Guide to Traveling through the Northern Song Dynasty.

Chapter 114 0109 [Dedicate Journey to the West to Song Huizong? 】

On the second day, Zhu Ming moved from the dormitory of the students in the foreign dormitory to the VIP dormitory with his entourage.

They live next door to Chen Yuan, and they share a yard.

Chen Yuan also had followers, and there were four of them.

Among the four relatives, only one has studied, and the remaining three are all bodyguards.

No way, he first went from Fujian to Jiangdong, then from Jiangdong to Lianghuai, then went to the Central Plains and Guanzhong, and now he came to Hanzhong again.If there were no bodyguards around, he would have been robbed by bandits long ago.

What's more, people need to carry luggage and travel.

The three bodyguards were practicing gun sticks. Bai Sheng and Shi Biao were eager to see them, and couldn't help but want to ask them about their martial arts.

So, these five rough men got together, wielding knives and sticks all day long, feeling uncomfortable.

Bai Sheng learns things very quickly, and he can understand all kinds of moves and skills at a glance.But he couldn't calm down, practiced and practiced, and felt a little clear, so he had to stop to rest and chat nonsense with the three bodyguards.

Shi Biao was just the opposite, it was difficult to learn the moves, but it was even more difficult to comprehend the tricks of the moves.What Bai Sheng learned in 10 minutes, he had to ponder over there for two or three days, leaving Chen Yuan's three bodyguards speechless.

On the fourth day, before Chen Yuan finished his article, he plunged into the library of the academy.

However, "Journey to the West" spread first, and the manuscript was divided into more than ten copies, and a group of foreign students took turns reading it.There are even people who are keen on novels, and they light up lamps at night to copy, hoping to copy the entire "Journey to the West".

This matter was quickly discovered by the principal.

One of Min Wenwei's hobbies is visiting the academy.When he meets a student who works hard, he will praise and encourage him; when he meets a student who is playing, he can reprimand him for half an hour without repeating the criticism.

At night, patrol from the upper house to the inner house, and then from the inner house to the outer house.

It was already Haishi, and he found that there were three dormitories, and the lights were still on.

Min Wenwei walked to the door of the room and peeked in through the crack of the door.I saw four foreign students in the room, three of them were studying, and one was writing an article.

Poor students also know how to work hard?

Min Wenwei felt very relieved, if everyone could study hard until late at night, how could they worry about not being able to improve their knowledge?Yangzhou Academy will be able to produce Scholars again!

I went to another dormitory to take a peek, and found three people studying in it.

It is not easy for poor students to learn, and Min Wenwei is not going to disturb him.He was about to leave silently when he suddenly heard someone in the room say, "Why haven't you finished watching? I've been waiting for an hour!"

In the Song Dynasty, there were two timekeeping systems, the twelve o'clock was the big hour, and the 24 o'clock was the hour.

"Wait a minute, I'll re-read it and I'm almost done."

"Rewatch it again? You bird man!"

"Hey, hey, don't grab it, be careful that the manuscript is torn."

"Hurry up and hand it over!"

"..."

Min Wenwei felt something was wrong, no matter how eager to learn, he wouldn't be fighting for books, right?
"Bang bang bang!"

Min Wenwei said in a deep voice, "Open the door!"

The room was instantly quiet, the oil lamp was blown out, and the four students lay down on the bed as quickly as possible.

"Open the door!" Min Wenwei yelled again.

Suddenly there was snoring in the room, and one after another, the snoring sounded like thunder, one after another.

Min Wenwei said angrily: "If you don't open the door again, you will be expelled from the academy!"

The snoring stopped, and the door opened.

Min Wenwei said, "Take it out!"

The four students quickly fetched books, all of which were sage books such as "Mencius" and "The Analects of Confucius".

Min Wenwei just sneered, walked straight in, took out a stack of novel manuscripts from under the pillow, and asked, "Do you want me to search for it myself?"

The students had to hand over the remaining manuscripts, waiting to be scolded in fear.

Min Wenwei said, "Go to bed early!"

The four students rushed to the bed as if they were being pardoned.

Min Wenwei went to the other two dormitories, confiscated all the novel manuscripts, and returned to his room full of anger.

"Palm the lamp!"

At an order, the servant lit the oil lamp.

The novel manuscripts were glued together by the students with rice, each chapter was glued into a copy, and each copy was numbered.

Min Wenwei put them away according to the number, and then turned on the lamp to read at night. He wanted to have a good look at what could make students forget to eat and sleep.

The opening chapter was changed by Zhu Ming. First it wrote about Pangu opening the sky, then Gonggongtou touched Buzhou Mountain, and then Nuwa refining five-color stones to mend the sky.A five-color stone was left in the world, and in the Aolai country of the East China Sea, a congenital stone monkey was born.

When he first read it, Min Wenwei was full of disdain, and felt that such words were unsightly.

With a critical eye, Min Wenwei continued to read.As he read, the oil lamp gradually dimmed, so he lighted it up.At the end of reading, I simply changed a wick.

"Whoa!"

A cock crowed, and Min Wenwei woke up suddenly, and found that he saw three or four o'clock in the middle of the night.

He quickly turned on the lamp to sleep, his mind was full of Monkey King.

In the early morning of the next day, the head of the mountain was still sleeping soundly. For the first time, he did not visit the campus on time.

Min Wenwei finally woke up around eight o'clock in the morning.Dress and wash, go to school first, then go to have breakfast, and then hurry back to the house...read a novel.

The legendary novels of the Song Dynasty are all short stories. In terms of literariness, they are not even as good as the legendary novels of the Tang Dynasty.

There are also some story books, except for opera lovers, no one reads them, because they can watch the opera directly.

When the novel "Journey to the West" was brought to the Song Dynasty, it was like a sci-fi blockbuster in the 21st century, thrown in front of the audience in the era of black and white silent films.Even a great Confucian could not bear that kind of impact, let alone a small headmaster.

Day and night, I read it for several days in a row.

Min Wenwei finally finished "Journey to the West", and felt that the aftertaste was long, so he opened it and reread it.And I also picked up the brush, made annotations while reading, and wrote down my reading reflections.

From the Song Dynasty to the Ming Dynasty, the mainstream thought of Confucianism was against Buddhism.

Especially Neo-Confucians and Psychologists, when they were local officials, more than one or two destroyed Buddhist temples.The temples, wood and stone materials that were not approved by the imperial court were demolished to build schools, and all the temple fields were confiscated and replaced with school fields.

But if you don't know the Buddha, how can you avoid the Buddha?

The more ruthless the great Confucians who are against Buddhism, the deeper their understanding of Buddhism, and their Buddhist attainments can not even lose to eminent monks.

On the mountain where Yangzhou Academy is located, there is a temple nearby.After Min Wenwei's uncle was dismissed and returned to his hometown, he also carved inscriptions for the temple and even donated money to build a new temple.

Although Chen Yuan criticized Wang Anshi for advocating Buddhism, he often visited Buddhist temples and studied Buddhist scriptures no less than Wang Anshi.

The same is true of Ercheng, criticizing Su Shi for advocating Buddhism, they are also studying Buddhist scriptures themselves.

The difference is that Er Cheng, Yang Shi, and Chen Yuan only read Buddhist scriptures and would not introduce Buddhism into Confucianism.Su Shi and Wang Anshi, however, quoted a lot of Buddhist theories and used them as nourishment for Confucianism.

When Min Wenwei read "Journey to the West" for the second time, he was very keenly aware that this is not a novel about Buddhism, but about the unity of the three religions!

The color of Taoism is too strong, although he still can't understand many contents.

The story of the original "Journey to the West" had already taken shape in the Yuan Dynasty, but there must have been substantial additions and deletions in the future.The version that was finally handed down to later generations contained a large amount of Quanzhen teaching ideas, and even more than a dozen poems in the book were directly copied from the Quanzhen Taoist scriptures, and more poems were written according to the Taoist scriptures.

Therefore, some scholars infer that "Journey to the West" spanned as long as 200 years from the formation of the story to the final draft.During this period, several authors made additions and deletions, and the final drafter was probably Yan Xiyan, the founder of the Quanzhen Sect of Yan Zu.

The author of "Journey to the West" is signed "Master of Huayang Dongtian", and Huayang Dongtian is the Maoshan Mountain where Yan Xiyan made his way.

Although Zhu Ming changed some plots, he copied the poems in the novel intact.Min Wenwei has also read Taoist scriptures, and since the visual sense is too strong, after repeated reading, he suspects that the author of the novel is a Taoist priest.

Moreover, he was still a Taoist priest who preached the unity of the three religions—the Quanzhen religion had not yet been established at this time.

Calling the students who were peeking at the novel, Min Wenwei patted the manuscript and asked, "Where did this book come from?"

A student bit the bullet and said, "It was written by Nazhu Chenggong."

Min Wenwei was obviously taken aback for a moment, then started thinking, and said with a sneer: "It is unimaginable for a young man to be able to understand the three classics. How can he have time to read the Taoist scriptures? It must have been written by his father, and he preached Taoism through the mouth of his son. "

Another student couldn't help asking: "Shan Zhang, isn't Journey to the West about Buddha?"

"Buddhist skin, Taoist bone, Confucian soul," Min Wenwei opened the manuscript with notes, "It is clearly written in it. The Bodhi Patriarch here said, 'Talk about Taoism for a while, and Zen for a while, the three schools of thought work together'. And Here, "respect the monks, respect the Tao, and cultivate talents", isn't it talking about the integration of the three religions? There are many such descriptions in the books. You have little knowledge, you only know how to read stories, but you don't know what is said in it. what?"

The students couldn't answer the conversation, they just felt that the novel seemed very profound.

Min Wenwei also said: "You can't read such novels, and you certainly can't understand them. When you succeed in your studies and become an official in the imperial examination, you can read them during your studies. Go ahead and study hard from now on."

The students retreated in panic, and then asked around, who still copied the manuscript in private.

You copied a little, I copied a little, the students pieced together, and only pieced together half of "Journey to the West".

Min Wenwei sighed alone: ​​"The Zhu family and his son are not ordinary people!"

He has read the couplets written by Zhu Ming, and he admires them very much. He is now having craftsmen carve them, and they will be hung at the main entrance of the academy from now on.

And Zhu Ming's little-known father is not only a hermit Confucianist, but also a Buddhist and Taoist. I am afraid that he belongs to a man like Yichuan Weng (Shao Yong).

Min Wenwei is actually very tolerant towards academics, the premise is not to talk nonsense in front of his students.As long as it doesn't affect students' reading, Taoism and Buddhism have nothing to do with him. When his uncle carved inscriptions for Buddhist temples, he was still helping grind ink on the spot.

Calling his nephew again, Min Wenwei asked, "What are Mr. Chen and Zhu Chenggong doing these days?"

Min Zishun replied: "Going in and out of the library in the morning, and talking about learning in the afternoon, Mr. Chen's article has not yet been written. I wrote it several times, but I tore it up and discarded it, saying that I am not satisfied."

"They write an article, come and tell the old man immediately!" Min Wenwei ordered.

Then, this guy started to revise the manuscript, deleting and modifying the plot of the Jade Emperor running away in fright to make it more positive.It is said that Monkey King hit the Nantian Gate, but he was unable to enter the Lingxiao Palace at all.

The plot revised by Zhu Ming was changed by Min Wenwei... just to avoid breaking the taboo of the Tian Family.

After correcting the manuscript, Min Wenwei went down the mountain with his entourage and went straight to Zhizhou's mansion.

Last year Song Huizong ordered to search for precious Taoist scriptures across the country.

Min Wenwei has no precious Taoist scriptures, but he thinks "Journey to the West" can replace it.This book is a book of Buddha's skin, Taoism, Confucianism and soul. Officials will definitely like it after reading it, and maybe they can give him a small official.

The Min family must have more officials. Now there are only a few yin officials and tribute officials, not even a serious Jinshi officer.

He also dreamed of becoming an official, as long as he became an official, he would be free and easy in an instant, and he would no longer stick to the righteous way or evil way.He has lived in the academy for more than [-] years, he has had enough of it!

(End of this chapter)