The third uncle continued: "But generally speaking, the era of the Queen Mother of the West is the ancient period, she 'looks like a person, leopard tail, tiger teeth, and good howling, fluffy hair hoopoe' Obviously, the Queen Mother of the West was a monster at that time, but later, from the Queen Mother of the West sent the Xuannu to the Yellow Emperor to help the Yellow Emperor defeat Chi You, and then to Mu Tianzi's expedition to the west, the Queen Mother of the West began to show people the image of a graceful and luxurious 'noble lady', especially in the Han Dynasty, "Han Wu Neibiography" recorded that her image was, 'Golden Jacket, Bright Style, Bright and Beautiful, With a Lingfei scarf, a sword with a split view on his waist, a Taihua bun on his head, a crown of Taizhen Chenying, and a Xuanwang Fengwen's sword, it can be regarded as Chinese New Year's Eve, it is shortened, the sky is covered with mist, the appearance is peerless, and the true spirit people are also 'It can be seen that the Queen Mother of the West was already the leader of the fairy class at that time......"

I really wanted to interrupt my third uncle's words, because I really didn't understand what these things had to do with me. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info endured it a few times, and finally couldn't help but ask: "Third master, the juniors don't understand very well, you have been talking about the Queen Mother of the West, this is ......"

The third uncle waved his hand and motioned for me to listen first, "Little brother, don't worry, I just said so much, just to tell you that although these things sound absurd now, they are indeed the origin of your problems......"

"After the Queen Mother of the West is in charge of the immortal class, she is no longer in charge of the underworld, but is taken over by the King of Taishan Mansion, the Queen Mother of the West and the King of Taishan Mansion belong to the Taoist system, and the post of the Queen Mother of the West is handed over to the hands of the Emperor of Taishan Mansion, which is also normal, and there are a large number of tombs in the Han Dynasty and the Han Dynasty have the saying of 'Death belongs to Mount Tai'. "Naturalist" also has clouds: "Mount Tai is called the grandson of heaven, said to be the grandson of the emperor, the Lord summons the soul of people, and knows the length of life", at the same time, the location of the underworld has also been transferred from Kunlun Mountain to Mount Tai underground! ”

"This concept lasted until the Northern and Southern Dynasties to the Tang Dynasty, and in the late Tang Dynasty, the Buddhist underworld system prevailed, slowly replacing the traditional Queen Mother of the West and Taishan Fujun, and then began to appear the eight hells and the ten halls of Yama, which is the beginning of the underworld as we know it now."

When the third uncle said this, he paused and asked, "Do you find anything wrong with these stories?" ”

Listening to his question, I didn't feel a little confused, originally I was just listening to the old man like a story, didn't I think there was any extracurricular homework?! I don't know what's wrong, it's good for an engineering guy to understand!

"Uh...... Well...... The ...... "I was embarrassed and didn't know how to answer, so I could only uphold the good quality of cheekiness."

The third uncle suddenly smiled slyly, and sighed lightly: "What's wrong is that what I just said is all conjecture and apocryphal fabrication of the ancients, although there are various classics recorded, but most of the classics at that time were made up according to the legend of the author, and only one or two of the ten can be believed, in fact, there is no essential difference with Pu Songling's "Strange Tales from Liaozhai". ”

I was stunned and couldn't help but want to scold! Damn, I thought you were playing with me, but I didn't expect you to be really playing with me! The anger in his heart was everywhere, and his face couldn't help but pull down.

"Third master, are you playing with juniors?!"

The third uncle smiled, faced my sorrow, but didn't care much, took a sip of tea and waved his hand and said: "The reason why I am talking to you about this is for a reason, and next, what I want to talk about is the origin of this thangka, I said above, it is the origin, you can understand it when you listen to it......"

I heard him say that, and I had to endure it.

The third uncle continued: "In the Southern Song Dynasty, one of my ancestors was named Zhan, a great wizard, who could pass through ghosts and gods, drive away ghosts and eliminate epidemics, and it is said that every time the soul went out of the body to the underworld, the king of Hades and the ghosts were treated by guests, and his skills were very good! I have a handwritten manuscript in my house, which was left by my ancestor, Zhan, and it records all kinds of strange things that happened to him, and one of them is this......"

"Ancestor Zhan once went to the house of an official eunuch to practice witches, saying that the daughter of that family was on the eve of marriage, and for some reason suddenly went crazy, desperately scratching the hairpin on his face, while drawing a sad and strange smile, saying something 'I scratched your face, see how you marry Zhou Lang', she started very hard, and soon her face was blurred with flesh and blood, but she seemed to not know the pain, and still scratched desperately. Her family was so frightened that they tied the woman up with brocade and hurried to my ancestors. ”

"Ancestor Zhan wrote in the codex, he arrived at the house, the woman was still drawn without human form, but there was still a strange grin in her mouth, Ancestor Zhan knew at a glance that it was a ghost rushed to the body, in fact, it is also very simple, the means of witchcraft are tens of millions, and it is not difficult to drive a ghost out of the living body, so he immediately wanted to practice witchcraft, but at this time, the ghost saw that my ancestor was extraordinary, and he was afraid of being beaten, and began to cry and beg for mercy......"

The female ghost said that she had been married to her husband Zhou Lang for three years, and the husband and wife were in love, but once Zhou Lang went out and met the young lady of the family, the two of them actually admired each other. She was also a high-class person with good looks and elegance that week, and when she learned that the father of this young lady was an important minister in the court, she had the intention of marrying. The father of this young lady learned about this, and he also took a fancy to Zhou Lang's talents, and wanted to make it a good thing, but there was only one request, that is, his daughter should not be a concubine, if she wanted to marry, she must be divorced first! ”

Zhou Lang refused, but this old man had murderous intentions, so he actually took her away with Zhou Lang behind his back, stabbed her to death in the wilderness, and buried her in a hurry! She was so indignant that she turned into a ghost and went to the body of this young lady, begging my ancestors to read her unjust death, and not to let her soul fly away. Ancestor Zhan was also very embarrassed after hearing it, but a ghost is a ghost, no matter what happened in life, if you die, you will be reincarnated in the underworld, and the living person has nothing to do with her, you should be punished for such a troubled living person, but if you are indeed wronged in death, you can take her to the underworld to be dealt with by Yama, and said that he would intercede for her. The female ghost thanked her for her kindness, and she entered the ghost bottle and was taken away by my ancestors. ”

"Originally, this was a very common thing for my ancestors, that night he cast a spell to let his soul out of the body, went to the underworld, according to his records, the king of Yama was originally two brothers and sisters, as the lord of hell, the brother ruled the men's affairs, and the sister took care of the women's affairs, so it was also called the double king. Because the ghost is a female ghost, that night, the ancestor saw the female Yama. After listening to the ancestors' complaints, she took the ghost and handed it over to the ghost to dispose of as appropriate, and then said that it was rare that my brother was not here today, so I took my ancestor to drink together. ”

"Ancestor Zhan is also a good drinker, so the two drank together. During the feast, my ancestor asked the male Yama where he had gone, and the female Yama said that there was a distinguished guest who had come today, and he had gone to receive him. My ancestor asked what kind of guest came, and the female Yama said that it was a double boy under the throne of the Queen Mother of the West, because a few days ago in the Yanshan area due to ghosts, hundreds of ghosts escaped, but those ghosts have not yet been registered, and it is really difficult to catch them. The ghosts were raging in the world, and they actually sucked the souls of an entire village, thus alarming the two boys, and this time the two boys sent those ghosts back to the underworld to be tortured. ”

"The female Yama was happy to drink, and confided another secret, saying that this time the two boys came, not only for this matter, but also that there will be a large number of dead souls in the Yaozhou area after three months, and I am afraid that my brother and sister will be difficult to support, so this time will stay to help us govern. After that, my ancestor drank with the female Yama until the two of them had a good time, and then they went home drunk. ”

When the third uncle said this, he sighed lightly and said: "This codex of ancestor Zhan is recorded here, but it is mentioned in one of the later articles, and sure enough, in March after that, the Song soldiers and Jin soldiers in the Yaozhou area fought a battle, and more than 100,000 soldiers died in this battle. After that, there was no mention of the twin boys in the entire Codex......"

"I inherited the family business at the age of fifteen, and since I saw this codex, I have always been very interested in the two boys, and since then I have spent a lot of human and financial resources to find information about it, and over the years, I have found some clues in the excavations of some ancient tombs, some of which have been recorded in the text of the life of the tomb owner, and some of which, like this thangka, have been painted on silk cloth or in frescoes. I found out that the earliest age of the appearance of the two boys, according to the clues I got, was in the Warring States period, the real appearance of the age should be earlier, and, I know, the real identity of the two boys, in fact, is a human being, they will be reincarnated as adults during the war years or the period of the collapse of etiquette, and appear as witches, the main ghosts, the main punishment of evil. Then when this period passes, when the time of peace comes, he will die, and after death, he will return to Kunlun and wait for the next period of chaos to be reincarnated as an adult! ”

"Young man, now, do you understand who the two boys in this thangka painting are?"

The third uncle's face was a little unquiet, his words were a little anxious, he coughed a few times, picked up the teapot and poured boiling water again, and drank a cup to calm down.

I don't know how to feel when I hear the old man say this, absurd? Amusing? Astound? Or is it a shout of "Ah......hhh

I didn't speak, I poured a few sips of tea, bowed my head and pondered, and after a long time, I said to the third uncle: "...... But you just said that the records of the Queen Mother of the West in ancient times were all conjecture and fabrication? The identities of the boys should also be made up, could it be that your ancestors were also making up stories? ”

The third uncle looked far away, "But I just said, one or two of the ten credible, the ancient classics are not all apocryphal, some are indeed exaggerated, but there are also some realistic, the classics that have been handed down to this day are only a very small part of what the ancients wrote, we can only look for clues from some other places, such as ancient tombs, but closer to the truth." But it can't be ruled out that the ancients sometimes liked to boast about themselves and exaggerate their skills in their own lives, but combined with the clues in the ancient tombs of multiple periods, the integration and overlapping parts must be very credible, and what I just told you is the overlapping part. ”

"Besides, my ancestors left behind a codex, not any other form of book, a codex, what we call a diary, would you make up stories in your diary? So it's still very believable! ”