In February of the first year of Zhongping, that is, in February of last year, Zhang Jiao, the leader of the "Taiping Dao", prepared to gather disciples to revolt, and the mighty Yellow Turban Rebellion broke out.

In February of the second year of Zhongping, that is, it happened that in this month, an equally far-reaching event spread throughout the Central Plains of China.

"The Decree of the Wanderer", "The Book of the Liberation of the Heavenly Soldiers", "The Theory of the Replacement of the Robbery of the Yan and Han Dynasties", "Telling the Yellow Turban Sect to Return to the Han Dynasty", ......

Under the arrangement of the Han Dynasty, the texts were sent to all parts of the Central Plains through official roads and even special gallop roads, post houses and even official mansions.

These things are from the handwriting of Zhang Jiaoyizi Ran Min. Now Ran Min has collected the old Yellow Turban Department, inherited Zhang Jiao's position, and released propaganda to the people of the whole world, especially the Yellow Turban Sect.

In Ran Min's description, the two families of Qin and Zhao are called the Yellow Turban Sect, which is actually an unscrupulous thief, deliberately omission of the defense line in the war, and lightly indulged Lu Bu and other Han troops into the Yellow Turban Formation, causing the Tiangong General Zhang Jiao to be beheaded, and called on the Yellow Turban Sect to conquer the Qin and Zhao families.

Of course, there are also other contents in this, such as why Zhang Jiao, who is comparable to a 'fairy', hangs up and other things, which involves a few later texts.

For example, Zhang Jiao is the reincarnation of whom, who is in Jiazi, and only has the national fortune of Jiazi year, and was finally harmed by Qin Zhao's obscene miscellaneous gods, which was caused by the cause and effect of what he did at the beginning, and so on.

Not much else to say, the main content of "The Dangkou Order" is aimed at the Qin and Zhao families, who told them not to protect Zhang Jiao, whether it is true or false, right or wrong, anyway, this feud is settled.

"The Book of Heavenly Soldiers' Liberation and Surrender", this is the focus on Zhang Jiao's destiny to go down to earth, which should be in the world of chaos in the year of Jiazi, and now the year of Jiazi has passed, the catastrophe is complete, and the soldiers are soaring.

First of all, it is the problem of military solution, which satisfactorily explains the death of Zhang Jiao, the general of the 'living immortal' Tiangong.

The Taoist saying is that if you die, it is called an autopsy. The drowning is called hydrolysis, and the slashing is called military liberation. If you feel that you can't pass the tribulation, you can choose to solve the military by yourself, transfer the physical power to the original god, and choose to reincarnate or find the physical body to be reborn.

Military lysis is one of the autopsies, and autopsy has a variety of methods such as coffin lysis, hydrolysis, fire lysis, and rod lysis.

Volume 87 of "Supreme Secrets" and volume 85 of "Yun Ji Qi Seal" volume 85 "Tai Chi Zhenren Flying Immortal Sword Sutra" both say: "Drink it with a pill and water, and lie down while holding grass (a piece of wood), then others will see that they have been injured and died in the empty room, which is called military liberation." "The Seven Labels of the Clouds" volume 85 "Wang Jia's Explanation" said that Wang Jia, a native of Anyang, Longxi, and his two disciples were killed by Yao. Yao Chang "first made people Longright, Feng Jia will have two disciples, more than 1,000 miles, it is Zhu Jia Riye." The coffin of the envoy and the two disciples, Chang Lingfa Jia and the two disciples, there is no corpse, and each has a bamboo cane."

However, autopsy is an early Taoist belief in the art of becoming an immortal, which has been criticized by the world, and Wang Chong's "On Heng and Tao Fiction" is called a "vain" technique. Some Taoist priests are also gradually revising their views, and the Taoist priests of the Sui and Tang dynasties have regarded it as the inferior product of becoming immortals, and the Jinyuan Quanzhen Tao has completely rejected it on the basis of basically denying the physical body becoming an immortal.

However, for the time being, there is still an absolute market for the statement of the Soldier Liberation Immortal. After all, Taoism itself has only developed for several generations, and the so-called Yellow Turban Taiping Sect essentially belongs to the Huang Lao School rather than Zhang Daoling's Taoism.

Let's talk about the specific content, but before talking about this, we also need to explain the mythological background of the current Han Dynasty.

On the one hand, the background of this mythological worship is still the background of the Shang, Zhou, and pre-Qin periods, and it can also be said that there is a lot of content of the Huang Lao School, with the emperor as the supreme god, basically the official worship is the emperor of heaven, and although Zhang Daoling is called Laojun preaching, the status of Laozi or Taishang Laojun at that time was not so high.

"Historical Records: Feng Zen Book" contains Liu Bang, the ancestor of the Han Dynasty, who said: "I heard that there are five emperors in the sky." That is, the popular theory at the end of the Warring States period. At the same time, there is the saying of the five-color emperor, and the four gods of white, green, yellow, and also worship are set up, and the shrine of the black emperor is enshrined in Han Gao.

In other words, although the saying of the Five Emperors has been around for a long time, when the five emperors are really enshrined, that is what Liu Bang started.

The theological system represented by Zheng Xuan believes that God is another name for heaven, and there are six heavens and six gods in total. The six heavenly gods are the gods of Haotian and the gods of the five directions. Haotian God (Emperor of Heaven) is the emperor of all heavens.

The religious system represented by Wang Su believed that the emperor of the five elements could be called God, but not heaven; Haotian God can be called heaven, and sacrificing Haotian God represents sacrificing to heaven. Among the six gods, the natural emperor Haotian God can be called heaven, and the human emperor, that is, the God of the five elements, cannot be called heaven.

Zheng Xuan's note in "The Book of Rites: The Great Biography" "The king's ancestors came out of their own place", that is, the name of this is "Taiwei Five Emperors", which means that "the ancestors of the kings all feel the essence of the Taiwei Five Emperors". said that the five emperors on earth were born by the five emperors in the sky, and put forward the delusion of "touching the emperor", and Wang Su has refuted its fallacy.

However, this Haotian God was actually set up as the famous Taiyi during the reign of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty because of the Fang Shi's statement, and it is estimated that the Fang Shi was also influenced by the mythology of the Chu State.

It is said that the worship of the Five Emperors lacks the concept of supreme gods, which is not conducive to the consolidation of a unified central power, so a new god appeared above the Five Emperors, that is, the Taiyi God. The so-called Taiyi, during the Qin Dynasty, was called the Taihuang, and it was called the Three Emperors together with the Emperor and the Emperor of the Earth. These are the three gods that were popular in the Qin and Han dynasties, but it should be the credit of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty to raise the Taiyi god to the supreme status and become the god of the Heavenly Emperor revered by the rulers of the Han Dynasty.

During the reign of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, the society of the Western Han Dynasty had been restored and developed, and due to the weakening of the power of the princes and kings, the centralization of power was increasingly strengthened, and a unified political situation had emerged in politics.

In the second year of Yuanguang, Fang Shi first asked for the sacrifice of Taiyi God, saying that the gods of heaven were Taiyi, and Taiyi Zuo was called the Five Emperors. The ancients of the Son of Heaven sacrificed the southeast suburbs of Taiyi in the spring and autumn period, and used the prison. The plan of building the supreme Taiyi God broke the concept of the Heavenly Emperor God from the Qin to the early Han Dynasty, and clearly pointed out that the Five Emperors were only the support of the Taiyi God, highlighting the status of the Taiyi as the supreme god.

Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty adopted this suggestion and ordered Taizhu to set up a Taiyi altar in the southeastern suburbs of Chang'an and sacrifice according to the taboo plan. In the fourth year of Yuan Ding, Fenyang unearthed an ancient tripod, and the ministers regarded it as a treasure tripod, and they all thought it was an auspicious rui. Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty ordered it to be welcomed to Ganquan. In the fifth year of the Yuan Dynasty, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty officially established the Taiyi altar in Ganquan, the altar is divided into three layers, and the five emperors are the assistants of Taiyi, so their altar surrounds the following, and the four emperors of green, red, white, and black are arranged according to the east, west, south, and north. Only the Yellow Emperor Altar, placed in the southwest. At the time of the sacrifice, he slew a white deer and put the pig and wine in its belly; And he slew a white yak and put the white deer in its belly. Zhu Zai, who is in charge of the sacrifice of Taiyi, is unique, wearing purple embroidered clothes, and the five emperors of the palm sacrifice are wearing blue and red clothes.

In November of the same year, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty held a grand suburban ceremony, personally worshiped the god Taiyi, and officially appointed Taiyi as the supreme god of the Han family. In the second year, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty personally went to the Taiyi Altar Shrine with the ritual of sacrificing to the sky. From the beginning of the first year of Yuan Feng, Emperor Wu also took people to Mount Tai several times to hold a grand ceremony of sealing Zen, and the ceremony of Taiyi was also adopted. Emperor Wu's praise said: Tianzeng granted the emperor Taiyuan divine policy, and the cycle continued, and the emperor worshiped Taiyi. At this point, Taiyi, as the supreme and supreme national god of the Han Dynasty, was finally successfully shaped.

On the other hand, everyone in the world knows that Han Gaozu slashed the snake uprising, so there is a saying that the Red Emperor beheaded the White Emperor, and this Red Emperor is also the Red Emperor, one of the five auxiliary emperors under Taiyi or Haotian, so Liu Bang's identity can be imagined.

So that's how their story is made.

The country created by the Red Emperor coincided with the period of hundreds of years of catastrophe, and because of the previous period of catastrophe, the Red Emperor sent the first official of the worship auxiliary god Zhu Rong, the first official of Jinyun's untalented son, to act recklessly, almost cut off the Red Emperor's country, fortunately, the Red Emperor interceded, and the Emperor of Heaven read the Red Emperor's skill of tasting a hundred medicines, and gave grace outside the law, and specially sent the Sanyuan Ziwei Palace Ziwei Xingjun to lead the stars and gods, and the heavenly immortals and gods were in the dust, and the chaos was set right, so as to protect the Red Emperor's Taoist children in the world.

It was this time that the gods of Zhurong Palace asked for their lives without shame, and there was also the tribulation of the three officials (three dukes) under the command of the Red Emperor from the star worship official Ying Yuxingjun. And because of the accident last time, this time I made a special appointment to only have the year of Jiazi as the deadline, and then I will dissect the autopsy and fly back to recover my life.

In this way, the old events of the Yellow Turban Rebellion and the reason for the liberation of the Tiangong general Zhang Jiao are explained.

In addition to this main line, it is the explanation of the calamity such as the resurrection of people from all walks of life.

However, it is said that the replacement of the five emperors coincided with the end of the reincarnation of the five emperors in the Yan and Han dynasties, and the various scattered immortals and lewd gods (the so-called unorthodox official sacrificed immortals) during the rotation of the five elements came to earth together with the catastrophe, trying to obtain orthodox sacrifices in the last round of the cycle of catastrophe.

The first is the replacement of the five emperors at the beginning of the week, which is the so-called five virtues at the end of the beginning.

The theory of five virtues is a historical concept advocated by Zou Yan, a yin-yang scholar during the Warring States period of China. The "Five Virtues" refer to the five virtues represented by the five elements: wood, fire, earth, metal, and water. "The end" refers to the cycle of the "five virtues". Zou Yan often used this doctrine to explain historical changes and the rise and fall of dynasties. Later, the supreme ruler of the imperial dynasty often referred to himself as "Fengtian Carrying the Emperor", in which the so-called "carriage" means the "virtue" luck that the five virtues have always said.

Zou Yan said, "The five virtues are invincible, Yu Tu, Xia Mu, Yin Jin, and Zhou Huo." "Mu Ke Earth, Jin Ke Mu, Fire Ke Jin, Water Ke Fire, Earth Ke Water. Since black belongs to water, the Qin Dynasty admired black. "Historical Records: The First Emperor of Qin": "The first emperor pushed the legend of the first five virtues, thinking that Zhou Dehuo De, Qin Dynasty Zhou De, never winn. Fang is now the beginning of the water, the beginning of the new year, and the morning congratulations are all from October Shuo. ”

According to Zou Yan, the five virtues represented by the five elements are transmitted in a relationship of mutual restraint, and some people in later generations have put forward the saying that the five elements are born together to explain the end of the five virtues.

At the beginning of the Han Dynasty, when Liu Bang, the ancestor of the Han Dynasty, Zhang Cang thought that the Qin state was too short and tyrannical and unreasonable, and did not belong to the orthodox dynasty. The Han Dynasty should replace the fire virtue of the Zhou Dynasty, so the Zhengshuo of the Han Dynasty should be the water virtue. By the time of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, Shuo was corrected to Tude, and it was not until Wang Mang established a new dynasty that Liu Xiang and Liu Xin father and son were adopted, believing that the Han Dynasty belonged to Huode. After Emperor Guangwu of the Han Dynasty recovered the Han Dynasty, he officially recognized this statement, and since then established the Han Dynasty Zhengshuo as Huode, and the Eastern Han Dynasty and later historical books such as the Han Book and the Three Kingdoms have adopted this statement. Therefore, the Han Dynasty is sometimes called "Yan Han", and it is also called "Yan Liu" because the surname of the emperor of the Han Dynasty is Liu.

Therefore, the widely circulated saying in the world at present is: Yu (earth→), Xia (gold), → Shang (water), → Zhou (wood), → Han (fire), is exactly a five-element cycle, that is to say, the five emperors happened to be in power for a round, and this round of Yu Dynasty began to accumulate from the Yan and Han dynasties to the various evil gods and ghosts (unofficial sacrifice gods) in order to achieve positive results (to obtain official sacrifices), all of which broke out in this calamity. This statement also explains the reason why Zhang Jiao and even others can summon celebrities from the previous dynasty.

These people are all capable ministers and famous generals of their respective tribal countries in all dynasties, and naturally folk sacrifices are indispensable. But after all, the country where they are located has not obtained the status of legitimacy, which has led to them becoming so-called evil gods.

In this way, these evil gods either overthrew the rule of the Han Dynasty and made their own power orthodox, or they took refuge in the Han Dynasty.

It can be said that this set has the meaning of endorsing the Han and even winning people's hearts.