Is Cao Guojiu Yan Shu or a bully?

Cao Guojiu of the Eight Immortals is an alien. The other seven immortals are mostly grass roots, either beggars, down-and-out scholars, musicians or village girls. Only when he came here, a prince's maternal uncle appeared.

You are my uncle, but you even call me Guan, and you don't even know your name.

Not only are we confused now, but even scholars since the Ming and Qing Dynasties are also confused.

Hu Yinglin in Ming Dynasty said, "There are no concubines of Cao in the biographies of immortals, and there are no concubines and immortals of Cao in history. Song Shiwei's younger brother Cao Shu, who is more important than time, died at the age of 70. "

According to various biographies of immortals, there are no consorts and no Cao Chengxian among people named Cao. Only Cao Shu of Song Renzong was the younger brother of the Queen, but he died in his seventies. No one said he was a fairy. "

So someone put forward another view. Tao Shan Qing Hua said that Cao Guojiu was none other than Yan Ying, the younger brother of Yan Shu, a great poet and prime minister in the Song Dynasty. How did the Yan family become Cao Guojiu? There is nothing to do.

This is because Yan Ying was reborn as the immortal Cao Babai, so he was Cao Guojiu.

Who is Cao Babai?

I don't know, just a fairy.

Immortals love to use the name 800, or claim to have lived for 800 years, or claim to travel 800 miles a day.

The fairy visited Yan Shu and Yan Ying's father before Yan Ying was born and told him, "Congratulations, a fairy is coming to be your son."

Then the Yan family became poorer and poorer-it seems that the immortal did this on purpose to prove that he didn't care much about the poor and the rich.

Yan Ying was as famous for her talent as her brother Yan Shu until she was eighteen.

Song Zhenzong listened, specially summoned, and gave Yan Yingci the same background as Jinshi-equivalent to the same education.

When Yan Ying heard about it, she wouldn't come out after closing the door. She didn't eat or ask questions.

The family broke into the house and found the cicada.

He also left a poem: "Three thousand miles outside the river, eighteen years on earth. At this time, whoever sees it again, a crane will go to heaven. "

The simple translation is: "I'm going to look for poetry and distance."

Because Yan Ying is the reincarnation of Cao Babai, he is the immortal Cao Guojiu.

This doesn't make sense. One is that Cao Babai, a puzzling fairy, is not a prince's uncle, and the other is that Yan Ying did not become a prince's uncle after her reincarnation.

According to Conan: "Eliminate all the impossibilities, and the remaining one is true even if it is incredible."

So this person is Cao Shu.

It is not recorded in the official history, but in unofficial history.

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The earliest story about Cao Guojiu that we can see now can be traced back to the Yuan Dynasty. In the Yuan Dynasty, a man named Miao Shanshi wrote a wonderful story about the deification of Emperor Chunyang, which mainly collected all kinds of magical stories of Lv Dongbin, mainly from the materials of the Tang and Song Dynasties. The tenth magical story about Lv Dongbin is the transformation of Cao Guojiu.

As a result, Cao Guojiu's story became popular in the Song Dynasty.

According to his records, Cao Guojiu was the child of Cao Bin, the founding general of the Song Dynasty (the author made a mistake, it should be his grandson) and the younger brother of Cao Empress. He is handsome and talented, but he doesn't like wealth. He often talks about this situation with Song Renzong. One day I suddenly said to Song Renzong, "I'm leaving now to find poetry and the distance." Renzong gave him a gold medal, which read: "Uncle is everywhere, just like me."

Cao Guojiu has been wandering the rivers and lakes since then, and this gold medal has never been used on him, holding a hedge in his hand to make a living.

One day I walked to the Yellow River ferry, but I had no money by boat.

The boatman naturally refused to do it and scolded him.

Comrade Cao Guojiu had no choice but to take out the gold medal to buy tickets.

As a result, everyone knelt down when they saw the words on it.

Just then, a Taoist priest in rags scolded him: "If you want to become a monk, why do you want to oppress others with imperial power?"

Cao Guojiu bowed down and replied, "I dare not."

The Taoist priest said, "Can you still go into the water?"

Cao Guo wine was thrown into the water far away (big brother, you can give it to the poor to help them live).

The Taoist said, "Come with me."

Cao Guojiu followed him to the shore, and the Taoist priest said, "Do you know Lv Dongbin?"

Cao Guojiu said: "I am a mortal, how can I know the immortal?"

Taoist hahaha smiled: "Today I will let you know that it is me."

From then on, Lv Dongbin took him to eternal life.

In this story, Cao Guojiu belongs to the kind of person who wants to become an immortal with a full stomach. By the Ming Dynasty, the story had changed.

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It is said in Fairy Wonderland that Cao Guojiu sees through the world of mortals because of his younger brother.

Uncle Cao Erguo, the younger brother of Cao Guojiu, bullied others and killed a man. As his elder brother, Cao Guojiu was deeply ashamed. Since then, he has lived in seclusion in the mountains and often does not eat. Of course he doesn't want to go on a hunger strike, but he wants to practice.

One day, Cao Guojiu met Lv Dongbin and Lv Dongbin interviewed him. The process is as follows:

Lu asked, "I heard that you are educated. What do you raise? "

Cao answered, "cultivate."

Lu asked, "Where is Tao?"

Cao replied, "In my heart."

Lv Dongbin was satisfied with this answer and took him away at once.

This story left room for second creation, and later many people created around the murder of Cao Guojiu's younger brother.

Don't forget, there was a famous Bao Qingtian in Injong.

Therefore, the story in The Mirror Flower Edge is much more tortuous, not only tortuous, but also related to the famous detective Bao Qingtian.

Uncle Cao Erguo coveted Yuan's wife's beauty, and his son went to Beijing to take the exam, invited the couple to dinner at home, killed her husband and occupied his wife.

Yuan told the ghost to sue. When Bao Qingtian heard this, he began to pursue it.

Hearing this, Cao Guojiu quickly told his younger brother that you had to destroy the evidence.

The evidence is of course his wife Yuan, who was immediately thrown into the well.

As a result, Yuan's wife met Taibai Venus, who saved her and told her to complain-Taibai Venus seems to have no law enforcement power.

But I didn't expect to meet Cao's uncle on the road. Yuan's wife mistakenly thought he was, so she went forward to be wronged in every way. Hearing this, Uncle directly killed Yuan's wife.

I have to say how lucky this beautiful woman is not dead. After waking up, she went to Bao Qingtian again.

Hearing this, Bao Qingtian immediately had a plan. He decided to pretend to be ill and let his uncle visit him.

Big uncle is also a brainless master. He came without thinking because of the need of the plot.

Bao Qingtian immediately detained him and forced him to write to deceive my second uncle.

In front of Bao Qingtian, everyone is an idiot. My second uncle will come soon, and he was detained when he came.

When the queen heard about it, she quickly took the gold medal from the emperor and pardoned the death penalty.

Bao Qingtian had killed the second uncle before winning the gold medal, but he didn't have time to kill him.

The great uncle escaped, became a monk after seeing through the world of mortals, interviewed in Lv Dongbin, and finally became an immortal.

The story is tortuous, but is it still a fairy? If a villain like my uncle can become an immortal, it would be too bad for the Eight Immortals.

The most interesting story is a folk story. In the Qing Dynasty, there was a book called Eight Immortals Tie Guai Li Lv Chunyang Cao Guo Jiu Bao Juan, which said that Cao Guo became an immortal because the original Seven Immortals felt unlucky. It sounds unlucky to celebrate the birthday of the Seven Immortals at the flat peach party (it is estimated that the Seven Immortals will be angry), and it is not happy to sit together for dinner and call the Seven Immortals Table. It is better to recruit one, so they pulled Cao Guojiu in to make up the number.

Although this story is absurd, it illustrates many problems: first, the origin of Cao Guojiu is really strange and everyone is confused, so we made up such a story and asked him to make up the numbers. Second, Cao Guojiu joined in order to gain a good impression. Indeed, Cao Guojiu in the portrait of the Eight Immortals is dressed in official clothes and holding a water board, which is very festive.

This may be the real reason why Cao Guojiu joined the Eight Immortals.