"Everyone has heard of it, and no one has seen it" - this is people's first impression of elements such as ghosts. In ancient and modern China and abroad, there has never been a lack of legends about ghosts and gods, and ancient Chinese novels such as "Journey to the West" and "Liaozhai Zhi Yi" are representatives. The Divine Comedy, written by Dante during the Renaissance, also painted a terrible scene of hell.
In human culture, people will trust the demons and gods for things that cannot be handled by justice in the world, and people call this punishment "retribution." However, compared with gods, ghost legends bring people more fear and unknown.
So then again, are ghosts real? According to various legends that the ancients could not tell, no one could tell this point. However, the famous scholar Zeng Shiqiang said: I have experienced it. What does he mean by "experienced"? What should I do if I encounter a ghost? Let's find out together today.
The ghost element in human civilization
Why are there ghosts and gods, speeches, cultures? Why do people rely on such terrible unknowns for a large part of their lives? At its root, the source, inheritance, and development of ghost culture are closely related.
As early as when the primitive tribal social form began to develop, the ghost and god culture had already appeared. With the formation and development of the country, a large part of the mainstream culture was occupied by the ghost culture. In the initial social form, there was almost no formal education, and the understanding of nature was very limited.
Changes in the natural environment in a flash: heavy rain, thunder, drought, cold, etc., once these phenomena are beyond people's daily cognition, with the education level of people at that time, it is impossible to give a logical explanation. In the end, these are all reduced to unsolved mysteries.
But just the unknown, people are not satisfied, whether it is reasonable or not, must give an explanation for these unsolved mysteries. Slowly, the ghost and god culture appeared, which is the carrier for people to place unsolved mysteries, and as for the later worship of ghosts and gods, it was all a matter of the mature development of the ghost and god culture.
"Ghost" is a very abstract cultural element, in the beginning, ghosts represent the form of people after death, without weight, without shadow, without a trace. Generally speaking, ghosts live in the underground house and only come out to move when there is no sunlight.
In general, ghosts are one of the conjectures that people are very afraid of. Because in the process of the development of ghost culture, ghosts are generally given vengeful, evil, and terrifying characteristics, and in the process, many types are refined.
For example, a ghost refers to an indomitable soul that has been eaten by a tiger, and this type of ghost has been cast in the shadow of vengeance since death. They wander around the place of death all day long, harming people's lives, and legend has it that these ghosts can only enter reincarnation if they obtain a certain amount of soul yang qi, so people are very afraid of this kind of ghost.
Of course, not all ghosts in culture are evil, and some actually act as protectors, such as after the death of human ancestors. After the Zhou Dynasty, the feudal ritual system on the mainland had become more sound, and ancestral ancestral halls also existed at that time.
Ancestral halls can be roughly divided into two categories, one is to worship the souls of national celebrities, and the other is ancestors; The former refers more to the "immortals" in the sky. The people behind these tablets are basically "ghosts", but they are responsible for the prosperity of the country and the safety of future generations.
Do ghosts exist?
With the development of culture, ghosts and gods have gradually become a part of people's lives, whether it is a local religion in the mainland or a foreign religion, ghosts and gods have become an indispensable part of its development later. For example, the six realms of reincarnation, the A-nose hell, etc., are full of ghost and god elements.
In fact, through the analysis of ghost culture, it is not difficult to find that in the final analysis, this culture is the cultural connotation of the ruling class. Of course, the ghost culture itself does not have such a great energy, it is only one of all cultures, but it accounts for a large proportion.
Do ghosts really exist? Once this question is thrown, no one can tell, but according to the views of the famous scholar Mr. Zeng Shiqiang, he said that he had really seen ghosts. It was his childhood experience, when his residential area was an old-fashioned courtyard and there was also a lot of "no man's land".
The young Zeng Shiqiang liked to go to these old courtyards alone to play. Among these courtyards, there is a courtyard that has not been inhabited since Zeng Shiqiang's memory, and he likes to go there because the century-old trees in the courtyard attract him very much.
However, a well under the tree, deep and bottomless, brought a very large psychological shadow to the young Zeng Shiqiang. One day, Zeng Shiqiang still went to play in the yard, and the ghost was so bad that he wanted to go to the edge of the well to see what it was like.
As a result, he didn't know if he didn't look at it, and when he saw it, he was shocked, he just picked up the edge of the well, and as a result, he saw a blurry ghost appear on the deep water! Zeng Shiqiang immediately "Ah! The ground shouted and ran out of the yard in a hurry, losing even his shoes when he ran.
After running for a while, Zeng Shiqiang suddenly remembered what his mother said to him: "In case you encounter something unclean, don't leave your neck for something behind." Thinking of this, Zeng Shi had the courage to look back, and found that there was some ghost behind him.
Seeing this result, Zeng Shiqiang decided to go back and take a look again, anyway, in broad daylight, according to the "tradition", ghosts will not come out to harm people at all. Returning to Zeng Shiqiang next to the well, he found no abnormalities.
Enlightenment for us
Zeng Shiqiang eventually inquired in many ways, and he had not heard of anyone who encountered the same situation as him. Later, Zeng Shiqiang went to that place more than once to check, but never encountered the "ghost" in the well again. Later, Zeng Shiqiang devoted himself to academic research, but he never forgot this matter.
After that, he himself felt that the ghosts he saw back then should be illusions, because Zeng Shiqiang became a staunch materialist after that. He felt that it should be that the well was too deep at that time, and then the shadow in the water was very blurry, it should be leaves and other things, he was very nervous at that time, and he saw the wrong thing before the psychological effect appeared.
epilogue
The enlightenment we can get from Zeng Shiqiang's experience is that for many years, there have been countless legends about ghosts and gods, but strangely, no one has ever been able to produce tangible evidence to prove that ghosts and gods are real. This is thousands of years old, which is enough to show that ghosts and gods are non-existent things that people imagine exist.
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