Yu Zhongyun nodded and said: "Yes, but it's man-made, Zhuge Liang borrowed the east wind, and there was a later Zhou Yu to burn the warship, since ancient times, we have the tradition of asking for rain, the legend says that there is a rain god in the sky, and the dragon lord who can call the wind and rain, in ancient times, during the drought period, the best way is to ask for rain, all over the world to find strange people, put down a confession, kill chickens and sheep, and display flags, used to ask for rain, often can receive strange effects!"

After hearing this, Sun Xihao smiled dumbly and said: "Lao Yu, what age is this, you will still be superstitious about the feudal remnants of praying for rain in ancient times." ”

Yu Zhongyun said: "This matter is not necessarily true, it belongs to the belief or the non-belief. In this world, no one can say whether there are gods or not, and now, many of our strange natural phenomena are also inexplicable by many sciences. ”

Yu Zhongyun told Sun Xihao the allusions he had about praying for rain.

Ancient China was a country dominated by agriculture and animal husbandry, and an important factor affecting grain harvest was rain. Therefore, rain is not only the lifeblood of agricultural and animal husbandry production, but also directly related to the income of the national treasury and the stability of the dynasty. Since ancient times, praying for good weather and rain in drought years has always been highly valued by the monarch and the common people. Chunguan&p;; There is such a record in the witch: "If the country is in a great drought, then the handsome witch and the dancing pheasant" The sacrificial method of the sorcerer's divination and the children's dancing pheasant is the earliest ritual of praying for rain in ancient times. There is even a heroic story of Shang Tang sacrificing himself in the sea of fire and begging for rain in the mulberry forest.

The king of Shangtang was dressed in white, rode a white horse and a white chariot, and led his ministers to the mulberry forest in Bishui to pray for rain. Holding the three-legged tripod in his hand, the king of the soup took himself as a sacrifice, knelt down to the heavens and sincerely repented of his mistakes, reproached himself with six things, begged the heavens to rain quickly to save the people, and cut off his hair and burned his nails as a punishment for himself. King Tang's pious heart touched the sky. Suddenly thunder roared, black clouds pressed on the head, and after a short time, torrential rain poured down. The people of Sanglin were so happy that they sang and danced in the rain, rejoicing and celebrating their victory. Since then, King Tang has led the palace ministers to come to the mulberry forest every year to pay respects, and ordered Yi Yin to sort out the songs and dances of the people and named it "Mulberry Forest Dance". This is the famous "Mulberry Forest Prayer for Rain". Later, in order to commemorate the King of Tang, outside the Dongguan of Bishui City next to the big ditch where he prayed for rain, a temple was specially built, called the Temple of King Tang. Later, it became a village called Tangwang Miaogou.

Yu Zhongyun talked about the first allusion to asking for rain in history, and then he talked about the second.

In the year that Dong Zhongshu went to Jiangdu to serve as the prime minister, it was just in time for a major drought in the Jiangdu region that had not been encountered in a century. Dong Zhongshu thought that this was an excellent time to educate Liu Fei, so he said to Liu Fei that this long drought and no rain was a punishment from heaven, and a ceremony of praying for rain must be held in order to have a bumper harvest. As for the method, Dong Zhongshu is, of course, the "Heaven and Man Induction Theory" created by him plus the "Yin and Yang Theory" after his transformation. The next day, Dong Zhongshu ordered all the south gates of Jiangdu to be closed, and no fire was allowed, which was the "closing of Zhuyang" mentioned above. And it is required that all the north gates be opened, which is "the yin". According to the principle that clouds follow the dragon and clouds rain when there are many clouds, Dong Zhongshu not only asked to place sake, pork, rooster, salt and other offerings in front of the altar, but he also asked to use clean soil to pile up a large canglong eight zhang long and seven small earth dragons four zhang long in the central open area in front of the altar. For a time, people's expressions were extremely focused, the atmosphere of the scene was extremely serious, and the sacrificial scene was extremely spectacular. In fact, just like the story of Zhuge Liang's "borrowing the east wind" in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, not long after he set up an altar to ask for rain, it really rained heavily, and it was a whole few days at once, and the drought in Jiangdu was completely lifted.

Then Yu Zhongyun talked about the third allusion to asking for rain.

In the summer of 1882, there was a severe drought in Yangzhou. At that time, He Jinshou, who was the prefect of Yangzhou in the first year of Tongzhi, tried all kinds of ways to help alleviate the drought and fight the disaster together with the people. In order to pray for rain, He Jinshou even followed the method of praying for rain in folklore, wearing official uniforms, barefoot, and facing the blazing sun, and went to the farmland in various places again and again to pray to the heavens. Later, he eventually suffered from heat stroke due to high temperatures and overwork, and died of illness soon after. After He Jinshou died, his friends buried him on the outskirts of Yangzhou along with the people of Yangzhou City.

It is said that on the day He Jinshou was buried, it rained heavily in Yangzhou City. Was it because of He Jinshou's sincerity that the heavens sent down the rain to alleviate the drought, or was it because of He Jinshou's spirit of being loyal to his duties and dedicating himself to the people? The people of Yangzhou believe that it is both.

Yu Zhongyun is worthy of being an old Jianghu, knowledgeable, proficient in miscellaneous families, and all kinds of mythical stories of asking for rain, which he preached like this, and it became a terrible thing, even Sun Xihao, a feudal official, was moved by him!

In fact, mythological stories, sometimes, it is difficult to distinguish between truth and falsehood, in the world, whether there are gods or not, no one can say, according to scientists, in this world, there are still dead souls.

Even now, there are many officials who are superstitious, when building their own government office buildings, they have to invite Mr. Feng Shui, many corrupt high-ranking officials, and even go to Wutai Foshan to pray for safety, praying for God to protect the safe road, and some, they will sew dragon robes at home to pray for blessings.

Everything in the world can be explained more clearly. The matter of the gods is even more unclear.

Sun Xihao was really moved by Yu Zhongyun's words!

Right now, he hates Tang Cheng, he has hated it to the extreme, and when he deals with Tang Cheng, he can't do anything. He said: "Lao Yu, even if we want to ask for rain, but you and I can't, where can we find the priest who can ask for rain?"

Yu Zhongyun said: "Hard work pays off, it is said that in Yunzhong Mountain, our Hanjiang Province, there is an immortal, the law name is Bodai Jushi." As long as we find the entire Bodai monk and let him go out of the mountain to ask for rain, with his ability, he will be able to get a few heavy rains for the Hanjiang Gannan, so that our reasons will be more sufficient. ”