Chapter 42: The Ten Gods

The next night's event, there is a nice name, it is called the Hundred Gods Nether. On this day, all the people change into strange costumes, dress up as various gods, and under the leadership of a priest, start from the outer city, go around Kyoto, and finally return to the largest square, and then the monks of the major temples come to the altar to say the Dharma. Ba Niu didn't participate because he came back too late the first day, although Liu Xilie went, he shouted that he came back early, but Liu Yiyi didn't come back until he asked Ba Niu for a talisman.

The third night was the time of punishment, and according to the regulations, all men had to participate, so Ba Niu dressed up early and came to the square with Liu Xilie, and Liu Yiyi had a headache because of the noise, so he watched it from a distance and went back.

When they arrived at the square, there were not many people there, Ba Niu chose a more conspicuous place to stand, he couldn't stop looking around, first saw a few regular customers when the family opened a tavern, and then saw the cooks at that time, the monks of the Hanging Temple, Li Yuanfang's family, and Lin Shidong's family. They greeted each other and talked happily, especially Lin Shidong, who took him by the hand and asked him a lot about the Akiyama Peninsula, and told him to come to his house when he had time and have an in-depth discussion with him about the current situation. Ba Niu casually agreed and continued to look for him, but the person he hoped to see never appeared.

As more and more people gathered, the atmosphere became lively, and after the three-way drum sounded, the event officially began. First, Lin Shidong, the representative of the Three Elders' House, announced the rules of the event, and then he invited this year's wife on duty to read the decree of Queen Bu Weilan back then. After that, the three-way drum sounded again, and the fireworks began. ――This is also the only event where fireworks are allowed.

After these steps are done, the main play begins. At this time, outside the bonfire, according to the east, south, west, north, southeast, southwest, northeast, northwest eight directions, set up the shrine, next to the bonfire, build a bamboo building, used to represent the upper and lower directions, they together represent the ten directions. After all are completed, a large sedan chair of sixteen people will be used to pick up the goddess officials in these ten directions. These goddess officials are not fixed all the time, and every time they are active, they have to be replaced. It's not linked to power, and most of them are played by some folk women.

After bringing them in, they have to dress up, because they are goddesses and represent female gods, and their dresses naturally have to meet the standards of the gods.

The two gods on the bamboo tower are Nuwa and the Queen Mother of the West. Nuwa is also known as the goddess of creation. Also known as Wa Huang and Nuyin, it is the humanistic ancestor of the Chinese nation and the righteous god of Fuyou Sheji. Legend has it that Nuwa created a human being, changing seventy times in a day, using yellow clay to create a human being by carving out the soil herself, creating human society and establishing a marriage system; Because the world collapsed, the molten stone was used to make up for the sky, and the turtle was enough to set up the four poles, leaving the myth and legend of Nuwa mending the sky. Nuwa is not only a goddess who mends the heavens and saves the world, but also a goddess who creates people from the earth, but also a natural god who creates all things, and has the power to incarnate all things, and can create at least seventy things every day. She is known as the Mother of the Earth, and is the creator god and the first mother goddess who have been widely and long-worshipped by the people.

The Queen Mother of the West, also known as the Golden Mother of Jiuling Taimiao Guishan, the Golden Mother of Tailing Jiuguang Guitai, the Golden Mother of Yaochi, the Queen Mother of the West, the Golden Mother, the Queen Mother, the Queen Mother, etc., is the goddess of immortality in ancient myths and legends who is in charge of immortality, punishes evil, and warns of disasters. In Taoist mythology, the Queen Mother of the West lives in the Kunlun Mountains in the west and is the leader of the female immortals, who dominates the yin qi, as opposed to the head of the male immortals, the Eastern Prince. She is the goddess of creation who gives birth to all things. The patriarch of the Quanzhen Sect. In Han Chinese Qiang mythology, the Queen Mother is also sometimes considered to be the creator god. The origin of the Queen Mother of the West is considered by some scholars to be the deification of ancestors.

The goddesses of the eight directions are Xihe, Changxi, Jiutian Xuannu, Houtu, Nulu, Ancestor, Wushan Goddess and Chang'e.

Xihe, the goddess of the sun in ancient mythology and the goddess who formulated the calendar. The original form of Xihe comes from ancient mythology, in the change of the times, she evolved from the original "Mother of the Sun" to "the Emperor of the Sun", in the continuous evolution and development of the later, Xihe as a representative of the Sun myth and astronomical historians, clearly assumed the function of the carrier of culture, and concentrated on the use of ancient poetry in the cultural environment. Some scholars believe that Xihe and Chang Yi are the same person, "Xi He and Chang Xi are also the same name, and the same story changes". Therefore, Xihe is also a goddess of the sun and the moon.

Chang Xi: One is called "Chang Yi". The mythical and legendary Mother of the Moon. Chang Xi is the goddess of the moon, and is the wife of the emperor Jun with the sun emperor (Xihe), and gave birth to twelve moons, that is, twelve months of the year. Because of such unusual skills, in ancient times, Chang Xi became the person who formulated the calendar.

Nine Heavens Xuannu, referred to as Xuannu, commonly known as Nine Heavens Niangniang, Nine Heavens Xuannu Niangniang, Nine Heavens Xuanmu Tianzun, Nine Heavens Xuanyang Yuannu Our Lady Emperor Xuanyu. It was originally a goddess who taught the art of war in ancient mythology, and was later worshiped as a high-level fairy and a god of magic by Taoism. Although her position in the folk belief is not prominent, she is a god of justice who is well versed in military strategy and magic powers, and her image often appears in various classical novels, becoming a goddess who helps heroes eradicate evil and eliminate violence, so she has an important position in the Taoist belief in immortals, and its belief can be traced back to before the pre-Qin period.

Houtu is also called soil. Originates from the worship of the land and women in nature worship in matriarchal societies. The full name is Chengtian imitation Houde Guangda Hou Tuhuang Di Zhen, is the fourth emperor of the Taoist god "Four Emperors/Six Emperors", she holds yin and yang, and nurtures all things, so she is called the mother of the earth. Legend has it that she was the first king of the earth. Later, she cooperated with the Jade Emperor, who presided over the heavenly realm, and was the female god who presided over the mountains and rivers of the earth.

Nulu, or the famous female concubine, is the god of drought in ancient myths and legends. According to the description of the "Classic of Mountains and Seas", Chiyou raised troops to attack the Yellow Emperor, and the Yellow Emperor ordered Yinglong to attack Jizhou. Chi You invited the Feng Boyu Division to deal with Yinglong's troops with a violent storm. So, the Yellow Emperor ordered Lu to help in the war, and Lu successfully stopped the heavy rain, and finally helped the Yellow Emperor win the war. There may be an evolutionary relationship between the female and the drought.

Ancestor, also known as Relocus, was a figure in ancient times. She is the daughter of the Xiling clan and the concubine of the Xuanyuan Yellow Emperor. She invented silkworm breeding, known as the ancestor silkworm in history. Born in Xiling. The ancestor gave birth to two sons, Xuanhuan and Changyi. The son of Xuanhuan, the son of Xuanji, is one of the five emperors; Changyi married the daughter of the Shushan clan as his wife, gave birth to Gaoyang, and inherited the world, which is one of the five emperors.

The goddess of Wushan, one of the ancient myths and legends. The daughter of the Red Emperor, named Yaoji, died unmarried, buried in the sun of Wushan, the spirit is grass, and it is actually Ganoderma lucidum. During the Warring States Period, Song Yu of Chu State "Gao Tang Fu" said that the "first king" You Gao Tang dreamed that the goddess was willing to recommend a pillow during the day, and the goddess called herself "Dan is the morning cloud, and the twilight is the rain", and the third of "Zhu Palace Old Things" quotes the goddess of "Xiangyang Old Records" to say: "The descendants of the monarch and Miao will be between the Jiang and Han dynasties." Later Song Yu's "Goddess Fu" narrates the night dream of the goddess of King Chu Xiang, the goddess is beautiful, gentle and elegant, but the goddess refuses the pursuit of King Chu Xiang with her clean body.

Chang'e, the daughter of Emperor Yu in ancient times, the wife of Hou Yi, her beauty is extraordinary, originally called Chang'e, because of the Western Han Dynasty to avoid the taboo of Emperor Liu Heng of the Han Dynasty and changed her name to Chang'e, and also known as Chang'e. It is said that Chang'e and Hou Yi created a precedent for monogamy, and later generations deduced the story of Chang'e running to the moon in order to commemorate them. In myths and legends, Chang'e became an immortal by stealing the immortal medicine that Dayi had obtained from the Queen Mother of the West and lived in the Guanghan Palace above the moon. Before the Eastern Han Dynasty, there is no information showing that Chang'e and Yi were husband and wife, and it was not until Gao Lu's annotation "Huainanzi" that Chang'e was pointed out as Hou Yi's wife.

The ten goddesses represent the ten goddesses and are responsible for the supervision and trial of this event. All bamboo orders must be authorized by their permission, and those who do not obey the bamboo orders must also be judged and punished by them. This penalty is not gameplay, so it will also be in effect officially. Of course, it also has a standard, and it can't be arbitrary. Generally speaking, there are two types of caning, caning and imprisonment.

Cane punishment is a spanking with pants off in front of everyone, and imprisonment is handed over to local prisons, either of which people are unwilling to endure, so since the establishment of the campaign, no one has failed to follow the rules.