Short stories of history

  In the early years of the Tang Dynasty, Taizong Li Shimin led an army to crush Koryo. After Gai Suwen was broken in Liaodong and Gai Suwen fled back to the Korean Peninsula by sea, Taizong prepared to cross the sea to attack Koryo.  But when he came to the seaside, Taizong looked in front of the horse and saw that the sea and the sky met each other, and the boundless sea made Taizong dizzy and nearly fell off his horse.  Therefore, when the army was about to cross the sea, Taizong refused to get on board anyway.  The generals tried hard to persuade each other, but all to no avail.  When Zhang Shigui, the marching director, returned to the big account and was at his wit's end, Deputy General Xue Rengui walked into the big account and said to Zhang Shigui, "are adults worried that the emperor refuses to cross the sea?"  After Xue Rengui whispered in Zhang Shigui's ear, Zhang Shigui nodded and called it a "brilliant plan."  A few days later, Taizong was...

                                             Zhang Liang picked up shoes Zhang Liang was a minister in the early Han Dynasty in ancient China. When he was young, he lived in Xiagi (now the south of Pi County, Jiangsu Province).  One day, Zhang Liang had nothing to do, so he took a walk on the bridge.  At this time, he saw an old man in shabby clothes suddenly take off his worn shoes on his feet and throw them under the bridge. Then he pointed to Zhang Liang and said, "son, go under the bridge and get my shoes!"  After hearing this rude request, Zhang Liang's anger went straight up, but thinking that the old man was old and not fit, he suppressed his anger and went under the bridge to get shoes for the old man.  Watching Zhang Liang come up to the bridge with his shoes, there was a smile on the old man's face.  He slowly stretched out his foot and sa...

  The origin of allusions：The three knot of Taoyuan is the first story in the Romance of the three Kingdoms.  When it comes to Liu Bei, Guan Yu and Zhang Fei, people always think of the peach garden in full bloom after Zhangfeizhuang, Zhuo County, where they prepared black cattle and white horses, offered sacrifices to heaven and earth, burned incense and worshipped again, and became brothers with different surnames. They did not want to be born on the same day in the same year. I only wish to die on the same day in the same year.  People have been reciting this story, and some people have followed the example of burning incense again and again.  Liang Qichao said in an article: "Today, our national green forest heroes are everywhere, and we have Taoyuan worship every day."... "  In the Qing Dynasty, some societies, such as triads, will not forget to insert peach branches at their quite solemn initiation ceremony, as a symbol of their marriage in Taoyuan.  ...

  Once upon a time, an elderly mouse couple lived in a damp, cold black hole and watched their beautiful daughter grow up day by day.  The couple promised to find the best mother-in-law for their daughter and to get her daughter out of this dark life. So he went to the black cloud and asked for marriage.  Heiyun replied with a wry smile: although I have the power to block out the light, it only takes a little breeze to make me disappear.  The mouse couple pondered and found the wind to control the dark clouds.  The wind smiled and said: I can blow away the black clouds, but as long as a wall can subdue me!  The mouse couple found the wall again, and the wall saw them with a look of fear: in this world, I am most afraid of you rats. No matter how strong the wall is, no matter how strong the wall is, it will not stop the rats from making holes and eventually collapse.  Mouse couple looked at each other, it seems that we rats are the most powerful.  ...

  The golden toad of banghai opera is an ancient Chinese folklore, which comes from the allusions of Taoism.  There is a golden toad in the towel gourd well in Changde city, often spitting a white light from the wellhead at night, straight into the sky, youdao people can take advantage of this white light to ascend to the immortal.  Bangs, a young man who lives by the well, is poor, kind, and filial to his mother; he often goes to the nearby mountains to cut firewood, sell firewood and buy rice, and depend on his mother.  One day, a fox in the mountain forest became refined and transformed into a beautiful and handsome girl, Shiu-Ying Hu, who stopped the bangs' return and asked to marry him.  After marriage, Shiu-Ying Hu wanted to help Liu Hai to reach the sky, spitting a white bead at his mouth, making bait for bangs and fishing in the loofah well.  The golden toad bitten and fished, and the bangs rode on the toad's back, jumped, feathered and went away....

  Legend has it that Li Shimin, king of the Tang Dynasty, often had nightmares after he ascended the throne after the change of Xuanwu Gate.  He dreamt that his brother and brother came to kill him with demons and ghosts, which made him so afraid that he couldn't sleep at night, so he let two senior generals Qin Shubao Wei Chi Gong stand guard in front of the door with weapons in hand, so he could sleep peacefully.  The two generals later fell ill, and Li Shimin was so distressed that they worked too hard, so he ordered people to draw their images on paper and paste them on the door to deter demons.  This is where the door god came from.  The door god, the god of the Simen guard, is a kind of painting affixed to the door during the Lunar New year.  As the guardian of folk beliefs, people paste their idols on the door to ward off evil spirits, defend their homes, protect peace, contribute to utilitarianism, and bring good fortune.  According to traditio...