Ordering Ximen Leopard to openly throw the wizard into the river, do you know where his courage to kill the witch comes from?

Taoist Past Events (1)

The spirit wind dissipates

In the early summer of 581 BC, the Jin Jinggong (reigned 599-581 BC), who had been a half-life conquest and had a small hegemony, suddenly had a dream: a big ghost with a hair broke into the palace, scolded him for killing his grandson for no reason, and came to ask him for his life. Jing Gong woke up with a palpitation in his heart and hurriedly summoned Sang Tian Wu to predict the auspicious murder.

Sangtian Wu is valued by the Jin Dynasty, and is a famous witch in the country, with first-class professional standards. Seeing Jing Gong's spirit, he told the results truthfully: The king may not be able to eat this year's new wheat. In other words, there are no more than two months to live.

When Jin Jinggong heard this, he fell ill at that time.

Duke Huan of Qin (reigned 604-577 BC) sent a famous physician to treat Jing Gong.

Before the doctor arrived, Jing Gong dreamed that the two boys were talking. A boy said, slow is a good doctor, he is not good for us, or hurry up. Another boy said, "We hide above the diaphragm, under the anointing heart, and see what he can do to us!" After the two boys finished speaking, they drilled through Jing Gong's nostrils.

The doctor slowly saw Jing Gong, and after diagnosis, he told him the truth: he was terminally ill and there was no medicine to cure. Jing Gong sighed at the divine doctor while waiting for death with peace of mind, there was nothing to say.

Staying up until the sixth day of June, it is already the season for new wheat to play. Jing Gong suddenly wanted to eat new wheat and ordered the dining room to arrange. Seeing the steaming new wheat porridge, Jin Jinggong was suddenly invigorated. He remembered Kuwata Witch, and immediately summoned people into the palace, pointed to the wheat porridge and said to Kuwata Witch: See, this is this year's new wheat, you need to pay for the wrong prediction.

Jing Gong killed Sang Tian Wu and was about to take the wheat porridge to eat, when he suddenly felt the swelling in his abdomen and hurriedly got up and went to the toilet. At the moment of convenience, he was so confused that he fell into the toilet and drowned. Looking at the new wheat in his mouth, he didn't eat it.

The direct cause of death of Jin Jinggong should be a sudden heart attack, cerebral hemorrhage and other emergencies, but the way of drowning in the pit is more embarrassing. The idiom "terminally ill" is left behind, and people will read a sentence from time to time.

It's just that few people pay attention to the dead mulberry witch. He used the prediction of the gods to cause the disaster of killing himself, which shows the willfulness and arbitrariness of the princes and kings in the Spring and Autumn Period, and the decline and inferiority of the status of wizards. This was not an isolated phenomenon in that era, and there were many records of "violent witches" and "burning witches" in historical records, which showed that witches were a lamb for sin in the eyes of people.

Under the trend of the continuous reduction of the core business of Wu, theosophical prayer for rain has become the main task, which is responsible for informing the people and issuing providence. Once there is no rain for a long time and the pray for rain is ineffective, they are often exposed to the hot sun, or burned alive, hoping to attract the attention of heaven in an extreme way.

In the summer of the twenty-first year of the Zuo Chuan (639 BC), when there was a great drought in the state of Lu, the Duke of Lu, in order to seek rain to relieve the drought, moved the idea of burning the witch and the disabled person who ([wāng] protruded from the chest and back), but was fortunately blocked by the liangchen Zang Wenzhong and was spared.

More than two hundred years later, it can still be seen from the Book of Rites and Tan Bows that Lu Mugong (reigned 410-377 BC) wanted to "violent witches". When there was a severe drought, Mu Gong summoned the county to discuss and proposed to pray for rain by means of violent and violent witches. The county's good persuasion will not be resolved. Such examples are preached as virtues and good deeds of the Wise Lords, and I am afraid that more witches are not so lucky.

In 492 BC, during the three dynasties of King Ling of Zhou, King Jing of Zhou, and King Jing of Zhou, Cang Hong, a minister loyal to the Zhou royal family, was executed by order of King Jing of Zhou (reigned 503-477 BC).

Cang Hong (c. 582 BC – 492 BC), courtesy name Shu ,also known as Uncle Cang, was a native of Zizhou, Sichuan (in present-day Ziyang, Sichuan). The Huainan Zi says that Cang Hong was "the keeper of the Zhou Chamber", calling him "the breath of heaven and earth, the journey of the sun and the moon, the change of wind and rain, the number of calendars, and everything." The "Records of History" also says that he was "the King of Zhou Ling" and was the first fang warlock seen in the history of Zheng.

When he was still the King of Zhou Ling, he cast a spell of shooting "head" on the people who despised the King of Zhou and did not come to worship, trying to convince them with the help of the power of the gods and ghosts. In order to fully assist the King of Zhou and maintain the dignity of the royal family, painstaking efforts were made.

In addition, Chang Hong was erudite and proficient in musical rhythms, and was a master of music at that time. In the year when Confucius went to Chengzhou to greet Lao Tzu, he paid a special visit to Cang Hong to learn music and ask about the similarities and differences between Shao Le and Wu Le. In the following year when Confucius was still being taught, he personally visited the Country of Qi to listen to Shao Le's performance, and the music was so musical that he was drunk and "did not know the taste of meat in March".

Cang Hong, a great sage of the world, for the purpose of defending the Zhou royal family, in the Jinqing dispute that broke out before the Three Families of Wei, Han, and Zhao divided into Jin, he was obviously inclined to the party closest to the royal family, but he brought himself a catastrophe that could not end well.

Zhuangzi, a high-ranking scholar of the world, was quite hated by the ninety-year-old courtiers, and he relayed the rumor in "Zhuangzi Foreign Objects", "Cang Hong died in Shu, hid his blood for three years, and turned into Bi. This is where idioms such as Cang Honghua Bi and Bi Blood Dan Xin come from.

Chang Hong was the seniorest, oldest, and highest-ranking sorcerer who was killed in the late Spring and Autumn period, and in addition to the "Hua bi" leaving a miracle in the hearts of the world's hearts, the sacredness from the witch's office had been peeled off.

Imagine the ancient witch wind stirring, the world's great witch and the tribal leader Witch King, that legendary era is the golden age of the witch people.

The Yellow Emperor fought against Xuan You, and the Wind and Rain Division competed to fight, and the comparison was more than the level of the spell. Da Yu Zhi Shui Gong is in the thousand autumns, indispensable to the magic of driving the dragon and opening the river, and the magic trick of guiding the flow into the sea. Legend has it that the era is really full of gods and witches, and it is famous all over the world.

The so-called Ten Witches of lingshan (Wu Xian, Wu Ji, Wu Peng, Wu Gu, Wu Zhen, Wu Li, Wu Xie, Wu Luo), and the enlightened Six Witches (Wu Peng, Wu Li, Wu Yang, Wu Lu, Wu Fan, Wu Xiang), are all famous doctors in the world, masters of theosophy, and have created countless myths of mankind in the period of ignorance.

Three generations later, theocracy was established, "the great affairs of the kingdom are in the worship and the rong." "When the Xia Dynasty established the country and changed the Zen system to a hereditary system, they used the Mandate of Heaven as an excuse to pull the gods as a cover, honored the five elements (gold, wood, water, fire and earth), respected the three zheng (heaven and earth), and were keen on the worship of gods.

In the Yin Shang era, witch culture occupied a dominant position in society. The Book of Rites and Tables says, "The people respect God, lead the people to serve god, and first ghosts and then rituals." "After the founding of the Shang Dynasty, it suffered a seven-year drought, and the founding Shang king Tang Qin led his courtiers to set up an altar in Sanglin to ask for rain, and was willing to burn himself to sacrifice to God in order to save the people of Li.

Later kings lost this benevolence and perfunctory "burning witches" is a portrayal of the world's wind and day.

In the Shang generation, witchcraft spread to all corners of social life, from the vicissitudes of the times, the prosperity of the year, the victory or defeat of wars, the rise and fall of chaos, as small as home travel, cattle and sheep lost, all have to make decisions by asking God for advice. There are many "Wang Zhanyue" proclamations left in the existing oracle bones, that is, the Shang King's personal participation in witchcraft.

Shangwu chose divination as a tool for communicating with the gods, which not only promoted the use and development of writing, but also enabled the writing of oracle bones as a carrier, opening up the excellent and long tradition of Chinese history.

Zhou ji ruled the world, not only accepting all the religious ideas of the previous generation, but also developing and creating. King Wen played Zhou Yi, and Jiang Taigong even issued a legend of the gods, which shows that they were all the top witches at that time.

Due to the fiery spirit of the early Zhou Dynasty, Zhou unified the traditions of Xia Chong's Mandate of Heaven and Shang Chong's ghost gods, and established a new set of rules for respecting the heavens and respecting the ancestors and revering virtue and repaying merits. Worshipping the ancestors of heaven has not only become a great ceremony of the country, but also set up a special public institution for management. "The office of the Great Zhongbo, the god of the state, the god of man, the ghost, and the gift of the earth [qí]." ("Zhou Lishang")

Western Zhou, as the integrator of pre-Qin religious culture, formed three major religious gods of heaven, earth, and man and ghost on the basis of nature worship and polytheistic beliefs in ancient and previous generations.

The gods of heaven refer to the gods in the heavens, including the god of heaven, the god of the universe, the emperor of the heavens, the stars, the wind and rain, and the gods of thunder and lightning; only the gods of the earth, the deification of all natural objects on the earth are the gods of the earth, including the gods of the land, the gods of the society, the gods of the mountains, the rivers and the sea, and the gods of the hundred things; the human ghosts are the deified ancestors and the sages and loyal martyrs worshipped by their own people.

Heaven has gods, earth has earth, and people have ghosts, all three have supernatural abilities and the virtue and kindness to protect mankind. The gods and ghosts of heaven and earth became the root of all the gods of Taoism in later generations.

The Western Zhou Dynasty pushed the development of religion in ancient China to a high level by establishing a "Mingtang system" that integrated religion, patriarchy, politics, and education. The officials who held the positions of Bu, Shi, Zong, and Zhu were all pillars of the state, and the early Western Zhou Dynasty was still the last good time for the witches.

With the drastic changes in the social history of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty, the decline of dynasties, the decline of the office, the loss of the Mandate of Heaven, and the gods were even more unable to take care of themselves. The Sons of Heaven and the princes lost the ability to continue to support a large number of clergy, and many of them had to go into exile and earn a living by virtue of the cultural knowledge and special skills they had previously possessed.

They either organize funerals, marriages, and ceremonies for people; or they set up private schools, receive apprentices to give lectures, and teach the six arts; or they turn to the upstarts and power groups and become "soldiers" with long skills and running to serve their lives. There are also those who continue to engage in the old line of theosophy in the folk, being a witch or a god, it is inevitable that the scenery will no longer be there, people will be blinded, and even have to worry about their lives at any time.

At the beginning of his term of office, Ximen Leopard, the commander of Yi County, discovered that the three elders of Yixian County, Ting Tuan, and witches had conspired to defraud the people of their lives and money in the name of marrying a woman for Hebo, so they did not ask the master and the original commission, first took the witches and the second and third disciples, and under the pretext of directly informing Hebo, they were thrown into the river one by one and drowned. The ecological environment of the sorcerers has obviously deteriorated to the point of being slaughtered, and the glory of the messengers of the gods and gods that once existed is now the end of abandonment, which is really regrettable.

After all, there are still witches who are not willing to fall, they not only adhere to the professional expertise of theosophy, but also can't afford to lose the face of the world's white eyes, so they hide alone, lurk in the mountains, practice breathing, bears through bird guidance, take the art of breaking the valley, and look for immortal immortality. Perhaps in response to the saying that the land of death and the afterlife, the end of witchcraft has created vitality for Fang Xian, and an era of immortals has quietly come.