Chapter 158 1. Water removal: women's eternal doubts

An equally striking natural disaster, relative to floods, is drought. If it is said that floods imply chaos, loss of order, and out-of-control situations in our collective subconscious, then droughts also have their own unique explanations.After all, in the primitive society, the primitive people chased the river and lived. The impact of the drought is far less sudden than the flood, but it has a slow, irresistible, and gradually dispelling exploitation. Therefore, compared with flood disasters, drought disasters are more terrible, and its harmfulness will often be gradually revealed after a long period of time.

As early as in the previous chapters, we mentioned such a story in "Shan Hai Jing Xi Shan Jing": Is four hundred and twenty miles from the west and the northwest, said Zhongshan.His son is called Drum, which looks like a human face and a dragon's body. He killed Baojiang with Qin Kai in the sun of Kunlun.Qin 鴀 turns into a big osprey, its shape is like a carving, its shape is like a 鸱, its shape is like an owl, its bare feet is straight and its beak is straight. , Huangwen and Baishou, its sound is like a swan, and it is a severe drought in its city when it is seen. ——"Shan Hai Jing Xi Shan Jing"

Here we talk about drum, the son of Zhongshan Mountain God, who killed another god for unknown reasons, and was sentenced to death and executed immediately.As a result of the execution, the "drum" turned into a terrible bird again, which looked like a common hawk, but with red feet and a straight beak, yellow markings on its body and a white head. The sound it makes is very similar to that of a swan. Wherever it appears, there will be a drought. We have already analyzed the meaning of this story. Here, the damage that this strange bird has caused to human beings is the damage to farming. "God".

From this story, we enter into the primitive era's concern with the specific theme of "piercing water".