Since childhood, we have learned from all kinds of stories, legends, the story of the grandma who has no teeth scaring herself when she is not sleeping. The monster is a kind and sucking blood and eating people. In the story, people are always kind and helpless, and monsters are always powerful and evil. So Chinese children, from childhood, have always had a relationship with monsters that can be eaten, just like Mr. Lu Xun talked about the "beautiful snake" in the Baicao Garden...

So when I got older, I had an urge to explore the truth. I wanted to see clearly what a demon is in the real world? What is a demon?

Why do they make us so scared?

So I opened the history book.

There are special punishment clauses for magic in the "Qing Dynasty Laws". In the "killing" part of the criminal law, the first item related to magic is to "picking and cutting people", that is, to cut off the organs of the human body to sacrifice and refine magic. This crime was regarded as extremely terrifying at that time, because the punishment for this crime was executed by Lingchi. Such punishment is the same as killing one's parents and grandparents, and the same as the punishment for rebellion, even if it was just a verdict.

The punishment was only beheading. It can be seen that the demons were afraid of the demons at that time. The official also specifically stipulated that even if the person injured by this demon was only injured but not dead, the punishment received by the demons was still "lingchi". The official "legal interpretation" at that time even distinguished the "Caisheng and cut off people" from killing people and then dismembering the corpse, because dismemberment was only a hatred for the victim, while the former was "killing people and using magic to deceive people, so it was very important."

Fortunately, the only case of applying this punishment is recorded in the "Criminal Case Collection", which gives us the opportunity to see what a terrifying creature the demon is...

It was a case that happened in Zhejiang during the Jiaqing period. A seventy-year-old man absorbed the "essence" of sixteen baby girls because of a pedophile, and eleven of them died. The old man was convicted of the term "picking and cutting people". At that time, Emperor Jiaqing used the word "shemale" in a passionate edict about the case. Although he also admitted that the old man did not use any magical magic when absorbing the "essence", how could such a disgusting crime be able to do? So that old man must be a monster in human form, and all the ugliest, most terrifying, and most contrary to the image of people used to everyday people, naturally, is magical magic!

I see!

Of course, I believe this case is not just a lonely book.

In the mainstream discourse in China, demons are a long-term marginalized word, and are no longer the special term of a certain creature, but referring specifically to evil and non-human. Humans often blame some sins that they think should not be done by humans on demon spirits. Therefore, people can continue to wake up from their kindness and purity and transcendence, and can also stand on this standpoint to spit on those demon spirits. It seems that they really think that they are not one of them...

Of course, the most important of these crimes is rebellion. Haven’t you seen a magic battle between Gongsun Sheng and Qiao Daoqing in "Water Margin". The two of them dressed in the same outfit and used the same spells, but one was a "real person" and the other was a "demonic Taoist"!

No wonder the great Red Sun would say: "Through class, it is time to determine the class component, and it is the time to determine life and death for this person!"

Those who follow me will become immortals and saints, and will still be able to enjoy cold pork within a thousand years; those who go against me will be demons and demons. After ten thousand years, they will be knocked over to the ground and stepped on one foot.

That's all!

So this has also become one of the reasons for writing this book, because since then, I have often fantasized about what kind of creature they would be if there were demons in reality?

Is it worthy to be called a monster if you are powerful and evil? Wrong!

In fact, all creatures covered with blood throughout the ages seem to be called ancient sages and kings...

According to legend, Zhu Yuanzhang was drunk when he ascended the throne. When he was excited, he looked around and said: "I was robbed all the way, but I didn't want to make the fake come true!"

What a magnificent speech!

Under the light of such powerful people who are defiant, aren’t the demons weak lives that can only crawl under the shadow of history?

Could it be that they have always lived by our side?

Will they be the minority of vulnerable groups hunting exhibitions because of their preciousness and rareness; they were sheltered and deported because they had no household registration; they wanted to learn from the legendary seniors who turned into human form and went on sale on the street, but were beaten by the urban management?

yy is indeed very interesting, although the history of yy is sometimes absurd.
Chapter completed!