In Chinese mythology, demons, ghosts, spirits and immortals are very common beings, usually a collective name for a certain type of creature. In fact, each of them is divided by a detailed definition.
If there are grades in these categories, I will introduce them by rank.
spirit
Spirit actually refers to the rhyme. The Tao gives birth to one, life to two, two to three, three to all things, and all things have spirits.
Therefore, the Spirit is the essential source. The sunrise and sunset, the clouds rising and rising, and the changes of the four seasons are all the embodiment of the rhyme of all things in time.
With spirit, it can exist in this world. No spirit is forbidden by the Word. Therefore, the spirit is the foundation of cultivation, from flowers, trees, animals to people, from people to immortals, spirit is the premise of everything.
Spirit is an unconscious, formless being. With the spirit, the stone can also absorb the essence of the sun and the moon, and it can become a spirit by obtaining a specific chance.
Therefore, in some novels, the quality of the spiritual root determines the talent of cultivation.
essence
Fine, has the meaning of essence. Spiritual things, the essence of the sun and the moon, the blessings of heaven and earth, accumulate day by day, when the spirit reaches a certain number, the quantitative change causes qualitative change, it will become the essence.
After becoming a sperm, there is consciousness. When you are conscious, you act according to your mood and anger.
3. Demons
Goblins and goblins are not very different in nature, so people often confuse goblins. The biggest difference between them is the style of doing things.
Those who harm nature and reason are demons, and those who practice their duties are spirits.
Whether it is a demon or a spirit, the next purpose of cultivation is to transform into a human form. As for why? Finally, we will explain.
4. Strange
A goblin or demon, if it fails to evolve into human form, will become a monster. Monsters have some of the characteristics of people, but retain most of the characteristics of the body.
Strangely, most of them are tyrannical and murderous, which may be caused by the explosion of deformed mentality. Strange and demon, elf opposite, whether in temperament or appearance, there is less beauty.
5. Ghosts
After the soul leaves the body and absorbs the yin or qi, it becomes a ghost.
Of course, whether it is a person or a goblin, there is a soul to be conscious, so when a person dies, he will become a ghost, a pig demon will become a pig ghost, and a flower spirit will become a flower ghost.
The nether world is heavy, and when the soul reaches the netherworld, it will become a ghost. The nether world is all ghosts, all of the same kind, if suddenly a big living person breaks in, it will also be regarded as a "ghost" by the ghost.
6. Magic
The word devil was coined by Buddhism. Demons are born from the heart, so everyone, every conscious monster, is likely to become a demon.
Having evil thoughts in your heart, not correcting your mentality in time, and going farther and farther down the path of evil. Ghosts may be good ghosts, but demons will never be good demons.
Therefore, confusing demons and ghosts is a bit wronged.
7. Immortals
Immortals are the ultimate cultivation goal of Qi practitioners.
Immortals are also hierarchical, divided into heaven and earth gods, people, and ghosts.
The highest level of heavenly immortals is generally the ascension of the flesh, and in the heavens, it is generally heavenly immortals, and the heavenly immortals are divided into grades, xuan immortals, golden immortals, great Luo immortals and so on.
Earth immortals, also refer to land immortals, such as the Journey to the West written in the Zhen Yuanzi is the ancestor of the earth immortals.
Immortals refer to immortals with priesthood, generally subordinate to the Heavenly Court, which can be understood as the "civil servants" of the Heavenly Court.
People are immortals, and people enter the mountains as immortals. Immortals refer to the fact that some of the worldly cultivators, practicing Qi cultivator cultivation, as the cultivation level rises, have the mana to summon wind and rain, and have the ability to avoid evil, and mortals will call it immortals when they see it.
Ghost immortals refer to ghosts who do not do evil through cultivation, and have relatively high cultivation behavior to be recognized by the heavenly court and become ghost immortals.
8. God
God is not the same as the gods, but God is incarnated by innate spirits. In Chinese mythology, gods can be divided into two types:
One is a flesh-and-blood deity that was born, such as the Pangu god who opened up the world, such as nuwa, the god who created mankind.
The other is a god who is directly transformed by the spirit of the spirit of the divine thing or the spirit of special attributes, such as the sun god, the moon god, the god of time, and so on.
I just said a question in the article. Why do most of the elves cultivate into human form first?
Because, man is the four greatest in the domain, the human body is the raft of the world, its identity is yin and yang, its five elements are listed inside, the meridians are distributed with water veins, and the acupuncture points should be zhou tian xingsu, so it is called the small heaven and earth of the human body, the big man of heaven and earth. In general, four words can be summed up, the law is heaven and earth. Regardless of the genie, the cultivators are all on the path of enlightenment, the principle of heaven and earth, and the Dharma. In contrast, animals are incomplete in soul, yin and yang, non-Taoist bodies, and karmic entanglements, so they will first cultivate the human body and then seek detachment.
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