Speaking of Chang Xiao

The original meaning of Xiao can be divided into two categories. One is whistle, but the whistle here is not what I am good at

The kind that can be blown directly by puffing up the cheeks without external help. It is a whistle made by pressing the thumb and index finger together. The sound is louder and clearer, especially in open and agitated places at night. It is possible that the sound can be heard hundreds of meters or even several miles away.

This kind of whistle can be made by ordinary people. For example, the old forest heroes often relied on this to send signals.

The second form of whistling is without the help of fingers. It is what the ancients called whistling songs and whistling chants.

People who practice Taoism often do it, and there are many famous people who are good at it in ancient times. If there is excitement in the chest, it must be expressed

but its meaning cannot be expressed in tangible words, so it is released in the form of chanting.

Because of the excitement in it, the released gas sounds like a whistle and a song. The "Xiao" here is not just deflating, but expresses a transcendent emotion in a philosophical realm. Xiao, the leader of Wang Yangming's military tent, definitely belongs to this category, because Wang was accustomed to Taoist guidance techniques in Yangming Cave when he was young.

Of course, since this kind of attack did not rely on external force, it is not as high as the former. The so-called "an army

was shocked" is an exaggeration by later generations.

Another famous figure who was good at this kind of roar was Ruan Ji Ruan Bu, one of the Seven Sages of the Bamboo Forest in the Wei and Jin Dynasties.

Bing. During the Wei and Jin Dynasties, Taoism was promoted, celebrities were popular, and everyone used strange things to win. There were countless people who made alchemy, took medicine, and practiced Qigong. Therefore, there are still many people who know this kind of Qi-releasing Kung Fu. "Shishuo Xinyu" says that Ruan "heard howl for hundreds of steps" and had a long roaring platform

Leave it to the world for future generations to admire, which shows that his whistling skills must be superb. "New Speech" specifically indicates

Hundreds of steps, which is a distance of almost a few hundred meters. It can be seen that it is not easy for Xiaoyin to want to achieve great goals.

After all, the roaring sound is generated by the stimulation of the air in the chest. The higher the sound, the faster the air flow, and the more gas flows out per unit time. What Genghuang said is that people in the sea can scream for several minutes at a time. This should not be consistent with common sense of physics. Quan is a novelist.

The most famous Changxiao King whose records can be found in Chinese history may be the Su clan of the same period as Ruan

Mr. Sun Deng. Sun Deng lived in seclusion in Mount Sumen. He was good at playing the harp, and liked to whistle loudly. He was "the sound of thunder", which shows that his

qi must be very strong. People see it, but they laugh and say nothing. Ruan Ji was dissatisfied and wanted to compete with him in his whistling skills.

"It can't compete with Shang Lue Zhonggu and Qi Shen's Qi Guiding skills." No matter how long Ruan Ji was in front of him

No matter how provocative Xiao was, Sun Deng ignored him. Ruan Ji had no choice but to leave with a loud roar. Just before walking down the mountain

Halfway up the mountain, I suddenly heard "a sound like a luan and a phoenix, resounding throughout the rock valley, and it was like the roar of someone climbing up." Ruan

So he took off his clothes and went home. I went there and wrote a famous article "The Biography of Mr. Adult".

Sun Deng ignored the Ruan family at first, but unexpectedly he left his name because of it and became the king of roars throughout the ages. Even hundreds of years later, Su Dongpo still went to Sumen Mountain to pay tribute to the ancients. , left behind the famous saying "Don't scream on the Sumen Mountain, and there is no special fragrance in the apricot forest", which made the common people still lament after a thousand years. Although Dasu was good at Taoism and had practiced sitting meditation, his mind was very restless and it was not like he had practiced Daoyin. Therefore, even if you can howl

, your ability to howl is probably not much better. But there is no doubt that he must admire the art of roaring, and it can be regarded as a good story among literati.

In fact, after careful examination, the reason why Sun Deng's whistle is famous is not because of the far distance its sound travels, but because it

contains the "sound of Luan and Phoenix". Mount Sumen is only a hundred and fifty meters high, and the top of the mountain is halfway up the mountain, which cannot be more than a few hundred meters away.

The meaning of a whistle does not lie in its sound, but later generations of mediocre masters measure it by distance

Isn’t this absurd and obvious?