Yayu Book House Gossip Water Margin 9: What does Lu Zhishen nicknamed "Flower Monk"?

Yayu Book House Gossip Nine: What does Lu Zhishen nicknamed "Flower Monk"?

Ning Jiayu

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Lu Zhishen's first nickname was "Flower Monk". This nickname was the most known. As early as the "Drunk Man's Records · Novel Development" in the Song Dynasty, the novel was recorded as "Flower Monk". In Gong Sheng and the "Thirty -six Likes of Song Jiang", he also wrote "Flower Monk Lu Zhishen". This shows that since the Song Dynasty, Lu Zhishen was famous for his nickname "Flower Monk".

So what does this nickname mean?

The term "monk" refers to Lu Zhishen from a monk, which should have no doubt. The question is how the word "flower" is explained. The names of many people during the Song and Yuan Dynasties were crowned with the word "flower", such as "Hua Zheng Gui" and "Hua Lilang" appeared in the Song and Yuan notes. In Wang Mingqing's "Walking Records", there is also a monk who is full of flowers, claiming to be "Dai Hua Monk". Why did people like to put the word "flower" in front of the name at the time? What does it mean?

With the increasing development of the citizens of the Song Dynasty, many concepts representing the citizens have begun to be favored and appreciated by people. For example, people refer to those who are wanton and feminine and rushing. Examples to claim to "Huahua too old". This was the first meaning of the word "flower" used by people at the time.

The second meaning is related to the first meaning and the tattoo. Zhuang Chuo's "Chicken Ribs" said: "... the unique Zhang Jun and the army often follows (press, the capital of the Song Dynasty, Lin'an, that is, Hangzhou). The "flower legs'. The old floating waves of the Beijing Normal University thought that" the flower legs "refers to those tattooing children in the capital. Therefore, in the Yuan Miscellaneous Drama "Lu Zhai Lang" and "Golden Pavilion", they are described as "flower legs". We know that Lu Zhishen is one of the well -known tattoo warriors in "Water Margin" (see "What is the intention of writing tattoos in the" Water Margin "?"), And he was a unruly sister -in -law before he became a monk. "Fei Feier" (see "Is Lu Zhishen Back up before the monk?"), So the name "Flower Monk" not only indicates his monk identity, but also explains his tattoo characteristics and waves of waves. The "flowers" and "monk" seem to be uniformly unified in Lu Zhishen's interest, which is really incomparable.

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