Chapter 2199 Flower War (One Hundred and Seven)

  Smallpox was once known as "Peasore". It is said that it was brought back by soldiers who went out to fight. Later, it was also called "Peasore". The term "smallpox" is a relatively recent occurrence. It is taken from a Buddhist term and refers to "celestial fairy flowers, fairy flowers scattered". Saying bad things auspiciously may be a way to euphemistically express the disease. Europeans lack the patience of the Chinese, and the name for smallpox comes directly from the Latin variola, which means infectious disease.

  Whether it’s a soothing euphemism or a blunt one, it’s bad news.

  In the seventh year of Qianlong, a strange disease appeared in a village near JYG. First, the whole body became hot, as hot as a soldering iron, and then the bones began to grow rapidly outward, piercing the elbows, knees, candy bears and throat, and the death was horrific. It is said that the disease was first brought by a groom and a cook who went to Yinchuan to repair the Ningxia water conservancy project damaged by the earthquake in the three years of Qianlong's reign.

   Official orders banned the spread of rumors and sent troops to isolate the people of the village. Later, it was found that not everyone who got this disease would die, and some people stopped growing and healed without medicine after they developed some bumps under the skin.

   After about two years, no one died of such a strange disease. When the war between Qianlong and Zhungeer began, and the soldiers were withdrawn, the villagers no longer stayed in their original villages and separated from each other.

This is a legend that the imam heard when he was studying in Lingzhou, Gansu Province in his early years. It is like the various "secret stories" that Juren heard in the palace. Some people call it "secret history", but the real history should be the emperor. The daily life notes of this kind of historical material compiled by the government but not written into the official history, the rumors and rumors passed on by the palace maids and eunuchs themselves are no different from folklore, and they are all added to the story.

  By the way, Imam hopes that Nick can appear from the northwest instead of killing tigers, and go north to Russia and return to Europe. Nick complied, and he was still looking for the ancient plant to which the word "little" refers, hoping it wasn't "that" plant.

   The fifth day of the fifth lunar month is the Dragon Boat Festival. On this day, it is time to drink realgar wine, eat rice dumplings and salted duck eggs, but the Nanhe Governor's Office neglected it because of the busyness. The sixth day of the sixth month is the Tiankuang Festival. It is a festival for bathing, drying and enjoying lotus flowers. This custom originated in the Tang and Song Dynasties. That day was originally for Cui Fujun's birthday, because he was an upright official before his death and died. Later, he became the henchman of King Yama, became Judge Cui, and became the number one figure in the underworld. He was dressed in a red robe, holding a book of life and death and a ghost pen in his hand, standing beside Yama.

  The way of living in the Qing Palace was that Luan Yiwei took out all the guards of honor to dry, not only for the festival, but also to prepare for the emperor's departure to Rehe.

The Manchu emperor's fear of smallpox led them to build the Tianhua Empress Temple in the palace, which is the goddess of the folk worship of acne, not to mention the unbearable summer heat of BJ. Meeting the Mongolian princes in Rehe not only saved "boat and car fatigue", but also Playing the role of isolation, the Shangyuan Festival held in BJ will not invite princes who have never had acne.

  The lotus flowers in Qingyan Garden will also bloom. Juren said that during the Mid-Yuan Festival every year, people will put lotus lanterns in Guanghua Temple in Shichahai, while many lotus flowers are planted in Qianhai.

   He didn't think about it before, he once brought "Xiren" to Guanghua Temple to set up the lotus lanterns. At that time, many people went there in pairs.

When   Nick visited Wuyi Mountain, he found that there is a tradition of worshipping tigers in the local area. The South China tiger may not be as big as the Siberian tiger, but it can be deadly to tea pickers. It is also possible that what Wu Song killed was a South China tiger, and the tigers in the tiger city were all Siberian tigers, and they were able to draw a tie with their bare hands.

  Yin people believe that sunset and sunrise are like two women with different charms. You yearn for them, but you cannot possess them at the same time, so they will not blindly chase the sun like Kuafu.

  The story of Kuafu chasing the sun is recorded in "The Classic of Mountains and Seas: Overseas Northern Classic", and the country of Taihe, which Nick judges as a close relative of the Xiaoyang tribe, is also in that volume.

   Could it be like this, some mandrills were raised by Jurchen after eating the yin, just like the tigers in the tiger city, and then one ran out?

In the forty times of Dream of Red Mansions, Jia Baoyu and others took a boat to Hengwu Garden. Jia Baoyu disembarked after discussing the topic of "broken lotus leaves" with Daiyu and Baochai. It was autumn, just in time. Compared with the fear brought by mandrills, the story of "Ran Yin" makes people feel cold in their bones even when it is approaching summer.

   He remembered the monk he met at Faxing Temple, and the poem he read: The Patriarch saved me from the mortal world, and the iron tree blooms and spring begins. Reincarnation, reincarnation, rebirth, transformation and rebirth. If you want to know form and find form, you must know that there is no form but form. Form is emptiness and emptiness is form, and emptiness and color must be distinct.

That is the story recorded in the "Warning Words" in the late Ming Dynasty. It is said that Xu Xian made the poem. He finally chose to become a monk. He did not reconnect with Xu Xian as in the folklore, and he also had children born to them. reunited.

   It is precisely because of this story that people have inspiration. Lanruo means "temple", and Lanruo Temple is a temple, which is really nonsense. In this fictitious place lives a thousand-year-old tree spirit. She controls Nie Xiaoqian and other female ghosts, allowing them to seduce passers-by and absorb their spirits.

   In that storybook, the magic flower will burrow vines into people's ears, smash the internal organs and bones, leaving human skins, and the human skins will become exactly the same as those Jurchen soldiers who broke into Shanhaiguan.

Some skilled paper craftsmen will make paper figurines just like real people, but they just look like people on the outside, but they are "empty" inside, so the "corpses" that people finally carry away in the temple are really " entity"?

   This sounds like a ghost story, but is it possible that there is a yin that escaped the backlash of the shadow, and it needs to absorb the flesh and blood of passers-by just like the dryad?

  The monks were afraid of it, but couldn't get rid of it, so they had to get together.

As for whether there is a beautiful female ghost "Nie Xiaoqian", it is unknown, and no one knows how big the "tree" is. There is a thousand-year-old Bodhi in the courtyard of Faxing Temple, but it turned into a purple rattan flower that night. , Under the tree, there is a woman who looks very much like Wanning playing the dongxiao.

  Wanning doesn't know how to play the dongxiao, which is what Nick asked. She felt that the sound of the xiao was like "fox crying in the night", which is the sound of a fox at night.

Of course, we all hope that the "yokai" can be as cute as the fox fairy, and many scholars who failed the list regarded the "fox fairy" as their fantasy concubine. Set a trap.

   They don't feel that they are wrong, but they feel that they have taken off a pedantic disguise. With the spread of these literati stories of resolving loneliness, people began to believe in "Fox Immortals" and believed that they would cure diseases. There was a folk secret religion of worshiping Fox Immortals in the capital, and even in the imperial palace.

   Those eunuchs lost money in gambling and owed a lot of debt. How could they have money to see a doctor?

   Going to the Imperial Hospital, the imperial physicians served the emperor, ministers of civil and military affairs, and nobles. Once these people were infiltrated by the White Lotus Sect, the consequences would be disastrous.

   In addition, there is a disease called ecstasy in the palace. There is a guard who is on duty outside the Jingshan fence in Xi'an Gate. He complained that the food his colleagues cooked that day was not delicious. There is also an imperial pantry in the palace, but they will not cook for Hujunmen, and then that colleague falls ill.

The last time Nick saw a madman with a kitchen knife chasing a child in Guangzhou, the scene was similar at that time, but although Juren was frightened and avoided, the guards did not hide, and it took a lot of effort to subdue him. .

   That place is close to the "Guande Hall" in Jingshan, where the emperor of the Qing Dynasty used for sacrifices and related religious ceremonies. Later, the guard was tortured by the cane 100 times.

   Those Jurchens who "destroyed" the enemy found that the "corpse" lying on the ground was exactly the same as himself, but it was empty inside.

  Drums are also covered with a layer of skin, and when the drumsticks hit it, it will make a "dong dong" sound. If the skin is not empty, it will make another sound, similar to high fives. Both the storyteller and the official in the lobby had gavel, and woke up the wood again, raised it high, and slapped it on the table with a "pop".

Different "awakening trees" have different functions. Officials use it to keep the hall quiet, while storytellers attract the attention of the audience. He wants to "vernacular" a story again, or continue to tell what he said last time. go down.

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