Yefutidaolu

Chapter 129 New Year's Eve

In a hidden cave in Rat Mountain, Gao Jian made a surprising declaration to Shu Jian.

He said that he could make use of the stagnant energy of heaven and earth.

is it possible?
Shu Jian's first reaction was, of course not! Even if it was possible, it absolutely could not be done!

Using the stagnant Qi of heaven and earth? What are you thinking? The Divine Dynasty family is so powerful, and there are so many ways to deal with these things of the Autumnal Equinox Yin Qi, but they don't even dare to drive away these stagnant Autumnal Equinox Yin Qi, and can only imprison it in place.

The yin energy of the autumnal equinox is said to be the energy of metal and wood, which is easy to change. Therefore, if the appearance is damaged, it will cause autumn rain, and if the speech is damaged, it will cause spring drought. As for winter and summer, day and night are opposite, cold and heat are very different, and the energy of water and fire cannot coexist. Therefore, if the vision is damaged, it is often deep, and if the hearing is damaged, it is often cold. Its energy is reversed, and its extreme is called evil. In mid-autumn, the yin is in Dui, the quality of civilization declines, and the Li movement ends.

There is a poem that says: "The autumn sky gradually turns cloudy and clears up until dusk, and the courtyard becomes desolate and cold. I stand and listen to the cold sound, and there are no shadows of geese in the deep clouds." In fact, it is a description of the energy of heaven and earth.

These gases should be able to be dispersed, but if they are dispersed casually, causing the place to explode, even if there is now the Temple of Heaven to operate the heaven and earth, the whole Cangzhou will probably be shrouded in autumn gloom for more than ten years or even decades.

You know, the four seasons are actually the "underlying logic" of the world, not just different climate temperatures.

The Qi of the four seasons each has its own place. Spring brings growth, summer nourishes and grows. Autumn gathers and winter stores. The great principles of heaven and earth spread the weather of the four seasons to suit all things. If it goes well, there will be plenty and abundance. If it goes against the flow, there will be disasters. This is the principle of creation. The new and the old are constantly pushing each other forward, such as the growth and decline of plants, the awakening and awakening of insects, the brightness of the sun and the moon, the rise and fall of the four seasons, the flow of Qi, and the migration of hills and valleys. All of them are like this.

For example, the same is true for humans. Humans are confined to the great changes of the universe and are one with all things. From the moment one day passes, from childhood to adulthood, to old age, and to death, nothing changes.

If you stay stuck in autumn, you will lose vitality and gradually become weaker because there is only autumn yin energy in your body.

Spring is for growth, summer is for growth, autumn is for harvest, and winter is for storage. This is the normal state of qi, and people also respond to it, dividing a day into four seasons: morning is spring, noon is summer, sunset is autumn, and midnight is winter.

In the morning, human energy begins to be generated and pathogenic energy declines, so one is wise at dawn; at noon, human energy grows and growth overcomes the evil, so one is at peace; in the evening, human energy begins to decline and pathogenic energy begins to be generated, so one is in a worse condition; at midnight, human energy enters the internal organs and pathogenic energy resides alone in the body, so one is in a worse condition.

Therefore, when Qiu Qijing was taking the medicine, the evil was in the viscera, and everyone would get sick because of it.

Moreover, it is not just people who are like this, but everything in the world is like this.

By then, no plants or animals will grow, and the long autumn will affect all the rhythms in Cangzhou. By then, among other things... all plants will shed their leaves in autumn, and seeds will not germinate in autumn...

Yes, this is the most frightening thing. Without the "beginning of spring", without the passage of years, the bodies of humans, animals and plants will even stop growing...

But lifespan is still being consumed.

The body of a three-year-old will remain that of a three-year-old. The mind will grow and the life span will decrease, but the body will stop developing without outside help because the energy of heaven and earth has stagnated.

It is so terrible that the heaven and earth are stagnant.

If you want to grow up like a normal world, you need external help, such as taking medicine, or some other way to absorb external energy to promote the growth of your own world. Only in this way can you develop normally in the dead world.

It's just like if there is no air, you have to rely on oxygen tanks to survive. It's the same principle.

However, the growth of the drug itself will stagnate and it will become a non-renewable consumable.

The whole world will slowly die in this stagnation and slowly become a world with nothing.

By that time, eight out of ten living things in Cangzhou would be dead.

This is the world after the gods left.

This is the 'ancient battlefield' where many noble families in Cangzhou suppressed the city.

It is called an ancient battlefield, but in fact there is no battlefield at all. Compared with the dead silence of heaven and earth, the beheading of 90 million people is only mentioned in one sentence in history books.

It is recorded in the song of Xuanhuatongmen Avenue.

That sentence is:

'In the 241st year of Emperor Ling's reign, the Qiang, Hu and Jie tribes in the west were bandits. Shui Yunshan, the general of Cangzhou, defeated them. The troops fought hard, the bandits fled and were defeated. Ninety million heads were beheaded.'

With just this one sentence, what remains is the so-called "ancient battlefield".

The hell formed by 90 million heads is nothing but a trivial matter in the face of the stagnation of heaven and earth.

The real collapse is not a violent storm, but a deathly calm
But now, Gao Jian said that he wanted to stimulate the stagnant autumnal equinox energy of heaven and earth.

Even Shu Jian felt that Gao Jian was seeking death at this moment.

The stagnation of heaven and earth is the most terrifying disaster in the world, without a doubt. There will be no more natural wind and rain, no more geological activities, the four seasons will stop, and the ocean currents will stop.

Anyone who dares to touch this kind of thing will be killed by not only the aristocratic families but even Shushan.

"I say, you'd better give up this idea. Although Shushan says he wants to help you, he will definitely not do such a thing." Shu Jian said seriously.

The chinchilla showed a very human expression. He grabbed Gao Jian's trouser leg and said, "If you want to attack there, you will undoubtedly seek death. Even Li Zuofang can't save you."

Gao Jian paused and smiled: "Elder Shu, what time is it now?"

"Now? At night? It should be the Chou hour."

"Not this time, but what season is it now?"

"It's winter, and spring will come in a few dozen days." Shu Jian seemed to realize something.

"It's almost the beginning of spring. On the day of the beginning of spring, a grand sacrifice will be held in the Divine Capital Yangjing. The emperor will personally preside over it, and all civil and military officials will celebrate the New Year together. The Temple of Heaven will be activated with the destiny of the Divine Dynasty." Gao Jian said calmly: "The Temple of Heaven will promote the operation of the four seasons and restart the energy of heaven and earth in the new year."

The end of the year.

Every year is a hurdle. If you can pass it, everything will be fine. If you can’t, everything is over.

"The year is coming to an end and the evening is approaching." Gao Jian said.

Shu Jian didn't reply. This energetic hamster elder fell into silence and just stared at Gao Jian with disbelief in his eyes.

This young man...how dare he? !
evening.

The eve of the year, the eve of the month, and the eve of the day. The twelfth month is the eve of the year, the darkest month is the eve of the month, and the sunset is the sunset. The sun is about to darken and the moon is about to rise, so the character is derived from the half-moon.

This is the most terrifying and appalling kind of stagnant energy among all the stagnant energy in heaven and earth. It is a synonym for all stagnation, all drowsiness, and all darkness.

The word "夕" itself means the end, so there are expressions like "sunset" and "夕年", which actually mean end and destruction.

At that time, the stagnant energy of heaven and earth will transform into a monster called the 'Xi Beast'.

A proverb describes that if someone is cheating and refuses to pay back a debt, if you force him to pay back the money, the saying goes "unless the moon comes out on New Year's Eve." That means he will only pay back the money if the moon comes out on New Year's Eve.

The reason for this is obviously because there is no moon on New Year's Eve.

Why is there no moon?

Because when the dusk beast appears, the sky will not be visible.

The sun and moon are out of alignment, eclipsed and without light. Wind and rain come at untimely times, destroying and causing disasters.

When the five elements are out of order, the earth will suffer. When the four seasons are out of order, disasters will occur.

The evening beast will completely block the connection between the land and the sky, and the stagnant evening beast will bring endless disasters, so on that night, the moon will not be visible. At that time, it will be the time for the Temple of Heaven to be activated.

The Temple of Heaven was activated to resist the dusk beast within the Divine Dynasty.

At the same time, all the people of the Divine Dynasty will hold sacrifices at the same time.

That's some kind of 'custom'.

Activating the Temple of Heaven is not just a task for the emperor and court officials; everyone in the Divine Dynasty has to do it.

Everyone has his or her own duties. There are arrangements and rules for what each person does, what each force does, what the elders in the family do, what the children do, and what to do at what time.

Even what to eat on that day is determined by customs.

On that day, the entire Divine Dynasty, and even in many places outside the Divine Dynasty, will hold ceremonies at the same time. Everyone will burn paper and avoid pouring out sewage, garbage, discarding debris, sweeping the floor, and sprinkling water.

Take a bath, change clothes, and clean to drive away diseases and evil spirits.

At the end of the year, there is a parade of gods, ancestor worship and Nuo sacrifices.

You must stay up all night and do not turn off the lights in the house. They must stay on all night.

All of this is part of this 'custom' and part of the opening ceremony of the Temple of Heaven.

Every person in the Divine Dynasty, even beggars, must be mobilized.

On that day, the wealthy families would also distribute various "New Year goods", some giving away holidays, some giving away money. In name, it was for the New Year, but in reality it was also to get everyone to participate in the Temple of Heaven Festival.

This kind of grand ceremony, which involves countless people at the same time, has extremely complicated details and requires the guidance of countless wizards and Taoists from outside. Even depending on the region and country, people in each place have to do different things, but this kind of difference is exactly what the entire ceremony needs.

The rituals of these sacrifices were formulated by the Ministry of Rites of the Divine Dynasty, involving shamans, Confucian scholars, Taoists, celestial beings, etc., relying on their various understandings. They were then distributed everywhere and enforced, eventually forming a habitual "custom", which was passed down from generation to generation and eventually became the "ordinary things" that everyone is accustomed to.

There are many things to do during the Chinese New Year, and this is all part of it.

Let me give you two examples.

Lucky money is one of the customs of the New Year. After the New Year's Eve dinner, the elders will distribute the lucky money prepared in advance to the younger generations. It is said that lucky money can suppress evil spirits, and the younger generations can spend a year in peace after receiving the lucky money. In folk culture, lucky money means to ward off evil spirits and bring peace. The original intention of lucky money was to suppress evil spirits and drive away evil spirits.

Just thinking about it, you can tell that mobilizing people from ten states in the Divine Dynasty, covering a million miles, to do one thing at the same time, and everyone has a different division of labor, and solidifying all of this...

I don’t know how it became popular throughout the world... Anyway, it became a custom in every place, passed down from the elders to the newcomers, generation after generation.

For example, in some places in Nanyue, women were required to place salt and rice on the stove and cover it with a bowl. They would observe the gathering and dispersion of salt and rice to predict a good harvest, which was called "Zhu Zao". Men would place a water pot next to it, stick the words east, west, south and north on it, and float a small piece of wood in the middle. They would observe the direction of the end of the wood to determine the direction and the sound. This was called "Zao Gua".

For example, in the north, people set off colorful flowers to welcome the spring, and make wine in thatched huts. On New Year's Eve, they soak medicinal herbs in the wine to ward off all diseases. The wine is called "Tu Su".

Nuo gods were performed in all places to drive away the plague. Every family would light a fire in the middle of the street and mix it with firecrackers, which was called "籸盆".

At this time, people in the villages of Wuzhong would light torches and tie long poles to illuminate the fields, so that the fields would be filled with bright flowers and they would pray for a good harvest in the coming year.

In places like Pei Du, people would sit around the stove on New Year's Eve and stay up until dawn, adding more fire to the stove.

In the sacred capital Yangjing, there will also be a "knocking pot" ceremony. On that day, the lamps, cups, pots, pots, bowls, as well as other woks, sieves, steamers, basins, urns, bowls, tureens, goblets, and various ornaments in people's homes will be taken out and knocked.

Every place has different 'customs'.

All these customs are part of the Temple of Heaven Festival.

Every local official and every noble family needs to remember clearly what they need to do, and then arrange different "customs" and direct different ceremonies according to the specific circumstances.

They are all arranged according to certain specifications to complete the ceremony together, which is quite complicated.

A grand sacrifice at the Temple of Heaven actually requires countless small-scale sacrifices to be pieced together bit by bit, and eventually the scale of the grand sacrifice at the Temple of Heaven will be expanded to the entire Divine Dynasty.

The major affairs of the country are only sacrifice and military affairs.

Sacrifices and wars are the most important activities in the entire country, and the Temple of Heaven Sacrifice is the most important sacrifice in the entire Divine Dynasty, which is held once a year without interruption.

These sacrifices will be coordinated by the Temple of Heaven and gathered at the main altar in Yangjing, the capital of the gods.

This day, when all these things come together, is 'New Year's Eve'.

Get rid of the Xi beast.

Although it will come back the next year.

As long as the world remains dead, the Xi Beasts will continue to regenerate, and this will happen once every year.

You can tell how complicated it is just by listening to it, and the calculations required are too numerous to count.

What kind of ritual will produce what kind of qi.

What kind of qi is produced, what kind of qi is combined, what effect does each different sacrifice cause, what kind of reaction can it produce, and what effect does it have after the reaction.

This chain reaction will spread infinitely, and we have no idea how many nodes there are in it. A rough estimate is that the number would be over 10 billion.

This is the Heavenly Temple Festival of the Divine Dynasty.

This is 'New Year's Eve'.

If you succeed, the New Year will pass, the evening beast will dissipate, and the four seasons will continue to operate.

It has always been like this.

Gao Jian had been here for less than a year, so he had only heard of these things but had never seen them.

However, these things are clearly recorded in the Xuanhua Tongmen Dao Song.

After all, this is the heritage of the entire Divine Dynasty that has been passed down for so long that it has become a part of the "culture".

And in Shu Jian's opinion, Gao Jian meant that he wanted to take advantage of "New Year's Eve".

He said to Gao Jian with a serious expression: "Young man, I advise you not to do that."

“Whether it’s New Year’s Eve or the ancient battlefield, if there’s even the slightest mistake on either side, either the Divine Dynasty will have a whole year of cold winter next year, and all weather will freeze in the coldest winter on New Year’s Eve, or Cangzhou will have a deep autumn for decades. Both are unacceptable.”

This kind of thing has happened in the Divine Dynasty before. When the Temple of Heaven failed to start up, the entire Divine Dynasty was stagnant for a year, with winter all year round, and they could only try again the next year.

That was truly... horrific, even the emperor had to issue an edict of remorse.

Compared to this, the Imperial Academy selection, or even killing a few people from the Zuo family, is nothing.

Seeing the expression of the chinchilla, Gao Jian suddenly laughed.

He smiled and said, "Elder Shu, look, you were against it just now, but now you also think that killing a few members of the Zuo family is not a big deal?"

(End of this chapter)