How to remember "three religions and nine streams"

I often hear people say that there are three religions and nine streams, so do you know what that means? Three religions and nine streams come from Zhao Yanwei's Foothills Cloud (Volume 6) in the Song Dynasty. He wrote in the book: "(Wu Liang) The emperor asked about the three religions and the past of the Han Dynasty, and this is the case today."

Usually, the three religions refer to the three major religions in China, namely Confucianism, Taoism and Buddhism. At the beginning of the nine streams, it refers to Confucianism, Taoism, Yin and Yang, Legalists, famous artists, Mohists, strategists, miscellaneous scholars and farmers. Later, it also refers to various religious and academic schools or to various industries and figures in society. There are some derogatory terms in all religions, so I'll remember them with you now. We can combine it into a short story memory, as follows:

One day, Confucius (Confucianism), Laozi (Taoism) and Buddhists (Buddhism) got together and had a teaching competition. I saw a Confucian scholar find the Yin-Yang Eight Diagrams Mirror, but I never thought it was an antique. They were sent to prison by the judge's decision, and they soon hired a nail-painting lawyer (famous). The lawyer took out a bottle of ink (Mohist) and wrote one horizontal and one vertical on the chessboard. This chessboard was given to the clown of the acrobatic troupe, and the clown of the acrobatic troupe gave it to a farmer's uncle, who planted hybrid rice according to it.

Through the above short story, we can remember that there are three religions and nine streams. In addition, we will also see the saying that the upper class is nine streams and the lower class is nine streams on TV.

The upper nine streams refer to: one Buddha, two immortals, three sages, four officials, five ministers, six phases, seven monks, eight roads and nine games; The middle nine streams refer to: one storytelling, two doctors, three divination (fortune telling), four chess players (chess players), five painters (painters), six officials (ranks), seven horizontal (lobbyists), eight righteous (chivalrous) and nine fishing; The "dirty tricks" refer to: a high platform (singing opera), two blowers (drummers), three circuses, four haircuts (shaving heads), five pools (opening bathhouses), six back rubs, seven pedicures, eight matches (breeding) and nine prostitutes.

Through the above jingle, we can remember nine of the top nine streams and nine of the bottom nine streams. In addition, we can also use image method, homophonic method, story method and number hook method to remember.

Among them, Shangjiuliu is the starting point, and Shangjiuliu homophony enters the mountain nine floors. Imagine that there is a nine-story building on the hill.

A Buddha is directly imagined as a Tathagata, and the Buddha on Lingshan stretches out a huge palm. The fairy among the two immortals is homophonic and salty. Imagine a fairy eating salted duck eggs. The homonym of the three sages is poetry fairy. Think of it as Li Bai (poetry fairy) studying the books of sages hard to gain fame. Four officials imagine that a person has two mouths, and there are two mouths under the official word. Five ministers homophonic into the Communist Youth League, imagine as a Communist Youth League member. Liu Xiang imagined a prime minister with a boat in his stomach and sitting in a chair with a big belly. The Seven Monks imagined a young monk knocking on a wooden fish and chanting Amitabha in his mouth. Eight Road imagines a Taoist priest and draws yellow symbols. Jiu Zhuangtian imagines a farmer working in a field, surrounded by a manor.

Then we change the middle nine streams and remember them in the same way as above. Zhong Jiu Liu homophonic bell restaurant, imagine a 9-story restaurant with a big clock.

A storyteller imagines a storyteller, telling a story in front with a board. The second doctor directly imagines himself as a doctor, and the third diviner imagines himself as a fortune teller, holding a plaque with 1000 hexagrams in his hand. Think chess (chess player) is imagined as two chess players, who are inextricably linked next to Go. Wu Danqing (painter) imagines himself as a painter who sells paintings for a living. There is a famous sentence by Wen Tianxiang in the painting, "Since ancient times, no one has died in life, so keep your heart and shine on history." Liu Shi (rank) imagined himself as a soldier in the Qing Dynasty, wearing clothes painted with tomatoes. Qi Heng (lobbyist), as a strategist, can be associated with Guiguzi or Wei Zhao and Nie Gai in the bright moon of Qin Dynasty. What Eight Righteousness (Chivalrous Man) can remember is Guo Jing, the great warrior in The Legend of the Condor Heroes. Just homophonic, imagine Guo Jing fighting with ants. Jiu Diao wants to be a fisherman directly, and drives a boat in fishing.

Now we remember nine occupations of the lower class, which are homophonic for shrimp Kowloon and imagined as Australian lobster vs Nine-headed Dragon.

A high platform (singing opera) is imagined as a group of dramatic actors singing Beijing opera on the stage and taking turns to appear. Erhammer (drummer) directly imagines an old man playing drums and playing a lively trumpet at the wedding scene. These three circuses are imagined as one circus. There are clowns, animal trainers, merry-go-rounds and so on in a huge circus. Four shaving (shaving) Imagine yourself as an old barber, holding a knife to help others shave their heads. Five pools (open bathhouse) Imagine a huge hot pool where many people take a bath. Six back rubs are directly imagined as one back rub. The master was rubbing a big man's back and rubbed off all his tattoos. Seven pedicurists imagine that once a pedicurist smelled his feet and fainted directly. Eight mating (breeding) imagine a pig driver, driving a boar to breed. Nine prostitutes imagine prostitutes in brothels, and prostitutes homophonic into the Yangtze River. Imagine that this brothel is built on the edge of the Yangtze River.

Now we will combine the above contents into story memories, as follows:

Above a Lingshan, there is a nine-story stupa. Sitting on the first floor of the Buddha, the palm is all-encompassing. On the second floor, you can see a fairy who is stealing salted duck eggs, and the spell disappears. There is a sound of reading on the third floor. It turns out that the poet Li Bai is reading a sage book. Then I went upstairs and saw a strange man with two mouths. His two mouths kept spitting out gold. Gold spread to the fifth floor upstairs, where there was a black prime minister with a boat in his stomach. He rushed to the sixth floor by boat and accidentally bumped into a young monk hiding in a spoon. The young monk was saved by the Taoist priest on the seventh floor with a sickle, and the Taoist priest sent him to the farmer's uncle's farm on the roof. At this time, the stupa gave off golden light and shone on a big clock in the dining room.

This building is nine stories high and smells of alcohol. Entering the gate on the first floor, you can see a storyteller telling an article about Guan Yu's bone scraping and healing in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms. On the second floor, an orthopedic surgeon in white was attracted. He laughed and applauded Hua Tuo's medical skill. Unexpectedly, applause woke up the fortune teller on the third floor, a diviner and a daughter. The fortune teller pinched his fingers and counted the two players of Go downstairs. The chess player hurried to the fifth floor on the sliding hook and found an artist who was drawing. The result was caught by the Qing soldiers with a tomato on the chest on the sixth floor and pressed in front of the strategist Guiguzi. On the way, he was rescued by Guo Jing riding an ant and put on a fishing boat that sent fish to the restaurant.

The fishing boat slowly sailed into the lake and was involved in the battle between the Australian lobster demon and the nine-headed dragon. The war hit the edge of the Yangtze River from the lake, causing huge waves and blowing the Peking Opera actors who were singing next to them into a drowned rat. Fortunately, an old man who played drums brought them raincoats and sent them to the circus to take shelter from the rain. There are many animal trainers in the circus. They have many tigers and lions. To prepare for the performance, they were sent to the barber shop to have their hair shaved. The barber was sweating with fear. After finishing his work, the barber ran to a huge bath hall to take a bath and saw a big man with a tattoo rubbing his back. The back rubbing master was so strong that he accidentally rubbed off the tattoo of the big man. The back rubbing master was trembling with fear, so he made him a pedicure cloth for free, and the result was stinky feet. The staff carried the master, sat on a breeding pig and took him to the hospital. On the way, the breeder rushed into a brothel near the Yangtze River and got lost among the flowers.

Through the above story, you can remember Jiuxi in Shangjiuxi and Jiuxi in Xiajiuxi. In addition, you can remember them by linking numbers. Let's look at the table below. The top nine streams are linked to the number 1-9, the middle nine streams are linked to the number11-0/9, and the bottom nine streams are linked to the number 2 1-29. As follows:

Through the above table, you can also remember the upper, middle and lower reaches, and this method can also help you locate quickly and help you learn backwards. Through the above methods, we can remember three religions and nine streams, and we should review more after reciting them.