After thousands of years of development, the Mazu faith has become the most important folk belief in the coastal areas of China.

Not only are there many believers in China, but all over the world, wherever there is the influence of Chinese culture, there is the existence of Mazu Temple.

According to incomplete statistics, there are nearly 10,000 Mazu temples in the world that are directly or indirectly separated from the Mazu Temple in Meizhou, covering 47 countries and regions on five continents.

This includes 19 countries in Asia, 8 each in Europe and the Americas, and 6 each in Africa and Oceania.

In the early years, Chinese people went to sea by smuggling into the fishing boats of coastal fishermen.

Until now, many people who go abroad by line also need to rely on the black boats of coastal snakeheads to send them over.

For the snakeheads who eat by the sea, it doesn't matter if the visa center agrees or not, Mazu can agree to it.

But this is a relatively gray joke, and in the minds of real coastal people, Mazu is very sacred.

On Meizhou Island in Fu Province, the birthplace of Mazu, there is even a Mazu evaluation room in the local police station.

When the locals insist on their own words, they will be brought into the Mazu evaluation room and swear to Mazu, and the results often have miraculous results.

For local fishermen who need to go to sea, not lying in front of Mazu is their last bottom line.

Lin Hongqi is also very serious about his belief in Mazu.

As the captain of the distant-water fishing team, he is responsible for the whole team.

The worker below only needs to go to sea and get paid, but he is different.

He went to sea once, and he had to take labor and fuel costs, and if he didn't catch fish, it would mean that he would lose a lot of money.

Therefore, he naturally hopes that every time he goes to sea, he can return with a full load.

When Lin Hongqi was burning incense in front of the Mazu statue and begging for a signature, the film crew was also filming in the rear.

Looking at Lin Hongqi's solemn face, Liu Yifei couldn't help but suppress her voice and asked in a low voice: "Mazu Temple asks for a sign?" ”

Li Yi looked at the statue of Mazu wearing a crown, wearing a veil, and holding a wishful hand, and said with a slight smile: "Sincerity is spiritual." ”

"Oh."

Liu Yifei nodded, and also looked at the Mazu statue, thoughtful.

"What? Do you want to ask for a visa too? ”

Li Yi smiled and asked her, "What do you want to ask?" Q: How many boys and how many girls will be born in the future? ”

"Go, don't talk nonsense."

Liu Yifei glanced at the statue of Mazu with a weak heart, pushed him, and complained with a red face: "Mazu is watching!" Don't talk nonsense. ”

"What's this, Mazu and her old man also hope that our younger generations will prosper!"

Li Yi joked with her.

The sound of the two laughing attracted the fishermen behind them.

Liu Yifei became more and more embarrassed, and then pointed to the two and a half moon-shaped wooden blocks that Lin Hongqi threw on the ground in his hand, changed the topic and asked, "What is that?" ”

"That?"

Li Yi glanced at it, and said casually: "That's a cup, a more traditional tool for divination and asking the gods, called a fighting cup in Hokkien."

It is divided into positive and negative, the raised side is positive, and the concave side is negative.

It is made in imitation of ancient shells, which are raised on one side and sunken on the other.

Chen Dachang of the Song Dynasty wrote "Acting Fanlu. This method of divination was recorded in the "Divination Teaching", which was called Cup Jar at that time.

However, because the shells were too easy to break, they were gradually changed to wooden or bamboo.

Some powerful mages will also use copper to do it, and they also need to open the light, sacrifice, and add mana. ”

"Really?"

Liu Yifei was surprised when she heard it: "Does anyone really have mana?" ”

"I don't know."

Li Yi shook his head: "Anyway, I haven't seen it." ”

"Oh, okay."

Liu Yifei was a little disappointed, and then looked at Lin Hongqi again.

Lin Hongqi was throwing the cup on the ground in the temple wish, and the temple was chanting words in his mouth, and Lin Hongqi repeatedly picked up the cup and threw it on the ground.

"Why did he throw it so many times?"

Liu Yifei asked curiously.

"There are also rules for asking hexagrams in cups."

Li Yi explained: "He will take two cups and throw them together every time, and each cup has a positive and a negative, so there will be a total of three states."

Either one positive and one negative, or double negative, or double positive.

These three states are called Yin and Yang Sheng, and together they are called the Three Holy Hexagrams.

One positive and one negative is called the Holy Gram, and the Hokkien language is called the Holy Grail.

The Holy Grail is a good hexagram, indicating that what is being asked for is going well.

The double reverse is the yang groom, which is called a laughing cup in Hokkien language, which means that there is a smile on the face of the god.

The meaning of the laughing cup is neutral, which means that the state of the matter is not clear, or it is out of direction, and there is still a question that is not clear.

If it is Shuangzheng, it is Yinji, called the cup of anger in Hokkien, which means that God is angry, and what he asks for must not be done, otherwise he will be unlucky.

Every time he throws the cup, he will have three states of Yin and Yang Saint, but he is not allowed once, and he needs to throw it three times in a row.

After throwing three times, you can make a judgment based on the three cups. ”

While Li Yi explained, Lin Hongqi also threw away the three cups.

Looking at his cup hexagram, Li Yi groaned: "Yin Yang Saint... Jiawu, belongs to the west of Jinli Qiuyi, a good hexagram.

As the so-called wind and waves are quiet and feasible, it is a round of the Mid-Autumn Festival, and there is no need to worry about everything.

It seems that this time it is stable. ”

While Li Yi was speaking, Miao Zhu was also speaking in dialect.

Although the tone is different, Liu Yifei can vaguely distinguish that the judgment said by Miao Zhu is the same as what Li Yi said.

"Wow! It's amazing! How do you know? ”

Liu Yifei looked at Li Yi in surprise with a look of admiration.

"It's not that hard."

Li Yi said with a smile: "There are a total of those lots, and each sign has a poem, and you can know it by comparing the number of signatures on the cup." ”

"It's so powerful, I feel like you can open a fortune-telling stall and tell fortunes to others."

Liu Yifei joked with a smile.

On the other side, Lin Hongqi, who got the verdict, also got up happily, raised the holy hexagram, and turned around to greet the boatmen: "We will definitely have a bumper harvest this time!" Come back with a full fish, and everyone will drink together! ”

"Good!"

The boatmen cheered.

Liu Yifei saw their jubilant appearance, and asked curiously: "Can Mazu really bless them with a full load?" ”

Li Yi didn't answer, first glanced at the statue of Mazu, and then said: "Actually, it's just a matter of asking for a lottery, it is said that from the perspective of quantum mechanics, it is indeed possible to be useful."

However, in the real world, if you want to ensure the catch of fish, you have to rely on marine satellite remote sensing technology. ”

It was only after Liu Yifei got on the ship that she learned what marine satellite remote sensing technology is.

The fishing boats she imagined relied on the captain's experience to determine the location of the fish.

But when she arrived at the wheelhouse, she found that the high-tech equipment on the ship was dazzling and very advanced.

After the boat sailed, Lin Hongqi sailed in the direction of the Xisha Islands according to the satellite navigation.

Not long before the boat sailed out, Liu Yifei entered a strong seasickness state, vomiting a lot.

Not only her, but all the big men in the film crew also vomited dimly, and their faces were green.

So throughout the day, the film crew didn't shoot anything.

It was Li Yi who carried the camera and took some footage.

It wasn't until the boat stopped at night that everyone got used to it and felt better.

The ship's crew rested during the day, and even in the rocking cabin, they slept soundly.

And when they arrived at their destination, after stopping the ship, they came to the deck one after another.

The sea was pitch black, and there was not a single light in sight, only the bright lights on the ship.

Seeing that the boatmen were in place, Lin Hongqi in the cockpit turned on the searchlight.

The blazing searchlight shines on the surface of the sea, illuminating the sea even below.

In the pitch black sea, only here is there the only side of light.

For the fish and shrimp in the sea, these lights in the darkness have a fatal attraction for them.

Literally deadly.

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