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Chapter 57: Mingjiao is also a religion!

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    He took the six Dark Iron Holy Fire Tokens and the scroll of the Great Shift of the Universe into his arms, hid them in his inventory, accepted the allegiance of these Ming Cult believers, and prepared to take them away to the north.  After all, Chen Xiang still has to leave the Song Dynasty court secretly. This has already been delayed for too long, and no more time should be wasted.  Suddenly, Chen Xiang remembered a key thing, and he asked: "Who is your current leader?" Yang Zizai lowered his head sadly and said in a low voice: "Our leader's name is **, he is the leader of Fang La.  My great-nephew, the year before last, had been martyred under the iron heel of the Mongols The Right Envoy of Light and other brothers also suffered heavy casualties I was the only one who was in the field and survived so I  Then he gathered the remaining few hundred congregants and mixed them with the refugee team. As the Song army went south, they finally came here. When the Venerable vowed to fight for the Northern Expedition a month ago, he accidentally saw the radiance of the Holy Fire on the Venerable.  , and after a deep discussion, we finally decided to come to seek refuge with the Lord." Chen Xiang smiled lightly and said, "Very good, don't call me Lord anymore on the road, only Young Master.  Did you hear that?" Yang Zizai immediately replied: "Yes, sir!" He said and bowed again.  Chen Xiang waved and said, "Don't waste any more time. If you don't leave, you won't be able to leave. Take your people and follow me." After saying that, he held Xiaobai on his crotch and continued walking north.  Chen Xiang didn¡¯t care about anything along the way, but Huang Ba and Su Huaiyuan arranged food and accommodation.  The gold and silver they carried were enough for use, and they were all martial arts masters, so they could move forward without any hindrance whether in the city or in the wild. Soon they crossed Lingnan and entered the Chu realm.  Since the Southern Song Dynasty, the Han people have gradually moved southward under the oppression of northern minorities, and the area south of the Yangtze River has gradually become populated.  The economy has also developed.  Although the world's economy was completely dependent on Jiangnan before the Ming and Qing Dynasties, it was still densely populated, no less densely populated than in the north.  Along the way, what Chen Xiang saw in his eyes was completely different. There were ruins of villages everywhere, and there were numerous bones everywhere in the abandoned fields. Chen Xiang could even see them a few times.  On the corpse of the poor man in the wild, there were several wild dogs lying down, looking at the passing pedestrian with their red eyes.  In Chen Xiang¡¯s eyes.  These people who died on the road were filled with thick black smoke, which turned into unwilling screams and penetrated into the sky. Then, they gathered together with the grievances of other resentful dead people and turned into an apocalyptic dragon above his head.  The main content of Qi.  Seeing this scene, while Chen Xiang felt sad for these poor people, he also felt that it was necessary to put these restless souls to rest so that his apocalyptic dragon energy would no longer grow.  He jumped off his mount.  He walked straight towards the corpses of the people who were being eaten by wild dogs, thinking quietly in his heart, thinking about how to solve this problem.  There was still a rotten smell in the wind, and the wild dogs that were frightened away were barking fiercely in the distance.  Chen Xiang flicked it casually, and the two dogs were ejected as if they had been hit by bullets. They each had a bloody hole in their bodies and fell softly to the ground.  Can't move anymore.  When Yang Zizai saw Chen Xiang's look, he thought he was feeling sad for the people who died so violently, and gave some gentle instructions to a few people.  Quietly walked behind Chen Xiang and said softly: "Master, do you want to collect the bodies of these innocent people who died tragically and do a ritual ceremony?" Chen Xiang looked at Yang Zizai in surprise and asked: "Why?  , can you still perform rituals?" Yang Zizai said a little embarrassedly: "My Ming religion has been integrated with Buddhism and Taoism, and we have learned from each other's strengths and weaknesses. We have also learned many ways to survive, and rituals are naturally one of them.  Traveling in the rivers and lakes, or spreading religion, all need ways to appease the souls of the dead. " Chen Xiang gave Yang Zizai a strange look. He was a little surprised that a martial artist could have such a ghost skill.  But he just said lightly: "Then you cast the spell, hoping to liberate these restless souls." Yang Zizai nodded, bowed to Chen Xiang and said: "Sir, please give us a Holy Fire Order for us to practice.  ." Chen Xiang casually pulled out a Black Iron Holy Fire Token and handed it to Yang Zizai.  As soon as Yang Zi waved, several people he had ordered before quickly caught up and brought a series of clothing, paper money, incense candles, bills, peach wood swords and other items needed for the ritual.  After Yang Zizai bowed to Chen Xiang, he stepped back holding the Black Iron Holy Fire Order in both hands and enshrined it on the bill.  With the help of his disciples, he put on solemn dharma clothes, and the rising flames were everywhere on his clothes.  After putting on the DharmaAfter taking the peach wood sword, Yang Zizai bowed to Chen Xiang very solemnly, and also bowed to the Black Iron Holy Fire Order. At the same time, all the Mingjiao believers knelt down towards Chen Xiang, with the same piety.  He gave a big salute to the Black Iron Sacred Fire Order, which seemed to be a familiarity, and he obviously did this often.  Suddenly, Chen Xiang seemed to feel an unusual spiritual power beginning to surge towards the Black Iron Holy Fire Token.  Compared with his spiritual power, these spiritual powers are weak and insignificant, just like the relationship between the sea and water droplets, but Chen Xiang feels that these powers are not malicious or harmful, but are full of worship and reverence.  With mental strength, Chen Xiang quietly observed from the sidelines without saying anything or doing anything.  These spiritual powers then quickly rearranged their order and connected with each other to form a thin thread, connecting end to end the rising flames in the Holy Fire Order and the unpredictable place at the other end, and gradually stabilized.  This is really an unexpected thing.  Chen Xiang couldn't help but cheer up and carefully watched the changes in things.  Chen Xiang¡¯s ears slowly heard the sound of uniform chanting. This sound made people relax and felt that their minds were immersed in the artistic conception formed by this scripture.  "The light is universally pure, and there is always happiness, silence, and no curse. He is happy and has no troubles. If there is suffering, there is no point in it. If he is always in the light of happiness, there is no point in being sick. If there is anyone who can live in that country,  In the end, there will be no sorrow. Every place is pure, and all evils are not pure. There is always peace and happiness, and there is nothing wrong with it." This is obviously a scripture of Mingjiao, and the followers of Mingjiao are pious.  of chanting.  The spiritual connection of the Black Iron Holy Fire Token is getting stronger and hotter, and something seems to be starting to flow on it.  Yang Zizai has already begun to perform rituals. He jumps around the corpses who died in the wilderness with a unique posture. Every time he reaches a key node, he stamps his feet fiercely, leaving a trace of Zizi under his feet.  After a few circles of burning footprints, Chen Xiang discovered that a unique formation was forming under Yang Zizai's feet.  The spiritual connection in the Black Iron Holy Fire Token became more and more turbulent, and even formed a wide belt, connecting the flames in the Black Iron Holy Fire Token with the unknown world.  When Yang Zizai's religious ceremony came to an end, the formation surrounding the unfortunate deceased had been initially formed, and then he continued to scatter paper money on the formation, so that the entire formation was covered smoothly.  .  Then Yang Zizai raised his peach wood sword and shouted: "Burning flames! Burn my broken body! What a joy in life! What a pain in death!" Then he struck the paper money on the ground with lightning speed.  , what surprised Chen Xiang was that a ray of fire was fiercely inspired from the Black Iron Holy Fire Token.  It spread violently along the spiritual broadband formed by those believers, just like flames burning from gasoline!  These flames from another world actually ignited the layers of paper money in this real world, and even ignited the corpses on the ground far beyond the principles of physics, causing these corpses to burn rapidly.  Even the damp and rotten corpse burned fiercely as if it had been poured with gasoline. In the end, all that was left was ashes, and not a single formed skeleton was visible.  At the same time, those lingering around the body.  The strong negative energy and resentment that was constantly generated also disappeared completely. Chen Xiang looked carefully and found that these negative energy and resentment actually burned into fire.  It was added to the holy fire in the Black Iron Holy Fire Order!  With shock, Chen Xiang took a closer look and discovered that the holy fire in the Black Iron Holy Fire Token was composed of thousands of soul flames as thin as hair!  Is this the soul urn of Mingjiao believers?  !  Chen Xiang couldn't help but fell into thinking, and he began to reconsider the role of Mingjiao.  Mingjiao is actually called Manichaeism in its origins such as Persia, because the name of its founder is Mani.  According to legend, when Manichae founded Manichaeism, he made a great wish to spread his religion around the world and become a religion that can influence the entire world. He also hoped that the religion he founded would become the world's most influential religion.  the only religion.  There is a Mingjiao classic that records Mani's heroic words about preaching to the world: "The religion I have chosen is ten times better than any previous religion. First, the previous religions were limited to one country and one language, and I  The religion is different. It will be popular in every country, it will adopt all languages, and it will spread to the ends of the earth. "The strategy adopted to realize this ideal is to use as much as possible the knowledge of other religions that have spread far and wide.The second is to translate the Manichaean scriptures into various languages ????in the world and be accepted by the majority of the people; the third is to preach to the ruling class as much as possible in order to obtain legal status.  Judging from its complex teachings, Manichaeism is a typical mixed religion.  Its dualistic idea of ??good and evil comes from Zoroastrianism, the original religion of Persia. It goes without saying that its gods, such as Jesus and the characters Adam and Eve in the scriptures, are derived from Christianity. Its light occupies three directions and darkness occupies one direction.  The concept comes from Christian Gnosticism; its precepts of asceticism, fasting and not killing are mainly influenced by Buddhism in India and Central Asia.  Manichaean classics have been translated from Syriac into more than ten languages ??including Latin, Greek, Coptic, Armenian, Medieval Persia, Parthia, Turkic, Sogdian, Chinese, Bactrian, and Uighur-Arabic. Its influence stretches from the deserts of North Africa to the west.  , reaching east to the southeastern coast of China.  In the Christian-dominated areas of the West, it is regarded as a Christian heresy, while in the East it is misunderstood as a branch of Buddhism, which shows the flexibility and diversity of its means of communication.  Comparatively speaking, it is more difficult for Manichaeism to spread to the west than to the east.  The religious power of Western Europe and Byzantium was very powerful, and the dualist teachings of Manichaeism were obviously contrary to the monistic views of Christianity.  Manichaeism was under heavy oppression and found it difficult to gain a foothold.  On the contrary, when they develop eastward, the cultures of the Eastern countries are either immature or, like China, their religious power is weak and their religious consciousness is weak.  Most state religions, like the Uighurs, were happy to accept these new religions.  It was even made the state religion, which is unimaginable in the West. Although Manichaeism in other areas did not receive this honor, it also obtained legal status (or received acquiescence).  The eastward spread of Manichaeism was closely integrated with the prevailing religions wherever it went, especially Buddhism.  According to research, although Manichaeism was influenced by some Buddhism when it was first founded, its teachings and classics spread to the west contained very little Buddhist content.  However, Manichaeism, which spread eastward, used a lot of Buddhist terms, pretending to be the name of Buddha and Dharma, and even called itself "Mani Light Buddha".  The Manichaean scripture "The Samadhi Sea Sutra" says this.  "When Manichae Light Buddha was born, he always swirled the light to perform Buddhist services." Manichaeism murals discovered in the Western Regions often show Manichaeism gods stepping on Buddhist lotus pedestals; Manichaeism calls the gods "Xianyi Buddha" and "Yi Shu".  Buddha".  Mani seems to have a special affinity with Maitreya Buddha. There are even Manichaean scriptures that call Mani the Maitreya Buddha who opened the gate to paradise. There are even instructions from the enlightened messenger in the scriptures: "Because you have gained the ability and wisdom from the Buddha, the goddess once  Jealous of you. When the Buddha passed away, he ordered you: Wait here for Maitreya Buddha."  Here Maitreya Buddha is Mani.  On the contrary, Western Buddhism also has Manichaean overtones.  For example, the fourth section of Gaochang Uighur's "Eight Yang Sutra" re-translates the Chinese theory of yin and yang into the dualistic theory of good and evil.  Underworld murals and scrolls that are very similar to the Manichean Hell in terms of theme and layout have been found in Buddhist ruins such as Gaochang Ancient Domain, Bezeklik, and Tuyugou.  With this foundation of Buddhism in Central Asia.  Manichaeism entered the land of China without many obstacles.  The Uighurs brought Master Mani into the Tang Dynasty. "At the beginning of the Yuan Dynasty, he presented to the court again, and then Mani arrived" ("New Book of Tang. Biography of the Uighurs").  Due to the policy of restraining the Uighurs, the Tang Dynasty officially accepted Manichaeism.  A temple was built in Chang'an and given the title "Dayun Guangming Temple".  Later, his footprints spread all over the south of the Yangtze River, and Dayun Guangming Temple was established in Jing, Yang, Hong, Yue and other states. Manichaeism flourished for a while.  Manichaeism is prevalent in China.  This is due to its two conditions: innate (its religion was influenced by Buddhism when it came into being and accepted some Buddhist content) and acquired (the Manichaean missionaries and scripture translators in Central and East Asia worked hard to make Manichaean doctrines and rituals Buddhist).  caused together.  Manichaeism's dualistic theory of good and evil does not conflict with the traditional way of thinking in China.  On the contrary, it is very similar to the concept of yin and yang (although their actual differences are not small).  This is also the root of the Yin and Yang conversion ability in the Great Shift of the Universe that Chen Xiang obtained.  Manichaeism¡¯s extremely strong ability to survive and adapt makes its teachings as consistent as possible with the thinking habits of the Han people when they spread across the land of China.  Through the great efforts of the Manichaean missionaries, the distance between Manichaeism and the existing Buddhist and Taoist religions in China was increasingly narrowed.  Chen Xiang silently thought that maybe it was at this time that Manichaeism finally transformed into the Ming religion unique to China.  In terms of Buddhism, in addition to the above-mentioned archaeological discoveries in the Western Regions and Central Asia, the dualism of good and evil can be found in the Buddhist scriptures: Demon is the abbreviation of "Mara" in Sanskrit, and is the opposite of Buddha. They live in the "Devil Realm" and "Devil Realm" respectively.  "Buddha Realm", Buddha must "subdue all demons" and "defeat all demons" (see Kumarajiva's translation of "Shurangama Samadhi Sutra"): The theory of "three realms" is very consistent with the theory of the three worlds of Maitreya's concept: "First  "Jiji", "Midji" and "Houji" can be attached to the ancient Buddha of Qingyang Lantern (past), Sakyamuni Buddha of Hongyang (present day), Maitreya Buddha of Baiyang (future), and the ultimate goal of the universe, Mingjiao  The claimed world of light is generally believed to be the Tushita Palace where Maitreya Buddha lives (the fourth heaven among the six heavens of desire in Buddhist teachings).  Isn't this Tushita Palace where Taishang Laojun and I live?  Chen Xiang couldn't help but think.     OtherIn addition, the Kingdom of Light of Manichaeism is sometimes attached to the "Anyang Kingdom of Bliss" (or rumored to be the "Anyang Kingdom") of Amitabha's Pure Land concept.  Later, Manichaeism also merged with Zen Buddhism. The Manichaeism Fragmentary Sutra contains a statement about the planting of Twelve Mingwang treasure trees by enlightened messengers, which is very similar to the Zen legend of Bodhisattva planted by Bodhidharma. Because Zen Buddhism is favored by the upper-class intellectuals, Manichaeism  Jiao also wants to take this opportunity to become one of them.  Manichaeism is inextricably linked to the concept of Maitreya¡¯s Pure Land. When Manichaeism spread in China, it was at the same time that Maitreya¡¯s Pure Land was becoming popular in China.  Take the Tang Dynasty, where Manichaeism was officially introduced, as an example. Many eminent monks (such as Xuanzang, Guiji and his disciples) and literati (such as Bai Juyi) were followers of Maitreya. It was natural for Manichaeism to adhere to them, and even Manichaeism¡¯s belief in Maitreya  The characters become one.  Entering the Middle Kingdom, Manichaeism also gradually merged with the local religion Taoism.  The "Three Worlds" perspective is also reflected in the Taoist concept of Three Purities.  One of the "Laozi's Transformation of Hu Sutras", "Laozi's Transformation of Hu Jing" tells the story of Laozi's transformation into Mani: "I took advantage of the natural light and Tao Qi, flew from the realm of true silence into the Sina Jade Realm, and gave birth to the royal family among the neighboring countries of Su.  When he emerged as a prince, he abandoned his family and entered the Taoism. He was named Mo Mani, and he turned around in a large circle and preached the sutras, precepts, and wisdom, etc., even to the three realms and two sects.  And all sentient beings will be saved here. After Mani, in the fifth year of his life, the golden energy will flourish, and my Dharma will flourish. The Western holy statues, dressed in natural colors, will come to the Central Continent, and this will be the effect.  At that time, the yellow and white qi merged, and the three religions merged and belonged to me.¡± In other words, at the beginning of its establishment, Mingjiao established a strategy of actively spreading religion in various languages ??and integrating it with local religions, so Dangyang Zizi.  When Chen Xiang performed rituals for the person who died in vain, there would not only be Buddhist chanting, but also common props such as Taoist peach wood swords, and even common sacrificial items such as paper money.  After Mingjiao entered the land of China, it quickly integrated with the local religious and cultural concepts. It has become vastly different from the main altar in Persia. This difference is probably even greater than that of Mingjiao itself and Buddhism and Taoism.  the difference between.  No wonder that when the Persian general envoy came to ask for the Great Shift of the Universe and the Holy Fire Order, the two sides even fought against each other. They had no intention of sitting down and talking as they were all relatives.  No wonder Mingjiao has such a strong vitality in the land of China. It is because it actively combines local religions and customs, and is also full of resistance and rebelliousness. Most of this secret sect was classified as a "shoe religion" by the imperial court.  , not to mention the Ming Cult, which loves rebellion, is an extremely mysterious "devil sect" in the hearts of the obedient people; in the eyes of the so-called "reputable sects", they are "heretics" because they want to promote the current  In order to save all sentient beings from the suffering of the world, it is inevitable to use force to violate the ban, and people are inevitably in the rivers and lakes, so there is blood, fire and swords, "there is no end of the world, you chase me in the wind and clouds"; they also had a vigorous battle  Ambition, so "everyone calls himself a hero."  On the vast land, scenes of thrilling and involuntary rivers and lakes are performed.  Because they have deep faith and have no regrets for every step they take, life and death, they have been free and easy in the world.  Because they have deep beliefs and rely on one right and wrong.  As the legalist Han Feizi said: "Confucianism uses literature to disrupt the law, and chivalrous people use martial arts to violate the prohibition." These Mingjiao believers are born to be knights in the world, and are not willing to endure the constraints of secular laws. Therefore, they will attract the court and martial arts righteousness.  hostility, survival is very difficult.  Amid such oppression, amazing rays of light often burst out!  And in the normal historical sequence of this world, it was the uprising organized by Mingjiao that overthrew the rule of the Yuan Dynasty, and finally the Mingjiao believer Zhu Yuanzhang established a new Han Dynasty since the Ming Dynasty.  Chen Xiang also vaguely felt that it was precisely because of this substitutionary relationship in fate, coupled with his identity as the Lord of Light, that the remaining organizations of the Ming Cult actually took refuge with him, the emperor of the imperial court, and actually became his own branch.  strength.  "The original Ming Sect was forced to change its name to the Sun and Moon Sect and live in a desolate place.  Chen Xiang obtained the Bright Holy Fire Venerable Technique from Heimuya, the main altar of the Sun Moon God Sect.  And I have to say that this is a wonderful historical reincarnation.  While quietly watching Yang Zizai lead the Mingjiao believers to bury the ashes of the victims, Chen Xiang also began to seriously think about how to use the Mingjiao religion.  (To be continued)
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