Chapter 84: Mazu
The palace is not placed in the dragon, but a woman, this statue is carved according to one to one with humans, she lies on the stone bed, her eyes are closed, one hand supports her head, her hair is coiled, she is wearing the ancient costume of our Han people, from the carving and shape of the stone statue, this woman must be very beautiful, the figure is good, when I see this stone statue, I always feel that something is wrong, as if I have seen it. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info
At this time, the old cat pointed to the stone statue of the woman and shouted, ", isn't this Mazu?" ”
Mazu is a god that has been worshiped by shipwrights, seafarers, travelers, merchants and fishermen in the past dynasties, especially in Fujian, Taiwan and other southern Fujian regions, the most popular, according to legend, Mazu is actually an ordinary woman, and proficient in medical science, familiar with water, because people say that she can cross the sea by seat, she will also measure the good luck, and will inform the boatman in advance whether she can sail, so she can "predict the blame", call her "goddess", "dragon girl".
For Mazu, we don't know much about Yangzhou, but the old cat recognized this stone statue as Mazu, and immediately kowtowed a few times, although I didn't puzzle, maybe this is the belief of the Taiwanese, but I feel that this kowtow is not some faith transition, so I asked him: "I said the old cat, this Mazu is a righteous and courageous woman, is it worth your so?" You should know that there is no god in this world. ”
The old cat shook his head and said to me seriously: "No, the god of the sea really exists, according to the records of the ancestors, there are really people who have seen the god of the sea, just more than nine hundred years ago, the third son of the great pirate, that is, your ancestor was under the witness of the god of the sea and signed a pirate treaty with the other four big pirates, according to legend, the god of the sea Mazu, young and beautiful, amiable, for the peace of the sea, personally participated in the signing of the pirate treaty, and promised that if there are pirates who violate the pirate treaty, they will be punished by the god of the sea. ”
The old cat said that the gods and gods are huhu, and my ancestors have been moved out, I don't believe it, how can there be gods in this world, gods are imagined by human beings, maybe not out of thin air, but most of them are based on some typical and then exaggerated, and I think that the abyssal creatures, as well as the soul body are special cases, such an existence like a god is impossible, maybe when the third son Yue signed the pirate agreement, just said the sea god like this, and people believed it, I shook my head, and directly rejected his statement.
But this is also the first time I have seen the statue of Mazu, I can't deny her importance in Hokkien culture, I know that from ancient times to the present, Hokkien people will pray to Mazu for safety every time they go to sea, which is a very important custom, because I know that Mazu is indeed a person, and she is a very kind and very respectable person.
Anyway, we now have a question, why in this Dragon King Palace, and on the main seat of the main hall, it is not the Dragon King but Mazu, what is going on, is there any connection between Mazu and Dragon King Island, or rather, Mazu is the Dragon King, but what I can't figure out is that when I entered the Dragon King Palace, there were two dragons depicted on the gate before, so I had an idea, according to what I saw and heard, maybe dragons really exist, and there is human wisdom, so the aborigines of Dragon King Island believe in Dragon King, but the dragon king believes in Mazu, so he built such a temple for her, such as the two dragons carved on the giant gate that entered this hall before, perhaps, those two dragons are used to guard this temple, so Mazu's position is more noble than the dragon king.
I told them my thoughts, but one thing I couldn't figure out was that on this Dragon King Island, except for this Sea God Temple, there was not a trace of Mazu in other places, and everyone now had the same idea as me, and they all had questions in their hearts about such a Mazu Temple on Dragon King Island for no reason, what kind of connection does this Sea God Mazu have with Dragon King Island?
The old cat said: "Maybe what you said makes sense, you see, these statues behind us are all majestic, and the carvings are lifelike and all of them are standing, but Mazu is lying, what does this mean?" Explain that the position of Mazu is supreme, and then look carefully, from the two statues at the entrance of the main hall to this side, have you found that they are graded, the outermost is the abyss creatures, the innermost two statues, although I can't see any names, but they will definitely not be small minions, so, these two rows of statues are guards, they guard Mazu. ”
The old cat is only guessing, the ancients are mysterious, we can't guess what kind of purpose these stone statues have to build, and there are no other valuable clues in the hall except for the stone statues, so we don't stay, we should move forward at this moment, I am more worried about whether the two rows of stone statues will come to life, although this Mazu is not a corpse, and there is no soul bead in the mouth, but after going through so much, it is inevitable that there will be no accidents, so we should leave here as soon as possible, and when we walk past the Mazu statue, But I didn't know that the Mazu statue actually opened its eyes and shed black tears.
Behind the statue of Mazu is a carved screen, there is a door behind the screen, we walked out of the hall along the back door of the hall, but there are only a few stone houses behind the hall, there is a garden in front of the stone house, there is a red creature in the garden, we take a closer look, it is actually flowers, this time we are stunned, because this sea of flowers is so beautiful.
When I saw this red flower, I really wanted to live here immediately, the fiery red flowers were ready to bloom, and they could bloom almost at any time, I walked up and was about to touch them, and suddenly, I found that the door of the stone house was open, and there were people inside! Is it the aborigines? So I hurriedly shouted to the old cats, but they didn't hear what I said, and still stared at the red flowers in a daze.
I didn't care about them, I immediately ran to the stone house to see what was going on, when I pushed the stone house open, but found that this stone house was a little familiar, the stone table and stone bench in the stone house, and the side room, I went into the side room on the left, and actually found a person, a living person sitting on the edge of the stone bed, she was wearing a bright red gown, her hair was coiled, and there was a butterfly hairpin on her head.
When she saw me come in, she smiled and said, "You're finally here." ”
I was stunned, isn't this person Wu Dianya? So I immediately asked, "Why are you here?" ”
Wu Dianya stood up slowly, stunned me, it was so beautiful, she walked in front of me, hugged me in a daze, and said softly: "I'm waiting for you here." ”