Chapter 410: The Mysterious Shang and Zhou Cultures, the Five Gods Who Rule the Universe!
This is also the convenience of dealing with ghosts and gods, don't worry about language barriers, don't worry about different customs, just one mark can explain everything clearly!
At the moment when the two were silent, the Xuanniao in the sky slowly fell, and as his feet landed, a huge capital city instantly appeared on the ground!
With practical actions, it is interpreted that the natural bird is born and the business is born!
Not long after Wang Zhong's prayer flew into the palace of Yin Shang, he saw a group of warriors with bronze masks pouring out of it!
However, they did not rush into the bell, but stopped a few meters in front of him, and then to the accompaniment of the bronze drums, they danced a very ancient dance!
"This dance is the meaning of the great merchant to welcome the distinguished guests!"
The ghost pawn was well-informed and explained in a whisper for Wang Zhong. It can be seen that they attach great importance to the arrival of real people.
"Real person, the queen is invited!"
While the two were talking in a low voice, a group of young women dressed in coarse cloth and wearing garlands on their heads walked over and said with a smile. Before the Qin Dynasty, there was no title of emperor, and the tribal leaders and national monarchs were all called kings, so the woman was respected as the queen!
"Good!"
Wang Zhong smiled and nodded, and followed the maid inside.
The ghost pawns who brought Wang Zhong were blocked out by the samurai, and this place was even more hierarchical than Yangshi, and if Wang Zhong was not a Taoist real person, I am afraid that he would not be qualified to meet their queen!
Wang Zhong felt the help of the ghost pawn, and his heart moved, and a little white light flew from the top of his head and instantly disappeared into the ghost pawn's brain. This white light is the light of wisdom, and there is a Taoist scripture in it, as long as the ghost pawn practices day and night, he will definitely be able to take off the ghost body and be reincarnated as a human!
"True compassion!"
The ghost pawn fell to his knees with an excited face and shouted loudly. The samurai around looked at the samurai with some envy at the faint white light above their heads, but they also understood that this was a chance. I can't envy!
However, the eyes they looked at Wang Zhong became hot!
Wang Zhong slowly entered the palace of Yin Shang under the leadership of the maid, Yin Shang is worthy of the Bronze Age, both the utensils and weapons are cast in bronze, and there are many bronze tripods cast in bronze, which looks very simple and solemn!
The largest one is placed in the center of the palace, which is carved with many mysterious patterns, and there are green smoke coming out from time to time in the open mouth, which looks very mysterious!
Simu Wu Dafang Ding!
The shape of Simu Wuding is huge and thick, it is the heaviest bronze vessel found in China at present, and its abdomen is cast with the three characters of "Si (Hou) Mu Wu"; it was cast by Shang King Zu Geng or Zu Jia to worship his mother. The body and foot of Simu Wuding are cast as a whole. The tripod lug is cast after the tripod body is cast. To cast such a tall bronze object, the metal material required should be more than 1,000 kilograms, and there must be a large furnace. It has been determined that Simu Wuding contains 84.77% copper, 11.64% tin and 27.9% lead, which is basically consistent with the proportion of copper and tin recorded in ancient documents. Simu Wuding fully shows the production scale and technical level of the bronze casting industry in the Shang Dynasty.
This Fang Ding is a symbol of the Yin Shang Dynasty, so there is also such a Fang Ding in the underworld, but he is even bigger than reality!
Wang Zhong could see that there was a god inside that appeared and disappeared, and they were greedily sucking. In the impression of ordinary people, the tripod is the important weapon of the country and the symbol of power. It is an important symbol of the political power of the ruling class. It is regarded as the treasure of the town and the treasure of the country, and it is also a symbol of the hierarchy of "Ming noble and cheap, don't go up and down". It is regarded as the treasure of the town and the treasure of the country, and it is also "the noble and the cheap." Don't go up and down" sign of the hierarchy. History, the Son of Heaven nine tripods, the princes seven tripods, the Qing doctor five tripods. Shi three tripods or one tripods. Ding is the most important ritual vessel in ancient China. A set of tripods was unearthed in the tomb of the king, a total of nine pieces. This set of tripods is also known as shengding, these nine tripods are of different sizes, and they are reduced in turn.
However, the first use of the tripod was to sacrifice and steam food, and the copper tripod evolved from the three-legged tripod made of pottery, which was originally used to cook food, and then mainly used for sacrifice and feasting, and was one of the most important ritual vessels in the Shang and Zhou dynasties.
These gods are all worshiped in the Shang Dynasty, and the most famous of them is God!
When Wang Zhong's body entered the Great Shang Palace, the gods in the giant tripod suddenly opened their eyes, which were a pair of golden eyes, which revealed supreme majesty, and people couldn't help but have a feeling of wanting to surrender!
It's ι’ι‘Ό!
Although Wang Zhong has never seen Zhuan, he has this feeling, and the owner of these eyes must be Zhuan!
God is the ancestor of the Yin Shang Dynasty, and it is also the god they worship day and night, the guardian god!
Suddenly, there was a look of doubt in these eyes, as if there was something he couldn't understand!
Wang Zhong had a feeling of being spied on all over his body, as if he didn't have any secrets in his whole body to hide from these golden eyes!
What a powerful ghost!
Wang Zhong thought secretly in his heart.
This deity must be the god of the Yin Shang Dynasty!
God is not a title unique to Christianity, as early as the Xia and Shang periods, the word God existed in China.
The word God first appeared in the Confucian Bible - the Five Classics, namely the Zhou Yi, the Book of Shang, the Book of Songs, the Book of Rites, and the Spring and Autumn Period. God's will runs through the Pentateuch, the earliest of which is the Yushu Shundian of the Book of Shang. In addition to this, other Confucian classics such as the Four Books and various historical books also mention God, sometimes referred to as Haotian God, in the original mythological and religious system of ancient China, referring to the supreme god, literally meaning "emperor above", meaning "supreme master", also known as "emperor", or "heaven", "taiyi". The belief in God in ancient China had two origins, one was the worship of "heaven" (sky, universe) and the other was the worship of the North Star (Beichen, Emperor Star). Zheng Xuan, a great Confucian of the Eastern Han Dynasty, claimed that "the one of God is another name for heaven", and there is a theory of six heavens, believing that there are six gods, that is, "Haotian God" plus eastern, southern, western, northern, and central gods. Zhu Xi, a great Confucian of the Song Dynasty, believed that "Heaven", "Emperor", "Dao" and "Li" were all different names for the same ontology, while Lu Jiuyuan and Wang Yangming of the Heart School believed that "my heart is the universe, and the universe is my heart". The early gods had a strong personality and divine color, as mentioned in the "Shangshu" "Shangshu Yixun Fourth": "But God is not constant, and he is a hundred auspicious things that come down for good, and a hundred disasters that come down for bad people." In the later Confucian faith, the personality of "God" disappeared, and it was only regarded as a philosophical formless and nameless "ontology", called "Li". The belief in the God of Personality is inherited by Taoism. It has developed into the "Haotian Jinque Supreme Supreme Nature Miaoluo Supreme Jade Emperor God" in the Taoist Sutra, referred to as the Jade Emperor, but no longer as the supreme god (Taoist beliefs, the incarnation of "Dao" "Sanqing" is higher than the "Jade Emperor" representing "Heaven"). Zhuangzi believes that everything is based on the Tao, and heaven is born from the Tao. Mozi regarded gods and ghosts as another kind of living beings other than human beings.
God is also known as "emperor", "god", and "heaven" in the oracle bone inscriptions of the Yin Shang dynasty and the Jin inscriptions of the Zhou Dynasty.
In oracle bone inscriptions, the word "heaven" is borrowed from the word "shang" or "great". Confucius said: "Zhou is due to Yin Li". Confucianism, on the other hand, inherited the Shang and Zhou ritual systems, and the supreme god of worship was God (that is, the ancestors of the Chinese). [1] In the Confucian classics, another title equal to heaven is God, or Emperor. Emperor of Heaven. The name of the Emperor God comes from the "Shangshu Summoning Message": "The Emperor God changed the order of the Yuan Zizi Zi Da Guoyin." "The Analects of Yao": "Dare to tell the emperor and the emperor." "Shangshu Shundian": "Wanton is like God, is in the six sects, looks at the mountains and rivers, and is all over the gods." "The God of ancient China was the ancestral god of the Chinese at that time, that is, the Five Emperors. The best of the Five Emperors were the Yellow Emperor and the Yan Emperor. The so-called first is that the family of the Sons of Heavenβthe "descendants of Yan and Huang"βwas the descendants of the Yellow Emperor or Emperor Yan, and later became synonymous with the ancestors of ordinary Chinese people. Other words. During the Qin and Han dynasties and before, the ancient Chinese believed in the gods of their ancestors. During the Sui and Tang dynasties, the name of the supreme god in the national ritual was based on the "Zhou Rite". Officially identified as "Haotian God". The meaning of Haotian God is based on the Confucian Mao's explanation of "the heavens are long" in the Book of Songs. It is believed that Haotian means "vast vitality" and God means that heaven rules the world like a monarch. Press "Kaibao Tongli".
The vitality is vast, and it is called Haotian. According to the far-sighted firmament, it is called the sky. Respected by man. It is nothing more than the emperor, entrusted to the sky, so it is called God.
God's power is very great, and he controls the development of human society, which is recorded in oracle bone inscriptions and Taoism!
God has supernatural power to control the natural world.
For example, the divination of the Wuding period says: "God...... Fall...... Drought".
Zu Geng's divination at the time of Zu Jia said: "...... Elder brother...... Oh, God...... Out of ......"
"Only five drums...... If God is King...... You-you-go. β
Such as "Zhen, the emperor ordered rain in March today" and "Zhen, the emperor ordered thunder in the thirteenth month of this month." β
"The next day, the emperor does not let the wind, the evening fog. β
The emperor can command rain, wind, and thunder. The 'God' in the divination is very powerful, and the gods such as the sun, the moon, the stars, the wind, the rain, the thunder, and the lightning are all under his command. The oracle bone inscription of the rain sacrifice to the mountains and rivers was transferred to God by the god of the mountains and rivers, and the gods of the mountains and rivers did not have the divine right to stop the rain. Clouds, thunder and rain are all God's will, so the emperor determines the existence or absence of agricultural harvest. The emperor can make the rain hook, get a good year and so on. It is also God's order to rain in the sky, so there are many records of 'imperial rain' in the oracle bone inscriptions; Secondly, the wind is not only that, the God of heaven is not just a person, but also a court, and there are historians, ministers, and the like for his servants. In the oracle bone inscription, there are emperors, emperors, emperors, emperors, emperors, etc.
The gods of nature are the servants of God, such as "Emperor Shi Feng" such as "Emperor Shi Feng, a cow". This is a burning offering of an ox to God's envoys. The "sacrificial sacrifice" refers to the sacrifice of burning people and praying for rain. There is a record of burning a witch and begging for rain in the divination...... Bu, its mother, has heavy rain. Daji". In "Zuo Biography", there was a great drought in Lu State, and Lu Xigong wanted to burn witches and beg for rain.
Records of dancing and praying for rain are often found in divination. For example, "with the next day, there is heavy rain, auspicious".
"Bingchenbu, Zhen, today is dancing, there is rain. "Zhen, Wang Qiwu, Ruo. Zhen, the king does not dance. "Xin Sibu, Binzhen, Hu Dancing, there is from the rain. β
God can control human society and harm or bless the world. Such as "Wu Shen Bu, fight for chastity, the emperor descends to my black, January." β
"The emperor descended to destroy it (destroy, originally referring to bird damage, and by extension, the meaning of disaster). β
"The emperor is the only one who ends up in Ziyi (the end of this city). β
"Zhen, the emperor is my son. "The above is to create disasters or harms. "Zhen, only the emperor is sick. β
"Wang Zuoyi, Emperor Ruo (bless) me. β
"In the coming year, the emperor descended to his eternal (the righteousness of goodness), in the ancestor Yizong, October Bu. β
"The emperor is blessed by me. β
Every time King Yin had a military campaign, he had to ask God whether he had granted it or not, because God was in charge of the victory or defeat of foreign expeditions. Moreover, God can bless and haunt King Yin, and control the good fortune and evil fortune of King Yin; God can give orders and command the one in the world, and he can also paging orders and interfere in the one in the world. The Son of Heaven is the Son of God and is mandated by Heaven, that is, he rules the world under Heaven's mandate. The emperors and dynasties of the world are born by the five gods in turn, so they are also called "the emperor of the senses".
The owner of these golden eyes must be one of the five gods!
However, the golden eyes are not malicious, his existence is only to protect the foundation of the Great Shang Dynasty, as long as it does not touch the foundation of the Great Shang Dynasty, he will not make a move!
Just when the golden eyes were about to retreat, a change suddenly appeared on Wang Zhong's body that everyone couldn't imagine!
I saw five clouds of light and shadow suddenly rise on Wang Zhong's body!
The Oriental Green Emperor Fuxi in a green robe!
Shennong, the Red Emperor of the South in a red robe!
Shaohao, the White Emperor of the West in a white robe!
The Black Emperor of the North in a black robe!
The central Yellow Emperor Xuanyuan in a yellow robe!
It was not what anyone expected. The Imperial Fist intent was condensed here.
Five Emperor Dragon Fist!
Wang Zhong realized the way of the five elements, and combined it with the ancient Chinese mythology to create the Five Emperors Dragon Fist. I didn't expect to be influenced by God to condense here!
The eyes that were about to close suddenly opened, and there was a look of joy in the emotionless eyes!
A huge sea of Yuan Qi suddenly appeared in the sky above him, and countless Heaven and Earth Yuan Qi rolled in it, giving people an unrivaled feeling!
From time to time, huge mountains and lakes appear in the sea of vitality, but the most striking thing is the five gods who cross the heavens and the earth, they are dressed differently, but they give Wang Zhong a very familiar feeling!
God of the Five Directions!
Yes, the core of this sea of vitality is the five gods, they control the spring, summer, autumn and winter, clouds, thunder, rain and wind, even the rise and fall of dynasties, and the development of humanity are under their control!
They are truly God!
However, with the demise of the Shang and Zhou dynasties and the development of Taoist and Buddhist cultures, the belief in the five gods has been challenged, and the power has been weakened a lot!
But Rao is so, they also give a feeling of incomparability!
It seems that as long as they want, they can put the king bell between their hands. This also made Wang Zhong understand the truth that the emaciated camel is bigger than the horse, don't look at the belief in the five gods has declined, but their strength is not comparable to ordinary gods! (To be continued......