Lu Xun's mending the sky
one
Nu Wa [2] suddenly woke up.
Iraq [3] seems to wake up from a dream, but I can't remember what I dreamed; I'm just annoyed. I think there are shortcomings, and I think there are too many. Inciting breeze, warm, blows the power of Iraq into the universe.
Yi rubbed his eyes.
In the pink sky, there are many stone-green clouds floating in twists and turns, and stars are shining behind them. There is a radiant sun in the blood-red clouds on the horizon, such as a flowing golden ball wrapped in ancient lava; On the other side, it is a cold white moon like pig iron. However, Iraq does not care who goes down and who comes up.
The ground is green, and even the pines and cypresses that don't change their leaves are particularly delicate.
Pink and blue-and-white flowers are still distinct in front of us, but they can turn into gorgeous haze in the distance.
"Well, I've never been so bored!" Yi thought, suddenly stood up, holding that perfect and energetic arm and reaching out to the sky, and the sky suddenly lost its color and turned into a miraculous flesh red. At that time, I didn't know where Yi was.
Yi walked to the seaside in this flesh-red world, and the curve of his whole body was like a pale rose, melting in the ocean of light until the middle of his body became pure white. The waves were amazing and orderly, but they splashed on Iraq. This pure white shadow is shaking in the sea, as if all of us are scattering in all directions. But she didn't see it herself, but she couldn't help kneeling down, reaching for the soft mud with water, kneading it a few times at the same time, and there was a little thing similar to herself in her hand.
"Ah, ah!" Although she thought it was made by herself, she also suspected that it was in the soil like a sweet potato, which surprised her. However, this surprise made Yi overjoyed. She continued her career with unprecedented courage and happiness, boasting and sweating profusely. ...
“Nga！ nga！” [4] Those little things are barking.
"Ah, ah!" Yi was taken aback again, and felt something flying in the pores of his whole body, so the ground was covered with milky smoke, and it was easy to calm down and those little things stopped.
“AkonAgon，！” Have something to say to Yi.
"Ah, lovely baby." Yi looked at them and stretched out a muddy finger to dial his fat white face.
"uvua haha!" They laughed. This is the first time that Yi saw a smile between heaven and earth, so she smiled from ear to ear for the first time.
While stroking them, Yi was still doing it, and everything he did revolved around Yi, but he gradually dropped it. After talking too much, Yi gradually understood. I just feel that my ears are full of noisy shouts, which is quite dizzy.
In the long joy, Iraq has long been exhausted. I almost blew out my breath and sweated, but I was dizzy, my eyes became hazy and my cheeks became hot. I feel cold and impatient. However, Yi didn't stop as usual, but did it unconsciously.
Finally, backache and leg pain made me stand up and lean against a relatively flat mountain. When I looked back, the sky was covered with white clouds like fish scales, and the bottom was dark green. I don't know what to do, but I always feel that my left and right sides are not satisfactory, so I reach out anxiously and pull up a wisteria that grows from the mountain to the horizon. A room has just opened a magnificent purple flower. When I waved my hand, the vines were lying in disorder and the petals were scattered all over the floor. Yi then waved his hand, and Wisteria turned over in the muddy water and spilled the soil mixed with water at the same time. As soon as I landed, it became a lot of ordinary things that Yi had done before, but most of them were dull and annoying. However, I don't care about these things at all. It's just fun and fidgety. The mischievous hand waved like this, swinging faster and faster, and rolled on the ground like a red snake scalded by boiling water. Mud spots also splashed from vines like a rainstorm, turned into crying little things in the air and climbed all over the floor.
Yi is almost absent-minded, especially so, but his back and legs hurt and even his arms are exhausted. So Yi couldn't help squatting down, leaning his head against the mountain, his hair was dark on the top of the mountain, he gasped for a while, sighed and closed his eyes. Wisteria fell from her hands and lay lazily on the ground.
two
Boom! !
In the sound of falling prices, Nu Wa suddenly woke up and slipped to the southeast. Easy to reach out and step on it, but nothing can be kicked. [5] He quickly grasped the mountain peak with comfortable arms, and there was no downward trend.
However, it is easy to feel water and sand pouring on his head and body from behind. Turning around, he took a sip of water and had two ears. Yi hurriedly lowered his head and saw the ground shaking. Fortunately, this vacillation seems to have calmed down. Yi moved back and sat firmly. Only then did he remove his hand and wipe the water from his forehead and eyes to see what had happened.
The situation is very unclear, and there are waterfalls of water everywhere; Probably in the sea, there are several sharp waves. Yi had to wait.
However, it finally calmed down. The big waves were not as high as the mountains in the past, and rocky bones were exposed in places like land. Iraq looked at the sea and saw only a few mountains rushing in and spinning in the waves. I was afraid that the mountain would touch my foot, so I reached for it. I look at the mountains and there are still many things I have never seen before.
Yi drew back his hand and looked closely at the mountain. I saw that the ground next to those things was a mess, like the powder of golden jade, mixed with some chewed pine and cypress leaves and fish. They also slowly raised their heads. Nu Wa opened her eyes wide and finally realized that this was a small thing she had done before. It's just strange that she is wrapped around her body, and some of them still have snow-white Mao Mao in the lower part of her face, although they are stuck by the sea like a sharp poplar leaf.
"Ah, ah!" Yi screamed in surprise and fear, and his skin was covered with millet, just like meeting a burr bug.
"On the true gang ..." The lower part of a white-haired face held its head high and vomited, and said intermittently, "Help ... I'm ... I'm learning from fairies. Unexpectedly, bad luck arrival, heaven and earth fall apart. ..... Fortunately ... when you meet the truth, ... please save the ant's life, ... and give the fairy ... "So he bowed his head and made a strange gesture. Yi was at a loss and had to say, "What?" Many of them also spoke, just like vomiting, shouting "really" at the same time, and then made strange moves. It is easy to get upset by them and regret the original pulling, which caused inexplicable disasters. I forgot to look around, only to see a group of giant crayfish [8] playing on the sea. I can't help being overjoyed. I immediately put all those mountains on my back and said, "camel me to a stable place!" " The giant aojiang seems to nod, and the camels in droves are far away. But I pulled it so hard that a white-haired man fell from the mountain. At this time, he couldn't catch up and couldn't swim, so he fell on the beach and slapped himself. This makes Nu Wa feel pity, but she doesn't care, because Yi really doesn't have time to take care of these things.
Yi took a deep breath and then turned his eyes to look at him. The running water has receded a lot, and large areas of earth and stone are exposed everywhere. There are many things embedded in the crevices, some are upright, and some are still moving. Iraq caught a glimpse of a man staring at Iraq with white eyes; The whole body was wrapped in iron, and the expression on her face seemed disappointed and scared.
"What is this?" Yi asked 1.
"Alas, the sky is mourning." That one said piteously, "Zhuan Xu didn't know what to do. After he resisted me, I went to heaven to beg and fight in the suburbs. When the heaven was not right, the teacher turned away ..." [9].
"What?" Yi had never heard such words, and he was surprised.
"Our division turned away, and after I lost my head, I touched the mountain where I didn't make progress [10], folded Tianzhu and the Jedi dimension, and I died, too. Well, it's true but ... "
"Enough is enough, I don't know what you mean." Yi turned away and saw only a happy and proud face, which was also wrapped in iron.
"What is this?" At this time, Yi Cai realized that these little things can also become such different faces, so he also wanted to ask a different understandable answer.
"The heart is not ancient, but Kang has a heart, and he is in heaven. After that, I devoted myself to heaven, and I fought in the suburbs. Shi Tian has virtue, and our division is invincible, so I return to the mountain of no progress. 〔 1 1〕
"What?" Yi still doesn't understand.
"Old heart, ..."
"Enough, enough!" I was so angry that my face suddenly turned red in my ears. I quickly turned my head and went to find something else. He finally saw something without iron, naked and bleeding with scars, but his waist was still surrounded by a rag. He is unbuttoning the rag from the waist of another upright thing and tying it in a hurry, but his look is also very dull.
Yi thought that he and those who are covered with iron sheets are another kind of people, and should be able to find some clues, so he asked:
"What is this?"
"What was that?" He just looked up and said.
"Then just get out? ……"
"Did that just happen?"
"Is it a war?" Iraq has no choice but to guess for itself.
"Fight?" But he also asked.
Nuwa gasped and looked up at the sky at the same time. There is a big crack in the sky, deep and wide. Yi stood up and flicked his nails, which was not brittle at all, almost like the sound of breaking a bowl. Yi frowned, looked around, thought for a moment, then wrung the water out of her hair, put it on her left and right shoulders, and pulled up the reeds everywhere: Yi had made up his mind to "fix it". 〔 12〕
Since then, Iraq has piled reeds day and night, and no matter how high the pile is, Iraq has lost weight, because the situation is not as good as before. The sky on the back is skewed and cracked, the bow is dirty and shabby, and there is nothing pleasing to the eye.
Only when reeds piled up in cracks did Iraq look for green stones. At first I wanted to use pure bluestone, which was in harmony with the sky. However, there are not so many on the ground, and the mountains are reluctant to use them. Sometimes I go to crowded places to find bits and pieces, and when I see them, I sneer, scold, or take them back, or even bite Yi's hand. So I have to mix some white stones. If it is not enough, I will get some red, yellow and gray-black. Finally, the crack was filled in, and all it took was a little fire. Once it melted, it was done. However, I am too tired to support it.
"Well, I've never been so bored." Easy to sit on the top of the mountain,
He held his head in his hands and said breathlessly.
At this time, the ancient forest fire on Kunlun Mountain [13] has not been extinguished, and the sky in the west is red. Yi glanced at the west and decided to take a big tree with fire from there to get some reed firewood. He was about to reach out his hand when he felt something sting his toes.
Yishun looked at it. As usual, it was a little thing he had done before, but it was even stranger. He was hung with something like cloth, with a dozen pieces of cloth around his waist and something on his head. Above it is a small black rectangular board [14], holding something in his hand, which is something that hurts his toes.
The man with a rectangular board stood between Nu Wa's legs and looked up. Easy to look pleasing to the eye, he quickly handed the small piece up. Easy to come and have a look, it is a very smooth bamboo with two rows of black spots on it, which are much smaller than those on oak leaves. Iraq also admires the subtlety of this method.
"What is this?" Yi couldn't help but wonder and ask again.
Pointing to the piece of bamboo, the one with the rectangular plate recited: "Naked prostitutes are lewd, immoral, disrespectful and worse than animals. State-owned regular punishment, but it is forbidden! "
Nu Wa stared at the small square board and laughed at herself for asking too many questions. Iben knew it was unreasonable to talk with this kind of thing as usual, so he stopped talking, put bamboo pieces on the square board above his head, pulled out a burning tree from the fire forest and lit it on the Chai Lu pile.
Suddenly I heard the sound of purring and swallowing, but it was unheard of. I glanced down again, and there were two tears smaller than mustard seeds in my small eyes under the square plate. Because this is very different from the cry of "Nganga" that Iraqis used to listen to before, I didn't know it was also a cry.
Easy to light, more than one place.
The fire is not big, the reed firewood is not completely dry, but it is still burning.
For a long time, I finally put out the tongue of countless flames and licked it up one by one. After a long time, I synthesized a thick flower of flame [15], which became a pillar of flame and overwhelmed the red light on Kunlun Mountain. The wind suddenly blew, the pillar of fire whirled and roared, the blue and variegated stones turned red, and caramel flowed among the cracks like immortal lightning.
Wind and fire make Yi's hair spread and spin, and sweat runs like a waterfall. A big flame set off Yi's body, which made the universe show the last flesh red.
The pillar of fire rose gradually, leaving only a pile of Chai Lu ashes. The sky is blue, so it's easy to reach out and touch it, and my fingers feel quite uneven.
"Restore strength, come again. "I thought to myself.
It is easy to bend down and hold reed ash and put it in the big water on the ground. Reed ash is not cold enough, the water is boiling, and the ash water is spilled all over. The strong wind refused to stop. It came with ashes and turned Iraq into dust.
"Ah! ..... "Easy to spit out the last breath.
There is a radiant sun in the blood-red clouds on the horizon, such as a flowing golden ball wrapped in ancient lava; On the other side, it is a cold white moon like pig iron. But I don't know who is going down and who is going up. At this time, Yide exhausted all his strength. He lay in the middle and stopped breathing.
There is silence above death in all directions.
three
One day, it was very cold, but I heard a little noise. It was the imperial guards who finally killed them, because they were waiting for the fire and smoke to disappear, so they came late. They left a yellow axe, a black axe on the right, and a huge and ancient scorpion behind them, dodging to attack the side of Nuwa's body, but nothing happened. They built a village on the belly of the dead body, because this place is the most fertile, and they are very smart when choosing these things. However, they suddenly changed their tune, saying that only they were the lineages of Nuwa, and at the same time changed the word "Kodou" on the Dawa flag to "Nuwa's intestines". 〔 16〕
The old Taoist priest who landed on the shore has been handed down for countless generations. On his deathbed, he told his disciples the news that Fairy Mountain was carried to the sea by the giant aojiang, and the disciples passed it on to them. Later, an alchemist wanted to please him and asked Qin Shihuang, who taught the alchemist to look for it [17].
The alchemist couldn't find the fairy mountain, and Qin Shihuang finally died; Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty taught Xun again, but there was no shadow [18].
About the giant aojiang couldn't understand what Nu Wa said, but then they nodded occasionally. After Momo Hu Hu's back took a ride, everyone slept, and fairy mountain followed, so until now, no one has seen half of fairy mountain, and at most, several savage islands have been seen.
1922 1 1 month
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[1] This article was originally published in 1922 1 February1Sunday's Commemorative Supplement of Beijing Morning Post with the title "There are no mountains on the island", which was once included in Scream. When Scream was printed for the 13th time in 1930 1 month, the author deleted it and later changed it to its current name, which was included in this book.
[2] Nu Wa is the ancestor of human beings in China ancient mythology. She made man out of loess, which is a myth about the origin of human beings in China. "Taiping Yulan" Volume 78 quoted Ying Shao's "Customs Pass" in the Han Dynasty as saying: "As the saying goes, heaven and earth are open and there are no people; Nu Wa is a man in the loess, but the sitting audience is at a loss, so she holds the rope in the mud like a man and lifts it. Therefore, the rich are also loess people; The poor and ordinary people are also human beings. " (According to the full name of "Custom Pass", there is no such article in this biography. )
[3] The third person pronoun of Iraqi women. The word "she" was not used at that time.
〔4〕Nganga！ ! "And the following" AkonAgon,! " "uvua haha!" They are all spelled in Latin letters. “Nganga！ ! "transliteration is like" uh-huh! Yeah! " “AkonAgon，！” Transliteration is like "Kong, Gong!" "uvua haha!" Transliteration is like "Woo-hoo, ah-ha-ha!"
[5] This is a myth that the anger of workers can't touch the top of the mountain. "Huainanzi Astronomical Training": "In the past, workers and Zhuan Xu fought for the emperor, but they were angry and couldn't touch the mountain. The sky was broken and the land was lost. The sky leans to the northwest, so the sun, the moon and the stars move; The land is dissatisfied with the southeast, and the water and dust return. " According to * * * workers and Zhuan Xu, they are all characters in ancient myths and legends in China. Historians used to say that workers were descendants of Yan Di (Shennong), an ancient warlord. Zhuan Xu, the grandson of the Yellow Emperor, is one of the "Five Emperors" in ancient history.
[6] Jade powder refers to something similar to cinnabar jade taken by Taoist priests, and it is believed that after taking it, it can live forever.
[7] Shangzhen Taoism says that people who practice Taoism are real people. It's really an honorific title.
[8] See Liezi Tang Wen's bow: "To the east of the Bohai Sea, there are five mountains for hundreds of millions of miles: Dai Yu, Jiaoyuan, Fanghu, Yingzhou and Penglai. ..... People who live here are immortals. ..... and the roots of the five mountains are not connected, often like the ebb and flow of the tide, up and down, unable to stand (temporarily). The poison of the immortal caught the attention of the emperor, who was afraid that he would wander to the west pole and lose the residence of the saint. I was ordered to make the giant eagle wear fifteen times, three times, and sixty thousand years, and the five mountains were established. " According to Yu □, see Shan Hai Jing and Bei Jing: "There is a god in the North Sea, a bird with a human face, two green snakes and two red snakes, named Yu □."
[9] This is what Gonggong said in the war between Gonggong and Zhuan Xu. After the monarch, here refers to the * * * work. These sentences and the following two classical Chinese sentences are imitations of ancient books such as Shangshu.
[10] Bad Mountain According to Shan Hai Jing ·Xi· Shan Jing, Guo Pu of Jin Dynasty notes: "This mountain shape lacks bad coins because of its name." There is also the "Huai Nan Zi Yuan Dao Xun" of the later Han Dynasty, which highly concludes that this mountain is in the "northwest of Kunlun".
[1 1] This is what Zhuan Xu said. Kang Hui, * * * work name. Later, this refers to Zhuan Xu.
[12] As for the myth of Nu Wa's mending the sky by refining stones, there are the following records in Lan Mingxun of Huainanzi: "The past four poles were abandoned, and Kyushu was split; The sky is gone, and the earth is not loaded; The fire never goes out, and the water never stops; ..... So Nu Wa refined five-color stones to make up the sky, broke the shackles and set up four poles, killed the black dragon to help Jizhou, and accumulated reed ash to stop lewd water. " It also replaced Sima Zhen's supplement to Historical Records of Huang San: "In the last years of (Nu Wa), vassals had the title of * * *, and they were wise and used military punishment, dominating but not king, and taking water as wood. They fought with Zhu Rong, angry because they were overwhelmed, but they didn't touch the ground and the sky was broken. "Nu Wa refined five-color stones to make up the sky, breaking the shackles is enough to set up four poles, and collecting reed ash to stop drowning and help Jizhou."
[13] Ancient forest fire on Kunlun Mountain According to Shan Hai Jing and Xiye Jing: "There is a mountain called Kunlun Mountain ... there is a flaming mountain outside, and you can throw things (burn)."
[14] Rectangular plate The decorative plate on the ceremonial crown of ancient emperors and princes was called "Yan" in ancient times, also known as "crown plate". That little thing with a square plate is the "little husband in ancient costume" mentioned in the preface of this book. The classical Chinese sentences he recited below are also imitations of ancient books such as Shangshu.
A double flower.
[16] As for the myth of "Nu Wa Chang", there are the following records in Shan Hai Jing Huang Da Xi Jing: "Beyond the Northwest Sea, there are mountains in the wild corner, which are called" Bad Zhou Fuzi ". ..... There is a country called Shu, the son of Zhuan Xu. There are ten gods, the famous Nu Wa Chang, who became gods and lived in the wild of Li Guang. " Guo Pu's note: "Nu Wa, the ancient goddess and emperor, is a snake with a human face, which changes from seventy to seventy a day, and its intestines turn into this god." Kodou, an archaic character with thick strokes and thin tails, looks like a tadpole.
[17] The story of Qin Shihuang's search for immortal mountains is recorded in Historical Records of Qin Shihuang as follows: "The Qi people Xu (Fu) and others wrote that there are three sacred mountains on the sea, named Penglai, the abbot and Yingzhou, where immortals live. Please hurry and beg with boys and girls. So he sent thousands of boys and girls from Xu Shi to the sea to seek immortality. ..... how old are you? "
[18] The story of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty searching for the fairy mountain is recorded as follows in Historical Records: The alchemist: "(Li) said (Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty):' ... I tasted the sea and saw An Qisheng and An Qisheng eating giant dates as big as watermelons. The immortals in An Qisheng are all connected to Penglai. When they are together, they will see people, and when they are not, they will hide. "So the son of heaven began to kiss the shrine stove, sent alchemists to the sea, sought the ownership of Penglai and An Qisheng, and turned the medicine of cinnabar into gold. ..... And the alchemist waited for the man of God to go to sea for Penglai, but there was no test. "