The discovery was made in the process of rescuing the ancient tombs, and an Eastern Han tomb and a couple's burial tomb in the Northern Song Dynasty were discovered. Among them, there is a small window between the two burial rooms of the husband and wife's joint burial tomb, commonly known as "crossing the fairy bridge", which expresses the ancient people's beautiful expectation for continuing their marriage in the afterlife.
This discovery can not help but remind people of the research upsurge caused by Taoist town tomb vouchers in the tombs of the Song Dynasty.
In fact, the Eastern Han Dynasty and the Northern Song Dynasty happened to run through a period of tomb culture in China.
Since ancient times, China's tomb culture has always existed in the form of tomb animals, tomb symbols, tomb figurines and tomb characters, among which the tomb characters are written materials of tombs in the middle and late Eastern Han Dynasty, with a distinctive Taoist cultural brand.
The tomb coupon mentioned just now is one of them. Also known as Gai Hua Gongwen Town Tomb Voucher. The so-called vouchers are actually land purchase vouchers. From a historical point of view, the so-called "land purchase voucher" was indeed a practical land voucher at first, belonging to the land sales voucher; Later, it evolved into a "secret agreement" or a "ghost agreement" and became a form of contract to buy land from ghosts and gods for the dead.
On the tombstone of Youquan Town, there are naturally authentic Taoist books, namely, authentic Oriental books, authentic Southern books, authentic Northern books and authentic Central books, so there is still a lack of authentic Western books. The so-called "central truth" is the five immortals refined by Lingbao Huangdi in Anling Town.
This central truth can be seen in the translation of Lingbao's study aid book: "Huang Zhongli", the principal Yuan Zhen. Zhenxing spits,? Liu Gong. "
The beginning of his sentence is "Huang Zhongli's understanding", which comes from Zhouyi: "The gentleman Huang Zhongli's understanding is in his body, beauty is in it, he is obedient to his limbs, he was born in his career, and beauty is the best." "Zhouyi Shentongqi" also said: "Huang gradually makes sense and nourishes the skin."
Therefore, these sixteen cloud seals, on the one hand, contain the secrets of cultivation, on the other hand, can make the underworld dead.
And crossing over gives the living the use of taking refuge in the world. Whether for the living or the ghosts who are already in the underworld, it seems that they can tell a story of turning the dead into eternal life through the magic of these sixteen cloud seals.
Then speaking of Li Qi, in fact, the tomb coupon of Erbasu Town unearthed this time also proves the belief of the tomb owner, which is also the common rational style of Taoism in the Song Dynasty.
Rationalism is an important branch of Taoism, which originated in central Fujian and spread in Fujian and Zhejiang. The main content is five lines of gossip, and the compass is the rule of this school. The compass can reach 24 levels at most. If you add one more sentence, the compass used by the "touch the gold captain" mentioned in the film "Ghost Blowing the Lamp" should probably belong to the "rational style". In fact, the development of central truth is the product of the application of Taoist classics in practice. Central truth is an integral part of refined truth, which is generally divided into five parts, southeast, northwest and middle.
In addition, the use of the central authentic text is an extremely complicated process. Put it in the middle. The mage also needs to knock 12 times, die 12 times, walk a few steps, recite spells, and so on.
We all know that the basic purpose of Taoism is to cultivate immortals, but this does not mean that Taoist people have nothing to do with social life. In fact, Taoism has distinct nationality and secularity, and the five authentic versions fully embody this basic feature.
Taoism is a reborn religion. In its traditional thoughts and beliefs, it contains the infinite worship of Taoist gods and the infinite pursuit of Taoist love for life. Of all the religions with ultimate concern, only Taoism values this life, delights in life and values life.
Taoism believes that people can keep the spirit and the flesh together through cultivation, and realize immortality and consciousness all their lives. This is the theological thought that distinguishes Taoism from other religions. So can people continue to practice after death? This problem is also in front of people.
The central truth overcame people's fear of death to some extent. The problem of life and death is an eternal and fundamental problem facing mankind. It is more a comfort to the living than an opening for the dead.
Of course, the inscription on the town tomb, which appeared in the middle and late Eastern Han Dynasty, is itself? It has a distinct brand of Taoist culture. And every archaeological discovery will also show the characteristics and cultural connotation of Taoist town tombs.