Beggar Gang , the world's largest gang described in the old Jin novel, uphold justice, save the people from water and fire, and be brave to fight against the unfair world.
But the real Beggars' Sect is not the plot described in the novel. In the ancient Beggars' Sect, there were many stains and black spots.
The people in the Beggars' Gang are not as great as described in the novel. They do everything they can to survive, and even act shamelessly in robbing their families and robbing their property.
But don’t persuade others to be good without the hardship of others. This is also the truth. If ordinary people fall to the beggar who is about to starve to death, will they be even more cruel evildoers?
Putting aside the analysis of reality and the description of novels, what was the real life of ancient beggars like? Is the organized and large-scale Beggars' Sect really the largest gang that can help the world?
The first Beggar Gang that appeared in history
History has recorded Kong Saint When he was traveling with his disciples, he was unable to rush to travel due to heavy rain, which caused the group to panic and could only beg everywhere. However, what embarrassed the saints was that they had never begged for food to fill their stomachs. After everyone came back to tell Confucius , Confucius was also very anxious.
Although the situation is very bad, it is very difficult to let a group of people have a meal. During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, wars occurred frequently, and ordinary people also found it difficult to have surplus food.
When the saint was at a loss, an apprentice told him that he heard that there was a little beggar not far away and he had accumulated food. In order to fill everyone's stomach, Confucius gritted his teeth and came to the little beggar's residence.
A meal Confucian After the great gift, Fan Dan felt that this unpretentious Confucius had a very strong ability to speak, so he gave all the rations he begged to Confucius and his disciples.
After Confucius and his group had a full meal, they then had a unique practical education. The kindness of a meal must be recorded.
Later, Fan Dan became a celebrity among the beggars. After all, he was a beggar who saved the saints. Therefore, many people call themselves Fan Dan’s disciples for the sake of making beggars. As more and more disciples became, the Fan family, who had saved the saints and their disciples, became a large-scale Beggars' Sect organization.
also has a unified begging song, and the threshold for begging is also very high. You only go to those homes with couplets posted in front of your home to beg. Because saints are full of students all over the world, families with couplets are usually educated people. Of course, they cannot post couplets at home, but they have no family lintels and their families are usually not very wealthy. This is also a fact.
After Fan’s family, there have been many gang members such as Gaojiamen, Lijiamen, and Kangjiamen, and they all have many gang members.
However, these Beggar Gangs that have appeared have no unified program, unified action goals and other slogans, but only the ideals and beliefs to survive.
Abandoned people
In today's rapid economic and social development, it is difficult to imagine that in the once war-torn ancient society, people who could not eat or wear clothes would even eat to survive. Although these eras that erode the souls of the world are gone forever, these past sufferings should not be forgotten.
The various drawbacks under the feudal imperial system have led to the emergence of many begging refugees, small merchants who went bankrupt in business, the people who had occupied the land by powerful landlords, and the scattered people who were lazy and fond of labor have led to professional beggars who were professional begging.
They have nothing, and their mood and mind are exhausted. Sometimes they find ways to dress up and have a tycoon meal to live. If you don’t have the ability to resist the attack and fight, you often eat the king meal. Basically, you will be beaten to death on the last full meal a few times.
Some beggars have done many consciences in order to beg for a long time and stable manner. Cut off the stolen child's hands and feet, even the limbs, and dress up as a pitiful person as a weight for begging.
Use this to beg for money. This cruel motive existed in ancient times, but once the truth was revealed, it was also a crime of beheading by the government.
Therefore, most beggars, even if they are unable to eat and are desperate, robbing food and eating a king meal often happens.
The winter when you can’t eat is the limit of life that beggars cannot overcome. Winter is the doomsday of many beggars. There is no food to fill their stomachs and clothes to keep warm. Many beggars can only wait for the cold judgment in winter.
In order to survive under various reasons, some beggars did things that were difficult to tolerate, killing and robbing people and robbing people.
But most beggars are still content with survival. They do not fight with others day after day to fill their stomachs, and are not all evil people.
The Yi Beggar during the Guangxu period
Jin Yong written by Hong Qigong gathers kung fu and wisdom, is invincible in the world, rule the world, and practices the way for heaven. As the shaping of the characters in the novel, Hong Qigong is undoubtedly a very perfect character. But in the history of real society, is there a beggar recognized by the world?
In fact, during the Guangxu period, a beggar named Wu Qi appeared. Wu Qi was not only a beggar, but also a righteous beggar.
His feat was not only recognized by the Qing court, but also admired by later generations. He was born in a poor family. After his parents died early, Wu Qi, who was illiterate, began to go out to work and make a living.
However, the young and illiterate Wu Qi did not get a penny after three years of work. In the end, he was beaten by his employer and almost lost his life.
Wu Qi felt that the fundamental reason why he was not capable was that he could not recognize words and had no education. From then on, he began to beg for the road of begging, but although he became a beggar, he had a goal at this time. He wanted to build a school through begging and give people like himself education.
For this goal, he begged for 38 years and finally built many schools with his strong perseverance. A beggar relied on begging and kneeling down to set up a Yi School, helping many children who could not go to school. After the incident of
was passed to the court, the court recognized him very much and rewarded him with yellow jacket . Wu Qi also became a civilian educator in the late Qing Dynasty . His feat is remembered by future generations until today.
summary
The ancient beggars were not as glamorous as mentioned in the novel. In order to survive, they thought about what to do with the next meal every day. There was neither a high-energy leader who led them to conquer the world, nor a worldly magical power for them to learn.
All they have is to store winter clothes and essential food before getting them in the cold winter, and don’t freeze to death in the unpredictable cold winter.
As beggars, they are already at the bottom of society. They do not have much energy to do some extremely evil things, kill people, rob people, and cheat people, and cheat them.
And these individuals basically borrowed the identity of beggars. It is very difficult for beggars who cannot even hold a knife to do something earth-shaking. A charity beggar like Wu Qi is also a great good person that has never been seen in a thousand years.
