Hello everyone, I am a teacher, commonly known as a witch, to give people fortune divination, to communicate with ghosts and gods, to avoid evil, we are the kind of people, women are called witches, men are called witches. Don't be in a hurry to scold the officials, I know that we are notorious, and there are many people who think that we are part of the pit and deception, and include us in the three sisters and six wives, which is on a par with the three punishments and six harms. But I still love my profession, and you must know that our professional history is extremely long, and the role of witches in traditional culture is very large.
Now, many people think that we wizards are evil, witch dolls, poison tricks and other evil arts, and when we mention it, we talk about discoloration. I think that we wizards are all evil people who use curses, puppets, etc., but you have misunderstood, although these people are also wizards, they are dark wizards, I am not. Although witchcraft was born very early, the punishment for the use of such techniques was severe when the law was later enacted.
Everything has a positive and negative side, in addition to the dark wizard kind of guy, our witch culture still has many wonderful, commendable places, witch culture has a long history, through the long river of history. The word "Wu" is also one of the earliest words to appear, and it has been found in the oracle bones. Wizards have existed since ancient times, and at that time, they were not a specific profession, but slowly evolved in the clan tribe due to life experience. Because the ancient ancestors were difficult to understand those natural phenomena, they gradually explained these things that they did not understand through the mysterious power of ghosts and gods, which humans did not understand.
Although our profession is now declining, the work is getting harder and harder to do, and we are squeezed out of the leading class. But our shamans in the Three Dynasties of Xia and Shang, the status is very high, the relationship between shang and shaman is inseparable, and even the shang king is the biggest witch, they are both the political leaders of the country and the chief of the group of witches, which is a combination of theocracy and royal power.
In Yin Shang, no matter how big or small, everything must be asked. Emperor Xin of the Shang Dynasty was arrogant and lascivious and did not respect the ghosts and gods, and the chancellor Zuyi mentioned when advising the King of Shangyi that there was no good omen for witch divination or divination with turtle shells, believing that this was a manifestation of the heavens abandoning them, and if it continued like this, the Shang Dynasty would really be over. However, the king did not listen, saying, "I was born to be the destiny of the monarch, is this not the destiny of heaven?" "。
"Wu, zhu ye." Female, able to do things invisible, to dance to the gods also. "There are many people who call us to dance the great gods, because when we communicate with the heavens, we usually dance with our hands, look mysterious, and look crazy, which is our unique language to make the ghosts and gods happy. Witch dance is also a dance, not simply a random dance, we also have our own rhythm. Witch dance is mainly used for sacrifice, praying for rain and harvest, or praying for the blessing of the people, etc., and it has a deep influence on the dance of later generations. Our witch dance has long occupied the center of the dance world, and in the Shang Dynasty, the witch dance was even more prosperous, and the Shang King himself once personally danced the witch dance, and even the noble children of the Shang Zhou Had to learn music and dance. The court dance of the Tang Dynasty is called a graceful and colorful, but I tell you oh, it also has the shadow of our witch dance, twisting the thin waist and dancing with the long sleeves to the beat, fascinates a piece of people.
Mr. Qu Yuan of the Chu Kingdom once recorded our dance in the "Nine Songs", when we dance, we are generally accompanied by music, the sound of drumming, playing the piano, playing the flute echo each other, beautiful and beautiful, he also praised our dance like a kingfisher dancing. Alas, one of my old faces could not hang on, and I was ashamed to die, but a person like him who had both vision and loyalty and patriotism threw himself into the Miluo River, which was really regrettable, and after a while, I would throw more rice dumplings into the river.
There are many famous poems that have been influenced by our witch culture, such as the literary classics "Book of Poetry" and "Chu Ci". Chudi is a region with a relatively strong cultural color of our witches, they "believe in witches and are good at the temple" and "Chu Ci" is developed from the folk songs here.
Qu Yuan's works contain many chapters on the sacrifice of ghosts and gods, such as the Eastern Emperor Taiyi, as the first work of the "Nine Songs", the whole passage is to depict the scene of the people sacrificing to the gods, picking a good day and auspicious day, holding a long sword in hand, wearing a jade ring at the waist, clanging, and dancing our witch dance to make the Eastern Emperor Taiyi happy.
So, what right do those literati have to insult us, because they have not studied these literary works written about us back and forth. At this point, I admire the Tang Dynasty's Mr. Han Yu, the scholar and doctor spurned us witch doctors and musicians, but they were not as good as us, at least we hundreds of workers are not ashamed of the teacher, seriously and diligently learned the skills from the predecessors, that is also relying on the ability to eat, isn't it?
Witch doctors and witch doctors, witches and doctors are inseparable, witches are an important origin of medicine, and the most famous witch doctors are the Ten Witches of Lingshan. It is recorded in the Classic of Mountains and Seas and the Great Wilderness West Sutra that there is a mountain where all kinds of medicines grow, the Famous Spirit Mountain, and these ten wizards with the surname of the witch live on it, they are the ancestors of our wizards, and it is rumored that they have the immortal medicine of the gods, that is, Dansha.
In reality, we witch doctors are indeed able to cure diseases, don't rush to refute, I heard that there is a profession called a psychologist in your place, and we witches are actually similar to them when they heal diseases.
When King Wu of Zhou fell ill, the royal ministers performed divination for him, and the Duke of Zhou even fasted and sacrificed, hoping to die by example. You know, the people are convinced of our wizards from the bottom of their hearts, and when we do this, they really believe that they have been healed, that the inner strength is very strong, that it is the witch doctor who gives them confidence, that they are optimistic again, and that a better mood will act on the body. During the Spring and Autumn Period, there was a person in the Qiguo who was particularly strange, who was actually worried about the collapse of the sky, and worried and distressed all day long, and the result was reflected on him, and he became more and more haggard. Therefore, the witch doctor is still very useful.
Of course, witch doctors are not only psychiatric healers, we also know a lot about herbs, so we often let patients take herbs together. There are also doctors who will correspond to the internal organs, "The liver belongs to wood, the heart belongs to fire, the spleen belongs to the earth, the lungs belong to gold, and the kidneys belong to water." "And I think that physical health is related to mood, which is also the influence of our witch culture on them, after all, they are also differentiated from our witches."
Yes, witch doctors did not always exist, in the Spring and Autumn Period separated, into two professions, one pretending to be a ghost, the other hanging pot to make a ghost, I chose to pretend to be a ghost, although I believe that my profession is still very promising, but remember, if you really want to get sick, you still have to go to the healer for treatment, some healers if they know that you let the wizard see the disease first, they will not see you again.
The Confucianism that those scholars enshrined as the standard is actually related to our witches, and the Confucian sages revered the system of ritual music, and the system of ritual music was formulated by the Zhou Gong. Although it is recorded in the Analects of Shuer that Kong Shengren said that "the son does not speak strangely and chaotically", this is not because he does not believe in the theory of ghosts and gods, but just wants to focus on his heart and not be distracted by those ghosts and gods.
The ritual music system is also permeated with witch culture, it is a rational expression of our witch culture, the ritual music system in the Zhou Gong period is based on witch culture as the core, and the "Ritual Record • Sacrifice System" records that "the ritual has five scriptures, and it is not more important than the sacrifice". Although the ritual system has evolved since then, witch culture still has an important influence, and the three principles and five constants are also developed from the hierarchy in the sacrifice, and there is a set of strict norms.
Lao Tzu once said, "Man's law, earth's law, heaven's law, and Dao's nature", this is the idea of the unity of heaven and man, which has had a great impact on history. Wushan has a circular tomb group, which is consistent with the seven stars of the Big Dipper, which proves that the concept of the unity of heaven and man is also contained behind the witch culture. We witches fear life, fear heaven and earth, fear nature, the idea of the unity of heaven and man is inseparable from the influence of our witch culture, the word "witch" itself can be embodied, witch, up and down a horizontal, which represents heaven and earth, and in the middle is two people dancing, that is, witch dance, which is a manifestation of our concept of the unity of heaven and man.
Similarly, the Five Elements of Yin and Yang Gossip are also related to our Wu culture, which also has yin and yang, and many history books record anomalies in nature and regard this anomaly as the ruler's pot, that is, because you reuse traitors, resulting in an imbalance between yin and yang, and the heavens are now angry, in addition to many phenomena that indicate that there are big things happening, such as when the assassination of Wu Wang, there is a comet attacking the moon, and when Nie Zheng assassinates Han Golem, there is a dazzling white light that goes straight into the clouds.
The five elements of yin and yang are also the flow of qi, although now wizards are mostly regarded as a kind of cheap karma to make money, but our witch culture does reflect the spiritual belief of the ancestors, and the beautiful vision of endless life.
We wizards have a unique craft, you may have seen in opera, wizards dance utensils, there is paper without fire spontaneous combustion, this is the charm, it is our communication with the heavens. You often confuse the runes with the hoops, but in fact, the functions of the charms and the hoops are not the same, the charms are used to drive away evil spirits, and the hoops are our prayers to the heavens on behalf of the people. The words on the runes are difficult to discern, and you ordinary people will not understand them. Well, to tell you the truth quietly, this is a kind of deception, but the charms also show our artistic aesthetic, don't you think this mysterious handwriting is very beautiful? This is a synthesis of words, astrology, symbols, totems, etc., and there are certain norms for self-will, so the aesthetic level of our wizards is also very high.
Witch dance and the later evolution of the court dance, etc., but there is still a big difference. We also wear masks when we dance authentic witch dances in the ritual practice, and the costumes we wear are also carefully selected, which in my opinion is simply too beautiful. What I am talking about is not beauty in the traditional sense, but perhaps even ugly in the eyes of most people, because our masks have gradually evolved into the faces of clowns in later generations, and the witch dance costumes are also made from the fur of birds and animals. Even so, you cannot deny their aesthetic value.
The traces of astronomy have long been revealed, and all dynasties and dynasties have attached great importance to celestial phenomena, believing that it is the will conveyed by heaven and can show auspicious signs. And the celestial phenomenon is essentially a kind of astrology, the imperial court attaches great importance to it, Qin Tianjian and so on is through the stars to predict the auspicious institutions, what war disasters, social welfare must come to see the celestial phenomenon.
It is recorded in Tai Shi Gong's "History of Tianguan Shu" that "before gao xinshi, there were heavy and li; in tang, yu, xi, and he; there were summer, kunwu; yin shang had wu xian; zhou room had shi you and canghong; song had ziwei; zheng had a qiguo; there was a gangong in the state of Qi; there was tang in the state of Chu; there was a state of Yin Gao in the state of Zhao; and a state of Wei had Shi Shen." "These are people who can convey the Destiny. Among them, Wu Xian I mentioned to you, he is one of the important members of our wizarding lineage, and he is also the head of the Ten Witches of Lingshan, but it is recorded here that Wu Xian is a Yin merchant, and there are many opinions about the time of Wu Xian's existence, which one is more credible, I am not quite clear, this depends on your descendants to explore.
Well, let's introduce it here, after listening to this, do you think that we witches are particularly powerful, especially great. Hahaha, thank you for the praise, but I still need to remind you that although witch culture is of great significance, witchcraft is still not credible, and it is still necessary to scold. You all have such a powerful culture of science, don't plant it in our witchcraft, historical research is OK, but don't grab the job with me, otherwise I will be angry, remember, go to the fake, our essence you can take away at will, but the dross is left in trouble. That's it, folks, goodbye.