What’s the allusion of “Tearing a fan apart to make a fortune worth a smile”?
The allusion of a thousand pieces of gold smiling: It is said that King You of Zhou offered a reward of a thousand pieces of gold in order to praise Si's smile.
During the Western Zhou Dynasty, after King Zhou You came to the throne, he ignored the government affairs at all and spent all day eating, drinking, having fun, and being obsessed with women. In the Zhou Dynasty, there was a vassal state called Baoguo. When its king saw that the emperor was so absurd, he came to persuade him, but King You didn't listen at all. Instead, he imprisoned the king of Baoguo. Hong De, the son of the king of Baoguo, was very anxious when he saw that his father was imprisoned, so he discussed with his mother how to rescue him. They heard that King You liked beautiful women very much, so they spent a lot of money to buy a young and beautiful girl, named her "Bao Si", taught her palace etiquette, and then gave her to King You.
King You was overjoyed and ordered the king of Bao to be released. After Bao Si entered the palace, she was favored by King You, but there was only one thing that didn't go her way, that is, Bao Si had a weird temper and never smiled. King You was determined to make her smile, so he posted a notice: Whoever can make the new queen smile will be rewarded a thousand dollars. As soon as the notice came out, some people rushed to enter the palace. Some stuck out their tongues, stared and made grimaces, and some told some ridiculous jokes, but Bao Si watched and listened, but still didn't show a smile.
There was a minister under King You named Guo Shifu, who was a bad guy who was good at flattering others. He came up with a bad idea called "playing with the princes with beacon fire". In ancient times, when encountering an enemy situation, we mainly relied on beacon towers to call the police. Those beacon towers were spread all over the vassal states. In this way, one by one, one by one, it didn't take long for the news to spread throughout the country, and the lords from all over the country would rush to Kyoto with their troops to wait for dispatch.
King You was very happy after hearing this plan and decided to give it a try. One day, the weather was fine. King You took Bao Si to the top of the city tower and ordered the beacon to be lit. Suddenly, smoke burst into the sky. When the princes from far and near saw the beacon lighted, they thought that the enemy was invading, so they ordered their troops and horses to rush towards Haojing. They rushed to the gate of Haojing City, but could not see any enemy soldiers. They only saw King You and Bao Si sitting on the tower drinking wine and watching the fun.
This made Bao Si laugh. She laughed at King You for acting so rashly and at the princes for being so easily fooled. Baosi smiled, and King You was happy, and immediately rewarded Guo Shi's father with a thousand pieces of gold. When those princes realized that they had been fooled, they cursed and led their troops back. King You didn't care about this. In order to see Bao Si's smiling face, he played this farce many times.
Soon, the Rong people came to attack Haojing. King You saw that the enemy was really coming, so he quickly sent people to light the beacon fire and asked the princes for help. But this time, the princes thought that the emperor was having fun with the queen, so they all stayed put. In this way, Haojing was captured by the Rong, King You fled to the foot of Lishan Mountain and was killed, and Bao Si was captured by the Rong. ?
"Tear off the fan to make a smile of a thousand gold" comes from the thirty-first chapter of Luo Guanzhong's "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms" in the late Yuan and early Ming Dynasties. After coming back from drinking, in order to make Qingwen happy, he tore her fan up. She Yue came to stop her, so Baoyu took She Yue's fan and tore it up for Qingwen as well. The two laughed, and Baoyu said it was called "a smile can't be bought with a lot of money." .
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"The Romance of the Three Kingdoms" is one of the four classic Chinese classics. It is also China's first full-length retrospective historical romance novel. The author is Luo Guanzhong, a novelist in the late Yuan Dynasty and early Ming Dynasty. . After the book was completed, several versions including the Jiajing Renwu version were handed down to the world. At the end of the Ming Dynasty and the beginning of the Qing Dynasty, Mao Zonggang reorganized "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms", revised the diction, and changed the poems.
"The Romance of the Three Kingdoms" describes the historical events of nearly a hundred years from the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty to the early years of the Western Jin Dynasty. It mainly describes wars and tells the story of the war between the heroes in the late Eastern Han Dynasty and the war between Wei, Shu and Wu. The story of Sima Yan finally unified the three kingdoms and established the Jin Dynasty. It reflects the transformation of various social struggles and contradictions in the Three Kingdoms era, summarizes the great historical changes of this era, and creates a group of all-powerful heroes of the Three Kingdoms.
The whole book can be roughly divided into five parts: the Yellow Turban Uprising, Dong Zhuo's Rebellion, the Competition of Heroes, the Three Kingdoms, and the Return of the Three Kingdoms to Jin. On the vast historical stage, scenes of majestic war scenes were staged. The author Luo Guanzhong integrates the Thirty-six Strategies of War between the lines, with both plot and military strategy.
"The Romance of the Three Kingdoms" created a new genre of novels, which not only caused readers at the time to "rush to copy them for viewing", but also stimulated scribes and booksellers to continue writing and publishing similar novels Fiction passion. Since Jiajing, various historical romances have sprung up, starting from the beginning of the world to contemporary times. According to incomplete statistics, there are about one to two hundred kinds of historical romances from the Ming and Qing dynasties.
"The Romance of the Three Kingdoms" is famous all over the world and is also welcomed by foreign readers. It was spread to North Korea in the third year of Longqing's reign in the Ming Dynasty (1569). In the eighth year of Chongzhen's reign (1635), there was a Ming Dynasty publication "The Chronicles of the Three Kingdoms" that was collected in Oxford University, England. Since the Japanese monk Hunan Wenshan compiled and published the Japanese version of "The Popular Chronicles of the Three Kingdoms" in the 28th year of Kangxi's reign (1689), Korea, Japan, Indonesia, Vietnam, Thailand, the United Kingdom, France, Russia and many other countries have translated versions in their own languages, and He has published many research papers and monographs, and has made valuable discussions and highly praised the novel "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms".
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