Chapter 137 The Underworld and Fate
Huangquan Road refers to the only way for people to go to the underworld after death. '
Legend has it that after a person dies, there will be a fast bull head and horse face in the underworld to capture the soul of the person, and then take them to the underworld to accept the judgment of the king of Yama, so the Huangquan Road is the road to lead the ghosts.
Legend has it that there are many lonely ghosts and wild ghosts on Huangquan Road, they are those ghosts who have not lived a long life and have not died normally, because they can neither go to heaven, nor can they be reincarnated, let alone go to the underworld, and can only wander on Huangquan Road.
In order to vent their grievances, after seeing the new ghosts, they went crazy and bit and beat, and some of the ghosts were even beaten to pieces.
Huangquan Road is full of large fields of flowers from the other side.
The flower of the other side --- the only flower in the legendary underworld, also called the soul-attracting flower
The flowers on the other side are the flowers that bloom on the road of Yellow Springs,
And there are large numbers of these flowers,
It is also known as "the road of fire because it is red like fire", and it looks like a carpet of blood from a distance, and it is also called "the road of fire" because it is red like fire
It is also the only scenery and color on this long Huangquan Road
And man walked on the guidance of this flower to the hell of the underworld
Floral legends have magical powers that evoke memories of the deceased.
Because it grows mostly on field trails, riverside trails, and cemetery jungles, it is also known as the Dead Man's Flower...... The three days before and after the spring equinox are called the other side of spring, and the three days before and after the autumn equinox are called the other side of autumn.
During the autumn period, the flowers on the other side of the river bloom, the leaves cannot be seen when the flowers bloom, and the flowers and leaves cannot be seen when there are leaves......
According to legend, this flower only blooms in Huangquan and is the only scenery on Huangquan Road. However, it is white and looks very holy and beautiful
"The flowers on the other side bloom for a thousand years and fall for a thousand years, and the flowers and leaves will never meet. Love is not cause and effect, fate is destined for life and death. "Sutras.
After crossing the Huangquan Road that blooms with flowers on the other side, you will arrive at the Lechuan River (also called the Santu River), the water of the Lechuan River is blood-yellow, and it is full of lonely souls and wild ghosts that cannot be reincarnated, full of insects and snakes, and the fishy wind blows on the face.
The water of the Lechuan River is blood-yellow, and it is full of lonely souls and wild ghosts that cannot be reincarnated, and the river is full of insects and snakes, and the fishy wind blows on the face.
Some ghosts can skip Meng Po soup in order to see the person they love most in this life, but they must jump into the Lethe River, and they will have to wait thousands of years before they can be reincarnated.
In this thousand years, you may see the person you love most in this life walking on the bridge, but words cannot be connected, you can see him, but he cannot see you.
In the course of a thousand years, you will see him walk across the bridge over and over again, imagine what a torment it will be.
Yes.
There is a unique bridge on the Lechuan River called Naihe Bridge.
After death, the souls of the dead have to pass through the Nai River Bridge, and the old man who walks hobbly from the Nai He Bridge cries about the unfilial piety of his children.
There are middle-aged men who sacrificed their lives for the country, their ambitions have not been paid, and their eyes are full of sadness.
There are also haggard and haggard girls, who are in love for the first time, and reluctantly look back at the lover next door.
There are even more ignorant yellow-mouthed children, sucking their fingers and looking around curiously.
And the good ones will pass through the Nai He Bridge smoothly with the protection of the gods and Buddhas, and the evil ones will be beaten into the blood river pool to suffer.
The book "Investigation of Religious Customs in Xudu" has a detailed description of this bridge: "...... The bridge is divided into three layers (or three), the ghosts of the good can safely pass through the upper bridge, the good and the evil cross the middle bridge, and the ghosts of the wicked cross the lower bridge, and are mostly thrown into the dirty waves under the bridge, and are bitten by copper snakes and iron dogs. ”
Nai He BridgeThis bridge is the boundary, starting a new reincarnation, Nai He Bridge, Nai He parting in the previous life, Nai He meeting in this life, and helpless meeting in the next life.
Bluestone bridge deck, five steps, west of the bridge for women, east of the bridge for men, left yin and right yang.
"Whoever dies at the age of ninety-seven will wait three years on the bridge."
A thousand years of retrospective, a hundred years of promise.
Maybe the relationship between husband and wife in this life began and ended here.
However, there is a bluestone on the side of the bridge called Sansheng Stone, Sansheng Stone records everyone's past and present lives, the words on the stone body are bright red as blood, and the top is engraved with four big characters "early on the other side"...
In this life, I know the things in the previous life, and I don't know who she is in the next life, and I forget the three lives when I drink the soup.
There is a medicine in the world called "dragon grass", which can make the dying immortal, but not the living.
Legend has it that there is also a medicine in the world called "Meng Po Tang", which can restore people's yang, but make people forget the past.
There is a kind of grass in the world called "Broken Intestine Grass", which will restore people's memories, but it can also be fatal, and once taken within three days, it will die violently.
However, there is a lookout platform at the end of the bridge, and the lookout platform is the last place to look at your hometown and relatives.
Before forgetting all the memories of this life, before being reborn as another person, you can take one last look at your love and hatred, your dreams, the person you love most in this life, the person you want to wait for in the next life
There is a Meng Po next to Wangxiang Terrace, carrying a bucket of Meng Po soup in her hand, everyone has to walk up to the Nai He Bridge, and Meng Po has to ask you if you want to drink a bowl of Meng Po soup.
Meng Po soup is also known as forgetting love water or forgetting sorrows, and once you drink it, you will forget the past and present lives.
A lifetime of love, hatred, and hatred, the ups and downs of a lifetime, all of which were forgotten with this bowl of Meng Po soup.
The people who are concerned in this life, and the people who are hated in this life, are like strangers in the next life, and they don't know each other.
Everyone in the yang world has their own bowl here, and the Meng Po soup in the bowl is actually the tears shed by the living people in their lives.
When everyone is alive, they will cry: because of joy, because of sorrow, because of pain, because of hatred, because of sorrow, because of love.
Meng Po collected their tears one by one, boiled them into soup, and when they left the world and walked on the bridge, let them drink them, forget their love and hatred when they were alive, clean up, and re-enter the six realms, or immortals, or Buddhas, or animals.
Not everyone will drink Meng Po soup willingly.
Because in this life, there will always be people who have loved and don't want to forget.
Meng Po will tell him: The tears you shed for her life have been boiled into this bowl of soup, and drinking it is drinking your love for her. The last memory in the eyes of the person who came was the love of his life, drinking the soup, the figure in his eyes slowly faded, and his eyes were as clear as a newborn baby.
In order to see the favorite of this life again in the next life, you can skip Meng Po soup, then you have to jump into the Lethe River and wait for thousands of years before you can be reincarnated.
In the millennium, you may see the person you love most in this life walking on the bridge, but words cannot be communicated, you can see her, she can't see you.
In the millennium, you saw her walk across the bridge over and over again, and drank bowls and bowls of Meng Po soup, you hope that she will not drink Meng Po soup, and you are afraid that she will not be able to forget the suffering of thousands of years in the river.
After a thousand years, if the mind is not extinguished and can still remember the events of the previous life, you can re-enter the world and find the person you loved most in the previous life.
The flowers on the other side bloom on the other side, and the grass is sad and sad. However, there is no way to do it in front of the bridge, and there are three lives in front of the three-life stone. Anonymous's "All Tang Poems".
Legend has it that there are two people in the world who love each other very much, but one year, the man was unfortunately killed when he went out on errands.
When he came to the Santu River, he saw that his eyes were full of blood red, and his heart was very sad, and he cried bitterly: "I don't want to be reincarnated, I want to go back to my wife, who is still waiting for me at home." ”
He stumbled to Meng Po, and before drinking the forgetful soup, he asked Meng Po why the world is like this, and in the end, this soup is the only one who forgets his feelings.
Meng Po smiled and didn't say anything, just asked him to drink quickly, he looked at the soup blankly, and said: "Everyone has to forget their feelings, I don't forget, after reincarnation, I want to find my wife." ”
When the man's wife learned of his death, she was so grief-stricken that she was saved by the man's family several times, and finally the woman promised not to commit suicide, but to be widowed for the rest of her life.
When the man's family saw her strong personality, they were afraid that the old things would be brought up again, and they would make her sad in vain, so they thought that she had a heart, so they temporarily agreed to her and persuaded her to remarry after she was emotionally stable.
In this way, the woman continued to live in the man's house, living by sewing.
He also said that after the man was reincarnated, he was really reborn in the town where he lived with the woman, time flew by, and unconsciously twenty years had passed, and one day he went out and passed by the door of the woman's widow, and felt strange in his heart, so he stopped and took a look, this look didn't matter, just happened to be seen by the woman head-on.
After reincarnation, the man's appearance and temperament have completely changed, but as soon as the woman saw him, tears flowed down her eyes, and she walked up to the man and said, "You came to me." And he fainted to the ground.
The man saw an old woman he didn't know fall in front of him, and hurriedly fled the place in fright.
Later, the woman was seriously ill, and she said something over and over before she died, but her voice was too small for anyone to hear clearly, so she didn't care, and the woman finally shed two lines of blood and tears, and died with a whimper.
When the woman came to the underworld and saw Meng Po, she suddenly asked her very lightly: "Old woman, did a man tell you here in the past that he would not forget me and would definitely come back to me?" ”
Meng Po nodded.
The woman was very distressed, and choked up: "Then why did he come back and refuse to recognize me, even if he said something to me, it would be good to come and see me before I die." ”
Meng Po patted her on the shoulder and said, "You love each other very much, I appreciate your courage, so let's do it, when the answer comes in twenty years, I promise to let you see, but you can't be reincarnated before that, you have to suffer here for twenty years, are you willing?" ”
The woman said, "I am willing, if I don't see that answer, I can't let go of my love for him, even if I am reincarnated, I will have a heartache for a lifetime." ”
The woman was then arranged by Meng Po to hoe grass for the flowers on the other side, in fact, there was no grass to hoe, but the woman's eyes were full of grass, hoeing and growing, never hoeing, just day after day, year after year.
Twenty years later, Meng Po took her to the gate of reincarnation and said, "You stand here and watch, but don't speak, the person you have been waiting for for twenty years is coming." ”
The woman couldn't stand up in excitement, and finally calmed down, and stood there nervously waiting for the person she loved to appear.
At last he came, and it turned out that he was sick, not cured, and in his early forties, he died again.
He walked up to her and Meng Po, and Meng Po handed him the water of forgetfulness, and he picked it up and was about to drink it, but the woman was anxious and said, "Have you forgotten what you said?" ”
The man glanced at her, drank the water from the bowl in his hand, and walked into the reincarnation door.
Meng Po looked at the woman who had lost her soul and said, "What is love? It's just a bowl of water, you drink it too, can you forget that it's not up to you to say, there is this life, there is no afterlife, even if you remember, if he forgets, what is the difference between it and really forgetting? ”
"There is no fate in this life", why force it?