Chapter 820: Peach Blossom Spring in the Bardo Realm
Looking at the stone tablet, Kong Sang looked confused: "Huh? The Bardo Realm? What is that?"
All the companion ghosts also looked at each other in confusion.
This place may not look like the human world, but if it is said to be a divine world, it is nothing more than heaven and earth.
But the divinity of Kyushu has almost disappeared.
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According to what Boss Zheng said before, both the underworld and heaven have been eliminated.
Here...it doesn't seem to fit that description either.
When in doubt, a young man came forward to say hello enthusiastically:
"Hello, newbies?"
"Uh... ah?" Perhaps due to the continuous fighting and excessive sadness, Kong Sang's reaction speed could not keep up.
The young man in front of me was wearing clothes that seemed to be from a style more than ten years ago.
Although the whole person looks young, from head to toe, he seems to have a sense of being out of touch with the times.
Looking at the MP3 player in his hand, Kong Sang's eyebrows moved:
"Excuse me...handsome man, what are you..."
The young man laughed and said:
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"It seems that many years have passed outside."
"We are all dead here."
"Just like me, in 2010, I was under too much pressure to study and jumped off the building."
"When I wake up, I will be here. The one that will accompany me is the MP3 I took with me before I jumped off the building."
The young man said shocking words in a tone of complete relief.
Suddenly, the young man was stunned, and then looked up and down at Kong Sang and others:
"Huh? No!"
"You... you are all alive!"
"This is so new! How long has it been since there was a living person here?"
"Only him..." The young man pointed at Zhao Yuecheng: "He is a dead person."
Tadu@ "But...even though he is dead, his soul seems to be no longer in his body?"
Kong Sang vaguely felt that the place where Shenlu brought them should really have a chance of resurrection, so he quickly asked:
"Excuse me...where is this?"
The young man scratched his head and said, "The realm of the bardo."
As he spoke, the young man pointed to the stone tablet.
Kong Sang opened his mouth: "Then may I ask... why do you appear here?"
The young man shook his head: "I really don't know that."
"I only know that we are different from ordinary dead people."
"Before I die, I hope to go to a carefree world and be a carefree person."
"Then when I woke up, I was here."
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"This Bardo Realm is very strange. There are ancient dead people and modern dead people."
"There are men and women, old and young. Here, we will always maintain our last appearance. There will be no reincarnation and no one to offer sacrifices."
"But we feel hungry and we feel tired."
"So, I live a self-sufficient life here."
Kong Sang's eyebrows twitched: "You mean...this is not what we call the underworld in the conventional sense?"
The young man laughed:
"Of course not!"
"There are no hells, gods or Buddhas like in fairy tales here. It's just a village."
"We can't leave here anyway, so we can live here peacefully."
"This kind of carefree life is pretty good."
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"There are no three disasters or nine disasters, no birth, old age, sickness and death."
These words made Yang Yu next to him frown:
"Your place...is it a peach blossom garden?"
The young man scratched his head:
"I've also read Tao Yuanming's article, and I think it's quite similar."
Kong Sang asked quickly:
"Then do you know...the method of resurrecting the dead?"
"Ah?" The young man smiled bitterly and said, "Then you are making things difficult for me. I am considered very young here."
"Let's do this. I'll call the village chief over. He should know. You can just wait aside for a while."
With that said, the young man left in a hurry.
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Seeing this, Kong Sang and others had no choice but to go to the side of the willow tree and wait patiently.
The peach blossom garden mentioned by Yang Yu made Kong Sang a little moved.
He has naturally read "The Peach Blossom Spring" written by Tao Yuanming.
What is depicted in it is an ideal world where the world is unified and the doors are not closed at night.
However, in subsequent interpretations, some scholars believe that the Peach Blossom Spring in Tao Yuanming's works is actually an ideal hometown where the deceased lives.
At the same time, Kong Sang was also thinking about the meaning of the Bardo Realm.
He had never heard of the Bardo Realm, but he knew the word "Bardo".
That's a technical term in Buddhism.
To put it simply, it is a special state that a person is in during the forty-nine days from death to reincarnation.
This state is also called the bardo.
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In Taoism, there are similar sayings, such as cultivating the Yin God.
Zhou Hui suddenly said: "Here... I feel very comfortable."
Kong Sang looked around and saw that in this endless village, everything he could see were willow trees.
It looks green and emerald, but in fact it has a gloomy air.
"The willow tree is one of the four most evil trees, and it is even said to be a soul-calling flag in Feng Shui."
"It's no wonder that your accompanying ghosts would like a place like this."
As he said that, Kong Sang felt a faint movement in his heart.
While waiting, there were many people around and noticed Kongsang and others.
They all brought food and drinks very enthusiastically.
What is surprising is that not only Kongmulberry can taste these foods and water, but the accompanying ghosts can also eat them directly.
This satisfies the appetites of the companion ghosts.
Kong Sang didn't eat much, and he didn't have much appetite now.
He simply drank some water and ate one or two cakes, but the anxious look in his eyes became more intense.
Finally, he saw an old man on crutches walking in this direction.
What surprised everyone was that the village chief seemed to be very ancient in terms of his attire.
His clothes did not even belong to any dynasty that Kongsang knew.
At this time, the old man came in front of everyone.
Kong Sang hurriedly tried to get up, but because he was exhausted from the air, he staggered and almost fell down. Fortunately, he was supported by the companion ghost beside him.
The old village chief smiled and waved his hand: "Young people are still carrying the deceased on their backs. They are very tired, so there is no need to be polite. Just sit down."
Immediately, the old village chief slowly sat down, looked at everyone, and nodded:
"A person, a corpse without a soul, and a bunch of souls with obsessions."
"It seems that your arrival in the Bardo Realm is not accidental."
Kong Sang knew that maybe the opportunity lay with the old village chief.
Immediately, he briefly explained the matter of Zhao Yue's death.
"Village Chief, I got the guidance of the sacred deer through the Ancestral Mountain Altar of the Ten Divisions of Yin, and I came here unknowingly!"
"Please, village chief, if there is a way to bring the dead back to life, please don't hesitate to tell me!"
"I am Kong Sang, no matter what price I pay, I can be a cow or a horse!"
Looking at Kong Sang's reddish eyes, the old village chief showed a hint of distress and pity:
"Good boy, it seems that he is really important to you."
"That sacred deer should be the will of the Bardo Realm itself."
Tadu@ "You can come, it seems... there is indeed an opportunity for you here."
"This place... is a very strange world, and I can't explain it to you in detail."
"I am the first person to appear here. The dynasty I live in comes from the Xia Dynasty."
As soon as this statement came out, everyone was shocked.
Xia Dynasty?
That was almost the earliest hereditary dynasty recorded in known history books!
The old village chief continued:
"When I came here, I discovered that this place does not belong to the human world, nor does it belong to the underworld."
"Every day, some people come here by coincidence."
"Some of them choose to leave and never come back."
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"Some choose to stay here."
"Oh, right."
"At first, there was a person who came in and wanted to find her again. He even brought people from the government office with him."
"I waited and spent some effort to avoid being disturbed by him."
Kong Sang was slightly startled.
This sounds... almost exactly the same as what Tao Yuanming wrote in "The Peach Blossom Spring"!
The old village chief didn't say much: "To be honest, I don't know much about the method of bringing the dead back to life."
"It can be said that among us here, no one is still attached to the matter of 'living'."
"As for your partner, his body is already an empty shell. Not to mention three souls and seven souls, he doesn't even have a human soul..."
"Either it was caused by magic, which caused the soul to fly away."
"Either, there is only one possibility left."
"His soul is in the Bardo Realm!"
As soon as these words came out, Kong Sang was overjoyed:
"Village Chief, this is true!"
The old village chief nodded:
"Although I don't know much about the ten parts of the Yin that you mentioned, I do know a thing or two about similar ancient methods of summoning spirits."
"As far as I know, the souls that wizards can summon are all wandering in the world or wandering in hell."
"This bardo is a place where there is neither life nor death."
"So, it can be regarded as a world independent of anywhere."
As he spoke, the old village chief pointed to the towering mountain deep in the village:
"That place is said to be the source of the Bardo Realm."
"Some souls that have just been brought here but have not yet awakened will appear from there."
"At the beginning, I came down from the mountain after I woke up from the mountain. I was bored here and built the village."
"As for the stone tablet in the Bardo Realm, it has existed since I opened my eyes."
"Just, I want to remind you something."
"Throughout the ages, living people have entered the Bardo Realm, and this is not an isolated case."
"The person who entered the mountain with a living body is not an exception."
"It's just...according to the living people who came down the mountain, there is great terror on the mountain."
"After asking in detail, they refused to say anything."
"But when we woke up and went down the mountain, we didn't encounter anything."
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As he spoke, the old village chief pointed to the accompanying ghost:
"In addition, the souls of the dead can descend from that mountain range."
"But once you get down, you can't go up."
"You can give it a try with these ghost companions of yours."
"But... there is a high probability that it will not succeed."
Kong Sang nodded repeatedly: "It doesn't matter, no matter what is on the mountain, as long as there is hope!"
The village chief seemed to have seen many people like Kong Sang. He immediately let out a sigh, stood up slowly, and said with a cane:
"Young man, life and death are God's will."
"If... you have a fate with this little brother on your back, then the people on the mountain will naturally give you guidance."
"Although the chance is slim, I still wish you can get what you want!"
[Author's digression]: Little popular science:
"The Story of the Peach Blossom Spring" is the preface to Tao Yuanming's "Poems of the Peach Blossom Spring", which is similar to the introduction at the beginning.
The story described is naturally known to everyone.
It is an ideal world that is independent of dynasty history and self-sufficient.
In fact, this work itself is Tao Yuanming's expression of his longing for an ideal life and his dissatisfaction with real life.
However, with the development of this work, more and more interesting interpretations began to appear.
One of the more well-known ones is the country described in "Peach Blossom Spring", which is a country of the dead.
This country, unlike the mythical Fengdu City, is an independent, small world like a village.
According to some interpretations, because these people all died in the war, they are actually existences similar to earth-bound spirits. They wander in one place and forget the fact of their death, so they have no chance of return.
And coincidentally, it was the appearance of the protagonist in "The Story of Peach Blossom Spring" that made them know the truth that they were dead.
Therefore, when the other party came again with the prefect, they could not find him.
It is even said that the world of "Peach Blossom Spring" itself is a mass grave.
Therefore, in this article, I combine the "Peach Blossom Spring" and the Buddhist theory of "bardo body" to create this so-called bardo world.
You can understand that this bardo world is just like the written world formed by Murasaki Shikibu in the novel "The Tale of Genji" in the Japanese chapter "Resurrection Incense".
They do not belong to fairy tales or the human world, but they are placed in the human world, in some kind of literary works, or in some kind of spiritual sustenance.
In this novel, the world of "The Tale of Genji" written by Murasaki Shikibu, and the world of heaven where Liu Xiao and Li Yuan finally appear in "Medical School Chronicles", as well as this bardo world, are all of the same type.
With this explanation, everyone should understand.