Liu Xiahui is still pregnant (the story of Liu Xiahui, a Taoist celebrity)

1. The story of Liu Xiahui:

Tao Zongyi’s "Nancun Stops Farming Record·Volume 4·Buluan Fuliang" written by Tao Zongyi in the late Yuan Dynasty and early Ming Dynasty also has a similar record: "Her husband Liu Xiahui Staying at Guomen for the night, a woman came to stay with him. He was afraid that he would freeze to death, so he would sit in his arms until nightfall."

In addition, there is another story, saying that Liu Xiahui met a friend on the way. It was raining heavily, so he went straight to the ancient temple on the roadside to take shelter, but as soon as he entered the door, he saw a naked woman wringing her clothes inside. Liu Xiahui hurriedly exited and sat under the ancient locust tree, letting the heavy rain wet her clothes. This "good story" actually evolved into Liu Xiahui sitting in her arms (Huai) in peace.

2. Allusions:

The saying "sitting in the arms without chaos" comes from the biography of Mao Heng in "The Book of Songs·Xiaoya·Xiangbo". When Mao Heng commented on the poem "Xiang Bo", he told a story: There was a man in the state of Lu who lived alone in a room, and his neighbor was a widow who lived alone in a room. One night there was a storm and the widow's house was destroyed. The woman came to the man to ask for shelter. Men don't let women in. The woman said to him from the window: "Why don't you let me in?" The man said: "I heard that men and women cannot live together until they are sixty years old. I am still young now, and so are you, so I can't let you in." The woman said, "Why don't you, like Liu Xiahui, use your body to warm a woman who has no time to go out to avoid the cold, and others don't think he has done anything inappropriate?" The man said, "Liu Xiahui can open the door, so I can't." I should learn from Liu Xiahui's "opening the door" by my "not opening the door". This story shows that at the earliest in the Western Han Dynasty, there was a legend about Liu Xiahui's "not opening the door", but it was somewhat unclear. .

In the Yuan Dynasty, Hu Bingwen's "Pure Mengqiu" further enriched the details of "sitting in the arms without chaos": Liu Xiahui, a native of Lu, whose surname was Zhan and whose name was Qin, lived outside the capital gate at night during a long trip. . It was very cold at that time, and suddenly a woman came to stay. Liu Xiahui was afraid that she would freeze to death, so he let her sit in his arms and covered her with his clothes. Nothing happened until dawn the next day. Later generations spread the story about Liu Xiahui's undisturbed pregnancy. It's roughly the same as this version.

Character introduction: Liu Xiahui (720 BC - 621 BC), Zhan family name Huo, with the courtesy name Ziqin and Ji, was a native of Liuxiayi (now Zhanwa Village, Xiaozhi Town, Pingyin, Shandong Province) during the Spring and Autumn Period. ) people, descendants of Gongzi Zhan, the son of Duke Xiao of Lu. "Hui" was his posthumous name, so later generations called him "Liuxia Hui". Sometimes it is also called "Liuxiaji".