The five of them didn't find anything special in the place of Sansheng Stone, and continued to walk forward, and after walking a short distance, they suddenly found a platform, which was extremely weird. Pen fun and pavilion www.biquge.info

The structure is quite bizarre, wide at the top and narrow at the bottom, with a face like a bow and a back like a bowstring.

"Brother God, why does this thing look so weird, it's as strange as the stone in front of you!" The little beggar asked, puzzled.

"This should be the legendary Wangxiangtai!" Miao Weiqiang stood next to him and guessed.

"That's right, this is the legendary Wangxiang Tower!" Zhou Tianyi said,

"How do I feel like we're walking into hell step by step, everything here is modeled after the underworld, as if we have entered the underworld!" Dong Tinghua said.

"That's right, if my guess is correct, this should be, the entrance to the underworld, this place must have a passage into the underworld!" Zhou Tianyi said.

"Brother God, are you crazy and want to go to the underworld? Isn't it true that only the dead can go to Hades! The little beggar said with a shocked face.

"The legendary ghost city of Xudu must be hidden in the underworld, if we don't go to the underworld, we won't be able to find the legendary ghost city of Hell Xuandu at all, so no matter what, we have to go to the underworld this time to see what the underworld is like!" Zhou Tianyi said.

Hearing that they were going to break into the underworld, Miao Weiqiang, Dong Tinghua, and the little beggar's faces were still very shocked, and the faces of the twin-tailed scorpions were relatively calm.

"Isn't this a little too exciting, we have to go to the underworld!" Dong Tinghua said a little excitedly.

"As for whether to go to the underworld or not, don't talk about those useless personalities first, can anyone tell me what this lookout is all about? I want to know the role of this lookout! The little beggar asked, puzzled.

"You still have to ask the god stick about this kind of thing, if you ask other people, other people may not know!" Dong Tinghua said.

Zhou Tianyi frowned slightly, there are really a lot of problems for the little beggar along the way, if he explains all the things in the underworld along the way, it will be really a troublesome thing, and he can't finish it in a day or two.

But since he asked, can't he not talk about it? In desperation, I had to tell the legend about Wangxiangtai.

Wangxiang Terrace originally refers to the high platform that people who have not returned for a long time or have been displaced in ancient times to look at their hometown, which may have been built by people or formed naturally.

Later, with the maturity of the Taoist concept of ghosts and gods and the introduction of the Buddhist hell system, Taoism gradually evolved the Wangxiangtai from a real building to an illusory existence, and became a place in myths and legends where the ghosts who entered the hell could look at the situation in the Yang family, and sometimes it also referred to the underworld.

There are many legends about the origin of Wangxiangtai.

According to legend, there are twin brothers among the people, the big one is called Ge Spear, and the small one is called Ge Dun. Although the brothers were born to one child, their personalities are diametrically opposed.

Ge Mao is idle all day long, not doing his job, which makes the villagers unhappy, and there are always people who sue him every once in a while, which is daunting and looks sideways.

Ge Dun has a good appearance, clear eyebrows, mild temperament, generous manners, has been fond of calligraphy, chess, piano and painting since he was a child, and won the first place at the age of nineteen, which is very enviable.

For the sake of Ge Dun, the common people always have a little humility to Ge Mao.

At noon one day in the early summer when they were forty-seven years old, there was a sudden lightning and thunder, wind and rain, and after the thunder, someone found that Ge Mao suddenly foamed at the mouth, and before anyone could react, he had died in the street with both eyes straight.

Ge Dun has been an official outside for many years, and he cried bitterly after rushing back from thousands of miles away. Because his brother did many hurtful things in his lifetime, he cried to death on the street, maybe this is God's will! It just so happens that the black and white ghosts under the city god are commonly known as "black and white impermanence" patrolling the world.

They have long hair, long red tongues, and hideous faces. They held soul hook tokens and chains, hooked the souls of the two to the City God Temple, and after the "Six Cao" judges checked, the two of them had reached the end of their lives.

Because Ge Mao has done many evils in his life, he is judged to be an evil ghost; And Ge Dun pursued learning all his life and was judged to be a good ghost.

Legend has it that after their deaths, they all stayed on the "Wangxiang Platform" for three days to look back at the beautiful world they had fought all their lives, and finally look at their hometowns, and observe the performance of their children and grandchildren and relatives after their deaths, to distinguish the authenticity of "filial piety and family affection".

Legend has it that Ge Mao regretted what he had done before his death, and was still secretly crying in the "Wangxiangtai", but it was too late.

On the third day, the six Cao judges sent the good and evil materials of the two people to the "Fengdu Ghost City" with their souls in the form of documents, and handed them over to the Lord of Yama to be punished according to law, which is what people now call "burning paper".

That is, on the second watch of the third night, the "Soul Ceremony" will be held, and the ghosts will be sent to the "Fengdu Ghost City", that is, "Fengdu Mansion".

The celebrant holds the soul-attracting lantern to lead the way, the filial son supports them, and the adobe and mourning sticks that have been pillowed before entering the funeral are led by relatives and friends.

Their relatives and friends also burned incense and cried with them, and there were also drums and lamentations to send each other, and some paper money was thrown along the road to kill ghosts and scatter spirits, which is probably what people call "buying money for the road" today.

According to legend, before the funeral, the deceased also drank the ecstasy soup boiled by Meng Po of the "Meng Po Pavilion", which guarded the last pass of the underworld, and after drinking this soup, he would forget all kinds of trivial things in his life.

Meng Po also kicked the dead violently to make them remember that "good is rewarded with good, and evil is rewarded with evil".

On the day of the funeral, the corpse should be followed along the route of "burning paper" to the cemetery, and the corpse and soul will accompany after burial. The cultural connotation of this ceremony is that "filial piety is the first in life".

"Looking at the hometown on the platform and then looking at the hometown, looking back at the homeland with tears", the legend of the Wangxiang platform entrusts the infinite thoughts of the wanderers and the people who have left their hometowns for their hometowns.

Some people may think that mythical buildings such as Wangxiangtai are illusory existences constructed by ancestors, but in fact, they are also expected to be Xiangtai in our real life, a few days ago.

Experts in folk culture and local history have discovered that the temple-style ancient building located on the top of Zhenwu Mountain in Jiangjin Zhiping Street is a Wangxiang platform built by Hakka immigrants when Huguang filled in Si Chuan.

After listening to Zhou Tianyi's explanation, the four of them have a feeling of missing their hometown, and Wangxiangtai is a kind of sustenance for missing their hometown.

Wangxiangtai means homesickness.

"It's been so long, I haven't seen my father, mother and brother for a long time, I don't know how they are now!" The little beggar looked at the lookout and bowed his head and said.

"If we can't stop the third battle of the gods, it is impossible for our relatives to live in this world safely, we must now abandon all distracting thoughts and wholeheartedly look for the soul of Zhantian to prevent the third war of the gods from happening!" Zhou Tianyi said, feeling sad in his heart, except for his grandmother, he has no other relatives in this world. (To be continued.) )