The next morning, when Xu Guangling came down from the mountain, he faced Lao Tan who had stayed behind.
"Brother Xu, are you really a person with superpowers?" Lao Tan had always been respectful, but now he was even more inexplicably excited.
As for how excited you are, it’s not like you have any special powers!
Sensing some of his psychological activities, Xu Guangling complained like this, and then said with a smile: "Changbai Mountain is a fairy mountain, have you heard of it?"
Like the Buddhist scriptures, Xu Guangling had also read the Taoist scriptures before, although he had only a partial understanding of them, and he had only skimmed through them, and many of the contents were automatically omitted by him.
But I still encountered some things.
For example, China has had the term "immortal" since ancient times.
From the perspective of the word creation, "immortal" is a person and a mountain, so the common interpretation is that it is a person who retreats from the world and lives in the mountains.
There is a couplet that goes like this, "There are so many famous mountain monks in the world, so I should leave one or two strange peaks to rest on my Taoist friends. If all the good things in the world are said by the Buddha, whoever knows the five thousand wonderful theories will be my immortal master."
Well, this should be a "discussion" between Buddhism and Taoism, but it reflects a problem, that is, Buddhists and Taoism people like to live in the mountains.
Some people may say, isn't this normal? The mountains are clean, the scenery is very good, and the air is fresh.
In fact, these reasons are not very sufficient.
Starting from the end, the air is very fresh.
As a person of this era, I am very sensitive to this aspect, because few people living in cities do not know about smog. Even in cities that do not have much smog, the air quality is not that good, let alone
Not to mention fresh.
So when it comes to "fresh air", people generally yearn for it.
Even in rural areas, places far away from cities may not be able to avoid smog. The air is anyway contaminated to a certain extent.
But what about ancient times?
Industrialization has not yet begun.
Anywhere, as long as there are some trees, the air will be quite clean and fresh.
Therefore, the air in the mountains is very fresh. This advantage is dispensable and has been greatly reduced. Its influence is really not that great.
As for the beautiful scenery?
What does that sentence say? What is in the distance is the scenery.
No matter how beautiful the scenery is, if you live there for a long time, it will only be like that.
And purity is even more untenable.
Didn't Tao Yuanming have a saying, "How can I ask you? Your mind is far away and you are biased."
The mind is far away from itself!
In short, if you want to be lively, then move to a busy city, and it must be facing the street. Otherwise, even a courtyard behind the street can easily isolate the hustle and bustle.
All in all, in the ancient environment, living in the mountains really didn't have that big an advantage.
On the contrary, the inconveniences in life are obvious.
First of all, the air will be colder. In the morning and evening in spring, summer and autumn, it will be so cold that people's bones will become stiff. In winter, when a heavy snowfall comes, the doors will be closed immediately. Not only the doors will be closed, but the mountains will also be closed for as little as ten and a half months, or as long as
You won't be able to go down the mountain for two or three months.
Secondly, water sources in the mountains are not so convenient.
There is definitely no running water. Even if there is a clear spring on the mountain, it is impossible for all residents to live by the spring. Therefore, the project of carrying water is unavoidable.
And I choose it every day.
Do you think it's easy to carry water and still keep fit?
Yes, this is true. It seems that you can indeed keep fit, but it is really not easy. If you are relatively healthy, you can easily cope with this task if you exercise. If you are not in good health, carrying water will always be a chore.
Thirdly, it is inconvenient to eat. You can grow some vegetables in the mountains, but most places are not even suitable for growing vegetables. As for rice, flour, grain and oil, etc., you have to go down the mountain regularly to buy them.
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All in all, living in the mountains has too many inconveniences.
The advantages are not that big, but the disadvantages are too many. Adding the two together makes "living in the mountains". At least, the price/performance ratio is not that high, right?
So why are they still running into the mountains in droves?
Not only that, they also came up with the term "cave heaven and blessed land". All "blessed lands" are various mountains in the world, and all "cave heaven" are caves, or residences, opened in the mountains.
All in all, whether it is a cave or a blessed land, it is inseparable from the mountains.
In the past, when Xu Guangling read this, he had a feeling that these cave people were really humorous and optimistic about life. They called simple caves caves and famous and unknown mountains as blessed places.
In this way, something that was originally very low instantly becomes high-end, right?
But since he discovered the "qi of the earth, mountains and rivers", when Xu Guangling thought of "immortals" and "cave heaven and blessed land", his feeling was completely different.
How should I put it, it's a bit complicated.
Anyway, the previous understanding began to be subverted.
Is it possible that in ancient times, and very early times, dating back to before the pre-Qin period, there were people, even many people, who could see the "qi of the earth, mountains and rivers" like him?
Then they lived in the mountains for a long time.
Then, there is the reality and concept of "immortal".
And, as time went by, this behavior was gradually solidified, and from this, the legend of the Cave Heaven and Paradise was born.
But later on, the cave heaven and the blessed land did not seem to be as divine as in the legends. This pursuit gradually cooled down, so slowly it became a semi-abandoned, non-mainstream existence.
This is Xu Guangling's speculation today.
But this speculation cannot be confirmed.
And one of the things he will do in the future is to investigate the Kyushu territory.
And examine all the cave heaven blessed places in Taoist records. Some or even a large part of these cave heaven blessed places may be completely far-fetched by later generations. However, Xu Guangling believes that it is very possible that some of them are "cave heaven blessed places" in the true sense.
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Secondly, he will examine the situation of all famous and unknown "longevity villages" in Kyushu.
Longevity villages are not uncommon today. They are often seen in various news reports. Their common feature is that they are far away from the city, so people generally believe that the reason for their longevity is to stay away from the city and away from pollution.
But in ancient times when there was no pollution, wouldn’t these longevity villages exist?
Obviously impossible.
Kyushu is so big, how many longevity villages are there?
Xu Guangling has not yet conducted an inspection, but he has preliminarily concluded that most of these longevity villages will be located in places with a strong "air of mountains and rivers". In other words, there are probably mountains near them.
This investigation was listed as one of Xu Guangling’s long-term plans.
Of course, it has not been mentioned in the schedule yet.
This kind of investigation is just to broaden his knowledge and confirm something. Whether it exists or not is not that important or critical. The key for Xu Guangling at the moment is still to move forward by following the fundamental techniques and, based on the foundation of medical ethics,
Step by step towards the top.
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