There is a typical story about Bai Wuchang. One year, during the Qingming Festival, Bai Wuchang passed by on a business trip and saw a woman with two children crying and worshipping in front of a grave, which was very sad; I saw an old man shaking his head and sighing not far away, very sympathetic. Bai Wuchang inquired about the old man, only to know that this woman had been greatly wronged

It turned out that the woman's surname was Chen, and she was the third daughter of a wealthy businessman. This wealthy businessman has a lot of wealth, but his son is unlucky, and he only gave birth to three daughters, and the third daughter is still pockmarked. When the mother saw that her third daughter was infected with this disease due to smallpox, she blamed herself very much, and she loved her third daughter very much, and she died last year.

There is a guy in the Chen family named Ao Da, who is honest on the surface and very scheming in his heart, he calculates, Miss Chen San is a pockmark, and the son of a rich family will definitely not want her, it is better to seduce her as a wife, and when his father dies, this family wealth will not belong to him!

Miss Chen San said a lot of family affairs, all because of that pockmarked face, no one wanted. She saw that Ao Da was strong and strong, and she teased her father, and the two eyebrows were eyebrow-raising, and soon they became mandarin ducks privately. After a few months, Miss Chen San's belly gradually grew bigger. Miss Chen San's father had no choice but to make Ao Da his son-in-law. After Ao Da really became a son-in-law, his father-in-law mentioned him as the chief manager, and he was in charge of all the big and small affairs of the family. Gradually, Ao Da was not so deferential to his father-in-law, and he was an alcoholic and a prostitute outside; When he came home, Miss Chen San persuaded him and humiliated Miss Chen San. Master Chen died of illness. Ao Da's day and night gambling are more powerful.

Bai Wuchang listened to what the old man said, his heart was on fire, and he decided to teach Ao Da a lesson and show Miss Chen San a way to survive.

He followed Miss Chen San home. There happened to be a gambler who came to collect gambling debts, and when he saw that it was Ao's big money, he had to pay him a hundred taels of silver. Seeing that there was no one at home, the gambler hugged Miss Chen San to be rude, and was suddenly slapped three times. Miss Chen San pushed away the gambler, fled into the back room, and inserted the door, so she couldn't think of it, and took the rope to hang herself. She hung a rope and broke a rope, feeling strange in her heart, Bai Wuchang opened the door and carried her two children into the house. Miss Chen San was very kind when she saw Bai Wuchang smiling, and she was not afraid.

Bai Wuchang said: "Why commit suicide, it's better for you to pack up the money left in your family and go to another country, and you have to raise your two children to adulthood!" Miss Chen San listened to Bai Wuchang's words and left with the two children. After Miss Chen San left, four shops of the Chen family caught fire at the same time. Na Ao Da was holding a prostitute in Chunxiang Courtyard, smoking a big cigarette, and when he rushed home, all the family business was burned down.

There are also many legends about black impermanence, and there is a "Black Impermanence Changing Evil from Good" which is also typical. Legend has it that once upon a time there were two fathers and sons, and the son was a lazy and hard-working child, smoking and gambling. The father disciplined, but the son just didn't listen. Once, my son came back from gambling and lost everything. The father accidentally beat his son to death. After the death of his son, his bad habits did not change, and the ghost still did evil and harmed people in the world.

A few years later, one night, my son came to the door of his house, and as he was about to enter the house, the dog in the yard barked incessantly. His father knew that there were dead ghosts who were coming to harm people, so he went out of the house with a knife in one hand and a tung oil lamp in the other hand to collect ghosts. When the son saw his father's fierce approach, he jumped up to the house and said, "Father, the child is not here to harm anyone, but he just wants to come back and see your old man." ”

The father said, "You have done evil in the world, and you have disturbed your neighbors when you die, and after I killed you by mistake, my heart was still uncomfortable for a long time, but if you continue to do evil, I will not be uncomfortable." ”

The son said, "You are really reasonable, the son has now discovered that he has a conscience, and he vows not to do evil again, and he will definitely change his evil and repay the kindness of his upbringing in the next life." ”

The father said, "That's good, otherwise it will be difficult for the father to face the villagers." ”

The son said, "Father, don't worry, from now on, my son will go to torture and suffer, and he will not come to visit your old man's home again." Take care of your father. ”

From then on, the son really did not come to harm anyone again, and he went to the eighteenth layer of hell to be tortured. In the eighteen layers of hell, he endured a lot of hardships before he realized the preciousness of life, and the evil things he did in the past were really sinful.

Once, King Qin Guang, one of the Ten Palaces of Yama, summoned him and said, "Why don't you go and take a stand-in to return to the yang?" ”

He said: "In my previous life, I have done all the bad things that were hated and scolded by thousands of people, and wherever I went, people everywhere killed me with knives and sticks, and the fact that I did evil was making people spurn, and I wanted to be a good person again." ”

Qin Guang said: "It seems that you are really an evil ghost who can change evil and turn from good, tell you, if you are a good ghost for another three years, I will definitely report to Yin Tianzi to make you an official and a half-job." ”

Three years later, the king of the Ten Palaces summoned him again and said, "In the past three years, you have indeed changed from evil to good and done a lot of good deeds. ”

Since then, he has been wearing a black linen coat, and he has gone out to patrol various places in the middle of the night, making secret visits, and reporting to the Yin Tianzi for his good deeds, and Judge Cui for his evil deeds, and arresting many, many evil ghosts.

Black and white impermanence is not called white impermanence or black impermanence because of differences in skin color or clothing color. Black and white impermanence is only a representation of yin and yang attributes, "black" and "white" represent one yin and one yang, that is, black impermanence represents the feminine body, and white impermanence represents the masculine body. This is also in line with the contrasting painting method of the black and white (black represents yin and white represents yang) colors of the yin and yang fish in the Taiji diagram. It can be seen that the theory of "impermanence" is also inseparable from the Taiji diagram, and the theoretical basis of "impermanence" is the theory of yin and yang.

From ancient times to the present, the colors of the Taiji diagram are black and white, and there is no representation of other colors such as yellow and purple, so when people describe things, it is impossible to deviate from the theory of yin and yang, and describe impermanence as yellow impermanence, purple impermanence or something.

Why can't there be only one impermanence but two digits in black and white? First of all, we must understand the question of what is a soul and what is a spirit. According to the explanation in the modern Chinese dictionary: soul - the old superstitious term, refers to the spirit that can exist apart from the body. Spirit--Superstition refers to the spirit that exists by being attached to the body. Although it is common to use the soul together to describe the soul, in fact, the two words clearly have very different meanings

The soul must be independent of the living body. But the spirit must be attached to the living body in order to exist, and the spirit cannot be independent, otherwise it cannot be called the spirit

The soul and the spirit both refer to a kind of spirit, which seems to be the similarity between the two, but the meaning of the word "spirit" is so broad that if you subdivide it, you can find that the "spirit" referred to by the soul and the spirit are actually different. The soul refers more to the soul, in addition to the "matter" that leaves the human body after death is the soul, it is often said, such as "the teacher is the engineer of the human soul", and the "soul" here refers more to thought and morality. There is also an explanation of the soul in the dictionary - the most quintessential and main part of things. Such as "the soul of the nation", "the soul of dance", "the soul of the Yellow River", etc., here more embodies a kind of cohesion, a spirit, an abstract life. And another explanation in the dictionary - spirit, energy. The words are courageous, courageous, and healthy. This "spirit" focuses more on energy than on spirit. Heaven and earth change people believe that the real spirit refers to qi; It is the qi circulating in the human body; It is the yang energy relative to the underworld; It is the qi that passes between the meridians; It is the vitality of the person mentioned in Qigong; It is the spirit of the avenue. In the configuration table of the five elements of yin and yang and the five internal organs in the "Yellow Emperor's Neijing", the spirit corresponds to the lungs in the five organs and the nose in the five senses, and the lungs and nose are precisely related to breathing and qi; And in "The Yellow Emperor's Neijing", there is also a cloud "hidden in the lungs", so the theory that the soul is broken is based on qi

From the above two points, it can be inferred that after death, the soul will fly away and leave the human body; And the spirit is that with the death of man, he has nothing to attach to, nothing to run, and then he is scattered; Therefore, there are idioms such as "the soul is scattered" and "the soul is not possessed", but it is not said that "the soul is scattered and the soul is flying".

Everything has yin and yang, so which is yin and soul? Which is yang? People often say that "the yin soul does not disperse", and the soul should naturally be yin, and I have not heard anyone say that "the yang soul does not disperse". And the spirit, there is no saying that it is yin, when people die, it is often said that the yang spirit is scattered, and the sky is weak, and it is natural for the spirit to be yang. But neither the soul nor the spirit can leave the living body, whether it is a human, a beast, or a plant, it is a living body, and leaving the living body means death.

The yin and yang attributes of the spirit should be consistent with the yin and yang attributes of the living body, if the male is yang, then the spirit is yang, and the female is yin. That's why when looking at palmistry, men should look at the left hand and women look at the right; When arranging the luck of the eight characters, it is necessary for men to be yang and yin, and women to be yin and yang, which is just the nature of "spirit". The yin and yang attributes of the soul are the opposite of those of the living body, if the male is yang, the soul is yin, and the female is yin, then the soul is yang.