In China's myths and legends, after death, people go through the gate of hell, the ecliptic, between the ecliptic and hades, and the forgotten river as the boundary. The forgotten Chuanjiang River is blood-yellow, and there are ghosts everywhere that cannot be reborn. Insects and snakes are everywhere, and the wind is blowing.
So you need a ferryman to cross.
Second, analysis:
1, in China's myths and legends, people go through the gate of hell after death, through the ecliptic, between the ecliptic and hades, and forget the river as the boundary. The forgotten Chuanjiang River is blood-yellow, and there are ghosts everywhere that cannot be reborn. Insects and snakes are everywhere, and the wind is blowing.
There is a Naihe Bridge on the Forgotten River. There is an old woman sitting next to Naihe Bridge. Her name is Meng Po. If you want to cross the forgotten river, you must cross the Naihe Bridge. If you want to cross Naihe Bridge, you must drink Meng Po Tang. You can't cross the Naihe Bridge without drinking Meng Po Tang. If you can't cross the bridge, you can't be reborn.
2. Naihe Bridge (Meng Po Bridge):
Naiheqiao is a place where people are reincarnated in China Taoism and China folk mythology. There will be an elderly goddess named Meng Po, who will give each ghost a bowl of Mengpo soup to forget the memory of past lives, so as to be reborn in the next life.
3. Ferry man:
Someone who helps the soul to the other side.
There are similar legends in the East and the West. In the western non-Christian culture, there is a legend that a god of death or a fallen angel is responsible, and the legend of China was influenced by Taoism, and finally evolved into the Naihe Bridge.
Extended data:
According to legend, there is a forgotten river and a bridge on Huang Quan Road, which is full of flowers on the other side. The reincarnated soul boy drinks Meng Po Tang, treads on the river bridge, and forgets all the love, hate and enmity in his previous life.
Some people don't want to forget their past lives, and they don't want to be reborn. They can only become ghosts and wander around. I can't forget that there is a ferryman on the river, who is destined for a thousand years, and the person who has been crossed can't forget the past life.
The ferryman stayed on this river for thousands of years, listened to many stories, crossed many people, but hesitated whether to go alone or not, and didn't know how to return.
Naiheqiao is a place where people are reincarnated in China Taoism and China folk mythology. There will be an elderly goddess named Meng Po, who will give each ghost a bowl of Mengpo soup to forget the memory of past lives, so as to be reborn in the next life.
Note: Helplessness has nothing to do with Buddhism. The translation of Sanskrit Narakade is a free translation: hell, transliterated as "Narojia", not "helplessness".
Buddhism emphasizes that "the Buddha is destined to cross the river", saying that monks can often resolve the anger of ordinary people in a few words, but no one has thought about why monks can resolve it, and no one has thought about why monks become monks.
If you have never crossed a dangerous beach, fought a storm and experienced the world, how can you cross others?
It's just that no one ever thought who could cross the transition again. It's never easy to ferry people in the world of mortals.
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