roccoschili Chapter 180 Three Strange Dreams
Chapter 180 Three Strange Dreams
One
One year during the Kangxi period of the Qing Dynasty, the palace examination was held. Li Jiqian, the youngest son of Li Shaosikong (another name for the minister of the Ministry of Industry) in Zhecheng (now a county under Shangqiu City, Henan Province), passed the imperial examination.
Later, one year after the death of Li Shaosikong and his wife, Li Jiqian became seriously ill and was in critical condition.
One night, Li Jiqian dreamed of his wife. The lady told him that if he wanted to recover, he must take ginseng.
After Li Jiqian woke up, he told the doctor what happened in his dream.
The doctor said disapprovingly: "Don't take ginseng because it conflicts with a patient like you!"
That night, Li Jiqian dreamed of his wife again.
The madam said: "Don't listen to what the doctor says! If you want to live, you must take ginseng! I have some ginseng somewhere, you can go find it and take it!"
Li Jiqian believed his wife's words this time and did not talk to the doctor again.
He went to look for it as the lady told him, and sure enough he found ginseng there.
After taking it, Li Jiqian went crazy and died in the middle of the night.
Second
It is said that Mr. Lu Sheshan (namely Lu Jiashu. Poet, calligrapher, painter, and bibliophile in the early Qing Dynasty. Also known as Xiaoke, Qingyun, etc., and Sheshan was his nickname. A native of Haining, Zhejiang Province.) Mr. Lu Sheshan, a great poet in the Kangxi period of the Qing Dynasty, one day While sleeping at home, he dreamed of his deceased father, Duke Xiaolian.
Duke Xiaolian said to him: "My tomb is flooded. I have been soaked in water all day and it is very painful. I heard that Gaoting Mountain (located in Dinglan Street, Shangcheng District, Hangzhou City, Zhejiang Province, 18 meters from the city center) There is a piece of land on the top of the mountain (only [-] kilometers away), which is owned by a certain family and is currently trying to sell it. It is a Feng Shui treasure land. You can buy it and move my grave there so that my soul can rest on it! "
After Lu Sheshan woke up, he was doubtful. In order to verify what his father said in the dream, he went to Gaoting Mountain to investigate.
When I got there, I asked someone, and it turned out to be exactly what I had dreamed of.
So, he found that family and spent a lot of money to buy the land.
Next, Lu Sheshan made arrangements to move his father's grave. When he had his father's old tomb dug up, he found that there was no water at all!
And it's still very warm inside, like a steamer, with bursts of steam coming out.
At this time, Lu Sheshan felt it was too late to regret. (It’s strange to paint a tiger into a cat: at this time, you just dug the grave. If you want to regret it, can you just fill it in again? As for the newly purchased piece of land, you can either keep it for future use or sell it. Yet?)
Unexpectedly, after moving his father's grave, things started to go wrong for Lu Sheshan. His family was in decline and his descendants were displaced.
Third
Once upon a time, Baoen Temple (also called Great Baoen Temple) in Jiangning (now Nanjing City, Jiangsu Province) was located outside the Zhonghua Gate in Qinhuai District, Nanjing City. It is the oldest Buddhist temple in China. It is the second temple in China after the White Horse Temple in Luoyang .) There are many vacant monk rooms.
Whenever there is a scientific examination year, the abbot and monk of the temple will rent out these monk rooms to accommodate those scholars who take the examination.
It is said that there was a student named Zhang in Liuhe County (a county under Jiangning Prefecture. It is now a district under Nanjing City). Every time he took the exam, he would rent a monk's room in a temple, and he would still live in the same monk's room every year.
Later, the old monk Wu Xi, the abbot of the temple who often rented a house to him, passed away.
And that Zhang became discouraged because he took the exam many times but failed, and did not take the exams for several consecutive exams.
Suddenly one day, the old monk Wu Xi told his disciple in a dream: "Hurry up and rent a boat to cross the river and invite Mr. Zhang to take the exam! Mr. Zhang will definitely pass the exam this year!"
The apprentice quickly crossed the river and told Zhang what the master said in the dream.
Zhang was very happy to hear this and hurriedly crossed the river to take the exam.
Unexpectedly, when the exam results were announced, Zhang still failed the exam!
Zhang was very angry! So, he set up a special altar to scold Wu Xi, the old bald donkey!
That night, Zhang dreamed that the old monk Wu Xi came to explain.
Old monk Wu Xi said: "This year's scientific examination room, the Ming Si sent the old monk to distribute the porridge and rice. Because one person was missing and did not arrive, the old monk had no place to spend money.
And my husband, your fate is doomed. You should eat porridge and rice for three exams, a total of eleven bowls of cold porridge and rice (Huahu Chengmao thinks that the meaning of "cold porridge and rice" here is borrowed from Fan Zhongyan's "Duanjun" painting The allusion of "porridge" is used to illustrate that Zhang still has to study hard for several years.), so the old monk sent his apprentice to invite the husband over to help the old monk increase the number of people, so as not to be punished by the old monk! In fact, it is not the old monk who dares to tell lies to deceive the husband! "
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The reader may want to ask: "Why does the underworld have to distribute the porridge and rice for the students taking the human science examination?"
Huahuchengmao uses his own shallow knowledge to explain to everyone:
The "porridge and rice" distributed by Mingsi should refer to people's destiny. Take the scientific examination as an example. If he is given "hot porridge and rice", it means that the person can pass the exam; and Zhang in the article is destined to eat three "cold porridge and rice", which means that he will continue Go study hard.
Whether people in the world can eat or not is also determined by fate. For example, if you have just prepared a meal and are ready to eat it, and a relative, friend or neighbor happens to come, it means that "it is his turn to eat." But when you sit down at the table and prepare to eat, you are suddenly called away, or you pick up the meal. A piece of meat, when you want to put it into your mouth, accidentally falls to the ground and is picked up by a dog, this means "you shouldn't eat it"!
Of course, these are all superstitions.
However, there is a more scientific saying now: the food that everyone eats in his life is rationed to thirty tons, and whoever eats it first will leave first!
This is actually a way to maintain health. This means: "Eat your turn" and don't overeat, as this can easily lead to illness!
Let me share with you the allusion of "Duan Qi Painting Porridge":
Song Dynasty Shi Wenying's "Wild Records of Xiangshan Mountain": "Fan Zhongyan was poor when he was young, and he studied in a monk's house in Changbai Mountain. He made porridge in a vessel, and after staying for a while, it solidified. He drew it into four pieces with a knife, took two pieces in the morning and evening, cut off dozens of stems and ate them. This lasts for three years."
Ji: Refers to food accompaniments such as pickles.
The Changbai Mountain mentioned here is not in the northeast, but in Zibo, Shandong.
Fan Zhongyan, a famous writer and politician in the Northern Song Dynasty, had a very poor family when he was a child. His father died of illness in the second year after his birth, and his mother took him to remarry to Zhujiazhuang, Zibo, Shandong.
There is a mountain behind the village called Changbai Mountain, and there is a temple on the mountain called Liquan Temple, which is very quiet.
Fan Zhongyan borrowed a monk's room in the temple to study day and night. Because his family is poor, he can only cook porridge with millet to satisfy his hunger.
In winter, the millet porridge will solidify overnight, so Fan Zhongyan used a knife to make a cross on the cold porridge in the bowl, divided it into four pieces, cut dozens of pickles and put them on top, and ate two pieces each morning and evening.
This is the origin of the allusion "Duan Qi Paints Porridge".