Witchcraft may seem complicated at first glance. Strange gestures, spells, props, costumes, coupled with the vast land and large population of our country, ten miles of different days, hundreds of miles of different winds, different regions, nationalities, and customs, it is enough to be dizzy.

What's worse is that the wizards still try their best to make these tricks mysterious, and outsiders are of course confused. Fortunately, there is a half-expert in Shiling who sorted out witchcraft for me - for example, folklore on the other side of the ocean divides witchcraft into simulated witchcraft and contact witchcraft. For example, it is also a witch Gu, burying a puppet in the ground to take advantage of the connection between the victim's birth date and the eight characters, which is the same as the nail-headed Seven Arrows Book in "Romance of the Gods", which is a simulated witchcraft.

The body is exposed to the parents, so cutting off the other person's hair is to use the bloodline to contact witchcraft. If you don't understand this, there is a simpler one: in Harry Potter, a popular science book on witchcraft, the purpose is to protect oneself, it is white witchcraft; It is black witchcraft that diverts calamity or endangers others.

The orthodox use of the horse is undoubtedly a white witchcraft, which is when people worship their ancestors, enter incense, sail, and send funerals, they have to burn some horses, and use the eight-hundred-mile expedited BMW to pray for God's blessing. For example, when a scholar goes to Mount Tai to burn incense, she will wear a horse, call the holy name, and come from thousands of miles away, ten steps and five steps. In the fishermen's oceans and boats, they will worship the queen of heaven and the mother is Mazu. In case of unforeseen wind and waves, burn paper horses, and call for immediate response. There are also three kinds of armor horses, one painting the goddess style of the crown and Binggui, the other painting the regular clothes of the sister next door, and the other painting the costume of the goddess of war who stands with her hair and feet and swords. In case of danger, those who burn the crown should respond, and those who burn the regular clothes should not be, if they are burned to the width of the sword and still should not, the boat cannot be saved.

It's just that what the hell is Mr. Sanshan Jiuhou? Three Mountains, Is it "Three Mountains Overseas" or "Three Mountains of Fu"? Or is it the three mountains and five mountains of the Jiang Xiang faction?

Soon, 'I' walked into the Dragon Valley. My eyes turned to the other side, Lao Wang was still waiting for Zhao Slow Xiong in Longtan Village in ignorance.

Since Longtan Village is a paradise, it is naturally a small village, except for the Longjia and Yuejia families, there is only one main street in the village, which is the place where the most concentrated households in the village, there are about more than 100 households, of course, most of them are working outside, only the old and young women and children are left behind.

There is a stream that flows down from the mountains outside the village, and most families lived not far from it in ancient times. That is where Mu Lingbo and Yue Zhenxing staged Qiong Yao drama in my dream.

The most lively place in this ancient village for the development of folk tourism is naturally the main street, where there is a market every three days.

People who live far away from the surrounding mountain villages come to the market.

Lao Wang stayed in the best and only hotel in the village. It's the one I've stayed in...... Fortunately, he didn't meet any dragon kings to marry, or the world in the mirror.

He said he was a journalist for a travel magazine and came here to pick up stories. While waiting, Lao Wang chatted with the villagers, especially the elderly man, to learn about Longtan Village and the Yue family.

learned how Mu Lingbo got married and became the bride of the Yue family.

Only one child was born...... It is Yue Moye's father.

His father was smart and studious, and later came to the capital and married a girl from a big city.

Yue Moye's mother rarely came to this small village, but when she wanted to give birth to Yue Moye, there was a lot of chaos in the city, and her initial plan to go abroad was unsuccessful, so she avoided the countryside.

Yue Moye was born in Longtan Village.

Many old men still remember the situation on the day Yue Moye was born, it suddenly rained in the middle of the night, and it rained for a whole hour.

The tide was rising, and Longtan Village was almost soaked in water.

Later, I also learned that the neighboring village of Longtan Village ...... A mudslide in a village, also deep in the mountains, destroyed half of the forest. An old man told Wang: Do you know how there is a mudslide in their place? It's heavenly retribution! Iniquity!

It is said that in the year Yue Moye was born, there was a pregnant woman in Longtan Village who was pregnant with a child for more than a year and did not give birth...... In the end, it is said that the pregnant woman was beaten to the point of being covered in blood, and a half-human, half-beast child was born, and she was thrown down the mountain...... The next day, her husband bled to death. Less than a month later, there was a mudslide. "It all affected our village and almost flooded!"

The old man concluded: "Later, there were people in that village who died strangely, and they all said that the woman was possessed by the dragon king, gave birth to a dragon seed, and died unjustly. They had to move the village once, so that these strange things did not happen. ”

Dragon species? The word is used here, and it seems dirty.

An old man with a bit of bookish air swaggered: "That's what you don't know, our place has been passed down from generation to generation, and the dragon nature is the most." Therefore, if you have sex with an ox, you will have a lin, if you have sex with a pig, you will have an image, and if you have a horse, you will have a dragon and a horse. In the past, the first presiding officer of the Dragon King Temple was a wizard, and he was good at asking for rain, and the way was to recruit girls, cast spells to make them stand in the air, and then drive the dragon to rise into the air. When the dragon saw the girl, he circled around the girl, anxious to "act", and the temple Zhu performed another spell, so that the dragon could not get close to the girl, and after a while, the rain fell, and it was said that the dragon could not bear it, and when it poured out, it was raining......"

The old men all laughed disrespectfully, or looked at the old king's face, and another old man drew a snake to explain: "In fact, the scholar also knows this thing, the knife handle of the martial artist, the pen of the literati, and the dragon is written as a filthy, calf and foal, or scaly horns, and the dragon is combined, not Zhenlin." Women sleep in the open, and there are also those who are in harmony. It is not said that foals and calves sometimes have scaly horns, which are the product of union with dragons, and there have been cases where women have been combined with these species by sleeping outside. In the accounts of the ancients, even the famous five emperors such as the Yellow Emperor and Zhuan Xuan were not deified, that is, they were born with a relatively high IQ, and they belonged to genius children, and there was no fairy father to cover them. The deliberate revision of the Mandate of Heaven myth for political purposes was initiated by Liu Bang.

Liu Bang, the ancestor of the Han Dynasty, Sima Qian once described Liu Bang's birth in the "Historical Records": One day, Liu Bang's mother was sleeping by the pond, and suddenly it was dark, lightning and thunder, Liu Bang's father hurried to find his wife, only to see a dragon on his wife, Hu Tianhu Emperor, and later became pregnant and gave birth to Liu Bang. From then on, Liu Bang could confidently climb relatives with immortals, which is the most famous political destiny myth in Chinese history. However, theoretically speaking, this also means that Liu Bang and his father are not related by blood at all.

Of course, just a small story is not enough to make Liu Bang's image tall and plump, Sima Qian went on to tell a few unusual stories, such as Liu Bang's face was born like a dragon, and there were seventy-two black moles on his left thigh, I don't know how to grow it? Liu Bang often went to the tavern to drink overlord wine, and the old man and lady who sold wine found that no matter where he went, there was always a dragon hovering above his head in the sky, so the wine money was free; Liu Bang's wife, Lu Pheasant, also said that there were always clouds and mist above where he lived. After a few stories are told, Liu Bang's image as a dragon is relatively complete.

At that time, maybe it was not Sima Qian who deliberately made up these stories, but the legends had already boiled over the sky, and he couldn't help but believe it. It should be said that it is still necessary for Liu Bang to create his own myth of the Mandate of Heaven, because at that time, the society attached more importance to his origin. An important reason why Xiang Yu is supported by many people is that his grandfather Xiang Yan is a general of Chu State, and he belongs to the sons of Genzheng Miaohong; Chen Sheng and Wu Guang, who were born as commoners, had the slogan of the uprising as "Princely generals, rather have a kind". It can be seen that the issue of "species" was indeed very appealing at that time.

What's more, the myth of the Mandate of Heaven is not Liu Bang's originality, before the Western Han Dynasty, merchants and Zhou people only knew their mothers and not their fathers when they recalled their ancestors. The mother of the ancestor of the Shang Dynasty was called Jian Di, and one day she saw a swallow egg, so she ate it, and then gave birth to the deed, so the "Book of Songs" said that "the Heavenly Destiny Xuanniao descended to give birth to Shang". The birth of the ancestor of the Zhou Dynasty is also roughly similar.

In the "Book of Songs", it is said that Houji, the ancestor of the Zhou Dynasty, was born after his mother stepped on God's footprints. In fact, this is just the Zhou Dynasty people boasting about their ancestors, what kind of God's footprints, it is very clear in Sima Qian's "Historical Records", but it is stepping on the footprints of savages. In the 21st century, if we want to step on this kind of footprint, we have to go to Shennongjia, but thousands of years ago, you can step on 100 meters out, what is unusual.

The modern media is secretive and says that these are all vague memories of human reproduction during the period of ignorance, but in fact, what is that...... Ideological work! It is easy to cling to the gods, but it is not easy to penetrate into the hearts of the people. Liu Bang used the issue of birth as a starting point to establish his own ideological control system, and the first person to make a major sacrifice was his father. However, Liu Bang was born as a street scoundrel in the end, and the myth of the Mandate of Heaven fabricated was not only self-contradictory and full of loopholes, but also did not formulate a unified format. Inspired by Liu Bang's creativity, almost all the founding emperors of the past dynasties have been repeatedly deified, and the principle of deification is just like what Xu Shen, who compiled "Shuo Wen Jie Zi", said, "Saints have no father, and they are born by nature", or in layman's terms, it is to imply that the emperor's "father is not a father, and grandma is not a grandmother". What a "Red Lantern"!

Generally speaking, once you have mastered this basic principle, it is easy to operate the specific method of making up a story. Later people became lazy, and just made up a story and let it go. One of the most common ways to emphasize the emperor's peculiar appearance, the so-called "dragon face and phoenix posture", as long as you look weird, someone will believe that you are talented. In fact, this tradition existed before Liu Bang, for example, Shun's eyes each have two pupils, and the ribs of Jin Wengong's heavy ears are connected. In later generations, it was intentionally done, carried forward and expanded, and all of them were written into the official history of the country. The Book of the Later Han Dynasty says that Liu Xiu, the Guangwu Emperor of the Eastern Han Dynasty, had a large mouth, a high nose, and a bulging bone in the middle of his forehead, suggesting the blood relationship of the dragon species. This kind of appearance is still Zhouzheng, Emperor Wen of Sui Yang Jian is much more eccentric, "Book of Sui" said that he was born with horns on his head, fish scales all over his body, words on his palms, long upper limbs, and short lower limbs. From the perspective of modern people, Yang Jian is definitely half human and half beast, just like that poor deformed child, if it were not for the protection of a high-ranking monk, he would have been burned as a demon.

The Mandate of Heaven myth is really crude, although it played a role at the beginning, but it couldn't stand up to the chaos, so that the emperors gradually lost interest, just out of the inheritance of tradition, other emperors have it, so they should have it themselves. Moreover, as time passed, the myth of the Mandate of Heaven of the dragon species became more and more coarse, and the people who listened to it no longer took it seriously. In the future, the myth of the Mandate of Heaven is no longer the patent of the emperor, and other saints, great men, and even people with only a small achievement, some people have made up birth visions for them, such as Zong Ze, the anti-Jin general of the Northern Song Dynasty, when he was born, his mother dreamed of thunder and lightning shining, and his whole body was bright; It is said that on that day there was a thunderstorm and dark clouds, and there were two dragons around Confucius's mother's house, and the next day, an illegitimate child was born.

"That was in 753 years after the founding of Rome. Gaith61Jolis61Octavian61While Augustus was living in the royal palace on the Palatine Hill and was busy with state affairs, Mary, the wife of Joseph the carpenter, was tending to a young boy born in the stables of Bethlehem in a small village far away in Syria. It's a magical world. Shortly thereafter, the palace and the stables will meet in an open contest. And the stables will rise from victory. In fact, there is nothing new in the myth of the birth of Jesus, and the Virgin Mary is pregnant out of wedlock. This kind of story also exists in China. This mythological structure is nothing more than an attempt to illustrate the extraordinary origins of the protagonist. But the legend of Christ's Christmas is also the same way?

This cult of the dragon species is often seen among the peoples of the world. There are countless similar examples, and they are even getting worse and worse. For example, my old man's seventh uncle, grandfather, and third niece's daughter-in-law's daughter-in-law's uncle's house, which was also a rich peasant before liberation, had a tenant in his sixties, and when he was walking alone, he encountered a thunderstorm, and there was a dragon with its claws stretched out and pressed on his hat, and this tenant thought that he was going to be eaten, and he fell down in fear, and felt that the dragon tore his pants, and he thought that he was going to strip his clothes and eat them alive, and guess what......

No one expected that the dragon would turn over his body and give him to that. Dodge a little, and the dragon roared, teeth rubbing against his head. The tenants were afraid of being eaten by the dragon, and did not dare to move, until half an hour later, the dragon thundered and left. The tenant was left groaning on the ridge of the field, covered in dragon-smelling saliva water, but his son gave him a robe before carrying him home.

At first, he kept his mouth shut and kept it a secret from everyone, but then the wound became more and more serious, and he went to the doctor to see him before telling the story. Everyone can't understand why they fancy a man when there are many women during the rice planting season. There are also many young shepherd boys, why is there another old man in his sixties? It's really hard to figure out! If he hadn't sworn by a curse, everyone would have thought he had met a mandrill tree monster! ”