: The Ghost-Swallowing Scholar Zhong Kui

Let’s talk about the many gods in Min, and Feng Subo is just one of the temples.

These gods include righteous gods, evil gods, and evil gods who secretly lie in the name of righteous gods.

What are the Sun Lord, the Moon Empress, the Mountain Ghost, the Water God, the Dragon King, the Fire Official, the Wind Lion Lord, the Land Lord, the Shi Bogong, the Snake King...

After all, in the eyes of the people of Lingnan, there is a mysterious spirit hidden in the sun, moon, mountains, rivers, water, fire, wood, stones, wind, rain, thunder and lightning. This is actually the theory of the witch religion of the animism.

Lingnan was late in the cultural development of the people, and the earliest residents of Lingnan Fujian were the Fujian people.

In the late Spring and Autumn Period, King Huai of Chu destroyed the Yue Kingdom, and some Yue people fled into Fujian and merged to form a new nation, the Minyue people.

In the early Western Han Dynasty, the Minyue people established a Minyue Kingdom. However, later Emperor Wu of Han destroyed the Minyue Kingdom and moved the Minyue people north to the Jianghuai area.

As for the Han people entering Fujian in a large scale, it was after the Jin Dynasty.

In the late Tang and Five Dynasties, wars continued in the north. The original poor mountains and rivers in Lingnan became a treasure land to avoid war. The Han people migrated south and became the main ethnic group in Lingnan.

At the same time, a large number of Minyue people have been educated into mature people, and the maritime economy has gradually risen, laying a certain foundation for the maritime economy of Song and Ming Dynasty.

Even in later generations, Mindi Temple also blossomed everywhere, known as one village and one temple, different villages and different gods, with more than 20,000 temples.

Nowadays, Lingnan cannot be considered civilized and civilized. Not to mention 20,000 gods, it can be even more ten times more than 200,000 or 300,000...

There are also remains of the original witch sect. In the Lushan Dharma Realm, demons come out to cause trouble from time to time.

For example, Lu Yan, who received the red flag, but his soul left his body and his body was still in the Chang'an imperial examination.

The body is dull, but it is just rote memorization. Where can I have a clear and spiritual soul?

In a daze, I entered the exam room, and the article was written with inconsistent prefaces and nonsense.

However, there was another strange phenomenon in this imperial examination.

But I saw a poor family member at the foot of Zhong Nan Mountain, named Zhong and Kui, who also came to participate in the imperial examination.

"The General Mirror of Gods and Immortals of All Ages" records that Zhong Kui was from Zhongnan, Shaanxi. He was very talented when he was young. During the Wude period of the Tang Dynasty, he went to the capital to take the exam, but was defeated because of his ugly appearance and was killed in anger. When the emperor heard about it, he gave him a red official robe and buried it.

During the Tianbao period, it is said that Emperor Xuanzong of Tang Dynasty Li Longji suffered from spleen disease in Mount Li, Lintong, but he could not be cured for a long time. One night, he dreamed of a great man with a magnificent appearance, caught a ghost, and then ate his eyes. The man claimed that he was "I failed the imperial examination and Zhong Kui."

Emperor Xuanzong of Tang woke up from his dream and recovered immediately. Therefore, Emperor Xuanzong of Tang ordered Wu Daozi to make a painting of Zhong Kui catching ghosts in his dream, and hung it in the palace to ward off evil spirits and suppress demons.

Perhaps Li Dandao changed the historical process and helped Li Er kill Prince Yin in his eight years of martial arts.

Therefore, the emperor Zhong Kui met was not Li Yuan, but Li Shimin.

But the last time the Five Poisons Banquet of the Dragon Boat Festival, the White Tiger Star Palace Kui Xing patrol, and the imperial examination was selected as the imperial examination teacher.

The top scholar is this person.

Zhong Kui's appearance is very ugly. How can I say it? The calamus and dogwood are already ugly enough, and even the old man shouted coldly when he saw it.

But this Zhong Kui is even better. The first is that his hair is vigorous, his eyebrows are sloppy, his beard is sloppy, like a lion's mane, his eyes are huge, like a copper bell, and his nose is rosacea, which is usually red.

He has a big mouth and his teeth are uneven, like a wild dog's teeth. However, Zhong Kui was born in Zhongnan Mountain and lived in Zhongnan Mountain. Although his family was not prominent, he also had no worries about farming and studying.

Although Zhong Kui's family background was not prominent and was only noble, he actually followed Zhongli Quan's ancestors and was a family. Later, he changed his surname to Zhong and studied in Zhongnan Mountain.

Zhong Kui was young and learned Confucianism, but before he was eight or nine years old, he was attracted by "Lao" and "Zhuang".

Later, he also arrived at Louguan Dao and worshipped Taoist Yin Wencao, the Taoist priest of Louguan, as his master.

Yin Wencao also learned Confucianism first and then Taoism. He had already achieved success in practicing Qi at the age of sixteen or seventeen, and became a high Taoist road in Louguan.

While studying, Zhong Kui studied Taoist scriptures, but his appearance was different from ordinary people, and even his physique was the same. His practice was not very smooth, but he learned several magical techniques with great power.

One of them is "taken", but the others take some fairy grain and spirit bait, but Zhong Kui takes "ghost" and takes food for the ghost swallowing technique.

Zhong Kui was recommended by his teacher and came to Chang'an for the imperial examination.

Soon he became the first tribute scholar, which was different from Lu Yan, who failed the exam early.

With real materials, Zhong Kui arrived at the Palace Examination Level (the Palace Examination was founded by Wu Zetian in history).

Li Shimin attached great importance to this imperial examination, hoping to obtain some useful talents. Zhong Kui was not from the Five Clans, Qiwang, and his articles also imply civil and military strategies.

His strategy and articles were reviewed by himself, and he thought they were the material of the humerus.

Although the plague in the north has been curbed and the locust plague has not continued to move south, it still has caused extremely heavy losses.

Although the Turks retreated, the border was still in danger.

In addition, Li Er committed his father's rebellion, and all five surnames and seven hopes needed comfort. Several relatives with the surname Li raised their troops to rebel against him.

In the court, Wei Zheng even ate every day and had nothing to do to criticize him, so he had no choice.

Fortunately, he was an ambitious emperor who worked hard to govern the country, and was in his prime and was not stupid.

But I still felt that there were too many old ministers from Sui Dynasty, and even Emperor Yang of Sui’s in-laws.

This time, the imperial examination was undoubtedly a great priority for Li Shimin, and he should be trained and trained as a team.

However, when Zhong Kui entered the palace, Li Shimin was still shocked.

Li Shimin had been harassed by the injustice of the Dragon Lord of Jinghe, Li Yuanji, and Prince Yin's soul. Now, looking at this, three-pointed like a human and seven-pointed like a ghost, he frowned immediately.

However, during the examination, Zhong Kui's broken voice made Li Shimin even more bored.

He didn't know that Zhong Kui's voice was effective in scattering his soul because of swallowing ghosts. He felt disgusted when he heard this, but it was normal.

Li Shimin had originally intended not to register Zhong Kui, and even couldn't help but turn to the face: "My court recruits scholars all about my personal words and judgments. How can I choose you as the top scholar in the Jinke category?"

Without waiting for Zhong Kui to speak, Wei Zheng went online: "The advantages and disadvantages of a person are not all about appearance. Didn't the sage hear that Yan Ying was three feet tall and became the prime minister of Qi, Zhou Chang was able to assist the Han Dynasty, and Confucius judged the son Yu of the lost person by appearance? Since Your Majesty has selected scholars in the imperial examination, he retreated because of his appearance. I will ask the historian to record it truthfully."

As the prime minister, Xiao Yu was still thinking about the former Sui Dynasty and was extremely jealous of the talented people. He also read Zhong Kui's articles, but he didn't want to hire him at all.

Seeing Li Shimin's face-control attack, he said, "The top scholar in the Jin Academy must be cultivated both inside and outside, which represents the image of the emperor's disciple. There are 300 candidates in the current subject, so how can he be less? Why not choose another top scholar in the Jin Academy?"

"If Zhong Kui is truly loyal and filial, he should be sympathetic to the emperor. Besides, if he is the second best in the Jinshi, he will not be able to get a Jinshi, and he will be of good origin."

As soon as Xiao Yu said this, he immediately angered everyone.
Chapter completed!