Why did Xuan Nv teach Song Jiang the Art of War for nine days in Water Margin?

In the 42nd episode of Water Margin, Sung River was robbed by all Liangshan heroes and saved. He went down the mountain to meet his father and brother, only to be found by officers and soldiers, and hurriedly fled into Xuan Nv Temple in Daocun. When the officers and men found the temple, Xuan Nv appeared, and a strange wind blew. In an instant, flying sand and stones, dark clouds shrouded, and officers and men fled in panic. Xuan Nv sent two Tsing Yi fairies to pick up Sung River, gave them three volumes of gobbledygook, and charged: "Master Song Xing, pass on your three volumes of gobbledygook, and you can be the master of heaven, be loyal and loyal to the minister, assist the country and the people, and turn right."

Song Jiang was appointed, and since then he has strengthened his determination to win over. After the death of Chao Gai, Song Jiang became the leader of the water margin.

Back to the eighty-eighth, Song Jiang's men had surrendered to the imperial court and were ordered to conquer Liao. The Liao army assumed the posture of "too easy to muddle along", which was very powerful. It attacked several plans, and Song Jiang could do nothing here. At this moment, Song Jiang dreamed that Erxian led him to visit Xuan Nv again for nine days, and Xuan Nv taught him how to break the array face to face, and indeed he broke the Liao army.

Xuan Nv is a fairy who is proficient in military affairs, but she looks like an elegant empress. This book writes:

When I wore a flying phoenix bun in Kowloon, I wore a scarlet dress. Lantian jade wears a long skirt that sweeps the floor, and white jade wears colorful sleeves.

Face is like lotus calyx, natural eyebrows reflect clouds and temples, lips are like gold cinnabar, and scales are like snow.

It's like the Empress Dowager Pinghe Yaochi, but it's like Chang 'e living in the Moon Palace. If you can't describe it, it is difficult to draw a magnificent image.

So who is this "nine-day Xuan Nv"? Was he invented by the author of Water Margin? Actually, it is not. She comes from ancient myths and legends in China. Her initial image is not as beautiful as that in the novel, but a monster with a bird's body and a bird's head!

"The Book of Songs, Ode to Shang Dynasty, Xuanniao" says: "Xuanniao is born from heaven, born from Shang Dynasty, and its house is full of gloomy soil. The Wu Tang ordered by the ancient emperor is in the square. "

This is a poem of ancestor worship by descendants of Shang Dynasty. It is said that the Emperor of Heaven ordered Xuanniao to make a contract and established a powerful Shang Dynasty. Mysterious birds are the ancestors of businessmen. "Historical Records Yin Benji" also recorded this legend:

Yin Qi's mother is Judy, and she has? Huang Xijing? Sakaguchi against five? ! Walking in the bath, I saw the bird drop its egg. Judy took it and swallowed it because it was pregnant.

There is a similar record in Lv Chunqiu:

what's up Is the emperor embarrassed to unload? My daughter, who has become its platform, plays drums when eating and drinking. The emperor ordered the swallow to watch, and if it rang, the two women loved it and fought for it. After that, they used a jade basket, chose less, looked at it, left two eggs, flew north and never came back.

According to legend, Xuanniao is the ancestor of Yin Shang Dynasty.

In the Eastern Han Dynasty, Yin Gao commented here: "The emperor, heaven also. Is there a fate to drop eggs? Where's Huang? Tan? Hey! Forced? Arrive at the scarlet sputum neon armor? Sakamoto? KINOMOTO SAKURA? What's the matter with you? Release γ? Yellow? Just a sword? Pingfu is naked? Huh? Suggestion? Shangqiu, Henan). Legend has it that Shang people are related to the mysterious bird, which is closely related to the worship of the mysterious bird totem by Shang people.

This mysterious bird was later incarnated as Xuan Nv, and was incorporated into the myth related to the Yellow Emperor, becoming the teacher of the Yellow Emperor. As early as before the Sui Dynasty, there was the Law of the Yellow Emperor Asking the Xuan Female Soldiers, which said that Xuan Nv helped the Yellow Emperor defeat Chiyou. The Yellow Emperor and Chiyou are invincible in nine battles. The Yellow Emperor returned to Mount Tai, and it was foggy for three days and nights. There is a woman with a bird's head. The Yellow Emperor bowed his head and bowed, but he dared not get up. The woman said, "My Xuan Nv, what do you want?" Then I got the tactics.

At this time, although Xuan Nv didn't completely get rid of the bird shape, she went one step further and became a half-man, half-bird goddess of salvation, teaching the art of war.

There is another saying that the Nine-Day Xuan Nv originated from the "Goddess Slave". According to Shan Hai Jing and Ye Bei Jing: "Someone is holding Tsing Yi, which is called the slave of the Yellow Emperor. Chiyou fought against the Yellow Emperor, who ordered Ying Long to attack the wild land of Jizhou and Ying Long to store water. Chiyou asked for rain in Fengbo, and it rained heavily. The Yellow Emperor is a goddess, and when the rain stops, he kills Chiyou. "

On this day, Nu Wa was invited by the Yellow Emperor to deal with the rain teacher Chiyou in Fengbo. Originally it belonged to the heroic god, but later it became Xuan Nv.

The victory of the Yellow Emperor over Chiyou is one of the most famous myths and legends in ancient China. Chiyou is generally regarded as a greedy and cruel god. He looks terrible: "He talks like a beast, with a bronze head and iron forehead, eating sand and stones", or he "has a cow's hoof, four hands and six hands, ears like a halberd, and a horn on his head." As the ancestor of China, the Yellow Emperor represents the power of progress and justice, so the victory of the Yellow Emperor over Chiyou is widely expected. Xuan Nv helped the Yellow Emperor win, which was in line with God's will and destiny. Thus, Xuan Nv became a great god in heaven who was in charge of the secret script of the heavenly book, taught the art of war to save the world and ruled the fate of the world.

In Heavenly Mother, she became the queen of all the fairy goddesses. "The woman who is immortal and enlightened is salty." (Legend of the Immortal), Xuan Nv naturally became the immortal under the heavenly queen. Taoist priests further processed the legend, and the mysterious bird got the heavenly book of the Yellow Emperor, which was ordered by the heavenly queen. Xuan Nv is no longer a "bird with a head", but "evolved" from man and bird to man. As for the gobbledygook, a word "Tao", a word "Fa" and a word "Shu" are the so-called "secret books", which is probably the origin of the "three volumes of gobbledygook" that Xuan Nv taught Song Jiang in the nine days of the Water Margin.

In "Seven Stars Cloud" edited by Zhang Junfang in Song Dynasty, Xuan Nv was already a Xuan Nv for nine days, completely deified and became an out-and-out fairy. The book says: "Xuan Nv who spent nine days was also a disciple of the Virgin Yuan Jun, the teacher of the Yellow Emperor", and the Yellow Emperor "fought the Zhuolu, and the emperor was invincible", and "stayed for a few days, the fog was dark and the sky was dark, and Xuan Nv fell. Take the Phoenix, royal Jing Yun, take the clothes of nine colors, and gather in front of the emperor. The emperor bowed again and was ordered to go. Xuan Nv said,' I have doubts about the number of etheric people.' ? Xuan Nv gave the Emperor the calligraphy symbol and Lingbao the five symbols to create the book of ghosts and gods. ""The emperor then led his ministers to fight again. "Then destroy Chiyou in the wild."

At this time, for nine days, Xuan Nv has completely escaped from the traces of animals, and has become an upper-bound fairy who specializes in teaching gobbledygook art of war and helping the heroes who should be ordered.

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