Chapter 49 The second day and night black wind rises

The Chinese have a unique interpretation of the word "catastrophe" in Buddhist scriptures.The catastrophe does not happen only in tens of millions of years as the Buddhist scriptures say, but it will come to the land of China every one or two hundred years. Every one or two hundred years, population growth and social injustice will overwhelm the dynasty's discipline, and catastrophe will come as promised.People who usually followed the rules lost their minds, killed each other, and blood flowed into rivers. The princes and adults paid the price for greed, and the majestic buildings and mountains of wealth were reduced to ashes.

After the catastrophe, the population dropped sharply, and the land that had sucked enough blood regained its fertility to support a new round of prosperity, and a new dynasty was established majestically on the ruins. Chinese history is such a cyclical cycle. The disaster memories of generations of ancestors have accumulated into the collective unconsciousness deep in the hearts of the Chinese people. Although the foolish people lack the rational ability to grasp the laws of history, they do not lack the perceptual intuition to appreciate the rhythm of history.Every time there is a natural disaster or a man-made epidemic, the old people will say: "God is going to accept people again."

Before the great chaos in the world, there are often all kinds of sensational prophecies: "There will be a catastrophe in the modern age, the sky and the earth will be dark, the sun and the moon will be dark, and the people will either be killed by swords and fire, or they will be sick." A mountain of bones, a sea of ​​blood..." At the end of the Ming Dynasty, when the rebel armies rose one after another, and when the fish in Shaanxi, Shanxi, Henan, and Hubei were rotten, Sichuan was relatively peaceful.He is located in the red land thousands of miles away, disasters and accidents are prevalent, but the land of abundance has good weather, abundant grains, and a scene of peace.Rich and powerful households fought cockfights and competed for extravagance. It seemed that the disasters elsewhere had nothing to do with Sichuan.

However, I don’t know when, an ominous ballad spread quietly in the land of Bashu, where singing and dancing are peaceful and peaceful: “Liu Liu thief, thief Liu Liu, the upper world sent him to behead. If there is one person who can’t beheaded, the plague The Messenger is behind." There is another song that is equally gloomy: "At the age of Jia, B, and C, this place is bleeding red. There are houses that no one lives in, and some land that no one plows." The adults listened, and often stopped the children: "Don't sing!" Pull over and spank. Still, couldn't help it.

No one can tell when and where these ballads came from.Like a poisonous miasma, they spread out from the secluded and deep mountains and rivers, carrying a biting chill, making Sichuanese who grew up in a peaceful world shiver secretly. What happened to the people of Sichuan not long after, can be said to be indistinguishable from this ballad.The Chinese people's ability to predict is astonishing.However, helplessly, this ability to predict does not help the people on this land escape the disaster that will be suffered.That's the weirdness of this land. Therefore, the Chinese say, "There is no escape from disaster."