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Chapter 8 Chapter Six: The Book of Ghosts, Minds, and Minds in the Six Dynasties (Part 2)

Chapter Six: The Book of Ghosts, Minds, and Minds in the Six Dynasties (Part 2) Shi's auxiliary teaching book, "Sui Zhi" records nine schools, in the Zibu and Shibu, but Yan Zhitui's "Injustice Soul Zhi" [1] survives, citing scriptures and history to prove retribution, which has opened the beginning of mixing Confucianism and Buddhism. , while the rest are all lost.The posthumous writings can be found in Song Liu Yiqing's "Xuan Yan Ji" [2], Qi Wangyan's "Mingxiang Ji" [3], Sui Yanzhitui's "Ji Ling Ji", Hou Bai's "Jing Yi Ji" [4] Four kinds, generally speaking, the obvious effect of the scriptures and images shows the real existence of fulfillment, so as to shock the world and make people respect and believe, and later generations may regard it as a novel.Wang Yan, a native of Taiyuan, was born in Jiaozhi when he was a child. He received the Five Precepts. During Song Daming and Jianyuan (the middle of the fifth century), he felt the difference between the two golden statues. The volume is called "Mingxiang", and the preface is very well known (see Volume 17 of "Fayuan Zhulin"). "Ming Xiang Ji" is the most preserved in "Zhu Lin" and "Tai Ping Guang Ji", and its narration is also the most tortuous and detailed. Here we briefly quote three things to summarize the rest.

Emperor Ming of the Han Dynasty dreamed of a god-man, who was two feet down, with a golden body and a sunray on his neck. To ask the ministers, or to say, "there is a god in the west, whose name is Buddha, whose shape is just like your majesty's dream, is it true?" So he sent an envoy to Tianzhu to write a scripture image.Xia in the middle of the table, since the son of heaven and prince, respects and serves him. Hearing that the spirit of death is immortal, he is not afraid of losing himself.In the early days, the envoy Cai Min sent Shakyamuni Kasyapa Moteng and other kings of the Western Regions to paint Sakyamuni Buddha statues. The emperor attached great importance to them, as if he had seen them in a dream. To support on the mausoleum.Also in the mural of Baima Temple, there is a picture of thousands of rides and ten thousand riders circumnavigating the pagoda three times, as recorded in various legends. ("Zhulin" Thirteen)

Xiefu of Jin Dynasty, whose style is Qingxu, is a native of Shanyin in Kuaiji. He rarely has high-level exercises. He hides in Dongshan. He believes in Dafa and is diligent and tireless. He wrote the "Shourangama Sutra" by hand. He should be in the Baima Temple in the capital. The temple was destroyed by fire. Yan, the remaining scriptures of all things are simmered and exhausted, and this scripture is only burned outside the boundary of the paper head, and the words are all preserved, and nothing is lost.When he died, his friends doubted that he had acquired the Tao, and when they heard this sutra, they were even more amazed. ... ("Pearl Forest" eighteenth)

Jin Zhaotai Wenhe, Qinghe Beiqiu people... At the age of thirty-five, he died of heartache and died in a moment.Putting the corpse on the ground, my heart is warm, and I bend and stretch with others.Leaving the corpse for ten days, at Pingdan, there was a sound like rain in the throat, and the Russian revived.It is said that when I first died, I dreamed that a person came to my heart, and then there were two people riding a yellow horse, and the two followers, Futai's armpit path will go eastward, I don't know how many miles, until I reach a big city, Cui Wei is tall and steep, and the city is blue. black.Jiangtai enters the city gate and passes through the double gate. There are thousands of tile houses, and thousands of men and women, big and small, stand in a row.There are five or six officials in soap clothes, with sparse surnames, and it is said that "the government should be presented to the monarch with a branch".Tai's name is thirty, and in a short while, Jiang Tai and thousands of men and women will advance at the same time.Sitting facing west, the monarch of the government simply looked at the name book and sent him back to the south of Tainan to enter the black gate.Some people sat under the big house wearing undressed clothes, called their names by time, and asked, "What did you do when you were born? What crimes did you commit? What good deeds did you do? Let me tell you the truth!

The envoys of the six divisions are always in the world, and they memorize good and evil. They have strips and cannot be false. "Tai replied, "Father and brother are officials, both of them are two thousand stones.I seldom stay at home, just study, do nothing, and do not commit evil. "He sent Tai to be the general of the water officer.... Later, he was transferred to the Thai water officer to supervise the affairs of the prisons, and gave the Thai soldiers and horses to order the case to go to hell. All the prisons have different poisons: some needles are pierced through their tongues, and blood bleeds Unexpectedly, or with their heads exposed and hair naked, they walk with each other in bare hands, some hold a big stick, and urge them from behind, iron beds and copper pillars, burning holes, force this person, hug and lie on it, and go to them. Scorched and rotten, recovered and revived;

...or the sword tree is tall and broad, with no limit, the roots, branches and leaves are all made by the sword, and everyone is in harmony with each other, climbing and climbing by themselves. When Tai saw his grandparents and second brother in prison, they wept.When Tai came out of the prison gate, he saw two people with documents and came to talk to the jailer. He said that there were three people, and his family would hang streamers and burn incense in the pagoda temple for him, so as to save his crime and leave the blessing house.I saw three people came out of the prison, already with natural clothes, intact, and a gate in the south, named Kaiguang Dashe. ...

After the Thai case is completed, it will be returned to the water official. ... The master said, "You have no crimes, so you have made me the governor of the water officer. No, it is no different from the people in hell." Tai asked the master, "What can a person do so that death will be rewarded with happiness?" The master only said, "Following the Dharma disciples diligently upholding the precepts, they will be rewarded with happiness, and there will be no punishment." Taifu asked, "Can the crimes committed by people before practicing the Dharma be eliminated after practicing the Dharma?" The answer was, "All are eliminated." After finishing speaking, the master opened the Teng case to check Tai's age, and there were still thirty years left, so he sent Tai back. ...

It was July 13th in the fifth year of Jin Taishi. ... ("Zhulin" VII, "Guangji" three hundred and seventy-seven) As Buddhism spreads gradually, the number of scriptures is increasing day by day, and miscellaneous theories are also rising day by day. Although those who hear it may realize impermanence and return to it, they may also fear impermanence and leave.In this reaction, some alchemists also forged their own forged scriptures, and wrote many absurd records, using the way of longevity and long-term vision, to snare those who escaped from suffering and emptiness in the world. Except for the writings of one or two literati, the rest of the Han novels are all covered. .Alchemists wrote books, most of them entrusted the names of ancient people, so it is said that there are not many authors from Jin and Song Dynasties, but those who quoted "Shen Yi Ji" (5) in similar books were written by Taoist Wang Fu.Fu, a native of Jin; there is a superficial name, that is, during the reign of Emperor Hui (the end of the third century to the beginning of the fourth century), he and Bo Yuan resisted the theory repeatedly, and then changed the "Western Regions" to create Lao Tzu's "Ming Wei Hua Hu Jing" [6 ] (see Tang Shifalin's "Debate on Zhengzheng" VI).Its records seem to also talk about gods and ghosts, such as "Dong Ming" and "Lie Yi".

Chen Min, the prefect of Jiangxia in Sun Hao's life, went to work since Jianye, and heard that Gongting and Miaoyan (original note Yunyan said it was effective), and begged to be stable in office, and became a silver staff. When the time limit expired, I made a stick and planned to return it to the temple, hammered iron to dry it, and painted it with silver.Xun Zheng is a regular attendant on scattered horses, goes to the palace pavilion, sends the stick to the temple, and then enters the road.In the evening, the descendant witch said, "Chen Min promised me a silver stick, and now I see you with a painted stick, so I throw it into the water and pay it back. The crime of deception cannot be tolerated!" So he took the silver stick and looked at it. In the cross-section, you can see the iron trunk, which is placed in the lake.The staff floated on the water, and it was as fast as flying. When it reached the Min boat, the Min boat capsized. ("Taiping Yulan" seven hundred and ten)

Danqiu gives birth to big tea, and serving it gives birth to wings. ("Shi Lei Fu" Note 16) "Supplementary Relics" has ten volumes, written by Wang Jia in Longxi, Jin Dynasty, and recorded by Liang Xiaoqi. In "Book of Jin" and "Biography of Art", there are Wang Jia, Lueyun, Zi Nian, a native of Xi'an, Longan, who first hid in Dongyang Valley, and then entered Chang'an. The prophecy was rarely known at that time.Yao Chang entered Chang'an and forced Jia to follow him. Later, he lost his mind in answering questions and was killed by Chang (about 390).Jiachang wrote the "Three Songs of Prophecy" [7], and also wrote ten volumes of "Supplementary Records".The person who passed on the "Supplements of Relics" said that Gai Jijin recorded it. There was a preface by Xiao Qi in front of it. There were nineteen volumes of the book and two hundred and twenty chapters. Save the facts, combine them into one volume, all ten volumes.The first nine volumes of this book start from Pao Xi and end in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, while the last volume records Kunlun and other Nine Immortal Mountains, which is slightly different from the one in the preface, which says "the event ends at the end of the Western Jin Dynasty".His writing style is quite beautiful, but everything is unrealistic, and Xiao Qi's record is also attached. Hu Yinglin ("Bi Cong" 32) thinks that "the cover is written by Qi and entrusted to Wang Jia".

Shaohao, as King Jinde, whose mother is called Huang'e, lives in the Xuan Palace and weaves at night, or travels in the daytime on a tree, experiencing the poverty and vicissitudes of Pu.From time to time, there was a child prodigy with an uncommon appearance. He was called the son of Baidi, that is, the essence of Taibai.Poor mulberry, on the shore of the West Sea, there is a solitary mulberry tree, which goes straight up to Chihiro, with red mulberry and purple leaves, long live and one fruit, after eating it, it will grow old. ... The emperor and Huang'e sat side by side, caressing Tongfeng Zise, Huang'e leaned on the se and sang Qing, "The sky is clear and the earth is vast and vast, and all phenomena are thin and thin, and there is no way to see the sky. When the sun sets, when you are in the poor mulberry, you will know that the joy and happiness are still there." The common saying is that the place of recreation is in the middle of the mulberry, and the "Poetry" and "Wei Feng" say "I am in the middle of the mulberry", and it is like this. . ... and Huang'e gave birth to Shaohao, who was named Qiongsang, also known as Sangqiu.By the time of the Six Kingdoms, Sang Qiuzi wrote the Book of Yin and Yang, that is, the remaining descendants. ... (Volume 1) At the end of becoming emperor, Liu Xiang wrote to Tianlu Pavilion and specialized in Tan Si.At night, there was an old man wearing yellow clothes, planting a stick of green quinoa, climbing into the pavilion, and seeing the direction, sitting alone in the dark, reciting a book, the old man was blowing on the end of the stick, and the smoke was burning.Xiangyin received the five-element Hongfan's essays, and feared that the words would be too complicated to forget, so he tore the silk and the gentry, so as to remember his words, and left at dawn.Ask me for my name, and said, "I am the essence of Taiyi. The emperor of heaven heard that the son of Maojin has a learned man, and he came down to see it."It was a bamboo slip from Huaizhong, and there was a book of astronomical maps, "Yu Lue gave his son Yan".To Xiang Zixin, from Xiang to teach his skills.Xiang also didn't understand this person. (Volume 6) Dongting Mountain floats on the water, and there are hundreds of golden halls below it, where the jade girls live. The sound of gold, stone, silk and bamboo can be heard from the top of the mountain at four o'clock.At the time of King Huai of Chu, a group of talented people wrote poems in Shuimei. ...Houhuai Wang likes to enter the traitorous heroes, and the virtuous people flee.Qu Yuan was reprimanded by his loyalty. He hid in Yuanxiang, covered himself with grasses, mingled with animals, and did not deal with world affairs. He plucked cypresses and osmanthus ointment to nourish his mind and spirit. He was forced to go to Qingling water. Chu people Simu is called Narcissus.His spirit wandered in the Tianhe River, and when the elves descended to Xiangpu, the Chu people built a shrine for him, and it still exists at the end of the Han Dynasty. (Volume Ten) ※ ※ ※ 〔1〕Yan Zhitui (531-?) was born in Linyi (now Shandong) in Langya, Northern Qi Dynasty. At the beginning of his career in Liang, he entered the Northern Qi Dynasty as the servant of Huangmen, and died in Sui Kaihuang.He wrote three volumes of "The Chronicles of the Soul of Injustice" and "Sui Shu·Jing Ji Zhi", both of which are called "Returning the Injustices".The "Ji Ling Ji" mentioned below and the "Sui Shu·Jing Ji Zhi" recorded 20 volumes, which have been lost.There is a series of Lu Xun's "Ancient Novels Going Shen". 〔2〕The thirteen volumes of "Xuan Yan Ji" and "Sui Shu·Jing Ji Zhi" were written by Liu Yiqing and have been lost.There is a series of Lu Xun's "Ancient Novels Going Shen". [3] Wang Yan was born in Taiyuan (now Shanxi) in the Southern Qi Dynasty.Prince Qi gave up his family and entered Liang as Wu Xingling.The ten volumes of "Ming Xiang Ji" and "Sui Shu Jing Ji Zhi" written by him have been lost.There is a series of Lu Xun's "Ancient Novels Going Shen". [4] For Hou Bai, refer to the seventh chapter of this book.The "Jing Yi Ji" and "Sui Shu·Jing Ji Zhi" written in fifteen volumes have been lost.There is a series of Lu Xun's "Ancient Novels Going Shen". [5] "Shen Yi Ji" written by Wang Fu. "Sui Shu·Jing Ji Zhi" and two "Tang Zhi" are not recorded.The number of volumes is unknown.There is a series of Lu Xun's "Ancient Novels Going Shen". [6] Boyuan Buddhists.The common surname is Wan, and the character is Fazu. He was born in Hanei, Jin (now Biyang, Henan). He once lectured in Chang'an.Wang Fu debated with Boyuan and failed many times, so he entrusted Laozi to write "Mingwei Huahu Jing".According to "The Biography of the Western Regions", Buddhism is considered to be prior to Laozi, and the book narrates from Laozi to Kubin Guoyun: "How late I was born, how early the Buddha came out."Wang Fu's "Mingwei Huahu Jing" reversed it, saying that Laozi went to quicksand, became a floating map, and became a Buddha after death, thus forming Buddhism.This reflects the struggle between Buddhism and Taoism for the orthodox position. 〔7〕 "Three Songs of Prophecy" written by Jin Wang Jia, "Sui Shu·Jing Ji Zhi" and two "Tang Zhi" are not recorded, and have been lost. "Book of Jin·Wang Jia Chuan" contains: "The "Three Songs of Prophecy" created by him has been verified in the past, and it is still handed down for generations."
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