Harry Potter’s Morning Light

   Chapter 2109 Flower dispute (seventeen)

After studying the "Four Books", students will immediately learn the "Five Classics". The top of the "Five Classics" is the "Book of Changes", which is the most famous and respected work in Chinese philosophical works, and it is also the most difficult for foreigners. Comprehension's writings, to Nick's surprise, the gossip imagery was actually found on the turtle's back.

The wisdom of "hexagrams" has always been something that ancient Chinese thinkers longed for. Confucius was particularly surprised by the mystery of the hexagrams, and the special influence on the hexagrams was praised by the fund. A large part of the energy is devoted to interpreting the hexagrams, but it cannot ensure a complete understanding of the meanings of the various hexagrams.

  The origin of the universe in China is complicated. Compared with the myths and stories told by Lao Juren, Nick is more willing to turn to Taoism. A traditional view is that when a person is alive, there are two kinds of things, one is the soul representing the spirit of the spirit, and the other is the soul representing the spirit of the body. When a person is alive, the two coexist harmoniously in the body. When a person dies, the two will be separated. The soul corresponds to yang, and the soul corresponds to yin.

The Egyptians believed that the soul would leave the body to play around, and the Chinese also believed that the soul would leave the body when a person was sleeping, and of course it would usually come back, but if the time for the soul to leave the body was prolonged, it would produce all kinds of abnormality, and also will get sick. Drowsiness, madness, and even death.

A Dutch sinologist found in Xiamen, a southeastern community where he lived, that people's panic, anxiety and insomnia are caused by the long-term separation of the soul from the body. It is believed that the child's soul is frightened away. In this case, as long as the child's soul is recalled, his illness will be cured.

   It is a very old idea to "call" back a soul that has been separated from the body, and it is associated with the ritual activities of a person after death and the process of recovery from illness.

Strictly speaking, Guangdong did not belong to the category of the state of Chu during the Warring States Period. The people living here were the "Clan of Baiyue". However, with the close contact with the people of the state of Chu, the local people commemorated this friendship with "Chu Court". It is also the earliest name of Guangzhou.

   During the Shunzhi period of the Qing Dynasty, a stone archway was set up at the foot of Yuexiu Mountain. The archway faces the east, with the words "Yuexiu Qifeng" on the front and "Ancient Chu Ting" on the back. The southeastern region is deeply influenced by the Chu culture. There is a process of "calling the soul" in the local funeral customs, so that the deceased will go to the burial place to enjoy the worship.

  Sometimes they will invite a band to play that kind of loud music, and future generations will report their achievements and failures for a year at this time.

   In the Spring and Autumn Period, there was a famous poet named Qu Yuan. He wrote a book called "Li Sao", in which the sentence "Soul comes back" appeared. It is believed that people will be separated from the body voluntarily or involuntarily. When astral wandering occurs, the soul of the wandering person sometimes encounters a lot of trouble in the process of returning to the soul, or loses its direction.

   The case of "Calling the Soul" caused panic, and the first thing to worry about was the parents. In that hot summer, it was easy to get thirsty when traveling under the scorching sun. There is a small temple named Yuming on the outskirts of Huizhou, AH. There is a monk named Mingyuan leading a donkey and carrying his luggage to go out for alms and walk to a village near Shouzhou, which is more than 160 miles away from the temple where he lives. , he stopped by a well to drink water. Since there were no buckets to fetch water, he went to a village house where three children were playing at the door, and he borrowed buckets from them.

   No one paid any attention to him. He patted the next child on the head casually, and hurried on his way, but he couldn’t walk three miles before he was caught by several villagers, who accused Mingyuan of stealing the child’s braids.

These people could not tell the difference, they tied the monk, and then searched the luggage, but did not find the tip of the braid, and then they escorted the monk to the villager's home, hanged the monk, and stabbed the monk with a screwdriver. The parents of the child asked the monk to swear that his child would not die. , The monk was beaten and helpless, so he had to draw a talisman to bless him. These people let the injured monk go and let him go back to his temple.

   The officer of the county government rushed to investigate after hearing about the incident. The child's father handed over the spells and guarantees written by Mingyuan to the officer, and the officer immediately notified the government, and the government sent someone to capture Mingyuan.

  In the first trial, the criminal tried to explain the suspicious items found in his luggage. Mingyuan said that his grandfather had served as a general soldier, so he claimed that he had a hereditary official position. For such a stubborn criminal, the officials who tried him decided to impose a heavy sentence, and Mingyuan died a week later.

  At the highest level of the bureaucracy, the military aircraft, even though the ministers generally had doubts about the case, they still carried out the tasks assigned by the emperor like tools. The emperor has invested so much personal prestige and moral authority in this case, and stopping the crackdown is not as simple as taking it back.

The role of the devil in witchcraft developed in continental Europe was not brought up in the ghost case. Judges relied on the confession of the suspect more than the advice provided by "experts". In many cases, children in witchcraft trials in Europe were stand in court as a witness.

At the beginning of his ascension to the throne, Hongli vowed to find a "middle way" between his too kind grandfather and too strict father. He did find such a way, but in a very strange way. Swinging back and forth between these two extremes, on the one hand, officials are not allowed to abuse prisoners, and the last thing he wants to see is the rise of the mob. It is this factor that restricts him from acting cautiously. Despite their severe reprimands, he always believed that the ineffective clean-up was caused by the "official vices" that he hated the most. He carefully concealed information and carefully protected himself, which prompted him to communicate through secret channels.

  The bureaucrats are caught in this kind of attack, and although they will be singled out for punishment individually, their position as a whole wants to be stable. The nature of bureaucracy is such that it can thwart any form of fanaticism, for good or for bad. This also means that people like Mencius who have the courage to express their opinions directly become more scarce, and the final overturn of the soul case does not depend on the general quality of ordinary bureaucrats, but on the actions of a few high-ranking ministers. They dared to tell Hongli that this was a wrong case, based on false confessions, and it would only cause more trouble if not stopped.

  The appearance of monk Haiyin is a proof. Brother Tian will deal with those who cause public outrage. Qianlong can ambush on the way back to the Forbidden City from Rehe, similar to Qin Shihuang's assassination in Bolangsha, which once made Qin Shihuang infinitely close to death.

   In the words of Mencius: The emperor is not benevolent, and he does not protect the world; the princes are not benevolent, and he does not protect the society; officials and officials are not benevolent, and they do not protect the ancestral temple; To hate death and be unkind is to hate drunkenness and drink strong wine.

The meaning of the last sentence is that you are obviously afraid of getting drunk and drinking too much. "Benevolence" is an important ethics of Confucianism. No one will mourn a few helpless homeless and monks. Several homeless categories.

  Wizards and "players" are divided into the lower nine, as well as the upper and middle nines. Juren belongs to the middle nine, and Nick's painter profession "Dan Qing" is also in this class.

The profession of actor prohibits young women from performing on stage. The last time Nick saw the "actress" on the stage in town was actually played by a man. He wore heavy makeup and was separated by a long distance. Hard to tell.

   This time, the admiral invited the troupe to his home, and he got in close contact with them. The musicians were all literati, usually scholars. Like the Italian playwrights, they would tour with the artists. Maybe it was because they thought Nick was weird, and Nick didn't think it was undignified to befriend them, to help them with the little things he could. So in their spare time, they also teach Nick how to act.

  There is a story called "The Story of the West Chamber", which tells the love story of a scholar surnamed Zhang and the daughter of Xiangguo. At that time, the world was in chaos. Zhang Sheng met the generals of the defenders. He asked the defenders to protect the temple where the Cui family was hiding. pregnancy.

  Otherwise, according to normal etiquette, women and men cannot live in the same room, and the same room must be separated by a curtain, even if they grew up together.

   "Return of the soul~" Lin Gu waved his hand in front of Nick. At this time, they were in Lin Gua's studio.

   This time Nick came to him for a gift. He now knew that it was rude to "give a clock" on his birthday, even if the day of the Mazu sacrifice was not the Admiral's birthday.

  It just so happened that Lin Gua's portrait for the young lady had already been drawn, and he needed to buy an exquisite box to hold it, so they left the studio together.

   (end of this chapter)