Chapter 13 Betrayer Bai Ze

October 29, 2008 at 22:42 Bai Ze once explained various knowledge about animals to the Yellow Emperor.It is said that the Yellow Emperor was touring all over the country at that time to understand the true appearance of the land under his jurisdiction.On the East Sea, he met the talking monster Bai Ze.Bai Ze is knowledgeable and knowledgeable about all kinds of animals.It explained to the Yellow Emperor one by one all the strange species produced by gathering the spiritual energy of the heavens and the earth and the essence of the sun and the moon. It talked about 1,522 species in total: There is a monster that always appears at night.It has eight heads, and its body is floating in the air. There is a faint fire light on its head. This monster is called You Guang, also known as Ye Tong. Seeing it means that the country is going to suffer from plague.There is another kind of monster whose shape cannot be seen by others, but it can throw small white stones at people.If you flip it back, it will eat you.Prick it with white reeds to avoid disaster.There is a monster in the west, whose appearance and shape are very similar to the great ape.They have only females and no males, so they can only ambush and plunder the males in the human race to interbreed and give birth to offspring.Its name is silk.Outside the Great Wilderness there is a strange bird with a head like a leopard, wings like iron chains, and two lumps of flesh on its chest, which are not covered with feathers.Legend has it that someone stole two pieces of meat and was chased to nowhere, so he committed suicide by throwing himself into the water, thus turning into this monster.Its name is Escape River or Amoy River.One theory is that the escaped river is the pelican.There is also a kind of monster, petite in shape, shaped like a rabbit, with a turquoise tail, its name is Muchan.If someone sees this monster, it means that there will be a famine that year.

Finally, Bai Ze warned the Yellow Emperor that most of these species appeared because of the chaos in the world: so please manage your own country well, so as not to run into these monsters and lose your soul. According to Bai Ze's prompt, the recorder drew pictures of various monsters.But for some unknown reason, they did not tell future generations what Bai Ze looked like.Therefore, future generations can only describe its image according to their own imagination.In the Spring and Autumn Period, King Xianggong of Qin State described Bai Ze as a herbivore such as deer and deer in a poem describing hunting activities. "New Tang Book? Five Elements Records" records that the nobles in the Tang Dynasty liked to use "Bai Ze pillow" when they slept, which could dispel nightmares.This Bai Ze pillow imitates the shape of a bear.And among the many monsters that Master Sanzang met on the westward journey, there was a lion who called himself "Bai Ze" without shame.

What is even more puzzling is why, as a monster, Bai Ze has such a comprehensive understanding of the same kind.Tang Dynasty writer Feng Zhi provided an explanation for this question in his "Yun Xian San Lu".After the creator god completed the creation project of the animal kingdom, he once gave up his attention to the species he created.When he watched the activities of the beasts again, he was already dazzled by the newly derived species.He then created Bai Ze, endowed him with some of his own qualities, and asked Bai Ze to investigate the situation of animals in the world and make a brief report.

Bai Ze betrayed him. Feng Zhi did not give a reason for Bai Ze's betrayal of the creator.He just sighed that without this betrayal, humans might never be able to see the true appearance of those beasts, let alone accurately name them.In this way, mankind will forever fall into the night of fear.Because the name is the source of all magical powers, only by calling out the other party's name accurately can the evil spirit be subdued. On this basis, some people speculated that Bai Ze forbade human beings from tracing their own form because they were afraid of being retaliated by the creator.Therefore, some people further judged that Bai Ze, who concealed his image, actually lived among the bustling crowd.In the middle of the night, in the early hours of the morning, on the cold curb, it speaks various languages ​​and tells the legendary stories about strange animals to passers-by of various professions.