The beginning of autumn is coming and the river sacrifice is about to be worshiped. This custom has existed in ancient times, which lasted for thousands of years, and is even more solemn and serious than the emperor's sacrifice to heaven.

After all, the emperor sacrificed the heavens to pray for peace and prosperity, but in fact, it was to make the throne under his butt be more stable, so he would not be lifted down while sitting. The ordinary people along the rivers sacrificed the rivers to make good weather and let the Dragon King, the River God and others not come to ruin people. If there is a flood, they may starve to death.

Especially the Yellow River and the Yangtze River, whether during the flood season, the cessation of the current or the freezing period, if not properly rectified, there will be major problems. One is a natural disaster or man-made disaster.

When Wang Jingzhe came to Taohuayu, it was only a few days before the beginning of autumn sacrifice to the river. The largest annual sacrifice ceremony was preparing beside the river bank, because the beginning of autumn marks that summer is about to usher in the autumn and winter seasons and the flood season is gone. Half of this year has passed, and it is a good time to comfort the river god, so as to pray that there will be no floods along the Yellow River next year.

Looking at the past thousands of years, every flood in the Yellow River has almost always been a kind of miserable disaster. If it could be peaceful, it would really burn the incense.

Wang Jingzhe was bored and found a place to sit down not far from the shore. The weather was not too hot at this time, and the sun shone warmed people's body. He was half-squinting his eyes and was drowsy, and his whole body exuded a lazy aura.

It is really leisurely to take a nap in spring, autumn, and summer.

Some people on the shore are building a platform to prepare for the river sacrifice in a few days. This kind of activity that is completely feudal superstitious is not allowed to be explicitly prohibited by the country. After all, this is a matter of people's livelihood, so how can you deal with it?

Wang Jingzhe yawned and squinted his eyes to look at the group of people who built the platform on the river bank. Most of them are old river workers along the coast. They have rich experience in wading water and make a living on both sides of the Yellow River for many years, either fishing or raising boats. Some of them are more important to be doing boat trips. These river workers pay tribute to the river almost every year, which is very experienced.

Wang Jingzhe looked at it for a few times and was bored. Suddenly, he saw something placed next to the platform. He let out a light "huh", then got up, patted his butt and walked over.

There were rows of lights next to the platform, arranged in a crisscrossing manner. This kind of thing was rare. Wang Jingzhe had seen it in the Wang family's collection. This was the Nine-Curve Yellow River Lantern. He had only seen the pictures but did not expect that he could still see the Nine-Curve Lanterns when he came today.

This is a very ancient folk ritual, also known as the Nine-Curve Yellow River Lamp Formation. When the lights are lined up, they are like the Nine-Nine Bays of the Yellow River. It is a rare solemn ceremony on the banks of the two rivers, and it also contains Feng Shui formations. It is said that it is very rare to pierce every thirty years. Once the Nine-Curve Yellow River Lamp Formation is pierced, it can ensure that the weather will be good in the next few years.

The nine-curved Yellow River lantern array must be carried out according to the map. There is no error allowed for each place and one lamp to be placed. On a two-acre flat site, 19 vertical and horizontal 19 total white dots were drawn at an equal distance of more than two meters. A tree trunk about 1 meter high vertically and vertically high in the white dot was used as a lamp pole, and a wooden stake was inserted as a lamp support. The lamp array faced north and south, and the white dot in the middle of the south was the entrance and exit. There were 360 ​​total.

After Wang Jingzhe came over, he saw an old man wearing a jacket and a white turban on his head next to him, smoking a cigarette pill and a pot while directing the river workers to build a lamp array. The old man was very skilled in commanding paper. It was probably not the first time he had pierced the Nine-Curve lantern of the Yellow River.

"Pa" Wang Jingzhe squatted down and smoked a cigarette, held his cheek with one hand, and listened to the old man giving advice, so he turned his head and smiled and asked, "Master, is this a lamp formation?"

The old man took the tobacco pot, looked at him and nodded, and said, "Young man is very knowledgeable. There are not many people who can still recognize the lamp array at this age. Taohuayu has not been placed for 30 years, and it is much older than you."

Wang Jingzhe said: "I heard from the old man in my family, but I haven't seen him before. I'm very curious."

"Then you have a good reputation. Wait a few more days. The lamp will be lit when the river is in the beginning of autumn." The old man clicked his pussy, then sighed and said, "It's a pity, it's a pity. I don't know how long the skills left by the ancestors can last. This lamp array will probably not be able to be installed for another decade."

Wang Jingzhe asked curiously: "What should I say?"

The old man said regretfully: "What else can I say? On the Yellow River, I guess the middle and lower reaches of the Yellow River are only ones who understand the Nine-Curve lantern array, and it is a broken version. Nowadays, young people are not willing to put this in place, so I said, maybe in a few decades, they can't even put out a residual array."

"Remaining array?"

The old man nodded and said, "That's not the case. In the past few decades, the years when the light array were arranged were abandoned and they were not placed. At that time, who had the intention to sacrifice to the river? Later, it was the era of famine. People on both sides of the river fled and could not be placed. When it was passed on to me, they were passed down in just a few words. Haha, of course it was the residual formation. Otherwise, the real nine-curve formation of the Yellow River will be put on, and the effect? ​​Tsk tsk..."

It is said that after the Nine-Curve lamps of the Yellow River were put out to worship the river, they not only pray for good weather, but also the river water was peaceful in the next few years, but they even made the ghosts and monsters on the river dare not act rashly, because there were too many troubles on the river. From the upper reaches to the sea estuary, I don’t know how many people have flooded in the river every year, and how many water ghosts are lying at the bottom of the river.

Water ghosts can pull people. You are swimming on the calm water surface, but if you don’t do it well, your feet will tighten and you will be dragged under the water as a scapegoat. Some people even squatted beside the river bank, closer to the water, and seeing that there is no one in the river, it will also kill this life.

Any drowning water ghost has the possibility of finding a substitute.

What's more, the boats walking on the river sometimes overturned by disasters, and even a boat of people might not be able to climb up.

During these years, there have always been cases of people dying from a river. Sometimes it may be weather or hull problems, but I don’t know that a large part of these accidents may be supernatural events.

The old man said, "This Yellow River Nine-Curve Lamp Array is a residual array, and it is not very effective. If it can be fully displayed, what a great merit would it be. It will be a sunny day for the people on both sides of the Taiwan Strait. What a pity, what a pity."

Wang Jingzhe said "Oh", slowly stood up, then raised his head and looked at the lamp array that was laid in front of him. He had seen the picture of the Nine Curved Lamp of the Yellow River in the ancient book of the Wang family, but it was not a drawing, it was just a hand-painted picture.

Wang Jingzhe didn't know how to tread the lamp array, but he understood Feng Shui.

The Yellow River Nine-Curve Lamp Array, to put it bluntly, is a Feng Shui Array.
Chapter completed!