Immortals are a very popular saying in ancient Chinese mythology, and there are very poignant stories in this saying. In this story, there are real events in history, and others are some imaginations left behind by some ancient people, who do not know natural things thoroughly enough, so they think that this is a kind of fairy thing. And the image given to us by the gods is also very beautiful, so today we have always said that the gods are fluttering, so we all say that the good-looking women in the world are fairies, and the most typical of the stories of the older generation is actually the eight immortals crossing the sea and the seven fairies of the heavens, and the heavenly immortals are matched with these stories.
The story of the Eight Immortals circulates in China
The story of the Eight Immortals that Chinese today actually went through a very long stage, the timeline in this stage is very long, and each immortal character has the experience of the world behind it, and this experiential life is called red dust experience by professionals. We Chinese the New Year's Festival is the stage when we are most familiar with the immortal system and characters. What happens during this phase is usually passed on to the next generation by word of mouth.
In the period of time near the Spring Festival, Chinese familiar with this process should know that we have a must do that is to sacrifice the stove king, this stove king actually represents a supervisory role in human affairs in folk tales and legends, and at the time of the twenty-fifth day of the 25th month of each year, it will return the good and bad things done by the family upwards, so every year at this time, the Chinese family will take the delicious and delicious food treasured at home as a tribute to the stove king.
Many people may ask what kind of relationship between the Stove King and the Eight Immortals is? In fact, smart people have already discovered this difference in their daily lives, and we will find that the stove prince is not only himself and some costumes, but also many other portraits, which are actually the eight immortals that are popular in the folk. From the Chinese mythological system, although the official rank of the position of The King of The Stove is not very high, he has many capable people and strangers under him, and these capable people and aliens are the composition of the Eight Immortals.
Chinese has always been a country with a highly developed civilization, in the eyes of many Western sinologists, China can not even be described as a country, because the magic of Chinese is too much, Chinese the handling of foreign and internal contradictions and the development of civilization with other countries in the world have shocked the world, so China is known as a country disguised as a civilization, and there are many religious systems in China, an ancient country. The most important of these are Taoism, which emerged in China, and Confucianism and foreign Buddhism, which began to flourish after the Han Dynasty.
In this land of China, everyone's faith is very free, no one will deliberately restrain you, and the traditional Eight Immortals, which are most convinced by the people, actually originated from the Taoism of Chinese themselves. The Eight Immortals are all gods unique to Taoism in that sense and have little connection with other religions.
Uncle Cao Guo did not look like a god
Uncle Cao Guo was the last of the Eight Immortals to cross the sea. We all know that every immortal in the Eight Immortals crossing the sea actually takes a long time to undergo the transformation from mortal to immortal, and during this time it needs to go through countless tribulations and tests. And from the course of Chinese history, we will also see that the first seven immortals in the traditional Eight Immortals were chosen by the heavenly beings to become immortals who lived with heaven and earth because of their good deeds and virtues in the human world.
This process has changed to where the eighth Uncle Cao Guo has changed its taste, and we will find that the process of Cao Guo Uncle's obtaining immortals is very different from others, whether it is from his personal morality or from his contribution to the people of the world, he is far inferior to the previous seven, if we really investigate it, we will find that he is actually a descendant of a stupid disciple who does nothing wrong.
Uncle Cao Guo's identity is very noble, he is a famous nobleman of the Great Song Dynasty, it is said that he once won the trust of several emperors of the Song Dynasty, and the status of the entire Song Dynasty was below one person and above ten thousand people. Logically speaking, Chinese's hatred of the rich will make the image of this nobleman ugly, but in the end, it is found that this Cao Guo uncle has become the most envied immortal for everyone, and the story here is really a bit confusing!
Uncle Cao Guo was different from other immortals. The other immortals were all fairy-like and fluttering, which made people look very envious of this dashing look. From the appearance of Uncle Cao Guo, he is not a god at all, on the contrary, Uncle Cao Guo, as a god, is dressed in an official uniform. From the middle, there was a jade belt tied. Holding the kind of jade plate used by the Shang Dynasty in his hand, he looked like a high official of the imperial court at a glance, and if no one explained it, no one knew that he was a god.
The story of Cao Guo's uncle
Cao Guoshu is a real figure in the history of the Northern Song Dynasty. His original name was Cao Jingxiu. He was not what we call an only child today. He has a sister above him. Then he was the second son in the family, and he had a younger brother than him. For this Uncle Cao Guo, the fame drama in his life is to rely on his sister, his sister is the imperial concubine of Song Renzong in the history of the Song Dynasty, we all know that there are many imperial concubines of Song Renzong, there were many concubines of Song Renzong at that time, but he was the most fond of this concubine.
Although Song Renzong is an honest person, but his honest man is not anyone can bully, ancient China was originally a feudal society, most of the people in this society are mainly male-dominated an ancient society, in this society people are basically male as respect, so to talk about Song Renzong as an emperor but was slapped by the empress, I believe that absolutely no one dares to believe, but this matter is real in the history of the Northern Song Dynasty.
Song Renzong is because he was slapped by Empress Guo after feeling very faceless, as a big man in the end was slapped in front of many palace women, which made Song Renzong have no two sides, so the later Emperor Song Renzong abolished the original empress Guo Empress, once the empress's position is vacant, it is bound to cause a lot of concubines to compete, in this harem battle, in the final battle for the harem, Cao Guo's sister won and became the new empress of Song Renzong. And Cao Jingxiu also smoothly walked in this incident.
After Uncle Cao Guo gained power, his younger brother Cao Er Uncle was arrogant, not only bullying the people in his ordinary life, but also putting his eyes on the candidates who entered the capital to catch the exam, at that time there was a candidate who entered the capital to catch the exam, Cao Guo Uncle knew that the candidate's wife was very beautiful, and then he began to approach this candidate, first in the relationship of ordinary friends and brothers to invite him to eat and drink, and finally when the purpose was about to be exposed, he was learned by the examinee.
After the candidate learned about it, he began to stay away from him, and Second Uncle Cao was very angry after knowing it, so he directly eliminated the candidate and imprisoned his wife. Who knew that the matter of Cao Er's uncle killing people was shaken out, and he was very scared, so he began to find his brother who liked to help him support himself. After knowing the matter, Uncle Cao Guo decided to kill the candidate's wife without stopping. Who knew that the wife of the examinee who was thrown into the well did not completely die, but was pitifully revived by the heavens, and finally found Bao Zheng to report this matter as a case.
After knowing the truth of the matter, Bao Zheng arrested Cao Guo's uncle at that time and announced the death penalty, at this time Cao Guo's uncle panicked, he entrusted people to find his sister to intercede, and finally Song Renzong came to Bao Zheng to intercede, but Bao Zheng was very angry in his heart, and felt that he could not give anyone face, that is, to be the master of the people. In the end, Song Renzong also had no way, in order to save his brother-in-law's life, even the era name was changed, we all know that the ancient Chinese feudal society changed the era name generally to pardon the world, and the amnesty of the world will generally forgive the sinners who rebelled.
At this time, Bao Zheng also has no way. He could only obey the emperor's orders and pardon Cao Guo's uncle. After experiencing the great changes in life and death, Uncle Cao Guo was like a changed person, no longer arrogantly oppressing the people as in the past, and regarded human life as grass and mustard. In order to repent, he even sold all his family property and distributed it to the poor people in Tokyo City, but he retired into the Zhongnan Mountain to practice, and finally met the famous Tang Dynasty Daoist Lü Dongbin, after Lü Dongbin's initiation, he became one of the eight immortals through the change from man to god.
The ancients said that the article is to narrate the truth and explain the knowledge to the people, so we will be inspired in many stories in ancient times to finally achieve the road, today's story of Lu Dongbin is actually to tell us that people will make mistakes, but as long as they make mistakes in time, they will definitely be forgiven, so although the first half of Cao Guo's life is a bully, but the later stage can still be ranked in the Xianban Is actually such a truth.