often hears many foreigners commenting on Chinese people: "The reason why Chinese people are bold is because they have no faith." But in fact, Chinese people are not without faith in history, but because they believe in too many things and they They are not very compatible with each other, and there are some beliefs that have been unknowingly integrated into our daily lives. Therefore, the characters and gods that Chinese believe in are diverse, and even we may not be able to count them.
For a long time, Chinese classical occult has always occupied a very strong position among the people. Therefore, among the three hundred and sixty lines in ancient times, each industry must find a particularly famous character in historical allusions as its object of worship For example, the teacher worships Confucius, the veterinarian worships Bole, the robber worships Cao Cao, the gang worships Guan Yu, the eunuch worships Yue Fei, the brothel worships Lu Dongbin and so on. But in fact, the objects they admire often do not necessarily have what their industry possesses. Worshiping them is actually a manifestation of self-comforting psychology in many cases.
First of all, let’s look at "Grave Robber and Worship Cao Cao". Tomb thief is generally a hidden profession in history. They all agree that Cao Cao is the patriarch of tomb robbers, because Cao Cao seems to have specially set up a "touching lieutenant" who lives on tomb robbers, relying on the gold and silver in the ancient graves. Caibao provides financial support for his army. But in fact, the only evidence that can prove Cao Cao’s tomb robbery is in Chen Lin’s "For Yuan Shao Liao Yuzhou", "Cao You Special Sets the General Qiu Zhong Lang and Touches the Jin School Lieutenant. There is no corpse. There is no archaeological evidence, and there is no other historical evidence to prove it.
However, the tomb thieves only recognized this sentence. They believed that since even the princes like Cao Cao had set up the "touching school captain", it was a disguised recognition of the legitimacy of the tomb robbers. Cao Cao's protection is not only not a shameful thing, but sometimes it can "win glory for the country" (referring to provide financial resources for the army), at least for their own psychology.
Next, let’s look at "The Gangsters Worship Guan Yu". Since the fall of the Ming Dynasty, China's three famous gangs are nothing more than the Tiandihui, the Qinggang and the Brotherhood of Old Men. These secret private associations have a great relationship with the anti-Qing and Ming Dynasty. In order to evade the severe crackdown by the Qing government, these gangs have set up extremely complicated rules for membership. Among them, loyalty is naturally the most important. Otherwise, if they are betrayed, they will end up afflicting the nine clans.
Of course, there have been many things that have been knotted since ancient times, but many knots ended up not necessarily good. For example, the "Wagang knot of justice" of the peasant uprising at the end of the Sui Dynasty was once the object of worship of certain gangs. The heroes in Gangzhai fell to the point of cannibalism after they ended up righteous. Therefore, the gangsters decided after much deliberation that Guan Gong, who was Yi Bo Yuntian, was more reliable.
As for "the eunuch worships Yue Fei", I think it should be the Ming and Qing Dynasties. After Ming Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang abolished the prime minister, he himself was very diligent when he was alive. He often worked all night and he was in good health until he was in his 70s. Although his son Zhu Di set up a cabinet, Zhu Di was in power. At the time, the eunuchs were still firmly in control of the world; but by the time of Emperor Xuanzong Zhu Zhanji of the Ming Dynasty, the power of ministers became more and more powerful, so with the support of the emperor, the eunuchs participated in this power struggle. Therefore, since the Ming Dynasty, many eunuchs have given power to the world, such as Wang Zhen, Liu Jin, Wei Zhongxian and so on. In order to flaunt his "loyalty to the country", Yue Fei, a national hero, was praised by the eunuchs and placed in a prominent position in the East Factory.
and "the brothel worships Lu Dongbin", the controversy is very serious. Generally speaking, it was Guan Zhongcai who first proposed to open a brothel during the Spring and Autumn Period and Warring States Period. Fan Li, the founder of the business, can more or less have a relationship with brothel women (although Xi Shi is not considered brothel women), so brothel women The main worshipers should be these two people. As for Lu Dongbin's statement, few people seem to mention it. Of course, there are many people worshipped by brothel women, and there may also be strange and weird people. This is likely to have a lot to do with local legends and local culture.
