These problems deserve our consideration.
From folklore, we can hear several versions of the story about diusim:
One theory is that Guan Yu hid the story of diusim, and Cao Cao sent someone to arrest him after learning about it, and diusim's story fell on the sword; Another way of saying it is that diusim's story returned to his hometown under the arrangement of Guan Yu and died in his hometown (some people say that he became a monk for Nepal, and there is also a book "A series of tricks secretly set in Jinyun Hall"); There is even a saying that Cao Cao confessed the story of Diusim to Guan Yu and secretly responded to Liu Bei to provoke their brotherhood. Guan Yu killed the story of diusim in order to avoid Cao nian; There is also the Yuan drama "The Story of Guan Yu Zangetsu's Losing Sim", which says that Cao Cao sent him to seduce Guan Yu, and Guan Yu was afraid that he could not hold it. He threw a knife at Zangetsu and lost Sim's shadow and flew into the moon palace.
It can be seen that no matter what kind of statement, the story of the whereabouts of Diexin is closely related to Guan Yu.
In fact, in Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Luo Guanzhong actually used a metonymy to tell this story. He actually hinted at this with a fictional red hare.
In fact, many people have found a doubt. When Guan Yu got the red hare from Lu Bu, it was already an adult horse, and Guan Yu was in his prime. Moreover, Guan Yu finally defeated Maicheng, and when he was killed by Soochow, he was riding a red hare, which was already in his fifties. This is obviously an obvious mistake.
Specifically, when Lu Bu got the red rabbit from Dong Zhuo, the red rabbit could already be used on the battlefield. The year is 190. When Guan Yu got the red rabbit, it was about ten years ago. By the time Guan Yu left Maicheng, it was already 22 1 year. In other words, even if Dong Zhuo rewarded Lu Bu with a newborn pony, by the time Guan Yu died, Red Rabbit would be 3 1 year old.
From the zoological point of view, the life span of horses is generally only 30~40 years old, and the general physical labor is shorter. In other words, even if the red rabbit was not dead at that time, it was already an old horse that could only lie in the stable for retirement. Guan Yu will never ride a horse again.
If we carefully compare the life experiences of the stories of Diesim and Red Rabbit, we will find many coincidences. Their relationship is from Dong Zhuo to Lu Bu and then to Guan Yu. This is not a simple coincidence. It can be said that the red rabbit is actually the story of diusim, and the two are one. Luo Guanzhong used the red rabbit as a metaphor for the life development story of Diusim after the White Gate Tower.
However, why is this? What is the whole story?
In fact, the story names of diusim and red rabbit are one-to-one correspondence. As mentioned earlier, the real name of diusim's story is Ren Hongchang, and there is a scarlet letter. Red rabbit's deficit is deliberately corresponding to this scarlet letter. If so, what does the word rabbit correspond to? In fact, Luo Guanzhong used the word rabbit to represent the story of Dixim's identity.
It seems that on the surface, diusim's story has nothing to do with the word rabbit. Why did Luo Guanzhong do this? This explanation is a bit complicated.
To make things clear, we must start with some ancient religions.
In human history, almost all human civilizations have experienced matriarchal society in the process of evolution. Even in some primitive tribes now, there are still traces left. It was from the matriarchal society that human beings began to understand and know nature, and gradually had religious worship. As a result, women, as the dominant gender at that time, became the representative of God. Human beings worship the nature that produces all things, and at the same time worship the fertile female body as a symbol of the god of nature. Dan brown described the goddess worship in European history in detail in The Da Vinci Code.
Similarly, in the East, goddess worship once occupied a dominant position in human religion. Goddess worship has always existed in China, and continues to the patriarchal society.
When the society entered the patriarchal society, men with stronger strength and intelligence replaced women as the dominant society, and religion also changed greatly. Soon, more and more male mythical roles replaced female roles. However, female worship did not disappear immediately, but continued to exert great influence in human society. In China's classical historical myths, many images of goddesses, such as Nu Wa, have been preserved so far. Their influence on social history is no less than other male gods.
In the history of China, mankind has always adopted a simple world outlook of Yin and Yang. Everything is divided into two parts and endowed with yin or yang attributes. In a patriarchal society, women are endowed with the attribute of Yin, so goddess worship is also called Yin God worship. As the largest entity with yin attribute in nature, the moon (Taiyin) naturally becomes a totem of worshipping Yin. Therefore, China's Yin God worship religion is also called Yue Bai.
Having said that, we can explain the previous problems. The story of diusim diusim is a member of the underground goddess worship religion, and his status is quite high. It is a proof that there has always been a story about Diexin and Yue Bai among the people in China.
Chang 'e has always been the subjective moon goddess in China, and she often becomes the concrete representative of many Yue Bai idols. Her pet Yutu, as the closest creature to the goddess, is used as a symbol of important people in the church, such as sacrifice. This is also the theoretical basis of Luo Guanzhong's use of rabbit characters to express the identity story of Diusim.
Therefore, the red rabbit actually refers to the story of diusim. Luo Guanzhong recorded the story of Diusim's later whereabouts in the form of password. In the folk in the south, people also call women girls, which is the same reason.
So, in fact, diusim's story is behind the White Gate Tower, and he is with Guan Yu. The bigger secret is that the story of diusim was actually changed by Guan Yu and was awarded a teaching position. Folk rumors say that Guan Yu arranged for diusim to become a monk, so it is said. Guan Yu accepted the story of Deusim's missionary work, because he was a male, and although he was in a high position, he could not be promoted once. So he made the story of diusim into a Buddhist, and then controlled the whole church by controlling her.
So, why did Luo Guanzhong describe all this in a secret way? Well, it's a long story.
Let's talk about what happened after the story of Diusim and Guan Yu arrived in West Shu.
When Liu Bei occupied the whole western Shu area, Guan Yu took the initiative to defend Jingzhou. As the chief general under Liu Bei, he made such a request, and Liu Bei had no reason to disagree. And Guan Yu naturally has his plans. In Jingzhou, he became the local supreme commander, and he could use all the conditions to develop his own religious organization. Of course, in return, the story of his and Diusim's position in the church has also been upgraded unprecedentedly.
In the later period, Jingzhou, with its convenient geographical location and traffic conditions, was rich in products and developed in economy, which helped the whole cult expand rapidly. However, the good times did not last long. With the rapid increase of cult power and wealth, organizations that originally relied on religious beliefs began to crack. The profit-seeking nature of human beings began to cause various power struggles. At the same time, Diusim's story began to be dissatisfied with his puppet status, and gradually used the worship of some parishioners to strengthen his strength. When I feel full-fledged, I gradually openly compete with Guan Yu.
At first, Guan Yu, who was too conceited, ignored the story of diusim's behavior. In his view, the story of diusim is still just a puppet in his own hands. As a result, the story of diusim's strength was inadvertently filled out of thin air, and it was a little late when he woke up.
As a result, a fierce dark battle escalated in Jingzhou, which was calm on the surface.
When the two factions are fighting to the death, a bigger crisis has quietly approached here.
Jingzhou's convenient transportation and rich products bring convenience to the development of the whole cult, but also become a battleground for military strategists for the same reason. This laid the groundwork for the fall of Jingzhou later.
When the news of Jingzhou's internal power struggle was brought back to Soochow by spies, Soochow realized that the best time had come to recapture Jingzhou. Meanwhile, Cao Cao began to covet this land.
At this time, Guan Yu did not explain the form at that time, but took the initiative to attack Cao Cao. So, Wu Dong took the opportunity to send his troops, captured Jingzhou, which was in a mess, and soon killed the story of Guan Yu and Di Xin.
However, the powerful cult did not disintegrate quickly, but gradually went underground. Later, after the reunification of Wei, Pound's descendants entered Jingzhou and massacred Guan Yu's family and their followers on a large scale, and the cult split up, completely hidden among the people and disappeared from all official history.
Later, in the long years, this religious organization rose and fell from time to time, which had a certain impact on the history of China, but it often disappeared soon. In the later development process, they gradually degenerated into a complete group power, and the original doctrine of goddess worship was gradually abandoned. Finally, it developed into a fraternity organization with Guan Yu and other images as gods. The earliest goddess worship was completely abandoned or even completely banned. Killed several fundamentalists in cold blood. So this school of diusim's story disappeared from the historical stage of China after thousands of years of constant persecution and killing.
As a survivor of this minority faction, Luo Guanzhong had to use metaphors to explain everything in his works in order to make the facts public and hope to save his life.
For the story of Deusim, he used symbols such as "the moon" and "the rabbit" to express it. As for Guan Yu, he used the Chinese character "Qing" to represent Guan Yu, which combined the first half of Guan Yu's title "Hou Ting of Hanshou" with the moon character representing the story of Diexin. At the same time, cyan, as a color, corresponds to the scarlet letter in the story The Name of Diesim. In China's folklore plays, Guan Yu always wears green clothes, which is the origin.
In order to further illustrate the facts, Luo Guanzhong fabricated his famous weapon-"Dragon Crescent Moon Blade" for Guan Yu, for fear that future generations could not fathom his original intention. I don't need to explain what the dragon and the moon stand for.
Luo Guanzhong used the knife as Guan Yu's weapon, hoping that future generations could see the flaw. Because in the Han dynasty, there were no long-handled broadswords in the army.
By the way, this fraternity has always been considered as a descendant of the Han family in its later development. After the Qing army entered the customs, it gradually merged with other anti-Qing organizations to form the Hong Men. In traditional Chinese characters, the word "Hong" means that Chinese characters move to the soil, which means that Han people have lost their land. Later, after the Qing Dynasty was overthrown, some of them were renamed the famous "green gang"-the word green gang was the source and the story above.