PS: Black water is regarded as the water of the sun's resurrection, and the Northwest Wilderness is regarded as the place where the sun is reborn——— so it is a sign of the eternity of life and the resurrection of life. www.biquge.info In the eyes of the ancients, death is a return to the gods, a life combined with the gods, and therefore a truly eternal life. This concept of life worship that transcends death and pursues eternity is crystallized into the myth of black water due to the turtle's character as a god of the underworld and the concept of the sun, which represents the alternation of life and death with the alternation of day and night. When the mythical black people ———such as the "Immortal People", "Rain Concubine", "Black Tooth Country", "Xuangu Country", "Labor Republic of China" and so on——— gathered around Wakaki and Yuya, the myth of Black Water became a mythical system about the cycle of life and the movement of the sun.

Blackwater mythology

The black water is regarded as the water of the sun's rebirth, and the Northwest Wilderness is regarded as the place where the sun is reborn——— so it is a sign of the eternity of life and the resurrection of life. In the view of the ancients, death was a return to the gods, a life united with the gods, and therefore a truly eternal life. This concept of life worship that transcends death and pursues eternity is crystallized into the myth of black water due to the turtle's character as a god of the underworld and the concept of the sun, which represents the alternation of life and death with the alternation of day and night. When the mythical black people ———such as the "Immortal People", "Rain Concubine", "Black Tooth Country", "Xuangu Country", "Labor Republic of China" and so on——— gathered around Wakaki and Yuya, the myth of Black Water became a mythical system about the cycle of life and the movement of the sun.

1, Nine Shades

The Nine Shadows refer to the deepest and deepest places in the earth, describing extremely high and extremely low places. The Nine Shadows refer to the lowest place. It corresponds to the fairy world, saying that the sky has nine heavens and the earth has nine earths, and "nine shadows" is a quantifier. The word "secluded" has the meaning of quiet, dark and hidden, and the nine characters in the nine secluded are just because it is the largest number in the digital singular, and it is the most noble in the number, so it has the meaning of "limit".

2, Youdu, Black Water

(1) The land of the North. Shangshu. Yaodian": "Deuteronomy and Uncle Mansion Shuofang, said Youdu." Kong Chuan: "The north is called secluded." The south is called Ming, and it can be known from the present. Both, it is said that all gathered. Cai Shenji biography: "Shuo Fang." Northern Wasteland...... When the day comes, it will fall into the ground, and everything will be dark, so it is called the secluded capital. "Huainanzi. Cultivation Training": "Beifu Youdu." South Province Cochin. "High temptation note:" Yin Qi gathered. Therefore, it is said that the secluded capital, the north of Yanmen is today. "Hanshu. Yang Xiong passed down": "The soldiers of the heavens are coming, the secluded capital is added first, and the evil fingers are returned, and South Vietnam is destroyed." Yan Shigu notes: "The hidden capital, the north, is called the Xiongnu." ”

(2) It is called the capital of the underworld. Chu Ci. Conjuring the Soul": "The soul returns, and you have no place in this secluded capital." Wang Yi's note: "Youdu." The underground is also governed by the soil. The underground netherworld, so it is called the hidden capital. Song Wenying's "Jade Pot Qinghua" volume 6: "Shangqing Daolu Jiang Daoyuan is the public knocking on the hidden capital." Beggar Language. ”

Ancient legends

The ruler there is called Tubo, and the place where Tubo rules is called Youdu. "The secluded capital, the underground and the soil are also governed. The underground netherworld, so it is called the hidden capital. "The Houtu mentioned here is the land god mentioned above, and Houtu is also called Tubo in the netherworld. Regarding the situation in the hidden capital, "The Classic of Mountains and Seas. The Book of the Sea says: In the Beihai, there is a mountain called Youdu Mountain. Black water flows from there, and there are black birds, black snakes, black panthers, black tigers, black unkempt tailed foxes on it. Tubo looked terrible, holding nine ropes in his hands, with sharp horns on his head, and bloody hands on his back, chasing people quickly, with three eyes, a tiger's head, and a body like an ox, and treating people as delicious. (See Chu Ci. The Conjuring and Wang Yi's Note〉

3, Blackwater

Heishui was once seen in the "Book of Shang. Yu Gong", "Classic of Mountains and Seas", "Notes on the Book of Water", "Notes on the Bracket" and other classics.

(1) From the source, the black water comes from the mountain of the secluded capital in the Beihai, from the northwest corner of the void of Kunlun or the hill of Kunlun, and from the mountain of Bujiang in the great wilderness. Its starting point is the underworld of the West Pole.

"The Book of the Sea": "In the North Sea, there are mountains, called the mountains of the secluded capital, and the black water comes out. "Chu Ci. Conjuring Spirits Wang Yi notes: "The secluded capital, the underground and the back soil are also governed; The underground netherworld, so it is called the hidden capital. ”

"The Book of the Sea": "...... The mountain of the secluded capital, the black water comes out. There are birds, snakes, leopards, tigers, and foxes on them. There is the mountain of the great Xuan, the people of the hill, the country of the great secluded, and the people of the red shins. ”

"The Classic of the Western Mountains": "...... The hill of Kunlun is the capital of Emperor Shiwei...... The black water flows out of the air, and the west flows in the great. "The Great Wilderness of the West": "In the south of the West Sea, on the shore of quicksand, after the red water, before the black water, there is a big mountain, called the hill of Kunlun. "Hainei West Classic": "The void of Kunlun in Hainei is in the northwest, and the emperor is under the capital." …… The black water comes out of the northwest corner. ”

"Hainei West Longitude": "The quicksand goes out of Zhongshan Mountain, goes west, and goes south to the void of Kunlun, and southwest to the sea and the mountain of black water." ”

"The Great Wilderness West": "In the great wilderness, there is a mountain without ginger, and the black water is poor. ”

(2) From the direction of flow, the black water flows out from the northwest corner, goes eastward, then northeastward, and finally flows south into the sea. Its destination is the place where the feather people ascend to heaven.

"Hainai West Longitude": "The black water goes out of the northwest corner, to the east, to the east, and to the northeast, and to the south of the sea, and to the south. ”

"Nanshan Sutra": "...... Chicken Mountain, with more gold on it and more Dan below, the black water comes out of the Yan, and the south is injected into the sea. ”

(3) From the point of view of the process, the black water passed through the country of Chaoyun, the mountain of immortality, the hill of Xuanyuan, the country of the three bodies, the abyss of Shaohe, the longitudinal abyss, and the country of the Miao people, and then arrived at the place where the capital and the Wakagi grew outside the South China Sea. These kingdoms were often the burial places of the Emperor of Heaven, and were often inhabited by a group of winged people or black immortals—for example, the country of Xuanyuan was "eight hundred years old", and the immortal people were "black, long-lived, and immortal". The Great Shadow Country, which represents death, and the Feather People, which represents the Ascension of Immortals, are located at the upper and lower poles of the Black Water.

"The Book of the Sea": "To the east of the quicksand, to the west of the black water, there is the country of Chaoyun and the country of Si Yan." "To the east of the quicksand, between the black waters, there is a mountain called the Immortal Mountain." Guo Pu's note: "That is, the member Qiu." "Overseas Southern Classic": "The immortal people are in the east, and they are black, long-lived, and immortal." ”

"The Classic of the West Mountains": "The Hill of Kunlun...... Four hundred and eighty miles to the west, it is said that the hill of Xuanyuan has no grass and trees. Xun water comes out of Yan, and the south flow is poured into the black water. Guo Pu noted: "The Yellow Emperor lives on this hill,...... Because of the name Xuanyuan Hill. "The Great Wilderness of the West": "There is a country of Xuanyuan...... The immortal is eight hundred years old. ”

"The Great Wilderness South Classic": "In the south of the black water, there are snakes and deer. "The Great Wilderness Southern Classic": "In the Great Wilderness...... Emperor Ehuang, the wife of the emperor, was born in this three-body country,...... The north belongs to the black water, and the south belongs to the great wilderness. The name of the north side is called the abyss of Shaohe, the name of the south side is called Congyuan, and the bath of Shun is also. ”

"The Great Wilderness North Classic": "Northwest overseas, north of the black water, there are people with wings, named Miao Min. ”

"The Book of the Sea": "Between the black waters in the southwest, there is a wide field, and Houji is buried. There are ointment, ointment, rice, millet, and a hundred grains are self-growing, and the piano is sown in winter and summer. "Beyond the South China Sea, between the black water and the green water, there is a wood called like a wood, and if the water comes out."

"Hainai West Longitude": "Black Water...... South into the sea, feather people south. "Chu Ci. Far Travel": "Still feather people in Danqiuxi, leaving the immortal hometown." Wang Yi notes: "The Classic of Mountains and Seas says that there is a country of feathered people and immortal people. Or say: People have attained the Tao and have hairy feathers. ”

4, the people of the secluded capital

(1) Beside the black water, there are black undead people. The immortality of the black man means that the black itself symbolizes immortality. This is because black is the color of the turtle, which in the ancient people's concept was the longest-lived animal; Black is also the color of the underworld, and in the concept of the ancients, the people of the underworld are immortal.

(2) The mythical immortal people live in the northwest and southeast corners of the earth. For example, the ruins of Kunlun, the country of the three bodies, the mountain of the secluded capital, the country of the great secluded, the country of Chaoyun and the country of Xuanyuan in the northwest, and the people of Yumin and the immortal people in the southeast. The northwest and southeast poles are the places where the sun sets and the sun rises, and are the places where the sun and turtles live. The Classic of Mountains and Seas. The Great Wilderness West Classic says: "The mountain of the Great Wilderness, where the sun and the moon enter, are on three sides,...... The Man of Three Faces does not die. ”

Ancient mythological depictions of the immortal kingdom are often based on the underworld or the people who drink air. For example, the so-called country of no enlightenment "its people live in caves, eat soil, no men and women", "death is rebirth at the age of 100 and twenty", the so-called "no bones, eat gas fish", the so-called people without enlightenment and fine people "turn into people for a hundred years, and they all live in caves", and the so-called country of longevity and hemp "stands without scenery and speaks silently". In addition, many immortal kingdoms, such as Tohiro no Ye and Xuanyuan Hill, are depicted as burial places for the emperor gods. It can be seen that the so-called "immortality" refers to the immortality of life in the underworld or black life. (To be continued.) )