Matteo Ricci sent many books to Ji Xiang, but there were still quite a few books that he wanted to pay tribute to Emperor Wanli.
Fortunately, the Jesuit priests have bought real estate in several places. Ricci said that he didn’t have much money anyway, so he would only stay in Sunchon for a month this time, and then go back and buy the books of a few of his teammates. .
Anyway, if the cathedral is really approved for construction, his teammates will all come to Sunchon.
Fan Li'an, Meng Sande, Long Huamin, Luo Ruwang, Guo Jingju... the names of several teammates of Matteo Ricci can also be regarded as examples of combining Chinese and Western styles. They are the kind of people who definitely don't look like Ming Dynasty people at first glance, but they also bring a sense of style. With a bit of Ming Dynasty flavor...
Ji Xiang also wrote down the names of these people.
In the future, I would pass by the residence of those priests and go in to report Matteo Ricci's name. Now Matteo Ricci said that as long as he reported his name, he could get the Bible for nothing, and the method of Christ in their hands was better than that of Matteo Ricci himself. More.
Ji Xiang smiled broadly.
There are people on the road who are easy to do.
As long as you let me be your sidekick, we will be firm good friends.
Christ's method is definitely useful, and Ji Xiang is also planning to find out some advanced uses of wishes from it. At this time, I learned some news from Matteo Ricci.
Matteo Ricci was indeed the first Western missionary to come to Shuntian. The first place they landed was in Haojing, where there was a Mazu Pavilion and a legal cathedral there. This was during the Jiajing Emperor's period. The construction approved by the Ming court was by no means illegal.
Just after this church was established, several priests traveled eastward, led by Father Ba Fanzi, who was assigned by Father Valian of the Jesuit Society to preach in Japan, and achieved certain results in the early stage.
"oh?"
Ji Xiang touched his chin and tried to figure it out.
I don’t know why, but I always feel that the incidents involving ghosts and ghosts in printed books in Japan are inseparable from Western Christian methods.
It’s really about learning from each other’s strengths and making up for each other’s weaknesses.
"So, Western methods are spreading and flourishing in Japan?"
However, Matteo Ricci gave a wry smile to some of Ji Xiang's questions:
"That was in the early days. After Oda Nobunaga died, Taira Hideyoshi became the official official of Japan. He issued the "Bantenren Order of Release", indicating that they themselves are the land of the Kingdom of God, and the laws of our Christ are foreign evil arts, and they are called It is a great sin to win believers with knowledge and destroy Japanese Buddhism. He welcomes Western ships of foreign trade, but refuses those who practice the law of Christ to enter Japan."
"Now, in my land of Christianity in Japan, there are no missionaries. At the beginning of this year, Hideyoshi Hideyoshi gathered all those who practiced the methods of Christ in Nagasaki Prefecture and crucified them."
Ji Xiang understood Toyotomi Hideyoshi's approach more at this time.
After all, when it comes to issues of governance, religion is a sensitive area. In East Asia, kings are believed to be above divine authority. If religion shakes the rule, persecution will be carried out.
"Japan's belief in ghosts, gods, and Buddhist temples is very strong. If you touch the tiger's beard, how can the tiger not get angry?"
Ji Xiang commented like this, and Matteo Ricci also sighed: "It is said that this killing incident is related to a merchant ship from the Franco Kingdom... When you come out to preach, you are ready to devote yourself to the teachings. .”
Ricci made the sign of the cross on his chest, while Ji Xiang brought some classics and asked Ricci some questions.
"To be honest, I have some questions here, and I want to ask you... Why are there wishes on the copy? Is this due to your Christian method, or is it because of something special about this paper?"
The latter should be impossible. After all, the Nei Jing Shen Pai didn't give a response. Of course, it's a Western thing. Ji Xiang couldn't tell whether the Nei Jing Shen Pai would give a guide, so he could only ask Matteo Ricci on the spot.
"Wish? What you are talking about should be the kind of faith thoughts that flow in response to God's prayers?"
"Well, that's about it. That's it."
Matteo Ricci was a little confused: "I'm not sure about this. All the books we got are like this and haven't experienced much changes. You said that wishes are gathered in books, maybe because they are widely spread. The reason may be..."
Ji Xiang shook his head: "No, it won't happen. Normally, these copies will not have gatherings of wishes. The beliefs of wishes should appear in your original Our Lord's Sutra, where Presented in this scripture..."
When Matteo Ricci thought about it, he really wanted to give Ji Xiang some help.
However, the principles of Eastern methods and Western techniques are quite different. Although they have similarities, for a while, there is no way to truly "express the meaning through words" in the translation of those words and spells.
Thinking about it, although Matteo Ricci was a well-known Western missionary in the Ming Dynasty, and his Confucian literary literacy was extremely high, in Western lands, he was not yet a front-line figure in the church. According to the copy When a wish occurs, the secret is obviously not known to Ricci.
Then there is only one stupid way.
Read, sentence by sentence.
There is no fully translated version of the Our Father. Although Ji Xiang has a little dabbling in Latin, he is limited to what he learned in his previous life a long time ago. It is really not enough to translate the Bible of this era.
So, here is a brief introductory version called "Records of God."
Matteo Ricci enthusiastically recommended it, saying that it was the first book translated from Western to plain language after Western missionaries arrived in the Ming Dynasty.
"There is a real God, Chapter 1, God's Things Chapter 2..."
"God created the people of heaven and earth, Chapter 4, and the gods and humans, Adam, Chapter 5..."
"The soul returns to the five places, Chapter 7..."
After briefly reading the catalog, Ji Xiang recited each chapter in his mouth. If there is something magical, the inner scene's divine card will manifest the words, and the mana will flow in the body, and the spirit will be meticulous.
This is also a copy. Matteo Ricci said that this is a copy of the first edition. There are 1,200 copies in total. It also has a faint wish to have no owner.
Most of it is a translated version of vocabulary written by the missionaries themselves. There is not much content in the original Bible, but it is still worth watching.
Ji Xiang watched, and when he saw the fifth chapter, words appeared on the inner scene of the divine card!
Ji Xiang's eyes suddenly flashed with light, and he accelerated to read all the words in Chapter 5!
"The first things I talk about are gods and demons, things that have spirit and formlessness. Now let me tell you the theory of soul and form. Since God has driven away the gods, the place in heaven has been empty, so he created Adam, Adam and Eve. Socks, both soul and form, can be passed on to human beings. If there are people who do good things among them, their souls can be taken and ascended to heaven to fill the position of gods..."
In the inner scene of the divine card, the text appears completely:
[The testimony of the heavenly man Adam: There are three things that God has created, one is intangible, the other is tangible, and the other is both soul and form. The invisible one is the god (devil)! 】
