Who is Meng Zong in traditional culture?

In the traditional culture of China, crying should be regarded as a girl's patent. Mr. Cao Xueqin has long said, "Women are made of water". Like Lin Daiyu, she is tearful all day, which may be a typical representative of a good family. As for the man who crawls in the mud all day, he always seems to be regarded as an insulator of tears. However, with the progress of society, the culture taught by our ancestors is quietly changing. From "men should not cry lightly" to "it is not a crime for men to cry", the delicate pseudo-mother culture began to spread in the "men's gang". For contemporary men, crying may be healthier.

In fact, as early as the Three Kingdoms period with a magical sense of the times, it was not a shameful thing for men to cry. In the shadow of swords and swords, sometimes a few tears can even bring a turning point to a person's life, and prosperity will come naturally. For example, Meng Zong is one of them.

Meng Zong, a native of Jiangxia in the Three Kingdoms period, lost his father when he was a child and now grew up in a single-parent family. Later, his mother was old and very ill, and the doctor told him to make soup with fresh bamboo shoots. In the severe winter, there were no fresh bamboo shoots (there was no convenience store at that time), so Meng Zong had no choice but to go to the bamboo forest alone to help the bamboo cry. After a while, he suddenly heard a crack on the ground and saw some tender bamboo shoots growing on the ground. Meng Zong was overjoyed and picked it back to make soup. After drinking it, his mother really recovered.

Although, Meng's total crying is quite magical and dramatic. However, Meng Zong's crying not only solved the problem of food and clothing. Later, he was hired by the court and became a "national civil servant" without trial. Of course, if Meng Zong's tears brought opportunities to his career, then our Liu Huangshu's tears brought him many mountains and rivers. In Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Liu Bei cried dozens of times, in black and white. Almost every time my uncle appears, he has to fill up two tears on his face. However, it was Luo Guanzhong who made Comrade Liu Bei so feminine. This loyal fan of Liu Bei wrote too much to describe Liu Bei's house. In fact, if we look through the more objective history book "The History of the Three Kingdoms", we will be surprised to find that things are not exactly what we know.

Throughout the History of the Three Kingdoms, it is recorded that Liu Bei cried only six times, including three times when his right-hand counselors Tian Yu, Pang Tong and Fazheng left, one time when his adopted son Liu Feng died, and the other time when he said goodbye to his old friend Liu Biao. It is worth mentioning that when Liu Bei was drinking under Liu Biao's account in Jingzhou, he cried bitterly. Suddenly, he saw that his six-pack abdominal muscles he was proud of had turned into a lump of fat. He felt that he had wasted years of hard work, and he didn't feel sad. He shed tears (sitting in the toilet and seeing that his stomach was raw, he shed tears). It can be seen that although Liu Bei loves to cry, he is far from crying as we thought. At least, he is a tough guy with rich feelings.

Perhaps sadness can be infected. Anyway, Cao Cao, who cooked wine with Liu Bei when he was a child, is also obsessed with this art, and the cry of Prime Minister Cao is no less than that of Liu Huangshu. According to the information in the History of the Three Kingdoms, Cao Cao cried as many as fifteen times in his life, including sobs, sobs, wails and wails. Of course, because Cao Cao shed so many tears in his life that the Yellow River has flooded, we won't list them one by one, just choose one or two from them and get a glimpse of them.

Once, in the early days of Cao Cao's career, he wanted to go on an expedition to Tao Qian. For Cao Cao, who was a fledgling at that time, it was a tough battle, and the outcome was uncertain. "I was recruited by Mao and told my family,' If I don't return him, I will go to Zhang Miao', and then I saw Miao and cried." I took my old friend Zhang Miao by the hand to arrange the funeral. At that time, the scene was quite tragic, and the strong men were gone forever. On another occasion, before Cao Cao died, he held a life memorial service with his wife, son and others. "Holding my daughter and pointing to Keppel, I showed my four sons:' I'm tired of you', and I cried." Relatives are required to live in harmony and love each other as always. This shows that Cao Cao, who has been a martial man all his life, is still a person with a sense of family responsibility.

However, it is rare for Cao Cao to shed tears with such true feelings. More often, there is still fake crying in it. For example, once, it was Cao Cao who marched across the Luanhe River. "Facing the water, the soldiers died crying in the temple." The soldiers mourned the death of the martyrs. Cao Cao's cry can be said to have won a lot of "votes" for himself, and the image of a good leader who is close to the people suddenly spread in the army. If the fallen soldiers in Cao Cao's shrine have some elements of show, then Cao Cao's worship to his old rival Yuan Shao is naked crocodile tears. "Ye Ding, a public sacrifice to Shao's tomb, wept bitterly." He beat others to pieces, and even his opponent's daughter-in-law was occupied by his precious son (Cao Piqiang married Yuan's wife), and he had to put on airs on other people's graves. We can only sigh that Cao Cao, a traitor, shed tears and can't simply think of it as crying. Perhaps, at some point, he just smiled in a vest full of tears.

Of course, when Cao Cao wins the battle, he can "laugh with tears" like mocking Yuan Shao, but people can't be lucky all their lives. Soon, Cao Cao experienced the biggest fiasco in his life-the ruin of Chibi. After the defeat of Chibi, on the way to escape, Cao Cao staged the worst crying in his life. Fuck, I'm scared. The ministers said, "The Prime Minister escaped from the den of the tiger and was completely fearless; Now in the city, people have food, horses have material, and they want to rectify the military forces and take revenge. Why are you crying? " Cao Cao said, "I weep (Guo Jia)! If I were filial, I would never have such a big loss! " Then I beat my chest and cried: "Alas, filial piety! It hurts, filial piety! What a pity! Filial piety! " All the counselors were silent and ashamed. Cao Cao's crying is meaningful, which not only covers up his strategic mistakes well, but also euphemistically expresses his dissatisfaction with his opponents. I really had a good cry.

It seems that Jiangshan really cried. Whoever cries more will end up in big trouble. I don't know if Liu Huangshu, who dreamed of recovering the Han Dynasty, was secretly annoyed under the grave: "If I had known this, I should have cried bitterly in those years. It's really cheap for that Cao Cao. "