As the saying goes, everything has a spirit, it can be said that a thought of attachment can be a spirit, and there are also others who send thoughts to cultivate the spirit. Among them, qin, chess, calligraphy and painting are all available, and the calligraphy spirit is the most intelligent and spiritual.

It is said that during the Zhengde period of the Ming Dynasty, in an ancient city in the Central Plains, there was a scholar surnamed Zheng, Zheng Shusheng loved to read, although the family was down, but there were many books at home.

One day, Zheng Shusheng was reading at home, and suddenly a woman appeared behind him, Zheng Shusheng didn't notice it at all, and still read his book carefully, until a wisp of green silk fell in front of Zheng Shusheng's eyes, he raised his head, but saw a very beautiful woman standing behind him, looking down at his book.

The woman saw Zheng Shusheng raise her head and see herself, and hid behind the table in a panic, Zheng Shusheng was amused by the woman.

"How did you get in, girl?"

When the woman saw Zheng Shusheng talking to herself, she showed half of her head and her eyes revealed doubts, and Zheng Shusheng noticed that the door was blown open by the wind.

"Girl, why did you visit the office late at night?"

The woman shook her head, and Zheng Shusheng said when she saw this.

"Can't speak?"

The woman nodded immediately after hearing this, and when she saw Zheng Shusheng coming over, she hurriedly retracted her head, Zheng Shusheng felt funny and said.

"It's not good for a girl to be in a man's house late at night. I think it's late at night, and the girl is not at ease when she walks downstairs alone, so the girl will stay here first, and it will not be too late for you to leave tomorrow. ”

Zheng Shusheng didn't care whether the woman understood it or not, and sat back to continue reading the book, and the woman saw that Zheng Shusheng was reading again, and slowly approached Zheng Shusheng, lowered her head, and read with Zheng Shusheng. Zheng Shusheng didn't speak, since he liked to read, he pointed to the position next to him, and the woman immediately understood when she saw this, sat down, opened the book, and read it together. The candlelight reflected the two of them, a pair of fairy couples.

On the second day, Zheng Shusheng woke up in a daze, looking at the candles that had been burned and the empty seats, an open book, only to know that last night was not a dream, Zheng Shusheng felt a little lost for not asking the woman's name last night, and finally saw a like-minded woman miss it like this, it's a pity.

At night, Zheng Shusheng did not close the door, expecting the woman to come back, just sat down for a while, he felt that someone was standing behind him, Zheng Shusheng showed a smile on the corner of his mouth, pointed to the seat next to him, and the woman hurriedly sat down.

Day by day, Zheng Shusheng didn't ask why the woman always visited late at night, nor did he ask about the woman's affairs, so it was good, the woman spoke one day.

"For so many days, I've bothered Mr., and the concubine is like smoke."

Zheng Shusheng looked at the woman and wanted to ask, don't you know how to speak? But he told Zheng Shusheng in his heart that he shouldn't say this.

"Oh, Miss Liu, Xiaosheng Zheng Jian."

Immediately after that, the two looked at each other and smiled, and continued to read. Zheng Shusheng woke up again, Liu Ruyan was gone, so he decided to ask the reason next time and express his love. At night, the woman came, Zheng Shusheng looked at the woman who suddenly appeared, and then he knew that the woman did not walk in from outside the door, Zheng Shusheng pointed to the woman.

"What the hell are you?"

The woman said when she saw Zheng Shusheng's frightened eyes.

"I am the spirit of the book, you read day and night, so I was born. I still want to thank Childe. ”

Zheng Shusheng retreated again and again, and Liu Ruyan said when he saw this.

"Childe don't have to be afraid, I won't harm Childe."

Zheng Shusheng screamed in horror.

"I don't believe it, you're a monster, every day you come here late at night, it must be to seduce me, no wonder I like your appearance very much, you must want to harm me."

Liu Ruyan smiled.

"You and I have cause and effect, you have taught me a lot of things, but this thing has not been taught to me, I will not appear again."

Saying that, Liu Ruyan disappeared, Zheng Shusheng gasped for breath, stood up and picked up the candle, and lit a book, but Zheng Shusheng was frightened and forgot one thing, the house was very dry, and as a result, the sparks floated everywhere, the fire became bigger and bigger, and soon burned to the bed, Zheng Shusheng wanted to escape, but how could he not escape.

Outside, there were exclamations from the people.

"It's out of the water! Walk the water! ”

Zheng Shusheng shouted for help, but the fire was not good, it stands to reason that the fire should be extinguished quickly, but the fire is burning more and more, and everyone is helpless. The fire was extinguished, and everyone saw Zheng Shusheng who was burned to death and burned broken books.

In this world, karma and the cycle of life and death are all destined in the dark, but the spirit of the book is not in the cycle of the five elements. They leap horizontally between the human mind and the book, in the form of words, in the form of thoughts, in a sense, they are also immortal.

There is also a folk tale about the spirit of the book in the Tang Dynasty, in the Tang Dynasty Tianbao years, in a small mountain village in the south, there is a scholar named Ma Yu, this person lost his father at a young age, his mother brought him up with hard work, he was determined to take the test to honor his mother since he was a child.

When Ma Yu was twenty-five years old, he successfully passed the examination and went to Beijing to catch the exam with his mother's expectations, but he fell into the name of Sun Shan, and he had no choice but to rush home in despair.

By the time he arrived in a small town 100 miles away from home, he was penniless and had not eaten for days.

In order to survive, Ma Yu went to the dock to work as a coolie, and although he earned enough money for the day, he also became scarred and tired, and just when he wanted to buy something to satisfy his hunger, he suddenly heard a commotion in front of him.

Ma Yu walked forward quickly, and found that a barefoot old lady was being beaten on the ground by a shopkeeper, and scolded her for being a white eater.

Ma Yu saw that the old lady was pitiful, so he stepped forward to stop the shopkeeper and asked him how much the old lady ate, the shopkeeper said that it was thirty Wen, Ma Yu showed a bitter face, took out a handful of copper coins from his arms and then left five of the others and gave them to the shopkeeper, and the shopkeeper gave up.

Seeing the shopkeeper leaving, the barefoot old woman got up and got up from the ground, Ma Yu hurriedly went to help, but was pushed away by the old lady, Ma Yu turned around with a wry smile and left, but was directly stopped by the old lady.

Ma Yu looked at the old lady in confusion, and the old lady took out a jade pendant from her arms and handed it to Ma Yu and said to him.

"This son, thanks to your rescue today, the old lady and my life are quite different from ordinary people's abilities, and now there is a word to give to the son, don't light the candle at night after the son returns home, this jade pendant is a visible thing, although the son wears it on the body, there will be good things happening."

Ma Yu saw that the old lady was doing something, so she nodded and agreed, and then went to the next door to buy a few steamed buns and set foot on the way home, ten days later, Ma Yu finally returned home. 

His mother was overjoyed when she saw him come back, but she was distressed when she saw him like this, and asked him to hurry up and wash up, and prepare a meal for him herself, Ma Yu readily agreed, and after taking a bath, Ma Yu saw that a large table of food was already on the table, so she sat down and got up quickly, and it didn't take long to consume a table of food.

At this time, it was completely dark, and Ma Yu's mother handed him a candle and told him to go back to his room to rest.

After Ma Yu returned to the room, he was lighting candles, and suddenly thought of the old woman's words, so he didn't light the candles and lay on the bed to rest. In the middle of the night, a woman's laughter suddenly came from outside the house. He waited quietly in the darkness with wide eyes, and after a while, three slender women entered his room.

Through the bright moonlight, Ma Yu saw that the three women had an intoxicated expression on their faces, and wandered around Ma Yu's desk repeatedly, because they were so engrossed that they didn't even notice Ma Yu lying in the dark. Just as Ma Yu looked puzzled, a woman who looked younger said to the woman in charge.

"Sister, how long can we enjoy here?"

The woman known as the eldest sister smiled at the man.

"Sister, don't worry, as long as the owner of this room doesn't light a candle, he will never catch us, then we can stay here forever, in this world, there are very few people who know about our existence, let alone how to catch us."

Ma Yu felt very magical, and was fascinated in his heart, it turned out that there was such a magical thing. After listening to the eldest sister's words, the younger sister was obviously relieved, and then asked again.

"Eldest sister, is there no other way than to clamp us with ancient books?"

The eldest sister nodded slowly after hearing this, and then urged her sister to hurry up and do the right thing, don't ask any more questions, at this time, Ma Yu on the bed stretched out her hand and took out an ancient book from under the pillow, and then got up and went to the three sisters, and soon sandwiched them all in the book.

When Ma Yu asked them where they were, they said that the three of them were book spirits, living by absorbing the books of the readers, and they would also feed back to the readers, so that their reading effect would be more significant, and if they were caught by the readers, this feedback would be more obvious.

Only then did Ma Yu realize that the barefoot old lady turned out to be a strange person, and the jade pendant she gave Ma Yu could actually let him see the book spirit, which was really amazing. And he never believed in ghosts and gods, the book spirit was dispensable to him, in his heart, to gain fame, relying on his own diligence and hard work, the so-called book spirit help is just a joke.

These two ancient folk tales about the spirit of books have one thing in common, that is, there are books first, then there are scholars, and then there are bookworms, and people who are obsessed with books are even more obsessed with things in books. Over time, the book was contaminated with the spirit and obsession of many readers, and thus manifested itself in the world.

It is said in the Soul Ferry that the more you believe in a character in a book, the more real it will be, and this is the spirit of the book, and your faith is its nourishment. But most people don't believe in its existence, thinking that it's just a matter of people's consciousness and energy body doing something wrong with the things described in the book, and to put it bluntly, it is a mental problem of a group of paranoid personalities.