Chapter 348: The Legend of Penglai
readx; It's really close to Zhu Zhe Chi, close to ink is black, now Yuan Minglei and Shi Jian have learned the same, no one will give face, no one dares to ridicule, you must know that even if Old Man Yuan sees Jade Jizi, he has to call his predecessor respectfully. Lewen|
However, Yujizi didn't care about Yuan Minglei's ridicule: "It seems that Poor Dao seems to be very famous!" ”
When he said this, it was fortunate that Su Zhendong didn't drink any more tea, or he would have to squirt it out again.
A few people chatted together for a while, it was early in the morning, and now all they could do was wait for news, which didn't make much sense here, so everyone who should go back went back.
Penglai Airport
A man and a woman came out of the vi flat passage, the man's face was like a knife, with sharp edges and corners, although he looked slightly weak, but a pair of eyes were as bright as a cold star in the dark night, and the evil smile at the corner of his mouth made the whole person look bohemian.
The woman has a charming face, holding the man's arm and looking like a bird.
"I said Sakurako, you don't have to be so fake, do you? I'm all your captives, and you're not doing whatever you want? ”
That's right, these two people are Shi Ji and Sakura, the witch of change, and the two of them took a plane to the location of the divine realm - Jiaodong Penglai.
As for the Sky Wolf and the Hound Dog, according to Shi Ji, they must have come over as well, but they weren't with them.
"Giggles, Your Excellency Shi Ji, I said I like you, do you believe it?" Sakura said with a smile.
"Do you think I believe it or not?" Shi Jian asked rhetorically, now he is really a little jealous of this Variety Witch.
"Alright, let's not talk about that! Isn't Penglai a fairyland in Chinese legends? Didn't you, as the host, explain it to me? Sakurako stared at Shi Ji with her big beautiful eyes, looking curious.
"Okay, then brother will popularize Chinese civilization for you! Penglai has been known as "fairyland on earth" since ancient times. One of the three sacred mountains inhabited by the immortals in the Bohai Sea in mythology (the other two are "abbot" and "Yingzhou"). Yuan, Ben also. The beginning, the beginning, the innate qi. This gasification is the person who opens up the world, that is, Pangu; become the ancestor who presides over the heavenly realm; That is, the beginning. As soon as Pangu stretched out, the sky rose and the earth fell. And the heavens and the earth are more connected, who hold the chisel in their left hand and the axe in their right, or chop it with an axe, or cut it with a chisel. It is a divine power, and over time, heaven and earth are divided. The two qi rise and fall, the clear one is the sky, and the turbid one is the earth, which is chaotic. Heaven and earth are opened, Pangu is exhausted, and he is dead. There are two gods, yin and yang, the male is called Fuxi, the female is called Nuwa, and the brothers and sisters are also human heads and snake bodies. Open the world, but the world is colorless, there is no life, Fuxi Nuwa dwells in it, very idle, Fuxi is angry, splitting hands on the earth to draw ravines, it is a river, rushing to the east, into the East China Sea. The soil of the ravines is formed into five mountains and seven mountains, and there are mountains and rivers between heaven and earth, and the sun, moon and stars are in the morning. The mountains and rivers are formed, but there is no life, Nuwa chats very much, and fights, and the loess makes it. The strength is not enough to supply, but the rope is drawn in the mud, and the lifting is a living. There are five immortals and five insects between heaven and earth, heaven, immortals, and loess; Humans, ghosts, and demons, lead the rope for it. This is the beginning of the universe and the origin of all things. The immortals are self-purifying, and the ghosts and demons who are alone are uneven, and they also want to become immortals, which is a catastrophe.
The sun and the moon change, the stars change, the years have passed, the people and ghosts in the world are very noisy, uneven, saying: We are all made by Nuwa, why do the only immortals live in the sky, do not live and die, but we have to suffer from reincarnation? The heavenly realm has been going on for a long time, and there are also those who have sunk, who are immortals in vain, and the immortals say: If there are virtuous and good people in the world, they can find Penglai, and those who have cultivated the avenue can also become immortals.
As soon as this statement came out, it caused an uproar in the world, and people, ghosts, and demons all encouraged themselves to refine the Fa, in the hope of one day attaining the Great Dao. As the saying goes: there is a fairyland in the world, and the Tao is in Penglai. Yes also. 1. Another meaning of Penglai: to become a legendary mountain: after appearing in Kunlun, it is purely a product of the immortal belief that arose after the Qin and Han dynasties, and the artificial color has been very strong, which is the precursor of Taoism. The core of immortal thought is immortality, which originates from mythological thinking, and the formal formation of immortals and immortal words is in class society. Throughout the two thousand years of fairy tale history, it is both associated with mythology and later distinguished.
The earliest gods in the divine realm were animals, not humans. The prototype of the immortal is a human. Immortal is the idealization of man, and fairyland is the ideal stage of life, and the center revolves around people's activities and desires. Animals cannot directly become immortals, they must go through long-term cultivation, first become essences, then adults, and finally have the possibility of becoming immortals. If you encounter unexpected setbacks in the middle, you may lose all your efforts.
So, why did the Qin and Han dynasties rise to become immortals? This is related to the war in the pre-Qin period. During the Warring States Period, they all wanted to unify China, the war did not stop, people's lives were not guaranteed, and they longed for a transcendent fairyland, which could not only stay away from the harm of war, but also cultivate self-cultivation and prolong life, so they imagined a fairy world under the inspiration of mythological fantasy.
After the unification of Qin and Han, in order to enjoy a comfortable life forever, the supreme ruler hoped to live a long life, preferably immortal, so he set off a fanatical belief in immortals from top to bottom. Some of the monks who turned from shamans were intellectuals who contributed to culture at that time, and some of them did not hesitate to cater to the supreme ruler for their own fame and fortune, and hyped up the rumored Penglai, abbot, and Yingzhou on the sea, which is the "Three Immortal Mountains" in the East, and also has the "Five Divine Mountains", which is collectively known as the Penglai Wonderland of the East.
At the end of the Warring States Period, King Qi Wei, King Xuan of Qi and King Yan Zhao, as well as Emperor Qin Shi Huang and Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, they all sent people to find Penglai Wonderland, but no one really reached it. It can be seen that the so-called immortal mountain is really very illusory, and it is a blind compilation of those monks.
Among them, there is a scholar Xu Fu, a Qi person, who once wrote to Qin Shi Huang and went to the sea to seek immortals. In the twenty-eighth year of Qin Shi Huang (219 B.C.), he brought thousands of boys and girls, spent a lot of money, but there was no result, and then simply disappeared. Where did Xu Fu go? Folk in both China and the island countries say that he went to the island country, and some legends even portray Xu Fu as having crossed the ocean to escape the tyranny of Qin Shi Huang. After arriving in the island country, he used the seeds and farming tools he brought with him to spread the farming technology of China there, and was honored by the people of your island country as "Simin Farming God" and "Si Medicine God".
Legend has it that there are three places called Horai in the island country: Mt. Fuji, Atsuta Shrine in Owari Province, and Kumano. Kumano has the tomb of Xu Yi called Fuku. The original meaning of "Fuji" in the island language is "immortality". The legend of Xu Fu's eastward crossing has a wide influence in the island nation and Southeast Asia. Of course, whether Xu Fu really crossed to the east, and whether Dongdu could have the conditions to lead thousands of boys and girls, is an academic issue. Chinese and foreign scholars are discussing.
After the rise of the Eastern Wonderland, it gradually replaced the Western Kunlun and became the hometown of the immortals who have been prosperous for a long time. The folk mention the fairyland, know more about Penglai, and mention Kunlun. Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty emperors, specially built an artificial Taiye Pond in the Ganquan Palace of the Imperial Palace, on which there are rumored Penglai and other immortal mountains, which cost a lot of money. ”