Chapter 30, Chinese God (additional chapter)

China's earliest god should push Pangu. After tens of thousands of years of sleep, Pangu suddenly woke up, shook his dizzy head, rubbed his eyes, and moved his muscles and bones, but he felt that he was crowded around him, and there was no space, dark and chaotic. It feels like many people must have encountered it in nightmares. Maybe an ancient man had a whim and explained the creation of the world with the hallucinations in his sleep, and China's ancient theory of creation was born. No one can verify whether this comes from the ancient genius or mediocre imagination of whose name. No one can verify whether he impassiontly stated this "sky-sky discovery" at the National Assembly or explained it in a hesitant and deep conversation in the face of children's curious eyes and curious questions. In this "theory", no one can prove what the world before Pangu fell asleep or what the world before the world was like, and even Pangu has slept for tens of thousands of years has become a mystery. However, this ancient god was born upright and has lived in the hearts of Chinese people for thousands or tens of thousands of years to this day.

The ancient gods of China share the same fate with this land and the people here, all of which are full of the spirit of struggle** and selfless dedication. Pangu shook his spirits, grabbed the axe and waved it hard. The axe marks suddenly separated across the world. This hero shakes the power of the "god" even more, stepping on the ground and above the sky. The sky is long until no one can reach the top, and the earth is thick until it can carry all living things. How heroic it is! Undoubtless, unlike Greek mythology and all creation myths, Chinese gods have opened the heaven and the earth with their own hands. Chinese gods are heroes, and people worship gods, that is, heroes and Chinese people's own heroes. Pangu stood up to the sky until he died of exhaustion. His left eye turned into the sun, his right eye turned into the moon, his last breath into wind and clouds, his hair turned into stars, his hands and feet and body into the four poles and five mountains of the earth, his blood turned into rivers, his veins turned into roads, his muscles turned into fields, and his skin and hair turned into flowers and trees. Wood, teeth and bones turn into metal stones, the essence turns into pearls and jade, and even sweat turns into rain and dew. This is a complete selfless dedication! He not only opened up the world, but also prepared all the necessary conditions for human survival, even luxury pearls and jade. Admittedly, Pangu's deep feelings for this noble and pure heaven and earth that can give their lives are our eternal spiritual wealth. Chinese people's love for their homeland should begin with Pangu!

Such lonely strugglers and devotees are countless among the ancient Chinese gods. When disaster comes, they do not watch human beings struggle in pain or even instigate human beings to tear each other up like the gods in Greek mythology, but stand up and stand alone. When the sky collapsed and leaked, Nuwa refined stones to replenish the sky; the earth was scorched by the scorching sun, and Hou Yi bent her bow and shot the sun. No one asked, it was completely self-voluted, and the success was retired without asking for anything in return. These gods are native Chinese and real heroes. They breathe the natural and pure air in the ancient sky of China, create the great cause that the Chinese people yearn to create, and build a happy living home and pure spiritual home of the Chinese nation. How brilliant and dazzling our ancestral business is.

In ancient China, people and gods could transform each other. After making great contributions or completing the sublimation of ideas, they may be included in the ranks of immortals. The Yellow Emperor made outstanding contributions to the foundation of Kyushu and standardized people's thoughts with extraordinary wisdom, so he was respected by Taoists as the ancestor of the gods and worshiped by the Chinese people. Later Ji farmed and was awarded the title of the god of grain; the old man studied the creation of heaven and earth and created the original family and became the emperor; Jiang Shang helped King Wu calm down the world and there was no god to seal. The people left a divine throne on the window sill. During the Spring Festival, he wrote "Jiang Taigong is here" on red paper and pasted it next to the town's house; Zhong Kui was extremely fierce and upright, so he was in charge of ghost hunting. . Those fierce ministers and generals, such as Guan Yu, Zhang Fei and Qin Shubao, are often painted with powerful images and pasted on the door as door gods. All this is invincible. In the hearts of Chinese people, life and death are gods. Of course, there are also people who are reborn and become gods. Anyone who has made pioneering contributions in a certain industry, or has made great contributions to the world, or helps the poor for a long time, or is free from the world, you can get out of the mortal world and enter the fairy world. You can even take your family, chickens, ducks, pigs and dogs to the house and go to the fairy world.

Of course, ordinary people can only live and die as ghosts, so there are many ghosts and few gods, but even so, the fairy world must be full of gods now. It is not credible to often launch 100,000 soldiers and generals in novels. However, the strict organization and system of China's gods has long been decided in the hearts of the people. Needless to say, the emperor and the gods surrounding the arches, and many hell kings in the 18th floor of hell don't need to say, but the land is endless. There are land gods, mountains and mountain gods, seas have dragon kings, and rivers... It's really 36,000 lines with gods. Coupled with a large number of goblins, fox fairies, mountain ghosts and water monsters, the world where immortals and ghosts live is probably much more noisy than our human world. I don't know how do you feel about the divine world that promotes quiet, indoless, orderly and disciplined?

However, it is not easy for Chinese gods to maintain their orthodox status and incense in this land. The first impact was probably in the middle of the Eastern Han Dynasty. Which descendant of Yan and Huang abandoned the nine-day gods and shouted the first "Amitabha Buddha", read the Buddhist scriptures in authentic Chinese pronunciation for the first time, and raised the mallet and knocked the wooden fish for the first time? At that time, was his voice trembling and his heart beating wildly? Is there a curious audience around him who are surprised or unprovoked contempt? For thousands of years, they have been infinitely worshipped, respected and respected. Have the Chinese sanctities who have been in love with this land for thousands of years and are still self-prosecuted and do not know that there is "Amitabha"? Are they surprised to open their mouths and have been closed for a long time? Did you angrily overturn the table on the temple? Or pretend to laugh generously and elegantly... It is not difficult to imagine that the divine world must have gone through some struggle. The conflict for hundreds of years from the late Eastern Han Dynasty to the beginning of the Tang Dynasty should be the relapse of the dissatisfaction of the divine world. This war is on the verge of complicated and makes people look back, but it is the history of Buddhism's development in China. "480 temples in the Southern Dynasty, how many buildings are in the misty rain". Those who have won the world want to teach the people to believe that all four are empty, **** and far-disputed disputes by believing in Buddhism and promoting Buddhism, so as to eliminate the existence of people's emperors wealth and noble. I want to achieve the long-term governance of the world. However, aspiring people are still quarreling one by one, which is the most common thing to turn the world upside down and change the dynasty. However, China's sanctities finally accepted the gods from afar and gave up a large area of the world. Since then, Chinese civilization has added a new connotation, and the Chinese people's heads shine with colorful Buddha light.

Calm down and sigh for the desolate situation of the Chinese god. I haven't heard that any country or nation has invited China's Jade Emperor, China's Nuwa, and China's Taishang Laojun into their temples. On the contrary, China's gods are giving up their own heaven and people step by step and being squeezed to the edge step by step. I'm really worried that one day they will be squeezed out of China's world. It should be in the Tang Dynasty. Islam tirelessly traveled thousands of rivers and mountains to China. Soon a large number of Chinese fell at the feet of God, turned to become the people of Allah, and sang the Koran devoutly all day long. Since then, quiet, elegant and full of hymns have fluttered all over the world. The sound of "God bless" can be heard all the time. I don't know how much the sacredness on the heads of the Chinese people has increased sharply. Thanks to Allah, China has had another batch of blessings from the gods since then! When you are quietly alone, do you hear the sound of hunting gods' clothes everywhere in the sky? When you pursue eagerly, do you feel the sharp eyes of the gods everywhere, so that your whole body is as transparent as water that you don't know where to put your hands and feet? Looking up at the sky, the sky is no longer clear blue. Is it because there are too many gods that hinder the brightness of the sun? Why did the child prodigy responsible for cleaning the sky, the fairy who weaved the glow, and the dancing flying eer not faithfully fulfilled her duties? Please give us a clear blue sky and colorful glow! When the moon hangs high, some people in China still hope to be surprised to see the colorful dance of the nine heavens!

Today, the situation of Chinese gods is more bleak and awkward, and sometimes it feels ironic. Look at the Christmas Eve in 2005: In many cities, hundreds of thousands of people have flocked to the streets to celebrate, leaving aside the Chinese people who are busy, busy, tired and painful, chasing congratulations, shopping, eating and drinking in the mountains and sea. It seems that the happy kingdom has floated over our heads, and Jesus Christ, the son of the emperor, is passing between you and me. , happily enjoying the naive madness of you and me, touching the "devout" you and me kindly, and parsing us of our deep, shallow or far or near, light or dark crimes... Carnival to madness, day and night! Amen! Thanks to the smart, disaster-prone and extremely strong Jewish people for creating the religion with the largest number of believers in the world.

Westerners comment that Christmas in China is more lively than that in the West. I don't think it's heartfelt admiration. Are you saying that Christmas in China has changed? In fact, it is not difficult to understand that adhering to thousands of auspicious culture, Chinese people care too much about the word "peace". Whether it is a useful or useless blessing, they all want to wash away their repentance inside and outside in the sea of peace (so no matter how many safety accidents will be caused in the process, repentance can be easily washed away. ?). After all, the pursuit of a "fashion" is a confused choice in the vacuum of loss of faith. Can we not bring it to the festival that has been popular in the West for thousands of years? Can the worship of Christ fall behind the Westerners? But how many people are sincerely praying to the distant prophetic Christ to touch our mediocre heads to cleanse our unclean souls? Even if Westerners sincerely praise our unreferred obedience and conversion to Christ, what reason and qualification do we have to be proud of? While we are ignorant and proud, others see the insimistication of our ignorance. What should Chinese people believe in? Why do your high ancient Chinese sancts hide aside and remain silent!

Free and free, showing human nature is the essence of Chinese gods. Compared with the doctrine of "saving suffering and universalizing all sentient beings", this really lacks illusory attraction. Compared with the view that all fates are in the hands of high gods, they will go to heaven and go against it. It also lacks the power of reality, but it does show the best state of life. However, we really don't cherish the gods who protect our world, don't respect our ancient heroes and the creators of this land, the enlightened and enlightened of our minds, and don't pay much attention to protecting the purity of our souls. If one day, the Chinese don't know Pangu, Houyi, Nuwa, Huangdi... The Greeks don't know that Zeus, Athena and Cupid live in the snowy Alps... What we lose is not only the local accent, but also the soul of China.