Is black and white impermanence a brother or a husband and wife?

Is black and white impermanence a brother or a husband and wife? In the old superstition, impermanence was described as the messenger to fetch the living soul when people died, and it was said that it was black and white impermanence that brought people's ghosts to the underworld after people died. After the trial of Yan Ye, if you have cultivated enough virtues before your death, you will go to heaven. If you do evil before your death, you will be severely punished in hell, and those who have done well or badly can be reincarnated and reborn to start over.

According to legend, black and white impermanence is called Fan and white impermanence is called Xie Bi 'an. They grew up together like brothers. Then one day, they agreed to go out to play and came to the river. It was going to rain. Xie Bi 'an said that he ran back to a place not far from home to get an umbrella, and Fan waited for Xie Bi 'an by the river. Unexpectedly, there was a storm, and Fan was afraid that Xie Bi 'an could not find himself when he came back with an umbrella, and he didn't want to break his word, so he waited for him in the rain. When Xie Bi 'an brought the umbrella, it was washed away by the flood, and Xie Bi 'an, who was in great pain, finally hanged himself (the image of Bai impermanence was sticking out his tongue to eat food). Terrorists think they are very loyal, so they stay with them and create a ghost difference. This is the origin of black and white impermanence.

In fact, the name black and white impermanence also has a special meaning. Sebian means that if you reward the gods, you will be safe. Fan has no medicine to save, which is actually "criminals have no medicine to save", that is, people who break the law can't even save the gods.

However, the origin of the legend of black and white impermanence is based on a sad love story from Zhuangzi? Stealing the soles of the feet: "Weisheng lives under the beam with that woman. If the woman doesn't come, the water won't go, and she will cling to the beam. " It is said that an infatuated man named Wei Sheng met his favorite woman under the blue bridge, but his sweetheart didn't keep the appointment. Unfortunately, the flood rose. In order not to break his promise, he hugged the post of the bridge and drowned. Therefore, later generations used this idiom to describe the couple's double suicide for each other, so it is well-founded to say that some folk works are either black or white.

In folklore, black and white impermanence is not only responsible for bringing people's souls to the underworld when they die, but also for catching criminals and evil spirits. Therefore, when people say "knocking at the door is not shameful", it actually means that black and white are impermanent to kill them. Therefore, people who often do bad things or do evil things that are harmful to Yin De often have nightmares for fear of punishment. A typical example is Li Shimin, Emperor Taizong. After the Xuanwumen rebellion killed his brother Li and his brother Li Yuanji, he forced his father to abdicate, so he often had nightmares. Later, Qin's generals and Weichi Gong stayed at the door every night to show their peace of mind, so the folk door gods were generally Qin's and Weichi Gong's.

Although black and white impermanence is a deadly ghost, they are not fierce spectre images in folklore. The black-and-white impermanence we see from Journey to the West and the New Legend of the White Snake are very lovely comedy characters. The legendary black impermanence wrote "I am arresting you" on her face, and Bai impermanence wrote "You can come" on her face; The black impermanence hat says "Peace in the world" and the white impermanence hat says "Make money at first sight". White impermanence mostly punishes those who are not worthy of being called, while black impermanence specializes in catching evil spirits with chains and fetters. It is said that when you encounter darkness, you will run away. You can hit Bai impermanence, because when he hits you, he hits you with a coin, so he says "making money at first sight".

Let's talk about why black and white impermanence should act together. This should start with the human soul. The soul we usually talk about is actually two concepts. We must first understand what a soul is and what a soul is. Soul is a spirit that can exist independently without life, while spirit is a spirit that cannot exist independently without life form. In the theory of traditional Chinese medicine, it is believed that the heart hides the spirit and the lung hides the soul. Some Chinese doctors believe that blocking the anus at the time of dying can prevent the soul from being scattered. For example, the zombie is gone, and the spirit is still there.

Traditionally, people have three souls and seven spirits, and the Romance of the Gods says that people have seven souls and six spirits. Therefore, after Nezha killed the three emperors of the Dragon King, he cut the meat, returned the bones to his father and died in order not to implicate his father, Li Jing, and the people in Chentangguan. Later, Taiyi accepted Nezha's six spirits, took lotus root as the body, and went to the underworld to find his seven spirits, saving Nezha's life.

Because the soul is divided into yin and yang attributes, male: yang body = yang spirit+ghost; Female: Yin body = Yin soul+Yang soul, so we often say that people and ghosts always refer to people, black impermanence is the negative representative, and white impermanence is the positive representative. When the human soul leaves the body, because the same sex repels the opposite sex, the male ghost is attracted and captured by the impermanence. The yang soul of women is attracted and captured by the impermanence of darkness. It can be said that black and white impermanence can only capture or seize its soul if it acts alone, so only by acting at the same time can a person's complete soul be brought to the underworld for inspection.

In fact, the setting of black-and-white impermanence originated from Taoist Taiji diagram, and the black-and-white of Yin and Yang fish in black-and-white and Taiji diagram is the same. Since ancient times, the colors of Taiji pictures are all black and white, so there are only black impermanence and white impermanence, and there are no yellow impermanence and green impermanence.