Chapter 90 Divination and Dream Interpretation

We know earlier that when Wang Shouren came out of Wuyi Mountain, he detoured to Shangrao, visited Old Master Lou Liang again, went to Nanjing to visit his father Wang Hua, and then went to Longchang, Guizhou.However, Longchang is actually an uncivilized wild area, where many happy and primitive cannibal tribes are active. When I heard that there was a white and fat Wang Shouren who was coming to take office, I planned to catch Wang Shouren and cook it to taste his taste. . So how did Wang Shouren escape from the mouth of the cannibals? "Jing Luan Lu" records like this: When the husband first arrived, the barbarians wanted to murder him. It is not auspicious to divination to the gods.The man of night dream said: "This is also the sage of the middle land."You should be careful and respectful, and listen to his lessons.There are several people who dream together overnight, and they will tell each other tomorrow.

This explanation, the divination mentioned in the previous part, should be true.The second half is about dream interpretation, which should be Wang Shouren's hands and feet again. To say that the first half of the explanation is true is because the primitive tribes in the wild areas are prevalent in a kind of primitive thinking, which is anti-logic, or primitive thinking is meta-logic.There is no logical relationship between the question and the conclusion, and I use dreams, divination and other means to guide my life.Therefore, since the cannibals intend to eat Wang Shouren, they must first do divination to see what the result is.If the result is auspicious, Wang Shouren will be eaten, even the bones are eaten; but if the divination is unfavorable, even if Wang Shouren cooked himself, people may not be willing to eat it.

However, primitive tribes live in loose groups, and in a wild area, there are often many primitive tribes.In terms of specific cooking details such as whether to eat Wang Shouren, whether to steam it or braise it in brown sauce, each tribe must have its own divination. Some tribes' fortunetelling results are unlucky, so they don't eat it; some tribes' divination results indicate that it is very auspicious to eat Wang Shouren. Yes, so they will have to eat. In terms of the wisdom formed by Wang Shouren, since he dared to come to Longchang, he must be careful every step of the way, stopping every step, and when he met someone coming from Longchang, he asked them about the local situation and collected information.Then he will soon know that if he wants to avoid being eaten by cannibals, he must resort to the means most believed by primitive people:

Dream Interpretation! Why is it required for dream interpretation and not for divination?When it comes to divination, it is a unique skill passed down from generation to generation in the Wang family. The reason is that there are too many forms of divination, and each primitive tribe has its own tricks, some of which are burning ox bones, some of which are watching flames, some of which are cutting a deer, and some of which are catching a snake.Each tribe only believes in its own way, and other people's divination techniques have no effect on them. But dream interpretation is not the case. Ancient and modern, Chinese and foreign, primitive and modern, the understanding of dreams is almost completely consistent, because the formation and influence of dreams on everyone are the same.

No matter primitive people or modern people, whether they are cannibals or speeding gangs, there is a confusion that they cannot distinguish between dreams and reality.Suppose you have a dream now, in which Wang Shouren said to you: I am Wang Shouren, give me your money quickly... I bet you will talk about this strange dream to everyone in your life. This is what Wang Shouren used. We can't say exactly how Wang Shouren did it.But he must have done this before, don't forget that he has a criminal record - when he was thirteen years old, he played tricks with his stepmother, the little lady, and got an owl and scared the little lady half to death.

If Wang Shouren hadn't done this before, it would be impossible for "Yemeng Shenren to tell: This is also a sage in the middle land. You should be careful and respect things, and listen to his lessons. There are several people who share the same dream overnight, and change phases tomorrow morning." Saying "This is a weird thing.