Arty Records

Fang Duzhi was not afraid of trouble, and made marinated noodles with fried eggs and tomatoes, and then made seaweed soup with dried shrimps.While eating, he asked his son how he was doing, he was gentle and warm, and completely returned to normal, as if those sentimental indulgences had never happened before.Hearing Fang Sishen said that he bowed to Hua Dingsong, he let out a nonchalant "hmm" and asked with a smile, "Do you know how the nickname Hua Ding came from?"

"Not because of the name?"

"Of course it has something to do with the name, but it is said that it is mainly because of the dispute over the naming of 'Hou Kong Ding'."

"I know one thing, the teacher has always insisted on calling it 'Sikong Ding'."

"Houkong Ding" is a Warring States Ding unearthed in Chuzhou. It is exquisite and can be called a national treasure.Because there is an inscription of "houkong" in the middle of the tripod body, it is named.

Fang Duzhi said: "The ancient characters are not finalized, the combination of strokes is random, and the writing is free. There is indeed a common phenomenon of 'hou' and 'si'. But in the Warring States period, the writing system was quite mature, so the word 'houkong' was basically absent in the academic world. objection, so when Hua Dingsong first brought it up, everyone thought he was joking again."

Fang Sishen couldn't help smiling.The people of Chu are stubborn, and like to "speak without shocking and endlessly", which is fully reflected in Hua Dingsong.

"The teacher thinks that Xia characters were really finalized after the first emperor's "shutongwen". The Warring States period was actually very casual. Besides, each country formed its own system, and Chu characters had their own conventions. The interpretation of 'Houkong' and 'Sikong' is even more vast. In connection with the historical facts of Chu State at that time, the theory of 'Sikong' is not without basis."

Fang Duzhi looked at his son with a half-smile, "It's really different to have the support of a teacher."

Fang Sishen argued: "I've read the teacher's article before, and I think it makes sense. Dad, why are you like this... to judge others by yourself." The last four words were boldly said in a low voice.

Fang Duzhi didn't care about his son's disobedience, and then said with a smile: "Hua Dingsong decided that it was the 'Sikong Ding' rather than the 'Houkong Ding', and he had a bad fight with the people from the Beijing Normal University Museum in the "Relics Research" What a joy. In the end, people ignored him, so he called the museum one day at a time, asking them to rectify the name of Baoding, and the operator cut him off as soon as he heard his voice. Go to the exhibition hall of the museum and tell everyone."

"Haha..." Fang Sishen was overjoyed to hear it.

Fang Duzhi looked at him with a smile, and concluded: "From now on, when people in the circle mention him, they will be called 'Hua Dading'."

Fang Sishen calculated silently in his heart that the dispute over the naming of the 'Houkong Ding' was most lively more than 30 years ago.Later, scholars were once again reduced to the targets of transformation, so there was no time to argue about such trivial matters.Although I have time now, I don't have enough energy. I'm afraid the teacher himself won't be able to get up the energy to write this essay.

I was thinking about it, but I heard my father say: "'Books with the same text' was not created by the first emperor. The Shang and Zhou were originally unified, but the rituals collapsed and music broke down, and then the characters mutated. When the first emperor unified the six countries, he replaced the Zhou Dynasty with the Qin characters. Orthodox. Therefore, the characters of various countries are actually an important link between ancient times and the Qin and Han Dynasties. Today, most people rule the Yin and Shang Oracle Bone Inscriptions and the Shang and Zhou Zhongding Wen, and then the Qin Zhuan and Han Li. It is not valued by contemporary scholars. Among the people who are still alive today, Hua Dading is the strongest in this aspect. If you follow him, you can barely be regarded as a successor to the sage."

"En." Fang Sishen nodded seriously.Not to mention anything else, Dean Fang's title of "chief" expert is well-deserved in terms of magnanimity.Of course, whether there is a difference between talking to your son and talking to other people, you have to ask Dean Fang himself.

When talking about Wei Deli, Fang Duzhi listened to his son's jokes about foreign devils with relish, and interrupted to make a few comments from time to time.At the end, he said: "Foreigners who engage in Xia studies have their own advantages. Compared with domestic scholars, the biggest difference lies in the angle of focus. Chinese people are used to studying the changes between ancient and modern times, while they are good at distinguishing the differences between Xia and Yi. For example, in elementary school, we The most important thing is the vertical evolution of the Xia script itself, while they developed a horizontal comparison branch, comparing the similarities and differences of the early scripts of major ancient civilizations, which is also quite impressive.”

This statement is objective and fair, open and generous.After Fang Sishen listened, he suddenly raised his head and said, "Dad, didn't you say, 'We must maintain the national, professional, and pure nature of Chinese studies, and avoid far-fetched and grandstanding?'"

These words were the original words in a report by President Fang not long ago.

"This..." Not being wary of being confronted by his son, Professor Fang Da felt slightly embarrassed in a hurry.Fang Sishen picked up the noodles in the bowl, lowered his head and pursed his lips into a smile.When Fang Duzhi saw his expression, how could he care about "nationality, professionalism, and purity"?After watching it for a moment, Chi Chi felt sore in his heart.The last time this child showed such a cute and naughty appearance to him, he couldn't remember the year and month. He was really incompetent as a father.Before his son found out, he calmed down and changed the subject: "Is there any more noodles, can I have some more?"

The next day when Fang Sishen was going back to school, Fang Duzhi rummaged through the boxes and cabinets in the room: "Don't take what is not in use, but take some food to school. Some time ago someone came from somewhere and sent a bunch of miscellaneous things. Let me see." Everything, pine pollen... spirulina... snow clam essence..."

"Dad, I'm leaving." Fang Sishen stood at the door with his schoolbag cross-body.Looking at my father sweeping the space between the coffee table, the partition, and the bookcase, I suddenly felt that the empty house had no hostess to take care of it, and it was very deserted and messy.I also saw a few strands of star-white hair flashing faintly on my father's sideburns, and almost blurted out: You can keep these supplements for yourself.When the words came to his mouth, he felt inappropriate, so he gritted his teeth lightly and forced himself to swallow.Professor Fang Da has always been capable and strong all his life. He never knew that his old age was approaching, so why bother him for no reason.So repeat: "Dad, I'm leaving."

Fang Duzhi stopped his movements when he heard the sound, bowed his body slightly and looked at him sideways, his motionless posture was like a sculpture.The distant personnel and events mentioned last night, the impressions left in the memory, and the figure in front of him instantly overlapped.All the past entanglements and present embarrassments in Fang Sishen's heart are pinned on the green smoke and candlelight that has not dissipated in the air, and they find their home in this Qingming sacrifice.

The sight of mountains and rivers is far away, and the falling flowers and wind and rain hurt the spring even more.

It's better to take pity on the person in front of you.

He happily said: "I'll call you during the Dragon Boat Festival, and I'll go home and eat zongzi when I'm free."

Fang Sishen's usual practice is to approve homework on Saturday afternoon, but he was delayed by Wei Deli yesterday, so when he returned to the dormitory, he would read the drafts of the students' papers first.The progress of each group is different. Good students, such as Liang Ruogu, are willing to work hard after class, and three to five thousand words are no problem.The mid-level students follow the course step by step, and the first draft of [-] words has taken shape.Those who are lagging behind are still in the stage of revising the outline and sorting out the evidence.After a rough scan, Hong Xinyao was attracted by the three pages full of paper, so he took out the list and corrected it first.

The words are still a big one, and the three pages add up to more than a thousand.

The first part is still "learning from" Shi Tong's holiday achievements: "How Much Do Celebrities Know About Castration".Because I was criticized for "plagiarism" by Mr. Fang, it can be seen that I have done a lot of compression and rewriting.

General idea: Palace punishment was originally used to punish improper relationships between men and women, and later became a kind of felony punishment.But before Emperor Xiaowu of the Han Dynasty, castration was mainly used for sinners with low status.The use of castration instead of certain executions is presumed to be in order to preserve the labor force.After Emperor Xiaowu of the Han Dynasty, imperial punishment was mainly used for the young descendants of those who conspired against the great rebels. As for later generations, it developed into a routine method of collecting palace slaves, which is no longer a "punishment" in the legal sense.As for Emperor Xiaowu alone, ministers who received imperial punishments are seen in the official history, including Taishi Ling Sima Zichang, Yeting Ling Zhang He, Yuefu Duwei Li Yannian, etc. "Zhou Li" said: "Punishment is not as good as a doctor, and courtesy is not as good as a common man."Throughout history, except for Emperor Xiaowu of the Han Dynasty, no emperor really used imperial punishment on court officials and scholar-bureaucrats.It can be seen that using castration to punish those around him is the emperor's personal preference.

The second part is the author's original analysis: "The Conjecture of Sima Zichang's Castration".Fang Sishen took up his pen and commented: "The title is grammatically incomprehensible."

main idea:

Emperor Xiaowu took all men and women, and the history books make it clear.A preference for castration is psychologically the same thing as liking men.Among the three famous courtiers mentioned earlier, Zhang He, Ye Ting Ling, was once favored by the prince, but the prince was framed and eventually committed suicide, and Zhang He was implicated and imprisoned by the palace.Zhang He later found the posthumous son of the prince and brought him up. From this we can see that he was very young when he was imprisoned, and probably had some ambiguous relationship with the prince, so Emperor Xiaowu did not kill him, but punished him with castration, just like a mother-in-law hates her daughter-in-law.Li Yannian, captain of the Yuefu, was castrated for a crime, so he simply entered the palace as an eunuch, and later, together with his sister, Mrs. Li, he sang and danced to the emperor, and slept with the emperor.

According to the chronology, Emperor Xiaowu was 11 years older than Sima Zi. When Emperor Xiaowu was 34 years old, Sima was 23 years old and began to be a doctor, that is, the emperor's bodyguard.Since then, he has been running around with the emperor, and the emperor always takes him with him when he goes out. At the age of 38, he succeeded his father as Taishiling. This is an important position for the emperor's fortune-telling. According to history books, the emperor listened to him for the most important matters such as changing the calendar and offering sacrifices.Until the age of 47, he was sentenced to death for speaking for Li Ling. He was charged with "Juershi", which means slandering Ershi general Li Guangli.Who is Li Guangli?Li Yannian's brother!In the eyes of the emperor, it is obvious that the old favorite is finding fault with the new favorite!

Sima himself said that because he had no money to redeem himself, he used castration to replace the death penalty. With his position and old relationship with the emperor, he couldn't afford the money. Who would believe it?It was clear that the emperor didn't allow him to redeem his body. After all, his love was gone, and he couldn't bear to let him die, so he simply let it go.How about being promoted to Zhongshu Ling in the next year, and being put in the harem by the emperor blatantly, would he be more favored instead?As the saying goes, the emperor's heart is a needle in the bottom of the sea. Those who hate want to die, and those who love want to live. They hope to die in the same year and the same month, but they don't want to be born in the same year. So in the end, Emperor Xiaowu and Sima Zichang died in the same year.It can be seen from this that the palace punishment saved the emperor's heart, and the palace punishment rejuvenated the second spring of life...

(The above content ignores some wrong sentences and typos)

"Slap!" Fang Sishen slapped the table, almost tearing the paper into pieces.After repeated deep breaths several times, I wrote a comment at the end with a pen: "I have carefully studied the biographies of the characters, and I can make a comprehensive analysis of the relationship between the time and the characters, which is quite progress. However, it is partial, subjective, and causal logic cannot withstand scrutiny. The derivation of the conclusion is too hasty..." The more I wrote, the more ridiculous I felt, and I didn't have the patience to perfunctory, so I dropped the word "face criticism" and put a big exclamation mark.

Young Master Hong still doesn't know what he should do every day because the "original paper" he racked his brains and painstakingly concocted made Teacher Fang vomit blood with anger.After school on Friday, I had dinner with Zhou Xincheng and Liang Ruogu.What I ate was the most popular Western-style fast food among my peers, with two slices of bread sandwiching a sausage, plus a glass of bubbling ice soda, the price was more expensive than ordering two dishes in ordinary restaurants.He also ordered a bunch of grilled chicken wings, and his mouth was full of oil. While agitating his cheeks, he said: "Liangzi, I invited Wang Wei out to play on Sunday, my buddies thank him."

Wang Hui had no money, and the few people had originally planned to pull the tiger's skin to pull the banner, and they didn't plan to ask him to pay.Unexpectedly, Wang Yanei was unexpectedly kind, and offered to buy shares with information, directly bringing the small group into the stock market.After tasting the sweetness a few times, everyone gathered all the living money in their hands and made a lot of money.Because of Hong Xinyao's proposition, when dividends were paid to Wang Wei, the dividends were unilaterally increased on the basis of the agreed ratio.

Liang Ruogu shook his head: "It's unlikely. He even has bodyguards to accompany him to and from school, so he can't decide where he goes."

"Ah, this is too pitiful." Young Master Hong felt sympathetic from the bottom of his heart, unwilling to say, "It's not enough just to have a meal? It's impossible for him to have nothing to do with other than going to school."

"It's even worse to eat." Zhou Xincheng said, "They never eat outside, and they are under the unified management of the 'Department of Purchasing and Distribution of the Central Government'." You and I are just dating."

Liang Ruogu asked: "Isn't your father not high enough?"

Zhou Xincheng sneered, "For example, if you got 85 points in an exam, even though they are both excellent and 100 points, the grades are the same. You know how much the two scores actually differ."

Liang Ruogu was thoughtful.Hong Xinyao took a bite of the chicken wing: "I'm so shabby, right? In my eyes, young master, there's only a difference between a score above 60 and a score below 60." Wiping the corner of his mouth, "Understood, the prince has nothing to do for entertainment, earn some money My son's private money."

It's Saturday elective time again, homework commentary.Fang Sishen took out some typical representative issues and discussed them with the students.He spared no pains to memorize all the important reference books for the students to check on the spot and revise them immediately.Hong Xinyao held the back of his head with his hands, leaned lazily on the back of the chair, and didn't listen at all.Thinking of Fang Shudai's two lines of hating iron but not steel, he was very proud, raised his legs and swayed back and forth, as leisurely as sitting in a teahouse.

Fang Sishen glanced at him, but several groups raised their hands at the same time to ask the teacher to answer the questions, so they had to wait for the class to approve.

When the bell rang for the end of the last class, Fang Sishen was busy packing up the reference books returned by the students.In order to bring a few more books, he specially changed into a large travel backpack.Liang Ruogu came up to help sort it out, and said, "Teacher Fang, can you apply to the school to take us to the National History Archives or the Beijing Normal University Library, and write while checking the materials, that would be so convenient."

"I've asked, and there is no special approval. These two places are not open to middle school students. And I don't have the right to take you out of the campus to attend classes. The responsibility is too great. Fortunately, the authoritative reference books you can use are not too much. More, I can still move."

Liang Ruogu picked up a backpack and carried it out of the classroom with Fang Sishen: "I'll take you to the subway station."

A hand stretched out: "You are busy with your work, give it to me." Seeing Liang Ruogu looking at him, Hong Xinyao grinned, and danced the three homework papers, "face-to-face approval, I face-to-face approval." .”

Just as he walked to the subway station, Fang Sishen's cell phone rang, but it was Wei Deli.

"Fang, I know you didn't have lunch. I'll treat you and wait for you at 'Xingzuixuan'. What? And Hong? That's great, I want to thank him too, let's come together!"

Hong Xinyao gave a strange cry: "The foreign devil treats you, you can't eat him enough!"

The schoolbag was too heavy, so the two decided to send it back to the dormitory first.

The aunt in the duty room had a good memory, and said to Hong Xinyao, "Young man, are you looking for your brother again?"

"Hey, yeah."

The aunt's eyes were piercing: "You two brothers don't look alike."

Hong Xinyao nonsense: "Well, I was born by my mother, and he was born by his mother."

The aunt turned on the gossip searchlight, and immediately made up her half-brother.

Fang Sishen scolded in a low voice: "Nonsense again!"

Hong Xinyao knew that he had a pun, and became more confident: "Where did I say nonsense? You pointed it out to me, which sentence is nonsense? Besides, what is 'again'? Do you have any basis? Maybe who is talking nonsense? hum."

The aunt smiled from behind: "The relationship between the two brothers is really good, and the parents are lucky!"

Putting down his things, he went straight to Xingzuixuan, where Wei Deli was already waiting inside.He didn't know what to order, so he sat and drank plain water.Seeing the two of them, he hurriedly said: "Quickly recommend to me, what is the best food."

Hong Xinyao was not polite, picked up the menu and called: "Spicy crab! Dry pot bullfrog! Hot shredded eel! Chicken feet with pickled peppers!"

As soon as the dishes were served, Wei Deli looked at and smelled everything, curious and fearful: "What are these?" He picked up a crab and frowned, "How can this be eaten?" He pointed to the chicken feet, "This Can I eat something too?"

Hong Xinyao taught by precept and deed, teaching international friends how to disassemble crabs and chew chicken feet.Seeing that Wei Deli was in too much pain, Fang Sishen shook his head and smiled, and asked for the menu, adding a sweet and sour pork and a potato pancake, and finally rescued him.

The three of them ate, drank and chatted, mixed in foreign language and summer language, and felt very lively.Hong Xinyao asked about the food on the table, and on a whim, he asked Wei Deli, "Hey, how do you say the eunuch in Western?" Grabbing the chicken paws and knocking on the side of the bowl, I was triumphant.

"Eunuch."

"What?"

"Eunuch." Wei Deli said, drawing on the table with his fingers, "This kind of person, in your Xia Kingdom, is also called eunuch, eunuch, eunuch. This word in Spanish comes from ancient Greece..."

Hong Xinyao was greatly surprised: "You also have eunuchs in foreign countries?"

Wedley nodded: "The Kingdom of Assyria used castration to punish adulterers and captives; during the Byzantine period, eunuchs were used as court servants or priests. Five centuries ago, the Sistine Chapel was the first to introduce castration singers, which became popular. Nearly two hundred years."

"Ah..." Although some proper nouns are unclear, most of the meanings are easy to understand.Hong Xinyao hesitated: "The eunuch singer, the singer who cut off that? Why?"

Fang Sishen replied: "In this way, their voices will never become hoarse and deep."

Wei Deli added: "Yes. According to historical records, its voice is clear and melodious, high-pitched and powerful, unparalleled and mesmerizing."

Hong Xinyao was puzzled: "But just to sing a song, cut off the lifeblood, this, this is too perverted."

Wade shrugged and declined to comment.Fang Sishen suddenly said: "Daniel, when are you free, can you give a lecture to my students?"

Young Master Hong's eyes lit up: "Are you talking about foreign eunuchs?"

Fang Sishen almost hit him on the head with his chopsticks: "What nonsense! I want to ask Daniel to talk about the spread of "Tai Shi Gong Shu" overseas, so that students can broaden their horizons."

Wei Deli was very happy: "This is a good idea! But I have to prepare, how about in two weeks?" After thinking for a moment, he pointed at Hong Xinyao with a worried expression on his face, "Fang, your students are all like Is he like this, so ignorant?"

Fang Sishen laughed loudly: "No, no, some of them are very good."

Young Master Hong became furious, put down his chopsticks with a "snap", and took out the three pages of papers: "I don't know how to learn? I can write original papers!"

Wei Deli was very surprised, took it with both hands and read it.The typos and sentences were all corrected by Mr. Fang, so it is not difficult to read.After reading it carefully, he looked up: "Fang, this article is unique, ingenious, and not without reason."

"Hmph!" Hong Xinyao knew that he was praising himself, and his chin was raised to the sky.

Fang Sishen didn't know whether to laugh or cry: "All fallacies and sophistry are not unreasonable. What's the use of relying on novel ideas?"

Wei Deli glanced at him: "I thought you refused to accept his point of view."

"The point of view itself is not the problem, the problem is that this kind of argument full of loopholes is untenable."

Young Master Hong patted the table: "Tell me! Where is the hole? Where is the hole?"

Fang Sishen thought about it, and said: "How about this, for your homework, I will ask a question every week, and you will look for the answer. You don't need your answer to convince me, at least yourself, how about it?"

Convince yourself?Do you still need to persuade yourself?Hong Xinyao rubbed his hands, "Who is afraid of whom, just let the horse come here!"

Fang Sishen opened his article: "For example, in this sentence, you think it is impossible for Sima Zichang to have no money to redeem himself. There are two reasons. One is that his salary should be high, and the other is that the emperor gave him many rewards. These two sentences are all speculations. So how much is Tai Shiling's salary? How much is the emperor's reward that can be tested in historical records? How much is the cost of supporting the family? According to the price level at that time, which class does he belong to economically? And how much is the death penalty ransom? Is it within the affordable range? inside?"

Young Master Hong was dumbfounded: "This...where do I know to go..."

Wei Deli helped: "There should be some in "Tai Shi Gong Shu", and besides..."

Hong Xinyao seemed to be grabbing at straws: "You said I wrote well, you have to help me!"

Wei Deli quickly cleared up: "I didn't say that you wrote well, I just said that your point of view is very special and seems to make sense." Suddenly he smiled meaningfully and asked, "How could you think of such a special idea?" Relationship?"

It turned out that when Hong Xinyao was having a headache for the original point of view, he heard several girls discussing the hit soap opera "Xiaowu Dynasty". This article is the result of humbly asking for advice.I'm ashamed to say it clearly, and tossed my hair: "I'm telling you the original one, of course I researched it, young master!"