Ancient tragic love stories about letters

Drinking horses and the Great Wall caves.

Dynasty: Wei and Jin.

Drinking horses in the Great Wall Caves, the water is cold and hurts the bones of horses.

In the past, it was said that the officials of the Great Wall, be careful not to stay in Taiyuan!

The official work has its own process, and the sound of building harmony is built!

Men would rather die in fighting, how can they build the Great Wall.

The Great Wall is three thousand miles away.

There are many healthy and few in the border cities, and there are many widows in the inner houses.

Write books and inner houses, and marry and don't stay.

Be kind to your new aunt and always remember my late master!

Report to the borderland, what is the disdain for Jun Jin's words?

In the midst of calamity, what is the reason to keep his family?

Be cautious when giving birth to a boy, and breastfeed a girl.

Jun Du did not see the Great Wall, and the bones of the dead were supporting each other.

The knot is the king, and the heart is closed.

Knowing that the border land is bitter, how can a cheap concubine be self-satisfied for a long time?

Translation: Let the horses drink water in the Great Wall Cave, the spring water is cold and hurts the horse's bones. The official who found the Great Wall said to him, "Don't stay in Taiyuan anymore!"

The official said: "The official's project has a deadline, hurry up and shout in unison!" (Taiyuan officer said.)

How can a man be depressed and be the Great Wall when he fights to death? "The Great Wall stretches endlessly, stretching for three thousand miles. Countless young men who served in the border city, and countless wives in their hometowns lived alone.

Carrying a letter with his wife, "Don't wait to remarry quickly!" After getting married, serve your new mother-in-law well, and always remember not to forget my old man. The wife replied to the border, (the wife questioned in the letter:

Are you talking so wildly now? (Taiyuan official letter said): "If you can't go back when you are in trouble, why do you want to keep someone's daughter?"

Don't raise a boy when you give birth, give birth to a girl and feed it with meat, don't you see the bones of the dead crossing under the Great Wall? (The wife said in the letter:) "I should follow you when I marry you, I don't think I can remember you enough, I know that the border is hard, how can I live for a long time to protect myself?"

The whole poem uses the form of dialogue to express the demeanor and mood of the protagonist, which is concise and vivid. The dialogue between the soldiers and the officials shows the hardships of the soldiers who have served in the frontier for a long time, and their eagerness to return home; The letters between the soldiers and their wives show the great sentiments of the ancient working women and the soldiers who served in the military endured humiliation, cared for each other, and lived and died. The kind of grief and indignation of "be careful not to give birth to a man, and give birth to a girl to feed her" has made many readers cry.

In ancient times, the wild goose could be used as a synonym for letters. According to the "Historical Records", in the first year of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty (100 BC), Zhonglang sent Su Wu to the Xiongnu and was detained for a long time in the bitter cold zone of Beihai (now Lake Baikal) for many years. Later, the Han Dynasty sent an envoy to ask the Xiongnu to release Su Wu, but the Xiongnu Shan Yu lied that Su Wu was dead and filial piety was late.

Chang Hui, who went with Su Wu to envoy the Huns, secretly met the Han envoy, told Su Wu that he was not dead, and asked him to say to Shan Yu: The rough emperor of the Han Dynasty was hunting in Shanglin Yuan, and he shot a wild goose, and a silk book was tied to the goose's feet, which said that Su Wu was in Daze. In this way, the Xiongnu Shan Yu could no longer falsely claim that Su Wu was dead, so he had to return him to the Han Dynasty.

"The Legend of the Wild Goose" is an ancient Chinese folklore, because the wild goose is a migratory bird that migrates regularly, and it is keep-it-on-time, gathers in flocks, and is highly organized.

The biography of the wild goose is the biography of the flying pigeon.

Synopsis: 1. During the Han Dynasty, Su Wu sent an envoy to the Xiongnu and was exiled to Beihai to herd sheep. Ten years later, the Han Dynasty made peace with the Xiongnu, but Shan Yu still did not allow Su Wu to return to Han.

Chang Hui, who went to the Xiongnu with Su Wu, told the Han envoy about Su Wu's situation, and designed to let the Han envoy tell Shan Yu: The emperor of the Han Dynasty shot a goose while hunting, and a letter was tied to the goose's feet, describing that Su Wu was shepherding sheep in a certain swamp area. After hearing this, he had no choice but to let Su Wu return to Han.

Later, people used the wild goose as a metaphor for the epistle and the messenger.

What was the transmission of letters like in ancient times? It's not like we have mobile phones and can access the Internet now. The following is the story of the ancient epistle that I have prepared for you, I hope you like it!

The story of the ancient epistles I

According to the "Hanshu Su Wu Biography", Su Wu of the Western Han Dynasty was ordered to send an envoy to the Xiongnu, and the Xiongnu forced him to surrender, but Su Wu refused. It was put into the North Sea by the Hun monarch to shepherd sheep.

After Su Wu endured humiliation for more than ten years, the Han Dynasty reconciled with the Xiongnu. The Han Dynasty sent envoys to the Xiongnu to ask for Su Wu to be released back to Han, but Shan Yu was still unwilling to release him, lying that Su Wu was dead. Chang Hui, who went to the Xiongnu with Su Wu, told the Han envoy the truth, and asked the Han envoy to say this to Shan Yu:

When the emperor of the Han Dynasty was hunting, he once shot a wild goose flying from the north of He Kaifu, and a letter was tied to the goose's feet, saying that Su Wu was not dead and was still herding sheep in Beihai. After hearing this, Shan Yu knew that he could not hide it, so he let Su Wu return to Han.

The wild goose is a large migratory bird, brave and migrates south every autumn. Seeing the wild goose often causes the wanderer to feel homesick and sad. Later, people called the messenger who delivered the letter "Hongyan". The term "Hongyan Biography" also comes from this.

The story of the ancient epistle transmission II

After the ancient ** letter is written, it is sandwiched with two wooden boards, and both wooden boards are carved into the shape of a carp, which is one of the origins of the "carp biography".

There is also "a guest from afar, leaving me a double carp, Hu'er cooking carp, and there is a ruler book inside." This may be the second origin of "Carp Swallow Biography"!

Carp"of"Fish"with"remaining"Homophony, there is more than enough, it is very auspicious! Therefore, this allusion is also used by Cantonese pan!

The story of the ancient epistles III

Sun Bury Jin Shu Lu Ji Biography: "At the beginning, there was a horse dog, called Huang'er, and he loved it very much. Even if he was detained in Beijing, he had no home to ask for a long time, and the laughing dog said:

There is no letter in my house, can you get the news? The dog wags its tail. The machine is for the book to be held in a bamboo tube and tie its head, the dog looks for the way south, and then goes to his home, and has to return to Luo.

After that, it was normal. ”

This is the allusion of "Yellow-eared Dog Sending Letters"! However, this allusion is rarely used in poetry, because dogs are too vulgar, **view, not as auspicious as "Hong Geese" and "Carp".

There are many allusions to ancient epistles, and here are a few of the more well-known:

1, "The Legend of the Wild Goose". The story takes place during the Han Dynasty, when a man named Su Wu was sent to the Xiongnu as an emissary. During his time in the Xiongnu, Su Wu was forced to separate from his wife and was imprisoned for more than a decade.

During this time, Su Wu would write a letter to his wife and family every day to express his feelings of missing them. These letters were eventually sent to the Han Dynasty and became one of the most famous letters in Chinese history.

2. "Yellow Ear Biography". The carrier pigeon is more familiar to everyone. As early as the Tang Dynasty, carrier pigeon biography was already very common.

In the book "The Legacy of Kaiyuan Tianbao" by Wang Renyu of the fifth generation, there is a record of "book pigeons": "When Zhang Jiuling was a teenager, he raised a flock of pigeons. Every time I exchange letters with my relatives, I only use books to tie the pigeon's feet, and fly to it according to what I teach.

Jiulingmu is a flying slave, and everyone at the time loves it. Zhang Jiuling was a politician and poet of the Tang Dynasty, who not only used carrier pigeons to deliver letters, but also gave them the beautiful name "Feinu". Since then, in the Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties, carrier pigeon has always played an important role in people's correspondence life.

3. "Beacon Fire Transmits Military Information". On November 7, 1994, the former Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications issued a souvenir sheet of the Fourth Congress of the All-China Philatelic Federation, with the stamp design of Kizil Gaha in Kuqa County, Xinjiang'The site of the beacon tower in the Han Dynasty, the text on the side paper is part of the content of the wooden tablet of the early years of the Eastern Han Dynasty unearthed in 1974 at the site of the broken city of Zifengsai in Juyan District, Gansu Province, which reproduces the historical allusion of "waiting for the hope and passing the beacon fire" in the northwest border of China more than 2,000 years ago.