Chapter 55 "Plum Blossom Poem": A Prophetic Poem of Legendary Characters

In the Northern Song Dynasty, there was a famous scholar and Yi scholar named Shao Yong, who wrote a collection of predictions with only ten poems——"Plum Blossom Poems". "Plum Blossom Poem" also occupies a very important position in the history of prophecy in ancient China. Its magic is not only from the prophecy of future generations, but also from the author Shao Yong himself. Shao Yong is a very talented person, but it just happened to him like the bad luck of literati.The times did not give him a good opportunity to display his talents, so Shao Yong is not well known to future generations.In addition to name and title, Shao Yong is definitely not a person who can be ignored in terms of knowledge and talent.There are also many stories about Shao Yong's magical calculations.

It is said that one winter evening, Shao Yong and some friends gathered around the fire for a night conversation, when they heard a knock on the door.What is strange is that the knock on the door rang for a while, and then five times in a row.Shao Yong opened the door, and the knocker claimed to borrow something from him.Shao Yong had a sudden whim and decided to make a divination for himself.After divination, he said that the person must have borrowed the axe.Friends expressed their disbelief after listening to it, so Shao Yong went to ask the visitor what he wanted to borrow, but he didn't expect that the other party's answer was really an axe.

All the friends were stunned by Shao Yong's ingenious calculation, and everyone hurriedly asked him how he calculated it.Shao Yong smiled and said unhurriedly: "The visitor knocked once for the first time. According to the calculation of Zhouyi, he got the upper hexagram Gan, and then knocked five times, and the lower hexagram was Xun. After the upper and lower hexagrams, the upper and lower hexagrams are obtained." Adding up the numbers makes the change line into four lines, so there are three Qian hexagrams in the original and mutual change hexagrams. The tree is long, so the neighbor borrowed this thing as an ax." This rather professional discussion convinced everyone for a while.

And when it comes to "Plum Blossom Poem", it was written by Shao Yong on a whim while admiring the flowers.Like other prophecies that have been handed down, Shao Yong also used extremely obscure language in "Plum Blossom Poems", which has many difficulties and obstacles in understanding.Moreover, a large part of "Plum Blossom Poems" is written for practitioners at home, so all living beings in the world are even more unintelligible. There are ten poems in "Plum Blossom Poems", which vaguely outline the great historical changes and dynasty changes in China since then.

After the publication of "Plum Blossom Poems", the evolution of history has confirmed the correctness of several prophecy poems, especially the first five prophecy poems, which are considered to be unmistakable prophecies. The first poem reads: "Dangdang Tianmen is open forever, how many people return and how many people come back. Although the mountains and rivers are not perfect, I don't believe that gold is a disaster." This poem is considered to be a sentence that predicted the change of Jingkang and the demise of the Northern Song Dynasty . "Dangdang Tianmen has been opened forever" refers to the Kaifeng Mansion, the capital of the Northern Song Dynasty, being pried open by the Jin people. The subsequent "How many people return and how many people come" describes the tragic situation of the Song people who were displaced after the invasion of foreign enemies. "Although the mountains and rivers are good, they are not perfect" obviously means that although the Song Dynasty still exists, it is no longer a complete world, and the world is changing. No one will believe that the Jin people will be the ethnic group that will eventually wipe out the Northern Song Dynasty.Therefore, the meaning of the last sentence "not believing in gold is a disaster" is self-evident.

The second poem reads: "A dream of lakes and mountains is nothing. Goodbye Yunlong flying north. For three hundred years, the sky is clear and the water is full of sighs." A vivid portrayal. After the fall of the Northern Song Dynasty, the court of the Southern Song Dynasty not only did not know self-reflection, but on the contrary only knew how to covet temporary enjoyment, so there was the saying "a dream in a lake and a mountain is nothing but nothing" at the beginning. "Yunlong flies to the north" refers to the signs of the true dragon emperor appearing in the north.At this time, on the Mongolian grasslands, there is a person who is trying his best to rule in order to unify China.This person is Genghis Khan.The demise of the Song Dynasty is no longer a secret, and the only problem left is time.When the Yuan army approached Lin'an, the emperor of the Song Dynasty was arrested, and the Song Dynasty was completely destroyed.The last sentence "Long sky and clear water sighs Mi Mi" describes even more miserable things.When the remnants of the Song Army were chased to the end by the Yuan Dynasty's chasing army, Prime Minister Lu Xiufu threw the 9-year-old Southern Song Emperor into the sea and died.

Since then, the world has changed dynasties, and the surname is no longer Zhao. The third prophecy poem is about the stone master of the Yuan Dynasty. The poem says: "The heaven and the earth multiplied by the original, and suddenly the Jiazi rejuvenated the Yuan. The universe changes in twenty-eight years, and I will never say anything after seeing all the remaining flowers." "Heaven and earth multiplied by one original" means that there will be a great change in the world.The first word "hu" in the second sentence "Suddenly meets Jiazi and Xingyuan" refers to Kublai Khan, the ancestor of the Yuan Dynasty, and "Xingyuan" refers to the rise of the Yuan Dynasty.The year when Kublai Khan ascended the throne and proclaimed himself emperor was the Jiazi year of the lunar calendar.The subsequent "Nianhua 28 Qiankun Reform" means that after the Yuan Dynasty ruled the world for 80 years, it will surely experience another change of the universe.It took a total of 88 years from the death of the Song Dynasty to the death of the Yuan Dynasty. It was not until Zhu Yuanzhang established the Ming Dynasty that the ending of "seeing all the remaining flowers and never saying anything" appeared.

The fourth poem reads: "After all, the hero wears common clothes, and the wealthy family is not the old Huangji. It is common for swallows to fly, but it is no longer common for Li Huachun to bloom." Obviously, this poem is talking about the state affairs of the Ming Dynasty. "Heroes pick up commoners" undoubtedly shows that the founding emperor of the dynasty came from ordinary people, and Zhu Yuanzhang was not only a commoner, but also a beggar who had nothing.He was not a famous family in Gyeonggi, but he was able to rule the world, so he said that "Zhumen is not the old Huangji".But not long after, Zhu Di, king of Yan, tried to usurp the throne, so the "common event of flying swallows" was not an unreasonable prophecy. This historical event was called the "Battle of Jingnan" by later generations. One of the most representative prophecies in the "Plum Blossom Poem" prophecy.Until the last sentence "It is no longer blooming until Li Huachun", which directly points out the demise of the Ming Dynasty. "Li Hua" is inseparable from Li Zicheng who rebelled against King Chuang. It was Li Zicheng's peasant uprising army that completely ended the dream of Emperor Chongzhen.

By the time of the fifth poem, "Plum Blossom Poem" has already written the span of time into the Qing Dynasty.The poem reads: "Hu'er rode a horse to Chang'an, and opened up the Central Plains with a wide sea. The floods are calming down and the floods are rising. Qingguang should look to Hanzhong."The "Hu'er" in the first two sentences is obviously a derogatory term for the ethnic minorities. If "Hu'er rides to Chang'an on horseback", the world must belong to the ethnic minorities in the north. "Opening up the Central Plains to widen the sea" more directly pointed out that the Qing Dynasty's unification of the world is the general trend.But the last two sentences span the entire history of the Qing Dynasty, focusing on the two uprisings that overthrew the Qing Dynasty. "Flood at first level and flood rise" refers to the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Movement led by Hong Xiuquan, and "Hanzhong" in "Qingguangyi looks at Hanzhong" indicates the location of the Wuchang Uprising.Of these two uprisings, one severely damaged the vitality of the Qing Dynasty, and the other ended the feudal monarchy that had lasted for thousands of years.

So far, in the long history from the Song Dynasty to the fall of the Qing Dynasty, "Plum Blossom Poems" tells about the changes of the dynasty in a leisurely manner. The author Shao Yong seems to be narrating the past of his own family, completely including the history of later generations in his own prophecy. . Another thing I have to say is that the last poem of "Plum Blossom Poems" also mentions a world of Datong.It is written in the poem: "Counting the plum blossoms in the world and spring, I want to peel them off and ask about the previous causes. There is a day of peace in the world, and the four seas are home and who is the guest of honor." It means that in a certain day in the future, there will be a Datong At that time, the brothers of the four seas will all be one family, and that is where the real ultimate dream lies.

However, "Plum Blossom Poem" is also considered by many people to be a far-fetched poem, which has nothing to do with prophecy. Whether the ten poems in "Plum Blossom Poems" and the beautiful dreams that have not yet been realized are right or wrong, I am afraid that in the hearts of a thousand people, there will be a thousand different concepts, which happens to be the charm of the prophetic poem itself.