pays attention to hygiene, which is a good habit, both in ancient and modern times.
With the sudden outbreak of the epidemic, it is even more important to maintain the health and hygiene of individuals and families. Even in an environment protected by masks and disinfectant, life is still full of challenges for those who have committed "germophobia". Compared with today's people who frequently wipe doorknobs with alcohol and change into slippers three times after entering three houses, In the face of a highly pathogenic living environment and the "dirty and messy" life, the ancients were "excessive" in terms of hygiene. "Operation", I'm afraid it's not as good as for modern people.
(Ming Dynasty) Qiu Ying's "Seven Sages in the Bamboo Forest" (partial)
Let's talk about an unknown person first - Wang Siyuan. He was Situ Zuo Changshi of the Qi Dynasty in the Southern Dynasties. He was an intellectual who loved to suffer from "obsessive-compulsive disorder" in personal hygiene.
This man had a literary name and was a great sage at that time, but he had a bad habit, judging people by their cleanliness . When guests come to visit, he always sends his servants to observe them secretly. If there are dirt on the guest's clothes, he will try not to approach him. If the guest's appearance is clean and fresh, he will only be willing to have a good time and chat with the guest. Even so, as long as the guest left, he would ask the servant to clean the person's place repeatedly with a broom.
This scene was cleverly referenced in " Ming Dynasty 1566" and became the "finishing touch" of a literati's inner aloofness and dissent.
Think far and clear, and have a simple attitude. Clothes, bed and banquet, poverty governs sobriety. When guests come to visit, they often ask people to take a close look first. Dirty clothes will lead to inconvenience; new appearance and good appearance will lead to knee-jerk failure. Although, after leaving, they were still ordered to hand over brooms to brush the place where they were sitting. ("Book of Southern Qi· Wang Si Far Biography")
In "The Ming Dynasty 1566", Gao Hanwen disliked Zheng Michang and ordered his servants to clean the places where Zheng had stood and sat.
Like his brother, he has his brother. Wang Siyuan has a younger brother named Wang Siwei. He loves cleanliness even more than his brother. He took his cleanliness habit to the extreme in himself. For example, when he asked a servant to carry his clothes, "must wrap his fingers with white paper" . Once, the family dog peed next to a pillar, and Wang Siwei immediately asked someone to clean it up. But after thinking about it, he still felt that it was not possible, so he asked someone to use a knife to scrape the urine stains on the pillar. After thinking about it, it still didn't work, so he simply asked someone to remove it. Pillars. This prince, who loved to be clean to the point of tearing down his house, was obviously more free and carefree than another prince more than a thousand years later.
There was a dog in the house that was dirtying the house, so I asked my disciples to wash it. I still wanted to do it, so I ordered it to be scraped. When I didn't reply enough, I ordered the disciples to change the pillars. ( Feng Menglong "History of Laughter in Ancient and Modern Times - Ministry of Weirdness")
Rather than demolishing a house because of dog urine, the painter Ni Zan of the Yuan Dynasty also did something that has been passed down through the ages because of someone else's phlegm: Yunlin washed the tong trees. Later generations even wrote this allusion into paintings, and it became a well-known painting theme throughout the ages. Ming Dynasty painterCui Zizhong, and modern painters such as Li Keran,Fu Baoshi,Zhou Xiuting, etc. have all created paintings with the theme of "Cloud Forest Washing Tong", which shows that this allusion has become a wonderful metaphor to highlight the noble feelings of scholar-bureaucrats.
(Ming Dynasty) Cui Zizhong's "Picture of Washing Tung Trees in the Clouds"
Li Keran's "Picture of Washing Tung Trees by Ni Zan" (Ni Zan's self-titled "Ni Zhen")
Ni Zan's family was a wealthy family in the south of the Yangtze River. They planted sycamore trees all over their yard because they were afraid that the sycamores would obscure the view. If there is dirt, the servants are often asked to scrub it regularly with water. His friend Xu was envious of the Ni family's collection of books and once asked to visit the pavilion. On the way to the library, Ni Zan suddenly heard a cough from his friend, so he immediately ordered his servant to search for the spit, without regard to the etiquette of the guests, but found nothing. So he rolled up his sleeves and went into battle himself, and finally found his friend's phlegm on the roots of the sycamore tree. He was so disgusted that he immediately asked his servants to wash the tung trees again and again. He was so ashamed that Mr. Xu dared not treat him, so he ran away and never interacted with him again.
Ni Yunlin's disease has never been seen since ancient times. In his later years, the Xu family took refuge in Guangfu... Returning from Yunlin, Xu went to pay a visit. He admired its Qing Secret Pavilion and begged to enter. Occasionally, a spit came out. Yun Lin ordered Puzhou Pavilion to search for the spit, but he couldn't find it. Because he searched for it on his own, he found the root of a tung tree and suddenly ordered him to wash the tree with water. Xu Da came out ashamed.
pays attention to hygiene, which is a good habit, both in ancient and modern times.
With the sudden outbreak of the epidemic, it is even more important to maintain the health and hygiene of individuals and families. Even in an environment protected by masks and disinfectant, life is still full of challenges for those who have committed "germophobia". Compared with today's people who frequently wipe doorknobs with alcohol and change into slippers three times after entering three houses, In the face of a highly pathogenic living environment and the "dirty and messy" life, the ancients were "excessive" in terms of hygiene. "Operation", I'm afraid it's not as good as for modern people.
(Ming Dynasty) Qiu Ying's "Seven Sages in the Bamboo Forest" (partial)
Let's talk about an unknown person first - Wang Siyuan. He was Situ Zuo Changshi of the Qi Dynasty in the Southern Dynasties. He was an intellectual who loved to suffer from "obsessive-compulsive disorder" in personal hygiene.
This man had a literary name and was a great sage at that time, but he had a bad habit, judging people by their cleanliness . When guests come to visit, he always sends his servants to observe them secretly. If there are dirt on the guest's clothes, he will try not to approach him. If the guest's appearance is clean and fresh, he will only be willing to have a good time and chat with the guest. Even so, as long as the guest left, he would ask the servant to clean the person's place repeatedly with a broom.
This scene was cleverly referenced in " Ming Dynasty 1566" and became the "finishing touch" of a literati's inner aloofness and dissent.
Think far and clear, and have a simple attitude. Clothes, bed and banquet, poverty governs sobriety. When guests come to visit, they often ask people to take a close look first. Dirty clothes will lead to inconvenience; new appearance and good appearance will lead to knee-jerk failure. Although, after leaving, they were still ordered to hand over brooms to brush the place where they were sitting. ("Book of Southern Qi· Wang Si Far Biography")
In "The Ming Dynasty 1566", Gao Hanwen disliked Zheng Michang and ordered his servants to clean the places where Zheng had stood and sat.
Like his brother, he has his brother. Wang Siyuan has a younger brother named Wang Siwei. He loves cleanliness even more than his brother. He took his cleanliness habit to the extreme in himself. For example, when he asked a servant to carry his clothes, "must wrap his fingers with white paper" . Once, the family dog peed next to a pillar, and Wang Siwei immediately asked someone to clean it up. But after thinking about it, he still felt that it was not possible, so he asked someone to use a knife to scrape the urine stains on the pillar. After thinking about it, it still didn't work, so he simply asked someone to remove it. Pillars. This prince, who loved to be clean to the point of tearing down his house, was obviously more free and carefree than another prince more than a thousand years later.
There was a dog in the house that was dirtying the house, so I asked my disciples to wash it. I still wanted to do it, so I ordered it to be scraped. When I didn't reply enough, I ordered the disciples to change the pillars. ( Feng Menglong "History of Laughter in Ancient and Modern Times - Ministry of Weirdness")
Rather than demolishing a house because of dog urine, the painter Ni Zan of the Yuan Dynasty also did something that has been passed down through the ages because of someone else's phlegm: Yunlin washed the tong trees. Later generations even wrote this allusion into paintings, and it became a well-known painting theme throughout the ages. Ming Dynasty painterCui Zizhong, and modern painters such as Li Keran,Fu Baoshi,Zhou Xiuting, etc. have all created paintings with the theme of "Cloud Forest Washing Tong", which shows that this allusion has become a wonderful metaphor to highlight the noble feelings of scholar-bureaucrats.
(Ming Dynasty) Cui Zizhong's "Picture of Washing Tung Trees in the Clouds"
Li Keran's "Picture of Washing Tung Trees by Ni Zan" (Ni Zan's self-titled "Ni Zhen")
Ni Zan's family was a wealthy family in the south of the Yangtze River. They planted sycamore trees all over their yard because they were afraid that the sycamores would obscure the view. If there is dirt, the servants are often asked to scrub it regularly with water. His friend Xu was envious of the Ni family's collection of books and once asked to visit the pavilion. On the way to the library, Ni Zan suddenly heard a cough from his friend, so he immediately ordered his servant to search for the spit, without regard to the etiquette of the guests, but found nothing. So he rolled up his sleeves and went into battle himself, and finally found his friend's phlegm on the roots of the sycamore tree. He was so disgusted that he immediately asked his servants to wash the tung trees again and again. He was so ashamed that Mr. Xu dared not treat him, so he ran away and never interacted with him again.
Ni Yunlin's disease has never been seen since ancient times. In his later years, the Xu family took refuge in Guangfu... Returning from Yunlin, Xu went to pay a visit. He admired its Qing Secret Pavilion and begged to enter. Occasionally, a spit came out. Yun Lin ordered Puzhou Pavilion to search for the spit, but he couldn't find it. Because he searched for it on his own, he found the root of a tung tree and suddenly ordered him to wash the tree with water. Xu Da came out ashamed.(Wang Xi's "Miscellaneous Notes on Yunlin's Legacy")
Similarly, because of spitting, Song Dynasty calligrapher Mi Fu not only had trouble with his friends, but also lost something he loved.
Mi Fu (1051-1107)
Once, his friend Zhou Renshu knew that he had got a unique inkstone, so he asked him to take it out and look at it. Mr. Zhou was also a wonderful person. He knew that Mi Fu had mysophobia, so he deliberately teased him. When Mi Fu unpacked the inkstone, Zhou Renshu also stood up, took a towel and washed his hands again and again, as if he was watching them respectfully. Mi Fu was happy and felt that this friend understood him. Unexpectedly, after getting the inkstone, Mr. Zhou spit on the inkstone and started to grind the ink. Mi Fu suddenly collapsed: "How can you be respectful and then arrogant?! This inkstone... I don't want it anymore!" Mr. Zhou is a true friend and does not try to win over others. He took the initiative to return the inkstone afterwards, but Mi Fu no longer wanted it. .
Zhou Fei wants to use inkstones, but he uses rice to clean things up, so that he can laugh and chat with others. Zhou Hou returned the rice with the inkstone, but the rice was not taken. (Feng Menglong's "History of Laughter in Ancient and Modern Times: Department of Weirdness")
People with mysophobia are often stubborn in other matters, and it is difficult to change things that they think are correct. Not only the inkstone, but also Mi Fu's personal belongings cannot be damaged at all. Once, just because someone touched his official boots, he kept washing them until they were washed out, and then he felt relieved and worried. Once perfection is broken, it becomes hysterical. In such a life, even if God really gives you a chance to regret, it will not help.
(Song Dynasty) Mi Fu's "Shu Su Tie" (Part)
Mi Fu also has a strange problem because of mysophobia, which is "taking people by their names" . When he married his daughter, the son-in-law he chose was from Nanjing. His surname was Duan and his character was Fu Quchen. He looked clean. Mr. Mi was very happy about this and thought that he was very clean in the style of the ancients. The "predecessor in the cleaning world" in Mi Fu's heart is the great poet Wang Wei of the Tang Dynasty.
Wang Wei is also a wonderful person. In order to show his reputation as a clean person, he chose the name "Mojie". However, Wang Wei may have made a mistake: "Mojie" means "dirty" and "symmetry" in Sanskrit, while "Wei" means "without". "Vimalakirti" means dust-free, but "Vimalakirti" means dirty and messy. Later generations also lamented that even a literary master like Wang Wei had some mistakes.
In fact, if a person is stubborn about hygiene, at best, it is his own business. But in a family, if the husband and wife have very different standards of cleanliness, they will inevitably be at odds with each other, making life a mess. Wang Anshi and his wife Wu are such a "weird couple".
Wang Anshi (1021-1086)
Wang Anshi's "dirty and messy" personal hygiene was quite famous at the time. Su Shi's father Su Xun vividly said that Wang Anshi "Wear the clothes of prisoners, eat the food of dogs and pigs, and the prisoner's head mourns and talks about poems and books." Wearing dirty clothes and eating dog food, he looks like a prisoner. , but there he talked about the ways of saints and sages. This picture is so beautiful.
(Wang Anshi) does not have a plump nature, is extremely frugal, or has dirty clothes and dirty face. ("History of the Song Dynasty·Biography of Wang Anshi")
Gong (Wang Anshi) had a swarthy face, and his disciples asked the doctor. The doctor said: "This dirt is not a disease." He took a bath with beans and ordered Gong's face to be black. The Gong said: "He is born with black eyes. "Well, what's wrong with bathing beans?" ( Shen Kuo "Mengxi Essays")
But it happened that he was such a sloppy man, but he married a mysophobic wife. Mrs. Wang and her husband "turned against each other" because of this. The Wu family once borrowed a rattan bed from the public house when Wang Anshi was an official in Jiangning, Jiangning. She must have liked it very much and never returned it. Later, officials came to ask for it, but Wu was still reluctant to give it up. Wang Anshi came up with a damaging trick: take off his boots, go to bed barefoot, and lie down on the rattan bed. When Mrs. Wu saw it, she couldn't bear it. Please take it away. I won't sleep on the bed that this person has slept on - we have reason to infer that in Wang Anshi's later years, he and his wife should pay attention to "personal hygiene" thing, the fact is that they are separated.
Wu, the wife of Duke Jing, had a clean nature and was at odds with her husband.The Duke came from Jiangning to beg and return to his private residence. He had an official rattan bed, but Wu had not returned it. When officials come to ask for help, no one dares to say anything. The young man climbed up onto the bed and lay face to face for a long time. When Wu Liang saw it, he immediately sent it back. (Feng Menglong's "History of Laughter in Ancient and Modern Times: Department of Weirdness")
Of course, the old couple were still in love when they were young. They have three sons and three daughters. Mrs. Wu's hygiene habits are not directed at Wang Anshi, but also at other living creatures, such as cats. Once, she was asked by her eldest daughter to make a dress for her eldest son-in-law. When she was about to finish the work, a cat happened to come and lie on the edge of the dress. The old lady threw the dress into the bathroom and never gave it to her again. When Feng Menglong compiled these anecdotes, he once commented that Wu and Wang Anshi were "a mismatch for Yue Lao", but in terms of their stubborn and stubborn characters, the two were really a match made in heaven.
Food, sex, and sex should not be so sensitive between husband and wife. Wang Anshi is lucky enough to have met an "enemy" like Wu. Although he dislikes her, he can stay with her for the rest of his life. But the Mr. Ni Zan mentioned earlier is not so calm and interesting in his family life.
Ni Zan once fell in love with a singer surnamed Zhao. When he entered the room, he was afraid that the little lady was not clean, so he asked her to take a bath several times, touching her from head to toe, and smelling while touching, but she always felt something was wrong. It was not clean, so I had to ask her to wash it again. As a result, after washing over and over again, the good things that were originally a joyful night had no choice but to be done until daybreak.
If family members eat grains, they will inevitably become intoxicated. Ni Zan is very strict when it comes to going to the toilet. He built a luxurious two-story toilet. The lower floor was filled with earth and the middle was covered with goose feathers. "Whenever you put it in the toilet, the goose feathers will cover it, so you won't smell any odor." Later, he was imprisoned for some reason, and he was really angry because of mysophobia. The jailer, the jailer actually locked him next to the toilet and tortured him. After many people tried to negotiate and plead for mercy, he was released from prison. The saying that things must be reversed when they reach their extremes, and that too much is too little, is true for this old gentleman.
In fact, things at home are easy to deal with after all. If a person with "germophobia" happens to become the parent of one party, then the trouble will be a bit big.
Liu Cheng, who was from Qi in the Southern Dynasty like Wang Siwei, was an official in Sui'an. Although he was an honest official, he even knew some medical skills and could occasionally treat the people under his rule. But he has a problem - he likes to be clean too much. requires people to clean the inside and outside of the city every day, and there must be no grass stalks on the road and no bugs or excrement in the water. The standard has made people miserable. Later, as expected, he was removed from his official position due to great public dissatisfaction.
(Liu Cheng) was an orderly official, an honest official, and good at medicine. Because of his good nature, he ordered the people to clean up Guoyi and cut the weeds on the roads. The people were unable to bear the labor and were dismissed from office. ("Southern History: The Scholars")
From the leader of the literary world to the master of calligraphy and painting, from the official model to the virtuous and wild, these ancient people who pursued cleanliness often lived a prosperous life, so they could indulge their stubborn preferences without any external objects. Restricted. If you have money, you will be willful. This has been true since ancient times. Those who do not need to worry about the pursuit of oil, salt, sauce, vinegar and tea, their choice of a perfect spiritual life, in the form of a super "stomatophilia", tells the world: The whole world is dirty and I am alone pure.
The irony is that some people who pursue cleanliness throughout their lives end up "not clean" in life. For example, this is Mr. Ni Zan.
He lived until the fall of the Yuan Dynasty, and until the seventh year of Hongwu in the Ming Dynasty (AD 1374), Ni Zan fell ill due to the cold night of Mid-Autumn Festival, so he went to his good friend Xia Zhi, a famous doctor, for medical treatment and lived in Xia's house. As a result, Ni Zan fell ill and died in Xia Mansion in the early winter of that year at the age of 74. It is said that he suffered from dysentery before his death and could not be near filth. A generation of aloof and clean people died in the midst of their own filth, which is really a feeling that the world has made people miserable.
Through the window of "mysophobia", we see these bizarre "life profiles" of the ancients, which reflect the extreme materialization of the "moral purity" in the hearts of ancient scholar-officials and their bizarre accusations against the dirty and unfair world. However, there are limits to expressing aloofness. On the contrary, it is a cute personality; on the contrary, it is a pretentious and pathological condition.
From ancient times to the present, not only "mesophobia", but also many hobbies or habits in life should not be excessive. The so-called "not overstepping the rules" and "not overstepping" are good. Confucius said: Don’t do to others what you don’t want others to do to you. If you have your own "desires", you cannot use your own willfulness, wealth or even power to abuse others.
The ancients are sincere and I cannot be deceived.
The Duke came from Jiangning to beg and return to his private residence. He had an official rattan bed, but Wu had not returned it. When officials come to ask for help, no one dares to say anything. The young man climbed up onto the bed and lay face to face for a long time. When Wu Liang saw it, he immediately sent it back. (Feng Menglong's "History of Laughter in Ancient and Modern Times: Department of Weirdness")
Of course, the old couple were still in love when they were young. They have three sons and three daughters. Mrs. Wu's hygiene habits are not directed at Wang Anshi, but also at other living creatures, such as cats. Once, she was asked by her eldest daughter to make a dress for her eldest son-in-law. When she was about to finish the work, a cat happened to come and lie on the edge of the dress. The old lady threw the dress into the bathroom and never gave it to her again. When Feng Menglong compiled these anecdotes, he once commented that Wu and Wang Anshi were "a mismatch for Yue Lao", but in terms of their stubborn and stubborn characters, the two were really a match made in heaven.
Food, sex, and sex should not be so sensitive between husband and wife. Wang Anshi is lucky enough to have met an "enemy" like Wu. Although he dislikes her, he can stay with her for the rest of his life. But the Mr. Ni Zan mentioned earlier is not so calm and interesting in his family life.
Ni Zan once fell in love with a singer surnamed Zhao. When he entered the room, he was afraid that the little lady was not clean, so he asked her to take a bath several times, touching her from head to toe, and smelling while touching, but she always felt something was wrong. It was not clean, so I had to ask her to wash it again. As a result, after washing over and over again, the good things that were originally a joyful night had no choice but to be done until daybreak.
If family members eat grains, they will inevitably become intoxicated. Ni Zan is very strict when it comes to going to the toilet. He built a luxurious two-story toilet. The lower floor was filled with earth and the middle was covered with goose feathers. "Whenever you put it in the toilet, the goose feathers will cover it, so you won't smell any odor." Later, he was imprisoned for some reason, and he was really angry because of mysophobia. The jailer, the jailer actually locked him next to the toilet and tortured him. After many people tried to negotiate and plead for mercy, he was released from prison. The saying that things must be reversed when they reach their extremes, and that too much is too little, is true for this old gentleman.
In fact, things at home are easy to deal with after all. If a person with "germophobia" happens to become the parent of one party, then the trouble will be a bit big.
Liu Cheng, who was from Qi in the Southern Dynasty like Wang Siwei, was an official in Sui'an. Although he was an honest official, he even knew some medical skills and could occasionally treat the people under his rule. But he has a problem - he likes to be clean too much. requires people to clean the inside and outside of the city every day, and there must be no grass stalks on the road and no bugs or excrement in the water. The standard has made people miserable. Later, as expected, he was removed from his official position due to great public dissatisfaction.
(Liu Cheng) was an orderly official, an honest official, and good at medicine. Because of his good nature, he ordered the people to clean up Guoyi and cut the weeds on the roads. The people were unable to bear the labor and were dismissed from office. ("Southern History: The Scholars")
From the leader of the literary world to the master of calligraphy and painting, from the official model to the virtuous and wild, these ancient people who pursued cleanliness often lived a prosperous life, so they could indulge their stubborn preferences without any external objects. Restricted. If you have money, you will be willful. This has been true since ancient times. Those who do not need to worry about the pursuit of oil, salt, sauce, vinegar and tea, their choice of a perfect spiritual life, in the form of a super "stomatophilia", tells the world: The whole world is dirty and I am alone pure.
The irony is that some people who pursue cleanliness throughout their lives end up "not clean" in life. For example, this is Mr. Ni Zan.
He lived until the fall of the Yuan Dynasty, and until the seventh year of Hongwu in the Ming Dynasty (AD 1374), Ni Zan fell ill due to the cold night of Mid-Autumn Festival, so he went to his good friend Xia Zhi, a famous doctor, for medical treatment and lived in Xia's house. As a result, Ni Zan fell ill and died in Xia Mansion in the early winter of that year at the age of 74. It is said that he suffered from dysentery before his death and could not be near filth. A generation of aloof and clean people died in the midst of their own filth, which is really a feeling that the world has made people miserable.
Through the window of "mysophobia", we see these bizarre "life profiles" of the ancients, which reflect the extreme materialization of the "moral purity" in the hearts of ancient scholar-officials and their bizarre accusations against the dirty and unfair world. However, there are limits to expressing aloofness. On the contrary, it is a cute personality; on the contrary, it is a pretentious and pathological condition.
From ancient times to the present, not only "mesophobia", but also many hobbies or habits in life should not be excessive. The so-called "not overstepping the rules" and "not overstepping" are good. Confucius said: Don’t do to others what you don’t want others to do to you. If you have your own "desires", you cannot use your own willfulness, wealth or even power to abuse others.
The ancients are sincere and I cannot be deceived.
