Harry Potter’s Morning Light

  Chapter 2073 The Mystery of Skyfire (Part 2)

   There was a tune in the Yuan Dynasty called Tong Guan Huai Gu, which was written like this:

  The peaks and ridges are like gathering, the waves are like anger, the mountains and rivers are on Tongguan Road, looking to the west, the thoughts are hesitating, the sad Qin and Han Scriptures, and the palaces have all made earth. Prosperity, people suffer; death, people suffer.

  In the early years of the Western Han Dynasty, Xiang Yu entered the Pass and burned the Afang Palace, which caused Du Mu to leave a sentence: "Chu people have a torch, poor scorched earth."

  This may be because the ancient buildings were mostly wooden structures, so special attention should be paid to fire prevention. However, even if it can prevent man-made arson, it cannot prevent the fire caused by sky thunder.

  Never mind if it is split on an ordinary private house, if it is split on the main hall, it is easy to be regarded as a "bad omen", and even the emperor will be scared to sleep and eat.

However, the lightning rod was not invented before Benjamin Franklin. This does not mean helpless. At the top of old buildings, there is often a protruding part called "kiss" that turns into a straight line when the rain is large enough. In this way, the "kiss" can form a lightning rod-like device together with the water flow.

  But when the rainfall is not enough, the water flow cannot form a conductive straight line, and cannot form a "lightning rod". At this time, the sky will still ignite the building.

  Napoleon used wood when he rebuilt the Tuileries Palace. It is precisely because wood was used that the severely damaged palace was rebuilt in such a short time. This also led to the fact that in 1870, it was easily turned into a "torch", and everything except the outer facade was burned to a perfection.

  The Tuileries in the 21st century no longer exist, but she met him there.

  There was a thick fog on the square of the Louvre that day, as if returning to the cold misty moon all at once, but they were actually still in the hot summer.

  There are clouds in the Buddha's scriptures: everything is dharma, like dream bubbles, like dew and lightning.

  What I saw, heard, and felt seemed to be real, but when I opened my eyes, they disappeared like morning dew.

   "Illusion" is like magic and illusion. When people understand that this is a stage performance, they will find a way to crack the trick of the magician, but it is not necessarily the case if they change the scene.

In the eyes of people in Qianlong period, "ghosts" are wandering souls without a foundation. People with families will make sacrifices on a regular basis every Ching Ming Dynasty or Obon Festival after death, while "lone souls and wild ghosts" are no one to sacrifice. Yes, they had no family and social relations when they were alive, and they were also homeless when they died.

  They are alive, but they also look like dead people. This sense of fear allows people with families to directly associate these wanderers with “ghosts”.

  State-owned national law, family rules, "patriarchy" is very strict, women who do not obey women's way will be immersed in pig cages, so it is not a big deal to lynch one or two Taoist priests and monks.

  And those craftsmen are often called to repair houses, repair bridges and pave roads. At that time, people thought that building bridges and paving roads was a good deed. But some people will falsely accuse that the stonemason engraved the name and birthday of a certain person when he was hitting the stone, so that that person would be trampled on by thousands of people, and would soon become ill or even die.

  What good does false accusation do to that person? How do you know that, there is another reason, that is the problem of braids. The biggest difference between the Manchus and the Hans lies in their hairstyles. The Hans seem to be the parents of the body and skin. Shaving their hair is a blasphemy to their parents and ancestors.

  At the beginning, the rulers of the Qing Dynasty also planned to use Confucian moral principles to educate the people, "The monarch is also the father, the people are the son, and the father and son are one body. How can it be violated?"

  However, the Han people were unmoved, so there was an order to shave the hair without leaving the hair.

  In this “calling the soul” case, people thought that cutting people’s hair could harm people. There were many people who “anti-Qing and reviving the Ming”, so this rumor quickly swept over half of China, to the point where the foundation of the Qing Dynasty was shaken.

  On the stage, the "talented scholars and beautiful ladies" babbled and sang. Below the stage are the eight-legged brothers who are holding the birdcage and listening to the opera with their legs tilted up. Britain and France are already studying the telegram. They are still thinking about "A ride on the red concubine, no one knows that it is the lychee", how Tang Minghuang used 800 li to expeditiously send the lychee to Yang Yuhuan's hands.

  "God listens to peace"? In the future, you can try to explain to the Beiyang warlords to see if they can listen.

Compared to the Western style of "witch hunting" with a lot of fanfare and religious trials, the officials of the Qing Dynasty used the method of deceiving the top and the bottom. The emperor above pretended not to know, and the people below did not know those who were taken away by officials. Who are they?

In the past, Yongzheng lived outside the palace when he was still Prince Yong. Whenever he knew it in the summer, he would scream as if he would not let him read, so he set up a "sticky place" and put glutinous rice on the bamboo pole. Those who know will be taken away.

Later, the sticking place got a different name, called Xuedizi. After the death of Yongzheng, this Jiangshan and the "sticking sticks place" were passed on to his son Qianlong. It is said that all rumors that live in folklore will be killed without mercy. .

So if this panic that might have caused some waves in the West was suppressed so quietly. As for how the British knew that "foreign monks" were not monks and Taoists, they were not within the scope of being hunted. Inside.

There are also lamas, monks and Taoists who were arrested, fleeing, and dying, leaving a large "vacuum zone". However, Jiangnan people do not believe in them, and they are more willing to believe in "foreign monks", regardless of whether they love Xinjue. It is useless how the Luo family promotes lamas.

  Li Shimin and his son are actually not pure Han people, but their surname is Li, so they recognize Lao Tzu Li Er as ancestors.

  Wu Zetian also sent Di Renjie to Jiangnan to deal with the "Yinci" when he was the empress. At that time, it was also very powerful, but there was no waves.

On the one hand, Di Renjie’s ability, such as Dayu’s temple, would not move, and on the other hand, because there were Taoist officials, these were Taoist priests with royal salaries. The worries of the king", there will not be a priest like the French Republic who holds a salary from the state while still entangled in whose allegiance.

  Zhang Tian, ​​who is the leader of Taoism in the world, was degraded to the second grade of the national teacher, and was demoted to the fifth grade. His grade was not as good as a prefect. The Taoist temple was changed to a Buddhist temple, and the Taoists had no choice but to wander around.

  The most important thing is that they often still have Han Chinese hairstyles. Basically, if they are caught, they will make a decisive decision.

  But so many people died in the past dynasties, even if they did not live in the era of "white bones in the wild, ten chambers and nine empty", and the life was overwhelmed, those wandering ghosts also needed sacrifices.

You can choose not to believe it, or it can be regarded as a custom. Every year before and after Zhongyuan Festival, you see Taoist priests with bells or flags in their hands passing by. Remember to stay away from him, don’t greet him, and don’t stop him. Otherwise, just take it for your own unlucky luck.

Basically, the people who do this work are young people. The so-called brothers in the same discipline are like this. The younger brothers often listen to the words of the brothers. Some jobs that "everyone is unwilling to do" are assigned to the poorest one. Body.

  The last hatched bird in a nest often does not survive to grow up, and the first hatched one will **** the food from the parents. Even if it does not starve to death, it may die prematurely because of poor development.

  It's useless to file a complaint with your master. Either you work hard to become a "big disciple" instead of your brother, or you continue to accept the "father-like love" of your brother. There is no way to "talent". Even if the senior apprentice first learns, he is still not as fast as the junior. Both Pang Juan and Li Si are jealous of the talent of their juniors to do this kind of "cannibalism".

  As for the masters “retaining one hand” more, it is not so easy to think that the masters hand over all their skills, especially when some masters are still married and have children.

  Fate is unfair. When you are with your parents, your child can act like a baby at will. It is not the same as “being a monk”. Don’t think that you can be free like a “crazy cloud and wild crane” when you are a monk.

   Is it comfortable to be a free stray dog, or is it comfortable to be a dog that has a nest but is occasionally beaten by its owner?

  Buddha said that letting go is freedom. Lao Tzu said that goodness is like water, and water is good and profitable but not fighting, and not fighting is freedom.

  Does anyone want this kind of freedom?

  (End of this chapter)