Anecdotes of Beggars' Sect

All walks of life have their grandfathers, and beggars' gangs are no exception. Fan Dan, Zhu Yuanzhang, Song Wu, Qin Qiong and Wu Zixu. He was respected as the founder by the disciples of the Beggars' Sect, among whom he was the most "mighty" because he saved Kong's life. It is said that Confucius stopped cooking when he was in the state of Chen, and the relief he received would not starve to death. Therefore, beggars in later generations worshipped Fan Dan as their ancestor. They went door to door to beg for food from merchants who posted Spring Festival couplets on their doors, in order to get back a little favor for their ancestors from Confucius' disciples and grandchildren. Fan Dan in the Eastern Han Dynasty was a famous poor Han in history, and he also had contacts with Confucius in the Spring and Autumn Period. Of course, this is the result of rumors. There are more and more beggars who worship Zhu Yuanzhang in modern times. Zhu Yuanzhang was the first emperor of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Hongwu. He was lonely when he was a child and was sent to Huang Jue Temple as a monk. However, the ill-fated Zhu Yuanzhang was expelled from the temple and reduced to begging from house to house. It is said that it started when he hit a cow bone. People in poor families call the ox bone "Taiping Drum" with thirteen small bronze bells on it. According to legend, one bronze bell can eat one province and thirteen bronze bells can eat thirteen provinces all over the country. At that time, Zhu Hongwu went north to Beijing to take the exam, but failed to become famous. On the way, he suddenly fell ill with typhoid fever. Fortunately, he was saved by a poor family. When he became emperor, Zhu Hongwu issued a decree. Since then, beggars have used the Taiping Drum with thirteen bronze bells. Another rap flower drum begging originated from Zhu Hongwu's intention to restore the vitality of his hometown Fengyang after pacifying the world. One hundred and forty thousand rich people who migrated to the south of the Yangtze River all lived in Fengyang, and those who returned privately were strictly guilty. Due to years of war and barren fields, many people in Fengyang were displaced and became beggars. Therefore, the rich people in the south of the Yangtze River who moved here will pretend to be poor people every winter and sneak back to their original places by begging. Over time, they actually became beggars. A flower drum ballad sings well: "Fengyang used to be a good place. Since the birth of Zhu Yuanzhang, there have been nine years of famine in ten years. I have taken up the flower drum and traveled around the world. "

In times of peace when food and clothing are plentiful, it is not difficult for poor families to make a living in the kitchens of rich families, or even to pack up the kitchen leftovers and take them away. At wedding banquets and festivals, rap can make people laugh, please them with some auspicious jingles, and even win drinks or rewards for a long time. When a beggar has to learn from his teacher, the beggar head has unlimited authority and is responsible for the distribution of the site. If a little beggar fails to cash his head on time, he is beaten and scolded, driven out of the construction site to become a beggar, or even lynched in a gang, it is not uncommon to lose his life. Therefore, "a stick on a high mountain will live for a while." Beggars along the street are called Huaer Beggars, regardless of gender, age, lameness, blindness and deafness. Beggar organizations have strict portals and branches, including martial arts and literary works; There are street beggars, nail-headed beggars, stigma beggars, snakehead beggars and so on. In martial arts, even they insist on evil forms; There are beggars in literary works (playing Taiping drum, playing bamboo board to count treasures, singing flower drums and so on). ), beggars who play music, beggars who mourn. Beggars' bad habits are occasionally seen in dynasties. Every year in February and August of the lunar calendar, or during the Dragon Boat Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival and Lunar New Year; Beggars openly led groups of beggars into the city and demanded fees from merchants in the market. Every shop that accepts donations, beggars will "give the shop a gourd-shaped piece of paper and hand it to the door, which reads' Cover the door'. Where is the gate, beggars can't get in. Its text has the following words:' Brothers are not allowed to disturb', or there are no words, only symbols. Since the store posted this paper, the beggar saw it and looked away. " Sticking a beggar's note in red paper and black on the gate ensures that no beggar dares to come to the door for blackmail on weekdays, just as effective as sticking a door to exorcise ghosts.

If you meet a family that refuses to pay the beggar's donation, the beggar's head will order a group of beggars to come to the door all day and insist on it, which will make the family restless and the dog restless. You must compromise. In order to prevent them from making trouble, the government usually turns a blind eye to them, because they are not only large in number, but also not afraid of being caught for public meals. Therefore, beggars take their disciples door to door to collect donations from beggars every season. Usually, when there are weddings, funerals and happy events, you reach out and ask for pleasing money. As the gang became more and more organized, the big beggar became the leader, drawing boundaries and dividing the territory to prevent the hungry and poor from occupying the dock. In order to do a good job in public relations with local governments, it is customary to divide beggars' donations into five parts: the first part is beggars' donations, the third part is beggars' donations, and the other part is of course used to honor local officials. Beggars' Sect is one of the most common gang organizations in martial arts novels, which is characterized by its large number, wide distribution and great influence. Therefore, it is called the biggest gang in the world. All beggars belong to the beggars' gang. It is a well-known rightist organization in the Jianghu, because it destroys the strong, helps the weak, and emphasizes commitment and trustworthiness. Because the geographical distribution is wide, there are many eyeliner, and the eyes and ears are well informed; Therefore, he is quite good at collecting enemy information and transmitting information. Usually, the leaders of beggars' gangs have superb martial arts passed down from generation to generation, among which the most famous are "dog stick" and "Beating dragons with eighteen palms"; Other beggars have different martial arts. People who play with snakes are good at poisoning, while people who drink may be able to exert their "magic power of drinking rain". The beggars in the novel are well organized. Under the leader, there are several elders, as well as helmsman and incense master. Another person said that beggars' gang leaders are graded according to the number of packages, and the more packages, the higher the seniority. Beggars' guild leader is not only top-notch in martial arts, but also first-class in moral integrity. He is recognized as a hero in white.

When beggars go out to beg, they take an extra dog stick in their hands to prevent vicious dogs from attacking them. Dog stick is flexible and changeable, which is a skill developed from the actual life experience of fighting dogs. There is another saying about the origin of this dog stick: The poles used by beggars in the capital were handed down from generation to generation by Zhu Yuanzhang. When Zhu Yuanzhang was poor and begging in the street, he got the help of two beggars. When Zhu Yuanzhang pacified the four seas, he did not forget Gail's past kindness. He ordered to look for them and called them into the palace to raise them. When beggars refused to be officials, Zhu Yuanzhang gave each of them a stick a foot long. The stick is wrapped in cloth and has spikes hanging down; One stick is yellow and the other is blue; Name: "Pole". Later, this pole became a symbol of beggars' authority. Poles are usually painted red, covered with a red silk bag, and hung high in the home of the gang leader or the most conspicuous place in the gang stronghold. When the new leader succeeds, he must kowtow to the portrait of his grandfather and this stick. If there is a new beggar, he must kowtow to the stick first. Because the pole is inconvenient to carry, sometimes beggars will use a very thick and long pipe to represent their authority. Perhaps because there are two legendary poles, yellow and blue, the two major sects of Beijing Beggars' Sect are named after them. "Huang Ji" belongs to "Gao Fushuai" in Diaosi, and its members are mostly children of the Eight Banners. As the leader of beggars' gangs, all kings are princes and Baylor-level figures. These people usually don't beg in the streets, but only come out to beg from shops during the Spring Festival, Dragon Boat Festival and Mid-Autumn Festival.

Even if the nobles beg, they have a solemn set of rules. They often go together, one is responsible for singing and the other is responsible for playing drums. At this time, the experienced shopkeeper will run out of the store, first raise his hand slightly above his head, and then put the coin on the drum board. Shopkeepers must complete the above procedures before the beggar sings the fifth sentence, and the donation can not be less than five big money. Give money according to the rules, and everything will be fine; If not, then the boss is in trouble. I sent four people the next day and eight people the third day. The number of people is doubling every day, staying at the door of the store from morning till night; Don't talk, just watch and don't talk, but of course you can't do the master's thing. At this time, when the shopkeeper came out to beg for mercy, it was not a matter of a few big money. Without tens of thousands of these penniless nobles, it is impossible to do business normally. But the "blue pole" composed of ordinary beggars can't be so openly bullied. Those who have evil words to call "old beggars" refer to beggars; The old beggar woman is a disparaging term for the old beggar woman, but it is called "Guanyin" in the jargon. From begging to Guanyin, the name is really "begging". Because beggars believe in different founders, many factions have been formed. From the whole history of beggars' gangs, the most famous and influential gangs are probably Fan, Li, Wu, Gao and Suo. Each has its own root cause, so choose one or two conventions to summarize them.

Beggar, Fan, Shan Zu. According to this faction, its founder once "helped" a man named "eat", who was "sandwiched between Chen and Cai". (It looks like "Pearl Jade White Jade Soup". ) Coincidentally, this man named Kong Qiu turned out to be a Confucian sage who was later respected, and Fan Gang naturally became the originator of the Beggars' Sect. Therefore, Fanmen Beggars' Sect is the most powerful and has unprecedented influence. According to historical records, Fan was an Eastern Han Chinese; Five hundred years have passed, but they have been strongly dragged together, even though modern propaganda techniques have fallen behind.

Wu Zixu, the ancestor of the Wu family. It is said that Wu Zixu went through hardships in Zhaoguan and came to Suzhou, the capital of Wudu. He had no money, so he had to play the flute and beg along the street. Just childe light through here, then know how to use force. Therefore, when beggars are sent to beg, most of them take them with them, such as Allegro, Huqiner and Sixian. Degang Guo nicknamed Jing Li as the leader of the Beggars' Sect, which originated from this.

Beggars are called "beggars" as "hanging poles" in the jargon of beggars' gangs, so the leader of beggars' gangs in martial arts should actually be called "poles". The "pole head" refers to the land in this place, and he is responsible for the entry, appointment and removal of personnel. The flowers that Jin Fang saw in the street are called "flowers crossing the street" in the industry (they are very vivid and cruel, so you can donate sympathy), and the operator behind the scenes is the "shoulder pole head" of this drug Lord. As for the source of beggars' gangs, it is nothing more than the bankrupt and unemployed people in rural areas, the homeless, the disabled and the children who have been taken in by themselves without fathers and mothers (in nine cases out of ten, children are abducted). Of course, many people like to make fun of Joe as a beggar. Beggars are dirty. If you want to live, you must join in. Before joining, as usual, you should kowtow to the "shoulder pole" to recognize the teacher; After saying "yes", he followed others to learn art-begging or stealing. After a period of investigation, Master was satisfied, so he paid the candle money and chose an auspicious day to hold the apprentice reception ceremony. (The scene of Lin Chong's occupation of Liangshan flashed through my mind) First, I set up an ancestral memorial tablet in xiang tang, and lit incense before the memorial tablet. The master laid a wooden stick horizontally on the ground, and the disciples knelt on it. After some questioning about the Jianghu incision, Master picked up the wooden stick and put it down again. He first called his disciples up and looked at the bamboo tube, awl, knife and a pot of cold water on the altar (what are you looking at? I haven't heard of the execution equipment in the East Factory. The apprentice knelt on the stick again, and then the master began to preach the rules. Finally, the disciples bowed to the master, and after bowing, the beggars left together to attend a small banquet. No rules, no Fiona Fang. Beggars talk about "ten poverty", "eight essentials" and "ten commandments" Help the public to implement it by force.

"Ten poverty" means: entering the poverty shed, raising the head of poverty, and providing poor houses for the ancestors of poor families; Poor families also talk about the Three Cardinals, and poor families also talk about three religions and nine streams; The whip of the poor family spread all over the world, and the children of the poor family traveled around the world; Shojaei (bamboo board) of the poor family hangs its ears in the spring and autumn; The poor have nobles and the poor have princes.

The "eight essentials" are: first, the relationship between heaven and earth; Second, we should be educated by our ancestors; Third, we should honor our parents; Fourth, we should respect and love our brothers; Fifth, we must abide by national laws. ...

The Ten Commandments are: 1. Don't turn when crossing the side (don't vote for neighbors and peers); 2. Don't lie on the top color lotus (don't go whoring with the wife of your peers); Three commandments: water and thread (no rape); Lead the horse to the bottom under the temptation, ie don't expose the bad things he has done. ...

Beggars have to take the rice bag off their shoulders and carry it on their arms as soon as they enter the village. This process is regarded as "leading the horse"; As soon as you enter someone's door, you must put it down, which is regarded as "tying the horse"; Later, the signboard of the routine was called "Uncle, Aunt, Reward ..." The lines were afraid that the novice could not say it, so saying "Uncle" was actually a "bumper harvest" as a greeting to the benefactor. For beggars, it is easier than usual to welcome weddings and funerals. Especially in the past, wealthy families had to send people to the "pole head" to ask some people for help to attract work such as carrying coffins and playing flags. At the end of the movie "Wu Zhuangyuan Su Gai", the dialogue between the emperor and him is very intriguing-(Emperor) How can I feel at ease if you don't dissolve me for a day? (Su Can) It's not up to me to decide how many disciples there are in the Beggars' Sect, it's up to you ... If you are really a wise man in SHEN WOO and make the country prosperous and the people safe, I don't want to be a beggar!