Putting aside the things that the Duoling Daoist gave to his beloved disciples and martial artists, let's just talk about the sturdy men who left. After the Dorin Daoist had finished his rituals, the simple fishermen dragged a brand-new boat to the Martial Daoist.

The village chief said in a timely manner: "Let's follow the customs, since this Taoist chief died here, according to local customs, we will hold a water burial for him, and please forgive the Taoist chief." ”

The Duoling Daoist hesitated before nodding in agreement. And Wen Daoren, who was standing on the side, said with a displeased face: "Master, don't you often say: All living beings will die, and death will return to the earth, why do you want to bury your junior brother when you come here?" ”

"Alas!" The Duoling Daoist sighed heavily again, "Logically speaking, your junior brother should be buried, but just now you also heard from the village chief that you should follow the customs of the villagers." What's more, your junior brother died in the water, so let him return to the sea and be reincarnated as soon as possible. ”

Wen Daoren still wanted to argue a few words, but it could be seen that the master seemed to have aged a lot overnight, so he swallowed the words back to his mouth. In fact, there is a providence in the underworld, and the loss is to be buried by water, otherwise the martial arts people really won't survive.

Come on, here I am simply telling you about the funeral rites in Chinese culture, which is regarded as the knowledge of Chinese culture under popular science, and I will also briefly describe the places related to Chinese culture in the future, and I will increase the reader's knowledge.

Funeral rites refer to the way in which the deceased is buried. Because China is a multi-ethnic country, different ethnic burial methods often have their own characteristics, so there are many burial rituals in China, such as earth burial, cremation, water burial, and bird burial.

Take the martial arts people in this article as an example, because they are Han Chinese, they will practice burial. This is directly related to the fact that the Han people, as an agrarian nation, attach importance to the land. In the eyes of the ancient Han Chinese, human beings were nurtured by the land, so returning to the soil after death is equivalent to returning home.

And cremation first appeared in the west of the Qin State in a Xiqiang (pronounced: qiang) people established in the Yiqu country, "relatives died, gather firewood and burn it." It is called "ascending", which means ascending to heaven. Later, Buddhism was introduced into China, because after the death of Buddhist monks, cremation was generally practiced, so cremation was once popular among Han Buddhists, until Song Taizu explicitly forbade it, which changed from cremation to burial. Later, in the Southern Song Dynasty, due to the fact that it was in a corner and there were many people and few places, cremation became popular again, and it continued until the Ming and Qing dynasties and even the Republic of China. In fact, the biggest advantage of cremation is that there will be no corpse transformation, that is, the zombie in the mouth of the common people.

Water burial is generally a popular custom of ethnic groups living in rivers, lakes or seashores, who generally put the deceased on rafts or boats (the highest treatment is small boats) and let them drift, because they feed on the water tribe and often regard water as their final destination.

Bird burials are popular among herdsmen and hunters, who often place their bodies in the countryside or on the top of high mountains for birds to peck at, believing that this will cause the soul of the deceased to ascend to the heavens. (In the 120th chapter of this book, Farewell to Xiaodanli, Taoglas's master used this kind of funeral ritual, but it should be called a celestial burial over there.) In addition, there are hanging coffin burials, tree burials, jade burials and other funeral rites that exist in other ethnic minorities in China, and everyone can know a rough idea.

When everything was ready, the Wendao people dressed up and personally carried their junior disciples into the boat, and the people of the fishing village put the most distinctive things in the house into the boat, so as to express their memories of the martial arts people. After seeing the fishermen's actions, the Duoling Daoist felt particularly uncomfortable.

It's been a long time since I came out this time, and some of the valuable magic weapons I carried with me have been used up and there is nothing left. After groping in the treasure bag for a long time, the Duoling Daoist felt out two beads the size of pigeon eggs, which were exactly what was pulled out of the turtle demon's eyes.

The Duoling Taoist swept the two beads in his hand, and felt uncomfortable in his heart. No matter how valuable this bead is, it will not be able to exchange it for the life of his own disciples. Thinking of this, the Dorinist put the two beads into the boat as well. But the moment he let go of his hand, the Doling Daoist picked up the bead again and put it in the mouth of his beloved disciple.

In fact, the main purpose of this is not to be stolen by greedy people. However, it was the fisherman's unintentional act of sending things that caused the Dolingist to stuff the beads into the mouth of the disciple, but it set off a chain reaction that followed.

After pushing the boat into the sea, the Duoling Daoist took the Wendao people back to rest. said that it was rest, but in fact, it was just to avoid everyone, and the master and apprentice were quiet and sorted out their sad mood.

But before dawn, some villagers rushed into the room and shouted at the master and apprentice: "Come back, come back!" ”

"Don't worry, talk about something slowly." Although Wen Daoren is extremely sad, his unhurried character enables him to face others calmly.

"Could it be that the water ghosts have not been cleaned up, and another water ghost has come to the village to make trouble?" Now as long as the two things of water ghosts and turtle demons are mentioned, the Duoling Dao people hate it so much that the roots of their teeth itch. He immediately dusted off the table and waited for the fisherman to come in for an answer.

"No... No! The fisherman was so anxious that he slapped his mouth fiercely, then rubbed his face and said, "It's Guangbei Dao people who are back, go and take a look!" ”

"What?" "Really!" The first reaction of the master and apprentice was surprise, followed by surprise, "Hurry up and take the two of us to have a look." Just in case, the Dorling Daoist still held the dust firmly in his hand, and then, under the leadership of the fishermen, ran towards the shore where the martial artist was.

Sure enough, from a distance, I saw the martial artist standing next to the boat that was pushed into the water yesterday, surrounded by the men, women and children of the whole village, the bold ones were touching the body of the martial arts people, and the timid ones were hiding aside, watching if the martial artists were cheating the corpse.

"Guang Be, is that you?" The Duoling Daoist clutched the dust in his hand tighter, as long as the other party answered a wrong word, then what was waiting for him would be the fate of his soul scattered.

"Master, it's... It's me, Guangbei! The originally sharp-toothed martial artist suddenly stammered, but he still patted his chest and replied to the Duoling Daoist and the Wen Daoist.

"Then the teacher asks you, on the seventh day of the first month of last month, where were the three of us master and apprentice?" The Spiritist began to test the Martial Daoist and asked.

"In... In the Fang Yuan's home for... Exorcise evil spirits for his children. Although he couldn't speak clearly, the martial artist replied without thinking about it.

"Senior brother, how did your father and mother die?" Wen Daoren was not at ease, for fear that the other party would steal the recent memories of the martial artist, so he verified it again.

"My mom... Mother... Died of the plague, my father died... Died in the war. You... Your mom and dad are... All... They all died of illness on the way to escape the famine. When the martial artist talked about his parents, his tone was slightly sad.

"And how the hell did you survive?" Although the Duoling Dao people are well-informed, it is the first time in his life that this dead person can miraculously come back to life.

"I... I don't know! The martial artist shook his head, thinking that he really didn't know.

"It's good to come alive, it's good to come back to life." In the past few days, Wendao people have experienced fear, the loss of their brothers, and then the resurrection of the dead, which can be described as great sorrow and joy. But the ending is still very happy, which is very good.

to be continued