Hong Yingming, Ming Cheng, was a Taoist at first. His residence, year of birth and death, and average life expectancy are unknown. He was a thinker and scholar of the Ming Dynasty, who lived in Ming Shenzong during the Wanli period. In addition to the famous Caigen Tan, he also compiled four volumes of fairy tales.
The summary of Siku Quanshu says that this book has many stories about the family of the Buddha's second child. In Preface to Wonderland of the Fairy Buddha, he was introduced to "yearn for flowers when he was young, and live in meditation in his later years", which shows that he was keen on official career fame in his early years and sought immortality in seclusion in the mountains in his later years. Around the 30th year of Wanli (1602), he once lived in Qinhuai River in Nanjing and devoted himself to writing.
Chinese name: Hong Yingming.
Alias: Taoist.
Nationality: China.
Date of birth: unknown
Date of death: unknown
Occupation: thinker and scholar in Ming Dynasty
Faith: Buddha. way
Representative Works: Caigen Tan, Fairy Tales.
Character textual research
Hong Yingming, the author of Caigen Tan, was a newcomer and lived in Wanli period of Ming Shenzong. People from Xindu (now Xindu County), Sichuan, went to Nanjing to seek an official position and lived in Nanjing.
Feng said in Introduction to the Silent Light Mirror in Fairy Wonderland: "Prosperity and sincerity, teenagers want to spend, and stay in Zen at night." From his early enthusiasm for the world to his later concern for the immortal Buddha, we can see that the author has suffered a lot and experienced many setbacks, which cannot be expressed in words, and it is enough to talk about life and road. Historians call him a fairy tale.
Speaking of Hong Yingming, everyone will only remember his greatness in writing Caigen Tan. As a matter of fact, he also had some unpleasant times, and even was forced to have no way out for a penny! At this time, a truly great person is one who can control integrity and character, stick to his ideas and take it lightly.
Hong Yingming was a warm-blooded young man in his early years, and he was keen on the way of the world. Later, he turned his mind to the immortal Buddha and wrote four volumes of the wonders of the immortal Buddha. It can be seen that the author suffered a lot and experienced setbacks, which is unspeakable.
Feng said in Preface to the Silent Light Mirror in The Wonder of the Fairy Buddha: "Hong was born in a sincere family, worshiping China in his youth and being silent in his later years."
During the Wanli period of Ming Shenzong in Ming Dynasty, Hong Yingming once lived in Qinhuai River and devoted himself to writing.
Where Hong Yingming lives, the soil is poor, the vegetables grown by farmers are not very prosperous, the harvest is poor, and life is very bitter.
Farmers take their own vegetables to the market to sell, and the roots are bitter, so they should be weighed. Buyers usually remove their roots, so farmers' income is even lower.
Hong Yingming's life at that time was also very poor. It was a pity to see many vegetable roots thrown away, so I wanted to take them away, but I didn't want to owe anyone anything, so I paid a little money to buy them.
After a long time, the locals called Hong Yingming "a silly vegetable root".
One day, my friend Yu (party member in Ming Dynasty) visited Hong Yingming's house. Hong Yingming treats kimchi with rice porridge. After Kong tasted it, he patted the table. The pickles pickled with vegetable roots in Hong Yingming are black and bright, salty and crisp, and have no bitter taste of vegetable roots. Compared with ordinary pickles, vegetable roots taste different.
When Yu Kong asked the truth, Hong Yingming said: Vegetable root tastes bitter, so most people just throw it away after tasting it. I feel pity, so I pickled these vegetable roots into pickles. The reason why my vegetable root is delicious is because I know that it is delicious. First of all, I pickled the vegetable root with salt. After a year of fermentation, the bitterness of the vegetable root was removed and the fragrance of the vegetable root was forced out. Then remove the salt from the vegetable roots with water and dry them in the sun for three days to make them more chewy. Finally, the vegetable root is mixed with spices such as pepper and served after seven days of pickling.
Yu Konghe not only sighed with emotion: "Sex sets the roots of vegetables." Vegetables are simply discarded in this way, and the fragrance of vegetable roots can only be experienced by people with calm heart. Only an indifferent person like Hong Yingming can make the discarded vegetable roots so delicious.
It is because of this special experience that his "Caigen Tan" was finally named after Caigen.
Hong Yingming is a very compassionate person. There is a story that he met a poor white-haired old lady on the way up the mountain one summer, selling sauerkraut to tourists in the scorching sun, and she couldn't sell a catty, so she was worried and anxious.
Hong Yingming felt sorry for the old lady, so he found pen and ink and wrote several paragraphs on the paper, two of which read: "People who eat amaranth in their mouths are more beautiful and pure;" He who eats clothes and jade is willing to take care of his knees. Gaizhi's ambition is to know the truth, and the festival is also fat. " "_ Fesingan is not the real taste, but the real taste is only faint: magic is extraordinary, and people are extraordinary.
"Hong Yingming took another page and wrote a sentence on it, roughly meaning: buy vegetables and pickles, and send Hong Yingming a sincere message.
Hong Yingming said, "Those who go to the mountains to play are rich bureaucrats. When they go to the mountains to play, they will seek peace and fortune. Now you tell the tourists the truth of life written by Hong Yingming himself, and you will get a copy when you buy vegetables and pickles. "
The old lady did as he said with a grain of salt, and the sauerkraut root was robbed and bought. The old lady made a lot of money. Thank you again and again happily for Hong Yingming.
Hong Yingming is a local celebrity, and many people are proud to get his motto "Caigen Tan". Tourists snapped up the old lady's pickles, naturally because of Hong Yingming's handwritten motto. Coupled with the motto written by Hong Yingming, people who eat pickled vegetables are cleverly regarded as pure and flawless, which naturally attracts rich bureaucrats to buy them.
Gradually, neighbors knew that Hong Yingming's kimchi was crispy and delicious, and they came to learn from it. Hong Yingming unreservedly taught people around him how to make pickles with vegetable roots.
These neighbors made a lot of money by selling pickles in the market. After the Qing Dynasty, many craftsmen engaged in vegetable root pickles were very grateful to Hong Yingming for his contribution to vegetable root pickles, especially his "Vegetable Root Tan", which carried forward the spirit of vegetable root and became a culture that influenced the world. They all paid for building temples to worship him and honored him as the ancestor of vegetable root pickles.
Introduction of works
First, "Caigen Tan"
The title of Caigen Tan is taken from a sentence by Wang Ge, a Song Confucian: "If one can bite the vegetable root, anything can be achieved. It means that as long as a person is strong enough to adapt to a poor life, he will achieve something no matter what he does. In the inscription of "Caigen Tan", Kong further elaborated that "Tan" is named after the vegetable root, rooted in hard cultivation and irrigation, and its ups and downs and difficulties can be imagined. He also quoted Hong Yingming as saying: "Heaven toils for me, and I relax my mind to make up for it;" Day _ I met, I passed by in my way. Yu's explanation adds another meaning, that is, in the face of bad luck, one must strengthen one's integrity, work hard, and diligently cultivate and water one's ideals. Gan, who signed the book "The Sick Man of Sanshan makes sense" (reprinting the preface of Caigen Tan), said: "Anyone who grows vegetables must cultivate their roots and taste thick. Quoting the old saying "naturally set the fragrance of vegetable roots" shows that only a calm person can understand the will.
Caigen Tan was written in the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty, with a history of nearly 400 years. For a long time, it has not been paid enough attention, and the compilation of Sikuquanshu in Qing Dynasty and Qianlong period did not even include the catalogue. Recently, however, vegetable root tan has become popular at home and abroad. People regard it as a classic of China's traditional culture together with Sun Tzu's Art of War and Romance of the Three Kingdoms. What is the reason? Hong Yingming lived in the late Ming Dynasty. During this period, the dominant position of the Ming government declined, and corruption gradually became the norm. At the same time, with the development of citizen class, commercial prosperity, scientific and technological progress, active thoughts, free speech, social values began to turn to openness, luxury and lewdness. Secular society and civilian society have replaced aristocratic society, and terrorist totalitarian society has become the mainstream. This can be seen from Jin Ping Mei, which appeared in Caigen Tan a little earlier. Some knowledgeable intellectuals have retired from the rivers and lakes after experiencing the ups and downs of their careers. They don't want to go along with the authorities, nor do they want to cater to the secular social atmosphere against their will. Therefore, a large number of works show the hermit's lofty and detached feelings, and Cai Gentan is one of them.
Generally speaking, Caigen Tan reflects the integration of Confucianism, Taoism and Buddhism of intellectuals in Ming Dynasty. In other words, this book is a set of rules for entering the WTO based on Taoist culture, which combines Confucian doctrine of the mean, Taoist inaction and Buddhist birth thought.
Examples of works
Its famous sentence (couplet): I am not shocked, just look at bloom in front of the court; I have no intention of staying, and I have no intention of staying. I am looking at the clouds outside the sky.
Excerpt from Caigen Tan:
Lonely clouds emerge from the mountain.
Lonely clouds come out of the mountain, leaving nothing behind; The moon is high in the sky, and it doesn't matter if it is calm.
The shore is silent.
The waterfront is silent, noisy and boring; Clouds and mist in the mountains do not hinder, sometimes inorganic.
Second, "Fairy Buddha Wonderland"
Fairy Buddha Wonderland, also known as Fairy Buddha Wonderland in Yuedantang, consists of eight volumes. Written by Hong Zicheng in Ming Dynasty. In addition to the collection of Sikuquanshu and orthodox Taoist collections, the second edition of Yuedantang was a famous Huizhou edition in the Republic of China. The first four volumes of this book belong to Taoism and the last four volumes belong to Buddhism. * * * The inauguration income is 100 cents, and each person passes a painting. The words such as health preservation and intensive cultivation at the end of the appendix have important historical materials and research value for studying and discussing ancient philosophy and health preservation.
This book was written in the thirty years of Wanli (1602). The first two volumes recorded fairy tales, and sixty-three people were recorded from Laozi to Zhang Sanfeng. The last two volumes record Buddhist events, including 19 people under the leadership of Sakyamuni and 42 people under the leadership of Zhu Xi dharma, with paintings attached. Reflect the ethos of worshipping Taoism and approaching Buddha in Ming Dynasty. Because it is mostly a legend in the hutong, it is a secular talk. The General Catalogue of Sikuquanshu regards it as a "talk of wild monsters" and attaches it to the category of novelists. There are 108 figure prints in it, which are quite beautiful and have the style of Huizhou prints in the Ming Dynasty.