The Yaquan prison lord took the shrine of his incompetence. The Huangquan Prison Lord took the spirit of the mandrill. The Lord of Cold Spring Prison photographed the water monsters of the rivers and lakes. The Lord of the Yin Spring Prison takes blood and eats the evil god. The lord of Youquan Prison is vicious in the mountains and forests. The lord of the lower spring prison took the corpse of Gu Fu. The Lord of the Bitter Springs Prison is a regent, a witch rebel. The prison lord of Mingquan was sentenced to death.

The so-called Nine Springs Heavenly Prison is above the heavens, divided into various tubes, and becomes the spring of hell in the world, which is the Nine Springs Hell.

The so-called Nine Springs, that is, the place where people are said to go after death, under the Nine Springs, the Nine Springs with a smile, all mean this. There are also often such descriptions in ancient poems, such as:

The soul is broken and Jiuquan can't be recruited, and the guest side gets a few clothes a day.

If there is wine in life, you must be drunk, and a drop of it has ever been to Jiuquan.

Is there really nine springs in the Nine Springs? According to Taoism, there really are nine springs. The ancients believed that the underworld and the yang world correspond one-to-one, the so-called "death is like life", what is in the yang, there is also in the underworld.

Since ancient times, there is a saying in Kyushu, so correspondingly, the ancients also divided the Yin Cao Difu into nine districts, called nine secluded, nine places in the nine secluded, nine springs in the nine places, and nine prisons in the nine springs.

Nine springs, the northern capital of Luo Xuquan, and the evil prison also. The matter is heavenly, and it should not be taken lightly. Therefore, the capital is the house of ghosts and gods in the world, and it specializes in the power of controlling demons and demons. There are nine prisons, and one is called the prison of the Drinking Spring. Second, it is called the prison of Chongquan and beheading. The third is called the prison of chasing ghosts in Huangquan. Fourth, it is said that the prison of cold spring poisoning. Five, it is called the prison of Yin Spring and Cold Night. Sixth, it is called the prison of the secluded spring. Seven is called the prison of the long night in the lower spring. Eight are called the Bitter Spring Slaughter Prison. Nine said that the prison of the spring was burned. Where there are nine prisons, each has its own master, and the first prison master is the Heavenly Demon. The second prison lord is a delinquent shrine. The third prison master, Seyama Kui. The fourth prison master photographed the water monsters. The Fifth Hell Master takes blood and eats the evil god. The sixth prison lord takes the mountain and the wood. The seventh prison lord took the ancient tomb and ambushed the corpse. The eighth prison lord is a regent witch and a rebel ghost. The ninth prison lord was sentenced to death. Where there is a lantern in front of the prison, the diameter is one foot two inches wide, and the length is two feet four inches. There are nine prisons in the front, and there are ghost chasing charms hanging in front of each prison, and heavy punishment charms are hung inside. The prison door hangs a bamboo pole, three feet long, hangs a ghost chasing list, and the main door hangs a ghost road charm. At three o'clock every day, the incense is held, and the traces are seen to Xiao, that is, you know what ghost it is. If it is light, it is forbidden to lock, and if it is heavy, it will be heavy and heavy, and if it is too heavy, it will be wiped out and removed.

Whenever a new world is opened, there are its era names, such as Yankang, Chiming, Longhan, Kaihuang, etc., and the distance between the years is as long as 4.1 billion years.

In the Lingbao Palace, the gold is paved with gold, the jade is the step, there are seven treasures and treasures in the palace, the fairy king, the fairy prince, the fairy qing, the fairy uncle, the fairy doctor, etc. live in the fairy hall in the center and on both sides, this style is obviously imitated by the emperors of the world.

Lingbao Tianzun was originally "the essence of the second morning, the purple smoke of Jiuqing", and was born in 3,700 years after the birth, and lived in the Xuandu Yujing Immortal Mansion in the Shangqing Realm. There are 300,000 guards each of the golden boy and the jade girl, and all the gods worship it, and there are countless people who are excessive.

Lingbao Tianzun is the Taishang Yuchen Daojun, he is above the Nine Heavens at this moment, and in the Lingbao Palace here, there is only one statue of him here.

Getting back to the point, Zhang Xuanchu came here, visited the Lingbao Palace here, saw a lot of immortals, and visited all the other palaces, looking at the immortals below, but few could know him.

When he came to the Nine Old Immortal Palace, there were nine old men, and there was a Taiyi real person, all of whom came to greet him, and finally saw Fu Lu Shou three stars, all of them knew him very well, although Zhang Xuanchu didn't know much, but he knew Fu Lu Shou.

At the beginning of the Nantianmen, Fu Lu Shou Sanxing, who fought with the Immortal Emperor, also helped inside, and when I saw it today, it was an old friend, but I didn't have a good understanding at that time.

Fu Lu Shou is the three great gods of Chinese folk belief, symbolizing happiness, auspiciousness and longevity. In Taoism, it is said that there are three auspicious gods in the sky.

Lucky star, wearing an official hat and holding a jade Ruyi or holding a child as the emperor of Tianguan Yipin, the blessing of Tianguan comes from this;

Lu Xing, holding Ruyi means high-ranking officials and Houlu (because the image is distorted by Chinese folk, so the current Lu gods have become children);

The birthday star, with a white beard, holds a dragon head cane and holds a longevity peach, which means longevity and longevity. Chinese folk often combine the birthday star with the blessing and the two stars of Lu to worship, collectively known as the blessing, Lu and longevity, and become the three most popular blessing gods of the people, as a symbol of Chinese folk auspiciousness and wishfulness, so when the Chinese folk celebrate their birthdays, they often hang the blessing, Lu and longevity on the roof wall on both sides of the hall for "blessing such as the East China Sea, longevity than Nanshan".

Blessing has many meanings, and the gods of blessing created by people have a variety of priesthoods. As a result, the god of good fortune has acquired the function of being compatible with many auspicious gods, but at the same time, it has also lost its distinctive characteristics, and its image and function have become blurred, so that when people pray for a specific good fortune, they often have to worship the auspicious god who specializes in a certain position, and the god of good fortune only becomes the object of people's worship when the goal of people's prayer is relatively empty. At the beginning of the new year. It is the time to pray for all the best in the coming year, everyone should paste the word blessing on the door, although the blessing is a text symbol, but it is a symbol of the god of good fortune in people's minds, including people blessed by the god of blessing,

A prayer for good fortune. The word blessing is often pasted upside down, taking its homonym "blessing arrived", implying the meaning of blessing God.

Like many gods, the gods of fortune have undergone an evolutionary process from nature gods to human gods. The original god of good fortune was the stars, called "lucky stars". The lucky star is Jupiter, also called the year star, and it can be said that people regard Jupiter as a blessed god. After the personification of the god of fortune, a variety of theories were attached.

(2) [Lushen]

Introduction to Lushen

It was originally a star god, called "Lu Xing". Above the Big Dipper there are six stars, which together are called. The sixth star is the star of Lu, which is worshipped. "Analects": "People have a destiny, those who are rich and poor, and those who are prosperous and declining also rise and fall." "•" said: "Wenchang Palace: one is a general, two is a second general, three is a noble minister, four is a priest, five is a division, and six is a division." "Si Lu, that is, the star of fame and fortune. After it was produced, Lu Xing became the master god of the fate of the scholars, and the people of the world worshipped him.

Lu Xing later evolved from a star god to a human god. The most influential Lushen human god was Zhang Yazi, the god of Zitong in the Song Dynasty, known as Emperor Wenchang.

The deity who rules over the fortune of the moon. In ancient feudal society, scholars were selected by imperial examinations. Once a scholar passes the imperial examination, he can become an official and make a fortune. Lu, that is, the official's lu. The high-ranking officials were longed for by the scholars, so the worship of the god Lu was born. Since the ancient imperial examination was mainly a fuss, the worship of the god of Lu also included the prayer for the fortune of literature, so the god of Lu was not only the dominant god of scholars, but also the auspicious god loved by the people who generally worshiped culture and worshiped literary talents, or could be called the god of literature.

Lushen Conclusion

The gods in charge of fame and fortune, in addition to Luxing and the Wenchang Emperor Jun Zitong who evolved from it, there are also Kuixing and Kuixing human gods. Kui Xing's influence is far less than that of Wenchang Xingjun, but he also has a certain reputation. Kui Xing is the general name of the four stars of the Big Dipper. Kui is the first meaning, scholars want to be the first in the scientific examination, so they worship Kui Xing, and take Kui Xing as the god who gives the first place in the scientific examination, and at the same time, also take Kui Xing as the star official in charge of the examination. The scholars worship Kuixing, which all contain the meaning of praying for high school. However, it is impossible for everyone to be the first in the imperial examination, so the scope of application of Kuixing is not as large as that of Wenchang Xingjun, and the impact is much smaller. The image of Kuixing is imagined according to the glyph of Kui. A ghost-like deity kicking a bucket or holding a bucket with his foot is the image of Kuixing that often appears in paintings. In addition, there is a kind of Kui Xing diagram that depicts a ghost standing on top of the Aotou, raising his feet to fight, and looking back at it with a pen, which is called "Kui Xing Dian Dou, Dominating the Aotou". Kuixing is also known as Kuixing.

Said: "I don't know what year the Kui star is enshrined by today's people, and Kui is the house of the article, so the temple is enshrined, but it still can't be like Kui, and Kui is Kui." And you can't be like a kui, but take the shape of a word, and fight for the ghosts. "Kuixing is the four stars of the Big Dipper, and the six stars near the four stars are Wenchang Palace, so there is a saying that Kuixing is a point fight.

Lu Xing descended from an ordinary star to the mortal world, evolved into a god of imperial examinations worshiped by scholars, transformed into Zhang Xian, who gave off his son, and finally became an indispensable brilliant star in the three stars of Fu Lu Shou.

In the Taoist work of the Yuan Dynasty 500 years later, "The Source of the Three Religions Sou Shen Daquan", this Fuxing Yangcheng is completely the image of a gentle elder, which is very close to the current Fuxing appearance: the heavenly court is full, the earth pavilion is round, and the image of great fortune and nobility. Since the Ming and Qing dynasties, Fuxing has not changed much.

Lu Xing is a star official in charge of fame and fortune, his identity is complicated, some people think that he is Wen Changxing who blesses the title of the candidate's gold list, and some people think that he was originally a Taoist priest with unique skills, and Lu Xing has placed all aspects of people's life ideals.

Speaking of Zhang Xian, there is another story:

According to legend, during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period, there was a person named Zhang Yuanxiao in Meizhou City, who knew martial arts since he was a child, and was especially good at slingshots. When he was a child, his parents died, and he relied on the relief of his fellow villagers to survive. When he grew up, Zhang Yuanxiao opened a noodle shop at the entrance of Meizhou City Gate, because he was loyal and honest, and he looked down on money, so the noodle restaurant business was booming, but the income was only enough to make ends meet.

Life goes by like this, unhurriedly. It wasn't until the arrival of an old man that Zhang Yuanxiao's peaceful life brought a radical change.

On that day, an old man with a childish hair and heavy eyes went straight to Zhang Yuanxiao's noodle restaurant after entering the city, shouting for a bowl of noodles, saying that he was in a hurry to eat it. Zhang Yuanxiao respectfully sent the noodles, but after the old man finished eating the noodles, he only said "delicious!", and patted his ass and left without giving money.

The diners were upset about Zhang Yuanxiao, but Zhang Yuanxiao was not angry at all, but comforted the diners and said: "I have no father and no mother, so I should be my father, it is reasonable for a father to eat a bowl of noodles from his son." ”

I don't know, the next day, the old man came again, just like yesterday. Zhang Yuanxiao guessed that the old man must have something unspeakable, so he served noodles to the old man to eat as always. In this way, the old man ate noodles in the noodle restaurant for three months in a row, and disappeared without a trace without saying a word of thanks.

Zhang Yuanxiao saw that the old man had not come to the noodle shop for a long time, thinking that the old man was sick or had suffered something wrong, he was very worried, and asked about the whereabouts of the old man whenever he met people, but unfortunately no one knew, only a madman who looked like he said inarticulate that he saw the old man taking a boat to the direction of Toad Yi Mountain.

The days were quiet again.

One night a few months later, Zhang Yuanxiao closed the door of the shop and practiced martial arts in the backyard, when he suddenly felt very tired, so he sat on the stone bar in the courtyard and took a nap. In a daze, I saw an old man holding two iron balls in his hand, smiling towards him, holding his hand and saying, "Thanks to your care, I have eaten for nothing in the noodle restaurant for three months, and seeing that you are still honest and kind, I will show you a way out." In three months, there will be a great plague in the whole city of Meishan, and I will give you two iron balls, which you can keep alive, and you must not transfer them to others, nor use them for other purposes. This iron ball looks ordinary, but it is actually a 'cold jade ball', and the whole body is related to the spring water. When the plague comes, you can use this slingshot to bounce an iron ball into the spring water to heal people. Come here, I'll teach you how to use it. ”

Zhang Yuanxiao just stood up but didn't prevent his feet from slipping, and when he woke up suddenly, he felt that this dream was very strange, but he saw that there were really two iron balls under his feet. The moment he reached out to pick it up, he couldn't help but shiver, these two iron balls were bitterly cold, and they really looked like the "cold jade balls" that the old man said in his dream. Realizing that he had met a fairy, Zhang Yuanxiao hurriedly knelt down and bowed to the sky.

Three months later, sure enough, a plague swept through Meishan, killing many people. Zhang Yuanxiao remembered the old man's words, and hurriedly used a slingshot to bounce the iron ball into the well water that each household drank, curing many villagers infected with the plague.

After the plague, Zhang Yuanxiao always wanted to worship the old man as a teacher, but he had no choice but to go all over the nearby famous mountains and rivers, ancient temples and temples but could not find the old man. Zhang Yuanxiao, who was a little disheartened, walked aimlessly, but he walked out of the city in a daze, crossed the river, and walked to the Toad Mountain. Suddenly, he saw a deep stone cave, and there was a wooden statue in the cave, and he looked closely at the old man. Zhang Yuanxiao was like an initiation, it turned out that the master came to enlighten him.

So, he settled on the Toyi Mountain and began to cultivate.

Everything seems to be accidental, and it seems to have been arranged in the dark.

Generally speaking, a practitioner goes through different stages before attaining enlightenment, and after successfully passing one stage, he or she needs to find another place to continue another stage of cultivation.

After Zhang Yuanxiao cultivated in Toyi Mountain for a period of time, he went to Qionglai Chongzhen Temple to continue his cultivation. During the Qionglai monastic period, Zhang Yuanxiao's differences from ordinary people were vividly revealed. "The Late History of Shu" contains-"Meishan Zhang Yuanxiao, living in Qiongzhi's Chongzhen Temple, often holding a bamboo bow and iron bullet to hit in the air. When people asked, they said: 'Fight the world's lonely and widowed.' ’...... After living for several years, suddenly one day the book is on the wall, such as the four-eyed old man, the charm is put into writing, and the invisibility is not visible. ”

A few years later, Zhang Yuanxiao went to Baihe Mountain to visit friends, and fished at the bottom of the mountain when he had nothing to do, and suddenly heard a white-haired old man calling his name under the West Lake Peak. The white-haired old man stepped forward and said with a smile: "Don't you know me? I ate noodles for nothing in your noodle restaurant for three months, and then I gave you a slingshot, an iron ball, and taught you Taoist immortal techniques. Zhang Yuanxiao took a closer look, and sure enough, it was the four-eyed old man who taught him Dan Dao spells in the past.

After returning to Meishan, Zhang Yuanxiao continued to concentrate on cultivation while starting to build the Chongtong Temple. From his current point of view, he didn't have many resources available, he didn't have many apprentices, and he didn't have much money, so it was not easy to build a Taoist temple in this mountain forest.

But he did. He has extraordinary courage and courage, and his idea has been echoed by folk Taoist believers.

The double pupil view was built, and Zhang Yuanxiao worshiped the statue of the four-eyed fairy on the main hall, and the incense was endless day and night.

Today, the main hall has been rebuilt and repaired several times. From today's hall with a typical Ming Dynasty architectural style, we can no longer know what method Zhang Yuanxiao used to build the Taoist temple, how long it took to build the Taoist temple, what kind of hard work he experienced along the way, and who designed this Taoist temple.

Perhaps, the completion of this Taoist temple has lit a bright light in Meishan and even Shudi. Since then, people have had a kind of spiritual sustenance. In people's mouths, Zhang Yuanxiao became an upright and kind immortal who used a slingshot to benefit mankind, as long as he saw someone who had a disaster, he would use a slingshot to shoot it to disperse the disaster. Soon his prestige spread all over the world, and the world was known as "Slingshot Zhang Xian".

Later, maybe it was Mrs. Hua Rui's Li Dai Taozhuang, or maybe it was the homonym between the "marble" and "birth" used by Zhang Yuanxiao in the slingshot, which alluded to the birth of a noble son. This immortal who relieved people's livelihood and suffering to benefit mankind became a "child sending immortal".