The Significance of Yi Jie Jin Lan

Make friends who hit it off. "Taiping Yu Lan" quoted: "Zhang Yi only set Wei, worshipped the corps commander, and hired Shu and Zhuge Liang to make friends." Zhang Wen Cai Ying was appointed as a corps commander and became a friend of Zhuge Liang.

The statement comes from Shi Shuo Xin Yu Yuan Xian, "Shan Gong and Ji, Ruan Fang, Jiruo. This statement probably comes from: "Yi Ci Shang", "Two people are together, and the benefits are broken; Words of one heart stink like blue. " What do you mean, that is to say, there is a deep friendship between friends. Later, according to these allusions, friends hit it off at first sight, and then they became brothers or sisters, which is the so-called Jin Lan (seven if Jin Lan).

In the past, it was the custom that after taking the oath of office, we would exchange music stickers, called music or blue music. Therefore, there is another saying called "changing stickers", which also means that the two became sworn brothers and tied Jin Lan.

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However, the famous "Yi Jie" Jin Lan in the history of China is the story of Liu Bei, Guan Yu and Zhang Fei becoming sworn brothers during the Three Kingdoms period. At that time, Liu Bei, Guan Yu and Zhang Fei became sworn brothers here. One was a weaver girl selling shoes, the other was selling beans and grain, and the other was killing pigs and selling meat. They are small businessmen at the bottom of society, and in the current words, they are grassroots.

After they became sworn brothers, they made great achievements through their indomitable joint efforts. One is called the emperor, and the other two are called Hou. Their fame has spread through the ages and is admired by future generations. Here, they changed the fate of their lives and laid a strong career foundation.

According to the custom, when you take the oath, write down the "Jin Lan Spectrum" with a pile of red paper, which contains everyone's name, birthday, time, place of origin and the names of parents, grandparents and great-grandfathers, then put it on the tablet of heaven and earth, burn incense and worship in turn according to their age, and read the oath together. For example, such promises are often seen in martial arts novels: "In the name of heaven, XXX and XXX are brothers with different surnames today. They don't want to be born on the same day in the same year, but they want to die on the same day in the same year."