Yayu Book House Gossip Water Margin 39: What does Zhang Heng's nickname boat mean?

Author:Music club Time:2022.09.28

The 39th: What does Zhang Heng's nickname "boat fire" mean?

Ning Jiayu

Zhang Heng was called "Ship Fire" Zhang Heng in "The Thirty -Six of Song Jiang" in Gong Sheng. In "The Song of the Song Dynasty", he was also called "fire boatman" Zhang Cen. The name of Zhang Heng, a "boat fire" in "Water Margin". In addition, "Recording Ghost Book" volumes the red letter Li Er's "All Fire", and "Delivery Zhong Zhiyu" quotes "Donglin Point will record" as "boat tiger". So, which one of these names is correct and the correct name means?

"Song Hui Requires" 183 volumes, 32 leaves of soldiers: "Four people with four people in each ship, four branches, four in fire ... If you and seven hundred It is expected that ... each of the four people selling four people, shaking the four branches, shaking the four names of the fire. "It can be seen that the name of" Huaer "is correct. It is the name of shaking the boatman. This title has been widely used in the Song Dynasty. Jiang Xiufu's "Jiayou Magazine" records such a story: there is a section of Jiangnan. In order to detect the ability of the phase, he hides his wife in the niece and let the phase recognize. The phase said, "There is a yellow qi on the wife's head." The words did not stop, and when the maids looked at a person secretly, the person concluded that the person was the wife. The festival is still unconvinced, and the rudder workers and Huaer are mixed together, so that the person recognizes it. The person successfully recognized the rudder.

This story can also be seen that except the rudder, other boatmen can be called "Huaer". This title is still in some dialects today. The Zibo people in Shandong called the boatman called "playing boat" or "boat fire", and the "car fire" who pushed the car was still using this title. Zhang Heng in "Water Margin" is a shaking, so his nickname is named after his profession.