support of the "demon", retreated step by step. Hu Zhong committed suicide in despair in the palace. Cang Jie rescued his beloved Miao, and the two hugged and cried. To commemorate this great victory, Cang Jie created the character "鳯". A gorgeous and beautiful phoenix flew from the sky and danced with the powerful dragon. The people looked up at the sky and cheered enthusiastically. They honored him as the new king, named "Cangdi", and Miao became his queen. A new country was born, and a peaceful and happy civilized era seemed to be approaching. In order to prevent the devil and dragon characters from being used by bad people, Cang Jie built a bronze box to seal up the dangerous "original characters". Soon he fell seriously ill. Before he died, he told Miao to destroy them. But Miao did not carry out her husband's will after Cang Jie's funeral, which left dangerous seeds for future world crises. Read word fragments The Maker of Words Part 2 Big Character Maker Plot Summary This part is the plot transition from the first part to the third part. It first reviews the reasons behind Cangjie's death. It turns out that Ju Song used dark witchcraft to hammer the ox scapula with Cangjie's name on it every night to break it. This took more than three years and finally caused Cangjie to die with all his bones broken. Before his death, Cangjie entrusted the bronze box to Miao and created a character "Mei" for her. It was a magical sheep fairy who could transform into a girl and became Miao's most loyal maid. After the fall of Qishe, Ju Song took refuge with Jiu Huang, the king of smuggling characters, and with his help, she created dark Chinese characters, and then invented bamboo slips and sentences, using this technology to lead civilization astray. She disguised herself to attend Cangjie's funeral, and used this opportunity to contact Qingqiu's state teacher Ma Si, with whom she established a secret anti-Miao alliance. She also seduced her talented junior fellow apprentice Pi Yong, turning him into another important ally. In order to help Ju Song overthrow the Qingqiu regime, Ma Si stole the bronze box and released the terrible word "demon". The devil reappeared in the world, flying in the sky, creating great fear among the people. Ju Song took the opportunity to form a coalition of various countries, defeated the army of Qingqiu, occupied the capital, and became the queen herself. At the coronation ceremony, she killed Miao with her own hands and used her death to crown herself. But Miao told Ju Song's life story before she died. It turned out that she, like Miao, was a creation of Cang Jie. In other words, Cang Jie was not only his master and enemy, but also her father. Pi Yong found the original character of "Ju Song" in the bronze box, proving that what Miao said was true. After learning this fact, Ju Song fell into madness because she was the one who killed her father. Qingqiu Chronicle Part Three word god summary of the story Cangjie not only created the three characters Miao, Jusong and Mei during his lifetime, but also left a word "and" on a piece of tortoise shell. In the ruins of the Fuxi Temple amid lightning and thunder, the word "qi" stood out, turning into a magical baby boy with double pupils. The blind Qitong King Zihu was passing through the ruins, and found the tortoise shell and baby from the rubble. Knowing his origin, he named him "Jiagen" and raised him with care. In order to conquer the surrounding countries, the Witch King Jusong opened the twelve dark gates of the universe, using the chaotic energy in the night sky to create twelve evil beasts similar to the "magic" beasts of the past, and launched more ferocious and brutal wars. Sorrows are everywhere, and people are dying. She also sent "Qongqi", one of the twelve evil beasts, the most cunning and vicious, to search for and kill Jiagen. In order to rescue Jiagen, Hu Zheng was seriously injured and died. The sheep fairy "Mei" rescued Jiagen and took him to escape with difficulty. In such war-torn times, Cangjie's son, the young protagonist Jiagen, thrives and becomes a handsome sixteen-year-old boy. He decided to find his biological parents, and determined to restore peace to the world. In order to achieve this goal, Kagen and Kazumi set out again and came to the sacred mountain where the "Imperial Rider" lived in seclusion - Mount Fuyang, where Jiagen learned the secret technique of taming the beasts, hoping to revive the "Twelve Gods and Beasts" ", and use their divine power to fight against the Witch King. They also found bone seals representing the "Twelve Divine Beasts" from the Fusang Sacred Tree, but before they could be revived, the "Qiong Qi Corps" surrounded Mount Fuyang. They launched a bloody massacre, and the impatiens rider and a large number of mythical beasts were unfortunately killed. The evil beast storm launched by Jusong caused a huge disaster, and even the capital city became a place where evil beasts ravaged. Kill the conspirators, arrest Pillon, and put him in a dark prison. Jiagen finally learned that Cangjie was his biological father, and then realized all the secrets of his father's creation of characters, and grew into a new generation of "character gods". He held high the banner of resistance and called on the people to form a rebel army. After Jusong created the evil beast Qiongqi, he created Chaos, Wuwu and Taotie. They are called "Four Fiends" together, and their magic power is infinite, causing Jiagen's army to retreat steadily. Just when he was constantly frustrated, Jiagen was blessed by the gods and was able to enter the "different world" built by his father Cangjie. Under the guidance of Cangjie's "dead spirit", he discovered and mastered the mysteries of the twenty-four solar terms and the operation of the universe. From this, eleven "air beasts" except Mei were created. With the help of their divine power, Jiagen killed the "Four Evils," and the rebel army broke into the palace and arrested Jusong. Jiagen intends to use the penalty of blinding Jusong's eyes to avenge his adoptive father, Huzheng. At the time of execution, he accidentally discovered that Jusong was his real mother, and Jusong also realized that the only young man who defeated her was her own child. Back then, it was Cangjie and Jusong who carved the name "Qi" on the tortoise shell with the aim of creating a magical child. This process of giving birth to a child is called "zi pregnancy". At that time, it was a more sacred reproduction than childbirth (flesh pregnancy). Inspired by the ghost of Cangjie, Jiagen awakens the great love in his heart, forgives and releases Jusong. But Jusong rejected his son's kindness, took the sword and stabbed his son's chest. Jiagen died in pain. At this time, the sheep fairy "Mei" uttered the prophecy and curse given by Fengshen Feilian back then - Jia Gen will be killed by his mother, but he will be resurrected, and his mother will also gain eternal life, but both eyes will be blind. All the bones in the body are broken, and they can only crawl on the ground like insects, living on soil and earthworms. The curse took effect on the second day, and people saw Jiagen resurrected with blood, while Ju Chan crawled on the ground like a snake. After struggling in his heart, Jia Gen decided to use his own body parts to remove the curse that God had placed on his mother. Despite the dissuasion of everyone, he blinded himself and broke his limbs. This move moved Fengshen Feilian, who withdrew half of his curse—Ju Chan could walk again, but she was still a blind woman. Faced with his son's repeated pardons and rescues, the stubborn Ju Sang finally wakes up and regrets the heinous sins he has committed. The mother and son cried together. They let go of their previous suspicions and immersed themselves in love and affection. Jusong is determined to destroy the twelve evil beasts in order to prevent them from continuing to harm the world. She told her son that the way to subdue the evil beast is to use a hammer to crush the original characters carved on the ox blade, turning the evil beast into dust, and then draw its image into a figure and record it in the shamanistic book "Shan Hai Jing" (book Possess the magic power of the enchantment, which can imprison those evil beasts), only in this way can the evil beasts be prevented from causing harm to the world again. Jiagen was elected as the king by the people of Qingqiu, and respectfully called him "ancestor". He entrusted the "Twelve Qi Beasts" as the "Twelve Zodiac Signs" to protect the people born in the year under his jurisdiction. But the evil beast Qiongqi was not killed by Jia Gen. It successfully suspended animation and escaped, accumulating strength and preparing to make a comeback. It predicted that Ju Chan was going to kill him, so he stole the shamanistic "Shan Hai Jing" first, opened the enchantment of the dark word system, and released more ancient evil beasts. The powerful army formed by them is marching towards Qingqiu country. A new disaster is about to strike. Jiagen and his mother Jusong decided to join hands to fight against evil beasts, defend the homeland of mankind, and restore the devastated human land. Historical Analysis of Chinese Characters: The Origin of Chinese Characters in the Framework of Civilization The Dichotomy of Cultural Anthropology Two British and American old men, Toynbee and Huntington, started the debate on the grand narrative of civilization. This is undoubtedly a deconstruction of human history, which has triggered a new wave of historical standardization. As the elite members of human beings, the intellectuals have declared without shame that they have the powerful ability to draw a line with the humble animal kingdom, that is, they have found the four great signs that distinguish humans from animals. The best-selling author Yuval Noah Harari claimed in "A Brief History of Human Beings" that walking upright, having a larger brain capacity, using fire (becoming the earliest cook in the biological world and the inventor of the dark night culture), and being good at socializing are all important. It is the main scale for human beings to differentiate themselves from the animal kingdom, and it is also the four magic weapons for human beings to climb to the top of the biological chain. Although this classification method is crude and uninnovative, it is enough to satisfy the cognitive hunger of the scientifically illiterate public. This kind of standardized operation can also be repeated in the writing of human history. When people need to name some human historical activities in ancient times, they will use "culture" to name them. For example, historians call the remains of human activities discovered in the Yangshao area "Yangshao Culture". And there are four standards to measure this "culture" - The first is to have pantheistic religious beliefs and have professionals such as priests and wizards; the second is to master a complex language system and be able to use this language to start a dialogue with gods/humans; the third is to have mobility/settlement The gathering villages and houses with vegetation/stone materials; the fourth is the use of stone and pottery tools, stone tools tend to be more detailed, and there is a differentiation of tools and decorative functions, and it is possible to fire wheeled pottery (especially painted pottery), And make it an important commodity in regional trade. After the "culture" continued to move forward, people finally waited for the great thing called "civilization". The lonely fireball on the ground slowly illuminates the wise faces of human beings. Green Daniel proposed three signs to measure civilization. The first is writing, whether it is pure pictographic or pictographic/phonetic double-material writing; the second is the emergence of large-scale cities, even with tall terraces, stairs and city walls. And it can accommodate more than 5,000 residents; the third is the ritual building that forms a system, such as the pyramids of Egypt and Maya; Japanese and Chinese scholars also add a fourth sign, which is the metal manufacturing system marked by bronze casting (mining, smelting and casting technology), this "three plus one" system, has become the basic tableware that people use to taste history. This is actually the three "globalization" processes in the history of early human evolution. In the first stage of "gene seeding period", the great migration from Africa achieved the great goal of Homo sapiens globalization; and in the second stage of "painted pottery seeding period", human beings promoted The wave of globalization of painted pottery. In the third stage of the "bronze seeding period", human beings completed the process of bronze globalization by means of escape and trade. Without these three baptisms of "globalization", the cultural miracle of the "Axial Age" would not have occurred. (Click here to read the full article )

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Online warehouse and exhibition hall of Zhu Dake's works，Contains Dake Zhu's cultural criticism, mythological studies, and historical studies, novels, essays, and research materials about him. back to homepage Excerpts from Zhu Dake's Novels Chronicle of Ancient Matters magic mirror Chronicles of Ancient Matters Volume 2 Magic mirror one The Emperor's Birth Game According to "Ting Fang Lu", there was once a benevolent emperor who was very tolerant to the people, his taxes were unbelievably low, and the people loved him very much. He has ten most beloved concubines, but he has not given birth to a single heir. Once, a magician from Daqin came to the palace suddenly. He performed incredible magic tricks and presented a square bronze mirror with a gold back, frame and handle, saying that he could freely enter and exit the mirror. world. The emperor asked his ten concubines to play in the mirror in turn, and if they came back pregnant, he rewarded each of them with 10,000 taels of silver. They were very happy for this, and sincerely thanked the mighty emperor for his grace. Nine months later, they all returned to the emperor with their babies. One came home late, holding a pair of twin baby girls. In this way they once again won the emperor's favor. A few years later, the emperor had three more princes (born by the first, fourth, and seventh concubines) and eight princesses with different looks around him. The emperor was very happy about this, thinking that the great country has a successor since then. Among them, the son of the first concubine was selected as the prince, which means that he will become the emperor's successor. The inscription ceremony was very grand, and civil and military officials from all over the country came to congratulate, and the whole palace was filled with flattery and gifts. The emperor also declared amnesty in court, hoping that in this way, he would gain some folk reputation for his son who would ascend the throne in the future. At that time, there were many wars in the north, but the south was peaceful. The emperor is old, and the old hard ambitions have melted. He stopped arranging the morning court and handed over government affairs to the prime minister. He sat on a soft dragon chair every day, with a haggard face, as if sitting at the end of a coffin. He looked at the children frolicking around the courtyard, nibbling his withered and yellow fingernails, his eyes were full of late joy. History of Bronze Mirror Just like the divine mirror obtained by the emperor, the earliest bronze mirror came from the Western Regions, brought by Silk Road merchants and highly skilled magicians, and was called "Fan Mirror" or "Da Qin Mirror" by the world. With slender handle. They are mostly used in market performances, where the people are surprised and applauded, and sometimes they are presented to local officials and even the emperor, in exchange for various benefits from them. Western bronze mirrors provided the original prototypes for Middle-earth craftsmen. The "Han mirror" or "Jin mirror" cast by local mirror casters is dominated by the "roundness philosophy", deliberately removing the original handle and adding a round button on the back of the mirror. This kind of pure round bronze mirror is usually It is called "Han mirror" or "Jin mirror". Although it is not as good as Fan mirror in terms of supernatural powers, there are also some works of famous masters, which have reached a rather sublime level. Most of them are in the hands of Taoist priests, and sometimes they are presented to the emperor, becoming new treasures in the palace treasury, and then rewarded by the emperor to his favorite courtiers, and finally flow to the people, becoming treasures that people compete to collect. Types of bronze mirrors The oldest mirrors are undoubtedly water mirrors. The so-called "water moon" and "mirror flower" are both names about the nature of mirror images. After the bronze mirror was invented, it was divided into two types, one is the vulgar mirror, which is used by nobles and officials, and the other is the divine mirror, which is used by immortals, Taoists and alchemists. But in the era when the magic mirror was popular, the boundary between the two has long been completely broken. The magic mirror is divided into three basic styles: "sunglasses" (concave mirrors) for collecting solar energy, "demon mirrors" (convex mirrors) for exorcising ghosts, and "convex mirrors" for entering parallel spaces. , called "you square mirror" (plane mirror). This type of mirror can be seen as a mysterious and special means of transportation, a kind of passage or ferry connecting two different spaces. The mirror owner who has a wandering mirror can freely enter and exit the two parallel worlds outside the mirror and inside the mirror. The mirror owner can choose a double life through it, thereby surpassing the basic limitations of human existence. There are many kinds of mirrors in China, including water mirrors, stone mirrors (jade mirrors, earth mirrors), bronze mirrors (golden mirrors), fire mirrors (the edge of the mirror has flames burning), wooden mirrors (possibly a kind of wooden mirror) Fossils), some appear in pairs, divided into yin and yang mirrors or male and female mirrors, and there is a pair of yin and yang mirrors, which are unique and are the masterpieces of mirror casting master Shou Tao. The best of the magic mirrors, the main mirror enters from the yin mirror and exits from the yang mirror. It is said that this can ensure the safety of entry and exit. Other famous mirrors in history include demon mirrors, see-through mirrors, and face-changing mirrors (they will whiten people after being photographed), etc. They will bring novel feelings to human beings, as well as unforeseen disasters. "Supplements of Relics" records that in the time of King Mu of Zhou, a country in the Western Regions called Juqu paid tribute to the "Huo Qi Mirror". The situation is infinitely wonderful. There is also a "moon mirror" like jade. The color of the stone is like white snow, and the light emitted from it is as crystal clear as the full moon. Zhuang Zhou's magic mirror The magic mirror appeared in the Eastern Zhou Dynasty. "Qi Wu Lun" states that when Zhuang Zhou dreamed that he was transformed into a butterfly with a vivid and lifelike shape, he felt happy and comfortable, but he didn't know that he was only Zhuang Zhou. Suddenly waking up, in a state of panic, he realized that he was originally a man named Zhuang Zhou, but he didn't know whether Zhuang Zhou had dreamed to become a butterfly, or the butterfly had dreamed to become Zhuang Zhou. Zhuang Zhou tried to prove to the world that there is a difference between him and a butterfly, but this reciprocal rotation of people and things expresses a new relationship in the world. Mirror caster Dou Shaoqing claimed that Zhuang Zhou concealed an important fact, that is, his "dream" used the magic mirror. The mirror used by Zhuang Zhou is called the "Butterfly Transformation Mirror", which is a famous mirror derived from self-poison, which can realize the transformation of the body into animals or insects. He turns into a butterfly in the mirror, and thus has deep doubts about his own existence. The magic mirror promotes the birth of Taoist philosophical propositions - "I" and "things", inside and outside the mirror, the other shore and this shore, who is the real existence? The magic mirror used by Zhuang Zhou was once occupied by King Qi and King Chu during the Warring States Period, but its whereabouts were unknown. Dou Shaoqing said that after Zhuang Zhou materialized, it returned to its hometown in the West by itself. The magic mirror is a symbol of freedom, it can fly autonomously, go in and out of different spaces, and its whereabouts are very mysterious. Dou Shaoqing Shi Kuang, a musician of the state of Jin, imitated the Yellow Emperor and cast twelve magic mirrors. He passed on this extraordinary skill to the Dou family. Dou Shaoqing is the most outstanding representative of the casting mirror family, and the only master who can make magic mirrors, and has mastered the world secret of space transformation. In order to prevent peeping and chasing, the mirror casting master usually arranges the mirror casting location in the deep mountains and old forests, but it still cannot stop the tracking of the magic mirror catcher. So Dou Shaoqing built the mirror-casting workshop on a big boat, living in no fixed place, and the dragon could not see its tail, which made all the mirror catchers helpless. When he cast the mirror in the heart of the river, the surrounding river suddenly rose more than 30 feet, like a snow mountain floating above the river, and there was the sound of dragon chant, like the sound of a reed, which spread dozens of miles away. The atmosphere is vast and breathtaking. This magnificent sight was seen and became the only record of mirror casting in history. Dou Shaoqing once directed the casting of "Water Heart Mirror" in Yangzhou City. He stayed in the mirror-casting workshop for three days and three nights, and then disappeared mysteriously, leaving only a letter, written in a small seal script that had long been discarded, on which were the provisions guiding the casting of divine mirrors, including the size of the mirror body and the shape of the mirror nose. There is also a gatha style poem, praising the extraordinary magic power of this unborn mirror. The "Water Heart Mirror" was later obtained by Cao Cao. After Cao Cao's death, the whereabouts of the mirror were unknown. Because of possessing this extraordinary supernatural power, Dou Shaoqing became the target of the new emperor. The bronze mirror brought him an outstanding reputation, but also brought him disaster. His portrait hangs at the gates of various cities, as if he is the number one enemy of the emperor. Rumors about him are flying all over the sky. Some people say that he was immortalized in Songshan Mountain, leaving only a cloth shoe behind him. Others say that he has disappeared into the mirror and disappeared somewhere in the world on the other side. Mirrorcasting Dou Shaoqing pre-carved a "mirror" out of golden nanmu in the deep mountains, one side is flat, while the other side has extremely complicated patterns, and the theme and style of the patterns depend on the divine inspiration when carving the mold, not the mirror. prior design. Then, outside the wooden mirror, it needs to be covered with a thick layer of clay and fine sand to make two upper and lower mirror models. After some grinding and trimming, it becomes the official mold for casting the bronze mirror. The rest of the work was done in the back room. Dou Shaoqing heats the copper stone and cassiterite in proportion, pours them into the mold rhythmically, after cooling, breaks the pottery fan, takes out the bronze mirror, repeatedly quenches it in badger oil and deer blood, and reheats it many times to transform its brittleness , making its surface tougher. But this is not the end of the birth process of high-quality bronze mirrors. It also requires the mirror caster to scrape with a steel knife, trim the burrs, and then grind with fine sand to improve the feel until it becomes round. Then the wool felt is dipped in a mixture of mercury and tin powder for mirror polishing. In this way, after half a month, an exquisite bronze mirror will come into the world slowly. If Dou Shaoqing casts a face mirror, he must also pray to the mirror god before casting, paint and recite spells, and add Hu medicine into the copper liquid. The formula, quantity and delivery method of all these medicine powders are secret Xuan, even his personal apprentices are not allowed to watch. Only a handful of mirrorsmiths have mastered the secret of the magic mirror, and after their death, this secret will be lost forever in darkness. Finally, Dou Shaoqing will hold a consecration ceremony for the coming of each bronze mirror. He held up the bronze mirror facing the sun, and chanted the incantation to summon the God of Shaohao, calling Shaohao's divinity into the bronze mirror, transforming its internal structure, and endowing it with a certain kind of divine disposition. This is the secret of the advent of the magic mirror. Dou Shaoqing told it to Li Ah, Li Ah told Su E, and Su E told a Jingling scholar named Lu Yu before his death. Because he wrote notes and leaked the heavenly secret, Shenjing went into decline. Government records The casting process of bronze mirrors is complex and requires the blessing of spells and potions, so the number of bronze mirrors on the market is rare and precious. Once in possession, it can be used for crime, hiding or fleeing. The government is very wary of this. All products of the mirror maker must be cast with a hidden symbol or number, and reported to the official organization "Mirror Temple" for record, and included in the watch list. This kind of magic mirror is called "white mirror". In order to get rid of this restriction, mirror makers often privately cast secret mirrors and sell them through underground smuggling channels. This kind of magic mirror is called "black mirror". At that time, the largest black mirror smuggling channels were located in Jiankang in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River, Xiangyang in the middle reaches, and Jiangzhou in the upper reaches. All three were busy docks for smugglers. The black mirror casting workshops are mainly concentrated in Wuchang County (now Ezhou, Hubei) and Kuaiji County (now Shaoxing, Zhejiang) in the Eastern Wu Dynasty. Dou Shaoqing's activities are mainly in the Kuaiji area. His water workshop sailed in the river and appeared in various branches of the Yangtze River, giving great encouragement to those who made and sold bronze mirrors. His appearance will always cause a commotion in the local area. People regard him as a legend in the industry. He is the father of Bronze Mirror and was once the whole hope of Bronze Mirror Industry. Mirror Temple and Baoguang Pavilion The official institution in charge of bronze mirror casting is called "Mirror Mirror Temple", which was set up to deal with "black mirrors". For this reason, the emperor set up a special department "Baoguang Pavilion" to track the magic mirror and its casters. Its chief is called "Baoguangqing", who is directly ordered by the emperor himself. Luan Ba was the third "Bao Guangqing". He expanded this limited-level department into the largest spy agency, and his power was far above that of the school. But after Luanba's death, this organization was useless. After Liu Ce's death, it was dismantled by the third emperor, and became a passing cloud. Even historians were ashamed to mention its existence because of its viciousness. The new emperor Liu Ce and his new favorite Xindi has never been favored by his father. On the contrary, because of his bad character, he has always been neglected and marginalized. He could feel the hostility of the entire court since he was a child. They came from brothers, sisters, civil servants, military officials, eunuchs, and court ladies, and even from dragon chairs, round fans, tables, screens, cloth curtains, pot leaks, palace pillars, carved windows, and stones. steps and corridors. He experiences that sinister atmosphere every moment. He learned to use his sight and hearing to identify sources of hostility and try to eliminate them. But the plan was only implemented after he usurped the throne. Many years later, when the old emperor passed away, Liu Ce, the son of the fourth concubine, ordered the bodyguard Luanba to kill the elder brother and crown prince and become the new emperor. Two sisters commit adultery and incest. The remaining six princesses resolutely refused, and five of them were tortured and killed after being raped. As the mother of the queen mother, she tried to stop him from killing his brothers and sisters, but he insisted on going his own way. He imprisoned his mother in the harem and continued to slaughter behind closed doors. Rivers of blood flowed in the palace. Princess Sue Su E, the princess born to the fifth concubine, is the most beautiful among all the princesses. She didn't dare to resist the imperial brother's despotic power, so she could only pretend to obey, and became his third concubine, serving him with the other two sisters every day, satisfying his various absurd sexual demands. And those two sisters were actually the loyal guards of the new emperor. On the one hand, they were raped, but on the other hand, they became his helpers, closely monitoring Su E's behavior, trying to find signs of hypocrisy from her. But Su E concealed it very well, she was flattering, with an innocent smile, she looked like an innocent girl. Sue's Escape Su E drugged the wine and turned the ambitious new emperor, along with the two women, into numbness. They collapsed on the scene of the carnival, looking like they were drunk. Su E tricked the guards, stole the magic mirror from the treasure box in the emperor's bedroom, and escaped from the palace through the side door at night. Several friendly court ladies witnessed her plot, but pretended to be deaf and dumb, and pretended to fall asleep. Su E came to the home of Xu Lin, a former court official and minister, in a small sedan chair with gray curtains, and begged him for help with tears in her eyes. Xu Lin is one of Su E's many admirers. Although he is timid, he can't resist the beauty's offensive of tears. He hesitates again and again and decides to risk his life to save her. With trembling hands, he took out two hundred taels of silver, hired an ox cart for her, and told her the location of Li A, the optician. He said, this is your only place to go. Only this person can help you pass through the mirror safely and return safely. Su E knelt on the ground, thanked the old man for his kindness, and then boarded the car and left. The earth is completely silent, only the sound of the cow's hooves stepping on the stone road, and its dull panting. The dark shadow of Miyagi gradually receded under the moonlight, as if pushing away a suffocating danger. For the first time in so many years, she breathed a breath of freedom. A liberated smile appeared on her haggard face. two mirror master Su E joined the ranks of mirror masters. Most of them are the royal family, powerful aristocrats, officials, rich people and their dependents. Because of their privileges, they obtained the "travel mirror". Since then, they have the privilege of secret travel, become free indoor travelers, and can travel to the other side of the world through the mirror. They were perhaps the luckiest crowd of that era. The famous mirror owner in the Wei and Jin Dynasties was Tao Qian. He entered the "Peach Blossom Land" with the help of "Peach Blossom Mirror" and became a powerful observer. But he actually violated the rules of the game and announced his observation records of the world on the other side to the world. Tao Qian not only lost the "Peach Blossom Mirror" and the opportunity to enter the mirror again, but also brought serious disasters to himself. He lost the cherishment of fate and died in the night of poverty and sickness. On the other hand, this kind of free travel and escape also violated the emperor's autocratic will. It was a movement to deconstruct power, and it severely weakened the emperor's authority because he was no longer the sovereign king. He could not tolerate the betrayal of his subjects in such magical ways. There is no doubt that the mirror owner who owns the magic mirror is extremely dangerous, and must be eliminated together with the mirror and others. Funeral Bronze Mirror Bronze mirrors are magical objects that can reflect the light of the sun and the moon. Therefore, they have the power of the sun god and the moon god, and become an important tool for wizards to drive away demons. The sun, moon and stars are the origin of life. After a person dies, the bronze mirror is placed in the tomb, just like the yin and yang of the sun and the moon. The moment the coffin lid was closed, the facial features of God appeared vaguely in the mirror. It becomes a sacred lamp, illuminating the rough path of the dead. This is undoubtedly another secret nature of the mirror: playing the role of guardian of the dead, praising human existence from the perspective of hell. But in the years of encirclement and suppression of the divine mirrors, in order to preserve their lives, the mirror owners could only hide the divine mirrors in the tomb under the guise of funerals, making them disappear in the dark underworld. Thousands of years later, they were taken out by tomb robbers as ancient mirrors, and they were rediscovered. However, due to the corrosion of the soil, the divine mirror lost its original divinity and became a lifeless vulgar mirror, which was displayed in the museum window and gave off a deep luster like a fake. This is the unavoidable tragedy of the Chinese God Mirror. But its tragedy has never been necessary to reveal. Apollo Shaohao The magic mirror cast by Dou Shaoqing is a masculine object, so it is more closely related to the sun god. During a certain casting process, the sun god Shaohao suddenly appeared in his workshop, his whole body was scorching hot, his head was a rotating sun disc, and his facial features vaguely emerged. Shaoqing has unique eyes, only he can look directly into the face of the sun god, and accept his warm respect and greetings. Shaoqing knelt down, trembling all over. Shaohao caressed his head with light, and left quietly. When the temperature dissipates and everything cools down, he has the ability to cast a magic mirror. He entered the divine mirror system and became the most outstanding prophet in this field. this shore and the other shore The term "Bi Shan" originated from Buddhism, and originally referred to the place (Polo) where one escapes from worldly troubles and achieves positive results. In the mirror language system, the other shore is a metaphor for the world inside the mirror. Every magic mirror has its own specific three-dimensional space, which, like the world of Dasein, is conserved and static. Therefore, when the mirror owner uses the same magic mirror, he may go to the same world, because the other bank will circle back to this bank after being folded, thus forming a self-winding structure. But even the mirror caster Dou Shaoqing himself failed to notice the existence of this strange space. It is strange and full of strangeness, like a huge maze in which even the wisest people can get lost. The other shore pier The mirror owner sometimes has different magic mirrors, and he can log in to different other shores based on them. But this is an extremely dangerous carnival, which can lead to delusions of perception and severe madness. The ancient books are full of sinister records related to this. The decoration on the back of the traveling mirror is usually the password of the other shore world, representing the first site you arrive at after crossing, which is called the other shore dock by the world. Hunting patterns and plant patterns are mostly forests and grasslands, mountain patterns are mostly deep mountains, fish patterns and water patterns are mostly river banks or islands, cloud and thunder patterns are mostly sky (this is a bit dangerous), dragon and phoenix patterns are mostly noble homes , Snake patterns (Chilong patterns) are mostly underground palaces, and so on. The pier on the other side is the only predictable location for the mirror owner, and behind the pier is an unpredictable future. mirror ceremony Before entering the mirror for the first time, a grand ceremony needs to be held. The owner of the mirror must fast for three days, take a bath, and then hang the mirror on the wall in a dark environment, with his face close to the mirror, close his eyes and meditate to get rid of distracting thoughts. At this time, the body will become soft, like a huge blister. The mirror surface is like a big mouth, it first absorbs the face, then the neck and upper body, and finally the two thighs. In an instant, the person is swallowed by the mirror and disappears without a trace. Frequent commuters can travel between the two worlds at will without any scruples about fasting and various restrictions. The principle that the mirror owner needs to follow is to keep secret about what he has seen and heard from the other side. Once leaked, the traveling mirror will break by itself and become a useless waste. Silence is a common principle that all mirror owners must abide by. mirror maintenance Mirror owners will always face security threats. Once the mirror is dusty, dark, overturned or damaged, the owner of the mirror cannot return to this shore. For this reason, the mirror surface must be kept clean and bright, and the mirror surface must not be placed downwards to block the exit, and it must not be taken away and disposed of arbitrarily. It is the fragility of the mirror owner that promotes the birth of a profession, that is, goggles Teachers, they are responsible for the daily maintenance of the mirror, including wiping, polishing, displaying, collecting and guarding. Even in ordinary mirrors, dust is a huge problem. It will corrode the mirror surface, make it more and more foggy, and the mirror surface will become blurred. Therefore, mirror owners usually sew a soft cloth dust cover for the mirror to isolate the bronze mirror from dust. The mirror cover also has another function, which is to prevent the escape of the magic mirror. In the era of large-scale emergence of bronze mirrors, it is a frustrating thing for mirrors to disappear by themselves, but most mirror covers can prevent this kind of escape. It is like a soft wall, lying in front of the fugitives, Crush its renegade schemes. stealth mirror The popularity of bronze mirrors made them the object of concern for thieves. A profession specializing in stealing bronze mirrors began to emerge. These people were called "mirror stealers", and they were one of the fierce enemies that the mirror owner had to face. In order to get a magic mirror, they did not hesitate to break into the house, steal, and even kill people. The most famous mirror thief at that time was nicknamed "Mirror Mouse King". Among them, the mouse was an alias for the thief, and "Wang" was not only a surname, but also an admiration for his stealing skills. It is said that he has never missed any magic mirror he wanted. He is the sworn enemy of goggles, and has brought ruin to many goggles. goggles Goggles were once a popular industry during the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, and they did not disappear until the Tang and Song dynasties. It is similar to bodyguards, bodyguards, guards and gatekeepers. The employed mirror guards must be loyal, conscientious, abide by the secrets of the mirror owner, be good at martial arts, and have the basic skills of polishing and repairing bronze mirrors. Excellent mirror guards usually guard multiple bronze mirrors at the same time, so they can get rich rewards. Most goggle guards can only guard two or three mirrors at the same time, but the most popular goggle guards can guard nine bronze mirrors at the same time. This is the highest record in history, held by the famous goggle guard Li A, and has never been broken. This number eventually became the norm for goggles, because once the bottom line is crossed, the guarding ability of goggles will be severely weakened. This does not meet the security requirements of the mirror owner. In order to ensure the safety of the mirror owner, most of the mirror guards are knights and swordsmen. This class that used to be powerful in the pre-Qin period became weak after the Qin and Han Dynasties and needed to change careers to maintain their own livelihood. But as long as you have superb swordsmanship, as well as the skills of casting, repairing and grinding mirrors, you can become a top expert in the industry and live a life without worrying about food and clothing. The mirror owner and the mirror guard are combined into one, mostly those Taoist priests with advanced spells. A few Taoist priests, such as Ge Hong, even have their own secret method to hide their magic mirror. This secret magic is called "Concealing Mirror Curse", which can hide the magic mirror in the void and retrieve it from the void. Dou Shaoqing obtained this supernatural power from the sun god Shaohao, and since then he does not need to travel with a heavy load. He has nothing to worry about, and only a small mirror for self-portrait beside him. Hoe rape mirror The new emperor Liu Ce didn't have much feeling for the magic mirror at first, thinking that it was just a luxury toy for women. Not long ago, a Taoist priest named Wei Zhen presented a bronze mirror that was said to be polished by the Yellow Emperor himself, which could be used to detect loyal ministers and traitors. Its magical powers changed his view of the bronze mirror. The Taoist priest told the new emperor privately that once a person with a heart of disobedience was illuminated by this mirror, his heart would beat and his expression flustered, revealing the signs of a traitor. Suspicious by nature, the new emperor was full of curiosity about this "anti-rape mirror"-could it be a sharp weapon to eliminate traitors? He decided to experiment for himself. He first took a photo of Wei Zhen who was presenting the magic mirror. The Taoist priest was so frightened that he even dropped out his excrement and urine, emitting a foul stench all over his body. The emperor laughed and said that you are a villain, so he ordered Wei Zhen's head to be cut off. Then, he ordered people to hang the magic mirror at the gate of the palace, with eight guards holding machetes standing on both sides. Ministers, eunuchs, maids and handymen who entered the palace and walked past the mirror, as long as they showed signs of frightened heartbeats and red faces, they would be hacked on the spot. death, never pardoned. Three months later, the palace was empty and empty. The massacre of the second emperor triggered a war of brotherly killings, power, property, and magic mirrors throughout the royal family and the noble class. The whole country was caught in a bloodbath. The desperate fight among the princelings triggered the disintegration of the country. fisherman's harvest A poor fisherman cast his net in the Qinhuai River and picked up a large ancient mirror, about one foot or two inches in diameter. The fisherman washed off the mud and found that the surface was as bright as new, and the light emitted was surging like water waves. Fishermen can see their internal organs, and even see blood rushing through their veins. The fisherman was terrified, wrapped it up carefully, and handed it over to the local government. As if he had found a treasure, Liu Da, the governor, planned to take it as a gift for his promotion, so he named it "Shenguang Mirror" himself, and brought it to the capital to present it to the new emperor. Emperor Liu Ce saw another precious mirror entering the palace, smiled and took a self-portrait, and found himself in the mirror showing the appearance of a boar, which was so ugly that it was unsightly. All the nine clans were beheaded. After doing this, the emperor still felt that he was not enough to relieve his anger, and vowed to destroy all the magic mirrors in the world and eliminate those insidious forces that tried to oppose him. The magic mirror that Su E stole is the best among the magic mirrors. It is called "Treasure Hunting Mirror". The new emperor tossed and turned, unable to sleep at night. He ordered Luanba to find Su E and the mirror as soon as possible, and bring back these two treasures. A large-scale encirclement and suppression of the bronze mirror was launched, and the whole south was in panic all day long. Killer Luanba Luan Ba, a descendant of Luan Da, a famous alchemist during Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, was recorded in the "Book of Southern Qi" that he was handsome in appearance and gentle in manner. His limbs are all weapons, especially known as "hand sword". With a palm and a sword, you can take advantage of the opponent's unsuspecting and kill in an instant. The technique is simple and clear. He is known as the second killer in the world, and his status in the world is second only to Li A. During the usurpation process of the new emperor, he helped to kill the prince, and then eliminated those dissatisfied relatives of the emperor. He made great contributions to this, and gradually climbed up to become the number one warrior beside Liu Ce. After the mission of "Qingjun side" was completed, Liu Ce appointed him as "Baoguangqing", responsible for the confiscation and destruction of the magic mirror, and killed all the mirror casters and mirror guards who refused to serve him. Luanba was quite satisfied with this kind of assignment. Serving the emperor for too long, he longed for this freedom to breathe, walk, and kill at will outside the capital. What's more, he can indulge in his sensuality under the effect of Han Shi San. He led hundreds of killers out of the palace in a mighty manner, and ordered all of them to wear costumes and show off their beauty, just like palace ladies going out for a spring parade. The people stood on the sidelines and laughed at their strange attire. But Luanba didn't care. Traveling in disguise was originally Luan Ba's personal hobby, but he insisted that all his subordinates follow him as an example. He warned his killers that women's clothes can cover up their murderous intent and make their opponents relax. Female makeup is the best disguise for a professional assassin. reunion The emperor's personal intervention reduced the number of folk magic mirrors sharply. The masters who made mirrors fled one after another, and vulgar mirrors became the mainstream of the country, and were endowed with various auspicious symbolic meanings to cover up the fact that they had no divinity. The vulgar mirror thus took the place of the divine mirror. The most touching story in the history of vulgar mirrors is the "broken mirror reunion" between Xu Deyan, an attendant of the crown prince of the Chen Dynasty, and his wife, Princess Lechang. It exposes the fragility and thinness of the mirror body from the side. Any mundane knife can break one into two. The mirror caster was so angry that he vomited blood because it insulted the sacred meaning of the bronze mirror. The mirror is a sacred thing, and it becomes one with the soul of the mirror owner. Once the mirror is broken, it means the destruction of the soul of the mirror owner. Mirrors are also moral observers, and they undertake the mission of monitoring the relationship between husband and wife. According to the "Shen Yi Jing" written by Dongfang Shuo in the Western Han Dynasty, once upon a time, there was a couple who, when they were saying goodbye, cut a mirror in two and each held one half. Later, when the husband eloped with other women, the half-mirror turned into a magpie, which flew in front of the husband and protested fiercely to him. The husband, overwhelmed with shame by the bird's protests, ends up insane. What a quaint moral admonition, designed to warn couples who dare to betray their ethics: mirrors watch their words and deeds, and there will be severe judgments on infidelity. But in fact, after the bronze mirror was split in half by a sword, it died quietly. All spiritual stories about broken mirrors are nothing but lies told by scribes. It is designed to serve as a mirror to the vulgar, to conceal the fact that it is devoid of divinity. Excerpted from "Ancient Matters", People's Literature Publishing House, 2018 Freely switch between selected reading pages of various novels 大桶 转到大桶选读 麒麟 转到麒麟选读 Mourner 转到泣颂师全文 character creation 转到字造选读 有黄 转到有黄全文 相骨师 转到相骨师全文 神镜 转到神镜选读 长生弈 转到长生弈选读 香道师 Go to the full text of Xiang Taoist Back to Selected Readings

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Online warehouse and exhibition hall of Zhu Dake's works，Contains Dake Zhu's cultural criticism, mythological studies, and historical studies, novels, essays, and research materials about him. Return to Fiction and Essays The launch and sharing session of the new book " Six Strange Records" (unsuccessful) The book was published in September 2020, during the pandemic and lockdown, when all offline discussions and sharing activities had to be terminated. But it quietly circulated among readers and won their love. 旧版封面 Zhu Dake wrote in the postscript to the Six Strange Records: It is through my glimpse into desire that I superficially grasp the pain of the Chinese people. And what is intriguing is that I also see a nation that is good at using pleasure to cover up pain. They are good at using words and witchcraft to create all kinds of happy illusions, and spend their lives in the massage of words of blessing each other. As a powerful illusion nation, China has provided a complete sample to the world. ——Zhu Dake 序章 为什么要复兴中国神话 神话跟我们有什么关系？ 中国神话是土生土长的吗？ 为什么你听过的神话都不是完整版 中国神话到底分哪几个“朝代”？ 人类文明发育的三原则 中国神话是人类精神共同体的一部分 第一章 《山海经》探秘 《山海经》的神奇动物今何在 《山海经》博物志的四重主题 文明等级与华夏中心情结 山海经》是伟大的地理志 第二章 主宰上古时代的神界领袖 创世神与水神 创世大神盘古的开辟天地 创世女神：补天造人情未了 天梯终结者颛顼及他的妖怪儿女 地神 改天换地的共工革命 地神鲧的受难与复活 洪水时代的超级英雄 大禹和九尾狐的爱恨情仇 日神 日神帝俊、羲和夫妻的儿孙们 日神少昊，海上丝绸之路的文化礼物 文明神与火神 大发明家伏羲是如何创造文明的 火神祝融与祂的原型琐罗亚斯德 大母神 异乡神西王母的前世今生 周穆王和西王母的爱情悲歌 月神 与箭神月神嫦娥的飞天传奇 大羿与后羿的双胞奇案 父神和祖先神 三皇五帝：中国神界的最强天团 黄帝与蚩尤：中华起源之战 感生神话 中国版的圣母马利亚 其他 华夏诸神的四场大战 “帝”与“天”的美索不达米亚原型 十二金神和秦帝国的崛起 第三章 管理日常生活的诸神（上） 母亲神 守望中国家园的三位女神 观世音菩萨的性别之争 父神 谁遇见过神秘而崇高的山神 先农祠里的祖先神和农神 文明神 仓颉造字体系中的文明密码 风神飞廉吹来了什么风 爱神 爱神句芒和他的春神面具 巫山云雨中的性爱女神瑶姬 湘水女神娥皇女英之“变形记 最美女神宓妃和她的粉丝们 欲望三部曲：花神、媒神和保育神 凶神 重温战神的烽火岁月 刑神蓐收和狱神皋陶 食神 饕餮神是如何从妖兽变为神灵的 写在人类五官上的神学 请盐神给生活加点滋味 酒神杜康和仪狄的悬殊命运 茶神陆羽和他的陌生同党们 第四章 管理日常生活的诸神（下） 医药神 医药神是如何征服疾病的 神秘的炼丹术 福禄寿财喜神寿神 彭祖的八百年春秋 女寿神麻姑的勾魂手 老寿星的容貌、坐骑和装备 禄星及其三个代表 财神家族的十大成员 福神和喜神，最受欢迎的额家中贵客 行业神 全能木匠神鲁班和他的魔咒 向温柔的纺织女神致敬 窑神爷和瓷都的起源 照亮青楼的五路神明 家神 家庭的主心骨灶王爷 井神柳毅：落第举子千里救美女 住在厕所里的紫衣女神 冥神 揭开冥神的神秘面纱 十大阎罗及其地狱王国 孟婆和她的忘怀汤 人与亡灵的万古对话 瘟神，财神赵公明的另类身份 第五章 动物、植物和器物神话 神兽 鹰蛇之战与龙凤和解 龙兽崇拜：帝王的权力腰带 麒麟和独角兽的东西方对话 驻守中国建筑的神兽军团 十二生肖：中国人的生命密友 妖兽 《山海经》妖兽的等级制度 五仙南下和百鬼夜行 情种白娘子和渣男许宣的人间错爱 世间狐狸精的妖媚之术 植物神话 人为什么要偷吃神树上的果子 上帝的植物园：桃、芝、参 器物神话 来自新石器时代的灵玉崇拜 商周鼎器里煮的是什么汤？ 铸剑师和剑客的英雄年代 隐藏在魔镜里的X空间 法器世界：如意、拂尘和念珠 第六章 佛道神话与民间传奇 佛道故事 八仙过海之吕洞宾与何仙姑 华光、目连与沉香的救母故事 历史传奇 夏商周三代妖女的千古奇冤 屈原谋杀案和端午民俗的起源 民间传说 鹊桥仙：在牛郎织女传奇的背后 孟姜女的眼泪武器 揭开梁祝蝴蝶恋的真相 韩式兄弟的人鬼情和化蝶梦 杜鹃啼血：望帝和他的春心 光棍农夫的螺女春梦 尾声 中国人日常生活里的三大巫术 全书注释 《中国神话密码》目录 点击标题阅读 Author's Postscript 本书序言 Desire is a topic that I have been studying for many years. The triggering and birth of desire, the prototype of desire, the form of modern desire and its growth pattern, and the texts produced by contemporary desire production, all these topics revolve around desire. Desire is the core object of postmodern philosophical research. This book attempts to borrow the Buddhist "six senses" (eyes, ears, nose, tongue, body and mind) framework, and uses the secret industries that died with agricultural civilization as the subject matter to depict the basic appearance of "Chinese desire" during the agricultural civilization period. Through the brief history of the protagonist's desire, readers can see the secret process of the growth of desire. What is Chinese desire? This question is the primary question for writers. As long as you read the history of literature, you will find that starting from the Book of Songs and Chuci, appetite, carnal desire, sexual desire, desire for fame and power, these basic life themes, have long been the main body of ancient desires, and are also the internal driving force that dominates modern Chinese people. The carrier of desire is short-lived, but desire is eternal, transcending all time and space that we can observe. Eastern desire is the most powerful cultural heritage of the Chinese people. In response to the current situation of the large-scale growth and spread of the maze of desire, the Venerable Sakyamuni taught that the "six senses" ignite and illuminate people's desires, but due to the huge gap between desires and reality, pain comes into being and becomes the highest nature of life. The ratio of pain to desire is positive: the more ardent the desire, the more intense the pain. It is through my glimpse into desire that I superficially grasp the pain of the Chinese people. And what is intriguing is that I also see a nation that is good at using pleasure to cover up pain. They are good at using words and witchcraft to create all kinds of happy illusions, and spend their lives in the massage of words of blessing each other. As a powerful illusion nation, China has provided a complete sample to the world. Literature is a kind of verbal witchcraft, and it is the most clumsy of all verbal witchcraft. It can convey desires to a limited extent, and even light up desires and make them burn fiercely, but it cannot satisfy desires. In the game between people and desires, literature can usually only be an arsonist, while religion is the fire extinguisher. This ideological division of labor determines the attributes of literature. But "Six Strange Records" has no intention of becoming an igniter of desire. It is just a set of historical voyeuristic records. It tells readers in a legendary way how desire is born, multiplied, saturated, decayed and disillusioned, and how it creates the joy, pain and death of life. You will see a paradox that occurs at the level of "three views": this book is a myth about desire, with the appearance of a fictional text, but it tries to truly touch the desire of the Chinese people and the world of illusions caused by desire. There is no doubt that any literary history is a history of the expression of desire. Over the years, "desire" has been an important subject of my research. But conveying Chinese desire in such a "literary" way is still just a difficult language experiment for me, full of unpredictable crises. Writing is an adventure in words, and a grand narrative about desire is an even more dangerous advance. Since the publication of the novel "Changsheng Yi" and the novella series "Kojiki", my "transformation" into a novelist seems to have become irreversible. This writing itself contains a hidden desire, that is, to become not only a "reasonable person" but also a "storyteller". You will definitely point out with a smile that this is a typical case of the proliferation of desire. According to the pre-designed, six types of strange arts, six Taoist masters, six senses and six illusions constitute six seemingly independent novels. They should be combined into a precise narrative community on the theme of desire, approaching the nature of Chinese desire from the six channels of human sensory experience. But after writing this series of novels, I sadly discovered that due to the limitations of cognition and techniques, my expression could not reach the core of things at all. I could only circle around it, like a stupid dog circling around a bone illusion. Not only that, due to the culture itself, this series of novels also exudes a weird and absurd smell, which makes those literary petty bourgeoisie who like to do warm massage feel uncomfortable. For this, I can only apologize with great regret. Completely different from those "popular literature books", literature should not be a verbal massage, but a revelation of the truth of history/reality. Therefore, it must have cruel and absurd characteristics, and it must destroy all ridiculous illusions. Of course, I also tried to inject necessary hope into the core of the text. While deconstructing the dark illusion, I want to carry out the only bright white illusion to the end, but this is not to please the readers, but to let my suffocated soul breathe. The various chapters of "Six Strange Records" have been published in various literary magazines, such as "Huacheng", "Tianya", "Shanhua", "Jiangnan", "Zuozhuan" and "Baihuazhou", and are now compiled into a book by the publishing house. For this, I would like to thank the editors for their tolerance of this "heterodox taste", and thank all my friends for their love and encouragement, and thank the animation designer and director Wu Fan for drawing six exquisite illustrations to provide exquisite images for the characters and scenes of the novel. Without the support of these friends, the writing and publication of this book would be unimaginable. Written in New York on January 15, 2020 Title: Six Strange Records Publisher: CITIC/Dafang Publishing Group (Shanghai, China) Publication date: September 2022 Editors: Ren Liu, Xu Yunyun, etc. Return to Fiction and Essays

Online warehouse and exhibition hall of Zhu Dake's works，Contains Dake Zhu's cultural criticism, mythological studies, and historical studies, novels, essays, and research materials about him. Copyright of Zhu Dake's works Derivative series Due to its unique world view structure, Zhu Dake's mythological works have the natural advantages of tree-shaped IP, which can effectively derive from novels to platform dramas, big movies, audio programs, stage plays (musical dramas, dramas, dance dramas, etc.), Various forms of stationery, toys, gifts, restaurants, theme parks, etc. Zhu Dake's Novel Series 神话作品版权矩阵 神话作品版权矩阵 神话作品版权矩阵 神话作品版权矩阵 Zhu Dake Studio is cooperating with relevant animation and film and television companies to establish a deep alliance, starting from human values, to create new myths, new animation, new classics, new national style, new global style... Young Food God (1-2 seasons) Well-received first season, second season on the way Junior Gluttony Project Qingqiu Chronicle (word made) "Qingqiu Chronicle" includes the trilogy of character making, big character making and character gods. It is an epic narrative about the root of Chinese culture, a literary model of traditional "Chinese stories", and the best "mother" for film and television adaptations . Selected Readings of Chinese Characters Six different audio recordings (produced by Xiaolu Studio) Six Different Records Fragrant Taoist Xiangdaoshi is one of the six short stories of Six Different Records. It has a strong flavor of Jiangnan Xiangdao culture, with strange emotions and bizarre plots. It is an excellent blueprint for adapting big movies and animations. Selected Readings by the Fragrant Taoist Chronicle of Ancient Matters Mirror Xiangdaoshi is one of the six short stories of Six Different Records. It has a strong flavor of Jiangnan Xiangdao culture, with strange emotions and bizarre plots. It is an excellent blueprint for adapting big movies and animations. Selected Readings by the Fragrant Taoist Chronicle of Ancient Matters Mirror Xiangdaoshi is one of the six short stories of Six Different Records. It has a strong flavor of Jiangnan Xiangdao culture, with strange emotions and bizarre plots. It is an excellent blueprint for adapting big movies and animations. Selected Readings by the Fragrant Taoist The game of longevity The novel "Longevity Game" combines martial arts, mythology and historical legends in one furnace. With profound brushstrokes and touching stories, it describes the strange journey of searching for the elixir in the Eastern Zhou Dynasty... The Game of Longevity Selected Readings The Great pail With the background of the secret kingdom established by the ancestors of Yin and Shang in Central America, "The Big Barrel" tells the story of the ups and downs of a branch of the Chinese nation in Central America...... VAT Selective Reading The Great pail With the background of the secret kingdom established by the ancestors of Yin and Shang in Central America, "The Big Barrel" tells the story of the ups and downs of a branch of the Chinese nation in Central America...... VAT Selective Reading IP list of Zhu Dake's novels 1.Chronicle of Ancient Matters (A Collection of Novella Legendary Novels): Zizao, Magic Mirror, Qilin, People's Literature Publishing House 2.The Game of Longevity (Martial arts novel): Huacheng Publishing House 3.Six Different Records (Short Legendary Stories Collection): CITIC Publishing House 4.Chronicle of Qingqiu (A long mythical novel, including the trilogy of Character Creation, Big Character Creator, and Character God), World Chinese Publishing House 5.The Great Pail (Long exotic legendary novel): Sichuan Literature and Art Publishing House 6.Young Food God (Children's Mythical Novels): Season 1/2, Volume 10, Dandelion Children's Bookstore Selected Readings of Zhu Dake's Novels

Online warehouse and exhibition hall of Zhu Dake's works，Contains Dake Zhu's cultural criticism, mythological studies, and historical studies, novels, essays, and research materials about him. Return to Fiction and Essays The creator of Chinese characters: A brief history of the Cangjie family The new book launch and sharing session will be held at Guangzhou Huacheng Academy of Literature on September 25, 2024 前往版权衍生项目 前往小说阅读页面 At the launch ceremony of Huacheng Academy of Arts, Zhu Dake said: In the current extraordinary context, writing a little myth for literary readers may be the best choice for a writer. Myths store the dream of the soul flying freely. Defending this dream is the natural mission of novels. ——Zhu Dake The author of this book, Zhu Dake, is speaking Tian Ying, former editor-in-chief of Huacheng Magazine and famous novelist Writer, literary critic, and associate professor at Sun Yat-sen University Wang William Editor-in-Chief Xia Xianfu is presiding over the meeting Literature lovers in the audience Deng Ru, Vice President of Huacheng Publishing House, announced the launch of the launch ceremony The author, publisher editor and guests jointly press the publish button Guests at the launch ceremony, the editor of the book, Xia Xianfu, is on the far left Young female poet in the audience The two faces of the creator of Chinese characters 对于《字造者》在发布式上的封面，读者多有负面意见，经作者与主编责编商议，经过近两个月的反复设计，终于找出一个更为大气的方案。出版社决定将原封面全部撕掉，重新换上新的面孔，这种不惜代价也要成就精品的专业精神，正是中国出版业的希望所在。 于是，形成了《字造者》版本的演化简史 作为中篇小说集《古事记》三部曲之一的《字造》，由人民文学出版社出版 作为海外正体字版的《字造者》，以《青丘纪事》的书名在纽约出版 作为大陆简体字版的长篇小说《字造者》，在发售仪式上以这个封面出现 《字造者》在经过两个多月的重新设计后正式面世 《字造者》藏书票四帧 绘制：林伟斌 Author's Postscript 【Original Postscript of New York Edition】 "Qingqiu Chronicles" consists of three works: the first is "Character Creation", which was originally published in the 6th issue of "Harvest" magazine in 2017, and was later included in the novella series "Kojiki", published by People's Literature Publishing House (2018); the second is "Big Character Creator", which was first published by "Baihuazhou" magazine, and later included in the short story collection "Six Strange Records" (2020.97) published by CITIC Dafang Publishing House; the third is "Character God", which has also been published in the 1st issue of "Shanhua" magazine in 2020. As long as you conduct knowledge archaeology on these three works, you will find that they are essentially the same work, with strict logical continuity of characters/events. For this reason, I have put them together to form a new book. After adding necessary knowledge annotations, I hope it can be presented in a relatively complete appearance to facilitate novel researchers, translators, children's book rewriters and film and television adapters to read it in full. I would like to thank Ms. Wang Zhilan and Mr. Li Zirui for their careful revision of this book, and Mr. Luo Weinian of World Chinese Publishing House for his important contribution to the publication of this book in New York. By the way, since traditional Chinese characters are used, there will be some problems in the conversion of characters. Although a lot of work has been done, there are still some omissions. I hope readers will forgive me. The Kingdom of Qingqiu comes from "Classic of Mountains and Seas: Overseas East", and originally had nothing to do with the legend of Cangjie creating characters. In this novel, it is just a borrowed place name. However, since it became the main place of activity of the mythical Cangjie, it might as well be used as the name of this book. This kingdom covered with green hills completely fits people’s spatial imagination of the ancient oriental homeland. Chinese characters are the core of traditional intangible cultural heritage. They once provided strong cultural support for the construction of the entire East Asian civilization, and will continue to play a backbone role in future cultural evolution. Considering that Chinese characters were once attacked in the "New Culture Movement" in the early 20th century and had a serious bad reputation, this novel attempts to return to the imaginative experience of mythology/history, from which to clarify its positive/negative value and explore its complex interactive relationship with East Asian agricultural civilization. In any case, the "Chinese character community" with characters as the core has always been the cultural cornerstone of Chinese ethnic cognition. In the current extraordinary context, writing a little myth for literary readers may be the best choice for a writer. Myths store the dream of the soul flying freely. Defending this dream is the natural mission of novels. But this mythical novel is not the ultimate allegory. It is an independent text in and for itself, completely beyond my control. It is an illusion, but it may also be history that has happened. In this sense, writing is just to recall lost memories. January 15, 2020, at Columbia University’s East Asian Library in New York 【Supplementary Notes for the Chinese Edition】 "The Creator of Characters: A Brief History of the Cangjie Family" has made some major adjustments based on "Chronicles of Qingqiu" published by World Discourse Publishing House in New York (2020). First, in order to make it easier for readers to understand the story, the title of the American version was changed with great reluctance; second, the chapters were reshuffled to make it look more complete; third, some texts were modified and added and deleted in an attempt to improve its narrative sense and temperament. In any case, after eight or nine years of repeated struggles, including a three-year hibernation during the pandemic, this novel has finally been revived and has a relatively complete form. Although it still has a lot of flaws, it can be regarded as a sample of my "new myth" along with these flaws. It has epic ambitions, but only the weight of a pamphlet, and is completely unable to modify the reality of the collapse of Chinese literature. In the end, these human-made texts will become dust to be cleared by AI processors. Time is not the terminator, but AI is. Thanks to Huacheng Publishing House for accepting this little book, allowing it to be published decently, and providing it with a beautiful visual text. Perhaps it is like a meteor, just born, and will fall back into darkness. But it once streaked across the sky, giving people who long for the light of myth a brief moment of hope. 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Online warehouse and exhibition hall of Zhu Dake's works，Contains Dake Zhu's cultural criticism, mythological studies, and historical studies, novels, essays, and research materials about him. "Longevity Game" Derivative Project This is the first full-length novel written by the author, which combines martial arts, adventure, myth, legend, history and many other genre elements. The expedition team headed by Confucius' grandfather Bo Xia, under the order of Emperor Zhou, started the search for the "undead medicine". Difficult course. Immortality is the eternal theme of human religion and literature. The author has found a new way and created a new novel style combining history and mythology. The story is thrilling and moving, and it is a high-quality text adapted into film and television works. 前往长生弈简介 The Story of Changshengyi Zhou Xiangwang Ji Zheng saw the God of Hades demanding his life in the back garden of the royal family, and said that he would take his entire family away. Ji Zheng was scared to death. Determined to send someone to find the elixir to eliminate the threat of the underworld. Bo Xia, the priest of the God of Spring, accepted this assignment and went to Pengcheng, Song Dynasty to find the legendary Peng Zu. He found that Peng Zu was not an individual, but a group of people who specialized in cultivating golden elixir to achieve immortality. They hid in Pengshan and secretly refined it for immortality. The golden elixir, isolated from the world. In order to usurp the throne, Ji Dai, Ji Zheng's younger brother, sent his brother-in-law Zhai You to assassinate Bo Xia and eliminate Peng people, so as to prevent the emperor from obtaining the elixir. Out of imperial order and morality, and out of curiosity about the belief in immortality, Bo Xia and his team tried their best to help and protect Peng Ren, and the two sides fought desperately. With the support of the god of the underworld, Yan Mo, Zhai You used the soul-hunting technique from the Persian Empire to form a powerful "Youzhe" army, successively attacked Pengshan and Shanjuan Cave, destroyed the alchemy room, and killed Boxia's lover Pengyu. The alchemist suffered heavy casualties. Bo Xia is the human son of the God of Spring, Jumang, a half-god and half-human hero. He led the Peng people to fight back, wiped out the main force of the Youzhe, and helped Peng people to refine the golden elixir with his talents and abilities, and even killed the god of the underworld, Yama. After Yan Mo died, he became an ordinary person, married a village girl, and lived an ordinary and happy life. However, due to the absence of the god of the underworld, the order of life and death in the world is in chaos, and the dying are trapped in the painful plight of "immortality". The gods were deeply shocked and decided to resurrect Yama. The poison pill designed by Bo Xia in Zhai You's body turned into an ugly monster. He survived by chance and returned to Pengcheng to seek revenge on Bo Xia. He blinded his eyes and ears and made him a cripple. With the help of him, he obtained the highest ability to communicate with all things in nature, and severely injured Zhai You who once again led the army of the Song Dynasty to attack Pengshan. Bo Xia also promised Yan Mo, who was going to be resurrected, to marry his village aunt's wife, and was forced to break up with his lover Yun Jiao. Yan Mo came back to life and took away Zhai You's dying soul. A few years later, a major earthquake broke out, Feng'e was crushed to death, and the Peng clan suffered heavy casualties. The remaining immortals moved to Zhongnan Mountain, which became a long-standing historical legend. Released from the marriage contract, Boxia entrusted his five-year-old son Shulianghe to be raised, and left Pengcheng with Yunjiao, forgetting the dream of eternal life and living the peaceful life of ordinary people. 66 years later, Shulianghe got a son named Kongqiu. Read the chapter of Changshengyi Changshengyi character list Bersia: Born of the God of Spring, Jumang, and a daughter of the people, a half-god and half-human hero, a doctor of the Song Dynasty and a priest of the God of Spring, the staff and envoy of Zhou Xiangwang Ji Zheng, responsible for finding Peng Zu and the elixir; Yun Jiao: A heroine born in Orion, the guardian of the Bo Xia mission, became Bo Xia after Peng Yu's death. summer lover Peng Yu: Daughter of Song Xianggong, lover of Bo Xia; Drum beard: More than 800 years old, the legendary Pengzu, the leader of the Jindan sect among the "Pengren"; Xu Zifu: 150 years old, Peng Zu's follower, one of the managers of the Peng people, and a close friend of Guxu Cloud Gate: Brother Yun Jiao, the guardian of the Boxia mission Chang Zhongbiao: The personal bodyguard of King Xiang of Zhou, the guardian of Boxia's mission Qi Qiang: General Qi, supporter of the Bo Xia Mission Mrs. Lee: The leader of the female Peng people, the leader of the opposition within the Peng people Feng'e: Yama's human wife, a village girl, later married Bo Xia Zhai You: The elder brother of Queen Shukai, Prince Zhai, Bo Xia's sworn enemy, and the villain in this story Zhaohu: Zhai You's personal servant Season Leopard: Zhai You's personal attendant, a rebel within the Youmeng Hime belt: Ji Zheng's half-brother, conspirator and usurper, who was once the mastermind behind Zhai You Uncle Shame: Queen of Ji Zheng, daughter of King Zhai, famous for her adultery and conspiracy with Ji Dai Wu Wei: Youngest daughter of King Zhai, younger sister of Zhai You and Shu Kai Mrs. Lee: The leader of the female Peng people of the Jindan faction, Xu Zifu's crush Yama: The god of the underworld, also known as the god of death, the secular name "Yama", the master of the underground world Sentence Mang: God of spring, god of love, god of plants, god of life, father of Jumang Gouzi: Falcon, scientific name eagle owl, aerial predator, human observer, cloud gate's secret messenger

Portions of the short story“Rreat Pail” back to homepage Excerpts from Zhu Dake's Novels Great Pail Chapter 1 Legend of Tizok A city built on perpetual motion machines Popoka's memory notes (November 21, 1790, the seventh floor of the vat, the Moers house) I am Popoca Tenoch, the son of the spiritual guide Miles Tenoch and the midwife Anna, the elder brother of Angie Tenoch, the goddess of the Feathered Serpent, from the city of Tizok—this one was borne by the Feathered Serpent The place favored by God, in the third year after the coming-of-age ceremony, that is, the year when the rule of the high priest was overthrown, my sister and I left our hometown together. The city I used to live in, Tizoque, is located in the open land in the tropical rainforest of Central America. It consists of a hexagonal building and a circular building "big barrel". Compared with the cities of the Aztecs, Tizoc has the characteristics of a more advanced civilization. According to the "Tizok Upanishad", the ring-shaped building relies on a perpetual motion machine to generate rotational power, which means that the entire city is located on a huge disc, like a super bracelet placed on a stone mill. With the help of Mayan priests, it relies on precise astronomical calculations to rotate 360 degrees every year, thus ensuring that each family can get sunshine on average. It may be the only geode clock in the world. However, due to the slow speed, the vast majority of residents cannot directly perceive its movement. The perpetual motion machine is located in the heart of the city, buried at 200 cubits [a unit of Tizoc length, each cubit equals about 45 centimeters. ] Deep underground. It is a hybrid mechanical system that comprehensively utilizes gravity, gravity, magnetism, groundwater momentum and light energy. There are also stone chambers of different sizes and their mesh passages. There is no doubt that this is an unparalleled underground building, and its complexity far surpasses the Minoan labyrinth in Crete, Greece. However, only a handful of people know of its existence, and no one can decipher its operating principle. The "Tizok Upanishad" declares that the great Feathered Serpent personally designed and manufactured the perpetual motion machine, and pushed it to walk with his own powerful energy. Circles provide a compact way to calculate lifetimes. If your lifespan is only fifty years, then when the city turns to the fiftieth circle, Feathered Serpent God will hand you over to the God of Death, and let him take you to the unfathomable nine-layer underworld, or be taken by him to many worlds. Up to thirteen layers of lofty heaven. A mysterious family called the Lorenzo maintains those mechanical transmissions to ensure that they function without malfunction. But for a long time it seemed to be just some kind of charming legend, for only two or three Tizoks before me had ever seen a member of this family. Those adventurers who try to break into the secret passage will get lost in it and die of hunger and despair. In the history of the city-state of Tizok, at least one hundred and twenty-eight explorers died in this maze, and their skulls were inlaid at the entrance of the perpetual motion maze. The latter is located in a tunnel under a statue of a god in the square, and is accompanied by a gilded nameplate cast in bronze with a macabre inscription-"The gods lead you to death". This warning is enough to discourage all "tourists". merse's teenage past Popoka's memory notes (November 23, 1790, seventh floor of the vat, Moers House) I don't know exactly how to tell the history of our family. If you want to trace the source, you have to mention my father, who claims to be from another planet. Of course, it is neither Mars nor Saturn, but the "Pluto" on the earth, and the name is Titlan City. The city has now been consumed by a plague called "smallpox", completely wiped from the face of the earth. Through his father's memories, it can be found that his fear and loathing of that city has reached an indescribable level. The birth of my father is a legend in itself. He is an orphan without father and mother. He was put into a wooden basin when he was born, and allowed to float in the river for an unknown amount of time. A fisherman downriver fishing in the moonlight found a baby in a basket and took him home to raise him, but no one knew his true origin. According to what the fisherman told others, there were only two things in the tub at that time: the father himself, and a delicate obsidian dagger. Because there was no milk, my father was as thin as a stick, but his eyes were piercing and he did not cry. The short sword was placed beside him, the white jade hilt was inlaid with seven small turquoise stones on the front and the back, and on the back of the shiny black sword was engraved a symbol similar to "₴", which was the special symbol of Feathered Serpent God , "г" represents the body of the Feathered Serpent, and "=" represents its pair of wings. At the age of fifteen, strictly speaking, it was the fifteenth year when he was discovered by the fisherman. His father had a lively coming-of-age ceremony, but he didn't know that it was a turning point in his life. Relatives and friends of the fisherman came to bless them, beat wooden drums, played colorful ocarinas, and sang and danced at the moonlight party. Neighbors far and near were also infected by the carnival, opened their windows and sang loudly together, and the sound spread throughout the city. But at midnight, a total lunar eclipse suddenly occurred, the black shadow engulfed most of the moon, and the sky turned dark red blood. Thousands of stray cats gathered at the party scene, facing the moon and their father, uttering screams like babies The sound is like weeping and complaining. Everyone in the city panicked, as if witnessing the end of the world. That night, some residents of Titlan died for no reason at home, as if they had been cast with a vicious spell. Various rumors began to circulate in the city from the next day, most of which pointed to my father, saying that he was the incarnation of death, representing the power of darkness, death and corruption, and performed death magic on the residents of the city under the guise of birthday rituals, Must be executed immediately, otherwise there will be endless troubles. The priests were also very afraid of this, and declared that he was the enemy of Titlan, but they were worried about offending Feathered Serpent, so they could only send soldiers to drive his father out of the city and abandon him in the thorny wilderness. The representative of the priesthood, wearing a hideous mask of beasts made of leather, issued a final warning to him: "You must stay away from us and never come back, otherwise you and your family (if any) will be executed." The father looked sad, bowed his head, and accepted the sentence of exile obediently. From then on, he began to wander between the wilderness and the dense forest, making a living by hunting and gathering plants, and learned to identify various dangerous animals and useful plants. One summer day three years later, in the tropical rainforest of the Kachu Valley, my father met a huge male jaguar, which was in heat, and had followed him for three days, never giving up. On that sultry evening, it launched an attack on its prey. It soared into the air and rushed towards its father condescendingly, as if it wanted to possess a charming female leopard. The father resisted vigorously, his left leg was accidentally swept by sharp claws, and blood poured out, but he did not retreat, pulled out the obsidian dagger, and stood under the luxuriant horn tree, majestic and majestic, like a young god. The jaguar was so frightened that it backed up again and again, making a low cry of begging. At this moment, the Tizok warrior hidden in the jungle suddenly came to the rescue and shot a sharp arrow into the forehead of the jaguar. This is a strange-looking Yucatan with dense circular markings on his body, so he has the nickname "Old Leopard". He is the leader of the "gatherers". He is keen on fighting for justice and has great prestige among the group. The old leopard followed the magnificently spotted male leopard for a whole day, and finally killed him while he was busy hunting. The old leopard later told me that the big cat behaved a little strangely, completely obsessed with its prey, and turned a deaf ear to the danger behind it, as if possessed by an evil spirit, which gave him a good opportunity to strike. "Little Mers is the real magician. He is very different from everyone I have met." The old leopard smiled mysteriously, his white teeth gleaming in the sun. After saving his father, the old leopard used spells and witchcraft to help him stop the bleeding and bandage the wound, and took him to "Tizoke", a city crawling out of stones, and applied for the right to live forever for him. After strict review, the management accepted this brave young man who fought hand-to-hand with tigers. In this way, he grew up under the care of the old leopard and became the youngest member of the gatherer army. Not only that, he also studied medicine, pharmacy and spiritual guidance assiduously, passed a series of rigorous tests, and became one of the honorable ranks of pharmacists and spiritual guides. The Quirky "Barrel" and Its Residents October 1789 Tizoke City, Vat The ring-shaped building of Tizok City looks like a ring-shaped crown, so it has an official name "Tizok Crown", but Tizok people are used to calling it "big barrel" because it looks more like a super cylinder. Its outer edge, which is equivalent to what people usually call a city wall, is built of thick basalt stones, so strong and tall that it cannot be destroyed from the outside at all. There used to be a deep and wide ditch at its feet, and the bottom was filled with dense and sharp iron picks. Once an intruder fell into it, his intestines would be pierced and he would die. Many years ago, a powerful Aztec army discovered its existence, so they moved soil to fill the ditch in an attempt to capture it, but due to lack of gunpowder, ladders and trebuchets, they failed after three months. , leaving behind piles of corpses, as well as exquisite obsidian weapons, which greatly improved Tizok's military rank. Based on the fear of the unknown outside world, no one is willing to leave this heavily guarded circular city. After a long time, it has become a solid closed loop. The strange thing is that Tizok City has a gate with a hard metal panel, with exquisite decorations, and it opens majestically towards the direction of the Southern Cross, and the thick bracket and hinge for lifting the gate panel are installed on the upper end in a pretentious manner. But the Aztecs didn't find out angrily until they attacked the city that it was actually a gateless city. The gate they saw was but a deceitful decoration, and behind it was a rock of despair. The only passage for the vat is two large elevators composed of winches and suspension cables, which are distributed on its inner and outer sides, used to carry carriages and bulk goods, and are closely guarded by a team of soldiers, only for collectors to enter and exit when they are working. The vat is both a city wall and a barracks-style residence, with 35,000 residents living in it. There is a circular corridor on its inner side, which is a public platform inside the class, where residents can take a walk and spread gossip. The outsides of the one to five-story houses are sealed and thick walls without windows, and it is impossible to see the scenery outside the city at all. However, there are enough doors and windows on the inside facing the corridors. Residents can see through as long as they stand in their houses. Through the opened doors and windows, most of the residents located on the ring structure can be observed, and the central tower and its hexagonal building can be seen in the distance. Only the sixth and seventh-story buildings are a special case in design. It has "arrow windows" that open toward the outer edge, but due to the small area and the four sides are blocked by thick walls, the view of the scenery is too narrow, as if A glimpse of a leopard in a tube. Of course, its name also means that once it enters a state of war, it can be quickly converted into an arrow stack for soldiers to defend. But one thing is certain, the residents of these two layers are in high positions and do not have the skills of archery and combat, but they have the power to look at external civilizations. They are not only proficient in Tizoc script, but also understand Aztec, Maya, Spanish and Chukya. Of course, in order to defend Tizok's hierarchy, these knowledge and skills must be monopolized. In the "Tizok Upanishad" left by his father, there is a brief description of the structure of the vat residents: Seventh floor: the ruler, the supreme ruler of Tizok, composed of high priests, assistant priests, governors, presbyterian elders and fertility officers; Sixth floor: creators, composed of teachers, doctors, engineers, artists, spiritual guides and theologians; Fifth floor: Guardians, composed of judges, policemen, soldiers, jailers and executioners; Fourth floor: Collectors, who have the privilege of going out of the city to collect necessary materials, one thousand of them are responsible for collecting gold, emeralds, emeralds, turquoise and opal, _cc781905-5cde-3194 -bb3b-136bad5cf58d_Provide core wealth for Tizok City; The third layer: manufacturers, composed of artisans, gardeners, farmers, blacksmiths, craftsmen, millers, merchants and shopkeepers; The second floor: Cleaners are located at the bottom of Tizok society, engaged in garbage removal, feces collection, haircuts, baths, babysitters, bearers, and corpse burials. _cc781905-5cde-3194 -bb3b-136bad5cf58d_work; Ground floor: warehouses and barns, used to store food and daily necessities acquired by gatherers, and livestock such as horses, pigs, chickens and ducks kept by clearers. According to Tizoc's law, there are strict boundaries between different levels and cannot be crossed casually. I once saw a child of the "maker" on the third floor accidentally run up the stairs leading to the fourth floor because of his naughtiness. His mother took him down in horror and beat him on the spot with a thorny agave leaf. The boy cried out in pain—for the first time in his life, he was taught a harsh lesson about class segregation. The boy, Motzuma, was a hereditary stonemason who later became the leader of the maker class, responsible for organizing the production and processing of the material products needed by the inhabitants. Domestic violence is the only way for Tizok people to grow up. After they grow up, they have to face more severe religious and administrative violence. The example of Mottezuma is enough to prove that without this kind of violent punishment throughout early education, there will be no good future for victims of violence. The rooftop on the top of the Datong Building is a wide avenue, except for two low warehouses built near the elevator, it looks almost unobstructed. Arrow stacks are built on both the inner and outer rings, but because there has been no war for a long time, the arrow stacks are already covered with a thick layer of moss. Every day, twenty-four patrolmen patrolled in shifts on it. Through the arrow stacks, they kept a close eye on the movement inside and outside the city of Tizok, so as to discover the traces of intruders and rebels in time. No one can easily escape the sight of these patrols. After dark, the patrolmen began to light their lanterns, and every hour, they used obsidian daggers to strike leather shields and armors, reporting the progress of time, which sounded like muffled drums, talking to the people of every household. Hourglass clocks echo each other. It is also a warning to residents: We are here, and we are watching your every move! As residents on the sixth floor, with the help of the self-rotation of the vat, all members of the Moores family can slowly observe the panorama of the surrounding tropical rainforest through the arrow window. Under the mixed effect of sunlight and rain, it emits white mist, covering the whole world, like a thick barrier. Tizok itself was bathed in thick mist. The forest and the city are looking at each other, but neither can understand the other's details. Between these two camps, there is a vast cemetery where all the deceased Tizoks are buried. Their ghosts bubble up from the cracks in the earth, trying desperately to get back to the city, but the towering walls of the vat stop them. In most cases, they can only fly around the roots of the vats, and the leaves are piled up at the foot of the wall, waiting to be eroded by the wet years, or blown to more distant places by the dry hot wind. Feathered Serpent and High Priest Hopi October 30, 1789 Tizok City, Tower of Worship Unlike the Aztecs and Mayans, Feathered Serpent is the highest and only god believed by the residents of Tizoc. According to the "Tizoke Upanishad", he came from a place called "YIN" on the other side of the ocean. The Tizoke people called it "YINDI", which means "Yindi". "India" is mixed up, creating a geographical fallacy that has lasted for hundreds of years. The Feathered Serpent God holds the huge energy that governs the growth of all things, and at the same time can determine the termination of its growth, and that is death. Feathered snake gods always appear at the two ends of human life - birth and death. His image is that of a serpent with outstretched fangs and enormous wings. But sometimes he also appeared in human form, looking like a general with a feather crown on his head, and a giant winged snake became his mount, which may be a composite of Feathered Serpent God and Youhouxi modeling. There are three copies of the linen portraits of this humanoid feathered serpent, which were kept secret by the high priest, the chief elder, and the captain of the soldiers, and became an important symbol of religious power. This kind of theology that deliberately associates the Feathered Serpent God with death has isolated the city of Tizoc from the entire Central America, and out of the instinct of self-protection, the city of Tizoc can only refuse to communicate with the outside world, thus falling into a trap. A state of eternal autism, which is then gradually forgotten by the outside world. On the map of America drawn by the Spaniards, Tizoc is hidden in the vast tropical rainforest, becoming a void that never existed. Right in the center of Tizok City, there is a basalt minaret - the worship tower, which is more than 100 cubits high and is the spiritual axis of the entire city-state. and a narrow wooden ladder that spirals itself. On the periphery of the worship tower, there are six interconnected rectangular buildings, which belong to the temple, the city hall, the soldiers, the hospital, the school and the library. They form a central matrix that echoes the "barrels" of the residents' circular dwellings, known as "hexagonal buildings". The high priest Hopi likes to stand on the watchtower on the top of the tower, use a monocular made in Italy to look around the entire circular city, and observe the daily movements of all residents. This may be the greatest pleasure in his life. Driven by the perpetual motion machine, the ring-shaped residential building is slowly rotating, like those sacred stars in the sky. This means that as long as Hoppy is patient enough to stand still, he can observe the situation of each family without turning his head, because they will always automatically turn to the front of his line of sight. Between the observation tower and the rotating residential building "big barrel", there is an effect of peeping at each other, and this is the initial logic of Tizok City: no privacy, completely open and bright. This structure is said to be the trump card of urban democracy. The second floor of the tower is the largest timekeeping clock in Central America, and it is also the only sign of the perpetual motion machine showing itself on the surface. It uses a sophisticated escapement mechanism to tell the time eight times a day, from one knock to eight strikes, It keeps going back and forth, loud and long, echoing over the sky of Tizoke City, and it lasts for a long time. Its voice, like cotton thread, seeped into every orifice and crevice, and shook every creature of the city. On the annual memorial day of the Feathered Serpent God, the big clock strikes twelve times every hour, just like the Feathered Serpent God's slowly approaching footsteps. Just as the bell was ringing, the city of Tizok suddenly became quiet. All the residents put down everything in their hands and prayed to the temple on the worship tower, praying for the pardon of death from the Feathered Serpent God. Sometimes, the high priest will give a speech between the two bells, which is used to shape the supreme divine authority. At this moment, he stood in front of Tizok's only "soul machine", took a deep breath, and prepared his own draft. Like the perpetual motion machine, this machine is also a gift from the Feathered Serpent God. Although it is much smaller in scale, it is also intricately constructed. Consisting of systems and lead pipes, it was the chief tool of the High Priest's speech. It can amplify the sound countless times and transmit it to every corner of the hexagonal building and the vat. Not only that, the mysterious frequency it creates can continuously control people's brain waves, and it lasts for years, just like the echo of time. "Residents of Tizok, you are in danger!" Usually, he likes to start his speeches with provocative words like this before launching into a lengthy brainwashing sermon. His tone is up and down, and his voice is round and full of magnetism. Through the complicated lead pipe, it resounds through every corner of Tizok. Many Tizok women have a crush on this thirty-two-year-old supreme power. It is said that when they listen to his speeches, they often reach orgasm, flush, tremble, and scream with infinite joy. It is these fanatical worshipers of the opposite sex that support Hopi's tough rule. Standing resolutely on the watchtower, wearing an emerald mask, he uttered charming promises and terrible threats, while the people around him shouted "Long live" heartily. On the sixth floor of the vat, stood a woman with big breasts and wide buttocks, at the moment she was looking at her leader with infinite obsession. Her name is Ma Linjie, an artist who makes a living by painting portraits for nobles, and is also one of Hopi's many sex slaves. She clenched the railing tightly with her hand, screaming sharply and continuously, like moaning from the bed curtain, but her voice actually surpassed the crowd and became the peak leading the entire chorus. From her eyes and lower body, a fluid more religious than religious poured out. In the tide of joy, her body is floating up to the vast and sacred sky together with the weightless soul. 大桶音频/喜马拉雅电台 references Big Barrel's Postscript: The World Is Snowing Its Last Snow Xiangfangzhen’s Comments: The Era of Cataclysm Needs Language to Carry the Ideal Land Freely switch between selected reading pages of various novels big bucket Go to vat optional reading Kirin Go to Kirin Selected Reading Weeping Master Go to full text of Weeping Master word making Go to Selected Reading of Characters yellow Go to Youhuang Full Text Physiologian Go to the full text of Physiologian magic mirror Go to God Mirror Selected Reading Changshengyi Go to Longevity Game Selected Reading Perfumer Go to the full text of Xiang Taoist Back to Selected Readings

Online warehouse and exhibition hall of Zhu Dake's works，Contains Dake Zhu's cultural criticism, mythological studies, and historical studies, novels, essays, and research materials about him. 返回小说随笔著作 前往版权衍生项目 古事记 字造 神镜 麒麟 前往神镜阅读页面 前往麒麟阅读页面 《古事记》北京首发式 地点：SKP书店举行 时间：2018年8月4日 主办：人民文学出版社 朱大可邀请北京大学中文系主任陈晓明教授、中国作家协会副主席李敬泽先生、 人民文学出版社副总编辑应红女士，围绕《古事记》系列展开对谈，进行了一场关于中国神话文学的奇幻漂流。 北京SKP商业中心书店的豪华阵容 陈晓明、李敬泽、朱大可和责任编辑樊晓哲 摄像镜头里的朱大可 陈晓明、李敬泽、朱大可和责任编辑樊晓哲 陈晓明、李敬泽、朱大可和责任编辑樊晓哲 摄像镜头里的陈晓明 朱大可神话小说的风尚志 《长生弈》《古事记》上海分享会 读过朱大可批评文字的读者都知道，朱大可文字瑰丽变幻、富有穿透力。他的语言是一枚镶满了宝钻的洛可可箭矢，华美又精准。在“古事记”写作中，朱大可依然贯穿了标签式的话语风格，无论是仓颉造字的困惑疑虑，还是李阿镜阵的扑朔迷离，抑或麒麟眼中的荒诞离奇，都在他的话语中得到了流畅舒展的表达。 ——2018年8月12日华西都市报 朱大可在分享会上发言 朱大可在分享会上与作家唐颖对谈 朱大可在会上与主持人对话 上海书城的读者们 上海书城的读者们 站在外围场地的读者们 《古事记》荣获“老虎文学奖” 朱大可抱走“布老虎” 第七届老虎文学奖颁奖词 文化、语言、符号的隐喻魔术师 朱大可先生身份独特而有趣。他首先是一名文化大厨，一位语言魔术师，然后又是著名的学者和教授。 朱大可先生是上个世纪八十年代以来中国当代文学的亲历者、批评者，是中国当代文化的鉴赏者、针砭者，身份繁多同时又卓然独立：文学评论家、文化批评家、神话学家，神幻小说家，每一个时期，都有一个独特的身影。 朱大可先生对中国当代文化有深刻认识，撰写大量文章进行发人深省的批判，在几十年写作中，形成了独特的语言风格：犀利、深刻、风趣、幽默，他“发明”的一些名词如“文化口红”等，令人会心，不胫而走，流传深远。 南京大学潘知常教授评价说：“别的评论家写的只是评论，朱大可教授写的却是名言。” 朱大可先生还长期研究华夏上古神话，在《南方都市报》《花城》等媒体杂志上开设专栏，他独出心裁分析的屈原故事、大羿和嫦娥的故事、梁山伯与祝英台的故事，都极其独到，令人难忘。在此基础上，朱大可先生出版了神话学专著《华夏上古神系》两卷本，对华夏上古神话进行了仔细而缜密的梳理，作出了令人耳目一新的独特分析。中国文化转型的每次重大转型期，都跟上古神话的研究密切有关。朱大可先生的研究，正是在这个敏感时期的一部独特的力作。在深入研究上古神话的基础上，朱大可教授再度“转型”成为一名神幻小说家。他的作品根植于深刻的神话资料和独特的认识，有着丰富的信息和独特的启发意义。 朱大可先生以独特的想象力、扎实的资料研究所创作神幻小说集《古事记》、长篇小说《长生弈》，令人耳目一新，也是当代文坛中独具新风的作品。 第七届老虎文学奖授予著名学者、神话学家、同济大学教授朱大可先生。 媒体报道摘要 一晃之间，“老虎文学奖”已经颁到了第七届，支持者越来越多，阵容也越来越强大：第一届老虎文学奖获得者、定居云南的著名作家马原专程飞来上海参加，著名学者余世存、第三届老虎文学奖获得者、诗人张文质等也从外地来到上海。上海本地的学者更是大咖云集：华东师范大学大学周圣伟教授、华东师范大学飞翔公益基金会理事长查建渝先生、上海戏剧学院副院长、上海市作家协会副主席杨扬教授、复旦大学王宏图教授、同济大学朱大可教授、文化批评家刘巽达先生、著名作家唐颖女士、上海教育书刊总社社长仲立新先生、上海戏剧学院吴泽涛教授、浙江文艺出版社常务副社长曹元勇博士、《东方教育时报》总编辑徐建华先生、著名学者、大星文化传媒总裁周公度先生、著名作家、恐怖小说大王李西闽先生、著名悬疑作家、上海作家协会副主席蔡骏先生，同济大学张念教授、中信出版上海分社总编马鸣谦先生、教育学者、诗人张文质先生、著名青年作家甫跃辉、华东师范大学国际文化学院副教授王琦博士、书法家、诗人春野、诗人茱萸等，汇聚一堂。 资讯来源：第七届老虎文学奖今天颁奖，朱大可《古事记》抱走布老虎 【小贴士】 “老虎文学奖”，系《收获》杂志编辑部主任、副编审叶开（网名“老虎不吃饭饭”）于上海设立的民间文学奖，奖金一元钱。评奖者、授奖者和奖金提供者，都是作家叶开。他说：“我希望‘老虎文学奖’这种带有比较鲜明个人视角色彩的文学价值取向是对主流文学奖的一种补充或者平衡。” 老虎奖暨研讨会现场 老虎奖颁奖人叶开 首届老虎奖得主、本届老虎奖授奖嘉宾马原 About me 马原将布老虎交到朱大可手里 布老虎及其获奖证书 相关资讯链接 中国新闻周刊：朱大可变形记 中国作家网：朱大可《古事记》系列点燃知识考古的明亮篝火 中华读书报：批评家朱大可完成转型小说《古事记》 北京晚报：朱大可新作《古事记》全新演绎经典故事 沿袭其一贯华美精准风格 人民文学出版社微信公号：朱大可：文学对我来讲是一种乡愁 网易：文化学者朱大可推出《古事记》,魔幻笔法书写三段传说 梦迪：亦真亦幻，朱大可的《神镜》带来的震撼 文化先锋：朱大可的知识考古式小说——中篇系列《古事记》访谈 搜狐：以小说的方式重写神话的“新锐作家”朱大可 封面新闻：评论家朱大可用“超文体”重写神话，将文学、历史熔铸一起，疗愈灵魂的乡愁 澎湃新闻：朱大可获老虎文学奖：重新诠释神话故事，奖品是一只布老虎 腾讯网：“第七届老虎文学奖”火热出炉：朱大可“邂逅”布老虎 搜狐人物｜魔术师朱大可与他的华夏神话 书名：古事记 出版社：人民文学出版社（北京） 出版日期：2018年7月 责任编辑：樊晓哲 返回小说随笔著作

Online warehouse and exhibition hall of Zhu Dake's works，Contains Dake Zhu's cultural criticism, mythological studies, and historical studies, novels, essays, and research materials about him. back to homepage Excerpts from Zhu Dake's Novels Ancient Chronicles Volume 1 character one When the boy was lying in the woods and dreaming, the sunlight passed through the dense leaves and hit his face directly, forming some flickering spots, and the light and shadow entered the dream, turning into ripples on the water. He saw himself swimming in the water in the pose of a fish, paying homage to everything in the water. He greets other fish, shrimps and crabs at the bottom of the water, and even snail schools floating on the muddy bank. His heart was filled with great joy. He is free and infinitely friendly to the world. Since he was two years old, he has been indulging in this kind of daydreaming. Every morning, he sneaks into the miscellaneous woods behind the house, and lies under an old flowering locust tree, surrounded by the sun, like wearing clothes. When I put on a robe made of light fibers, the drowsiness immediately extended from my head, chest, abdomen and limbs like tree roots, as if petrified, until I was awakened by my grandmother at dusk. Granny was a witch, and she was the only one who could walk into his dreams, drag him out, spank his ass with a branch, and drive him home. "It's time to eat, my little beast." Grandma bleated like a trembling sheep, "The fish in the water are already waiting for you in the pot." The boy is a mute, born with a missing tongue in his mouth, and cannot describe to his grandmother his happiness in the dream. He grabbed grandma's hand and called, grandma Then he laughed: "Oh, you little bastard, you either sleep or shit." The boy happily ran into the weeds and took a dip in the stinking shit. After finishing, he let out another cry happily, and saw light gray cooking smoke rising from the chimney of the hut. He grabbed two earthworms as shoelaces, and they threaded themselves through the rope buckles of the straw sandals, and tied a bow at the end, and then lay quietly on the sandals. on. He ran into the house with his shoes on, sat by the firepit, and saw a fish with a big mouth and sharp teeth lying in the pot. Across the steaming soup pot, a beautiful little face was looking at him with a smile. That's his cousin Axio. She sneezed loudly and said, "What are you doing in your dream, little bastard today?" The boy pointed at the fish with his finger and pretended to open his mouth to speak again. The girl said, "Oh I see, this fish bit you just now, so you have to eat it." She looked at the boy with a smirk on her face. The boy didn't eat the fish. He quickly ate up the millet in the bowl, and then he went to pull the girl's braids. The girl also dropped the chopsticks and took a bite on his hand, leaving a shallow ring of tooth marks like stamps. . They started playing and fighting around the house. This is their daily homework. Grandma smiled and looked at the grandchildren around her knees, as if looking at the world in a song. Boys tie knots in girls' slender braids. While dodging, the girl said to the boy: "Jie, you are so fierce to me, but I am so kind to you, even if I eat a flea, I will split your leg." The boy laughed loudly, and stretched out a flea to her. The index finger means to give her a finger. The girl added: "If elder brother Jie is a puppy, then younger sister is a small bone for elder brother to run around with." The girl also said: "If we are together in the future, I will make everything come together. I will put my shoes in your shoes, put your socks in my socks, and make clothes with clothes. Pillows and pillows become husband and wife, and my hands and Jie's hands also become husband and wife." Jie became a little shy after hearing this, and stretched out his hand to cover the girl's mouth. The girl pushed his hand away and stuck her tongue into his mouth again. Jie sucked the girl's little meat tongue, like a warm little fish, thinking how soft and fragrant it was, and the body fluid carried the aroma of green grass. The girl said: "Our mouths should also become husband and wife." Jie's head was a little dizzy, and he was shocked by this kiss, as if he had fallen into grandma's steaming tub. For many years afterwards, he could not forget this first kiss of the soul. After late at night, when grandma and the girl went to sleep, Jie entered another state of his own—starting to draw and draw on the mud floor. The creatures of the night have been dispatched, wolves howling in the nearby spring, night owls laughing horribly, and hungry tigers roaring in the valley far away. Jie also let out his own childish howl. Like a little wolf, he sat in front of the house, leaning against the hard and cold door, and began to draw symbols on the mud. This is a technique taught by my grandmother. When the wizards practiced it, they would use ignited carbon strips to draw black runes on banana leaves or sorghum leaves. The way disappears into thin air. Jie drew a talisman in the shape of a tree, and another in the shape of a bird's foot. After erasing, continue to draw the third one, and so on indefinitely. He could feel the energy of these runes, they smiled when they were drawn, but let out a slight sigh when they were erased. There is only one moment from laughing to sighing. Their lives are so short, which makes Jie a little sentimental. The precocious mute boy thought in a dazed way that all these laughter and sighs should be bottled up so that they would not die of witchcraft. His sadness flowed from his fingers and fell into the dry soil. But he kept doing it over and over again. day to day. Dreaming and drawing symbols, this is the only thing in his life. Even when it is windy and rainy, he oscillates between these two states. Cousin Axio sometimes came to interfere in a mischievous way. She covered his eyes with a laugh, played with the round bone on his forehead, twisted his ears, and sent a group of dark-skinned ants into him. collar. Jie is happy when he is dreaming, sad when he is drawing symbols, and happy only when he is teased by Axie. He smiled foolishly, fascinated by the smell of grass on Axie's body. On this day, the witch grandmother dragged him out of the dream, took him by the hand, and led him out of the village called "Hougang" to go to a nearby village to go to the market. Grandma greeted many farmers and women along the way, saying all kinds of strange words. At the market, she again haggled at each stall. In order to buy a handful of vegetables at a low price, she almost exhausted her words of flattery, and even issued a witchcraft-like threat, saying that if she refused to lower the price, she would turn the vegetable farmer's home into hell. In the end, both parties always complete the transaction very amicably. Jie turned a deaf ear to this. He squatted alone by the side of the road, drawing amulets on the ground with his fingers. The villagers all knew this mute boy, and they looked at him with pity, thinking that he was not only a little mute, but also a fool. Sometimes there was a look of contempt on their faces. Yes, humans can tolerate an aphasic, but not an idiot. Jie has long been accustomed to people's eyes. There is always a silly smile on his face, like a charm fixed on his cheek. He draws runes according to the things in the market (chicken, meat, eggs, vegetables, etc.), and then erases them, watching them be born and dying quickly, mourning their short life, and immersing themselves in the tragedy of the circular game of symbols. In joy. After erasing hundreds of talismans, Jie raised his gaze, wanting to see where his grandma was. Grandma was missing, and the crowd was still so crowded and noisy. On a street corner not far away, an old hunchback beggar was being severely beaten. He looked as if he had stolen someone's money, his tattered clothes were covered with dust, and his knotted white beard was covered with blood. Jie was very unhappy. He felt that the old man was very pitiful and needed his help, so he walked over, uttered a cry, and stood majestically between the old man and the crowd with his hips akimbo. Everyone was stunned. The beating man also slapped Jie, causing countless golden stars to appear in his eyes. But he didn't fall down, still maintaining an angry look. Someone next to him recognized him and told him not to beat him. It was the grandson of the witch in Hougang Village. The beater was a little surprised and had to leave cursing. Jie went to look at the old man, but he had already stood up, his hunchback straightened, the blood on his beard disappeared, his ragged clothes became luxurious and shiny, and he looked at him with blazing eyes, as if he had changed into a different person. "I know your name is Jie, and you are the grandson of the witch." The old man smiled, "I have been looking for you for a long time." Jie looked at the old man in surprise, thinking that he was more miraculous than a talisman. He touched the leafy beard with his hand, and found that they were braided into hundreds of strands, each with hundreds of tiny knots, which seemed innumerable. He didn't know if it was a mark of age, or it represented some other more mysterious meaning. The old man laughed and said, "There are 38,000 knots here, which represent my age." If you want to count them, it will take more than 300 days. The old man touched it with his hands, and the knots disappeared completely, and his sparse beard fluttered loosely around his mouth, like a pile of weeds swaying in the wind. Jie was stunned. The old man said: "These are the knotting symbols taught to humans by the gods. You should understand their meaning. Come with me, and I will teach you a new game." Jie followed the old man to a secluded alley. The old man handed him a piece of tortoise shell and a ox blade, and Jie was holding them in his hand to play with, when the old man suddenly stretched out two fingers, quickly inserted them into Jie's eyes, and then pulled them out abruptly. Jie felt a sharp pain, cried out, and squatted down. When he stood up and opened his eyes, the old man had disappeared. Jie felt a little panic, not knowing what happened. Eyes are cooling and seeing more clearly. Looking around, he could actually see two hamsters making out on the chimney more than a hundred feet away. He was taken aback and quickly closed his eyes, thinking he was hallucinating. When I opened my eyes again, the hamster had already escaped, leaving behind a few grains of black and shiny rat droppings. Jie felt a little dizzy. He put away his strange gaze and walked slowly back to the street. Grandma was already waiting there with an anxious look on her face. He followed the grandma who had returned home with a full load and walked home. Along the way, grandma looked at him carefully and said: Why did your eyes become double pupils? What happened to you just now? Oh, you dumb little bastard. " Jie ran to the river, and saw that his eyes had turned into double pupils, that is, in the original dark brown pupils, there appeared a pure black pupil, like a big circle surrounded by a small circle, reflecting the moonlight. Fantastic color. "Why is this?" He looked at grandma in a panic. Grandma was also suspicious. They looked at each other. After seeing the changes in Jie, Axie was also very surprised. She watched it repeatedly for a long time, and said in a fuss: "Brother Jie has become a monster, but I like it very much." That night, Jiexiang sat at the door drawing symbols as usual, and suddenly found that his eyes could still see the nature of things in the dark. The souls of those small gravels are dancing on the ground, shining brightly; the souls of trees are sucking the sap of the earth, and even the weeds become brilliant and emit a crystal luster. A few beetles are still working, they are like some gold carved into insects, shining brightly, making the whole dark night appear brilliant. Faced with this change, Jie was a little at a loss. He stretched out his fingers carefully, and saw that the fingertips were also shining, like the buttocks of fireflies. He tried to draw a "worm" symbol on his palm, and it flew up like a paper-cut, suspended in mid-air. Jie startled the boss. Now the talisman not only laughed and sighed, but became a visible entity, which he had never expected. He drew a "window" symbol with his finger, and a pane made of light appeared in front of his eyes. An old man waved to him from outside the window. He was the one he met in the market during the day. He poked his head out and smiled, "We meet again." Jie wanted to say something to him, but he just let out a cry of surprise. The old man smiled: "It seems that you have forgotten the function of the tongue. Now you can speak. I am the great god Fuxi. From now on, you must use your tongue to praise me and the merits of all the gods." Jie nodded with a smirk. "I want to use your hand to change the world. Make a good sign, and you will become the greatest prophet in the world." Fuxi stepped back and disappeared into the void together with the window frame. In this way, Jie obtained the power of writing symbols from Fuxi God. This is not tribal witchcraft, but an unprecedented supernatural power. Jie drew a "tongue" symbol on his mouth, and something suddenly grew out of his mouth. He looked in the pool water and found that there was really a stretchable light red soft flesh in his mouth. Thankfully, based on the grace of God Fuxi, he found the lost tongue for himself. Jie happily woke up Grandma and Axie, showed them his magic power, showed them his tongue, and explained its origin to them. They were all stupefied by this miracle, unable to speak for a while. Grandma lit a pine light, wrote a thank you talisman, and burned it under the statue of Fuxi. Axie sneezed and said, "Brother Jie can talk, I'm so happy." Since then, Jie has the ability to create characters. He alternates his index fingers with each other and writes various hieroglyphs on the palm in turn. When he draws the character "Deng", there is an extra oil lamp in the house; when he writes and draws "鬲" symbols, there is an extra Li pot in the yard. Grandma said, I won't go to the market anymore, you can make it for me. Jie then drew the "fish" character, and live fish wagging its head and tail appeared in the basket; he drew the "melon" character, and the scaffolding in front of the door was full of melons and fruits; full-bodied crops. He also drew a "turtle" symbol for Axio, and Axio immediately got a charming green turtle. It crawled slowly on Axie's little hand, with a hard carapace and soft eyes. When dusk fell, grandma started steaming rice and cooking fish, and there was a faint smoke from the chimney. Axie said, I don't want the dark, Brother Jie will bring me some light. After thinking for a while, Jie drew a "Sun" symbol on his left palm with his right hand, and a "Moon" symbol on his right palm with his left hand, and then put the two palms together to form a "Ming" symbol. Suddenly, the sun and the moon juxtaposed in the sky. The sun at dusk no longer sets, but the moonlight has risen. One of them is on the west side of the sky, and the other is on the east side of the sky, reflecting each other, making the already dim sky extremely bright. People ran out of their houses to watch, thinking that it was God descending from heaven. Axio pulled grandma out of the house, pointed to the vision in the sky and said, "Look, brother Jie did it." The grandma squinted her eyes for a while, then sighed and said, "My child, you have played too much. I don't know whether this is a blessing or a curse." Neither Jie nor Achoe paid any attention to the witch's grandmother's worries. Continue to play the game of drawing symbols in front of the door. He drew the symbols of "Shui" and "Ye", and another pond appeared beside the pond; he drew the symbols of "Fu" and "Tao", and a pottery kiln appeared beside the pond. Jie took Axio's hand around the pond to the pottery kiln, touched its outer wall, and found that it was a real object. Jie cried with joy, and he said to Axie: "I will draw a beautiful house for you, and put you in it like a little doll." Axie also smiled: "I want to eat and sleep with you inside." At this time, a loud and pleasant sound suddenly came out from the bright sky. Grandma's face was pale, and she said tremblingly: "Oops, Jie angered the gods. I'm afraid our family will be in trouble." She heard the crying of the undead around, snakes and other reptiles passed through the grass and hid in I never dared to come out of my own cave. There was heavy rain in the sky, and corn, fish and vegetables were mixed in the rain, and the people ran out to pick them up, immersed in the carnival of getting something for nothing. Axie said, "Grandma, this doesn't look like a god is angry." Grandma looked at the rainy sky, and at the rice and vegetables on the ground: "Yes, I'm confused too." At the end of the day, a huge rainbow appeared in the sky. They rose from the hill behind Jie's house and disappeared in the opposite hill, forming a semicircular ribbon. Grandma's sad expression became relieved, and she sat on the threshold: "This is a covenant between the gods and Jie. They have reached a reconciliation." Only Jie knew that it was Fuxi's compliment to him. But he didn't tell anyone. He is still used to the silence of the past. Axie fell ill the next day. At first she was referring to a sore throat, cough, and forehead fever, which progressed to chills and a high fever. She said to her grandmother, "My head hurts so much." Jie gave up sleeping and dreaming, and stayed by her side, seeing bruises all over her body, which turned from bright red to purple. On the third morning, she began to vomit incessantly, uttered strange nonsense, convulsed, and fell into a semi-comatose state. When she woke up, she said to Jie: "Brother, I dreamed that this room is my body. It is hot, and I live in it. My sweat turned into mist and rain in the dream. Now I want to go Now, go to a cooler place." Jie started to cry and said he didn't want her to go, he wanted to drive her away the disease, he first drew the "worm" symbol, and then drew the "knife" symbol, combined them together, and wanted to use the knife to kill the insects, but Axie's His condition didn't improve at all. He imagined how his grandmother would write a talisman to pray for gods, so he drew a "begging" talisman and added a "wen" talisman to form a "save" talisman, but Fuxi never responded and appeared as an old beggar. In the middle of the night, Jie suddenly fell asleep uncharacteristically. He dreamed that many black worms crawled out of Axie's five orifices, and even his mouth was full of worms. Even the tears that flowed from his eyes turned into insect. When Jie woke up, the bug was gone. Axie just left quietly, like a light sneeze. Grandma caressed her small body and sang, seeing off her young soul. Jie burst into tears, His tears flowed to the ground, forming a "crying" symbol, and the tears continued to flow outside the house and into the pond. The fish and shrimp were startled at first, and then they all cried. Plants and flowers wept, birds and beasts wept, and the whole world wept. It was only after Jie grew up that he realized that his talisman magic was limited, and he couldn't even save the girl he loved the most. But Jie still grew up in the unfailing sleep. His grandmother passed away when he was fourteen years old, and a locust tree grew on the grave of Axie, and every day the branch swayed in the wind, whispering to him with unclear meaning. Once, he dreamed that Axie looked at him from that world. When he wanted to hug her, she disappeared. He suddenly realized that Axio was too busy and sent a shadow to visit just now. In the infinite solitude, he became a half-god, half-human talisman maker, and a priest in charge of Fuxi. In his dreams, he used his fingers to write strange lines on his belly, thus constantly creating new characters, and as he created characters, corresponding things were also born in the world. People call this symbol "character", and the act of drawing characters is called "writing". Jie calls his own creation "character creation". In this unique "character creation", he created all kinds of brand new things for the world. I don't know when, Jie's character creation is no longer limited to dreams, but quietly transferred to daily reality scenes. He started generating glyphs in his waking state, and everything seemed freer. He hoped to be blessed by the gods, so he made the word "God", and as a result, a statue of Fuxi appeared on the edge of the field; he built a "temple", and a small temple appeared in the village; "" symbol and "you" symbol, a "temple" appeared at the end of the field, and the big roof covered the statue and the field, becoming a larger place for worship. Cangjie lived in the temple he built and became a priest of Fuxi, responsible for conveying the will of God. When he made the character "che", a single wheel and two-wheeled carts appeared; when he made the character "Lv", laws appeared; when he made the character "city", city walls and cities appeared; , instruments and music appeared. However, free characters will also produce some bad characters and typos, just like the self-malignant reproduction of tumor cells-"骉", "粉", "飝" and "Si Lei (pia)", or characters with too many strokes such as "䵴"wait. Jie can only create characters, but cannot eliminate them. He can only wait for those typos to rot over the years, or grow wild like weeds. Until the end of his life, Jie did not find an effective way to eliminate it. Jie began to carry out his character-making activities more cautiously, because every mistake could lead to disaster. In order to prevent the bad words from spreading, he must find easy-to-access containers for the good words. He remembered the tortoise shell and ox bone that God Fuxi once gave him. These two treasures were used as funerary objects and turned into dust together with Axio. Jie first chose the ox blade, and saw that it was covered with ghosts from hell; he tried to put the tortoise shell to his ear, but he heard the faint sound of heaven, as if God was whispering. Jie then chose the tortoise shell. Kunwu, a helper in the temple, was his first disciple. He collected discarded tortoise shells everywhere, cleaned and polished them carefully. Jie engraved the characters one by one on the tortoise shell, and then hung them on the beams of the temple, just like hanging shells from the ocean. The tortoise board swayed in the wind, making a melodious jingle sound like wind chimes, as if greetings from the god of water and wind. The world at this time is divided into two kinds of things, one is original, and the other is produced through word creation. Characters are also divided into two categories: one is the imitation of foreign objects (pictographic), known as "mirror characters", and the other is the creation of foreign objects, known as "original characters", the latter type of characters are spiritual, Tongshen is a higher level of writing. When Jie created 800 characters, the city will present a complete appearance according to his characters: palaces, temples, workshops, warehouses, roads, shops and city walls, new things emerge one after another, dazzling. Thus nations and civilizations are happily born. The people were elated by this. They went into the temple to worship and knelt down in front of the statue of Fuxi. When they saw Priest Jie, they cheered enthusiastically. Cangjie became a little arrogant. He refused to see the people who asked for help, and he refused to help them, because their petty demands were not worth his time. A little girl with a runny nose said to her: "Jie, my clay doll is broken, can you help me make a new one?" Jie looked at her ugly face and ignored her request. Later, an old woman in ragged clothes came. She leaned on a cane and said, "Jie, I have too few clothes. I'm afraid I won't be able to survive this severe winter. Can you help me?" Shall I make a woolen jacket? " Jie smiled and said, "I don't know how to do this, so go to a tailor and make one." It was a day in the depths of winter, and a thick layer of ice had formed on the ground. Jie was repairing his statue. A musician named Shi Xiang walked into the temple with a banjo on his back. He said that his fingers had pointed out the problem and asked him to treat him. Jie flatly refused him. Jie said, "You should go to a doctor or a wizard, not a priest like me." The luthier said, "I can show you my symptoms." Jie smiled contemptuously, ignored it, and turned to leave. But before he had time to walk out of the front yard, the sound of the piano had already resounded throughout the courtyard. Jie was taken aback, turned around to look, and found that Shi Xiang plucked the water sound feather strings corresponding to winter, and played the yellow bell rhythm representing November. On the roof, there is thick snow everywhere. At first Jie thought it was just a coincidence, he picked up the snow, sniffed it under his nose, and said with a smile, "Sir is like a fortune teller, he can predict when it will snow." Hearing what he said, Shi Xiang changed the tune, plucked the wooden horn strings corresponding to spring, and played the bell rhythm representing the early spring and February. Wild flowers are in full bloom, colorful birds are flying in the air, and swimming fish are jumping in the water. The heavy snow and solid ice melted quickly, turning into thin streams of water. Jie was a little dizzy now, he knew that a more powerful character than him was coming. He immediately bowed his hands and said: "Sorry sir, I was rude." Shi Xiang ignored him, plucked the shang strings corresponding to autumn, and played the Nanlu melody representing the golden autumn and August. At the place where the sad piano sounded, a chilly autumn wind suddenly blew, and the persimmon trees in the courtyard quickly borne fruit. Orange-red fruit. The low-ranking priests in the temple rushed over after hearing the sound, and they were all shocked by this strange scene. Shi Xiang said: "You have to understand that in this world, not only words can create things, but music can also create things. There are other ways of creating things." Cang Jie suddenly realized that there is a sky beyond the sky. He knelt down in front of Shi Xiang, eager to worship him as his teacher. Shi Xiang smiled and said, "It's unnecessary to be a teacher. As long as you understand the laws of creation of the universe and know how to treat your people with humility, you will be invincible in the world." Jie nodded. Shi Xiang looked up to the sky and laughed loudly, and left in a hurry. Jie looked at Shi Xiang suspiciously, watching him gradually disappear at the end of the road, guessing that he was the incarnation of a certain god, deliberately trying to enlighten his stupidity and stubbornness. But no matter who Shi Xiang is, he has learned new truths. He begins to understand that the world is inexhaustible because it is defined by the infinity of God. He is just a worm who can build in this world. Shi Xiang made Jie smarter. He became wary of worship from humans. Facing the endless stream of worshipers, he tried to hide in the shadow behind the statue of Fuxi. He was afraid of those fanatical voices. They would vibrate repeatedly in his ears. It will take a long time for this urn-like echo to fade away. Jie couldn't bear the noise of the people, because he was not worthy to be the benefactor of the people, so he had to move out of the temple and hide in a more remote courtyard, where he meditated and meditated, and let new characters emerge in meditation. Every day, young people come to the temple to practice calligraphy. They copied the words on the tortoise shell and wrote them on the wooden blocks they brought. Jie walked into the temple at dusk that day, and saw a young man laying down on the ground practicing calligraphy very seriously. He also made a soft brush out of pig hair, dipped it in charcoal black, wrote the words on the polished bamboo, and then used hemp rope to write the characters. Connect them in series. Jie named him "Mao Jian", and the recording tools he invented were called "writing brush" and "bamboo slip". Bamboo slips have no divinity, and cannot replace tortoise shells as a carrier for inscribing new characters, but they can be taken everywhere, and they are easy to cut, so they should be the best practice tool. Mao Jian was very happy, knelt down in front of Jie, and wanted to worship him as his teacher. The twilight light outlines the boy's neat appearance and clothes, just like his own appearance in the past. A great emotion suddenly surged in Jie's heart, so he accepted his second disciple like this. Because of Kun Wu and Mao Jian, Jie decided to open a school. He made some high-quality wood, expanded the apse of the temple, turned it into a writing library, and turned the side courtyard into a school building, and accepted more than a dozen disciples. They are responsible for organizing those words and classifying them by radicals for easy retrieval. After the skills of his disciples improved greatly, Jie divided the school into two majors, one is character-creation major, and the other is character-recognition major. Fortune-telling with words, medical treatment with words, deformation with words, and so on. In addition to the pictographic method and the knowing method, Jie also invented the method of referring to things and the method of pictophony, which doubled the speed of creating characters and improved the function of expression day by day. He watched with satisfaction the changes that had taken place in the world. Excerpt from: "Harvest" Magazine, Issue 6, 2017 "Ancient Matters" Volume One, People's Literature Publishing House, 2017 "Qingqiu Chronicle", World Chinese Publishing House, 2020 Freely switch between selected reading pages of various novels Great Pail Go to Great Pail Kirin 转到麒麟选读 mourner Go to the full text of Mourner character creation Go to character creation Reading 有黄 Go to the full text of Youhuang Bone physicist Go to the full text of The Bone Master Divine mirror Go to the Divine Mirror Selected Readings Changshengyi Go to Changshengyi Selected Readings Incense Master 转到香道师全文 Back to Selected Readings

Online warehouse and exhibition hall of Zhu Dake's works，Contains Dake Zhu's cultural criticism, mythological studies, and historical studies, novels, essays, and research materials about him. Derivative project of "Xiang Dao Shi" This is the most eye-catching one of the six novels in "Six Different Records". It takes the mysterious and magnificent incense as the theme, takes the Legend of the White Snake and the Legend of the Five Immortals as the cultural background, and takes Hangzhou West Lake as the stage where the story takes place. The strange love of life. It is not only a legend and a myth, but also a display of a unique form of human life, and it is the modern psychoanalytic theory that supports the connotation of this story... 前往六异录简介 The Story of the Fragrant Taoist The perfumer Bai Xuan possesses unparalleled skills in perfume blending, especially good at making women's incense, and her incense shop is also famous all over the world. Once, for a high salary, she took over the order of men's fragrance, which became the starting point of tragedy. Bai Xuan's body has a female personality and a male personality at the same time. The latter is regarded as his younger brother Bai Lang. They love each other, and they can only sleep and live alternately, and cannot meet in the real world. This beautiful body, when it appears as a woman, is Bai Xuan, and when it appears as a man, it is Bai Lang. Bai Xuan's main clients are the mutants related to the "Five Immortals". Most of them turn into women and perform seductive tricks on men, and Bai Xuan's fragrance gives them great support. In order to deal with these goblins, the monks with Jinshan Temple as their base camp formed a Noseless Sangha, using breath-holding as a method to fight against and attack the "Five Immortals". The fight between Fahai and the White Snake is an example of this. With the help of Bai Lang, Bai Xuan used the spices that Zheng He brought back from his voyages to the West to develop a masculine fragrance, which was specially used to deal with women. Unexpectedly, this fragrance was used by the buyer to deal with Bai Xuan. A general fell in love with Bai Xuan secretly, and seduced Bai Xuan with the fragrance that Bai Xuan made herself. The two fell in love at first sight at the incense tasting party held by the government and made a marriage contract. It wasn't until the wedding scene that Bai Xuan realized that she had fallen into a trap and was misled by her Mixiang, but it was too late to escape. She was dragged into the bridal chamber by the drunken general and wanted to have intercourse with him by force, but she found her penis, and in shock, he cut it off with a knife. Bai Lang died, and Bai Xuan died afterward. The two souls who secretly loved each other passed away. 阅读香道师片段 Hu Huangbai Liuhui Wuxian, also known as Wutongshen, Wuxianshen, Wudaxianjia and Wuxianshen, refer to the five animals of fox, weasel, hedgehog, snake and mouse, which are called five animals in Northeast shaman culture. Those elves who are "going out of the horse". Their common feature is that they are small in size, and most of them like to be active at night. Except for hedgehogs, most of them behave dexterously and quickly, and their whereabouts are surreptitious, with an elusive and mysterious temperament. After a large number of mythical beasts became extinct in the "Shan Hai Jing", these mysterious small animals took their place and became human beings' loved and feared companions and rivals. Chinese people in the period of farming civilization generally believed that the "five immortals" belonged to spirits who are half immortal and half demon. If people worship them and respect them as gods, they will get what they want and get the blessings they need. When hurt, they will retaliate with sorcery, causing the perpetrators to suffer catastrophe and die an ugly death. "Fox fairy" represents the fox family. As early as the "Shan Hai Jing Era", there were legends about it, such as the story of Dayu marrying a nine-tailed fox that we talked about in the past. Among the five immortals, the fox family has the longest history and the oldest qualifications, and is also the representative of the highest spirituality in the wild animal world. After long-term practice, the fox family can absorb the essence or popularity of the sun and the moon, and then they can transform into human form. Many members of the fox family are full of lust, keen to flirt with humans, and perform seduction on white-faced scholars or girls. He is also mischievous, good at making trouble and teasing humans, and often puts people in embarrassing situations. On the other hand, as long as they are willing, they can also heal people's illnesses and bring them good luck (Click here to read the full article ) One of the cultural backgrounds of the incense master: Five Immortals Going South and Hundred Ghosts Walking at Night The second cultural background of the incense master: The Wrong Love between the Lovely White Snake and the Scumbag Xu Xuan Love and Enmity Between Humans and Snakes The mystical legends that appeared near the West Lake in Hangzhou are entirely a specialty of the lakeside culture. The huge and tender lake is the cradle of folk discourse, from which many fairy tales and romantic stories have been born. There have been local legends about the "Three Monsters" in the past: the three-legged toad in Jinshatan, the giant turtle in Liufugou and the white snake in Leifeng Pagoda. These amphibians and reptiles constitute the distant motif of West Lake culture. It is said that in the middle of the Ming Dynasty, the three-legged toad was captured by alchemists, and the big turtle was caught by fishermen and disappeared into the dark area of national memory. Only the white snake was firmly suppressed under the Leifeng Pagoda, which became a love tragedy passed down forever. The close relationship between dragons and snakes has a long history. The Siku Quanshu collection "Feixuelu" records that a woman from Shandong Province had a thing on her arm, which was hidden under the skin, and its shape was like a dragon. Women like to dip their arms in water for this. One day when there was thunder and lightning, the woman stretched out her arm out of the window, and sure enough, a small dragon flew out of her arm and flew away through the clouds. Another story tells that a tailor was sitting in the house, and suddenly he heard rustling in the wall, and a small snake came out from the crack, and grew bigger as it went, and after a while when the wind and rain came, the little snake turned into a dragon and flew away. up. Humans and these harmless dragons and snakes not only live in peace, but also become their hosts. This kind of close relationship between man and nature is really worthy of our praise. But among all the reptilian elves, only the big white snake has a tense relationship with humans, full of horrors like original sin. As described in the Old Testament, the snake is a symbol of desire and temptation. It tempted Eve to eat the "fruit of the knowledge of good and evil" in the Garden of Eden. mass reproduction of humans. The philosophy of the Jews is surprisingly similar to that of the Chinese. This is a common fear in the Asian cultural circle.(Click here to read the full article )

Fragment of Magic Mirror by Zhu Dake back to homepage Excerpts from Zhu Dake's Novels Chronicle of Ancient Matters magic mirror Chronicles of Ancient Matters Volume 2 Magic mirror one The Emperor's Birth Game According to "Ting Fang Lu", there was once a benevolent emperor who was very tolerant to the people, his taxes were unbelievably low, and the people loved him very much. He has ten most beloved concubines, but he has not given birth to a single heir. Once, a magician from Daqin came to the palace suddenly. He performed incredible magic tricks and presented a square bronze mirror with a gold back, frame and handle, saying that he could freely enter and exit the mirror. world. The emperor asked his ten concubines to play in the mirror in turn, and if they came back pregnant, he rewarded each of them with 10,000 taels of silver. They were very happy for this, and sincerely thanked the mighty emperor for his grace. Nine months later, they all returned to the emperor with their babies. One came home late, holding a pair of twin baby girls. In this way they once again won the emperor's favor. A few years later, the emperor had three more princes (born by the first, fourth, and seventh concubines) and eight princesses with different looks around him. The emperor was very happy about this, thinking that the great country has a successor since then. Among them, the son of the first concubine was selected as the prince, which means that he will become the emperor's successor. The inscription ceremony was very grand, and civil and military officials from all over the country came to congratulate, and the whole palace was filled with flattery and gifts. The emperor also declared amnesty in court, hoping that in this way, he would gain some folk reputation for his son who would ascend the throne in the future. At that time, there were many wars in the north, but the south was peaceful. The emperor is old, and the old hard ambitions have melted. He stopped arranging the morning court and handed over government affairs to the prime minister. He sat on a soft dragon chair every day, with a haggard face, as if sitting at the end of a coffin. He looked at the children frolicking around the courtyard, nibbling his withered and yellow fingernails, his eyes were full of late joy. History of Bronze Mirror Just like the divine mirror obtained by the emperor, the earliest bronze mirror came from the Western Regions, brought by Silk Road merchants and highly skilled magicians, and was called "Fan Mirror" or "Da Qin Mirror" by the world. With slender handle. They are mostly used in market performances, where the people are surprised and applauded, and sometimes they are presented to local officials and even the emperor, in exchange for various benefits from them. Western bronze mirrors provided the original prototypes for Middle-earth craftsmen. The "Han mirror" or "Jin mirror" cast by local mirror casters is dominated by the "roundness philosophy", deliberately removing the original handle and adding a round button on the back of the mirror. This kind of pure round bronze mirror is usually It is called "Han mirror" or "Jin mirror". Although it is not as good as Fan mirror in terms of supernatural powers, there are also some works of famous masters, which have reached a rather sublime level. Most of them are in the hands of Taoist priests, and sometimes they are presented to the emperor, becoming new treasures in the palace treasury, and then rewarded by the emperor to his favorite courtiers, and finally flow to the people, becoming treasures that people compete to collect. Types of bronze mirrors The oldest mirrors are undoubtedly water mirrors. The so-called "water moon" and "mirror flower" are both names about the nature of mirror images. After the bronze mirror was invented, it was divided into two types, one is the vulgar mirror, which is used by nobles and officials, and the other is the divine mirror, which is used by immortals, Taoists and alchemists. But in the era when the magic mirror was popular, the boundary between the two has long been completely broken. The magic mirror is divided into three basic styles: "sunglasses" (concave mirrors) for collecting solar energy, "demon mirrors" (convex mirrors) for exorcising ghosts, and "convex mirrors" for entering parallel spaces. , called "you square mirror" (plane mirror). This type of mirror can be seen as a mysterious and special means of transportation, a kind of passage or ferry connecting two different spaces. The mirror owner who has a wandering mirror can freely enter and exit the two parallel worlds outside the mirror and inside the mirror. The mirror owner can choose a double life through it, thereby surpassing the basic limitations of human existence. There are many kinds of mirrors in China, including water mirrors, stone mirrors (jade mirrors, earth mirrors), bronze mirrors (golden mirrors), fire mirrors (the edge of the mirror has flames burning), wooden mirrors (possibly a kind of wooden mirror) Fossils), some appear in pairs, divided into yin and yang mirrors or male and female mirrors, and there is a pair of yin and yang mirrors, which are unique and are the masterpieces of mirror casting master Shou Tao. The best of the magic mirrors, the main mirror enters from the yin mirror and exits from the yang mirror. It is said that this can ensure the safety of entry and exit. Other famous mirrors in history include demon mirrors, see-through mirrors, and face-changing mirrors (they will whiten people after being photographed), etc. They will bring novel feelings to human beings, as well as unforeseen disasters. "Supplements of Relics" records that in the time of King Mu of Zhou, a country in the Western Regions called Juqu paid tribute to the "Huo Qi Mirror". The situation is infinitely wonderful. There is also a "moon mirror" like jade. The color of the stone is like white snow, and the light emitted from it is as crystal clear as the full moon. Zhuang Zhou's magic mirror The magic mirror appeared in the Eastern Zhou Dynasty. "Qi Wu Lun" states that when Zhuang Zhou dreamed that he was transformed into a butterfly with a vivid and lifelike shape, he felt happy and comfortable, but he didn't know that he was only Zhuang Zhou. Suddenly waking up, in a state of panic, he realized that he was originally a man named Zhuang Zhou, but he didn't know whether Zhuang Zhou had dreamed to become a butterfly, or the butterfly had dreamed to become Zhuang Zhou. Zhuang Zhou tried to prove to the world that there is a difference between him and a butterfly, but this reciprocal rotation of people and things expresses a new relationship in the world. Mirror caster Dou Shaoqing claimed that Zhuang Zhou concealed an important fact, that is, his "dream" used the magic mirror. The mirror used by Zhuang Zhou is called the "Butterfly Transformation Mirror", which is a famous mirror derived from self-poison, which can realize the transformation of the body into animals or insects. He turns into a butterfly in the mirror, and thus has deep doubts about his own existence. The magic mirror promotes the birth of Taoist philosophical propositions - "I" and "things", inside and outside the mirror, the other shore and this shore, who is the real existence? The magic mirror used by Zhuang Zhou was once occupied by King Qi and King Chu during the Warring States Period, but its whereabouts were unknown. Dou Shaoqing said that after Zhuang Zhou materialized, it returned to its hometown in the West by itself. The magic mirror is a symbol of freedom, it can fly autonomously, go in and out of different spaces, and its whereabouts are very mysterious. Dou Shaoqing Shi Kuang, a musician of the state of Jin, imitated the Yellow Emperor and cast twelve magic mirrors. He passed on this extraordinary skill to the Dou family. Dou Shaoqing is the most outstanding representative of the casting mirror family, and the only master who can make magic mirrors, and has mastered the world secret of space transformation. In order to prevent peeping and chasing, the mirror casting master usually arranges the mirror casting location in the deep mountains and old forests, but it still cannot stop the tracking of the magic mirror catcher. So Dou Shaoqing built the mirror-casting workshop on a big boat, living in no fixed place, and the dragon could not see its tail, which made all the mirror catchers helpless. When he cast the mirror in the heart of the river, the surrounding river suddenly rose more than 30 feet, like a snow mountain floating above the river, and there was the sound of dragon chant, like the sound of a reed, which spread dozens of miles away. The atmosphere is vast and breathtaking. This magnificent sight was seen and became the only record of mirror casting in history. Dou Shaoqing once directed the casting of "Water Heart Mirror" in Yangzhou City. He stayed in the mirror-casting workshop for three days and three nights, and then disappeared mysteriously, leaving only a letter, written in a small seal script that had long been discarded, on which were the provisions guiding the casting of divine mirrors, including the size of the mirror body and the shape of the mirror nose. There is also a gatha style poem, praising the extraordinary magic power of this unborn mirror. The "Water Heart Mirror" was later obtained by Cao Cao. After Cao Cao's death, the whereabouts of the mirror were unknown. Because of possessing this extraordinary supernatural power, Dou Shaoqing became the target of the new emperor. The bronze mirror brought him an outstanding reputation, but also brought him disaster. His portrait hangs at the gates of various cities, as if he is the number one enemy of the emperor. Rumors about him are flying all over the sky. Some people say that he was immortalized in Songshan Mountain, leaving only a cloth shoe behind him. Others say that he has disappeared into the mirror and disappeared somewhere in the world on the other side. Mirrorcasting Dou Shaoqing pre-carved a "mirror" out of golden nanmu in the deep mountains, one side is flat, while the other side has extremely complicated patterns, and the theme and style of the patterns depend on the divine inspiration when carving the mold, not the mirror. prior design. Then, outside the wooden mirror, it needs to be covered with a thick layer of clay and fine sand to make two upper and lower mirror models. After some grinding and trimming, it becomes the official mold for casting the bronze mirror. The rest of the work was done in the back room. Dou Shaoqing heats the copper stone and cassiterite in proportion, pours them into the mold rhythmically, after cooling, breaks the pottery fan, takes out the bronze mirror, repeatedly quenches it in badger oil and deer blood, and reheats it many times to transform its brittleness , making its surface tougher. But this is not the end of the birth process of high-quality bronze mirrors. It also requires the mirror caster to scrape with a steel knife, trim the burrs, and then grind with fine sand to improve the feel until it becomes round. Then the wool felt is dipped in a mixture of mercury and tin powder for mirror polishing. In this way, after half a month, an exquisite bronze mirror will come into the world slowly. If Dou Shaoqing casts a face mirror, he must also pray to the mirror god before casting, paint and recite spells, and add Hu medicine into the copper liquid. The formula, quantity and delivery method of all these medicine powders are secret Xuan, even his personal apprentices are not allowed to watch. Only a handful of mirrorsmiths have mastered the secret of the magic mirror, and after their death, this secret will be lost forever in darkness. Finally, Dou Shaoqing will hold a consecration ceremony for the coming of each bronze mirror. He held up the bronze mirror facing the sun, and chanted the incantation to summon the God of Shaohao, calling Shaohao's divinity into the bronze mirror, transforming its internal structure, and endowing it with a certain kind of divine disposition. This is the secret of the advent of the magic mirror. Dou Shaoqing told it to Li Ah, Li Ah told Su E, and Su E told a Jingling scholar named Lu Yu before his death. Because he wrote notes and leaked the heavenly secret, Shenjing went into decline. Government records The casting process of bronze mirrors is complex and requires the blessing of spells and potions, so the number of bronze mirrors on the market is rare and precious. Once in possession, it can be used for crime, hiding or fleeing. The government is very wary of this. All products of the mirror maker must be cast with a hidden symbol or number, and reported to the official organization "Mirror Temple" for record, and included in the watch list. This kind of magic mirror is called "white mirror". In order to get rid of this restriction, mirror makers often privately cast secret mirrors and sell them through underground smuggling channels. This kind of magic mirror is called "black mirror". At that time, the largest black mirror smuggling channels were located in Jiankang in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River, Xiangyang in the middle reaches, and Jiangzhou in the upper reaches. All three were busy docks for smugglers. The black mirror casting workshops are mainly concentrated in Wuchang County (now Ezhou, Hubei) and Kuaiji County (now Shaoxing, Zhejiang) in the Eastern Wu Dynasty. Dou Shaoqing's activities are mainly in the Kuaiji area. His water workshop sailed in the river and appeared in various branches of the Yangtze River, giving great encouragement to those who made and sold bronze mirrors. His appearance will always cause a commotion in the local area. People regard him as a legend in the industry. He is the father of Bronze Mirror and was once the whole hope of Bronze Mirror Industry. Mirror Temple and Baoguang Pavilion The official institution in charge of bronze mirror casting is called "Mirror Mirror Temple", which was set up to deal with "black mirrors". For this reason, the emperor set up a special department "Baoguang Pavilion" to track the magic mirror and its casters. Its chief is called "Baoguangqing", who is directly ordered by the emperor himself. Luan Ba was the third "Bao Guangqing". He expanded this limited-level department into the largest spy agency, and his power was far above that of the school. But after Luanba's death, this organization was useless. After Liu Ce's death, it was dismantled by the third emperor, and became a passing cloud. Even historians were ashamed to mention its existence because of its viciousness. The new emperor Liu Ce and his new favorite Xindi has never been favored by his father. On the contrary, because of his bad character, he has always been neglected and marginalized. He could feel the hostility of the entire court since he was a child. They came from brothers, sisters, civil servants, military officials, eunuchs, and court ladies, and even from dragon chairs, round fans, tables, screens, cloth curtains, pot leaks, palace pillars, carved windows, and stones. steps and corridors. He experiences that sinister atmosphere every moment. He learned to use his sight and hearing to identify sources of hostility and try to eliminate them. But the plan was only implemented after he usurped the throne. Many years later, when the old emperor passed away, Liu Ce, the son of the fourth concubine, ordered the bodyguard Luanba to kill the elder brother and crown prince and become the new emperor. Two sisters commit adultery and incest. The remaining six princesses resolutely refused, and five of them were tortured and killed after being raped. As the mother of the queen mother, she tried to stop him from killing his brothers and sisters, but he insisted on going his own way. He imprisoned his mother in the harem and continued to slaughter behind closed doors. Rivers of blood flowed in the palace. Princess Sue Su E, the princess born to the fifth concubine, is the most beautiful among all the princesses. She didn't dare to resist the imperial brother's despotic power, so she could only pretend to obey, and became his third concubine, serving him with the other two sisters every day, satisfying his various absurd sexual demands. And those two sisters were actually the loyal guards of the new emperor. On the one hand, they were raped, but on the other hand, they became his helpers, closely monitoring Su E's behavior, trying to find signs of hypocrisy from her. But Su E concealed it very well, she was flattering, with an innocent smile, she looked like an innocent girl. Sue's Escape Su E drugged the wine and turned the ambitious new emperor, along with the two women, into numbness. They collapsed on the scene of the carnival, looking like they were drunk. Su E tricked the guards, stole the magic mirror from the treasure box in the emperor's bedroom, and escaped from the palace through the side door at night. Several friendly court ladies witnessed her plot, but pretended to be deaf and dumb, and pretended to fall asleep. Su E came to the home of Xu Lin, a former court official and minister, in a small sedan chair with gray curtains, and begged him for help with tears in her eyes. Xu Lin is one of Su E's many admirers. Although he is timid, he can't resist the beauty's offensive of tears. He hesitates again and again and decides to risk his life to save her. With trembling hands, he took out two hundred taels of silver, hired an ox cart for her, and told her the location of Li A, the optician. He said, this is your only place to go. Only this person can help you pass through the mirror safely and return safely. Su E knelt on the ground, thanked the old man for his kindness, and then boarded the car and left. The earth is completely silent, only the sound of the cow's hooves stepping on the stone road, and its dull panting. The dark shadow of Miyagi gradually receded under the moonlight, as if pushing away a suffocating danger. For the first time in so many years, she breathed a breath of freedom. A liberated smile appeared on her haggard face. two mirror master Su E joined the ranks of mirror masters. Most of them are the royal family, powerful aristocrats, officials, rich people and their dependents. Because of their privileges, they obtained the "travel mirror". Since then, they have the privilege of secret travel, become free indoor travelers, and can travel to the other side of the world through the mirror. They were perhaps the luckiest crowd of that era. The famous mirror owner in the Wei and Jin Dynasties was Tao Qian. He entered the "Peach Blossom Land" with the help of "Peach Blossom Mirror" and became a powerful observer. But he actually violated the rules of the game and announced his observation records of the world on the other side to the world. Tao Qian not only lost the "Peach Blossom Mirror" and the opportunity to enter the mirror again, but also brought serious disasters to himself. He lost the cherishment of fate and died in the night of poverty and sickness. On the other hand, this kind of free travel and escape also violated the emperor's autocratic will. It was a movement to deconstruct power, and it severely weakened the emperor's authority because he was no longer the sovereign king. He could not tolerate the betrayal of his subjects in such magical ways. There is no doubt that the mirror owner who owns the magic mirror is extremely dangerous, and must be eliminated together with the mirror and others. Funeral Bronze Mirror Bronze mirrors are magical objects that can reflect the light of the sun and the moon. Therefore, they have the power of the sun god and the moon god, and become an important tool for wizards to drive away demons. The sun, moon and stars are the origin of life. After a person dies, the bronze mirror is placed in the tomb, just like the yin and yang of the sun and the moon. The moment the coffin lid was closed, the facial features of God appeared vaguely in the mirror. It becomes a sacred lamp, illuminating the rough path of the dead. This is undoubtedly another secret nature of the mirror: playing the role of guardian of the dead, praising human existence from the perspective of hell. But in the years of encirclement and suppression of the divine mirrors, in order to preserve their lives, the mirror owners could only hide the divine mirrors in the tomb under the guise of funerals, making them disappear in the dark underworld. Thousands of years later, they were taken out by tomb robbers as ancient mirrors, and they were rediscovered. However, due to the corrosion of the soil, the divine mirror lost its original divinity and became a lifeless vulgar mirror, which was displayed in the museum window and gave off a deep luster like a fake. This is the unavoidable tragedy of the Chinese God Mirror. But its tragedy has never been necessary to reveal. Apollo Shaohao The magic mirror cast by Dou Shaoqing is a masculine object, so it is more closely related to the sun god. During a certain casting process, the sun god Shaohao suddenly appeared in his workshop, his whole body was scorching hot, his head was a rotating sun disc, and his facial features vaguely emerged. Shaoqing has unique eyes, only he can look directly into the face of the sun god, and accept his warm respect and greetings. Shaoqing knelt down, trembling all over. Shaohao caressed his head with light, and left quietly. When the temperature dissipates and everything cools down, he has the ability to cast a magic mirror. He entered the divine mirror system and became the most outstanding prophet in this field. this shore and the other shore The term "Bi Shan" originated from Buddhism, and originally referred to the place (Polo) where one escapes from worldly troubles and achieves positive results. In the mirror language system, the other shore is a metaphor for the world inside the mirror. Every magic mirror has its own specific three-dimensional space, which, like the world of Dasein, is conserved and static. Therefore, when the mirror owner uses the same magic mirror, he may go to the same world, because the other bank will circle back to this bank after being folded, thus forming a self-winding structure. But even the mirror caster Dou Shaoqing himself failed to notice the existence of this strange space. It is strange and full of strangeness, like a huge maze in which even the wisest people can get lost. The other shore pier The mirror owner sometimes has different magic mirrors, and he can log in to different other shores based on them. But this is an extremely dangerous carnival, which can lead to delusions of perception and severe madness. The ancient books are full of sinister records related to this. The decoration on the back of the traveling mirror is usually the password of the other shore world, representing the first site you arrive at after crossing, which is called the other shore dock by the world. Hunting patterns and plant patterns are mostly forests and grasslands, mountain patterns are mostly deep mountains, fish patterns and water patterns are mostly river banks or islands, cloud and thunder patterns are mostly sky (this is a bit dangerous), dragon and phoenix patterns are mostly noble homes , Snake patterns (Chilong patterns) are mostly underground palaces, and so on. The pier on the other side is the only predictable location for the mirror owner, and behind the pier is an unpredictable future. mirror ceremony Before entering the mirror for the first time, a grand ceremony needs to be held. The owner of the mirror must fast for three days, take a bath, and then hang the mirror on the wall in a dark environment, with his face close to the mirror, close his eyes and meditate to get rid of distracting thoughts. At this time, the body will become soft, like a huge blister. The mirror surface is like a big mouth, it first absorbs the face, then the neck and upper body, and finally the two thighs. In an instant, the person is swallowed by the mirror and disappears without a trace. Frequent commuters can travel between the two worlds at will without any scruples about fasting and various restrictions. The principle that the mirror owner needs to follow is to keep secret about what he has seen and heard from the other side. Once leaked, the traveling mirror will break by itself and become a useless waste. Silence is a common principle that all mirror owners must abide by. mirror maintenance Mirror owners will always face security threats. Once the mirror is dusty, dark, overturned or damaged, the owner of the mirror cannot return to this shore. For this reason, the mirror surface must be kept clean and bright, and the mirror surface must not be placed downwards to block the exit, and it must not be taken away and disposed of arbitrarily. It is the fragility of the mirror owner that promotes the birth of a profession, that is, goggles Teachers, they are responsible for the daily maintenance of the mirror, including wiping, polishing, displaying, collecting and guarding. Even in ordinary mirrors, dust is a huge problem. It will corrode the mirror surface, make it more and more foggy, and the mirror surface will become blurred. Therefore, mirror owners usually sew a soft cloth dust cover for the mirror to isolate the bronze mirror from dust. The mirror cover also has another function, which is to prevent the escape of the magic mirror. In the era of large-scale emergence of bronze mirrors, it is a frustrating thing for mirrors to disappear by themselves, but most mirror covers can prevent this kind of escape. It is like a soft wall, lying in front of the fugitives, Crush its renegade schemes. stealth mirror The popularity of bronze mirrors made them the object of concern for thieves. A profession specializing in stealing bronze mirrors began to emerge. These people were called "mirror stealers", and they were one of the fierce enemies that the mirror owner had to face. In order to get a magic mirror, they did not hesitate to break into the house, steal, and even kill people. The most famous mirror thief at that time was nicknamed "Mirror Mouse King". Among them, the mouse was an alias for the thief, and "Wang" was not only a surname, but also an admiration for his stealing skills. It is said that he has never missed any magic mirror he wanted. He is the sworn enemy of goggles, and has brought ruin to many goggles. goggles Goggles were once a popular industry during the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, and they did not disappear until the Tang and Song dynasties. It is similar to bodyguards, bodyguards, guards and gatekeepers. The employed mirror guards must be loyal, conscientious, abide by the secrets of the mirror owner, be good at martial arts, and have the basic skills of polishing and repairing bronze mirrors. Excellent mirror guards usually guard multiple bronze mirrors at the same time, so they can get rich rewards. Most goggle guards can only guard two or three mirrors at the same time, but the most popular goggle guards can guard nine bronze mirrors at the same time. This is the highest record in history, held by the famous goggle guard Li A, and has never been broken. This number eventually became the norm for goggles, because once the bottom line is crossed, the guarding ability of goggles will be severely weakened. This does not meet the security requirements of the mirror owner. In order to ensure the safety of the mirror owner, most of the mirror guards are knights and swordsmen. This class that used to be powerful in the pre-Qin period became weak after the Qin and Han Dynasties and needed to change careers to maintain their own livelihood. But as long as you have superb swordsmanship, as well as the skills of casting, repairing and grinding mirrors, you can become a top expert in the industry and live a life without worrying about food and clothing. The mirror owner and the mirror guard are combined into one, mostly those Taoist priests with advanced spells. A few Taoist priests, such as Ge Hong, even have their own secret method to hide their magic mirror. This secret magic is called "Concealing Mirror Curse", which can hide the magic mirror in the void and retrieve it from the void. Dou Shaoqing obtained this supernatural power from the sun god Shaohao, and since then he does not need to travel with a heavy load. He has nothing to worry about, and only a small mirror for self-portrait beside him. Hoe rape mirror The new emperor Liu Ce didn't have much feeling for the magic mirror at first, thinking that it was just a luxury toy for women. Not long ago, a Taoist priest named Wei Zhen presented a bronze mirror that was said to be polished by the Yellow Emperor himself, which could be used to detect loyal ministers and traitors. Its magical powers changed his view of the bronze mirror. The Taoist priest told the new emperor privately that once a person with a heart of disobedience was illuminated by this mirror, his heart would beat and his expression flustered, revealing the signs of a traitor. Suspicious by nature, the new emperor was full of curiosity about this "anti-rape mirror"-could it be a sharp weapon to eliminate traitors? He decided to experiment for himself. He first took a photo of Wei Zhen who was presenting the magic mirror. The Taoist priest was so frightened that he even dropped out his excrement and urine, emitting a foul stench all over his body. The emperor laughed and said that you are a villain, so he ordered Wei Zhen's head to be cut off. Then, he ordered people to hang the magic mirror at the gate of the palace, with eight guards holding machetes standing on both sides. Ministers, eunuchs, maids and handymen who entered the palace and walked past the mirror, as long as they showed signs of frightened heartbeats and red faces, they would be hacked on the spot. death, never pardoned. Three months later, the palace was empty and empty. The massacre of the second emperor triggered a war of brotherly killings, power, property, and magic mirrors throughout the royal family and the noble class. The whole country was caught in a bloodbath. The desperate fight among the princelings triggered the disintegration of the country. fisherman's harvest A poor fisherman cast his net in the Qinhuai River and picked up a large ancient mirror, about one foot or two inches in diameter. The fisherman washed off the mud and found that the surface was as bright as new, and the light emitted was surging like water waves. Fishermen can see their internal organs, and even see blood rushing through their veins. The fisherman was terrified, wrapped it up carefully, and handed it over to the local government. As if he had found a treasure, Liu Da, the governor, planned to take it as a gift for his promotion, so he named it "Shenguang Mirror" himself, and brought it to the capital to present it to the new emperor. Emperor Liu Ce saw another precious mirror entering the palace, smiled and took a self-portrait, and found himself in the mirror showing the appearance of a boar, which was so ugly that it was unsightly. All the nine clans were beheaded. After doing this, the emperor still felt that he was not enough to relieve his anger, and vowed to destroy all the magic mirrors in the world and eliminate those insidious forces that tried to oppose him. The magic mirror that Su E stole is the best among the magic mirrors. It is called "Treasure Hunting Mirror". The new emperor tossed and turned, unable to sleep at night. He ordered Luanba to find Su E and the mirror as soon as possible, and bring back these two treasures. A large-scale encirclement and suppression of the bronze mirror was launched, and the whole south was in panic all day long. Killer Luanba Luan Ba, a descendant of Luan Da, a famous alchemist during Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, was recorded in the "Book of Southern Qi" that he was handsome in appearance and gentle in manner. His limbs are all weapons, especially known as "hand sword". With a palm and a sword, you can take advantage of the opponent's unsuspecting and kill in an instant. The technique is simple and clear. He is known as the second killer in the world, and his status in the world is second only to Li A. During the usurpation process of the new emperor, he helped to kill the prince, and then eliminated those dissatisfied relatives of the emperor. He made great contributions to this, and gradually climbed up to become the number one warrior beside Liu Ce. After the mission of "Qingjun side" was completed, Liu Ce appointed him as "Baoguangqing", responsible for the confiscation and destruction of the magic mirror, and killed all the mirror casters and mirror guards who refused to serve him. Luanba was quite satisfied with this kind of assignment. Serving the emperor for too long, he longed for this freedom to breathe, walk, and kill at will outside the capital. What's more, he can indulge in his sensuality under the effect of Han Shi San. He led hundreds of killers out of the palace in a mighty manner, and ordered all of them to wear costumes and show off their beauty, just like palace ladies going out for a spring parade. The people stood on the sidelines and laughed at their strange attire. But Luanba didn't care. Traveling in disguise was originally Luan Ba's personal hobby, but he insisted that all his subordinates follow him as an example. He warned his killers that women's clothes can cover up their murderous intent and make their opponents relax. Female makeup is the best disguise for a professional assassin. reunion The emperor's personal intervention reduced the number of folk magic mirrors sharply. The masters who made mirrors fled one after another, and vulgar mirrors became the mainstream of the country, and were endowed with various auspicious symbolic meanings to cover up the fact that they had no divinity. The vulgar mirror thus took the place of the divine mirror. The most touching story in the history of vulgar mirrors is the "broken mirror reunion" between Xu Deyan, an attendant of the crown prince of the Chen Dynasty, and his wife, Princess Lechang. It exposes the fragility and thinness of the mirror body from the side. Any mundane knife can break one into two. The mirror caster was so angry that he vomited blood because it insulted the sacred meaning of the bronze mirror. The mirror is a sacred thing, and it becomes one with the soul of the mirror owner. Once the mirror is broken, it means the destruction of the soul of the mirror owner. Mirrors are also moral observers, and they undertake the mission of monitoring the relationship between husband and wife. According to the "Shen Yi Jing" written by Dongfang Shuo in the Western Han Dynasty, once upon a time, there was a couple who, when they were saying goodbye, cut a mirror in two and each held one half. Later, when the husband eloped with other women, the half-mirror turned into a magpie, which flew in front of the husband and protested fiercely to him. The husband, overwhelmed with shame by the bird's protests, ends up insane. What a quaint moral admonition, designed to warn couples who dare to betray their ethics: mirrors watch their words and deeds, and there will be severe judgments on infidelity. But in fact, after the bronze mirror was split in half by a sword, it died quietly. All spiritual stories about broken mirrors are nothing but lies told by scribes. It is designed to serve as a mirror to the vulgar, to conceal the fact that it is devoid of divinity. 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Online warehouse and exhibition hall of Zhu Dake's works，Contains Dake Zhu's cultural criticism, mythological studies, and historical studies, novels, essays, and research materials about him. 返回主要文论著作 流氓的盛宴 当代中国的流氓叙事 本书原为作者博士论文，经修改增补后，由三辉图书出版公司购买新星出版社书号后出版，问世仅一个月，尚未来得及举办首发式，就被当局以可笑的“色情”理由查禁，与之同时查禁的还有近十本图书，其中包括张怡和的《往事并不如烟》。所以它是一本“零首发”的思想图书。但本书的命运此后却出现了戏剧性反弹：本书一直在互联网上销售，成为最热销的学术书籍，数年中卖出20-30万册，成为作者所有作品中买的最好的一本，在诗歌与当代艺术领域影响犹甚。它所谈论的话题，直到今日还有重要的现实认知意义。 【戴错的帽子】在悉尼科技大学毕业典礼上，闹出了一个乌龙：办事员给朱大可误戴硕士帽，而在拍照后才发现他是本届唯一的博士，这才改戴了圆形的博士帽，而这张乌龙照片却成了他本人的最爱。 在本书第一章中， 朱大可如是说： 早在八十年代，流氓主义打开了自己的话语通道，成为先锋文化和大众文化的主流；而在九十年代，国家主义话语卷土重来，成为支配公众心灵的利器，而其间出现的金庸的《鹿鼎记》，是流氓主义和国家主义互相拥抱的初级实验；最后，在21世纪零年代，以《英雄》为标记，这两者由对峙走向了完全的媾和。这既是意识形态的结盟，也是美学的联姻。武士的剑法和暴君的箭法被调度进了统一的场景，流氓主义的潇洒美学（江湖刺客的情义风采）和极权国家主义的整齐美学（整齐划一的军队阵列）相得益彰，共同构筑起了“和平”壮阔的文化景观。 《流氓的盛宴》到底写了什么？ 它为什么被禁？它的问题究竟出在哪里？它到底是一种什么样的坏书？ 《流氓的盛宴》目录 请看本书基本内容 绪 论 中国流氓学简史 一、流氓研究的不同论域 1、流氓的古代分类；2、狭义流氓学；3、广义流氓学；4、“流氓”和“流氓主义”的语义辨认 二、现有流氓学成果及其缺憾 1、流氓学简史；2、流氓学的主要类型；3、流氓研究的成就与缺憾 第一章 国家主义转型及其美学跃进 一、国家主义的话语转型 国家美学的初次转型；2、国家美学的二度转型；3、红色话语的苏醒；4、帝国话语的泛滥； 二、国家主义和流氓主义的互动 1、流氓国家主义的崛起；2、历史、对偶制和对偶循环 第二章 身份与话语：流氓的故乡 一、中国社会的身份秩序 三重身份的迷津；2、身份的辨认程序；3、身份秩序的间隙性瓦解 二、身份的修复 流氓之痛和身份焦虑；2、身份的修复；3、代偿与替身 第三章 流氓话语：反讽的新世界　 一、色语、酷语和秽语 色语：密室生涯的终结；2、酷语；风行数千年的公共话语；3、秽语（脏词）：父权对母权的政变 二、流氓叙事 言说与书写的叙事功能；2叙事中的流氓偶像 三、阅读与书写的反讽 话语的正谕体系；2、话语的反讽体系 四、当代流氓主义的话语模式 1、当代流氓主义的日常美学；2、现代流氓话语的基本类型 第四章 1920～1960：当代流氓话语的历史起源 一、“五四”和“新文化”：酷语的起源 1、五四运动的身体酷语；2、新文化运动的酷语关键词；3、“新流氓主义”：酷语、色语和秽语的起源 二、酷语的演进：鲁语和仇恨政治学的崛起 1、“鲁语”的崛起；2、“恨语”及其鞭子语像 三、上山下乡：新流氓话语的摇篮 1、红色流氓的政治挫败；2、地下沙龙：意识形态的反叛象征；3、民间话语的三位一体 第五章 1980：新流氓话语的租借与复兴 一、八十年代的流氓语境 1、新流氓起源：身份的总体危机；2、酷语的租借；3、色语的租借；4、流浪话语的租借 二、崔健摇滚：本土流氓话语的崛起 1、中国摇滚的诞生；2、崔健：一无所有的流氓 第六章 非非、莽汉、撒娇：流氓话语的诗歌摇篮 一、先锋诗人：流氓话语的先驱 1、流走的命题；2、校园先锋主义；3、第三代实验诗歌大展 二、“非非主义”和流氓美学 1、话语革命来了；2、第一个“下本身” 三、“莽汉主义”与草莽诗学 1、口语大爆炸；2、盲流的游吟诗人 四、撒娇派及其犬儒哲学 1、耳朵的失误和诗歌夜莺的歌唱；2、新犬儒主义的兴起 第七章 王朔主义：众痞的玩世喜剧 一、小说反讽的苏醒 1、刘索拉与学院嬉皮文学；2、徐星：流氓叙事的先驱 二、“王朔主义”的诞生 1、生命中不能承受之轻；2、话语的复仇；3、王朔式反讽 三、电影与美术的视觉变法 1、第五代导演的话语变法；2、视觉艺术的颠覆运动 第八章 1990～2000：文学里的流氓面容 一、痞子短语和流氓的面容 1、文化衫和泼皮短语；2、新痞子主义造型的诞生 二、乡村叙事：农民的仇恨与暴力 1、杨争光的方言叙事；2、莫言的肉刑之歌；余华的喋血书写 三、流氓小说三部曲：手淫物语 废都，北方旧文人的阳具；2、米：江南流氓的欲望和病毒；3、王小波：色语大爆破的英雄 四、从优雅色语到自戕的尊严 1、虹影的优雅色语；2、棉棉：话语的自戕 第九章 口语、口吃、口交：后流氓主义的夜宴 一、口语地带：“新父亲”的面容 1、新口语小说：美元下的身份辨认；2、反讽叙事和正谕批评的冲突 二、口吃时刻：“结结巴巴”的先锋诗歌 1、伊沙的文化口吃；2、民族图腾和小便叙事 三、口交世代：“下半身”的造反宣言 “下半身”审判“上半身”；2、生殖器万岁，万岁，万万岁 四、“盘峰论战”：茶壶里的风暴 口语还是书语，这是一个问题；2、群雄逐鹿话语权力场 五、学术国家主义的崛起 1、国学复兴和“人文精神”讨论；2、知识界大裂变 第十章 视觉符号的解构运动 一、行为艺术：吃婴还是弑父 1、行为艺术年：2001的暴力叙事；2、“吃婴”和行为艺术的孤立状态 二、纪录片的流氓主义视界； 1、吴文光的“流氓关怀”；2、何处才是流浪的“彼岸”；3、记录美学：第一现场的目击证人 三、建筑的非国家主义化 1、摩天大楼的阳具政治；2、高楼顶部的“形而上学”；3、帝王话语的解体 第十一章 消费叙事、大话革命和符号资本 一、“消费叙事”及其流氓（妓女）的转型 1、蝴蝶的尖叫；2、乌鸦的舞蹈 二、白与黑：摇滚的裂变 九十年代的摇滚疗法；2、何勇：愤怒与退离；3、张楚的小男孩心语 4、地下摇滚的隐形滚动 三、零年代的大话革命和大话美学 1、脂粉英雄和无厘头话语；2、网络群众的大话运动；3、知识份子话语专权的终结；4、网络口蹄疫；5、结语：流氓主义的“天鹅绒革命” 四、色语的策略、逻辑及其敌人 1、色语的递进策略；2、色语的“四项基本原则”；3、两大“叙事”的世纪交战 五、流氓主义的“天鹅绒革命” 附录1：流氓的精神分析 附录2：主要参考文献 后记 再请看作者自述 后 记 “流氓”是一个长期纠缠着我灵魂的问题。在1994年，我为了写作《流氓的精神分析》，阅读了大量历史文献，做了将近十万字的笔记（这些笔记在一场离婚的浩劫中荡然无存），并最终凝结成一个近两万字的文本。这是我研究流氓问题的精神起点。那个文本后来成了有关流氓问题的重要文献。 我出走澳大利亚的过程，仿佛是对《分析》一文的身体性回响。将近八年的悉尼侨居生活，令我深切感受到了作为“精神流亡者”的尖锐的内在痛楚。我和那个我所居住的都市及其文化语境格格不入。由于个人生活的种种难以言喻的困境，我不得不以“异乡人”的身份漂泊在南太平洋上，像一枚自我闭抑的葫芦科果实。这种漫长的生命经验，融入了我对流氓的理性探查。 自1999年3月开始这个课题的研究、资料收集和写作以来，我的流氓研究至今已经持续了六年，其中初稿的写作时间为5个月左右，但此后的修改期却长达3年之久。整个书写过程跨越了两个世纪，可谓是一次“跨世纪写作”。另一方面，它也是一次横跨澳洲和亚洲的洲际写作。这种时空上的两重转换或飞越，构成了本书的一个耐人寻味的背景。 首先，必须感谢我的导师、历史学和社会学家冯崇义先生，如果没有他的严格指导，本书的完成是不可思议的。由于我本人在三年期间离开悉尼返回中国，冯崇义先生多次在澳大利亚和中国之间往返，提出了大量精彩的意见，也为我纠正了一些政治学和历史学上的谬误。他的睿智和洞察力给了我很多帮助。 2001年3月，我辞去了我在悉尼的《澳华时报》和新南威尔斯州教育部的职务，携母亲返回上海，开始了本书的资料收集和构思。我去过北京、南京、成都、武汉、青岛、深圳和香港，在许多访谈中获得了灵感，也收集了论文写作所需的资料。诗人张小波、李亚伟、马松、柏桦和杨黎，小说家北村，音乐人江小鱼、批评家张闳、叶檀、刘擎等，都给予了诸多的支持。本书中的不少观点都来自与他们交谈的启示。 感谢张颐武、郜元宝等友人所给予的鼓励和支持。也感谢我在澳大利亚的同事、现任深圳大学中文系主任的钱超英君，他有关澳大利亚华人文学的著述，尤其是用身份理论阐释海外华文文学的思路，曾给以我重要的启示。 本书的完成还应当感谢我的母亲。她在八十七岁的高龄之上，身患重疾，每年入住医院多达六次，急需我的全力照料，却仍然支持我的写作。她的理解为我的思考和写作提供了动力。 2005年8月30日于上海莘庄 相关资讯链接 微信读书推荐：朱大可《流氓的盛宴》 孔夫子旧书网书评：流氓的盛宴：献给我们这个“价值分崩离析的时代” 科学网：推荐朱大可《流氓的盛宴》（吕乃基） 新浪网：“流氓的盛宴”与“流氓的未来”（肖轶） 新民周刊：读书：被误读的“流氓”（思郁） 搜狐：朱大可：从澳洲异乡人到中国学人的回旋道路 中国新闻周刊：以“流氓”勾勒中国文化乱象 中华读书报：编只大筐装“流氓” 魏英杰：话语的革命——略述朱大可《流氓的盛宴》 豆瓣读书：时无英雄，使我等流氓倍感苍凉 哈佛燕京学社：学人评论《流氓的盛宴》 独立中文笔会：李对龙：推石上山的西西弗——读《流氓的盛宴——当代中国的流氓叙事》 书名：流氓的盛宴 出版社：新星出版社 策划：三辉图书出版公司 策划人：严搏非 出版日期：2006年11月 责任编辑：刘刚 返回主要文论著作

Online warehouse and exhibition hall of Zhu Dake's works，Contains Dake Zhu's cultural criticism, mythological studies, and historical studies, novels, essays, and research materials about him. Back to Vat Items Olmec civilization Mysterious connection with the Yin Shang Legion Did the Mayans come from China? The Mayans in America, who created one of the world's ancient civilizations, may have been a family with the Chinese five thousand years ago. It is generally accepted that between 40,000 and 20,000 years ago, due to the impact of the fourth season of glaciers, the sea level of the Bering Strait dropped and the sea water froze, becoming a channel connecting Asia and America. Entering the Americas from Asia through the Bering Strait. In terms of race, American Indians belong to a branch of the Mongolian race. From an intuitive point of view, many Indians look like Chinese people. Most Indians have the characteristics of yellow races: black hair and Straight, yellow skin, spade-shaped incisors, and bluish birthmarks on the buttocks of babies born that are absent in whites and blacks. In terms of blood, scientists have also found evidence that Indians and Chinese belong to the same species. For a long time, many people believed that the source of the Mayan civilization was the ancient Chinese civilization, and the relationship between the two was cultural transmission. The theory of "Fusang Kingdom" was first put forward, mainly based on the story in "Liang Shu" about the Chinese monk Huishen who traveled across the ocean to "Fusang Kingdom" in the fifth century, and believed that "Fusang" was Mexico. Later, there was "the theory of Yin people crossing to the east", which means that the Chinese in the Shang Dynasty crossed the Pacific Ocean and brought civilization to the Americas. Famous anthropologist and Professor Zhang Guangzhi from Harvard University once put forward a hypothesis of "Maya-Chinese cultural continuum", arguing that the Mayan civilization and ancient Chinese civilization were the result of the development of descendants of the same ancestor in different times and in different places. Some people believe that the Mayan custom of worshiping the serpentine god originated in the Shang Dynasty in China 4,000 years ago, and the embossed patterns on the bronze sacrificial vessels of the Shang Dynasty are very similar to the mask of the Mayan serpentine god. Unfortunately, the above statement has not been clearly confirmed by archaeology so far. The Shang Army and the Olmecs 　　 After the arrival of the Europeans, the population of the original inhabitants of the Americas declined sharply due to disease and massacres, and the culture created by the Americans was also destroyed. So for a long time, people couldn't figure out where the Native Americans came from. Chinese scholars proposed that the Yin people of China had arrived in America in 1200 BC. This view was initially dismissed as "Fantasy". Today, however, more and more evidence supports this hypothesis. In the last years of the Yin and Shang Dynasties (about 1066 BC, the eleventh year of King Wu of Zhou), the Zhou army made a surprise attack on Chaoge, the capital of Yin. Why did a Yin Shang, which was much stronger than Zhou, die in Zhou? After studying this period of history, historians found that the army of the Shang Dynasty was fighting in Shandong at that time, and won the victory. The whole country was immersed in celebration. Among them, they did not guard against Zhou's army attacking from behind, which eventually led to a fatal disaster. It is not surprising that this kind of extreme joy and sorrow has happened from time to time in history. The strange thing is, after the demise of the Yin and Shang Dynasties, where did the army that originally conquered Shandong go? According to historical records, there are more than 250,000 Yin Shang troops in Shandong. They neither returned to the army to fight to the death with the Zhou army, nor established a new country in Shandong, but suddenly disappeared without a trace. up. The history books of later generations never talked about this matter, as if they never existed in the world. Where did they go? Some scholars speculate that they traveled across the ocean to Central America. In fact, this is indeed very possible. First, the Chinese at that time already had a wealth of overseas knowledge. It is said in the "Da Huang Dong Jing" in "Shan Hai Jing": Overseas, there are Fusang and Dagu Xianchi, which are the seat of Shaohao Xihe Kingdom. That is to say, people in ancient China knew for a long time that there were other worlds in distant places overseas. "Hanshu Dongyi Biography": "Wo Kingdom is more than 4,000 miles east, there is Naked Country, and to the southeast of Naked Country is Black Tooth Country, which can be reached by boat within a year." Black Tooth Country is a descendant of Shaowu, in Central America. The records in "Hanshu" prove that sailing to America was already feasible in the Han Dynasty. "Liezi·Tang Wen": "In the east of the Bohai Sea, I don't know how many millions of miles away, there is a big ravine, but it is actually a bottomless valley, and there is no bottom below it. It is called Guixu." Dagu, Tanggu in Central America , east of the Bohai Sea, indicating that the Chinese knew the location of Central America during the Warring States Period. This can only be done on the basis of understanding the shape of the earth and having the practice of sailing. Going back a few centuries, it is also possible for the Chinese to sail across the Americas. Due to the Earth's rotation, there is a west-to-east current in the Pacific Ocean between Asia and North America: the North Pacific Current. Human beings were able to sail and fish at sea 6,000 years ago. At that time, it was very common for people on the eastern coast of China to go to sea. of. Cultural relics related to China all over the Americas are distributed along the Pacific coast, which is the result of sailing across the Pacific Ocean. Copper coins, writings, and statues from the Qin and Han Dynasties in various parts of the Americas also show that Chinese people did not go to America alone at that time. Second, shortly after the disappearance of these Yin people, an Olmec culture with Asian characteristics suddenly emerged in Mexico and Central America. This "coincidence" is likely to be due to some connection between the two. Many of the unearthed cultural relics from the Olmec period found in the Americas are prominently characterized by the Shang culture. More than 300 symbols similar to ancient Chinese characters have been collected from the Olmec civilization and its neighboring cultures. These symbols have been identified by archaeologists and paleographers, and they believe that they are strikingly similar to oracle bone inscriptions in China 3,000 years ago. They also said that if the symbols were found in Chinese archaeological sites, they would definitely be considered to be oracle bone inscriptions from the Shang and Zhou Dynasties of China. Some scholars believe that these Olmec symbols similar to oracle bone inscriptions not only include agricultural characters, such as grain, field, wood, sky, sun, rain, water, saplings, etc., but also ritual and witchcraft characters. It is very similar to symbols such as celestial stems and earthly branches, numbers and hexagram paintings in ancient China. In the Olmec cultural site in La Venta, Indians also found the custom of worshiping tigers. False axes unearthed on the Pacific coast of Mexico are identical to jade kui from the Shang Dynasty. The drainage channels of the Indians also embody Dayu's thoughts on water control. The mound culture of the Indians is obviously a custom of the Shang Dynasty, so this custom in America is obviously an extension of Chinese culture. In addition, the pottery, jade, stone carvings and religious ceremonies of the Olmec civilization are very similar to the Shang and Zhou civilizations in China. The pottery unearthed in Mesoamerica has the same shapes, decorative symbols, drawing techniques, and hollowing methods as ancient Chinese pottery and pottery-making techniques. The jade worship in the Olmec civilization, the various decorations on the stone tools, and the divine emblems, totems and symbols on the jade are very similar to those in the pre-Qin period in China. In Olmec witchcraft, there are also Chinese concepts such as knotting and keeping track of events, the sky is round and the earth is round, and the four colors are square. Like the ancient Chinese, the Olmecs used cinnabar to offer sacrifices, used jade to pray for rain, used animal heads and human amulets as symbols of gods, worshiped their ancestors in shrines, temples, and altars, set up tablets with jade kui, and built mausoleums and tombs. . The Olmec's method of sacrificing their lives to worship their ancestors is exactly the same as that of the Shang and Zhou dynasties in China. There are many similarities and even similarities between Indian culture and ancient Chinese culture: for example, Lingtai culture, Qiudun culture, jade burial customs, and legends about Tiangou eating the moon, similar flood stories, and common dragons. Culture and Feathered Snake Culture, common Taiji Diagram, Taotie and Yunlei decorations, similar sedan chair travel and killing games, the same healing methods of herbs and bone needles, the same seven-hole flute and musical pentatonic scale , Even the folk remedies of drinking children's urine to keep healthy and eating tadpoles to fight fire are the same. Harvard University scholar Ekholm proposed that before Columbus arrived in the Americas, Asian immigrants and explorers arrived in the Americas, making religion, art, astronomy, and architecture in the New World flourish, forming the first civilized society in American history. American civilization may have originated in the Bronze Age Shang Dynasty, because both have similar artistic style and religious consciousness at the same time. Smithsonian Museum archaeologist McGrath, after comparing pottery found in Ecuador with ancient Japanese pottery, believes that as early as 5,000 years ago, ancient Asian residents had cultural exchanges with American civilization through sea transportation. "Ancient humans viewed the ocean as a highway, not a barrier," she said. Therefore, when King Zhou of Shang was defeated and self-immolated, and the Shang Dynasty perished, the officers and soldiers of the Shang Dynasty who stayed in Shandong probably escaped from the East China Sea, passed through Japan, crossed the Pacific Ocean, and arrived at the coast of Mexico, bringing agricultural irrigation technology and astronomy to the local people. Geographical knowledge developed into the first American civilization "Olmec Civilization". In fact, some people in Mexico today admit that they are descendants of the Yin people in China. Mayan and Chinese There is an obvious corresponding relationship between Maya and Chinese, which also proves that the Maya and Chinese are inextricably linked. The basic vocabulary shared by Mayan and Chinese is provided to calculate the time when Mayan and Chinese were separated. Linguists use a table of 100 basic words and find out the proportion of words that are common to both languages in the 100 words to determine when the two languages separated. The common words between Mayan and Chinese accounted for 26 of the 100 basic words, minus 4 that may be similar by chance, and there are 22 common words between the two languages. According to statistical probability, if there are 22 common words in the two languages, the time of separation is about 5,000 years ago, which is the time when the Mayans and Chinese separated. This time is very consistent with the existing research results of linguistics, archaeology, anthropology and history: first, the original Mayan language began to diverge into the current Mayan dialects 4600 years ago; second, the earliest pottery discovered in the Mayan area Manufactured 4,500 years ago, it is quite mature; 3, ancient Mayan documents set the beginning of history and calendar at 3113 BC, which is about 5,000 years ago; 4, the academic circles believe that the Mayans were the latest from Asia to American. The latest time when ancient Asians came to America was 5,000 years ago; fifth, the Mayans said that their ancestors came from the west or by boat from the north. The general direction from China to the Americas is from west to east. If you take a boat along the Pacific Ocean along Japan, the Thousand Islands, and the Aleutian Islands, and then go south along the American coast to reach Central America, you will come by boat from the north. The phonetics and grammar of Maya and Chinese have some other common features, such as monophonic roots and lack of morphological changes. A comprehensive language correspondence indicates that the two languages are indeed related. similar way of thinking The kinship between the Maya and the Chinese, in addition to language evidence, also has a lot of evidence in the way of thinking. The common features of the basic way of thinking of the Mayans and Chinese reflect the unity of man and nature, and the unity of nature and society. In terms of social development, the Mayans believed that prosperity, peace, prosperity and decline, war and poverty were cyclical alternations. And this has a certain relationship with the astronomical and calendar calculations of the Mayans. They believed that there was a cycle of misfortune and blessing every 20 years in 13 calendars. For example, the abandonment of the city of Chichen Itza and the hegemony of the city-state of Mayapan, as well as the decline of the city of Mayapan and the conquest of the Spanish, all show this cycle of rise and fall of the calendar. This view of history is very consistent with the ancient Chinese view of history. The basic outlook on life of the Mayans can be summed up as "don't overdo everything", which is very consistent with the dominant philosophy of life in ancient China, "the golden mean". Under the guidance of this kind of thinking, the Mayans respected the natural environment very much and hunted very restrainedly. First, they did not want to kill innocent animals indiscriminately. Second, they wanted to leave opportunities for other hunters to forage. Before farming and burning forests, sacrifices should be made to pray for the forgiveness and protection of the gods. At the same time, the cultivated land should be measured according to the needs of the population, so as to ensure food consumption without excessive production and damage to nature. Therefore, the way of life pursued by the Mayans is the harmony between man and man, and the harmony between man and nature. The Maya's idea of the unity of man and nature is manifested in all aspects of life, and many of them are the same as the Chinese. The Mayans called the poet "A Feng", and poetry is equal to the wind; the folk songs of various places in China's earliest poem "Book of Songs" are also called wind. In the language of the Mayans, flowers can mean natural flowers, and they can also refer to people's lust and lust, which is the same as that of the Chinese. The symbolic meanings of colors believed by the Mayans are also consistent with those of the Chinese: red symbolizes power, yellow symbolizes auspiciousness, and white symbolizes inauthenticity, so Baifu is equal to the Chinese uncle, and Baimu is equal to the Chinese aunt. In ancient China, milk was called valley, while the Mayans called corn milk milk and corn cobs "breast milk". What is more special is that the ancient Chinese called the year "Zai", which originated before the Xia Dynasty. This concept of time is the same as that of the Mayans: the Mayans believed that each year was carried by a kind of god, one after another. Therefore, the year and the load are closely related, and a year is also a god's load. Similar Jade Stones From 30,000 to 7,000 years ago, there was a microlithic distribution zone from North China to Canada, which has been studied in depth by scientists and paleoanthropologists. The study found that this microlithic distribution belt started from Gansu, Ningxia, and Shanxi regions in China 30,000 years ago, and spread throughout the Mongolian grasslands, the Northeast Plains of China, Northeast Asia, Alaska, and southern Canada. The age of Zhiyu in Shanxi is 28,900-13,700 years ago, the age of Jiuketai in East Siberia is 22,000-10,000 years ago, the age of Novka in Us is 20,000-10,000 years ago, Shirataki in Japan is 17,000 years ago, and the age of Alaska It is about 9800 years ago, and the age of British Columbia is about 7000 years ago. The absolute age decline of these microliths is also a continuous lineage, which is a complete continuous lineage. Microliths are highly specialized tools that could not have been independently created by humans in two places at the same time. They spread to the vast polar regions, pass through North Asia and North America from the northeast, and are distributed between 90 degrees east longitude to 140 degrees west longitude and 40 degrees to 65 degrees north latitude. Because this tradition was first discovered in North China, it is also Known as the "North China Microlithic Tradition". According to the current discoveries, the microlithic culture reached the Fairbanks-Highline Lake area in Alaska more than 11,000 years ago, and then distributed southward. —The starting point and source of intercontinental cultural communication. The earliest and most important cultural site of the Olmec culture is the La Venta site. A group of jade wares were discovered at this site, with the words "Nong", "Xin" and "Nv Rong" engraved on them in the oracle bone script of the Yin Dynasty. The international academic circles named them "Yugui" because it has a slight arc on the top and belongs to the "Wangui" of the Taihao Fuxi clan of the Dongyi nationality; The ancient characters are engraved with the name and genealogy of the ancestors of the Yin and Shang, so they are also called "the tablet of the god of Yugui", and the 16 jade statues are the ancestors of the Olmecs - the Yin merchants. The writing on the four pieces of jade kui has been deciphered, and it is confirmed that it is the writing of the Shang Dynasty. similar customs The kinship between the Maya and the Chinese is not only manifested in language and ways of thinking, but also in customs and habits. Research on this aspect can sometimes promote the study of ancient Chinese culture. For example, in ancient Chinese divination, if a person was said to have an "odd number", it was considered unlucky. When Emperor Wu of the Han fought against the Xiongnu, he did not use the famous general Li Guang, because the result of divination for Li Guang was "odd", which was unlucky. As for how to do divination, it has been lost in China. The Mayan divination also has the same statement: even numbers are good, odd numbers are bad, and the specific practice is preserved. The Mayans used a pile of corn kernels, first randomly took some out and put them aside, and then counted them four by four. If the total number of these four groups is an odd number, and the rest is also an odd number, that is, three or one corn, it is fierce; if both are even, it is lucky; An even number is indefinite. The Mayans and the Chinese not only agree on the saying that even numbers are good and odd numbers are bad, but they even call the fortune-tellers the same. In ancient China, such people were called "Japanese people", and the Mayans called them "ahkin". "ah" is equivalent to "A" in Chinese, and "kin" is the sun in Mayan, the day. So "ahkin" is "Ari", which is changed to "Ahkin", which means "Japanese". This very specific commonality would not be possible if the Mayans and Chinese were not related. When it comes to divination, the Mayans and the Chinese have something else in common. In ancient China, there was a method of divination for lost things or people, called Yuanguang. People let innocent children look in the mirror, and it is said that they can see where the lost things or people are. The Mayans also have this habit. If they lose something, they let the children look in a transparent spar and tell what they see. The Mayans and Chinese also have common characteristics in the form of recreational activities. Like the Chinese folk, the Mayans often played rope games. There is a game in China called chicken claw buckle, and the Mayans also played chicken claw buckle, and the name is called chicken claw buckle. Both ends of the rope are tied together, then turned over and over again, and finally three interlocking buckles are wound in the middle, like chicken feet. The Mayans, like the Chinese, also played dice. They are called playing corn, because they use four corns as dice, all of which are dyed black on one side. If you roll two or four black sides, you win. In ancient China, the number of dice was not fixed, but six dice could be used, one side of which was dyed red, and four red sides were thrown to win. Concubine Yang Guifei and Tang Minghuang played in this way, and the gameplay is very similar to that of the Mayans. The Mayans were also very particular about the difference between men and women. When eating, men and women do not eat together. The man always eats first, the man finishes, and the woman eats. When walking, if a man and a woman meet on the road, the woman should avoid the side of the road, bow her head and wait for the man to pass, and then the woman will go. What's more interesting is that a couple can't walk side by side when walking, but the man is in front and the woman is behind, keeping a certain distance. In ancient Mayan society, men were superior to women, and some taboos were also manifested: women should not let men see when they give birth or menstruate, otherwise they will be unlucky. Moreover, women must maintain chastity, and adultery between men and women is punishable by death. It can be seen that the etiquette and customs of ancient Mayan society were exactly the same as those of ancient China. The common features of the customs of the Mayans and Chinese are many aspects, such as interpretation of dreams: a person dreams of losing teeth means that a relative will die. Of course, these are the common customs of the ancient Mayans and Chinese. Although they belong to superstition, their special corresponding characteristics are worth noting. In terms of basic necessities of life, the Mayans and the Chinese also have many similarities. In terms of eating, both Mayans and Chinese eat with bowls, unlike Europeans and Americans who use plates. In addition, the Mayans ate not on the table, but on mats. The same is true of Chinese people in ancient times. Otherwise, how could eating be called a banquet? The Mayans ate on mats, which is related to their living and lifestyle. They do not sleep on beds or sit on chairs, but on mats, just like the ancient Chinese. When it comes to sitting, the ancient Mayans divided into two ways: sitting on the crouch and sitting on the knees. The sitting on the knees is the same as the sitting on the knees in ancient China. In ancient China, high-status people sat squatting, while low-status people sat on their knees, and the Mayans did the same. Because men are superior to women, women are used to kneeling. The construction method of the Mayan houses is the same as that of the Chinese houses in the past. They are all post-beam structures. First, four pillars are erected, and the pillars are supported by beams. Common people's houses are mud or thatched houses, while noble houses are stone buildings. In addition, the ancient Maya's country was a city-state, the highest leader lived in the center of the city, and the nobles, merchants, handicraftsmen, farmers, and slaves lived outward in sequence. The lowest-ranked people live farthest from the city center, much like the imperial capitals of China's past. In terms of clothing and behavior, the ancient Mayans and Chinese also have common characteristics. The clothes that Chinese people wore in ancient times were a piece of square cloth called Baofang, or gown. The gown is a bag, covering the upper body from back to front, with a button on the front chest or one side. The top of the Maya is also such a piece of cloth, called pati, and its name is also similar to the Chinese robe. The lower garments of Maya men were also loincloths, divided into banners. The lower garments of ancient Chinese men were also loincloths, called Chang. The earliest character for "Chang" is "Shang", which is a pictographic character. The Mayans called the loincloth ex, and x sounds like sh, which has the same consonant sound as the Chinese word "shang". The Mayans paid great attention to road building. Their roads are very similar to the roads of the Zhou Dynasty mentioned in the "Book of Songs", like a whetstone placed on the ground, flat and straight, and built much higher than the ground. In addition, on the roads in ancient China, there were residences for passers-by at certain distances, called "lus". The roads of the Mayans also have dwellings at certain distances, called lub, which is very similar to the Chinese "Lu" in pronunciation. The ancient Maya and Chinese also have common features in burial customs, especially children's burial: one is to use urn coffins, and the other is to drill small holes in the upper part or cover of urn coffins. Sometimes the Mayans would use a part of the mother's finger to bury the child. This naturally reminds us of a saying that we Chinese often describe maternal love: it hurts to bite any one of the ten fingers. It is likely that this means that the Chinese also had the custom of biting off the fingers of their mothers and burying their dead children with them in ancient times, just like the Mayans. similar religion Religiously, the Mayan culture also had the same things as ancient China. The Chinese have long had the saying of heaven and hell, and believe that heaven is beautiful, and hell is a spiritual world that punishes the wicked. There are similar sayings about heaven and hell among the Mayans. People in ancient China had the idea of nature worship. They worshiped all natural phenomena or natural forces with great power as gods, such as Feng Po, Lei Gong, Dragon King, Mountain God, etc., and the Mayans were typical nature worshipers. Not only that, but even the images in many Mayan sculptures and paintings are very similar to the masks of many Chinese gods. For example, the images in Mayan and Indian murals or sculptures are almost in line with Guizhou Nuo opera masks. The images of some gods in the Mayan culture are completely renditions of ancient Chinese evil spirits, such as the Four King Kongs and Hades Judge, etc., can all be found in the Mayan culture. (Excerpt from Su Xiao's "Maya Legend and the Future of Humanity", Central Compilation Press, 2017) Back to Vat Items

Online warehouse and exhibition hall of Zhu Dake's works，Contains Dake Zhu's cultural criticism, mythological studies, and historical studies, novels, essays, and research materials about him. "Mirror" Derivative Project This is the strangest part of the trilogy of "Ancient Matters", composed in the style of a dictionary, showing the strange role played by artifacts in Chinese history. The secret love between the highly skilled mirror guard and the beautiful mirror owner, the bloody fight for the magic mirror, the fighting and murder in the court, and the conflict between the two spaces inside and outside the mirror. Transformation, painted an extremely mysterious legendary color for this ancient bronze vessel..... . 前往古事记简介 The Story of the Mirror There are two types of bronze mirrors in ancient times, one is vulgar mirror, which is an ordinary mirror, and the other is divine mirror, which people can use to enter another parallel space. Both Zhuang Zhou and Tao Yuanming were masters of such mirrors. Most of the people who own the magic mirror are the royal family and nobles. It is their privilege to have the magic mirror. They can freely enter and exit the other side of the world through the mirror. Since the mirror is the door to the two worlds, it is extremely important to guard it, so a profession called "mirror guard" flourished. And the goggle guard with the strongest martial arts in the world is named Li Ah. Princess Su E stole the best mirror in the palace, and fled to Li Ah's location. Li Ah accepted her request and became her goggle protector. This move became the root of all troubles later. In order to recover the mirror, the emperor sent Luan Ba, the second killer in the world, to lead hundreds of killers out of Beijing to kill Su E and take back the mirror. He went on a killing spree along the way, killing most of the mirror guards and taking away most of the magic mirrors. His final goal is Li Ah, the world's number one killer and number one goggle guard. Su E travels between two parallel worlds and brings back A pair of twin babies, apparently that's her on the other side products of marriage. After he entrusted the child to Li A's upbringing, he disappeared again. Li Ah is obsessed with Su E and has no complaints about it. Luan Ba's army attacked Li Ah's residence, and a fierce battle broke out between the two sides. As a result, Luan Ba fell into the maze arranged by Li Ah and the mirror caster Dou Shaoqing, and finally died. Although the threat to the world on this side has been eliminated, serious turmoil has occurred in the world on the other side. When Su E returned for the last time, her clothes were covered in blood, as if she had experienced some murder. After making love with Li A for the last time, she drowned with her two children in her arms, and the magic mirror flew away overnight, and has never been heard from since. Li A forged a magic mirror by himself, trying to escape to the Utopian world, but was killed by the broken magic mirror the moment he entered the mirror. The great mirror caster just disappeared into the shadow of history. 阅读神镜片段 Bronze Mirror The legend about the largest treasure in the world hidden in the Forbidden City in Beijing has been circulating unscrupulously among the people and the court, and even Emperor Puyi believed in it. In the summer of 1941, he secretly ordered a task force to sneak into the Forbidden City from Manchuria to search for treasures, but found nothing. This incident alarmed the top authorities of the Japanese army stationed in Beiping. According to a file obtained by the US military in Tokyo, the Japanese army organized a secret team headed by archaeologist Ichiro Hosokawa, carrying sophisticated detection instruments, and spent 17 years. For months, every nook and cranny of the Forbidden City was searched, and several women's hidden jewelry boxes and some jewelry were found in the concubine's residence, but nothing else was found. In 1950, in order to raise funds to solve the famine, Zhou Enlai personally planned and sent people to conduct a three-year survey of the Forbidden City. In the gardens on both sides of the Qinzheng Hall, dozens of corpses were found secretly buried. Other than that, nothing more was discovered, but these cryptic failures made the fabled treasure all the weirder and more exciting. The story I shall tell next was told to me by a dying man. In a rural hospital in Lu County, Shandong Province, I worked as a traditional Chinese medicine practitioner for two years, prescribing some cheap herbal medicines for poor farmers. On a dark and stormy night, I was on duty at the hospital, and some villagers brought an old man who was about to die. He survived two extra weeks in the ER because of my care. In the dead of night, he begged me to sit by his side, and he related the following shocking experience. "Who I am and what my name is is irrelevant. What I want to tell you is that I served in the Manchukuo contingent in 1941, and the following year I was drafted to the Japanese Army Group. In 1950, I became a A member of Zhou Enlai's Forbidden City inspection team. I consulted all the court archives of the Qing Dynasty since Kangxi, and searched every rainy land in the Forbidden City. I became an authority on the Forbidden City research. But for decades, I have not made any progress in treasures. In the winter of 1968, in order to prevent the Forbidden City from being destroyed by the Red Guards, an army was stationed inside. As the main staff of the Forbidden City Research Institute, I was lucky to be protected, like an incense burner in the palace, gradually emitting some copper rust. Every day I stood in front of the Hall of Prayer for Good Harvest and watched the guards drill, the bayonets shining brightly in the sun. At night, except for the jeering voice of owls, the place was as quiet as a huge ruin. When I walked through the imperial garden, occasionally A woman's sobbing can also be heard, which is said to be the ghost of Concubine Zhen talking to herself. The hut where I lived was the bedroom of the former servants of the palace. It was dark, damp, and musty, like an empty tomb. (Click here to read the full article ) Another short story on the theme of bronze mirror—— Bronze Mirror Cultural Interpretation of Bronze Mirror—— In the deepest part of the ancient mirror light The Yellow Emperor's Century of Mirrors and Optics The Yellow Emperor held a bilateral meeting with the Queen Mother of the West, the leader of India, in the Wangwu Mountain area, which became a famous diplomatic event recorded in many classics. Although we don't know its content, according to "The Yellow Emperor's Internal Biography", after the meeting, the Yellow Emperor cast twelve large mirrors, which were used in turn by month. The diameter of the first mirror is one foot and five inches, and it will be reduced by one inch every month thereafter. By analogy, the twelfth mirror should be only three inches, which is already exquisite and cute[1]. The Yellow Emperor often polished the mirror by the lake himself. For thousands of years, the mirror stone was smooth and no weeds grew [2]. This may be the oldest mirror in Chinese history. Its craftsmanship may have come from the Western Regions, and it is closely related to astronomy, calendar, power and state management, but we still have no way of knowing its original technology and functional details. In this way, the material and function of the mirror are gradually perfected in the legend. It may be made of hard jade or iron ore at first, and then expanded to gold, glass or copper-iron alloy. However, considering the reflectivity of the mirror surface, the polishing process and the manufacturing cost, most mirrors must be made of doped mirrors. Bronze cast in tin, as this material is softer and easier to polish. It is one of the sources of light that eagerly transcends the physical limitations of optical reflection. It faithfully reflects the physical space outside, but creates an illusionary space inside. The whole world is curled up in the bronze mirror, sending an eternal smile to the Yellow Emperor and his subjects...(Click here to read the full article )