Chapter 4 The big bird that Feng Zhi talked about

October 29, 2008 at 22:42 Feng Zhi, a novelist in the late Tang Dynasty, mentioned a huge bird in his masterpiece "Yun Xian San Lu".Feng Zhi said it was an extremely huge bird.Some people think that its head is as big as Mount Sumeru, and only the trees supporting the sky and the earth can provide it with a nest; The crops failed for lack of sunlight; others believe that its eggs floated on the sea, and accumulated dust over the years, and grass grew out of the soil, and barbarians grew out of the grass.Later, some people moved to the island, conquered the barbarians, and established counties here.Thus, the egg of the great bird became part of the empire.Once the chicks broke their shells and flew out, the island collapsed and became a hell on earth.

Feng Zhi pointed out that this is just ordinary people's imagination about giant birds. In fact, this giant bird is what humans usually call "Feng", the one that was later mistaken for "Feng" and often confused with "Phoenix".The wind is the strongest of all birds.Its size is indescribable, and the majestic Mount Sumeru is nothing compared to it. All the languages ​​in the world cannot accurately describe its size.The shape of the wind surpasses all human imagination, and everything we can see and hear cannot compete with the size of the wind.In fact, everything that humans can see is just a tiny part of Feng.Or, in fact, the wind is the world itself.

And so we come into contact with the unbearable fact that human beings live inside the body of an enormous bird.The mountains and rivers are its muscles, the rivers are its blood, and the people of the Central Plains are just the living creatures in its body.The breath of the wind creates a huge air current within its body, and humans also call it wind. Feng's body shape is a bit like a normal hen, but its beak is longer and sharper, and its wings are wider.Its chirping is low and low, and the humans living in the wind body sound like roaring thunder.Sometimes, the wind will be attracted by its own tail and stretch out its neck to peck its tail feathers.But it couldn't do it with a shorter neck, so it started spinning in circles.At this time, droughts occur in the Central Plains.The most severe drought of all was the era of Da Yi.At that time, the Shang clan was gradually becoming stronger in the east, but the whirling winds caused serious obstacles to their hegemony plan.As the leader of the priests, Da Yi ordered the warriors to ignite the pyre for offering sacrifices to heaven, while he himself sat on it, preparing to serve as a human sacrifice.

Smoke rose from the huge pyre.Dust accumulated in the throat of the wind, which made it very uncomfortable.It then stopped turning and began coughing violently.As a result of this action, the drought ended.Big Yi was rescued by a sudden rainstorm.The Shang people saw this as a sign of dominance. Sometimes, the soul of the wind will turn into a bird and enter his body.This bird carries the soul of the wind and has great power. Every time it flies to the surface of the water, it always stirs up huge waves.Humans call this bird Peng. Many people expressed doubts about Feng Zhi's description, thinking that it was just a novelist's whimsy.Therefore, they asked, since the wind is so huge and everything in the human world is contained in its body, then who jumped out of the scope of the world, saw the whole picture of the wind, and taught it to the world?The person's biographer pointed out that, in fact, Feng Zhi's name should be written as "prey".There is evidence that this was the case at least until he was fourteen years old.