The emergence of Weng City led the ancients to create the idiom "catch a turtle in the urn" or "catch a turtle in the urn". The idiom gave the ancients a whim and burst of inspiration to build the city. This question is as interesting as the sequence of chickens and eggs, but not as complicated as it is. As long as we carefully analyze cultural historical data, the answer is obvious, and I will take you to explore it below.
1. The source of the idiom "Catch turtles in the urn"
"Catch turtles in the urn": It means to catch turtles in a big jar. Later, I described that what I wanted was already in my complete control. It is first recorded in Song Dynasty Shi Puji's "Wu Lantern Hui Yuan • Prisoner of Xu Mansion" 19: "Where did you go in the urn but the turtle." It means when did the turtle escape from the big jar? Later in the Ming Dynasty Ming Feng Menglong's "Jing Shi Tong Yan", there was a sentence "Sun Fu Shi Shi Niang has been the turtle in the urn, and the family boy was ordered to send the gold stationery and place it on the bow." Sun Fu is firmly in control, and the marriage is a foregone conclusion. Only then did the children send dressing and dressing accessories and pink daisies and settle them on the bow; the seventy-sixth chapter of "Shuo Yue Quan Biography" written by Qing Dynasty Qian Cai Xiao Nanman can only catch a turtle in an urn, and he won't spend a monk's sword, and discipline him one by one." Highlighting the protagonist's martial arts, it is easy to clean up Xiao Nanman. The allusion "Li Kui Negative Jing" speaks of the idiom "catch turtles in the urn", to the effect of: "At the end of the Northern Song Dynasty, there was an apricot flower villa not far from Dazhai in Liangshan. There was a small hotel on the villa, and there was no one else in the old man’s house. There is only one eighteen-year-old daughter named Man Tangjiao. Man Tangjiao is beautiful and charming. One day, two gangsters came to the hotel to have a drink. Not only did they not pay for the wine, but they also had a bad idea for the young and beautiful girl, borrowing Song Jiang and Lu Zhishen Li Kui was passing by the hotel just as the old man was in grief and indignation. Hearing that Song Jiang and Lu Zhishen had done such an unreasonable thing, he was angrily determined to go up the mountain to find Song Jiang and Lu Zhishen for theory. Li Kui made a big fuss in the Loyalty Hall. Finally, after knowing that Song Jiang was wrong, he ordered someone to tie him up and apologize to Song Jiang. At this time, the old man came to report that the two rascals and two evil men were drunk in the store and slept. Li Kui said happily, "It came just right. , I catch turtles in the urn, clean up these two scorpions! "Li Kui took a sharp axe and went down the mountain quickly, and finally got rid of the two gangsters who pretended to be Liangshan heroes and corrupted Liangshan's reputation."
Idiom catching a turtle in the urn. Comics
2. History of Wengcheng
Wengcheng is one of the main defensive facilities to strengthen the defense of castles or passes in ancient times. The two sides are connected with the city wall. There are defense facilities such as arrow towers, gates, and battlements, which are part of the city wall. As long as the enemy is lured into the city, arrows can be dropped from a height by closing the city gate, and the sluice can be opened to let the enemy have no way to escape.
Ancient Wengcheng Ruins
The earliest appearance of Wengcheng has yet to be verified, but the Xiongnu built Wancheng to be the earliest prototype of Wengcheng. From the Western Han Dynasty to the Northern Wei Dynasty, most of the gates and gates were two or three. Chonglou on the first floor, with building views on the left and right; the setting of Wengcheng was popular in the Five Dynasties and Northern Song Dynasty in the Song Dynasty. Both the "Wu Jing Zong Yao" and "Tokyo Meng Hua Lu · Juan I" have detailed descriptions; the Ming Dynasty attached great importance to the city. For defense, weng cities were set up in Nanjing, Beijing, Xi'an, Shangqiu, Pingyao, Shanhaiguan, and Jiayuguan. The largest existing Urn City in China is the Zhonghua Gate in Nanjing, and it is also the world's best-preserved and most complex fortress Urn City.
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3. The idiom "catch the turtle in the urn" VS "the city of the urn"
First, from historical records, the idiom "catch the turtle in the urn" first appeared in the Song Dynasty. At least it has appeared in the Western Han Dynasty, so the idiom "catch the turtle in the urn" originated from "the city of urns"; secondly, it is based on the basic principle of matter determining consciousness. It is precisely because of the substance of the building of the city that the later idiom "catch the turtle in the urn" has this consciousness. Based on the above two points, I personally think that there is the idiom "catch a turtle in the urn" first after the urn city. What do you think, please leave a message to discuss.
