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In the history of China, there is a special phenomenon, that is, rumors. It's like a ghost, following the history of China, silently, and I don't know where it came from or where it is going. It just haunts the imperial court, the imperial court and the people, ranging from the rise and fall of dynasties to personal joys and sorrows.
For more than 2,000 years, from the oldest "bow and white, the real death of Zhou Guo" to the designation of contemporary security forces, everyone talked about it. How did rumors appear and develop? What are the famous rumors circulating in history? This article will give you a brief introduction on this issue.
First, what is a rumor?
The word "ballad prophecy" can be found everywhere in all kinds of ancient books. The term "ballad prophecy" was once established in the collection of ancient and modern books in the Qing Dynasty. So what exactly is folk divination?
Ballads are ballads. The Book of Songs? Feng Wei's "I Sing Ballads" and "Notes on Mao Zhuan": "Songs and songs, while disciples sing ballads", "Zuo Zhuan"? Five years of public service and justice led to elegance? Interpretation of music notes: "A song is a ballad, a song is empty, and its sound is worry-free. "In short, ballads are folk ballads that are easy to understand. They are sung by ordinary people at will, and are generally not processed by literati. It is similar to the phrase "A first-class man has a home outside his home" in today's society. Because of its easy-to-understand nature, it can be widely circulated in society.
Prediction, testing, is an effective prediction or omen, which is the basic meaning of prediction. This extension is the book of divination, that is, the so-called "divination" and "divination".
Therefore, the narrow sense of "ballad prophecy" can be understood as a kind of prophecy circulating among the people in the form of ballads. However, in a broad sense, folk songs are not just the form of folk songs. On the contrary, it has various features, including songs, poems, inscriptions and other forms.
Second, the history of rumors
1, the origin of ballad prediction
In the period of ignorance, human beings are eager to make predictions about the future, so predictions should appear very early. For example, a large number of Oracle Bone Inscriptions in Oracle bone inscriptions can be regarded as a kind of prophecy. The combination of prophecy and folk songs only appeared after the ancient society developed to a considerable stage. At present, the earliest ballads we can see are said to have spread in the period of Zhou Xuanwang. This sentence first appeared in Mandarin. If it really comes from Zhou Xuanwang's time, the history of ballads can be traced back to the end of the Western Zhou Dynasty, even if it was forged by later generations, according to the time when Guoyu was written. In a word, rumors originated in the pre-Qin era.
What do you mean by "wearing a white coat, but Zhou Guo is dead"? The so-called "hole" and "dustpan" are the names of trees, and the arc is a bow; Clothes are quiver, and "clothes with bows and baskets" are "bows made by Sang Mu and quiver made of wood".
According to Mandarin? Mining-team narrative, Zhou Xuanwang, this children's song circulated in the capital, just at this moment there are two couples selling arc light and white clothes, they arrested and scolded. At this time, a maid-in-waiting in the palace gave birth to a daughter without a husband and abandoned the young girl on the side of the road. They found it and took it to the land of praise. Later, Bao Jun was detained by the Emperor of Heaven because of his sin, so he presented this girl as a gift and was favored by the King of You. -this woman is a famous praise in history, the one who fought the war and died because of her.
As for the origin of praise. According to Mandarin, in the Xia Dynasty, two dragons once appeared in the palace, claiming to be the two ancestors of Zanren. Wang Xia's divination, whether killing it, saving it or sending it away, is unlucky. Finally, he left Erlong's saliva (Dragon City) hidden in a box, which remained unopened for nearly a thousand years in the Shang and Zhou Dynasties. It was not until the end of the year that King Li discovered it. As a result, the dragon flowed on the ground and became a mysterious scorpion, which was seen by a girl. After that, she got pregnant. Only when Xuanwang gave birth to his daughter, she became pregnant because she had no husband, and she was afraid and abandoned it. She was adopted by the worshippers and eventually died in the Western Zhou Dynasty.
There are also some rumors in Zuo Zhuan, such as Five Years of Nuogong: "In the morning of the third month, the dragon's tail fluttered, and all of them took the vibration and took the flag of Guo. Quails are full of enthusiasm, stewed by the sky, and become an army in the fire. " This song predicts the famous battle of cutting Guo. At that time, the Jin army surrounded Guo's capital. Jin Xiangong asked Bu Yan if he could win, and Bu Yan quoted this children's song to answer. This nursery rhyme contains a lot of astronomical knowledge. "Dragon Tail", "Quail", "Ce Tian" and "Fire" are all names of stars, which are quite troublesome to explain. According to the translation of Shen Yucheng's Zuo Zhuan, it is "On the morning of Bingzi, the dragon-tailed star was illuminated by the sun. Gorgeous military uniform, won the flag of Jun Guo. Quail Mars is like a big bird, but Ce Tian is not shining. Under the quail mars, people cheered and jumped for joy, and Guo Gong was about to run. " From nursery rhymes, Guo's defeat and even the time of national subjugation have been predicted.
However, this story is flawed. First of all, ballads contain a lot of astronomical knowledge, and in the Spring and Autumn Period when astronomical knowledge was monopolized by specialized classes, children could actually sing such nursery rhymes. Is the nine-year compulsory education in Jin really implemented so well? Secondly, since there are rumors ahead, why didn't Guo Gong prepare? You know, Jin and Guo are only one or two hundred miles apart, which is really not far.
In addition, other ballads and prophecies are recorded in Zuo Zhuan, but generally speaking, the ballads and prophecies in the pre-Qin era are not only few in number, but also difficult to understand, which does not rule out the possibility of the author's own creation. Zuo Zhuan is good at prophecy, and it is not impossible for the author to add some prophetic nursery rhymes to it.
2. The prevalence of rumors
The prevalence of rumors began in the Han Dynasty, or strictly speaking, in the late period of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty. It was not common in the Wenjing Four Dynasties in Gao Hui, but it became popular at the end of the Western Han Dynasty with the popularity of Dong Zhongshu's thought of harmony between man and nature and Liang Wudi's argument of seeking immortality and goodness.
Another important reason for the popularity of ballads and prophecies in the Han Dynasty is the popularity of prophecies. The so-called "weft" is the weft book. Confucianism in the Han Dynasty believed that since there was "Confucian Classics", there should be "Weft Books". Ci Hai explained: "Wei" is a variety of works compiled by Confucian scholars with alchemy, which comes from the myths and legends of ancient Hutuluo. "In a word, Shu Wei is the result of mysticism, religionization and theology of Confucianism in Han Dynasty, and combined with divination, thus becoming a" divination ".Among them, Confucian classics and righteousness are attached to the good or ill luck of personnel, and most of them predict chaos and prosperity as bizarre and nonsense. By the Sui Dynasty, Yang-ti was forbidden to destroy, his knowledge began to neglect, and all books were basically lost.
It is precisely because of the prevalence of divination in the Han Dynasty that ballads reached the peak of historical development and greatly influenced the political trend. We know that the reason why Wang Mang succeeded in usurping the throne was based on rumors. It is said that someone dug a well and got a stone engraved with the words "Tell Han An Gong Mang to be emperor". Based on this, Wang Mang brazenly took it. Later, there was a man-made bronze chest with two inscriptions, one saying "Heaven sealed the golden chest" and the other saying "Chi Di sealed the yellow emperor's trip to Jin Ce", which said that follwed should be the son of heaven, so he ascended the throne accordingly.
Since then, Wang Mang has lost his political power, and a group of heroes have risen together, and he has also proved his legitimacy with rumors. For example, Gongsun Shu said that "Emperor Chang was abolished, and Gong Sun was established", also known as "Emperor Xuanyuan made it, and Gong Sun took the palm". Later, Liu Xiu's accession to the throne was still based on rumors. This is the famous "Ode to the Red Maid": "Liu Xiu sends his troops to drive the way, and the four barbarians gather in the wild, and fire is the main thing in April and July". In Liu Xiu's "Ascending to Astronomy", this is one of the most famous ballads in history, and we will talk about it in detail later.
Although Liu Xiu claimed to be the emperor to a greater extent by his own strength, compared with Wang Mang, he was more superstitious about rumors, and Wang Mang only used rumors. -We know that many of Wang Mang's so-called fates were forged by himself. -and Liu Xiu for rumors, is almost sincerely believe. In the first year of Jianwu, at the beginning of Liu Xiu's accession to the throne, Wang Liang, a little-known figure, was regarded as Sun Zang, the general of Pingdi, because there was a saying in Fu of Red Mansion that "Wang Liang was the general commander of Xuanwu", and Sun Zang's name was also found in a rumor, saying that it was "the Emperor of Sun Xian". As a result, many people were unhappy. Xian said, "Hanhe should be Fu." So we have to take haing s ngor as fu, thinking that he is a general in title of generals in ancient times.
Where there is popularity, there is opposition. Just when the rumors were high in the clouds, some people of insight began to criticize. For example, Huan Tan once wrote to Liu Xiu to oppose a rumor, saying, "Today, smart and talented people are only a few poets to get books to deceive greed and evil and mislead others. How can they not be far away?" ..... Although things happen to coincide with each other sometimes, it's like just counting occasionally, pointing to Liu Xiu's "I want to listen to prophecy, what's wrong", and then discussing with Guangwu, the emperor said, "I want to judge by prophecy, what's wrong?" Huan Tan was silent for a long time and said, "I don't know how to predict." Almost beheaded by the furious Liu Xiu.
There is also a man named Yin Min, who is a great man. Liu Xiu sent him to sort out the predictions. He tried his best to tell Guangwu what was wrong with the predictions, saying that "the predictions were written by sages, but many of them are similar to those of laymen, so it is difficult to know the truth, so I am afraid of making mistakes." Liu Xiu didn't accept them, so he wrote it in the blank of the prophecy. "You have no mouth", Lord Yin, that is to say, his surname is Yin, and he is destined to be a big official in the Han Dynasty. Liu Xiu found this sentence and asked him to ask. He replied: "I saw that the predecessors added or lost more books for their own reasons." I think that's how the previous rumors came out, so I got one for myself. -This is Dong Fangshuo's legacy. Liu Xiu didn't blame at that time, but he never rose to the level of Lao Yin.
Of course, Wang Chong's Lun Heng is the most systematic opponent of rumors, but this topic is too big to talk about for the time being.
By the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, rumors were still prevalent. When Emperor Ling ascended the throne, there was a prophecy of "white cars and Yan Yan, rivers and rivers are harmonious". "The Rebellion of Ten Regular Attendants" has the prediction that "the prince of Faye Wong rode a thousand horses to the north of the mountain", the prediction that Dong Zhuo died, the prediction that "a thousand weeds, why, will not be born in ten days", and the prediction that Liu Biao died, "1989 began to decline and did not stay for thirteen years". I believe that anyone who has read The Romance of the Three Kingdoms will be familiar with these rumors.
After the Han Dynasty, Cao Wei began to restrict the study of divination, but throughout the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, ballads and prophecies continued to be popular. In Pingwu, Wang Zhuo, there is a saying that "one man is a rich boy, and he swims across the river with a knife". "Not afraid of the beasts on the shore, but afraid of the dragons in the water"-Wang Zhuo was nicknamed A Tong. Si Marui, the emperor of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, proclaimed himself emperor, and predicted that "five horses would float across the river and one horse would turn into a dragon", which is also a very famous rumor in history. Ran Min killed Hu. It is said that many years ago, the Buddha Tucheng also made a prediction that "the temple is almost a temple, and the thorns make a forest, and the bad guys must have clothes to wear". Ran Min's nickname is Spiny Slave.
In short, the Han, Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties were the climax of rumor spreading. During this period, from the emperor down, monarchs and ministers were spreading rumors, some of which were good and some were bad, so rumors rose in society and became popular.
3. The decline of rumors
With the establishment of the Sui Dynasty, rumors spread all over the sky, and the era of panic finally ended. In order to calm people's minds, the Sui Dynasty took strong measures to ban the study of divination, and Yang Di even sent messengers to search and burn books related to divination. At this point, divination, which has prevailed since the Western Han Dynasty, has finally vanished and completely disappeared. Accordingly, rumors are also prohibited.
Zhao Yi once said: "The ancient times are easy to come to the world, and there is no Sui Wendi who succeeded him with his wife." I'm afraid Emperor Wendi of Sui felt a little embarrassed to take the world away from his grandson so easily. In order to stop everyone from talking, he had to find some fate to defend himself, so he made rumors and reappeared in BLACKPINK.
However, the rumors of Emperor Wendi of Sui Dynasty are very distinctive, almost all of which are carved in stone. First, I found several stones with words on them. One of them has the word "sword" on it and the words "heavenly heart in all directions". There is still a stubborn stone on the surface, but it has patterns inside after cutting. It is a poplar with yellow roots and purple leaves. Second, I found a big stone turtle with the words "Tian Zi is lucky for a thousand years" and a live turtle with the words "Heaven is nourishing" on its belly. Third, a big iron plate was found, which read "Emperor began to live in the following year, Yang Tiequan, Wang Xing". Only such a fig leaf can't stop the eyes of people all over the world after all. He took the world from his grandson and then killed the whole family, but he didn't become noble because of a few useless words on the tortoise's stomach. However, another rumor circulating among the people reflects the real idea of the people: "Poplar crow, only uncle without nephew", what a good "only uncle without nephew". Smile ~ ~ ~
Emperor Wendi of Sui Dynasty can whitewash his usurpation with rumors, but he will never allow the same thing to be set on others. It is estimated that this is the reason why rumors were banned in the Sui Dynasty. -From this, we can also know that Emperor Wendi of Sui was well aware of the truth and essence of rumors.
In addition, several rebellions in the Sui Dynasty were related to rumors. Hanwang Yang Liang rebelled, and there was a rumor that "one piece of paper, two pieces of paper, one guest is the same day". -Yang Liang's nickname, Ako, is homophonic. Yang Xuangan rebelled, and there was a rumor that "Taibai fought in the south and the son of heaven went to the temple". -Yang Xuangan rebelled, too white to fight in the south. These two uprisings were related to rumors and predictions, which may be one of the reasons why Yang Di suppressed predictions.
Of course, the most famous ballad in the Sui Dynasty is Tao Li Zi, which is also one of the most famous ballads in the history of China, which will be discussed in detail later.
After the reorganization of the Sui Dynasty, the influence of rumors was greatly weakened in the Tang, Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties. At this time, many emperors obviously did not believe in rumors. For example, now, Li and Pei Du are at odds, so they spread rumors that "children who don't wear clothes will be expelled from heaven", while those who don't wear clothes, Pei Du also. The belly-revealing person said that Pei Du exposed the plot in his belly. As for "the mouth in the sky was fired", it means that Wu Yuanji was rehabilitated. And Jing Zong "although he is a teenager, he knows his slander deeply, and his intention of repaying kindness is enduring, and evil is helpless." When Song Taizu saw Push Endorsement, he didn't think it was a great book. Instead, he thought it was a disaster for the people, so he ordered to disrupt its order and mix its contents to eliminate its influence. Ming Taizu doesn't believe it either. According to Shen Defu's Wild Harvest Supplement, in the fifth year of Hongwu, someone sang a song in Jianchang, saying, "Dragon and Tiger wither, and Chi Di prospers in the Six Dynasties. At the end of 800, Wang Qi recovered from illness, and Zhong Hua followed Tang Yao from then on, and I played it, "On things, it is not true that you are involved in demon jump. "
Since the emperor has such an attitude towards rumors, others' awe of rumors is naturally not so strong. During this period, rumors were mostly used by some people, either to attack political opponents or simply as a call for rebellion. The former entered the aforementioned "naked children with a naked belly", while the latter was like the Red Scarf Army uprising at the end of the Yuan Dynasty, "Taoist Mo provoked the Yellow River to revolt with one eye" and so on.
Of course, due to the inertia of history, it is impossible to completely eliminate people's awe of mysterious rumors. Even rulers who are well aware of the nature of rumors can hardly completely sneer at the spread of rumors. But as far as the songs and predictions recorded in official history are concerned, there are few records in this period. The History of Song Dynasty is the largest historical book in the twenty-four history, but there are few ballads and predictions recorded in it, which is really not the same as the Book of Later Han and the Book of Jin. Although rumors continue to circulate quietly in the society, they are no longer the grand occasion of the year.
Third, the classification of ballads and prophecies.
The ancients had a general view that rumors were not made by ordinary people, but the "sounds of nature" that fell from the sky (that is, Mars in the five major planets) and spread among children, all of which were providence and not taught by others. Of course, we know today that this is just nonsense, and all the rumors are made by people. So, what kind of people and psychology have created such endless rumors? Next, based on the creator's motivation, let's talk about the classification of rumors.
1, a rumor made for political purposes
This kind of ballad is the earliest and most famous one. The Chen Sheng Uprising of that year made Guangwu light a bonfire near Congci in the middle of the night, and made a "great Chu Xing, Chen" what does the fox say. As a result, the foot soldiers were frightened and pointed to Chen Sheng the next day. So, Chen Sheng and Guangwu joined forces, and hundreds of people rose up and started the great uprising at the end of the Qin Dynasty.
In addition, there was an uprising in Hanhe at the end of the Yuan Dynasty, and there was a rumor that "one stone man stirred the Yellow River with one eye against the world". Zhu Yuanzhang's apartment in Hebei has "a black tower, with northerners in charge and southerners as guests;" The rumor that "Tarhon and Zhu Yiren are the protagonists" is of course forged by Han, Zhu and others themselves.
During the Southern Qi Dynasty, Zhang Gonger (nicknamed pig) and Zhang Jinger (nicknamed dog) wanted to rebel. Because there was a place called Gu Chi in front of their house, they made a rumor and said, "Where is the son of heaven? Akataniguchi's house. Who is the son of heaven? Either a pig or a dog "was circulated among the children in the village and was finally killed by Emperor Wu of Qi.".
In addition to this kind of conspiracy to kill officials, rumors often attack political enemies in ordinary political struggles. As mentioned earlier, Lee attacked Pei Du by "showing his belly naked". In fact, this rumor was not created by Li, but copied from Luo. During the rebellion, Wang wooed Pei Yan, secretary of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and made a rumor that "one fire, two fires, children sit in court without clothes". Pei Yan was overjoyed. It is said that he colluded with Xu Jingye.
Emperor Liu, Song and Ming in the Southern Dynasties worried that the prince was young and that the noble generals would rebel after his death. This is his own rumor, saying, "The scholar should not be killed, but his bow is long enough to shoot people." A scholar is a "king" and bows to his elders and Zhang. This ballad prophecy refers to spouse Wang Jingwen and veteran Zhang Yong. When Wang Jingwen heard the ballad prophecy, he was very scared. "It was Chen who solved Yangzhou." Before Ming Di died, he gave Wen Jing death. This is an example of the emperor spreading rumors in order to be an official.
Wei Xiaokuan, a general of the Northern Qi Dynasty and the Northern Zhou Dynasty, was afraid of his boldness, so he made people say that "a hundred liters fly to the sky, and the bright moon shines on Chang 'an", and a hundred liters greet him, and the word "welcome" is also called the bright moon. It is also said that "the mountain will collapse if it is not pushed, and the oak tree will stand if it is not supported." Mountain refers to the surname of Emperor Gao of the Northern Qi Dynasty, and the name of Oak is homophonic with that of Hu. Hu's political opponents Zuda and Mutipo don't like it either. After hearing this, Zuda went on to say two words: "A blind man carries a big axe, but a talkative mother can't talk. So, she told her mother Lu, saying that Lu thought that the "talkative mother" was herself and the "blind husband" was Zuda. She was very angry. This is an example of collusion between inside and outside to frame Zhongliang.
2. Later generations attached themselves to the historical facts of the former dynasty and created rumors.
This kind of rumor should be the most. When we read the history books, we found that many predictions are surprisingly consistent with historical facts, which is very surprising. In fact, after careful analysis, most of them were made by later generations. As mentioned above, the two prophecies in the pre-Qin period should fall into this category.
There are also rumors that predict the demise of the Qin Dynasty. According to historical records, "Those who destroyed the Qin Dynasty were also Hu Ye"? According to Records of the Historical Records of the First Qin Emperor, Lu Sheng, a Yan man, went to the sea to seek immortality for the first emperor to visit a doctor. As a result, he didn't go to see the medicine, but he found a sealed book with such words on it. The first emperor regarded Hu as a Hun, so he sent Meng Tian to attack him with 300,000 troops, but he didn't know that Hu was actually Hu Hai. However, Sima Qian was the first to record this statement more than 80 years after the death of the Qin Dynasty. At that time, there was no literature to show that this prophecy really existed. We have reason to believe that it was a postscript made by the people after the death of Qin.
There is also a rumor that Zulong died in this year, which is also recorded in Historical Records. It is said that an emissary passed through China's vagina, and someone blocked the way with a jade jade and said, "Leave Chi Jun to me." It is estimated that the messenger gave this jade to the water god in thousands of feet. The man said, "Zulong died this year." After the messenger returned to Xianyang, he did not give the jade jade to the water god, but to the first emperor, and told the first emperor the words "Zulong died this year" intact. The first emperor was silent for a long time and said, "Shan Gui never knew about being one year old." There are also some problems with this story. In his later years, Qin Shihuang wanted to live forever. The messenger dared to report his death. I really don't know how many heads he has. The first emperor's reaction is very suspicious. When he visited Xiangshan, he was going to cut down all the trees on the mountain because of the bad weather. Once upon a time, he became so gentle.
There is also a famous song about Qin Shihuang, "Qin Shihuang, why, open my house, according to my bed, drink my wine, spit my pulp, feed me, think about food, shoot at the east wall, and die before reaching the sand dunes." To be honest, this folk song is still very good and can be enjoyed as a good folk song. It not only describes the tyranny of Qin Shihuang, but also accurately predicts that he will be buried in sand dunes. It's just that this ballad was first written in the Six Dynasties, but it was not circulated in the Qin Dynasty. It's very clear.
In his stupidity, Xiao Wei split Tianshui. It is said that there was a ballad circulating in Tianshui at that time: "Go out at noon and watch twips. Seeing someone, I want to go to heaven; Make heaven go to heaven, and the people will have peace on earth. " Wumen, Tianshui North Gate, the lame, and all are lame. Therefore, this rumor clearly shows that Xiao Wei will eventually fail. The so-called "make heaven go to heaven, and the people will seek peace in the land." If this rumor was not made by Liu Xiu to weaken Xiao Wei, it must have been forged by later generations. It first appeared in the post-Han Dynasty and Sima Biao's sequel Han Zhi, which was hundreds of years later than Xiao Wei's time. However, this rumor did not appear in the eastern view of contemporary chronicles of the Eastern Han Dynasty.
So, how to determine that a rumor is made by future generations? In my opinion, it depends on whether this rumor had any influence at that time and whether there were other events to prove its existence. If there was, it was naturally circulated at that time. If not, it's just an empty talk in the history books, just for the sake of prophecy. Nature is forged by later generations. For example, it is also a rumor about Qin Shihuang. According to Records of the Historian, in the thirty-sixth year of the First Emperor, a meteorite fell to Dong Jun County, and someone wrote words on it, saying, "The First Emperor died and the land was divided." The First Emperor was furious and "wanted to seize the stone and live next to it." Because this rumor did not appear in isolation, it caused consequences, so we can assume that it really existed.
This kind of ballad prediction also includes the songs mentioned in the last years of the Eastern Han Dynasty, such as "The Empress Wang rode to Beimang with thousands of troops". According to the above standards, it must have been forged by later generations. And the earliest source of this rumor is Gan Bao's Search for Ji Shen, which is not credible.
3. The rumors of previous poems.
This rumor is generally called poetic prophecy. Someone wrote a poem, but it turned out to be a prophecy, and finally it turned the poem into a prophecy.
During the Jin Dynasty, Shi Chong once held a large-scale reception for scholars in his private villa-Jinguyuan, which was the famous Jingu Poetry Society. At the meeting, everyone wrote poems in succession and merged them into a collection of poems, called Poems of Golden Valley, with Shi Chong as the preface, which is Wang Xizhi's famous Preface to Poems of Golden Valley and Preface to Lanting Collection. These are digressions, so I won't mention them for the time being. Among them, Pan Yue (that is, Pan An, a famous handsome man in history, whose real name is Anren, so he is also called Pan An) wrote a poem, which has two sentences: "Give your money to Shi as a friend, and return it with him", saying that the friendship between Pan Yue and Shi Chong will last forever. Who knows that in the end, they were killed at the same time because they angered Sima Lun, the king of Zhao. On the court, Shi Chong arrived first, followed by Pan Yue. Shi Chong greeted him and said, "An Ren, are you there?" Pan Yue replied: "We can really be regarded as' growing old together'." (Chongyue: "An Ren, Qing is evil!" Yue said: "It can be said that it is a long life." )
Later, in the Tang Dynasty, a poet named Liu Xiyi once wrote a famous poem, "I mourn for a bald head", including the words "The color of flowers will change this year and the flowers will bloom again next year". It is said that after he finished writing, he regretted it and said, "My poem is like a sigh, which is different from Shi Chong's" Hundred Years of Return ". There are two famous sentences in this poem: "Flowers are similar year after year, but people are different year after year". Later, another poet, Song, loved his words, so he sent someone to kill them and stole the two poems. Sure enough, a sentence became a prophecy, and it became "Who will blossom next year" and "Different people are different every year".
Emperor Yang Di also wrote poems. He once wrote a five-character poem in Jiangdu, saying, "It's really spring if you can't go back." Birds fight to persuade wine, and plum blossoms laugh to kill people. "Later, in the spring of March, Yang-ti was killed, but it really turned into" seeking return "and" plum blossom laughing and killing people ". Therefore, the world calls his poems prophecy.
In fact, poetry is poetry. Poets recite poems and write lyrics. Generally, they don't want to predict anything, just come at will. It has nothing to do with the aftermath. Even if there are some coincidences, they are basically coincidences. There are many poets in the history of China, such as Ganges, and their poems are even more numerous. In the poems of so many poets, it is understandable that there are occasional coincidences with funerals, and there are not many mysteries.