The TV series "Meng Hua Lu" is currently on the air. The drama is adapted from Guan Hanqingyuan's drama "Zhao Pan'er Feng Yue Saves Feng Chen". It is based on the background of Emperor Song Zhenzong Zhao Heng who admires Huang Lao's skills and wants to be enshrined in Zen. It tel

TV series " Meng Hua Lu " is currently on the air. The drama is adapted from Guan Hanqing Yuan Dynasty drama "Zhao Pan'er Feng Yue Saves Feng Chen". It is based on the emperor Song Zhenzong Zhao Heng, who admires Huang Lao's skills and wants to be enshrined in Zen. , tells the story of three women who bravely venture into Tokyo together. There is a Hat Monster case in the play. What is going on?

During the reign of Emperor Zhenzong of the Northern Song Dynasty, many legendary stories appeared, and there was even a "supernatural" event that was recorded in official history - the hat demon case, which is ridiculed by modern people as an ancient UFO incident. It happened in May of the second year of Emperor Zhenzong's Tianxi reign (1018). A rumor spread quietly in the market, saying that a monster suddenly appeared in the sky above Luoyang (Xijing). The monster looked like a cap. It hovers and dances in the air and glows. A few days later, an oil seller in the west of the city claimed to have seen the monster transform into a dog and wolf, which almost killed him. Fortunately, he escaped and only injured his arm. After the incident spread, people in Luoyang were panicked. Every night, people would close their doors and windows, shiver in their homes, or wait for an opportunity to evict them with weapons. For this monster, people call it "Hat Monster". In ancient times, there was a saying about the hat demon. It was a spirit that looked like a mat hat, so it was also called the mat hat spirit.

The leader of Xijing at that time was Wang Sizong. These rumors were not reported in time and no measures were taken. This rumor quickly spread to Tokyo in less than a month, and eventually became a major event that shocked both the government and the public. In "History of the Song Dynasty ", this incident is recorded as follows: In May of the second year of Tianxi, Xijing rumored that something like a black hat flew into people's houses at night and turned into the shape of a dog or wolf. The people are so frightened that they shut themselves up every night and even drive away those with weapons. In the sixth month of Yisi, it was reported to the capital that the cloud was capable of cannibalism. People gather in the alleys and sit around, making noises as high as dawn, especially in the military camp, but they are really invisible, and they are thought to be the actions of monsters. There was a strict order to arrest him, and he was tried for several generations, but all of them were wrong.

The more the hat demon traveled through Guangzhou and Xuanxuan, it was said that it had a nose and eyes. From the initial "little ability to hurt people", it was widely spread to the point of "clouds can eat people", and the harm was further expanded. Some even said: One day In the evening, two Imperial Guards soldiers on patrol disappeared. When they were found, their heads had disappeared. As a result, the commotion in the military camp in the city was the most intense. For a time, people were panicked and panic enveloped the entire Tokyo sky. Zhang Min, the governor of the three cities in Heyang at that time, reported this incident to Zhenzong of the Song Dynasty. He said: "I recently heard rumors in Xijing that something like a hat flew into people's houses at night and turned into a big wolf. The people were so frightened that they locked themselves up every night and even arrested and chased them with weapons." ("Xu Zizhi Tongjian Changbian")

Song Zhenzong felt that the matter was serious and ordered an in-depth investigation in Xijing. Wang Sizong, who stayed behind, was punished and transferred out. Limited by the scientific level at the time, Emperor Zhenzong of the Song Dynasty attributed the incident to demons, ordered the arrest of "monsters", and encouraged the public to report. After reporting, three people were arrested - monk Tianshang of Xiangguo Temple and alchemists Geng Gai and Zhang Gang. It is said that the three of them were secretive and often went out in the middle of the night.

At this time, the rumors of the hat demon had also spread to Yingtian Mansion. Wang Zeng, the prefect of Yingtian Mansion, had a much more clever and effective response. He "ordered the inner door to be opened at night, and anyone who dared to speak out would be arrested." Didn't it say that there is a hat demon coming up to eat people at night? Then he will open the door and wait for you to come. In addition, if anyone spreads rumors, he will be arrested immediately and will not be tolerated. As a result, the rumors about Yingtian Mansion were quickly put to rest. As a result, Tianshang, Geng Gai, and Zhang Gang were convicted of "sitting and tasting as an evil law" and were sentenced to death by "abandoning the market". They also "sitting and banishing several people" and "caught Yejuxiaosan Zhang Ziyuanshu" Hundreds of people, ordered Prime Minister Lu Yijian to conduct a survey, kill the first six, and spare the rest." After a few months, the rumors gradually subsided, and the people's lives returned to peace.

Obviously, the so-called hat demon incident was nothing more than a rumor spread by false rumors and turned into a political incident. Before the Hat Demon case, Song Zhenzong, in order to become a Zen monk, carefully planned a lot of miraculous rumors with his ministers, building momentum for his purpose and creating the soil for spreading auspicious miracles.In addition, ancient times did not pay attention to science, so the rumors got out of hand. It can be seen from this that the harm of rumors is sometimes more powerful than real swords and guns. This major incident that endangered the rule from bottom to top is worth pondering.