The next day, Xie Baoshu found Xu Qingsi.

Xu Qingsi knew his intention and felt that he was in a hurry, and now that the situation was urgent, he was in a hurry, and he should be. So, Xu Qingsi handed over the affairs of the state lord to the two maidservants. He took Xie Baoshu and went to Peach Mountain.

The top of purple gas, the most beautiful peach mountain.

There are many peach trees in Ziqi Prefecture, and naturally there are many peach mountains, but this one is the only one called Peach Mountain. Because here, it is the ancestral mountain of the entire Ziqi Prefecture and the ancestral mountain of the Xu family. Xu Qingsi took Xie Baoshu and no one else to Taoshan.

Yang Shangui originally wanted to follow, but Xie Baoshu refused.

Butterfly Valley River, the river water comes from Qiyun Mountain, which has excellent environment, is crystal clear, and the green trees along the way are verdant, and the green pines are towering to the sky, which is beautiful, as if the boat is swimming in the middle of the painting. The four seasons here are distinct, the scenery is primitive, the water of the Hulan River is rippling, and the top of the Hanging Sheep Peak is stacked on top of each other.

Taoshan is known as the "land of gold and jade" and "paradise". Peach wood is also known as "fairy wood". It is the most widely used material for slaying evil spirits and making ghosts. The reason why the peach tree has such divine power is rooted in the mysterious concept that the Taoist monks believe that the peach tree is feared by the hundred ghosts.

The Dao Gate is in Ziqi Prefecture, which is actually quite suitable.

The old man surnamed He would often come to this peach mountain and ask for a few peach branches to make a peach board. Also known as "peach version", "peach symbol", "peach charm board", etc., it is used in pairs with peach wood to cut into disgusting things. Draw the image of the god on the board to suppress the evil spirit.

Secondly, there are also peach seals and peach service.

The peach seal, also known as the "peach seal symbol", is a seal button carved from peach wood and painted with red, blue and yellow. White and black with a spell to ward off evil spirits, perforated between the buttons. During the Dragon Boat Festival, it is only used in a single way, and the way is to tie the peach seal on the door or between the tent screens with color to drive away the evil spirits.

The peach service is made of peach wood to wear the ornamental disgust, melon-shaped, multi-edged, engraved with inscriptions, the content of many prayers for the soil calamity. The way to use it is to wear it on the body in the first month of the summer calendar.

In fact, except for the spiritual peach trees, the life span of the rest of the peach trees is actually very short, and the fruit setting rate of peach trees that grow for more than ten years gradually decreases. Generally speaking, after twenty years, they will die slowly.

Compared with most tree species with a growth cycle of 100 or even 1,000 years, the life of the peach tree seems to be too hasty, but just as its life is not infinite, its scorching beauty is not infinite. This is true of the peach tree, the same is true of life, and the same is true of all things, often before people realize it, many things have actually happened. When people feel it, many things are about to go away.

Xie Baoshu felt very strange, why could a peach tree with successful cultivation live for so long, but not an ordinary one?

Xu Qingsi seemed to know his doubts, but she walked forward and explained.

Xie Baoshu didn't ask much, and looked at the things next to him. The petals of the peach blossom are very thin, papery, and a single flower, it is not very good-looking, only when a large peach forest blooms to the top, it suddenly has a charming atmosphere. It seems that it is all in full bloom in an explosion, layer by layer beauty, layer by layer bewitching, layer by layer peeling, layer by layer finishing, it doesn't look like flowering. It's like a grand dance

Yes, it's very beautiful.

Xie Baoshu looked a little stupid.

The peach blossoms here are obviously different from those in their hometown. The peach blossoms in his hometown, Taoyuan Village, are full of eerie and terrifying atmosphere, not like here. Xie Baoshu was fascinated and remembered a poem by a certain poet.

"The peach has not been connected, its color is extremely delicate, similar to the face of a beauty, the so-called peach cheeks, peach spirit, all refer to the natural unconnected peach. ”

There are secluded places in the mountains and wilderness, and there are the most delicate peach blossoms.

Peach blossoms are like this, they shouldn't be restrained, it's best to bloom in ordinary cottages. Even if the enchantment is written on the face, there is a kind of beauty of "the son is home, and it is suitable for his room", as if a gorgeous young woman in coarse linen clothes, naturally with a little bit of wind and dust Ye Yan and the duty of jasper in the small family in the south of the Yangtze River, if you must turn it into a lady and bloom in front of the rich hall, it will bury its small and wild beauty.

Xie Baoshu suddenly discovered that since his cultivation, it seemed that many things were related to the peach tree.

In mythology, Kuafu is day by day, abandoning his rod and turning into Dunlin. Lao Tzu rode a green ox out of the customs, and the Lingbao where Hangu Pass was located at that time was called Taolin. The customs of sticking Spring Festival couplets and door gods for the longest time that have influenced the people of Kyushu for the longest time also originated from a peach tree.

The peach tree, according to the record of the "Classic of Mountains and Seas", grows in the sea, on the Dushuo Mountain, the branches stretch out for 3,000 miles, and there are two immortals living on it, Shen Tu and Yu Lei. They are the later peach charms, and then the later Spring Festival couplets and door gods......

My whole life seems to be inseparable from the peach tree.

At this time, Xu Qingsi turned her head, looked at Xie Baoshu, and said, "You know the things about the blessed earth. ”

Xie Baoshu nodded, he was no longer the teenager who had just entered the cultivation world.

Daomen believes that Dongtian is governed by immortals sent by God, and the blessed land is a place where cultivators live and become enlightened. The saying of the blessed land of the cave is very long, Tao Hongjing's "True Message" has "ten major caves" and "thirty-six caves in the earth".

These famous mountains are the places where the people of the Taoist community gather, and for thousands of years, people of insight in Taoism have chosen to cultivate in the blessed land. According to the Taoist book, there are ten major caves, thirty-six small caves, and seventy-two blessed lands. Maoshan belongs to the eighth cave heaven among the ten major cave heavens, and is listed as the first blessed land among the seventy-two blessed lands.

Generally speaking, a blessed land refers to a place with beautiful scenery, a pleasant climate, an excellent aura, and a place suitable for cultivation. Dongtian refers to the cave where the cultivator cultivates, because the cave is warm in winter and cool in summer.

Xie Baoshu asked, "What are you talking about?"

Xu Qingsi explained: "On this peach mountain, there lives the ancestor of our Purple Qi Prefecture, that is, the oldest of the three peach trees I told you. Later, I will let you go to see it, and you will enter the cave blessed land. ”

The ancestor of Ziqi Prefecture is a peach tree.

This peach tree is very huge, and I don't know how many years it has lived.

Xie Baoshu realized something and asked, "On this mountain, is there a cave or a blessed land?"

Xu Qingsi smiled slightly and said, "Both." ”

Xie Baoshu was stunned for a moment, what do you mean? He was a little puzzled.

thereupon

As Xu Qingsi walked, she told Xie Baoshu about some profound things in the blessed world.

The world of cave heaven and blessed land is similar to the world of heaven and earth where people live, and also has its own natural components such as heaven and earth, sun and moon, mountains and rivers, plants and trees. Since the Cave Heaven Blessed Land is located in the space of the Great Heaven World, they have various connections with the human world.

For example, people in the world sometimes strayed into the cave, and the inhabitants of the cave sometimes visited the world. At the same time, due to the relative isolation of their existence, the world of the Cave Heaven and Blessed Land has its own unique space-time structure. Generally speaking, the cave world is not open to the world, and its existence is very secretive. From a functional point of view, with the exception of a few escapist caves, the cave heaven blessed land can be regarded as a place for Taoist monks to cultivate before reaching the ultimate goal of liberation.

There are many ancient books in the human world that discuss the blessed land of the heavens, among which the "Orthodox Taoist Collection" contains the most. The best explanation of the concept of Dongtian can be found in the early Shangqing classic, Ziyang Zhenren Neibiography. Its clouds: "The sky is meaningless, the mountains are meaningless, and the people are meaningless." The emptiness in the belly of the mountain is called the cave garden, and the emptiness in the human head is called the cave house. It is to be a real person in the sky, in the mountains, in the people, into the infernal, with millet Rong Penglai Mountain, including Liuhe, heaven and earth can not be contained.

According to the Taoist viewpoint, heaven, earth, water, and even human beings are all divided into one breath. The fairyland is also "made of qi", they sense each other, and form a three-dimensional interweaving vertical and horizontal. However, due to the difference in temperament, there is a difference between the top and bottom.

Therefore, the "Preface to the Palace of Heaven and Earth" says: "The Tao is nothing, and there are things because of trance; The essence is mysterious, and the palace is in the clear view. The secluded quality is condensed, and the cave is opened in the famous mountain. If you are sincere and diligent, the gods will be able to take it, and if you practice it, you will have a period of ascension. As for the Tiandong District, the high and the low are different. True spirit class, different up and down.

"Preface to the Records of the Famous Mountains of the Cave Heaven and Blessed Land" Yiyun: "The Qiankun is both open, clear and turbid, blending into rivers and mountains, or with Chensu on the top, or hiding the cave under the cave." All the great saints Allah slaughtered their affairs, then there was the Spirit Palace and the Jade Yu Golden Platform. “

"Or it is made of gas, and the clouds are fictitious, or the green marsh of the Yao Pond is injected into the four corners. or the pearl tree qionglin, neglected on it. The product of the divine phoenix flying is the habitat of the heavenly horse. It contains wind and rain, contains clouds and thunder, is the pivot of heaven and earth, and is the axis of yin and yang. ”

According to this theory, there are fairies not only in the sky, but also in the earth. Not only are there immortal mountains in the earth, but there are also immortal mountains in the sky. The heavenly immortal mountain is transformed by true qi, and it should be in the palace on the earth.

The cave and the blessed land are both immortal lands.

"The Blessed Saying of the Cave" originated from the ancient monks' worship concept of "the sun, the moon, the stars, the mountains, the rivers and the rivers", and the early form of expression was the "True Form of the Five Mountains". This kind of graphic drawing method is a bit similar to the color separation marking method of modern maps, the black one is the mountain, the red one is the water, and the yellow one is the mouth of the cave. In the eyes of the cultivators, the "True Form of the Five Mountains" is not only a map, but also a token of "welcoming the true spirit". Wearing this token can ward off evil spirits and disasters, and it can also make the cultivator know the immortal temple of Lingshan and the famous mountain of medicine and alchemy. At the same time, it is also a warning to the cultivators: everything in heaven and earth is the same

Emotional beings, every mountain, river, grass and tree, all have their own dignity and gods. Be kind to all things, and you will be welcomed and helped by all things.

During Sima Chengzhen's reign in Wangwu Mountain, he devoted himself to studying the Taoist cave Tianfu before the Tang Dynasty, and at the same time carefully investigated the Wangwu Mountain-shaped mountain, caves, streams and wind, rain and clouds at four o'clock, and completely put forward the theory of "ten major caves, thirty-six small caves, and seventy-two blessed lands" in the world, and compiled them into the "Heaven and Earth Palace Map".

Now the place they are going to is "Senluo Cave Heaven" and "Vientiane Blessed Land".

Xie Baoshu frowned and asked, "These two blessed places, what are they, why have I never heard of them?"

Xu Qingsi said: "Our ancestor of the Purple Qi Prefecture is huge, and an ordinary cave sky can no longer fit him. He has a cave on his head and is rooted in the blessed land of Vientiane. This time, it's to take you to meet him. Don't worry, the old ancestor has a good temper. ”

It was the first time Xie Baoshu had heard of this kind of thing, and he was very curious, looking left and right.

Xu Qingsi smiled: "I like you like you, I haven't seen the world." ”

Xie Baoshu glared at him and didn't say anything.

Then I walked forward, passed through a peach forest, and came to the top of Peach Mountain, and suddenly opened up. Xie Baoshu raised his eyes and looked, outside the heaven and earth, it was no longer the Purple Qi Prefecture, but a blessed land in the Cave Heaven. A huge peach tree stands in the middle of heaven and earth.

This body is much bigger than Xu Qingsi's previous appearance.

Xie Baoshu looked at this towering tree and found that the two-level differentiation was extremely serious. The top of the big tree is extremely lush, and the sun is shrouded, and the bottom is extremely dark.

The mountain has 10,000-year-old bones, and the tree has a hundred eyebrows. As a thousand springs and summers, the demon will come for a day.

Everything in the world, if there is a spirit, there is love. Love has been born for a hundred years, and there is persistence and turns into a demon.

The head is full of caves, and it is rooted in the blessed land of Vientiane.

(End of chapter)