399 Kowloon Protects China
One word represents a lot of meanings, first this word tells you that the well of the dragon vein is not only this one, maybe the great monk is really right, the Huaxia country blessed by the Nine Dragons should have at least nine wells of the dragon vein. Bayi Chinese Network ]〉.
And the meaning of "there is one less mouthful" is even more intriguing, it turns out that in the long history of the Huaxia Kingdom, there has been more than one incident of the destruction of the well of the dragon vein, and now this meditative Taoist priest actually said that there is another mouthful, that is, in the Ming Dynasty Yongle three years after the nearly seven hundred years to the modern period, there may have been a big change, and the result is that the well of the dragon vein was destroyed.
The strange Taoist priest didn't pay attention to the flowing fire, he grabbed the arm of the confused master and asked, "Great monk, are you the one of the Buddhists, Zen Buddhism, Pure Land, or Huayan?"
The seven-hundred-year-old Taoist priest asked very professionally, and Liuhuo and Luo Li didn't understand it anyway, but the confused master's eyes immediately lit up. He crossed his legs, put his palms together, and his face was full of treasure.
"The poor monk has been a monk since he was a child, and he studied under the Vinaya..."
Before the great monk finished speaking, the old Taoist priest's expression was obviously relaxed, and he let out a long breath and said.
"Sure enough, seeing that your cultivation is so profound and you are so familiar with the legend of the Well of the Dragon Vein, it should be impossible for the Vinaya to be wrong. Of the eight major schools of Buddhism, you are the strictest in keeping the precepts, and the precepts are the root of Buddhism's practice, no wonder, no wonder..."
Speaking of this, the old Taoist priest suddenly turned his head to look at the flowing fire and asked cautiously.
"This little friend, I see that you are dressed strangely, you don't look like a cultivator, but why are you so profound? You can even perform the art of resisting the wind... I'm ashamed to say that I haven't reached your realm in hundreds of years of cultivation, it's really embarrassing..."
"Can we not detour around the bend, don't set close?" Flowing Fire is obviously not used to this way of speaking, "You'd better look at our current situation, it's simply a thread hanging, no matter how advanced my mana is, I will die if I am shot indiscriminately." ”
The old Taoist priest was obviously a little uncomfortable with this straightforward way of communication in modern society, and his face was a little red, but fortunately, the smoke in the stone room was now and the visibility was insufficient, which helped him block the embarrassment.
"Hehe, Xiaoyou is a straightforward person. In Xia Qingping, the teacher of Taiping Dao is now the guardian of the dragon vein, and the Beiping dragon vein is in charge of me..."
"Ah!" Master Confused subconsciously called out, "You inherited the Taiping Dao, could it be that the Taiping Dao was still inherited in the Ming Dynasty?" No wonder the Confused Master was surprised, the Taiping Dao was originally the mainstream faction of Taoism before the Han Dynasty, and later flourished in the hands of Zhang Jiao, that is, during that period, the Taiping Dao was suppressed by all the ruling classes and had to go underground to secretly operate.
Just when the Taiping Dao swept through China, Zhang Daoling preached in Xichuan, and the believers were widely accepted because they only needed five buckets of rice to get started, so the world called it the Five Buckets of Rice Sect. Later, Zhang Daoling's grandson, Zhang Lu, a famous prince of Hanzhong during the Three Kingdoms period, developed the Wudou Rice Religion while working closely with the ruling class, and gradually the Wudou Rice Religion began to be accepted by the mainstream of society. Gradually, Wudou Mijiao became the authentic Taoism.
Under the introduction of the foolish master, the story of thousands of years ago was told with great interest, and Flowing Fire and Luo Li gradually listened to it a little stunned.
"I always thought that after the Han Dynasty, the Taiping Dao was extinct, but I really didn't expect that there would be a inheritance in the early years of the Ming Dynasty?" the master sighed.
When the great monk introduced the history of Taiping Dao, Liuhuo saw it, and there was a trace of pride in the eyes of the people of Qingping Dao, and it was obvious that the glorious history of Taiping Dao was still inspiring him.
When the great monk finished speaking, Qingping Taoist cleared his throat and said, "Buddhism pays attention to fate, although I am a teacher of Taoism, but I also recognize some of the views of Buddhism, since we have a fate to gather today, you are naturally qualified to know the secret of this dragon vein well."
"In fact, the origin of this story is no longer known, but the legend of the Nine Dragons protecting Huaxia is true..."
In the introduction of Qingping Daoren, Liuhuo understood that the land of Huaxia was really a blessed land blessed by divine grace. It is said that the ancient gods sent nine divine dragons to protect the Huaxia Kingdom, and these nine divine dragons were stationed in the nine dragon vein wells, of course, in the eyes of the flowing fire, it was not the well of the dragon veins, they were the ten directions spirit pool in the Zhongzhou world.
However, Flowing Fire is very polite, and he will not interrupt others in such small matters.
Under the protection of the nine dragons, the ancient civilization of Huaxia was smoother and more stable than any other civilization, whether it was in the tribal period or in the Xia, Shang and Zhou periods, the Chinese civilization did not encounter any opponents at all in the process of expansion, except for its own internal strife, it almost did not encounter any serious crisis of extermination.
Until the end, in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, Chinese civilization encountered its first heyday, and the civilization at that time was really a hundred flowers blooming and a hundred schools of thought contending.
"Wait..."Liuhuo stopped Qingping's words and asked rhetorically, "What do you mean? How did the Warring States Period become the heyday of Chinese civilization? It was the Warring States Period, the Warring States Period, when human life was as cheap as grass..."
Qingping seemed to have known that he would have this question, and said with a smile, "It's not unusual for you to have this kind of question, because you didn't understand what the Nine Dragons blessed from the beginning. Do you really think that only a peaceful and prosperous world can be regarded as the peak of civilization? You are too narrow-minded..."
The Divine Dragon only protects civilization, but the continuous civilization of China, they don't have the time to care about the suffering of one or two people, sometimes you can equate the Divine Dragon with the Heavenly Dao.
Heaven and earth are not benevolent, and this is the truth of taking all things as dogs.
The cold wind doesn't stop crying because the poor don't have food or clothing, and the blizzard doesn't stop flying because you don't have a piece of food. In the eyes of heaven and earth, there are only rules, and mortals under the rules have no choice but to obey.
"The Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, although it was the most frequent period of wars in Chinese history, but although there were continuous civil wars during that period, there were no foreign races that could invade the Chinese civilization, why did the northern nomads who had plagued the Chinese Kingdom for thousands of years not take the opportunity to make trouble?"
"Is it because their force is too weak? Don't forget, at that time, the country of China was divided..."
Qingping Daoren's words reminded the flowing fire, and he couldn't help but recall the long history of the Huaxia Kingdom, which was a memory full of suffering, and all kinds of foreign races roared from all directions of the Huaxia Kingdom to invade, burning the flames of war again and again.
For example, the Jin Dynasty during the Wuhu Rebellion, the Song Dynasty during the Jin invasion, and the Southern Song Dynasty when the Mongols went south, and so on. These dynasties are once again stronger than the comprehensive national strength of the Warring States Period, why can the small vassal states of the Warring States Period, perhaps a few counties, resist the invasion of foreign races?
Meng Tian, the general of the Qin Dynasty, was already stationed on the northern border when the Seven Kingdoms were not yet unified, and he only relied on less than one-tenth of the national strength of the Qin State to hold the long northern border, and Hu Ma did not dare to go south at all. You have to remember that at that time, the Qin State was pouring all its strength into unifying the Seven Kingdoms, and there were no resources for him at all.
There is also the Hufu cavalry of King Zhao Wuling, Zhao is actually just a small kingdom that occupies the land of the Hetao, but he can use the barren resources of a land of the Hetao, while dealing with the Seven Kingdoms, he can also deter the alien races in the north.
There are many more such examples, and they are simply too numerous to mention, but because the history is too long, it has gradually been sealed up.
Qingping Daoist looked at the thinking flow of fire and said softly, "There is nothing to doubt, in fact, the reason is very simple, that is because the Chinese Nine Dragons at that time were complete, under the nourishment of the nine dragon veins, although the land of China was full of wars, but the talents continued, and the spirit of the spirit nourished all ethnic groups in China, it can be said that the cultural roots of the Huaxia Kingdom were actually laid in that period."
Lao Tzu, Confucius, Mencius, and the various doctrines of the hundred schools of thought, each of which has its uniqueness, are irreplaceable, it is precisely because of such an era of ideological explosion that the Chinese people of later generations have inexhaustible spiritual food, and any question can be found in the classics of that period.
Even the science that people most respect now has actually formed a system in that period, and the research of mathematics, physics, geometry, algebra and so on is the first in the world, and even one of the symbols of modern industrialization, the 'assembly line', has actually been adopted by the Qin people as early as that time. At that time, Qin's weapons manufacturing industry was definitely the first in the world, relying on standardization and assembly line operations.
"Don't think that the Nine Dragons are blessed, that is, there are nine dragon bodyguards, and once the Chinese crisis occurs, they will come out to drive away the invaders instead of the people. Or when the people are hungry and cold, these dragons will transform into good men and bring food to you..."
"That's all typical lazy thinking, and the nation that expects pie in the sky is destined to have no future. ”
"And what is the function of the Nine Dragons' protection?" asked Liuhuo, puzzled.
"In fact, what Kowloon blesses is a kind of qi, that is the spirit of a nation, that is the aura of a land. Nourished by this invisible energy, the Chinese nation has been talented for generations. The so-called 'there will be a king in 500 years' is the truth..."
Liuhuo was born as an Awakened One, and he didn't have much resistance to this kind of metaphysical knowledge, and he easily understood the truth expounded by the Qingping Daoist. But Luo Li can't, she was raised by modern science, and she can't understand this kind of mysterious and mysterious thing at all.
"Then you mean, Huaxia Kingdom can be invincible in the world with these nine dragon veins? Then why have there been so many catastrophes in the history of Huaxia Kingdom later? Several times they almost died..."Luo Li asked puzzled.
"Hey..."Kiyohei said with a long sigh, "This question involves a long-ago secret..."
As we all know, there is not only one god in this earth world, and the primitive religion of the Chinese belongs to ancestor worship and nature worship. The religious beliefs of other ethnic groups are different, some are totem worship, and some are simply anthropomorphic god worship.
It is precisely because of the diversity of beliefs in this world that the whole world has an additional mode of war of faith in addition to the war for resources. Countless nations, with the support of their own gods, have slaughtered other races again and again, trying to impose their beliefs on other nations.
And in this conflict again and again, all mortals can see is the vertical and horizontal battle of thousands of troops, but in the eyes of us cultivators, those are just children, and only the war between cultivators can be regarded as a big scene.
"Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty sent Wei Qing and Huo Qubing to kill in Mobei and sweep Wolf Juxu, do you think it is to lay down a mountain range called Wolf Juxu?
"Do you know that the Wuhu Rebellion in China, the northern alien race rampant in the north of Huaxia Country, is really robbing grain, money, and women? To tell you the truth, the first dragon vein well in Huaxia Country that was destroyed by foreign races was the one near the ancient city of Luoyang, which was destroyed by the Hu people in the north..."
"From that moment on, there were only eight dragons left to protect Huaxia, and because of the damage to the Well of the Dragon Vein, Wuhu Chaohua became the first national extinction crisis in Huaxia..."
Speaking of this, two hot tears actually flowed from the corners of Qingping Daoren's eyes, and the hot tears washed the thick dust on his face out of the two ditches.