Chapter two hundred and eighty fifth old and new rituals (seven)
Whether it is Xuanniao, Jian Di, Jumang, or Dongjun, the fertility goddess with exaggerated breasts, it is actually due to the same origin, and the core of the story is also consistent, and it will eventually be accompanied by the unified synonym and transform into a fixed image.
At this time, myths have gradually taken shape. Although the Mohist school is editing the myth of "sense of identity", schools of thought in various countries are actually editing it.
The State of Chu and other places have compiled the story of Fuxi and Nuwa giving birth to four sons to create the world, and tried their best to prove that he is part of Zhuxia. Although the Mo family is compiling the story of Fuxi and Nuwa and Nuwa and the world, both sides are actually doing it at the same time. The Mo family’s focus is on the preliminary explanation of genetics, not for the myth itself.
According to the chaotic myth at this time, Fuxi and Taihao are actually not very clear in distinction, and Jumang is Taihao's Mu Zheng.
During the Shang Dynasty, God was the ancestor of the Shang Dynasty. The abstract collection of the previous kings of Shang Dynasty was God. The Shang Dynasty was the sacred bloodline of the theocracy system. The descendants of God, together with the reasons for defeating Xia, were punishing God. I am the descendants of God, and I monopolize the preaching of God. God was my ancestor, so who I want to hit is not that I want to hit, but that God wants to hit.
When Zhou replaced Shang, he had to transform it with myths, change the ancestor God, which originally belonged to the Shang Dynasty, to the God of Haotian, and gradually move towards the ancient myths: everyone was a relative in ancient times, and God was not the ancestor of your Shang people, but the older Taihao and Fuxi, after the divine character of the common ancestor was God, so whoever has virtue will be the emperor. If God is a relative of your Shang family, it would be bad for King Wu to defeat Zhou.
So Xuanniao and Jian Di became Jumang. God is not from you Shang Dynasty. This spring god and the fertility god must be changed, one day the emperor and another day the minister.
In Zhuxia, I had long understood the concept that God wants to serve politics.
God can be used as a person, not to be a worthy minister.
The Mohist school used to emphasize ghosts and gods, and the image of "Jumang" within the Mohist school is the most interesting.
The face is square, covered with feathers, human faces, and bird bodies, which are obviously derived from the Xuanniao Jian Dihua. However, as the farming culture gradually deepens, men become the dominant society, and the goddess becomes a male god, which merges with Jumang.
In addition to the square face, the image of Jumang inside the Mohist school is holding a compass in his hand... The square face plus a compass is used to measure all kinds of things in the world.
In the Mohist story, Jumang met Duke Mu of Qin back then. Because Duke Mu of Qin did a good job, he was the envoy of the Emperor of Heaven and gave Duke Mu of Qin 19 years of life.
Whether it is the sacrificial image within the Mohist school, the sacrificial image within the Confucian school, or the official sacrificial image of the Zhou Dynasty, although there have been changes, the Spring God is both male, so the main sacrificial one must use male subjects, not witches.
Therefore, the official media that leads the marriage of officials also needs to use men, and the official media are all men.
However, folk media still use women because folk habits are not so easy to change, especially in the era of underdeveloped information.
The woman who walked out of the car was the standard image of a folk matchmaker in the north.
The curved head symbolizes the decoration of plants and trees, which symbolizes the prosperity of plants and trees in spring, and is the standard image of the spring god witch.
The feathers on the body symbolize the Jumang of the Xuanbi, Jian Di and the transgender descendants.
It is easy to find civil media in Gaoliucheng, but there are quite a few, but the matchmaker industry has not made much money in recent years, and some industries are not easy to do on the surface.
Because the media... the main method of making money is to sacrifice and cheat people, and it is the middleman of buying and selling women. Especially when trading marriages are extremely popular at the bottom, these media are extremely profitable.
If they were in Si Shang, they would be the ones who were poisoned to death by Shi.
In Yedi, he is the witch who presided over He Bo's marriage.
In Gaoliu, sacrificial scammers are crimes, and marriages are strictly controlled. In recent years, they have to be real matchmakers, just to make some labor fees. Some people even wash their hands and go elsewhere, and those who stay are still unrestrained and act as matchmakers.
The matchmaker is also a folk tradition. As long as you don’t engage in sacrifices, live sacrifices, money, and trading people, you can also be transformed and endured. The Mohist school also considered that some of the practices in Si Shang are still a bit radical here, and you have to take your time to change customs and customs, so as not to have troubles like Hanzhong.
Speaking of which, wearing bird-haired clothes can be regarded as superstitious sacrifices, but it can also be regarded as "folk clothing".
Like the high crown of Chu State, the Mohist school said that it was a custom left by ancient sacrifices. It learned the crown and hair on the tail of a bird and the head. But if it was really not accurate, I was afraid that the Chu people would not be able to accept the Mohist school.
The Mohist family's power in Gaoliu is not enough to be as earth-shaking as it is on Si. Some things should be let go. As long as you stop sacrificing sacrifices and buying and selling marriages, it is enough to change customs and customs, it depends on money, enough cadres, and changes in productivity.
There are many on the Si side, but Gao Liu is not even worthy of Teacher Kaimeng.
The matchmaker was found by the Mo family a few days ago. Before the Mo family could speak, the matchmaker took the lead and shouted with the Mo family's principles: "Only harm is not guilty! It is a crime to commit a forbidden crime! The law that was violated before the law was not written is not illegal!"
She had also bought and sold women before and had sacrificial rituals to cheat money. The Mo family originally had a sacrificial ritual, and they were all insiders. Some methods could not be caught by others, but the Mo family could catch them one by one.
But I have been restrained over the years and dare not act rashly. I just rely on being a matchmaker to collect labor fees and make meals at weddings to maintain my life.
She felt tired from work and couldn't sit still when she went to textiles, so she could only make a living by doing this job. In other words, the customs of Gao Liu have not changed yet, and her life is naturally worse than before, but it is still not bad.
At that time, several people from the Mo family were laughed at by the matchmaker, and the leader laughed and scolded: "You learn something slow, but you learn this quickly. It's not your fault. We have checked you in the past few years, and we really haven't done anything about sacrificial sacrifices, making money, and buying and selling marriages."
What a character the matchmaker is, a woman who is as savage as a woman, and immediately smiled and said, "I still know the Mo family's desire to benefit the world. I didn't understand it before, but now I understand it, how dare I do it again? What's the matter with a few comrades?"
Those people from the Mo family were also amused and laughed and said, "The Xuanyi Ministry invites you to have a drink."
The matchmaker smiled again and said, "Oh, Xuanyi tribe didn't gather us together to give us a lecture notes, but wanted to eat wine? This is really a strange thing."
She also knew that the Mo family would not make up reasons for arresting people. Besides, if a person like her was arrested, she wouldn't have to do so. Chengwei could do it, so how could Xuanyi's troops come forward?
After thinking about it, I did not make any mistakes in the past few years, so I followed it.
After I went there, I found that it was not just her, but six or seven other people invited together, all of whom were from the past. After meeting, I looked at each other, and my eyes were filled with strange emotions such as "You are here too". I was gloating, nervous, and working together, all of which were there.
It was said that it was a wine, but it was really a wine. There were some meat, wine, dates, persimmon cakes, peanuts and other things on the table. As soon as the people from the Xuanyi tribe came forward, these matchmakers stood up to salute.
After saying a few words, these matchmakers felt relieved.
So that's what happened:
According to wedding customs, different classes have different wedding specifications. The collapse of rituals and music has led to many businessmen's beginning to transgress, which has also led to the extravagant and competitive trend among the people, which has made the wedding cost a lot.
Any comparison will hurt. Since the Mohist school talks about equality, it is necessary to interfere in some matters, so that this equality must at least achieve superficial equality. Superficial equality is the first step to breaking the deeply rooted hierarchy among the people. Only surface equality can spread the concept of equality more smoothly.
There is no music in Zhuxia's wedding, and silk, bamboo, drum and music are not allowed.
The Confucian explanation is that marrying a daughter is a very sad thing for her daughter to leave home. This shows the virtue of family affection, so because of this kind of sadness, there is no need for drums and music.
The Mohist explanation was that the word "marriage" was not a marriage at the beginning, but a robbery, so the habit at that time was passed down and there was no use of drum music.
Both sides can draw a target to lean up, using virtue to rely on historical matters. How to explain this matter and the traditions that are already present at this moment is definitely correct, but the entire moral differences involve other things, which is really irreconcilable.
There is no need to play silk and bamboo drums, there is no difference between this. No one can ever have money anymore and it is impossible for a group of musicians to play music and sing at the wedding. At this time, it is not a glory, it is embarrassing.
However, except for this, the high and low, the poor and the rich can be consistent, the rest will be different.
For example, if you go to pick up your bride on the night of your marriage, you will definitely have a carriage if you are richer and noble.
If you are richer or nobler, the carriage must be a special wedding car.
For richer and more noble, the carriage should be painted black, and four people should be followed in front of the carriage, two people held candles in front, and two people blocked the wind.
Of course, the more cars, the better, and the more people, the better. This creates a gap and makes the trend of comparisons grow. Especially after Gao Liu has developed well in recent years, he has had some money.
The same goes for the woman, and the woman must also get out of the car and follow her.
This car could not go home back then, so you had to stay with the man for three months before you could complete the "return to horse" ceremony.
The reason why it was three months was because I was afraid that a woman would conceive someone else’s child before marriage and there was no pregnancy test stick at that time, so it was only after three months that she was the real marriage.
If you find that the child in your belly is not yours within three months, it happens that the woman’s car is on the man’s side, and the woman takes the bus back directly.
In addition, there are clothes, utensils, items, etc. during marriage, which show differences and differences everywhere.
Some people will be moved in soon. In order to prevent the newly moved people from having a gap in identity and other reasons, the Xuanyi Department of Gaoliu decided to set up an "official media".
Establish a standardized wedding process that adheres to rules, respects traditions, is equal on the surface, and is not extravagant.
On the surface, it seems that anyone who wants to get married is almost the same.
We must compress the process and ban some bad customs.
You must achieve proper festive scenes, but don’t spend too much on the wedding.
We must make the public's recognition of the feeling that there is no change from before, but we unknowingly change some customs that are not in line with the times and morality under rational inferences.
So I found these matchmakers who were familiar with this. The Mo family paid for some specialized wedding carriages, some specialized practitioners, and created official media to help them get married and have children as early as possible.
All the marriage procedures are solved through official media, and you can hold the dowry to get the best, and you can say no one can see the wedding process; everyone can see it publicly, so that everyone will be beautiful.
By the way, if the wedding date is fixed, these matchmakers will educate the bride who is about to get married before marriage.
Even if the Mohist family came forward to prepare a "company" that integrates weddings, education, ceremonies and matchmaking.
Some things can be done in Si Shang official, and the power is sufficient, such as sexual education is completed in the school. Some things, in Gaoliu, have to mobilize the power of the people, cooperate with the government and private, and strive to change customs on the surface fairly and secretly.
These seemingly useless things are also part of "synonym".
The same myths, the same words, the same wedding customs, the same morals, the same laws, the same interpretation of the world... Only in this way can Qin, Chu, Yan, Han, Zhao, Wei and Qi be formed into the same world.
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Chapter completed!