Yayu Book House Gossip 37: Why is Li Yan called "Black Whirlwind"?

Yayu Book House Gossip 37: Why is Li Yan called "Black Whirlwind"?

Ning Jiayu

In addition to the nickname "Black Whirlwind", there are two nicknames. One is called "Shan'er". This name is not seen in "Water Margin", but it is more common in the Yuan Dynasty "Li Yan Opera". For example, Li Yan's first discount Li Zhi on his own report: "It's better to wake up if you don't get drunk, it's better to wake up. "Biography" is used a lot. "Iron Cow" is used to describe Li Zhi's thick figure and rough character, which is very appropriate. So how did the nickname "Black Whirlwind" come from?

Gong Sheng and "Thirty -Six Songs of Song Jiang" said: "The wind is sizes and does not distinguish between male and female; in the valley, encounters are also fierce." It means that the whirlwind scraping is almost difficult to divide in the southeast and northwest. In this regard, Sun Ji Zeng Zeng Zeng Zeng Zeng's "Black Whirlwind" in the Yuan Dynasty said: "The whirlwind can be borrowed from the east wind and south wind; Also. This -like Li Yan's husband's husband's husband, hesitate, and towering. "

Contemporary scholar Wang Sugi believes that "whirlwind" is a kind of artillery. He quoted the "Three Dynasties Northern Alliance" in "The Three Dynasties" in "The Jiexitang Collection": "The Golden Man attacked Dongshui Gate, Yashi Fei noticed like rain, or stumbled with the grinding plate, as a whirlwind." Song Shimao Liang's "Joining Night Talk" volume: "(Golden Man) guns have seven times, five shoots, tri -shoots, two shoots, single shoots, whirlwinds, tiger squats and other artillery." Preparation Volume 15: "Last year (1214) Tatan surround Yanjing. It was spring ... but the soldiers of Zhending were 40,000 in bail, reinforced 10,000 to whirlwind villages, and fought with Tabing ..." Wang Leisi said, " "Whirlwind Village" is the current turret. His basis is Volume 111 of Mao Yuanyi "Wu Beizhi" in the Ming Dynasty: "Whirlwind cannon, filled people and team people." Zhang Ye's "Water Margin Forty -eight Man Likes" black rotor Li Yan said: " . "This explanation is equivalent to now we are called" cannons "for those who are fiery.

These explanations have a certain sense, but they always feel a bit far -fetched. In my opinion, I am afraid that the nickname "Black Whirlwind" is not so profound. It is just a description of Li Yan's rough personality. In the Yuan Zi drama "Li Yan's Negotiations", Li Yan himself said, "When people see that I have a dark, they are nicknamed, called 'Black Whirlwind Li Zhi'." His nickname may be that simple.

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