Why did Wu Cheng'en write the lower bound of Kuimu Wolf thinking of worldly pleasures?

Text/Longmen Night Rain, Associate Professor of Fujian University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Master Supervisor.

Last year's Tanabata, the night rain in Longmen told the sad love stories of several fairies and mortals. In fact, the seventh day of July is still Lord Kuixing's Christmas.

Today, Longmen will talk to you about this Lord Kuixing.

Kuixing is the common name of Kuixing, one of the 28 places in ancient astronomy, and is the god who dominates the rise and fall of articles in Taoism. Kuixing's image is golden blue face, red hair, red eyes, and his head is covered with horns; Holding a brush in the right hand means "point admission"; Holding Mo Dou in the left hand means "a man of great talent"; The golden rooster on the right foot is independent, standing on the fish head, which means "pulling one hair and moving the whole body"; Lift your left foot and kick, and the whole image is a word "Kui".

Some readers may say that Emperor Wenchang is the god in charge of the world literary movement. In fact, Emperor Wenchang and Kuixing have a superior-subordinate relationship. Wenchang Emperor is equivalent to the Minister of Education, and Kuixing is equivalent to the Director of the High School Admissions Office. Emperor Wenchang's two attendants, Tian Deaf and Di Dumb, respectively, mean that the confidentiality of examination admission is very important.

In order to pray for high school, every year on the seventh day of July, a grand "Kuixing worship" activity will be held everywhere, and the custom has continued to this day.

In Fujian, on Qixi night, candidates and parents will set up incense tables in the yard to worship Kuixing. The main sacrifice is a cooked sheep head with beard and horns and a steamed double thorn? , meaning "solution (? , crab) yuan "; Longan, hazelnut and peanut are three kinds of dried fruits, meaning champion, runner-up and flower exploration; The rest of the tea, wine, incense, gold paper, etc. The sun, the moon and the stars meet and the candle flickers. The desire to be the first, the desire of students, is as heavy as smoke.

After the seventh day of the seventh lunar month, new students will soon enter school. On the morning of the seventh day of the seventh lunar month, a ceremony of "breaking the school" will be held in all parts of southern Fujian. The main offerings are two boiled eggs, two taro, a bowl of red glutinous rice balls, celery and shallots, and four thin bamboo tubes, one of which is wearing a wick, which means "Ming (onion) and diligence (celery)"; Remaining melons, fruits, sweets, etc. They are freely enshrined in front of Wenchang Emperor and Kuixing Icons.

The freshmen stood upright in front of them. The pedant threw two boiled eggs from the back of the newborn's crotch, and at the same time read: "Chaos, Gankun, hands open, agility and understanding"! Then, the freshmen kowtowed to the icon three times and burned gold paper firecrackers.

When Chen Shiqi visited Sichuan in the late Ming Dynasty, he saw the candidates rushing to buy clay figurines, so he called the candidates and made a couplet for them to come: "Sell Kuixing, buy Kuixing, don't buy at a loss, don't sell at a loss." None of the candidates can answer. After the exam, Chen himself said to the next couplet: "true rouge, false rouge, how to know the truth, how to know the truth." The examiner humorously told the candidates not to leave their fate to Kuixing, but to have real skills in order to get good grades.

Throughout his life, Wu Cheng'en has read extensively in Minhui since he was a child. However, he was frustrated repeatedly in the imperial examination until Jiajing made up the tribute students. Therefore, in The Journey to the West, he demonized Kuixing as Huang Paoguai who eloped to the world and forced the princess into exile.

According to legend, Su Dongpo is the reincarnation of Kuixing, and Xianyu is known as "double tone"? There is a saying, "Breaking the halberd and sinking the sand": "Tan breaks the yellow, Suzhou and Hangzhou. Talking and laughing about Huang Qiong, the moon is cold, the wind is clear in Chibi, and the honor and disgrace are forgotten. The Jade Emperor's golden lotus glows at night, and Zui Xiang's cloud shadow has green sleeves. A half-life maniac, a dragon snake, is an eternal article. But this "reincarnation of Kuixing" is also ill-fated.

It's a great chance that the night rain in Longmen feels that I've been studying hard in the cold window for twelve years and only saw it in two days.

While copying and applying knowledge, psychological quality and luck are equally important ―― Feng Tang is easy to get old, but Li Guang is hard to seal, and it laments that luck is bad.

Studying hard in the cold window 12 years or more requires not only learning knowledge, but also mastering the ability to remember, reproduce and use knowledge; Sharpen the psychological quality of keeping calm in the face of danger and constantly looking for hope in despair, which is the noble quality of erin brockovich.