Tracing China: Through history, dialogue between ancient and modern

Chapter 271 Han Dynasty People Believe in Ghosts and Gods

Western Han VS Eastern Han.

The two Han dynasty camps will compete in the six arts in the historical plane of the era where Liu Bang lived.

As soon as the topic came out, it immediately caused a storm of discussion on the Internet.

"Emperor Guangwu, do you really want to lead the emperor of the Eastern Han Dynasty against the Western Han Dynasty?"

"It feels like there is no suspense about the outcome!"

"That's right. On the side of the Emperor of the Eastern Han Dynasty, there are not many adults. Young children can't find a place to cry against grown men."

"It's said that Emperor Guangwu is impulsive. Why don't you try the military strategy? You are the great magister, and you are the son of the plane. In terms of formation alone, you will definitely be the champion, and no one can beat you."

"The "Wenbi" that compares poems and songs is also fine!"

"The big thing is not good, the emperors of the Eastern Han Dynasty may have to give it for nothing."

"Remove the possibility, it's a completely zero-to-ten victory and defeat situation, there will be no suspense."

……

In the live camera.

Liu Bang squinted his small eyes, and said with a half-smile, "Liu Xiu, are you sure you want to compete with the "Six Arts"?"

Liu Xiu's eyeballs were bloodshot, and he said with red eyes, "Go back to Emperor Gaozu, Liu Xiu is sure!"

The Eastern Han Empire he founded was ridiculed and ridiculed continuously by the emperors of the Western Han Dynasty. I really couldn't help it.

Liu Bang squinted his eyes, looked at the two people on Liu Xiu's right, and said, "You two who created the "Ming Zhangzhi", as Liu Xiu's son and grandson, what do you think?"

Emperor Gaozu exerted pressure.

Facing the question from the ancestors of the old Liu family, unexpectedly, Emperor Han Ming and Emperor Han Zhang were not cowardly, and answered neither humble nor overbearing.

It is said that they are the sons and grandsons of Emperor Guangwu and the emperor of the Eastern Han Dynasty, and they will obey Liu Xiu's wishes.

In the entire hall, the atmosphere became subtle.

Everyone thought that with Liu Bang's character, he would be furious and denounce Emperor Guangwu Liu Xiu, thinking that Liu Xiu would affect the unity of the old Liu family.

The results of it?
Liu Bang was neither sad nor angry, but said cheerfully, "The six arts competition is nothing more than a battle of life and death, but a competition between gentlemen. It is rare for us and more than [-] emperors of the Liu family to gather together to compete with each other and see each other's strength. , It would be a blessing to try the personal abilities of the descendants of the Liu family."

"In order not to bully the young with the big, or bully the young with the old, I and Mr. Lin's authorities have put down the traitor."

"Next, it depends on your ability level, whether you can compete for face for the two Han dynasties."

Like Lin Feng, Liu Bang is also an old child, who is afraid that the world will not be chaotic.

This is also normal!
Liu Bang is a hero who overthrew the Great Qin Dynasty and fought for life and death with the King of Chu. What kind of storms and waves have he not experienced?

In his eyes, this competition of the six arts is purely pediatrics.

Someone may ask, what is the Six Arts?
The six arts refer to the six skills in the aristocratic education system of the Zhou Dynasty in China, namely: rites, music, archery, imperialism, calligraphy, and mathematics.The aristocratic education system of the Zhou Dynasty in China began in the Zhou Dynasty in 1046 BC. The Zhou Dynasty official school required students to master six basic talents.

The six arts are the six basic talents that students are required to master: rites, music, archery, imperialism, calligraphy, and mathematics.

Ritual—Etiquette, similar to modern moral education for ordinary people, the five rituals are lucky, fierce, guest, military, and good.

Music - music.Six Music: Yunmen, Daxian, Dashao, Daxia, Dalui, Dawu and other ancient music.

Archery - archery technique.These five shooting techniques are: Baiya, Shenlian, Yanzhu, Xiangchi, and Jingyi.

White arrows——the arrows go through the target and the arrows turn white, indicating that the arrows are accurate and powerful. This includes "Shenlian: put one arrow in front, and the last three arrows go in succession. The arrows belong to each other. It is called the disease of the arrow, the aiming time is short, and the arrow hits the target when it is raised. Xiangchi: The minister and the ruler shoot, the minister and the ruler stand side by side, and let the ruler retreat by one foot. Jingyi: The four arrows are continuous, and they all hit the target."

Royal—the technique of driving a carriage, which includes "Ming and Luan: corresponding to the sound of Luan when driving, chasing the water cart: galloping along the curved bank without falling into the water, passing the king's watch: passing the emperor's watch with etiquette , Wujiaoqu: drive freely through the passage, chasing birds to the left: chasing animals and shooting from the left when hunting."

Book—refers to calligraphy, such as writing, literacy, and composition.

Number—Number refers to rational number and Qi number (the law when using the method), that is, the movement law of the restraint of yin and yang and five elements.

These things are all kinds of skills that the children of the nobles of the ancients had to learn.

But it seems very inappropriate to put it in a competition.

Moreover.

Surrounding it is the Chang'an City Imperial Palace and Liu Bang's main hall. It's not in the wild, and there is no venue for competitions?

Therefore, the eyes of most of the emperors of the Han Dynasty were all focused on Lin Feng.

Liu Bang took the lead and said, "Mr. Lin, you have the ability of a god, can you move everyone to the newly built royal hunting ground?"

Liu Bang era.

Just confine a piece of land and come here to hunt for the royal family?

Lin Feng smiled helplessly, Emperor Gaozu, how dare you say that you are poor?Are you ashamed to say that you can't eat three dry meals a day?
Lin Feng still said, "It's a trivial matter to transfer the seniors out of the hall out of thin air!"

Emperor Guangwu Liu Xiu said, "Mr. Lao is here."

But Lin Feng said, "But the younger generation has a better way, and there is no need to mobilize the crowd."

Liu Bang was puzzled, "What do you mean?"

Lin Feng showed the smile of a sunny boy, with his palms in front of him, facing the air, he easily drew a circle with his arms, and at the same time he said, "...God...words...shape...create...open...open... ..."

The systematic myth-making skills can create various scenes out of thin air, wouldn't it be easier?
In the stunned expression of the big man Tianzimen.

The surrounding hall, which exudes a simple, profound and distant atmosphere, disappeared inch by inch, replaced by a field of wild woodland with grass growing and warblers flying, and an original ecological hunting ground appeared...

The stone pillars turned into giant trees, the tables and chairs turned into flowers, the lamps turned into insects and birds, and the bricks and stones on the floor also turned into green grass.

Even the ancient bamboo slips with inscriptions turned into railings, standing horizontally around, blocking the wild beasts outside.

"It's amazing!" an emperor exclaimed.

"With a wave of your hand, the mountains and rivers are transformed, and the palace is transformed into a hunting ground. Mr. Lin, with your supernatural ability and your ability to turn decay into magic, you are already among the immortals, right?" Some emperors spoke in amazement.

"It's really unexpected that we, the descendants of China, have a fairy-like existence."

"I'm still wondering, are there really gods in this sky?"

"Without the power bestowed by the heavens, it is impossible for a mortal body to have such a majestic ability."

The arguments of the big Han emperors just became more and more outrageous.

The superstitious belief in ghosts and gods in the Han Dynasty seems to be no nonsense!

In the pre-Qin period, hundreds of schools of thought emerged, led by military strategists, Legalists, and Zongheng. Han Fei of South Korea and Li Si of Qin State were both representatives of Legalism. Qin State ruled the country by law and thus unified the world.

In the Han Dynasty, when Confucianism flourished, Confucian disciples formulated the sacrificial etiquette, regarding Confucius as the great sage of Confucianism.

"Historical Records" records: Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, performed the ceremony of one suburb for three years.In the first year, the heavens are sacrificed first, in the second year, the land is sacrificed, and in the third year, the gods of the five directions are sacrificed, and they reincarnate every three years.

Even the imperial court promoted sacrifices, and there were even more small folk sacrifices.

During the Yongping period of the Eastern Han Dynasty, Indian Buddhism was introduced. India originally planned to implement a caste system, but the promotion of Buddhism, which was strictly controlled by the Han Dynasty, made the caste system disappear in a flash.

Taoism, Buddhism, and Confucianism developed in the Han Dynasty at the same time. Both Taoism and Buddhism were considered to be immortal alchemy. During the Three Kingdoms period at the end of the Han Dynasty, Buddhism and Taoism tended to flourish, especially Buddhism. temples, tens of thousands of Buddhists.

People spend more and more time and money on sacrifices. Cao Cao has always advocated frugality and abolished all unnecessary sacrifices. He is not interested in gods, ghosts, or ghosts, otherwise he would not set up Mojin Xiaowei to fill the army's salary.

Cao Zhi is a son that Cao Cao likes very much. He is not only smart but also very talented, but he did some things that Cao Cao could not tolerate during the battle between the sons.

Cao Cao advocated prohibition of alcohol, and Cao Zhi had no restrictions on drinking, and was as drunk as mud all day long.Advocating the prohibition of sacrifices, Cao Zhi studied Buddhist scriptures all day long. Since then, Cao Zhi has no relationship with the throne.

Cao Cao's restraint of religion saved Chinese culture to a certain extent. The subsequent incident of exterminating Buddhism in the Three Wus and one case was not much different from Cao Cao's original intention.

Because monks in the past dynasties were exempted from taxes, people chose to become monks in order to avoid taxes. Therefore, during wars, there was always a shortage of soldiers and food, and the emperors ordered young and middle-aged monks to return to secular life. , Emperor Wu of the Northern Zhou Dynasty Yu Wenyong, Emperor Wuzong Li Yan of the Tang Dynasty, and Shizhong Chai Rong of the Later Zhou Dynasty initiated the extermination of Buddhism.

It can be said that thanks to the correction of a generation of heroes Cao Cao, our Huaxia has not become like our neighbor Peacock Kingdom.

After all, in modern times, the Peacock Kingdom Asan is a country deeply influenced by religion. Their culture and social life are closely related to religion. About 83% of the people in the country believe in Hinduism, 12% believe in Christianity, and a very small number of people believe in Hinduism. People believe in Buddhism and Judaism—talking about godlessness in the Peacock Kingdom is simply "suicide".

Every country has its own beliefs, and it is a good thing to have beliefs, but "too hard is easy to break", and the people of the Peacock Kingdom have also fallen into a state of madness about religion, so crazy that few people in the world can understand it.

In order to eliminate the "feudalism" in the emperor's heart, Lin Feng explained.

Said he had no supernatural powers.

Speaking of the sky, there is no heaven, let alone the Jade Emperor.

Speaking of birth, old age, sickness and death, the seven emotions and six desires are the true nature and return of our human beings.

"How is it possible, Mr. Lin, if you don't have the legendary divine power, how can you do all this?" asked an emperor.

"Relying on technology..."

Lin Feng felt that it was time for him to show off. With a thought, the Tiger Armor appeared out of thin air. A set of golden high-tech armor covered his entire body from head to toe.

Even the eyes radiate the light of technology.

"Seniors, this is the technological mecha of later generations. With it, you can reach the sky in one step, and even reach the illusory moon." Lin Feng said.

"Mr. Lin, can you go to the Moon Palace?"

"Doesn't it mean that you can meet and have a conversation with the legendary moon god Chang'e?"

"On the Moon Palace, is there really a fairy palace?"

"Mr. Lin, can you take me up to have a look?"

Regarding the words of the big man, Lin Feng had a black line on his forehead, thinking to himself, you are really a bunch of stubborn old people!

He raised his head, looked at Gao Tian and said, "Everyone, there is no Chang'e on the moon, and there is no moon palace. It is extremely barren, just like the desert Gobi, which is dead and destroyed for thousands of miles, lifeless..."

The problem is, people don't believe it!

"it is good…"

"This junior activates the Tiger Armor and quickly flies up to the sky to show you the reality." Lin Feng couldn't take it anymore.

A ten-square-sized light curtain grew out of the grass in the center of this "Royal Hunting Ground".

The optical brain of the tiger armor is connected to the light curtain, so that the big Han emperors can see all the scenes of Lin Feng flying out of space.

The modern audience, however, their eyes lit up, they all stared at the tiger armor on Lin Feng's body.

"Tiger Battle Armor? What a majestic name!"

"Why do I feel that this suit of armor is genuine?"

"Yeah, it doesn't feel rough and sloppy, it seems to be the technical crystallization product of future technology."

"Could it be that it's our Huaxia official's secret weapon? It's just that it hasn't been announced?"

"The mechs in the film and television dramas have been extended to reality?"

And in one of our secret bases in China, old general Peng Lao, who has experienced the battlefield, also stared at him with wide eyes, and then said with emotion, "Lin Feng's tiger armor is of great help to our current research, wait After the show is over, I want to check with this kid and see if I can borrow it for a few days."

Ye Lao laughed and said, "If there is such a good thing, he would have given it to the motherland long ago, right?"

Old Peng shook his head and said, "Not necessarily, this kid is smart, there must be a lot of good things hidden in him, and he must be dug out. If our Chinese warriors can equip a battle armor troop to sweep the world, there is no problem at all. "

……

In the live camera.

The tiger armor was activated, like a super rocket lifted off into the sky, within a few breaths, Lin Feng, who was wearing the radiant armor, had rushed to outer space.

The dark universe in front of me looks so lonely and cold. As far as the eye can see, except for some stars, there are boundless and cold worlds everywhere, lifeless, like a gloomy world intentionally abandoned by God.

"Is this the world beyond the starry sky?" Liu Bang couldn't help but sigh.

(End of this chapter)