The "sinking fish" in "Closing the Moon and Shaming on Flowers" tells the classic legend of "Xi Shi Huan Sha". The stories of Xi, Wang Zhaojun, Diophantine and Yang Yuhuan are also called "the four beauties in ancient China", among which the first one is considered. The four beauties enjoy the reputation of "closing the moon to shame flowers, sinking fish and falling geese".
Shi was born in Zhuji, Yue on June 24th (Gregorian calendar 65438+July 09). Zhuji has two villages, East and West, and Yiguang lives in the West Village, hence the name Shi. The descendants of Shi live by the Huansha River. Father sells firewood, mother washes yarn, and stone often washes yarn in the stream, so it is also called Huanshaxi.
Zhuji, where Xi Shi's huansha was located, was a big square stone engraved with the word "huansha". It was written by Wang Xizhi, a great calligrapher in the Eastern Jin Dynasty. Kong Ling Fu's "Huiji" in the Southern and Northern Dynasties says: Zhuluo Mountain in Zhuji has a West Huansha Stone.
Geographical Records, Ten Records and Jiatai Huiji also include: "Gou Jian asked for a beautiful woman to present the king of Wu, and he was rewarded with a thousand dollars in Zhuluoshan, Zhuji, named stone. At the foot of the mountain, there are stone gauze stones. "
Scholars of all ages like to write songs. Li Bai, a poet in the Tang Dynasty, wrote, "Send Zhu Tong Jiangdong to Huansha Stone": "October girl, bright and beautiful sea of clouds ... Before entering the palace of the King of Wu, the ancient Huansha Stone still exists."
After the Battle of wuyue, there were various legends about the ending of Beauty Stone, which can be summarized as follows:
1, hanged with a guilty conscience
In some scripts, the plot is to help Yue destroy Wu, on the one hand, he feels gratified and completes his mission. On the other hand, I feel guilty and sad for Fu Cha, the king of Wu. In a kind of abnormal ambivalence, I couldn't get rid of it, and finally hanged myself in Guanwa Palace.
2. Fan Li who was taken away said
This statement is very popular and recorded in ancient books. The Yuejueshu written by Dong * * records that the teacher died in Wu, and then returned to visit the five lakes with him. This is how most literary and dramatic works describe it. On the day Wu perished, he did two things. One is to persuade his good friend, a literary school that makes trouble together, to leave Gou Jian as soon as possible. Another thing is that I found my old lover's stone deep in the shade of flowers under the Gusu stage and fled to Taihu Lake in a hurry. The two of them took the same boat and disappeared into the vast clouds. Su Dongpo once wrote: "When the five lakes ask, the boat will return home, and it will still bring Chinese characters." In Taoshan, Feicheng, Shandong Province, it is said that there is a tomb of Heshi.
3. Say Shen Lake
There is another saying about the fate after the destruction of Wu. It is said that after the death of the State of Wu, the King of Yue wanted to keep Shi around because she was beautiful, but she resolutely opposed it. He wanted the King of Yue to learn from the lessons of the King of Wu, and not to be confused by beauty. He made a plan to send someone to trick the stone to Taihu Lake with the Yue King's handlebar, and then trick her into the boat. When she reached the middle of the lake, Shi was brutally pushed off the boat while she was not looking, and Shi drowned in Taihu Lake.
4. Tell Jiang by Wu
According to folklore, after Wu's death, Wu people vented their anger on their bodies, wrapped her in brocade and sank into the center of the Yangtze River. "Dongpo Foreign Body Record" contains: "There are mermaids in the Yangtze River, also known as Xishi Fish. Their daily quantity is easy to change, and the meat is delicious. If women eat it, it can increase their coquetry. According to the cloud system, Xi Shi sank into the river and became an illusion. "
Luo Yin wrote a poem in the Tang Dynasty: "Why should Wu people complain about history when the country rises and falls?" . If the stone overthrew Wu, who would Yue die for? "From this poem written by people in the Tang Dynasty, we can see that the poem" said by Wu people to sink into the river "has a certain market.
5. From Gou Jian and Shen Jiang
Gou Jian, the king of Yue, once said, "A scholar should have the merits of Wu." Legend has it that Gou Jian believed that the demise of Wu was due to Fu Cha's infatuation with beauty. In order to prevent the beauty Shi from hurting the country in turn, he turned and gave a big gift and died. This statement is similar to "being drowned by the Wu people" and "being drowned", both of which are regarded as "a femme fatale".
6. Sink into the river after being said.
Legend has it that after the destruction of Wu by Yue State, Gou Jian wanted to take his family as a harem. Yue later thought it was a "country girl" and worried that it would harm the country, so she wrapped it in a cowhide bag and sank to the bottom of the river.
This statement is more popular because it is more in line with the lust of the king and the jealousy of the queen. This is the saying in the Chronicle of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty.
Shen Jiang Shuo is a brief introduction to history, which was recorded earlier in ancient books. Less than a hundred years before the demise of Wu (around 475 BC), Mozi said in Mozi Dear Scholars: "It is better to fight than to fight; Meng Ben's killing was brave; Beauty of beauty lies in beauty of beauty. Wu Qi's split is also a matter. " It means that these people all "died of their strengths"-they suffered the same damage because of their respective strengths. Because of her beauty, Xi Shi threw himself into the river. He clearly said that "the beauty of stone is also heavy" and clearly pointed out that stone was drowned in the river. Another classic "Wu Yue Chun Qiu" also clearly records: "After the death of the king of Wu, the more he drifted to the river, the more he died with the barbarians." It has been explained that "Li Yi" here refers to Fan Li, on the basis that Fan Li once "changed his name and surname and became a Li Ziyi school" (Biography of Historical Records and Huo Zhi). The author thinks it is more reasonable to interpret "Yi Yi" here as "cowhide". It means that the stone is wrapped in cowhide and "floats on the river". In memory of his friend and rival Wu Zixu, Fan Li changed his name to "Li Pi". After Wu Zixu was executed by Fu Cha, he was also a corpse with cowhide. Sima Zhen's Historical Records Index in the Tang Dynasty said: "Fan Li claimed to be. Gai used the prince of Wu to kill his son, but now he is guilty, so he is also named. "
There is another proof: a famous dish "Xi Shi Tongue" (a kind of mussel meat) along the coast of Zhejiang Province is said to commemorate Xi Shi's sinking into the river, so-called beauty plus food.
In other words, your soul has returned to his hometown. As for where he was buried, whether it was a corpse or clothes, further research is needed.