Chapter 551: Opening the Ghost Door
Looking at the Soul Rejuvenation Grass that suddenly grew a few centimeters taller, I couldn't react a little, just now this Soul Rejuvenation Grass can be said to be unreasonable and suddenly pulled out new shoots, and it grew a few centimeters quickly. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info
Just now, it was nourished by the water aura, and the Soul Returning Grass just stretched its leaves, but at this time, the Soul Returning Grass suddenly rose a few centimeters, isn't this barbaric growth?
If it weren't for Yu Shan's staring eyes, he really didn't believe that the growth rate of the Soul Restoration Grass would be so fast, almost instantly, it suddenly grew three centimeters taller.
Afraid that he was dazzled just now, Yu Shan once again condensed a drop of life essence, this time he slowed down his movements and slowly lowered the life essence.
And the Soul Rejuvenation Grass suddenly increased by three centimeters again at the moment when the life essence was low, not just one stem and leaf growing, but the whole suddenly grew three centimeters taller.
"It seems that the essence of life is not wasted at all! This is really a birth, and the results are immediate! Seeing such a powerful effect, Yu Shan laughed.
Although he had thought that the life essence would have a catalytic effect on the Soul Rejuvenation Grass, Yu Shan never thought that he would see the effect so quickly.
Since it has an effect, Yu Mountain has launched another round of plundering, anyway, there are not many other things on the mountain, that is, there are many weeds, even if Tianyuan Valley does not want to wreak havoc, he can also go to other mountain slopes to plunder.
As long as you don't kill all the grass on the entire hillside, you should not cause damage to nature if you come at a distance.
In this way, Yu Shan walked among the grass in the mountains and knew that he had collected half a small porcelain bottle of life essence.
If you talk about drops, these are enough to have seventy or eighty drops, and if you talk about squares, they destroy seven or eight thousand square meters of dense lawn.
"This life essence is not difficult to obtain!" Yu Shan looked at the pale green liquid in the small porcelain bottle, just one acre of weeds, it produced so many life evolutions, this thing didn't seem to be as difficult as Yu Shan thought.
"It doesn't matter, anyway, it can give birth to the Soul Rejuvenation Grass." Returning to Jitian Peak, Yu Shan began a fast farming life.
One drop, two drops...... Eleven drops, at this time, the growth rate of the Soul Returning Grass slows down, and when the Life Essence is lowered again, the Soul Returning Grass will grow by one centimeter at a time.
Until it dropped thirty-eight drops, the Soul Restoration Grass no longer grew at this time, but at this time, the Soul Restoration Grass had grown to a height of more than sixty centimeters, and the area had also reached one square meter.
It turned out that it was just a small corner of the cliff, and the resurrection grass was already covered with the cliff rock at this time.
At this time, Yu Shan continued to lower the life essence, and he found that the soul revival grass was only changing color, but the plant was not continuing to grow.
It is equivalent to all the life essence in the entire porcelain vase of the mountain, all of which are lowered on the soul reviving grass, and the color of the soul reviving grass has changed significantly at this time.
At first, it was yellow-green, then pale green, then apple green, then spinach green, and finally, it turned dark green.
If he hadn't seen it with his own eyes, Yu Shan really didn't believe that a plant could undergo such a big change in such a short period of time.
At this time, Yu Shan felt that the medicinal power of this soul reviving herb should not be worse than the one he bought, which had been reviving the soul herb for fifty or sixty years.
Although it is still not as powerful as the hundred-year-old Soul Rejuvenation Herb, this is because of the characteristics of the Soul Rejuvenation Herb.
If the Soul Restoration Grass wants to break through, I am afraid that it will be completely between the destruction of that life, and this time the Soul Restoration Grass is only born, not extinguished, maybe after a winter, when this Soul Restoration Grass is rejuvenated, it is the moment of its transformation.
"In this way, it is better to give birth to a strain of ginseng, which has no such restrictions." Although Yu Shan was very satisfied with his results, he still thought of other medicinal materials.
However, if you think about it carefully, it seems that ginseng is not so simple, the longer the ginseng grows, the number of leaves is more, such as the legendary seven-leaf ginseng, nine-leaf ginseng, and reed heads, the longer the age, the more reed heads, without the precipitation of the years, these will not appear.
"Hehe, I haven't started the experiment yet, isn't it a bit idle to think about this now?" There were too many miscellaneous things in his mind, so Yu Shan couldn't calm down at all.
Therefore, Yu Shan sat directly on the top of the Heavenly Peak, intending to calm down.
This sitting is a day, and by the beginning of the next day, Yu Shan has completely calmed down, at this time, he is no longer paying attention to alchemy, nor is he concerned about the talisman jade talisman, but takes a piece of camphor wood and begins to study.
In the blink of an eye, today is the 15th of July, and this day is a very special day, no matter who it is.
In many people's minds, July 15 is an unusual day, which combines the Taoist Midyear Festival, the Buddhist Bon Festival, and the legendary "Ghost Festival".
According to the cultural logic of Taoism, the time and space of the year should be divided into two halves, yin and yang, and Chinese Taoism believes that the three basic elements that nurture all things in the world are heaven, earth, and water.
Therefore, Taoism regards the first half of the year as a heavenly official, and the second half of the year as a local official, and it needs to be noted here that the "official" mentioned here does not refer to the "official" of the human official, but refers to the segment in the process of temporal and spatial flow, similar to the "official" of the "official" in the Chinese Go match.
According to the Taoist worldview, Taoism customizes the fifteenth day of the first month of the first month of the year "Tianguan" (the first half of the year) as the "Shangyuan Festival"; The July 15th of the Diguan Festival in the second half of the year is called the "Zhongyuan Festival"; Because the ground contains water and water acts on the ground, the fifteenth day of October in the middle of the second half of the second half of the year is the "Xia Yuan Festival".
These upper, middle, and lower ternary elements constitute the Taoist understanding of the three-element system of the world.
Chinese Taoism is different from many religions in the world, many of the world's religions are the unity of God and man, or like Buddhism and Christianity, which emphasizes the trinity of "incarnation", which makes religious propagators often highly deified.
The purpose of Taoist missionary work in China is very clear, and the propagator of Taoism is not a god but a human being, so Taoism spreads morality and ethics according to one's aptitude.
For those with high wisdom, the truth of the Tao Te Ching is clearly stated, and for those who are not wise enough, or do not have much time, to deeply reflect on their own moral and ethical construction, they will take the writing of stories to explain the truth, "edutainment and entertainment", which is derived from the missionary method of Chinese Taoism.
The "Zhongyuan Festival" of Chinese Taoism is actually a festival to spread morality and ethics, that is, to advocate people to pay attention to cultivating virtue on this day.
On the day of the Midyear Festival, people who have thoughts and time should gather together to study Lao Tzu's "Tao Te Ching", and communicate with each other and ponder themselves.
For the general public, Taoism has created some stories to "educate and entertain".
For example, Taoism fabricated that there was a man named Chen Ziqi who married the daughter of the Dragon King and gave birth to three children, "Heavenly Official, Earth Official, and Water Official" on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, the fifteenth day of the seventh month, and the fifteenth day of October.
These "three officials" are in charge of the three tasks of blessing, forgiveness, and relief in the world, and their magic power is boundless, and they have to parade around the world during these three days to check whether people's moral character is good or bad, and for those who have good moral character, they will give blessings, otherwise, they will condemn their sins.
However, Chinese Taoism is also a very tolerant religion that gives people the opportunity to transform and renew themselves at any time, so the "Zhongyuan Festival" is not only a festival to reward the good and punish the bad, but mainly a "festival of forgiveness".
Therefore, "Zhongyuan Festival" is also the "Confession Day" and "Atonement Day" in Chinese festivals, and people who have sinned in a year can review themselves and ask for forgiveness from heaven, earth and people through various rituals on the day of Zhongyuan Festival.
The Buddhist "Obon" festival is even simpler, and legend has it that a man named Muren had a dream that his deceased mother had fallen into the ranks of hungry ghosts, so he sent food to his mother, but he repeatedly failed.
Mulian told the Buddha about this, and the Buddha advised him to make offerings to the monks to do many good deeds in order to relieve his mother's sins in the underworld, and Mulian made a bon on the 15th day of the seventh month (Sanskrit means "to save the upside down"), so the Buddhist monks collectively recited sutras for Mulian's mother, so that her mother was freed from the sea of suffering.
It can be seen that the Buddhist Obon festival on July 15 has two meanings, one is to educate people to make offerings to religious monks, and the other is to educate people to do more good deeds to transcend the sins of their ancestors and promote filial piety.
Then there is the folk "Ghost Festival", July 15 is the "Ghost Festival", which is probably because the folk people want to burn paper money and sacrifice to the ancestors in the first half of July to the fifteenth half of the month, this atmosphere of dialogue between the soul and the soul, so that people have the festival of ghosts.
In the Chinese folk ghost festival, the first day of the seventh month is to open the ghost door, the dead ancestors will return to the world to check whether the descendants are good and evil, and the descendants will also take the opportunity to sacrifice them, after July 15, the ghost door will be closed, before July 30, if someone has not sacrificed his own ancestors, his ancestors will wander the world for a year......
So on this day, no matter who it is, as long as they are at home, they have to burn paper money and sacrifice to their ancestors, naturally, Qian Xiaohao and them are no exception.
After sending Qian Xiaohao and them away, Yu Shan patrolled around the Tianyuan Valley, and found no signs of opening the ghost gate, so he could only reluctantly go down the mountain to worship the ancestors.
After the sun sets, every family is going all out, preparing money paper incense candles for deceased relatives, and solemnly writing the name of each deceased relative on red paper, and then putting it on the ground and incinerating it with money paper incense candles.
In order to make every deceased relative get a rich gift, when burning paper money, it must be placed in accordance with the size of the relatives and the order of the morning and evening of the death, each person can take a pile, and each pile of money paper must be placed with the name written in advance, so that there will be no confusion.
At the same time as burning paper money, a grand lantern festival will be held in the ancestral hall of each family in the village.
Under the auspices of the patriarch of the family, the ghost lamps and magic lamps tied into various colors were arranged in order.
There are mainly ghost king lamps, Zhong Xu lamps, Hades lamps, judge ghost lamps, and bull head horse face lamps. (To be continued.) )