During the Southern Song Dynasty, a certain government office once staged a ridiculous farce: in the solemn and solemn atmosphere, the air was so stagnant that it was heard, and almost no one dared to make a rash on such occasions.
In full view of the county magistrate, yamen runners and others, a notorious local gangster threatened to report a person to cheat and bully good women.
County magistrate was half-believing and half-doubted, but he still asked him with a serious attitude who he was reporting.
"What I want to report is Dong Shixiu, a nun in Shuiyue Temple. He dressed up as a woman and cheated on good women. He bullied many times!"
This gangster is named Hu Zongyong. As soon as he said this, everyone was shocked.
because his words were so shocking that everyone in the court could not care about the rules of order and couldn't help but discuss it... The reason was that Hu Zong's use of this was really absurd, and it was simply suspected that he was deliberately committing a false case to disrupt the public order.
The county magistrate shouted "Silent" a few times, frowned and turned his eyes to the other side of the hall, that is, the nun pointed at by the gangster, Dong Shixiu. Seeing that the nun was not changing his face, there was no sign of guilt or nervousness, he just insisted that he was a woman. So the county magistrate was more sure that the gangster was talking nonsense, but the necessary procedures were not convenient to be spared, so he had to send a few Wenpo to the side room to test Dong Shixiu. The
inspection result is not surprising. The peaceful woman all said that Dong Shixiu was a real woman. This made Hu Zong use this person's words and said nothing. The county magistrate was angry and said something angrily to the point that Hu Zong Yong dragged him to beat the board.
But unexpectedly, the gangster who bullies the weak and fears the strong on weekdays actually pointed directly at the nun more and more firmly after being beaten, saying that the county master would be required to observe clearly.
The county magistrate was a little confused when he got here, but seeing that the nun had a pretty face and a slim figure, how could people believe that this was a man?
So, is this gangster confident or polite? What kind of ridiculous deeds is behind this case? Finally,
Is this nun Dong Shixiu a man or a woman? How did the county magistrate solve this case? ......
All these questions need to be solved from the beginning -
1. Dong Shixiu, the other protagonist of this case, is slightly famous in the local area. It is reported that he was abandoned by his parents at the entrance of Shuiyue Temple since he was a child. The abbot pity his innocentness and could not bear such a small life to die, so he took him in the temple and gave him the name Dong Shixiu.
Dong Shixiu grew up in a nunnery. The abbot who adopted her also taught her with all his heart and strength.
Unexpectedly, Dong Shixiu herself seems to have unique wisdom and can have some unique insights into Buddhist scriptures. At the same time, she is also quite accomplished in female embroidery. She is already famous for this craft when she was young.
, the increasingly famous Dong Shixiu continues to attract the girls around him. On the one hand, they want to come here to burn incense and pray for blessings, and on the other hand, they want to see this outstanding woman.
Because they were in the era of low status of women in the Southern Song Dynasty, they were really new to having such outstanding women.
Southern Song was a dynasty that reached its peak in oppression and restraint on women.
The Jingkang shame of Northern Song not only became a shame for the royal family at that time, but also caused almost the entire harem of the female family to be humiliated and bullied. Most of the original concubines and princesses ended up being inferior to prostitutes.
and since then, the entire Southern Song society's requirements for women's reputation and chastity have reached a pathologically persistent level.
even widely circulated: "Starting to death is small, losing one's fortune is big."
On the other hand, Confucian thought, which occupied the mainstream society at that time, ushered in a new height in the Song Dynasty, and also further deepened the oppression and shackles of women.
During this period, the great master of Confucianism Zhu Xi linked "the principle of heaven" with the "three pillars and five constants", emphasizing that the "three pillars and five constants" is based on "the principle of heaven", which further strengthened the absoluteness and authority of the "three pillars and five constants", and put a more solid shackle on women's thoughts.
In such an era, women should be regulated and should "clean themselves" and adhere to chastity has become a pathological social consensus.
Unmarried women should not show up in public, but married women should take their husbands as their key points. Even if their husbands die, they should be widowed and always maintain their chastity.
The Southern Song women who were restricted from leaving the door were restricted from entering the two doors since then, so their spirits that had nowhere to be placed turned to the Buddhist holy land.
This is also why female pilgrims often come to visit and make wishes in nunners. Dong Shixiu, who has extraordinary knowledge and has obvious attainments in many aspects such as Buddhism , female workers, etc., quickly became a master for female pilgrims to visit.
More and more widows ask her for her skills and ask her to recite scriptures to exchange for peace of mind.
And Dong Shixiu has also gained experience year by year as he grows older. She has lived in the admiration of the women for a long time and gradually has another idea.
Because they are both women, Dong Shixiu often stays at the donor's house after visiting or being invited. No one finds it strange if this happens too much. He only said, "It's all a woman, why not stay together?"
The identity of the nunnery master has become a protective clothing. Over time, Dong Shixiu stays at the donor's house as free as if she is in her own home. She and these widows seem to be getting along like close friends in their boyfriends.
All this happened so naturally that no one noticed a strange phenomenon - most of the people Dong Shixiu stayed at were widows.
2. The story of the east window was revealed, and the gangster reported the case
Duanping In the third year (1236), there was a bride Liu in the area of South Street where Shuiyue'an was located. Her husband died on the battlefield shortly after her wedding. Therefore, she had not yet felt the happiness of being a wife, so she became a widow early.
Originally, her husband died, and she could only live so peacefully, but she never thought that Widow Liu always dreamed of her deceased husband for three days at night.
Occasionally, he talks about his recent life with himself, occasionally he dies on the battlefield with blood. There are even a few times when Widow Liu is awakened from her dream by her husband's bloody pounce on her.
She was tortured every day and couldn't sleep at night, afraid that her husband would ask her for life in her dream.
The house leaks and rains.
The little widow couldn't sleep well at night and was often teased by gangsters during the day, which made her very upset.
It was at this time that Widow Liu heard that there was a master in the nunnery who was very effective. The nearby female family loved to invite her to her home to do rituals, so she went to the nunnery to ask Dong Shixiu for help.
After hearing the cause and effect, Dong Shixiu immediately answered her with a clear answer that this was the widow's dead husband who could not let her go and wanted to pull her away.
At the same time, Dong Shixiu also saw Widow Liu's anxious and worried, and took the opportunity to propose a solution for her: "You can buy a paper man as a substitute to burn it for your husband underground, which can fulfill his thoughts. Recite the sutra for seven days to save him, so that he can feel at ease, so that he can turn bad luck into good luck."
Wife Liu, who was anxious, accepted Dong Shixiu's dream interpretation method as if she had found a life-saving straw, and asked her to do a ritual at her home.
Widow Liu was completely unprepared for Dong Shixiu, so she did not realize that when she invited Dong Shixiu into the house, the faint smile on the nun's face showed a bit of meaning.
But it's a coincidence.
There is a gangster in this city named Hu Zongyong. He is well-known for his idleness and laziness all day long. He has long coveted this beautiful widow. Although he has taken advantage of it on weekdays, he still feels unsatisfied, so he plans to do something bad this night.
And Dong Shixiu is the variable in his plan. Hu Zongyong watched Widow Liu and a nun go home in the dark, and the anger in his heart almost burst out.
I was angry when I saw that the plan had changed, but I saw the nun walking with Widow Liu, and his appearance was not even comparable. He suddenly had another evil thought.
It was night, Dong Shixiu finished his ritual at Widow Liu's house and was about to go to the widow's room to rest after packing up his utensils.
She walked past the rockery in the yard and suddenly felt a little uneasy.
Just as she was about to walk by, she felt a black shadow swaying by in the afterglow, and then she felt that her hands and feet were clamped by a force that was difficult to break free, pushing her behind the rockery.
With a few rays of dim light, Hu Zongyong found that this nun was even more beautiful than when he looked from a distance before, and being hugged by him like this, he felt a little satisfied with the warm and soft jade in his arms.
He was happy and his hands became increasingly irregular.
Dong Shixiu has never been treated like this, so he naturally tried his best to protect his innocence.
Just as the two sides were pushing and fighting, Hu Zongyong suddenly touched the nun with an object that shouldn't have appeared. He was immediately scared and his mind was distracted. He disappeared. In anger, he turned to Dong Shixiu to the yamen to report the case.
So there is the beginning scene.
Just when the county magistrate was helpless about this, the knowledgeable Wenpo frowned slightly and thought of a ridiculous but not completely impossible situation.
So, this Wenpo came up with a plan and whispered to propose a plan to the county magistrate.
3. Wild dog solves the case, the truth is revealed
No one in the court knows what Wenpo and the county magistrate have considered, but she saw Wenpo leave the hall, but soon she returns. When she appears again, holding a bowl of broth in one hand and holding a restless wild dog in the other hand.
The dog was not honest. It could be seen that he had been hungry for a long time. The aroma of the broth overflowed, causing the dog to roam around the St. Peter's mouth to make a sound of "hiss".
The scene that followed was even more confusing -
The stable woman actually walked towards Dong Shixiu on the side, sprinkling the broth on her thigh without everyone's reaction.
, originally calm and composed, Dong Shixiu felt a vague feeling in his heart, but he was also worried that he did not dare to resist in the court. He could only watch the wild dog rushing towards him with the fragrance, licking and rubbing his thighs.
The wild dog's breathing hot air was sprayed on the side of her legs, and the wet saliva touched her. What's even more terrible is that the dog licked it more and more vigorously as if it had tasted the taste. Dong Shixiu felt an uncontrollable itch coming.
So, everyone in the court watched helplessly as the wild dogs kept licking, the nun's lower body changed, and the male organs were prominent.
It turns out that Dong Shixiu is actually a Yin-Yang person with Yin outside and Yang inside!
Many of the people present had no idea about this, and a few who had heard of this situation had never seen it with their own eyes. They were stunned by this too strange fact.
In fact, there were only a few records of "Yin and Yang Man" before the Southern Song Dynasty.
The earliest explanation of this in history was that in the " Suspicion Collection " compiled by He Ning and He Meng in the Five Dynasties period, the Yin and Yang people were defined as " person dysfunction " and "two-shaped people".
The latter intuitively reveals the characteristics of this type of people being different from ordinary people, while the former not only explains that this type of people has a deformed structure, but also has a very obvious derogatory color. It is not difficult to see from this that people at that time still held a taboo and unacceptable attitude towards most people in Yin and Yang.
. Dong Shixiu was born into a peasant family. After the couple was born, they could not accept that the child had such deformities and thought it was an ominous sign, so they wanted to strangle her to death.
But after all, it is unethical to strangle such a living life with one's own hands, so she was abandoned near by the nunnery.
So, they pretended that they had never given birth to such a deformed child and never met again.
Since Dong Shixiusheng has male characteristics, everyone couldn't help but secretly guess in their hearts whether the widows who were close to her in the past, including today's Widow Liu, had a different affair with her as Hu Zongyong said.
. Dong Shixiu, who was in the hall, also knew that the situation was going to go. He had long lost his calmness as before. He just answered the county magistrate's subsequent interrogation of the case truthfully.
Dong Shixiu admitted that he had had improper relationships with widows he had been with in recent years, including both consenting and half-rejecting.
Afterwards, the woman was worried about her reputation and was afraid of breaking the law. She chose to calm down and not report the case. She buried the pain she suffered in her heart, thinking that she would never be discovered.
After all, who would suspect a nun who is hypocritical on the surface and has a compassionate look? After hearing this, the county magistrate sentenced her to " killing " on the spot!
At this point, this absurd case that should have been without suspense came to an end with such an unexpected result.
It is unknown whether those women who were victimized and shamed were later primanded and despised by neighbors.
Conclusion
Today we can learn that in ancient times, people commonly called Yin and Yang people "demons", which shows how deeply they avoided this group of people.
But not to mention that Dong Shixiu, who did violate the etiquette and law at that time, even people did not tolerate innocent Yin and Yang people.
In the Song Dynasty book " Guixin Miscellaneous Knowledge ", a similar case was recorded: it was about an official surnamed Zhao who fell in love with a maid, but found that the maid actually had the characteristics of a man and a woman. In anger, he sued him in the government office. The poor maid also ended up with a killing.
People were afraid of everything that could not be explained, because the medical knowledge at that time was not enough to explain the genetic defect of bisexuality, so they regarded it as a bad omen, as unknown, and even deprived these people of right to life .
Although this seems ignorant and stupid today, it is the best way for people to relieve their fears at that time.
We are powerless to change the history that happened, but we cannot deny that many history still has many enlightenment effects on us in the modern era.
Today we put the right to life first and no longer have the power to override others' lives. At the same time, we should also see that a person's misfortune cannot be a reason for him to be bullied by others, nor can he become an excuse for him to harm others.
