003, the truth speculation of the Peach Blossom Spring
According to the calculations of netizens, it is said that this Peach Blossom Garden is actually a big tomb, and the village recorded is actually a village of dead people, and the people in it are all dead, but because of special reasons, the souls of these people have been preserved and imprisoned in the Peach Blossom Garden.
As long as they can find a stand-in, they can be reincarnated and become human again.
There is a lot of support for this statement.
First of all, as a local fisherman who fishes in the river, he must be quite familiar with the nearby waters, and it is impossible to get lost.
However, the fisherman turned out to be lost.
This illustrates a problem, the Peach Blossom Paradise must be lost to enter, and it is impossible to find it under normal circumstances.
In Chinese folklore, there is a mysterious saying that "ghosts hit the wall", that is, even if you are familiar with this road, once there is a phenomenon of "ghosts hitting the wall", then you will inevitably fall into endless loss. So judging from the fisherman's performance, he must have encountered this phenomenon.
Secondly, the folk saying that the peach tree has the function of warding off evil spirits is also popular in rural China today. In ancient times, peach blossoms were often used as a division between the two worlds of yin and yang, which could suppress the soul and prevent them from entering the world to cause chaos.
In addition, the peach blossoms generally fall in early April, which coincides with the Qingming season in China.
At this time, the yin energy in the world is the heaviest, people will sacrifice to their ancestors, and the spirits will also come out at this time. Isn't the flying paper money and the falling peach blossoms very similar?
Even if an ordinary mass grave had a peach blossom forest as a barrier, it would not have such a huge scale as described in the text. Because the power of peach trees is not small, it is often enough to plant a circle. But the peach blossom forest in "The Story of the Peach Blossom Spring" is so large that the scale is abnormal, what does this mean?
It shows that this Peach Blossom Paradise must be a big tomb, and the suppressed souls are not only large in number but also absolutely extraordinary in quality.
Drop off the boat and enter from the mouth. At the beginning, it is extremely narrow, and only then can it be passed. After dozens of steps, it suddenly became clear. This is like the style of the tomb of the Great Tomb.
The land is flat, the houses are like that, there are good fields, beautiful ponds, and mulberry bamboo.
Generally speaking, in ancient times, only the construction of large cities would be orderly, and small villages were often scattered according to the topography, like a labyrinth, and there would be no so-called "houses like houses" at all. However, the ancients paid much attention to the construction of tombs, and had more and stricter rules.
Therefore, this also proves that this peach blossom paradise is actually a big tomb.
In ancient times, in addition to referring to the field path, the word "Qian" was often used to indicate the meaning of the tomb.
Men and women dress like outsiders. Since Yun Xianshi avoided the chaos of the Qin Dynasty, he led his wife and people to this desperate situation, and did not come back, so he was separated from outsiders. Ask what the world is today, but I don't know if there is a Han, regardless of Wei and Jin.
The people in the Peach Blossom Garden said that their ancestors came here to escape the war of the Qin Dynasty, and they never went out again, and they did not know that there was a change of dynasty. Nearly five hundred years have passed from the Qin Dynasty to the Eastern Jin Dynasty, even if it is not as good as it is today, different clothes will be popular every year, but in hundreds of years, the difference in clothing will inevitably be great. However, it is by no means unusual that people in the Peach Blossom Garden would dress the same as people outside. Some say that the only possible explanation is that the clothes they wore were burned to them by their descendants.
But this is a huge mistake.
Because it has already been said later, "I led my wife and people to this desperate situation and did not come back." "Since you have brought your wife and children in, how can there be children and grandchildren outside?
Therefore, their clothing will either change with the entry of outsiders, or they hide a terrible truth, that is, fishermen are just bait, they have to attract outsiders at certain intervals, and after these people die, they can get out of this state of wandering ghosts and reincarnate.
And the group of souls left behind, inheriting their stories, are waiting for the arrival of the next group. So they just told the fisherman an initial story.
In addition, for 500 years, they have not come out of the peach blossom spring, and if they are really human, they will inevitably have to reproduce.
However, an ethnic group of only a few hundred people may be a big family in the first place, and even if it is not a big family, after hundreds of years of intermarriage and childbirth, it is inevitable that close relatives will marry.
We all know the consequences of consanguineous marriages, but they don't behave in any way, which means that they are not human at all.
Then he had to return home, and set up wine to kill chickens for food. The rest of the people returned to their homes, and they all drank and ate.
The people in the Peach Blossom Garden set up wine and chickens to entertain the fisherman, this description is very interesting, there are constant wars outside, and the living conditions are extremely difficult. In the Peach Blossom Garden, every family lives and works in peace and contentment, with wine and meat.
The ancients attached great importance to the sacrifice of their ancestors, and in order to seek the protection of their ancestors, they often used the best food as tribute. This is why the people in the Peach Blossom Garden are so rich in food and drink.
It also indicates that they should have been the later martyrs, rather than the first Qin people to enter the Peach Blossom Spring. It also shows that the fisherman ate as a sacrifice in those days when he was in the Peach Blossom Spring.
As for the sacrifices, the living cannot eat them casually.
It must first be offered to the ancestors before their descendants can eat it.
And outsiders are absolutely not allowed to eat other people's sacrifices, which has a serious taboo.
Stop for a few days and resign. Once he went out and got his boat, he helped him to the road, and he was determined everywhere. And the county, Yi Taishou, said so.
First of all, for fishermen who have lived outside for a long time, it is not unaware of the poor living conditions of the people outside. In that case, why did he insist on leaving such a wonderful world as Peach Blossom Spring? There are two explanations.
One is that the fisherman still has his own relatives outside. The second is that the fisherman has discovered the secret here after living in the peach blossom paradise for many days, so he does not dare to stay any longer.
If it's the former, then there's excusable circumstances. Such a nice place that a fisherman would definitely want to bring his loved ones over.
It's a pity that he didn't go home after he went out, but went straight to Taishou's mansion, which directly ruled out this possibility.
If it's the latter, then it's easy to understand.
Some people reported it to Taishou to understand that he wanted to be rewarded for it, but the fisherman must have been fishing for more than a day, dealing with the official tax collector.
Discovering a small village may bring some taxes to Taishou, but what reward can he have?
So the report Taishou was actually because he already suspected that this might be a ghost village, so he hurriedly went to report Taishou.
In addition, the fisherman can enter and exit freely from the Peach Blossom Spring, but as for the people inside, for five hundred years, none of them have wanted to come out, which is completely unreasonable.
For young people and children, it was not difficult for them to discover the cave, but what was the reason why they still didn't come out?
Perhaps the Book of Burials gives us a very reasonable explanation. Guo Pu once wrote in his annotation to the "Book of Burial": The peach mulberry in front of the door is a sign of great evil. And there are peaches outside the peach blossom source and mulberry inside,
This is exactly what this statement is. So it's not that the people inside didn't discover the existence of the cave, but that they were afraid of the peach blossom forest outside the cave and couldn't get out at all.
To sum up, the fisherman should have entered a dead man's country, but the people in the Peach Blossom Land have forgotten their lives after death, so they just inherited the obsession of the first batch of Qin people, and told the first story batch after batch.
Then attract outsiders so that they can be reincarnated.
Therefore, the fisherman is actually just a bait, and the ghost in the Peach Blossom Land tells him that he is "not enough for outsiders" is actually just trying to catch the old man, because after many days of understanding, they have understood the weakness of the fisherman, so through his mouth, this bizarre story is passed out, and then the outsiders are tricked in and killed.
This can also explain why Liu Ziji died soon after looking for the Peach Blossom Spring, because his soul had entered the Peach Blossom Source and became a substitute.