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Chapter 199 The Long Bridge Bends to the Sea Whale

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    Mingbi, also known as Yinsi paper and Mingchao, is one of the sacrificial offerings cremated when worshiping ghosts and ancestors in traditional folk traditions, meaning money for the deceased to use in the underworld.

    The use of Ming coins can be traced back to the era when paper money was produced-Wei and Jin Dynasties.  After the Yuan Dynasty, the most common metal or pottery Mingware in funerals in the past was greatly reduced. Pottery houses, pottery barns, pottery carts, pottery stoves, pottery figurines, pottery livestock, etc.  Houses and other paper objects are replaced.  As a result, paper ghost coins derived from hard ghost coins came into being in due course.

    [1] "Lugou Xiaoyue-Shangque" Chen Fu. Poetry

    The long bridge bends to reach the sea whale,

    The river never splashes forever;

    ? Far from the sound of chickens, the lights are gone,

    The remnant toad still reflects the Changgeng moon.

    Shunhua put on the gown that the little beggar took off, and said, "Let's go!"

    The little beggar asked: "Where are you going?"

    "Go to Wangchuanhe."

    "What are you doing there?"

    "Take you to reincarnate!"

    "Oh, it turns out that reincarnation means throwing yourself into a river!"

    "Who said that?"

    "Didn't you just say, jump to Wangchuan River!"

    "What kind of river did you jump!" Shunhua told the little beggar, "You have never died, maybe you don't know. After this person dies, he has to pass through the gate of ghosts and pass through Huangquan Road. Between Huangquan Road and Hades, the Wangchuan River is divided into  The water of the Wangchuan River is blood-yellow, and it is full of ghosts who cannot be reincarnated.  Sitting by the bridge is an old woman named Po Meng If you want to cross the Wangchuan River, you must cross the Naihe Bridge, and if you want to cross the Naihe Bridge, you must drink Meng Po Soup.  bridge, you cannot be reincarnated"

    "Then don't talk about it, go reincarnate quickly!" The little beggar urged, "Didn't you hear that the chickens are crowing?"

    Shunhua also said: "Yes, yes, let's go, you will lead the way."

    The little beggar asked: "Are you leading me to reincarnation, or am I leading you to reincarnation? Why am I leading the way?"

    "Of course you took me!" Shunhua said, "I am a lady in the world, and I know where I am going."

    "Wang Chuanhe, I have never been there, how can I lead the way?"

    "Aren't you a beggar? On the way of begging, you have never seen water, river, or something?"

    "That's¡ªit's quite common."

    "That's it, just walk to the river!"

    "Should we still throw ourselves into the river~" the little beggar muttered, leading Shunhua on the road.

    Seeing the little beggar's unhappy look, Shunhua asked without words: "When we arrived at the Wangchuan River, Po Meng asked about us, how should I tell her?"

    "say what?"

    "Our relationship!"

    "Let's say they are siblings."

    "Siblings, right? From your looks, you are seven or eight years old at most."

    "Aren't you a life-killing ghost? How can you not even know the age of the person being kidnapped?"

    "Isn't it right?"

    "It's not wrong," said the little beggar, "I'm thirty-two this year."

    Shunhua was taken aback, "Thirty-two? Why are you so short? A dwarf!"

    The little beggar stopped, looked at Shunhua angrily, stretched his legs in front of her, and said, "Look, the dwarf has such long legs?"

    "Big Well, compared to your height, your legs are not short But your height is about the same as a dwarf"

    "I'm called Daxiao [referring to the pocket man]." Then, the little beggar explained, "I'm 'Daily', but I'm a cute Daddy, not a demented 'Daddy'."

    "Is that different?"

    "no the same!"

    "Oh, yes, yes, remember, Wu Dalang is just like you."

    The little beggar glared at her, "If I were Wu Dalang, wouldn't you be Pan Jinlian."

    "I'm not Pan Jinlian, my name is Shunhua." Shunhua asked again, "Hey, what's your name?"

    "I don't have a name."

    "Man, how can there be no name?"

    "I just don't have one!"

    Shunhua smiled and said, "Well, how about I call you 'Big Long Legs' from now on?"

    "Call it whatever you like!"

    While talking, the two walked to a river.  The long legs asked, "Is this the river?"

    Shunhua went down to the river, looked at the clearRebuke and flogging, a show of fierce resistance against the submissiveness and subjective emotional experience of the subject in the dream.  A series of whipping actions and the ugly description of ghosts after being beaten are bizarre and majestic, showing the author's heroic spirit, and also highlighting the author's self-subjective status and strong creative consciousness.  do.

    The distinction between "form and spirit" in the Wei and Jin Dynasties promoted a new understanding of "sleepwalking". The separation of form and spirit, the theory of immortality and the discussion of the reality of dreams made people's understanding of dreams gradually rational.  The term "sleepwalking" officially appeared in "Liezi". The turbulent metaphysics of the times, Buddhism and Taoism all had an important influence on the emergence of "sleepwalking" literature.  The combination of "sleepwalking" and "wandering immortals" appeared, and the connection with Taoism was closer, and the images of Penglai and Yingzhou all appeared in poems related to "sleepwalking" one after another.

    The Tang Dynasty was a period when "Sleepwalking" and "Sleepwalking" were formally integrated. Many poems were titled "Sleepwalking Fairy".  And Bai Juyi's "Forbidden China Yuzhi Dream Tour Xianyou Temple" and so on.

    At this time, the sense of "fairy", "god" and "spirituality" in "sleepwalking" began to fall from the altar. The dreams and wonders depicted in the poems are constantly approaching reality, becoming an aesthetic experience that ordinary people can perceive.

    For example, Li Bai's "Sleepwalking in Tianmu, Remaining Farewell", the whole poem has magnificent imagery, and mainly describes the magnificent and changing scenery seen in Tianmu Mountain while dreaming.  Se Xiluan enters the car, and the immortals are like hemp." Although he also wrote about the "immortals" in the fairyland, compared with the admiration and desire for "immortals" in the Wei and Jin Dynasties, Li Bai's fairyland has become a play for viewing.  The place where you visit, the sigh of "the same is true for the pleasures of the world, everything flows eastward in ancient times" after the tour, fades away the admiration for immortals.  Finally, "Let's put the white deer among the green cliffs, and ride to visit famous mountains as soon as you have to go. An Neng smashes his eyebrows and bends his waist to serve the powerful, which makes me unhappy!" End the whole poem, persuasion based on the ideal of life, the fairyland of Tianmu Mountain is just him  The land of release and the place of seclusion.  And this kind of "sleepwalking" leads to thinking about life and expresses personal interests through dreams, which is the first of its kind for future generations to have dual emotions about dreams and life.

    The "sleepwalking" of the Song Dynasty brought care for real life and used dreams to express the emotions of life. The most famous one is Su Shi's "Ode to the Red Cliff".  The emotions expressed in the prose are not open-minded, but deep, lonely and depressed.  Dreaming of a Taoist priest is a manifestation of meeting the Tao in spirit. He wants to use spiritual orientation and detachment to get rid of the confusion of fate. He has both the detachment of "immortals" and the shackles of reality.  In "Nian Nujiao. Chibi Nostalgia", the sentence "Life is like a dream, and a bottle of wine will be poured into the river moon" expresses the true meaning of this mentality, and also shows the "vulgarization" of "sleepwalking", which is intertwined with the feeling of life.  This way of expression has become the main form of expression of sleepwalking since then, that is, to write life with dreams, and to sigh life with dreams.  (Remember the site URL: www.hlnovel.com
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