Yunnan, located in the southwest of the land of China, is a magical land with the richest variety of ethnic minorities.
How magical Yunnan is, look at its mountain road eighteen bends, nine curves and sixty-eight turns, turn to you do not want to drive. In Yunnan, there are not a few "devil highways" like this. No wonder some people joke that "having a Yunnan driver's license is the highest honor in the driver industry".
The most intuitive magic of Yunnan is its unique terrain. After millions of years of craftsmanship, nature has created a yuanmou earthen forest, a column formed by sand and gravel accumulations, and it looks like a spectacle forest in the distance. The fantastic and desolate nature of this place has become a source of inspiration for artists to create, and it is also the filming place for many film and television dramas.
The magic of Yunnan also lies in their "foodie" nature - even if they are poisoned, they cannot stop their enthusiasm for eating mushrooms.
The complex topography, diverse soil types and unique three-dimensional climatic conditions here have bred a wealth of wild edible mushrooms, accounting for two-thirds of China's edible mushrooms. But some wild mushrooms are poisonous, and eating them will cause people to have a slight hallucination. And as a Yunnan person who has not been poisoned by bacteria, can you still be called a Yunnan person?
They are the "Fan Xian" who came out of reality, and their long-term use has become "anti-toxic", and the small bacteria poisoning is not enough to hang on to the teeth. It is as if the illusion of wild mushroom poisoning can be worthy of the magic of Yunnan, and the two complement each other.
As far back as the Internet 1.0 era, Yunnan magic art has begun to be conceived, a song "Old Driver With Me" sings countless hanging silk voices, it through the re-deconstruction of traditional Yunnan lantern play, with the rural villagers' Thunder people singing, has a strong social ironic significance.
The expressionist color behind its magical color is the distant relative of the "ghost fire boy" who now occupies the ghost animal and the beanie shoe tights.
The magic of Yunnan lies in the myths and stories circulating in its mountains and rivers. Just as the children of the Greek city-states were exposed to the legends of the gods on Mount Olympus from an early age, the Yunnan people grew up listening to Taoist myths, which was part of their learning, the basic course of addition and subtraction within ten.
Seeing the churning sea of clouds, they would say that it was a fight between the gods and immortals.
Blowing from the Cangshan Mountains to the Erhai Sea, they would say that once upon a time, a white fox who had cultivated into a refined spirit borrowed six bottles of wind from the immortals, and one of them was thrown between the Cangshan Erhai Sea.
There is a famous Fengming Mountain in the east of Kunming City, and they will say that Chen Yongbin, the inspector of Yunnan in the Ming Dynasty, met Lü Dongbin on the mountain, and later built the "Yingxian Bridge" at the creek where they met, and built a golden temple on the mountain.
There is an Imperial Pavilion Temple on Jinfeng Mountain in Husa Township, Longchuan County, Yunnan, which was built by Mu Ying, the founding hero of the Ming Dynasty and the righteous son of Zhu Yuanzhang. They will say that when Mu Ying led his troops into western Yunnan, he encountered difficulties in the march and got lost, and the mother of the earth turned into a white deer and brought the army out of the predicament. In gratitude, Mu Ying built the Imperial Pavilion Temple on the Jinfeng Mountain where the white deer disappeared.
In short, as if all the authentic customs and places of interest in Yunnan, Yunnan people can use a Taoist myth to tell you the ins and outs.
The reason why it is emphasized is Taoist mythology is because in the myths and legends of Yunnan, there are almost all shadows of Taoism. Taoist figures such as Lü Dongbin, Tie Quan Li, and Zhang Sanfeng are often regular visitors to Yunnan myths and legends.
For example, there are myths and legends that there was an evil dragon in Kunming, which endangered the safety of the people, so Zhang Sanfeng took the evil dragon and returned the people to a pure land.
There are also myths and legends, in ancient times, there was a local rich man who ran rampant in the countryside and did nothing wrong. Zhang Sanfeng pretended to be a painter and painted a dragon for the rich man, who was happy to take it home and hang it. At night, the dragon in the painting came alive and spat flames to burn the home of the rich man.
Another example is this legend. In ancient times, there was a cruel and faint emperor, and the common people suffered natural disasters, and he not only refused to distribute disaster relief grain, but also collected taxes. Zhang Sanfeng then used magic to steal the silver from the emperor's treasury and distribute it to the affected people.
There are also many myths and legends about the Eight Immortals.
For example, there is a legend in the Yi people of Yunnan, that there is a hateful leader in the Nanjian Yi area of Dali Prefecture, Yunnan Province, who exploits the common people and makes people miserable. Lü Dongbin and Tie Quan Li of the Eight Immortals discussed blocking a local river and drowning the bad leader.
The Yunnan Mongols also have myths and legends about the Eight Immortals. There is a Qilu Lake in Tonghai County, Yuxi, Yunnan, and legend has it that there were evil dragons in the lake a long time ago, and they often made waves, resulting in either drought or flooding here. After Lü Dongbin learned about it, he not only subdued the evil dragon, but also painted a "sinkhole" in Qilu Lake, and if there was a flood, the excess water would enter the "sinkhole" and flow into the South China Sea. There will be no flooding here.
These Taoist myths and legends basically have a commonality: they reflect that when people face the oppression of powerful forces or powerless natural disasters, they often have few solutions and can only hope to obtain some mysterious power to fight against it.
The more myths and legends, the more they illustrate the low level of civilization and low productivity. This is why after the birth of modern science, there are fewer and fewer myths and legends. From this, we can also see that in ancient Yunnan, the level of productivity should be low.
Therefore, the "combination" of Taoism and Yunnan seems to be a natural thing. The Taoist social and political concept of the equality of all sentient beings and the magic spells contained in them were very useful to the people of ancient Yunnan.
There are many schools of Taoism, each of which has undergone a complex and lengthy process of evolution. There were two important schools of early Taoism: the Danding school and the Fu Zhen school.
The ultimate goal of the Danding Sect is immortality and immortality. They were obsessed with cultivating all kinds of inner and outer dan, thinking that after eating these elixirs, they could live forever. The Danding school was mostly respected by the upper class of society, and famous people such as Qin Shi Huang, Emperor Wu of Han, and Emperor Jiajing of the Ming Dynasty were all obsessed with Dan Medicine.
The Fu Zhen sect absorbed a large number of ancient witchcraft, preaching the painting of runes and chanting spells, summoning gods to drive away evil spirits, praying for blessings and warding off disasters, and so on. This school of thought is in line with the appetite of ordinary people, who do not need to live forever and become immortals, but only need to drive out disasters and evils and make peace and security.
The Taoist Fu Zhen school became popular in Yunnan and was very popular. From the myths and legends circulating in Yunnan, we can see many ideas of the Fu Zhen school.
The influence of Taoism on Yunnan is not only manifested in those myths and legends, Taoism has a special significance for several peasant uprisings in the history of Yunnan. For example, the peasant revolts of all ethnic groups in Yunnan, which ran through the Xianfeng and Tongzhi dynasties, used Taoism at the beginning of the uprising to win over personnel, or used Taoism to pretend to be gods and ghosts to strengthen the belief in victory.
The use of religion to carry out uprisings, of course, has advantages and disadvantages, and may be easier to use in the early stage, but if it cannot be systematically managed after the scale is grown, it is easy to cause internal chaos, and the balance of heaven is an example.
The use of religion to strengthen faith also has advantages and disadvantages, and it is easier to use for people who are less ignorant of reading, but they cannot deceive people who have "seen the world", especially when facing the foreign guns of foreigners, and the Boxer is an example.
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