the last witcher

Leaving aside Taoist Duo Ling doing things for his beloved apprentice, Taoist Wu, let's just talk about the few strong men who left.After Taoist Duoling finished his rites, these simple fishermen dragged a brand new boat to Taoist Wu.

The village head said at the right time: "We do as the Romans do. Since this little Taoist priest died here, according to local customs, we will hold a water burial for him. Please forgive me, Taoist Priest Duoling."

Taoist Duo Ling hesitated again and again before nodding in agreement.The Taoist Wen who stood at the side said with displeasure: "Master, don't you often say: All living beings must die, and death must return to the soil. Why did you bury your brother in water when you came here?"

"Alas!" Taoist Duo Ling sighed heavily again, "It is reasonable to say that your junior brother should be buried, but you also heard the village chief just now, do as the Romans do. What's more, if your junior brother died in the water, let his soul return Dahai, reincarnate as soon as possible."

Wen Taoist still wanted to argue a few words, but he could see that the master seemed to have aged a lot overnight, so he swallowed the words abruptly.In fact, there is God's will in the dark, thanks to the water burial, otherwise the martial artist really wouldn't be able to survive.

Come on, here I will briefly tell you about funerals in Chinese studies, which can be regarded as the knowledge of Chinese studies under popular science. In the future, when I encounter places related to Chinese studies, I will also briefly describe them to everyone, and it is right to increase readers' knowledge face.

Funeral refers to the manner in which the dead are buried.Because China is a multi-ethnic country, the burial methods of different ethnic groups often have their own characteristics. Therefore, there are many funeral rites in China, such as burial, cremation, water burial, and bird burial.

Take the Wu Daoren in this article as an example, because he is of the Han nationality, he will be buried in the ground.This is directly related to the fact that the Han nationality, as a farming nation, attaches great importance to land.In the eyes of the ancient Han people, human beings are raised by the land, so returning to the soil after death is equivalent to returning home.

Cremation first appeared in the Yiqu country established by a Xiqiang (read: qiang) in the west of the Qin State. "When a relative dies, gather firewood and burn it." .Later, when Buddhism was introduced to China, cremation was generally practiced after the death of eminent Buddhist monks. Therefore, cremation was once popular among Han Buddhists. It was not until Song Taizu explicitly prohibited it that cremation was changed from mandatory cremation to burial.Later, in the Southern Song Dynasty, cremation became popular again due to the fact that it was in a corner and there were more people and less land, and it continued until the Ming and Qing Dynasties and even the Republic of China.In fact, the biggest advantage of cremation is that there will be no corpse change, which is what ordinary people call zombies.

Water burial is generally a popular custom among ethnic groups living in rivers, lakes or seasides. They usually put the dead on rafts or boats (the highest treatment is boats) and let them drift. This is because they use aquatic animals as food and often regard water as their own. final destination.

Bird burials are mostly popular among herders and hunters. They often put the corpses in the fields or on the top of the mountains and let the birds eat them. They think that this can make the souls of the dead ascend to heaven. (Chapter 120 of this book bids farewell to Xiao Danli. Tao Gesi’s master used this kind of funeral, but it should be called sky burial.)

In addition, there are hanging coffin burials, tree burials, and jade burials among other ethnic minorities in the country, and everyone knows about them.

When everything was ready, Taoist Wen dressed up and personally carried his junior brother into the boat. The people in the fishing village put the most distinctive things in their homes into the boat to express their nostalgia for Taoist Wu.After seeing the actions of the fishermen, Taoist Duoling felt very uncomfortable.

It's been a long time since I came out this time, and some of the precious instruments I carried with me have been used up and there is nothing left.After groping for a long time in the treasure bag, Taoist Duoling came out with two beads the size of pigeon eggs, which were exactly what was picked out of the turtle demon's eyes.

Taoist Duoling weighed the two beads in his hand, feeling very uncomfortable.No matter how valuable the bead is, it cannot be exchanged for the life of his apprentice.Thinking of this, Taoist Duoling also put these two beads into the boat.But the moment he let go of his hand, Taoist Duo Ling picked up the bead again and put it in the mouth of his beloved disciple.

In fact, the main purpose of doing this is not to be stolen by greedy people.But it was the unintentional act of the fishermen sending things that caused Taoist Duoling to stuff the beads into his lover's mouth, which triggered a series of chain reactions.

After pushing the boat into the sea, Taoist Duoling took Taoist Wen back to rest.It was said to be a rest, but in fact it was just to avoid the crowd, the master and the apprentice had a good quiet time, sorting out their sad mood.

But before dawn, some villagers rushed into the room and yelled at the master and apprentice, "Come back, come back!"

"Don't worry, talk slowly if you have anything to say." Although Wen Daoren was extremely sad, his unflappable character enabled him to face others calmly.

"Could it be that the water ghosts haven't been cleaned up, and another water ghost has come to the village to make trouble?" Now as long as the two things, water ghosts and turtle demons, are mentioned, Taoist Duoling hates them so much.Immediately, he picked up the whisk from the table and waited for the answer from the fisherman who came in.

"No...not!" The fisherman slapped himself fiercely in anxiety, then rubbed his face and said, "It's Taoist Guang Wu who has returned, go and have a look!"

"What?" "Really!" The first reaction of the master and apprentice was surprise, followed by surprise. He held it firmly in his hand, and then, led by the fishermen, he ran towards the shore where the martial artist was.

Sure enough, from a distance, I saw Wu Daoren standing beside the boat that was pushed into the water yesterday, surrounded by men, women, old and children from the whole village. On the side, to see if the martial artist is cheating on the corpse.

"Guangwu, is that you?" Taoist Duo Ling clenched the fly whisk in his hand even tighter, as long as the other party answered wrongly in one sentence, what awaited him would be the fate of being dismayed.

"Master, it's...it's me, Guangwu!" The martial artist who was originally eloquent suddenly stuttered, but he still patted his chest and replied to Taoist Duoling and Taoist Wen.

"The teacher asks you, where are the three of us, the master and the apprentice, on the seventh day of the first month of last month?" Taoist Duo Ling began to test the martial artist and asked.

"At...at Fang Yuan's house...to drive away evil spirits for his child." Although he could not speak clearly, the Martial Daoist replied without thinking.

"Junior brother, how did your parents die?" Wen Daoren was worried, for fear that the other party would steal the recent memory of Wu Daoren, so he verified again.

"My mother... mother... died of the plague, my father... died of the war. You... your parents...both... died of illness on the way to escape from the famine." When Wu Taoist talked about his parents, his tone was slightly sad .

"Then how on earth did you come back to life?" Although Daoist Duo Ling was well-informed, it was the first time in his life that this dead person could miraculously come back to life.

"I... I don't know either!" The martial artist shook his head, thinking that he really didn't know.

"It's good to be alive, it's good to be alive." In the past few days, Wen Daoren has experienced fear, loss of his brother, and then resurrection from death, which can be described as great sadness and joy.But the ending is still very happy, which is good.

to be continued