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The dog ghost was startled by him and quickly stood up. Zhong Lecen excitedly hugged it in one hand and pointed to the computer in the other: “Look at this-wax sacrifice!”! My God, this is a ritual from a long time ago. Confucius once saw it, but later it seemed that it was gone. Look, the main content of the so-called wax sacrifice is to thank the gods for their care in this year, to pray for good weather and good harvest in the next year, and to carry out some activities to exorcise evil spirits and epidemics. In the Book of Rites, it is said, ‘Yi Qi Shi began to be wax. Wax also, rope also. In December of the year, all things are gathered together and enjoyed. Ba Yun, do you think this argument is very similar to what we now call’taking from nature ‘? “The wax is the rope”, which is clearly said to be demanding from all things. Wax sacrifice is because all human activities are demanding from nature, and then because of the negative effects, it is necessary to use sacrifice to compensate. So, is it a bit like the Nian beast I imagined? And you see, there is also a passage of wax here- ‘The earth turns to its house, the water returns to its gully, the insects do not work, and the vegetation returns to its Ze’. The general explanation is that the wax sacrifice is related to agricultural production,artificial coconut palm trees, but if you think about it, what is the reaction of nature when people take too much from nature? Is it just a problem in agriculture? Isn’t that a disaster? How many kinds of natural disasters can you say? Earthquake? Flood? Debris flow? Pests and diseases? Land desertification? So don’t the above four sentences cover all types of natural disasters? Earth against its house, what landslide earthquake will not have; water to its gully, there will be mountain torrents? Pests and diseases, locusts and so on are insects, and excessive deforestation of mountains and forests, desertification of arable land,artificial banyan trees, because vegetation does not return to its Ze ah! So this wax sacrifice is not only related to agriculture, but also to all the disasters in a year! Moreover, the date of the wax sacrifice was December, which coincided with the appearance of the Nian beast. The dog ghost listens stupidly, Zhong Le Cen this clatter clatter a big string, it actually also understood half. Zhong Lecen let go of it, his eyes shining, and his fingers moving quickly on the keyboard: “The problem is that the wax sacrifice has been lost for a long time. What kind of sacrifice is it?” It says, ‘The Son of Heaven, the Great Wax Eight’, offering sacrifices to eight agricultural gods. The first sacrifice is Shennong, the second is Houji, not right! It is generally believed that Shennong is very likely to be Emperor Yan, fake ficus tree ,decorative palm trees, and Emperor Yan himself is surnamed Yi Qi. Could this Yi Qi, who wrote wax words, be Emperor Yan himself? Will Emperor Yan sacrifice himself? Or say.. This is not the God to be sacrificed, but the sacrifice to be sacrificed. The dog ghost stared at him with big eyes-there was no one who sacrificed himself, but there was one who sacrificed himself? “Yes.” Zhong Lecen said with certainty, “When Cheng Tang prayed for rain in the mulberry forest because it had not rained for seven years, he cut his hair, took off his clothes and fell on the table, offering himself as a sacrifice to heaven.”. The ancients said that the hair and skin of the body are affected by the parents, and the hair is a part of the body, which can not be cut easily. Cut your hair here to make a sacrifice, that is, to sacrifice your body. Of course, it’s just a symbol. So I think the wax sacrifice of Emperor Yan will not really give himself to the beast to eat, it is just a ceremony. Sacrifice lies in sincerity. Confucius said, “Sacrificing to the gods is like offering sacrifices to the gods. It all depends on whether the mind reaches them or not.”. Oh, no, it’s also possible that this kind of sacrifice is really to invite the beast out and then destroy it. Emperor Yan was afraid that the people who used it for sacrifice would be in danger, so he went into battle himself. You see, as the calendar of human society, Nian began from the time of Emperor Yan. Before Fuxi, it was called “Zai”. During Fuxi, it was called “Sui”. It was after Fuxi that Emperor Yan created “Nian”. So I think the name of Nian beast began from this time. But one interesting thing is that we now say that the beast of the year only appeared on the day of the Chinese New Year’s Eve, but until the year of the West, farmers still celebrated the harvest and the arrival of the New Year in November, because there was no fixed day for the year at this time. It was not until the reign of Emperor Wudi of the Han Dynasty that the first day of the first lunar month was officially designated as the beginning of the year.
So you say, when the year has not been fixed, did the year beast appear? According to the legend that the beast must have appeared in Chinese New Year’s Eve, there should have been no beast at that time, at least there was no beast in the present legend, or there was no legend of the beast, because the Chinese New Year’s Eve had not been decided at all. And the custom of wax sacrifice, in the Zhou Dynasty or some, to the Han Dynasty did not. “Tong Dian” says, “Since the Zhou Dynasty, the ancestral temple of heaven and earth, all the sacrifices of the state, all the corpses. Since the Qin and Han Dynasties, there has been nothing in China. That is to say, the custom of offering wax sacrifices to corpses changed and disappeared in the Qin and Han Dynasties. “Qing Dynasty Tongzhi” said more clearly, “Since the Han wax but not wax, this ceremony has been done.” To the Han Dynasty, only Laba what,artificial grass panels, and no wax sacrifice. So is it possible to say that the reason why the Nian beast appeared was precisely because the wax sacrifice was no longer held after the Qin and Han Dynasties, and the Nian beast could not be drawn out and destroyed by the method of sacrifice, so it had to come out and eat people by itself? 。 hacartificialtree.com