According to legend, this allusion comes from the court of the Tang Dynasty. In order to win the hearts of the people, Emperor Taizong wanted to marry a concubine for the prime minister. The minister's wife refused to let him do this out of jealousy. Emperor Taizong had no choice but to let the minister's wife choose between drinking poisoned wine and concubinage. I didn't expect Mrs. Fang to be a little strong-willed and would rather die than bow before the emperor. So I picked up the "poisoned wine" and gulped it down. Mrs. Fang finished drinking with tears and found that the forest was not poisoned wine, but sweet and sour vinegar. Since then, "jealousy" and "jealousy" have become one, and "jealousy" has become a metaphor of jealousy.
Originally, this allusion was just a legend, and there were not many written records. However, Mr. Cao Xueqin, a famous writer in China, linked jealousy with jealousy in the 31st episode of A Dream of Red Mansions. The original text reads like this: "xiren had to endure her temper and say,' Sister, it's all our fault you went out for a walk." Princess Qing heard her say "we", naturally it was her and Baoyu, and she felt jealous. After Mr. Cao wrote here, he added the meaning of vinegar in Ci Hai: "I feel sad because of jealousy." "Jealousy" is extended to "jealousy", which is also from this. The legendary "Swallow Notes" in the Ming Dynasty also recorded that "the two are just jealous and suspicious, and they don't like each other". As we all know, if there is jealousy in the relationship between men and women, there will even be quarrels and fights, which is also commonly known as "jealousy" or "jealousy". So why associate jealousy with vinegar? There are three ways to trace the source.
The first one is called On the Roar of Lions. Some modern classics hold this view. The main basis is the new record about "the world is more jealous of women than lions" known in the pavilion. "Continued Texts" contains:' A bottle of vinegar and a bottle of cheese on Lion's Day', which is the origin of jealousy. "
Li Rihua, a scholar in Ming Dynasty [1565~ 1635] said in "A Argument on Zitao Youxuan" that "in middle school (A.D.1506 ~152/year), a live sheep and four ounces of sugar. Buddhist classics say that "the roar of a lion makes all animals kneel down", so Buddhists use "the roar of a lion" as a metaphor for the majesty of the Buddha's lecture. Su Dongpo, a great poet in the Song Dynasty, had a friend named Liu, his wife, who was very jealous. Whenever a singer goes to dinner, Liu knocks on the wall with a wooden stick and scolds the guests away. Usually, Chen Jichang likes to talk about Buddhism. Afterwards, Su Dongpo borrowed a lion's roar play to describe his angry voice, and wrote a long poem called "A Message to Wu Deren's Jane Chen Jichang", in which there are some words: "Mr. Dongpo has no money ... only his temple has no reason to be mysterious. Longqiu laymen are also poor, and they talk about sleepless nights. Suddenly, I heard the lion roar in Hedong, and I fell. "Longqiu laity in the poem refers to Chen Jichang; Hedong refers to the poem "Liu is the daughter of Hedong" written by Du Fu, a poet in the Tang Dynasty, and compares Liu, the wife of Chen, with Liu Ye as the prominent surname of Hedong County (now Shanxi Province). This poem vividly describes the author's embarrassment, Liu's intense and often helpless situation. Later, people took the "lion roar" as a synonym for a jealous wife and a shrew. Some people even call the phenomenon of being afraid of his wife "fine D knocking on the source vertebral body", which fails to be taken seriously. "
The second is called "rotten vinegar theory". In the Qing dynasty, some people thought that jealousy originated from a prejudice. In some southern areas, people think it is not appropriate for a family to brew two jars of vinegar at the same time, otherwise one jar will be broken. Therefore, a family should not have two jars of vinegar at the same time. This is a metaphor: a family can only keep one wife, otherwise there will be jealousy between wives and concubines. As early as the Northern and Southern Dynasties, the phenomenon of "bad vinegar" was mentioned many times in Qi's Yao Min Shu, which shows the difficulty of brewing. But it is far-fetched to say that two pots of home brew will destroy one pot, but it reflects the people's hope for monogamy.
The third kind is called "sour taste theory". There is a passage in the twenty-seventh chapter of Zhang Hui's novel Heroes of Children in Qing Dynasty: "Don't be overtaken by those who sell sweet sauce and high vinegar to earn your money." You are suffering from jealousy and have the reputation of' Mrs. Vinegar'. " This passage by the novel author Wen Kang seems to come from the practice of buying vinegar and vinegar. Vinegar is the main sour seasoning in ancient China, which can be extended to acid and sour taste. It is sour and painful, so people associate jealousy with jealousy as a metaphor for sadness. Sometimes called jealousy and jealousy. For example, in the 31st chapter of A Dream of Red Mansions, "Qingwen heard him say the word" we ",and naturally it was him and Baoyu, and he was no longer jealous ..." Jealousy is synonymous with jealousy, jealousy and jealousy. There is a second story in the novel "A Night Clears the Bell" in the late Ming Dynasty: "Fan Ba, a stonemason ... is afraid that Chen will be jealous ... and he is afraid that Chen will blame him for being sour"; Chapter 45 of The Scholars, a novel of the Qing Dynasty, also has a related plot, which is about "the two wives of the Ling family are confused" ... jealousy and jealousy, and they fight ". People also call people who love to show jealousy vinegar jar, vinegar jar, vinegar bowl, vinegar jar, vinegar jar or vinegar bottle. Sometimes, unprovoked jealousy is called being jealous. For example, in the drama Baihua Pavilion, "I transferred him several times, and he fell in love with me in his heart. Why do you eat so little vinegar? "
Someone wrote a book saying that Fang's wife was so jealous that she once gave him a jar of vinegar. "So there is a code name for jealousy." After textual research, a book in the ruling and opposition parties recorded an anecdote of Ren Xuan, the minister of the Ministry of War: Li Shimin of Emperor Taizong sent a maid-in-waiting to Ren Xuan. When he heard that the maid-in-waiting was persecuted by his wife, Li Shimin was so angry that he gave him the wine of "drinking and dying" to show his shock, and his wife gulped it down. But the wine was not poisoned. In the book Romance of Sui and Tang Dynasties, Liu Kui of the Tang Dynasty recorded a similar story about Fang, the minister of Chinese calligraphy: in the early years of the Tang Dynasty, Ligong Fang and Emperor Taizong tried several times to give him a beauty, but they were politely refused. Later, I heard that there was a jealous wife in the palace, and the queen personally went out to work for the wife Lu in the palace, but it was useless. Li Shimin was angry and said that if he persisted in his mistake, he would only die. Lu still refused to give in, saying that he would rather die of jealousy. Emperor Taizong asked someone to make a pot of wine and said, "In that case, drink this poisonous bar!" " Lushi picked it up and gulped it down. In fact, the pot of wine was not poisoned. Later, he said, "I dare not see her now, let alone Fang!" " According to "Biography of Women in the New Tang Dynasty", Fang and his wife are very loving. I was seriously ill in my early years and said, "I'm afraid I can't get well." You are still young. Let's form a family again in the future! " "She cried, gritted her teeth and became blind in one eye, in order to express his unswerving determination. Fang recovered quickly, and finally they grew old together. These two allusions about jealous wives seem to have nothing to do with jealousy.
With the popularization and development of liquor-making industry, vinegar not only gradually entered the field of social life, but also integrated into people's psychological activities and moral relations, so it should also be reflected in the literary works of the Tang Dynasty. After a lot of work, I finally found precious clues in the literature treasure house of Mingshashan Grottoes in Dunhuang. In "Yin and Yang Fu of Heaven and Earth", there is already a passage about "When a woman is jealous, she smells it and thinks about dross every time; Be dissolute and not choose, and don't think about the discipline of pillows. The "vinegar smell" in this paper originally refers to the smell of vinegar; The original meaning of "dross" refers to inferior food. Later, because Hong Song in the Eastern Han Dynasty said that "the wife of scum can't leave the house", people took scum as a synonym for wife. "Pillow cushion" is bedding, which can be called sleep for short. Looking at the content of the whole sentence, the relationship between jealousy and jealousy is vividly on the paper. The author of this famous poem is Bai Xingjian, the younger brother of Bai Juyi, a poet in the Tang Dynasty, so we can draw a conclusion that jealousy and jealous marriage should be traced back to the Tang Dynasty.
To sum up, the theory of "vinegar jar" should have originated in the Tang Dynasty, and the theory of "lion roar" in the Song Dynasty was its tributary, while the theory of "rotten vinegar" in the Qing Dynasty could only be collateral.
The "three" in "one white covers three ugliness" is not a real "three" In China's ancient prose, in most cases, "three" represents an imaginary number, which refers to a large number, and does not refer to a certain three ugliness. "One white covers three ugliness" means that with fair skin, many other facial defects can be covered up.