Chapter 732: The Rise of Taoism
It is now the beginning of February of the tenth year of Zhongxing in the Ming Dynasty, and the ninth year of Zhongxing has already passed.
The Book of Heaven has also been translated to Nuwa's creation of human beings and the birth of the Six Sages.
The legend of Nuwa's creation of man has been passed down for thousands of years, even if you have never read a book, you have heard it said.
Looking at the detailed description in the flood now, the grand scene of the birth of the human race is like bringing the reader to the world at that moment, looking up at the sacred posture of Our Lady of Nuwa, which is touching and reverent.
Our Lady of Nuwa created the human race and will always be the mother of the human race.
Thinking of this, not only do some people feel guilty, but now Buddhist temples, mountain temples, and land temples are everywhere, but they can rarely see Nuwa Temple, have they forgotten their mothers, what is the difference between this and great rebellion.
Subsequently, the Book of Flood and Wilderness was translated into the flood of the heavens that Nuwa mended the heavens, sacrificed herself as a human being, and used her body to block the flood of the heavens in order to save the human race from being destroyed.
Seeing the people here, then they felt even more guilty, legend has it that there were a large number of Nuwa temples during the Shang and Zhou dynasties, and the people would worship Nuwa every year, but now that they have arrived in the Ming Dynasty, can they not recognize the mother of this great person?
Many people eagerly wanted to visit the Nuwa Temple, but they were never allowed to enter the temple, and even the temple was never built.
"Why don't we raise funds to rebuild the Nuwa Temple, we can't forget the mother of the human race, it's too rebellious! No wonder there were many natural disasters in the past, it turned out to be a warning from heaven! Although the current emperor rules the world and re-allows us to live a happy and stable life, we can't help but learn a lesson! The head of a village proposed.
They are talking about the successive droughts and cold disasters during the Chongzhen period, which led to large-scale peasant uprisings such as Li Zicheng, followed by decades of war and the displacement of the people.
"Well, what the village chief said is that the temple of Our Lady of Nuwa should be rebuilt! People can't forget their roots! One villager agreed.
"Yes, the Temple of Our Lady of Nuwa should be rebuilt!" More villagers embraced it.
Now the life of the people is also better, basically every household has a lot of surplus money, and then the head of this village took the lead, and every household contributed money, and was the first to rebuild the temple of Our Lady of Nuwa.
As soon as the news spread, more and more people spontaneously built the Nuwa Temple to worship Our Lady of Nuwa.
In the tenth year of the Ming Dynasty, on February 23, Zhu Ciji issued a holy decree aimed at rebuilding the Temple of Our Lady of Nuwa in all counties in the Ming Dynasty.
Nanjing City, not far from the Imperial Palace, will also build the largest Nuwa Temple in the entire Ming Dynasty, which is the Snail Palace! The Ming Emperor and hundreds of civil and military officials will go to worship Our Lady of Nuwa every year in the future.
It is worth mentioning that Princess Changping, the eldest princess of the first emperor, invited herself to be the holy daughter of the Snail Palace, representing the royal family to serve Our Lady of Nuwa for eternity.
Princess Changping was originally a little disappointed in the world, stooping to the nunnery, not how much she believed in Buddhism, but just felt that she could live, after being forcibly taken back to Nanjing City by Zhu Ci, there was no intention of returning to the world, the Queen Mother chose how many horses for her were rejected by her, the book of Hong Huang Tianshu was born, every part of the translation, Princess Changping watched, and then gradually became fascinated, when she saw Nuwa create people and sacrifice herself to make up for the sky, Princess Changping was moved from the bottom of her heart, and felt that Nuwa's Virgin Mary was so great, Princess Changping's originally empty heart was filled at once, and when Zhu Ci stumbled down to build the largest Nuwa temple in Nanjing City, Princess Changping did not hesitate, and immediately went to Zhu Ci to ask herself to serve Our Lady of Nuwa for life.
Zhu Ciji was silent for a while, and finally sighed, nodded in agreement, and at the same time named Princess Changping as the Holy Maiden of the Snail Palace, leading all the Nuwa Temple in the Ming Dynasty.
It's not that Zhu Ci is cold-blooded, willing to let his sister serve the temple for life, in fact, he saw the irreversible mind of Princess Changping, since Princess Changping broke her arm, she has no friendship with any man for the emptiness of the world, even if she doesn't serve Nuwa in this life, it is very likely that she will serve Guanyin, rather than this, it is better to fulfill her.
With the emperor and hundreds of officials and the eldest princess of Changping taking the lead, the people became more enthusiastic, and the construction of Nuwa Temple suddenly became the most enthusiastic thing in the Ming Dynasty.
Nuwa created people in the hearts of the people of the Ming Dynasty and penetrated into the bone marrow at once, further deepening the status of ancient Chinese mythology in the hearts of the people.
Then the Lich War ensued, the two races fell one after another, and the Terran prospered.
Subsequently, the three emperors and five emperors ruled the world, Dayu ruled the water, the Xia Dynasty was established, Shang Tang destroyed Xia, King Wu cut down, the gods were tribulated, and Zhou Tianzi was established!
Speaking of the Spring and Autumn Period, Confucius preached the mission of heaven, incarnated as a Confucian sage, educated the people of the world to be courteous, righteous and honest, and became the teacher of the people of the world.
Of course, Confucius sanctified and became one of the four sages of Taoism, deliberately compiled by Zhu Cihe, the purpose of which was to merge Taoism and Confucianism in the future and rise Taoism.
Sure enough, some Confucian scholars and Taoist priests in the world saw this section, and their faces changed.
"It turns out that Confucianism and Taoism are actually from the same family, both Taoism!" Some Confucian scholars and Taoist priests exclaimed.
This fact was so unexpected that although both sides were a little resistant and uncomfortable, the strange thing was that no one doubted this fact and acquiesced to the Daoru family's statement.
The reason why it can have such an effect is actually the role of the book of heaven.
The Book of Heaven is accompanied by the divine thunder of the divine object descended into the world, which has been recorded from the opening of the world, and countless historical events can find a trace of trajectory from the pre-Qin Mountains and Seas, which must be true, so since the Book of Heaven said that Confucianism is a family, it is naturally a family, and it cannot be refuted.
"Daoru merger, at this moment!" Inside the palace, Zhu Ci smirked.
Subsequently, Zhu Ci ordered the counties to establish Taoist temples, worship Sanqing and Confucius, in addition to the responsibility of the Taoist temple in addition to taking care of the four holy gods, is to preach and supervise the people's etiquette, righteousness and shame, the Analects is one of the Taoist scriptures, only follow the etiquette, righteousness and shame, with good morality, can enter heaven after death, and do not know the etiquette, righteousness and shame, no good morality, after death can only go to hell to suffer eighteen layers of hell torture!
This almost directly establishes the duties and teachings of Taoism.
As soon as such a holy decree came out, all Confucian students in the world secretly nodded in agreement, although they were not very comfortable with the merger of Confucianism and Taoism, but since it was the will of God, they could only obey it, and after the merger of Taoism and Confucianism, the Confucian sage quotations became the Bible of Taoism, and the etiquette, righteousness, honesty and shame advocated by Confucius and the noble character became the doctrine of Taoism, which is not unacceptable.
However, some Taoist priests have opinions, after all, the original Taoist temple was only theirs, and they were all adhering to the Taoist concept of ruling by doing nothing, but now, the concept has not only changed, but the Taoist temple has almost all become Confucian, how can you be convinced.
Some Taoist priests were not convinced and came out to oppose the merger of Daoru and Confucianism, however, a strange thing happened, these Taoist priests who came out to oppose first, without exception, all bled to death within three days, without any wounds on their bodies.
The people were in an uproar, believing that this was a punishment from heaven.
The Taoist priests of various Taoist temples also had numb scalps, and they did not dare to come out again to oppose the trouble, and honestly acquiesced in the fact of merging with Taoism.
After the merger of Taoism and Confucianism, Taoism had its own duties and doctrines, as well as its own heaven and hell, and almost instantly upgraded to a qualified religion with large-scale missionary capital.
Many highly respected Taoist priests and Confucians lived in Taoist temples in various places, especially led by Confucianism, and began to preach the teachings of Confucius and the sage of propriety, righteousness and honesty, warning the world that people should follow etiquette, righteousness and shame and be a person of noble character, otherwise they will go to the eighteen layers of hell after death.
Taoism gradually began to flourish, and with the support of the Ming court and Confucianism in the world, the limelight suddenly overshadowed the Buddhist temples all over the Ming Dynasty.
Religion has advantages and disadvantages, but there is a reason for its existence, faith is a position, if you do not pay attention to it and do not occupy it, it will inevitably be occupied by foreign sects one day. Therefore, the Ming Dynasty must have its own sect, Buddhism is too peaceful and indisputable, and it is also transmitted from outside the territory, which is not suitable, Taoism used to have insufficient teachings and beliefs, and it is not qualified, but now it is good, Taoism is flourishing, and it has this qualification.
Seeing such a fierce momentum of Taoism, the abbots of Buddhist temples everywhere could only be silent or smile bitterly.
Fortunately, after the flood famine, it was also said that Buddhism was flourishing, counting, since the Tang Dynasty, their Buddhism has also flourished for thousands of years, and it may be suppressed by the new Taoism in the future, but after all, it will not be broken.
For what is said in the book of Hong Huang Tian, the heel of Buddhism, the two saints of Zhun Ti and the introduction, the various temples of Buddhism have no objections, and they can't put forward any refutation, thinking that they also think that the content of the book should be true.
Although there are four saints in Taoism, there are also two in their Buddhist family, which is quite a lot!