Chapter 124: Sacrifice to the Gods

Ye Rongrong looked at the only 200 honor points left, gritted his teeth and withdrew from the lottery interface, there is no way, the remaining 200 honor points, Ye Rongrong is of great use.

Forget it, since there is no lottery, Ye Rongrong can't help but check that he has no attributes for a long time.

attribute

Host Gender: Male

Host age: 28

Host Position: Multi-talented farmer.

Host Level: Semi-excellent lazy.

Host knowledge reserve: second year of junior high school.

Host physical condition: Elite level.

Host Life Skills: God-level Chef (Cook), Intermediate Acupuncture, Basic Medical Skills, Advanced Animal Taming.

Other host skills: cycling, electric vehicles, motorcycles, tai chi, iron cloth shirts, grandmaster qin skills.

Host-specific attributes: Water (properties that can breathe in water)

Host glory: 200

Looking at the position of his attribute is a multi-talented farmer, Ye Rongrong understands, this art is estimated to refer to piano and chess calligraphy, and now he knows how to play the piano, all of them are single arts, of course, these are just Ye Rongrong's own guesses, whether this is really the case, Ye Rongrong himself does not know.

I don't know if I don't see it, I was shocked when I saw it, Ye Rongrong almost forgot that in just three or four months, he actually knew so many skills, which made Ye Rongrong feel like he was a little superman.

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Monday, November 23, 2015, 2015, October (small) 12, 2015. Dry branch, the year of the second year of Dinghai month 癸卯日.

[Appropriate] haircut, consecration, lifting, dismantling, decoration, burial, starting, trading, coupons, plaques, beds, planting.

【Don't】Entering the house, moving, making a stove, praying for blessings, sacrificing, getting married, thanking the soil, digging wells, building houses, and visiting the sick.

This is the day when the old man in the village who knows feng shui fortune-telling starts construction according to the yellow calendar, and in China, building houses, building roads, and marrying wives are all days selected according to the yellow calendar, so as to ensure smooth sailing.

The Yellow Calendar, or Imperial Calendar, is a calendar based on the Chinese lunar calendar and has many auspicious and bad fortunes for the day.

According to legend, the Yellow Calendar was created by Xuanyuan Yellow Emperor, so it is called the Yellow Calendar, and the folk are also commonly known as "Tongshu", but because the word "book" of Tongshu is homophonic with the word "lose", it is also known as Tongsheng because of taboo.

The main content of the yellow calendar is the date table of the 24 solar terms, the daily auspicious and bad fortunes, and the zodiac fortune.

However, before the start of construction, there was first a ritual to worship the mountain god, and in the countryside, people were still relatively feudal. Before opening the mountain and building the road, it is necessary to sacrifice to the gods.

In the eyes of rural people, the opening of mountains and the construction of roads are to disturb the gods, and it is easy to annoy the gods without sacrificing to the gods and respecting them.

Once the gods are annoyed, the gods will send a disaster, which is a terrible thing, so the old people in the village attach great importance to it, and the things needed for the sacrifice have been prepared a few days ago, and Ye Rongrong doesn't understand this aspect, just sign and give money.

Anyway, Ye Rongrong is clear, any money can be taken care of, but the money needed for the sacrifice is not to be given less, everything must be bought with the best, no one can be poor and the gods can not be poor, that is a big disrespect.

No one wants to upset the legendary gods, not to mention that Ye Rongrong grew up in the countryside since he was a child, and he is also very superstitious about these divine things.

At about half past seven in the morning, the old and young masters and women of the village came to the entrance of the village to participate in this ceremony to worship the mountain god.

In the middle of the road, we set up a few square tables, on which were all kinds of tributes, most of them were fruits, and in the middle were big pigs' heads, and some incense, paper, candles, and the like.

You must know that the sacrifice to the gods comes at the cost of offering gifts. People can bow down and prostrate to the gods, burn incense and burn paper, but the most affordable way for the gods to sacrifice is to offer sacrifices.

In the view of the ancients, people have seven emotions and six desires, and so do the gods. Since people have prayed to the gods, they should be willing to offer their best things to win the favor of the gods.

But people's preferences are different, and different gods have their own tastes, so the offerings are varied. It is mainly meat-based.

After all, in the eyes of the ancients, among the many foods, meat was the most. In the primitive era of gathering and hunting, people hunted meat for their lives. When primitive agriculture and animal husbandry developed, meat was still extremely valuable.

The ideal life conceived by Mencius in ancient times was based on being able to eat meat at the age of 70 as an important standard, and the gift of his disciple was only two bundles of jerky, which shows the rarity of meat.

Because of this, meat became the main sacrifice to the gods. In ancient times, the carnivorous animals used for sacrifice were called "sacrifices", referring to horses, cows, sheep, chickens, dogs, pigs and other livestock, and later generations called "six animals", the most commonly used of the six animals were cattle, sheep and pigs, and fish, rabbits, and wild meat can also be used for sacrifices, but they are not included in the list of "sacrifices".

In addition to the "sacrifice", the food used as a sacrifice also includes grains and grains, which are called "Shomori". Fresh and tender fruits and vegetables are also commonly used sacrifices in folk sacrificesAfter Buddhism was introduced to China, the fruits in the "Zhai Festival" were more abundant, and in addition, wine was also a common sacrifice to the gods.

As for the origin of the sacrifice, it is said that in ancient times, the ancestors of mankind cut down thorns, trekked through mountains and rivers, opened up land, and settled communities.

Later, with religious thought, this concept of Shinto also became more concrete and practical, and the Chinese people were actually very broad-minded.

I always think that since God is here to protect human beings, of course, the more the better, so those who come do not refuse, Buddhism has Buddhist gods and Buddhas, Taoism has Taoist gods, although Confucianism has not developed the form of religion, the organization of religion, but Confucius said a sentence "wisdom and integrity are called gods", which is equivalent to setting a standard for the "Godhead".

Under this concept, many saints, virtuous ministers, great Confucians, and famous generals who have been brilliant in the history of the country in the past dynasties, as well as loyal ministers, righteous men, festival women, and filial sons who have written aspiring in various places, all of them who are in line with the "godhead" and have outstanding deeds, who are born as heroes and have spirits after death, have the opportunity to build temples and worship them.

With the breadth of China's land, the population, the long history, the prosperity of cultural relics, and the source of gods, it is not surprising that there are these gods and Buddhas in China, sheltering the people of the world and receiving incense from all directions.

In addition to the indispensable sacrifices, the incense pillar is also indispensable, because in the legend of the ancients, people could not communicate directly with the gods, but expressed their wishes to the gods through the smoke of the incense stick.

As the saying goes: "Enter the temple to worship the gods, enter the house to call people", this is a kind of respect and courtesy, entering the temple to worship the gods to offer incense, but it does not mean that the gods will inhale these incense, this is a way to greet the gods.

"Began to worship the mountain gods, play music and fire salutes. ”

As soon as eight o'clock arrived, Ye Kongming, who was the chief priest of the sacrifice, shouted loudly, announcing the official start of the ceremony of sacrificing to the mountain god.

After the salute, he began to light candles and incense, and worshipped, and recited a large number of sacrifices that Ye Rongrong didn't understand, Ye Rongrong didn't have to care about anything, just follow the main people in the village to worship and kneel.

It took half an hour, the ceremony of sacrificing to the mountain god was over, and the sacrifices were withdrawn, and these sacrifices were taken back to be distributed to everyone to eat, so that everyone could get rid of the fairy spirit, after all, in people's consciousness, after these sacrifices were tributed, the gods would only eat a little bit, and the rest would be given to people.