First, the original:
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While thinking about it, Xiahou Ai entered the account and asked slogans at night. Cao Cao casually said, "Chicken ribs! Chicken ribs! " Aichuan ordered all officials to call it "chicken ribs". Yang Xiu saw the word "chicken ribs" and taught the accompanying sergeant to pack his bags and prepare to return. ……
Second, allusions:
Cao Cao and Liu Bei fought in Hanzhong, and the two armies were at loggerheads. Cao Cao was very worried when he saw that the water army had run out of food and grass and could not win. At this time, the soldiers came to ask for the night password. Cao Cao just looked at the chicken ribs in the bowl and casually replied: chicken ribs! When the password "chicken ribs" reached the master book Yang Xiu, this guy was very clever and encouraged the soldiers to pack up and prepare to retreat. The soldier asked him why. Yang Xiu said: Chicken ribs are tasteless when eaten, and tasteless when lost. If the Prime Minister can't win today, he will withdraw tomorrow for fear of being laughed at. So everyone believed it. This matter was known by Cao Cao, who cut off Yang Xiu's head in the name of boosting morale. This is the story about chicken ribs. This is from the Romance of the Three Kingdoms.
Third, the source:
"The Death of Yang Xiu" is a text in the ninth grade People's Education Edition 17. Excerpted from the seventy-second chapter of the ancient historical novel Romance of the Three Kingdoms (also known as the popular Romance of the Three Kingdoms) (People's Literature Publishing House, 1975 edition), with the title added by the editor.
Fourthly, the author introduces:
Luo Guanzhong (about 1330— about 1400), whose real name is Hu Hai. Taiyuan, Shanxi, said that Qiantang (now Hangzhou, Zhejiang) or Luling (now Ji 'an, Jiangxi) was a novelist in the late Yuan Dynasty and early Ming Dynasty. According to legend, he is Shi Naian's favorite student with outstanding talent. However, due to turmoil and political corruption, talented people live in the wilderness. Luo Guanzhong was depressed, so he turned to the Romance of the Three Kingdoms and borrowed the past to attack the present. After Shi Naian, he is another immortal novelist. He extensively searched for Pinghua, operas and legends, and recreated the story of the Three Kingdoms according to his own life experience with reference to Chen Shou's The History of the Three Kingdoms and Pei Songzhi's notes. Based on historical facts, combined with bold and reasonable imagination and fiction, the historical novel Romance of the Three Kingdoms with "seven realities and three vacuities" was created.