China is known as the state of etiquette, but, born in the chaotic times of the people, if even a mouth full of rice can not eat, then it will be desperate, from the good people of the world into the chaotic times of the "bandits".
In different historical periods and regions, the "bandit" of the title is also different, for example, "Sui and Tang dynasties" in the robbers called "ringing horse" (the Tang dynasty founding ministers, and now as the god of the door for people to worship the Qin Qiong (Shandong) and Wagangzhai good man is). Ancient ringing horse origin, in Shandong local opera "bang bang" has a song name "ringing horse"); and then, "Water Margin" in those who gathered in the mountains and forests of the strong, known as the mountain bandits and grass bandits, the higher point of the call, it is called the" Greenwood good man". Greenwood heroes", the head of the family called the leader, the office called minions. The end of the Qing Dynasty, but also the chaos of the world, bandits and thieves around the rise, in the northeast of the inland, those who pull the lever, known as "beard".
The late Qing Dynasty, folk and "Shandong out of the ringing horse, Henan out of the wading will be" said. "Shandong out of the ringing horse" is well understood, because the popularity of "Sui and Tang Dynasty", the end of the Sui and Tang Dynasty, many of the great heroes, are Shandong "ringing horse" origin. "Rattlesnake", the ancient that is referred to as roadblock robbers, tough bandits to horse thieves mostly, because of the robbery of loud arrows named, also known as "loud horse son". When the arrow rings, the horse bandits will kill and rob the goods and provisions.
According to scholars, the term "ringing horse" originally came from Shandong, and it is said that since the Eastern Han Dynasty, the bandits in Shandong hung bells all over the necks of their horses, and when the horses ran, the bells were very loud, so they called the bandits "ringing horses". The history of Shandong many peasant uprisings, also known as the ringing horse heroes and heroes synonymous. In fact, many of them are not bandits, but are mostly volunteers.
Shandong is the reason why more "ringing horse", which is also related to the dynastic compulsion. For example, the Ming Dynasty "horse policy", is to give birth to "loud horse" one of the direct pushers. At that time *** to promote horse "civil animal husbandry", that is, in Hebei, Henan, Shandong, Jiangsu, Anhui and other places to implement, the number of ponies, if not enough, the horse breeding households must be compensated for horse breeding households, more so that the family broke down, turned to the "sound horse", in order to make a living.
Shandong region in ancient times in the year of drought appeared on horseback of the formation of bandits; before committing crimes often "the officials and soldiers do not help me!" Shandong ringing horse in modern times, "the most wonderful" a debut, when the May 1923 Sun Meiyao launched a sensational international Lin Cheng carjacking case.
"Rattlesnake" is the familiar bandit, then, "wade will" and what the hell? To put it bluntly, "wade will" is also an alias for bandits. Why were the bandits in Henan called "Wade Generals"? There are not many historical records, but Zhu Xinfan, in his book "China's Rural Economic Relations and Their Characteristics", has a relevant interpretation: "The people of Henan called the bandits 'Lao Tang', I don't know what it means, but when they mentioned 'Lao Tang', they talked about tigers and fear of them. ', they talk about tigers."
The reason why the people of Henan (to be precise, that is, the people of western Henan) called the bandits "old soup", there are traces to be found. Because of the late Qing and Republic of China years, in the most frequent bandit activities in the mountains of southwestern Henan, perennial flow of a fairly large number of young farmers working team, every winter farming season, it is recruited to engage in terraces, ditches and other farmland irrigation project repair, maintenance work. These people are locally known as "wade makers". Once the work is reduced, there is nothing to do, teams of wade craftsmen are very easy to become a pole bandit, so that the boundaries between the two become more and more blurred, so in the dialect of Lushan, bandits collectively referred to as "wade will be".
In the early years of the Republic of China, the most famous wading general was Bai Lang, the leader of the green forests in Baofeng County, Henan Province, who organized a group of peasants to follow him in an uprising in order to vent his dissatisfaction with Yuan Shikai and to change the status quo of Yuan Shikai's rule. He organized a group of peasants to follow him in the revolt. He traveled from Henan, Anhui, and Eu to Qin and Gan, crossed five provinces, and succeeded in taking more than 50 cities and towns, but unfortunately lost to Duan Qirui, and died in 1914. 1949, due to the great efforts of *** to crack down on the bandits, the bearded men who used to be so popular, the horse and the wading generals, all disappeared with the wind and disappeared in the depths of the history.
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