Flower growers have great reverence for heaven and earth, and the ancient emperors were also the most important group in the world for the so-called providence, in the past, every natural disaster and man-made disaster had to issue a self-condemnation, and published a long article on various public media trumpets to review mistakes.
Therefore, the twice-yearly festival of heaven, the prayer valley has become particularly important.
The Temple of Heaven was the closest place to the heavens that we thought in the past, but in fact, the building here is not very high, the Circular Hill Altar is only three stories, and the altar is 5.2 meters high. It was not the golden texture that Jiajing wanted at the beginning, but the pure White Jade pile.
It seems that there are nine everywhere like the Forbidden City, in fact, the nine here is the number of days, the number of polar yang, the largest number, ten We generally think that there is no perfect in the world, so 9 is already the highest, infinite meaning.
Many foreigners have asked me before whether The God of Heaven and their God may be of the same origin? I don't think so, because Chinese faith in heaven and earth is more of a reverence for the Creator and the laws of nature than a specific god or a man. Not a concrete personality God, but naturalness, a force of nature.
Because Jiajing believes in Taoism, there is Taoist thought here, the unity of heaven and man, the unity of heaven and earth, and all things belong to one big life body.
Speaking of Taoism, some people think that the sacrifice to the heavens is the Jade Emperor, in fact, the general prayer ceremony is on the ninth day of the first month, and the prayer valley is around the fifteenth day of the first month, Mengchun prayer valley, winter solstice sacrifice, the day difference is far away.
Some people also ask mischievously, how do people and animals who practice cultivation ascend? Do the gods fly in the sky in the stratosphere or the troposphere? Why do Chinese immortals fly standing and foreign supermen fly upright?
There are many questions that we can't say clearly, I only know that the core module of the Shenzhou THIRTEEN docking is in space.
We have never stopped exploring the universe.
Today, 2021.10.16, we once again successfully used human manpower to ascend, and Shenzhou 13 docked with the sky and the core module, representing another step in our exploration of the universe.
Ancient dreams of landing on the moon, flying in the sky, rushing into the sky, and so on, have become a reality today.
Sometimes I also wonder if the gods and immortals depicted by the ancients in the past are the result of the exploration of the earth by alien technology. Joining Wang Yaping, China's first female astronaut stationed on the space station, traveled through time and space, and was seen by the ancients when flying back to the earth, is that a female immortal?
Perhaps, technology is divine power.