's " Tang Dynasty Weird Stories " has made Tang Zhiguai and Tang Legend two very important sources of Chinese literary traditions to be paid attention to again.
's original work and screenwriter Wei Fenghua confessed that when creating, he referenced a lot of Tang Zhiwei and Tang legendary works, including "Youyang Zazu", " Xuanweilu ", " Continuation Xuanweilu " , " Unique Zhi ", " Ji Yi Ji ", "Bo Yi Zhi", "Ganze Ballad", "Sanshui Xiaoshu" and so on. It is these anecdotes and stories that have been passed down through the ages that allow us to re-acquaint ourselves with a phantom "dark" Datang in addition to Tang poetry.
Today, let's take a look at these Tang Dynasty real and strange things that are more bizarre than TV series!
Disguise
"Chang'an Black Tea" in the opening chapter of "Tang Wei", in addition to the "old stalk" of human blood tea making, the disguise art of Yin Julang and Eleven Niang is also stunned.
For a long time, senior sisters thought that "Transfiguration" was the favorite of popular martial arts novels. Who knew that in the Tang Dynasty more than 1,000 years ago, there were already gods who used this extremely mysterious magic skill freely. According to
's "Single Yizhi", there was a man named Zhao Yun who was usually talkative, but he got into trouble.
On this day, Zhao Yun went to a friend's house to play. This friend happened to be the magistrate of the Judiciary and was trying the case. Zhao Yun added fuel and jealousy to the side to make his friend punish him severely, which caused the prisoner to suffer a lot of slaps, and almost lost his life.
A few years later, Zhao Yun, who had long forgotten about this incident, met a person at Luziguan (now Jingbian County, Shaanxi Province) and invited him to be a guest at his house. Zhao Yun felt that this person was very familiar, so he happily went to the appointment. The two walked around to a secret manor. After closing the door, the man asked Zhao Yun with a smile: Do you still remember me? It was only then that Zhao Yun remembered that this person was the prisoner back then!
Next, this person threw Zhao Yun into the wine pool for a few days, and then disguised him. The key point of the operation is to squeeze and twist the acupuncture points through acupuncture point and massage, causing the facial features to be distorted and deformed to achieve the effect of changing the face.
Zhao Yun, who was "successful" in disguise, looked completely different from the outside, and ended up being sold as a slave.
Later, officers and soldiers raided the manor and caught the mysterious manor owner. According to his account, the art of disguising is an ancestral stunt. Using this method to "manufacture" and sell slaves is what his family has done for several generations.
Tushen
The "Tuoshen" in "Tang Wei" is a human pretending to be a crocodile, while the Tuoshen in "Douyizhi" is a crocodile turned into a human!
said that there was a man named Li Sandpiper—yes, the one that Dad Cherry impersonated in the play—was appointed as the prefect of Shaozhou (now Yuanqu County, Shanxi Province). On the way to his post, Li Sandpiper was attracted by the scenery of a large lake, so he stopped ashore to enjoy it. It happened to be summer, and Li Sandpiper suddenly had a nosebleed while walking, and the nosebleed dripped onto the beach by the lake, but Li Sandpiper didn't care.
Who knows that behind him, a Jiang Tu crawled out of the lake, quietly licked Li Sandpiper's nosebleed clean, and then slowly stood up on his hind legs, becoming a person exactly like Li Sandpiper!
Next, Jiang Tuo performed a magic trick, first letting Li Sandpiper pull the green onions from the dry land, and then quickly plunged into the lake. In the last second before sinking into the water, Li Sandpiper smiled strangely when he saw Jiang Tuo, who had transformed into himself.
At this time, the wife of the Li family came to look for her husband. After seeing the fake Li Sandpiper, she happily took his hand and returned to the boat together and continued onward. Soon, Shaozhou arrived, and the fake Li Sandpiper, a Jiang Tuo, started a new life.
Although Jiang Tuo is a beast, he is still a good inspector. He not only works hard, but also has a very harmonious relationship with his subordinates and family members. It's just that the people of Shaozhou gradually discovered that the new governor has a hobby - he likes swimming, and he swims very fast and very well. A few years later, Ye Jingneng, a top Taoist in the Tang Dynasty, also known as Ye Tianshi in folklore, traveled to Chang'an from the place where he practiced in Luofu Mountain, Guangdong by the edict of Emperor Xuanzong of Tang Dynasty. When passing by Dongting Lake, I found a man lying beside the lake with his hands and feet tied, and his whole body was wet. This man was the real Li Sandpiper!
After listening to the description of Zhen Li Sandpiper, Ye Tianshi got angry from his chest, immediately took out a talisman and stuck it on the boulder by the lake, and started chanting the mantra. I saw the boulder flying up and down, and I couldn't see it in an instant.
On Shaozhou's side, Governor Jiang Tuo was working at his desk when suddenly a boulder fell from the sky and smashed him right in the face. The subordinates who heard the sound were surprised to find that a dying crocodile under the boulder was wagging its tail weakly.
Since then, a custom has spread among the people: when rowing a boat, you must not let your blood drop into the water or on the shore, otherwise you will suffer misfortune.
mask
In the nightmare case "Huangmei Killing", in order to lure thieves, Xi Jun and Xue Huan disguised themselves as two girls and walked on the mountain road wearing a mask.
Tang Dynasty women liked to wear a veil when going out, also known as a long veil. The length of the veil reaches the chest, and there are drapes on both sides to the waist, which is elegant and beautiful.
However, since the purpose of the veil is to cover the face, and whether there are angels, mortals, or evil spirits behind it, it is absolutely unclear until the veil is taken off, so in the legend of the monster, the veil is often depicted as a Spooky and terrifying props. The key point is that the people of the Tang Dynasty also liked to wear masks for the deceased, usually white gauze. "Ji Yi Ji" records: In the summer of the fifteenth year of Tang Yuanhe (820 AD), Emperor Xianzong, who was killed by eunuchs in the inner court, was buried in Jingling Mausoleum. On the day of the funeral, officials and citizens blocked the entire Chang'an City. The wife of former Jizhou (now Nanjiang County, Sichuan Province) Sima Pei Tongyuan, along with her four daughters and a maid, also crowded into the crowd to see the emperor off.
Seeing that it was getting late, Mrs. Sima decided to go home. When walking to Pingkangfang North Street, Mrs. Sima suddenly found an old lady with white hair following the carriage. The strange thing is that if the carriage is fast, the old lady goes fast; if the carriage is slow, the old lady also goes slow.
It was already dark at this time, and Mrs. Sima felt that it was inconvenient for the old lady to walk on the road alone, so she took the initiative to invite her to the car. At first, the old lady refused in every possible way, but then she couldn't resist Mrs. Sima's kindness and got in the car.
Along the way, the old lady and the four daughters of the Sima family chatted enthusiastically, but Mrs. Sima felt a wave of unease and a chill that seemed to be getting colder. Finally, the old lady's home arrived. After getting off the bus, the old lady quickly disappeared into the night in Chang'an.
At this time, the daughter of Pei's family found that the old lady had left a bag on the carriage, opened it, and found that there were four white silk robes for the deceased! The women in the car were frightened, and hurriedly threw their masks and baggage outside the car.
A few days later, there was the sad news that the four young daughters of the Sima family had died one after another...
Wei Fenghua said that most of the fairy spirits, rare plants and strange beasts, and magic tricks in "Tang Wei" can be used in Tang Dynasty. Find clues in Zhiguai and Tang legends.
For example, "Human Mianhua" is a strange flower that grows in the valley 2,000 miles southwest of Dashi Country; the black bee in "Shiqiao Tu" is the "combination of two poisonous insects" in "Youyang Zazu". ”; Another example is the wooden bird in “Tower of the Sky”, which is inspired by the story of abducting a girl with the help of a wooden crane in “Xiaoxiang Lu”.
, including the "think tank responsible" in the 6-person detective team, Fei Jiji also has a prototype!
According to "Youyang Zazu", Master Fei Ji is from Sichuan, and he is good at medical skills. When
sees a doctor, he often puts a chicken by his side, and asks the patient to hold a stone like an egg, and then begins to "step on the gas" - my sister understands whether it is similar to some kind of qigong. When the chicken died, the stone was broken, and the patients recovered miraculously, so they were called "chicken masters" - my sister thought, maybe it was a homonym of the word "chicken stone".
thinks back to the Tang Dynasty a thousand years ago, when all nations came to the DPRK, and the world was ceremonious, and it was a well-deserved center of the world. The abundance of material life and the fusion of diverse cultures gave birth to the extremely gorgeous and imaginative imaginations of the people of the Tang Dynasty.
also thanks the "Tang Wei" team for creating an alternative Tang Dynasty full of ancient meanings with visual language! At the same time looking forward to the second season of "Tang Wei"!
