The Duke of Lushan wrote for the 15th time that Wei Xiaobao recognized the old maid-in-waiting Tao Hongying as "aunt". During the conversation, Wei Xiaobao swore the n th poison oath in his life, which made Tao Hongying tell a shocking secret: There were eight copies of Forty-two Chapters.
The color and style of each cover are different, representing the eight flags of yellow, blue, white, red, yellow, blue, white and red respectively; When the Qing soldiers entered the customs, they plundered a lot of gold, silver and jewels and buried them in a mountain where the Qing regime "Long Mai" was located. Then they drew a treasure map and divided it into eight parts, one for each owner of the Eight Banners. These eight maps are hidden in eight "forty-two chapters".
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The Forty-two Chapters Classic mentioned in The Duke Of Mount Deer does exist, but it has nothing to do with Treasure and Long Mai. It is just made up by Master Jin when he was writing a novel. The real value of Chapter Forty-two is that its content is mainly metaphor and reasoning.
According to the general view of academic circles, Forty-two Chapters Classic is the first ancient book that survived when Buddhism was first introduced into China. During the Yongping period of the Eastern Han Dynasty, it was translated by Morten and Zhu Falan, Indian monks of Baima Temple in Luoyang.
The genre of this book is similar to the Confucian classic "The Analects of Confucius", which belongs to the record style. It consists of 42 chapters, each of which is short and full of philosophy. For ordinary readers, it is a good self-cultivation reading.