In the science fiction novel The Three-Body Problem, there is a very classic modern quote - "Give civilization to the years".
The vigorous development of modern society.
It is to create the soil for the flowers of civilization and culture to bloom for the years and times.
From the humanities to the sciences.
Even the global environment itself, on which people live, is encompassed by the culture constructed by human beings.
In Taoism, the traditional religion of the mainland, the earth's environment is nothing more than the eight-character outline of all things in the universe between heaven and earth.
And the leader who leads everything between heaven and earth is the "Jade Emperor" who is well-known and recognized by everyone.
In Taoist beliefs, the Jade Emperor is the king of the gods who oversees the Three Realms.
But some people say that although the Jade Emperor is in charge of the Three Realms, he is not really the first leader of heaven and earth.
Because there are actually six realms between heaven and earth, and the Jade Emperor is only half of them.
The six worlds between heaven and earth, which are the six worlds?
The Three Realms that the Jade Emperor is in charge of, which are the three realms?
China's first national "top stream" Jade Emperor
Speaking of the Jade Emperor, most of you may think of the "Journey to the West" film and television works, with a handsome appearance and a square face.
Wearing a jade curtain and a golden hat, the classic fairy image of a graceful gold.
And most people will naturally think that the Jade Emperor is the biggest and highest symbol of power between heaven and earth.
The popularity of the Jade Emperor among the people is extremely high.
This reason is mainly due to the long influence of thousands of years of history on the mainland, the long history of Taoist culture, and the propaganda role of modern film and television works and other cultural industries.
Eventually, the identity and symbol of the Jade Emperor became famous and distinct.
Most of the people regard the Jade Emperor as the emperor of heaven and the supreme leader who can control and control the immortal figures.
And this is not much different from the formal interpretation made in Taoist culture.
In Taoist culture, the term Jade Emperor does not actually exist.
The word "Emperor" is a status symbol formed by the refining of the will of the people.
And the Jade Emperor is the formal explanation of the divine rank in Taoism.
and the four directions of the three realms, the upper and lower boundaries, and everything in the four-dimensional world that modern science cannot explain.
The realm of Buddhism and the realm of Taoism
Therefore, the Jade Emperor in the minds of the people is actually an immortal in charge of the Three Realms.
But in fact, the above explanation of the Three Realms is still not very accurate.
Because in Taoist culture, there is no concept and cognition of "boundaries" and "several worlds".
Even today, there is still no accurate final conclusion on the Taoist statement about the Three Realms.
It's just that it is generally believed that there is an official explanation of the Three Realms of Heaven, Earth and Man and the Three Realms of Heaven, Earth and Water.
In Taoism, there are three realms and ten directions, and thirty-three heavens.
In terms of the concept of space, the world of heaven and earth has been carefully divided, and the ideas in it have also been influenced by the impact of Buddhist culture.
And these three realms have their own levels of progression, a total of 28 layers, the two Buddhist three realms and 28 heavens.
It is also believed by many scholars to be the theoretical prototype of the 33 heavens theory of Taoism in mainland China.
According to the double evidence of Taoist culture and Buddhist culture, the identity of the Jade Emperor as the lord of the Three Realms is naturally highly recognized by the public.
Then this statement about the "Six Realms".
What about the true and false situations?
The true and false are doubtful and confusing
As for the Six Realms and One Realm, we can't find any relevant documents and historical materials.
The only thing that goes along with it is the "realm of knowledge" in Buddhist culture.
"Realm" and the "realm" mentioned above are two completely different concepts.
As the name suggests, the "realm of consciousness" is actually the world of consciousness, which is a completely illusory spiritual world condensed by practitioners in their own consciousness world and mind.
This is completely inconsistent with the Three Realms led by the Jade Emperor in Taoist culture, let alone subdividing which of the Six Realms the Jade Emperor presides.
So what are the six worlds between heaven and earth?
The answer to this question is actually hidden in the worldview structure of a large-scale online game in the mainland.
In the game "The Legend of Sword and Fairy", there is a complete set of system descriptions about the six worlds between heaven and earth.
In the game's worldview, heaven and earth are divided into six worlds: humans, immortals, demons, ghosts, gods, and demons.
The Jade Emperor, as the leader of the heavenly world, rules the three worlds of humans, immortals, and gods by himself.
As the name suggests, the human world is a race that lives in the world and the world on earth.
The Divine Race is an innate race born in the heavenly world, while the Immortal Race is an enlightened cultivator from the human world.
And the other three realms, the demon realm, are all the natural beings in the earthly world except for the human race, either through a flash of inspiration or through hard cultivation.
In the end, he was able to be reborn and transformed into a demon body, and the goblins finally formed a scale, and the demon world was born.
Naturally, this place belongs to the goblins.
The Demon Realm, on the other hand, is a world that is the opposite of the Divine Realm.
Everything here is the opposite of the Heavenly Realm, a chaotic world that is not governed by the Jade Emperor.
Led by the leader of the Demon Realm, the Demon Venerable controls this chaotic world.
Among them, the ghost world is the most special.
Rather than the definition of a world, the ghost world is more like a part of the rules of the world.
This place is responsible for the reincarnation of all living beings and dead things in the Six Realms.
It is not under the jurisdiction or control of anyone, or that each of the Six Realms is the controller of this world.
It's like the ghost world is like an indispensable cog of the world.
For the stability of the Six Realms, he continued to work hard and kept spinning like that.
Write at the end
The world is wonderful, and people's minds full of infinite possibilities are even more wonderful.
For all unknown things, people always report with incomparably rich curiosity and imagination, and use this as the first key to explore the door to the unknown world.
Whether it is the exploration of the truth of the world, or the construction and construction of culture.
This all represents that people are indomitable on the road of exploring the unknown and pursuing the unknown.
Perhaps, in this process, the human race will inevitably become arrogant and self-contradictory, and will make mistakes that will lead to deviations from objective facts due to blind self-confidence and subjectivity.
But doesn't this also symbolize the truth of human footprints and the reality of human progress?