After a while, Yu Sheng couldn’t stand it anymore.

"The Tiger's Survival" - Historical Significance

Bian Dashou, whose courtesy name is Changbai, is the magistrate of Mizhi County, Shaanxi Province. Mizhi County is the hometown of Li Zicheng. It is said that Li Zicheng's family has a geomantic treasure land. Li Zicheng's grandfather Li Hai and father Li Shouzhong are both buried in this ancestral tomb. Because of his good Feng Shui, Li Zicheng's rebellion was able to be very powerful. If the ancestral tombs could be dug up and the bones of Li Hai and Li Shouzhong destroyed, it would break the feng shui and lead to Li Zicheng's failure. In the fourteenth year of Chongzhen's reign, Bian Dashou reported to Chongzhen that he should do this. In the spring of the fifteenth year of Chongzhen, Bian Dashou spent a lot of effort to find the location of Li Zicheng's ancestral tomb, actually dug up the tombs of Li Hai and Li Shouzhong, and burned the bones with fire. At that time, the Mizhi people were very scared, and Bian Dashou said in an awe-inspiring manner: "If a thief repairs his grudges, I will be the one to take the blame, and I will not be tired." Cheng Zhengkui praised Bian Dashou in his preface to "The Story of Survival from the Tiger's Mouth" by Cheng Zhengkui. Dashou: "Sir, your wisdom is amazing and your achievements are great. The husband and the thief committed a crime as high as heaven by fleeing for their lives, encroaching on our territory and forcing me to be the queen. You, sir, can only come up with strange plans to wipe out the evil of birth rebellion and control the life of the dead thief." In the world of Rengui, Changbai is the only one. He feels that he is not in Mizhi. If he were, he would help Changbai dig the grave with his hoe, "whipping the corpse of the sea and drinking the head of Shouzhong" (Hai refers to Li Zicheng's grandfather, Shouzhong) He was the father of Li Zicheng. He also believed: "If you don't fight, the world will not be in chaos. If you don't fight, the world will be unjust. If the ghosts and gods don't help you, there will be no revenge." How much he hated Li Zicheng.

After Bian Dashou dug the grave, he was persecuted by officials who were related to Li Zicheng and was demoted. When he went west, he encountered Li Zicheng's army breaking Tongguan and falling into Xi'an. He advised Bian Dashou to avoid it, but he refused to listen: "I am planning to eliminate thieves for the imperial court, but now I am dying for Sheji, and I will have more glory, so why should I avoid it?" "Soon, Beijing was defeated and Chongzhen died for his country. Bian Dashou contacted his relatives and friends and plotted to raise a righteous army to avenge the country's humiliation. As a result, before he could take action, Li Zicheng had sent people to use coaxing methods to imprison Bian Dashou, his wife, mother, brothers, His uncle and others were arrested together. Then Bian Dashou described how he was led westward by thieves, how he escaped from the clutches of the guards, how he was helped by passers-by and monks, and finally returned home.

The outline of the story is like this. Bian Dashou's "The Story of a Tiger's Survival" only has more than 3,000 words, but Cao Yin rewrote it into a 50-part script. The script details the changes in Jiashen Beijing and the changes in dynasties. According to Liu Tingji's "Zaiyuan Magazine", Volume 3, page 21, the purpose of Cao Yin's adaptation is: "One is to strengthen the military power of the dynasty, the other is to appreciate the loyalty of the civil and military forces in the late Ming Dynasty, and the other is to violently invade thieves." He acts cruelly and with hatred follows the despicable officials. There are warnings and punishments everywhere in the game, with Changbai (big ribbon on the side, the word Changbai) as the end. It is still called "Surviving the Tiger's Mouth". The composition of the poem is grand, strange and beautiful, and it is also generous. "The subordinate ministers mentioned here are the officials who surrendered to Li Zicheng. Unfortunately, today we can only read the original text of Bian Dashou's "The Story of Survival from the Tiger's Mouth", but not Cao Yin's fifty-page script