Foxes become beautiful women, flower fairies become beautiful women, and even fish become beautiful women, who can imagine, in "Chatting with Zai Zhiyi", even crows can become beautiful women, and they can marry people, give birth to a bunch of children, and share the blessings of qi people. It can only be said that the folk imagination is really endless, and it is also very romantic...
The story of "Bamboo Green", with the poor students who fell off the list and the crow as the protagonists, tells a mysterious, tortuous, strong and romantic love story, which is more worth talking about than the story of the fox fairy's direct encounter in the middle of the night.
It is said that in Fuchikou Town, Hubei Province, there is a Temple of Wu Wang, which commemorates Gan Ning, the general of the State of Wu during the Three Kingdoms. In the Song Dynasty, because of the merit of helping Cao Yun with the kamikaze, he was given the title of Prince of Wang by the dynasty, called the Temple of Wu Wang. Boats on the river often come to the temple to pray for peace, and as a result, flocks of crows always come to greet them, and the locals call them "Wuwang Shen crows".
The story begins with this WuWang Temple and the "Wuwang Divine Crow".
It is said that there was a poor scholar in Hunan named Yuke, who failed to take the imperial examination, spent all his money on the way home, and was embarrassed to beg, so hungry that he went to the Wuwang Temple to bow down, hoping that the gods and immortals would bless it.
Because he was too hungry, he went to lie down under the porch after the worship, and as a result, someone took him to see King Wu, saying that the black-clad team still had one person left, so it was better to let him act. King Wu agreed, so he dressed him in black, put it on and turned into a crow, flew out, and stopped on the mast with the other crows, and the passengers gave them meat and ate them every day.
After a few days, King Wu gave him some crows "Zhuqing" as wives, and the two crows were very affectionate.
Once, the fishman was shot by a group of passing soldiers, but fortunately Zhu Qing flew away with it and was not caught. The crows were furious, and a fierce fan overturned the ship. Although Zhu Qing often found fish feeders to eat, the fish customers were seriously injured and died.
However, it was the crow fishman who died, and as a man, he was still lying in the corridor of the temple. People thought he was dead and had a body temperature, so they kept caring for him. He died as a crow, and man woke up. Someone nearby scraped up some money for the trip and asked him to go home.
The fish guest was obsessed with Zhu Qing, after all, when he was in distress, this crow wife was so good to himself. Three years later, he passed by the Wuwang Temple and put on offerings, saying that if Zhu Qing was also there, he would stay. But the crows flew away after eating. The fish guest was picked up, and when he returned, he went to the Wuwang Temple, and suddenly a beautiful woman in her 20s came to the room at night, and it turned out to be Zhu Qing. It turned out that Zhu Qing had become the goddess of the Han River and was usually no longer in the Wuwang Temple.
The two are as loving as ever, and the fish guest hopes that she will return to Hunan with her, but Zhu Qing says that she is the goddess of the Han River and cannot leave. When he woke up the next day, the fishman was already on the boat and had reached the river in Hanyang. The shipwright and the servant were asleep. The two lived lovingly on the boat for two months, and Zhu Qing gave him a set of green clothes, saying that when you want to wear it when you want me, you will turn into a crow and fly directly over.
After a big drunken meal, the fishman woke up and the boat returned to Dongting Lake.
After the fishman returned home, once he missed Zhu Qing, he put on a green coat and turned into a crow and flew over. Later, Zhu Qing also gave birth to a child named Han Chan, which was broken out of the egg. After all, crows lay eggs, unlike people. Then many goddesses came to congratulate.
Later, because the fishman's wife could not have children, she liked Han production, but Zhu Qing wanted to go back to Han production. Twins were born again, a man and a woman, the son's name was Hansheng, and the daughter took my jade pendant, so that the fishman brought Hansheng home. Han Sheng later also married a goddess. After the death of his wife, the fish guest took his daughter Yu Pei away and never returned.
Now it is generally believed that crows are ominous birds, how can they still become Hanshui goddesses? In fact, crows were sacred birds for a long time in ancient China. For example, the famous "three-legged golden wu", in the era of sun worship, is the sun god bird. In the Zhou Dynasty, the crow was the bird of good fortune. Crows were also thought to be filial birds, as crows are said to have fed back.
In general, northern cultures consider crows to be sacred birds, while southern cultures are more averse to crows. After the Southern Song Dynasty, the economic center of gravity shifted south, and southern culture gradually occupied the mainstream, and the crow became less auspicious. The Manchus of the Qing Dynasty, who believed that crows had the ability to show the way when hunting and fighting, were considered auspicious birds.
Therefore, in Pu Songling's chat, it is not surprising that there are divine crows. As for the crow turning into a beauty, that's even simpler, right? In the chat fast, what else can not become a god?