Creation, but the world is colorless, lifeless, Fuxi Nuwa lives in it, very idle, Fuxi is angry, and makes a sudden snatch to draw a gully on the earth, which is a river, flowing eastward and flowing into the East China Sea. There are mountains and rivers between heaven and earth, and the sun, moon and stars are in the morning.
Mountains and rivers have become, but there is no interest. Nu Wa talks a lot, so the battle is made by the loess. After the strength is infinite, it is to lead the rope in the mud and raise it for life. There are five immortals and five insects between heaven and earth, and heaven, immortals and loess are it; If people are ghosts, they will lead the rope to do it. This is the beginning of Gankun, the source of everything. Immortals are self-cleaning, and lonely ghosts and demons are unfair, so they must become immortals. This is a natural disaster.
The sun and the moon change, the stars run, and the years are thousands of years. People and ghosts in the world are noisy and uneven. It is said that we are all made by Nuwa. The only immortal lives in the sky. Why should we suffer from reincarnation? Over time, there are also fallen people who are immortals in vain. As the saying goes, those who are wise in the world can find Penglai, and those who build roads can also become immortals. When this statement came out, it caused a sensation all over the world, and people, ghosts and demons all made great efforts to practice the law in order to gain enlightenment one day. As the saying goes: there is a fairyland on earth, and the Tao is in Penglai. Yeah, yeah.
Become a legendary mountain: it appeared after Kunlun, which is purely the product of the belief in immortals that rose after Qin and Han Dynasties. It's already done. It's the forerunner of Taoism. The core of immortal thought is immortality, which originates from mythical thinking, but immortals and fairy stories were formally formed in class society. Looking at the history of fairy tales for more than 2000 years, it is not only related to myths, but also differentiated later.
The earliest gods in the divine world were animals, not people. The prototype of fairy is human. Fairy is the idealization of human beings, and fairyland is the ideal stage of life, centering on human activities and desires. Animals cannot become immortals directly. They must undergo long-term cultivation, first refined, then adult, and finally immortal. If you encounter unexpected setbacks in the middle, you may lose all your efforts.
Then, why did the Qin and Han dynasties rise to become immortal? This is related to the war in the pre-Qin period. During the Warring States period, everyone wanted to reunify China, and wars continued, and people's lives were not guaranteed. They long for a fairyland that is free from dust and vulgarity, which can not only stay away from the harm of war, but also cultivate self-cultivation and prolong life. Inspired by myths and fantasies, they imagined a fairyland. After the unification of Qin and Han dynasties, the supreme ruler hoped to live a long life, preferably not to die, so as to enjoy a comfortable life forever, so he set off a fanatical belief in immortals from top to bottom. Some of the alchemists who were transformed from witches were intellectuals who made great contributions to culture at that time, and some of them catered to the supreme ruler for their own fame and fortune, and publicized the rumors at sea, Penglai, abbot and Yingzhou. This is the "Three Fairy Mountains" and "Five Fairy Mountains" in the East, which are collectively called Penglai Wonderland in the East. At the end of the Warring States Period, Qi Weiwang, Qi Xuanwang, Yan Zhaowang, Qin Shihuang and Emperor Wudi all sent people to look for Penglai Wonderland, but no one really arrived, either the Three Gods Mountain was hidden underwater or was blocked by strong winds. It can be seen that the so-called fairy mountain is really nothing, all made up by those alchemists.
One of them, an alchemist named Xu Fu, once wrote to Qin Shihuang, begging for immortality in the sea. In the twenty-eighth year of Qin Shihuang (2 19 BC), he took thousands of boys and girls, spent a lot of money, had no results, and then simply never came back. Where the hell did Chui fook go? Folks in China and Japan all say that he went to Japan, and some legends also say that Xu Fu crossed the sea because he escaped the tyranny of Qin Shihuang. After arriving in Japan, he spread China's farming techniques in Japan with his own seeds and farm tools, and was honored as "Four People's God of Agriculture" and "Four Medicine Gods" by Japanese folks. Legend has it that there are three places in Japan called Penglai, namely Mount Fuji, Heguang and Tamiya, and Kumano. There is a tomb in Kumano called Fu. The original meaning of "Fuji" in Japanese means "immortality". The legend of Xu Fudong crossing the river has a wide influence in Japan and Southeast Asia. Of course, it is an academic question whether Chui Fu really went to the East and whether he can lead thousands of boys and girls in Qian Qian in the East. Chinese and foreign scholars are discussing it.
After the rise of the Oriental Wonderland, it gradually replaced the West Kunlun and became the hometown of immortals. When people mention fairyland, they know more about Penglai and Kunlun. Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty was a fairy fan among emperors in the past dynasties. He specially built an artificial Taiye pool in the Ganquan Palace of the palace, with legendary fairy mountains such as Penglai on it, which was expensive.
Penglai: Legend has it that Shenshan Xianfu is a place to collect cheats and classics. Scholars in the Eastern Han Dynasty also called the book collection Penglai Mountain.