In the Han Dynasty, the "Twelve Divine Dances" and "Fang Xiang Dance" had spread from the court to the people. The Wu Nuo trend also arose among the people, and gradually developed into a song and dance ritual shared by the official and the people. In the Song Dynasty, Nuo dance It also gradually mixed the styles of palace songs, dances and dramas, and began to move closer to the nature of fulfilling wishes to gods. It no longer has the function of curing diseases and asking ghosts, and is just developed as folk songs and dances!
The Sichuan-Sichuan area belonged to the Bashu Kingdom during the Qin and Han Dynasties. The custom of witchcraft was prevalent, and all unresolved matters were consulted by ghosts and gods. There was already a strong Nuo sacrifice culture here. After Huguang filled Sichuan in the early years of the previous dynasty, the witchcraft and Nuo culture It was also mixed with the Nuo sacrifice customs from Lingnan, Jiangnan, and Jianghuai areas of the two lakes, making it even more strange and confusing.
Every year, Jianghuai Nuo Opera, Huguang Nuo Festival, Lingnan Nuo God, Sichuan and Sichuan Nuo Opera are performed in various places one after another. People dress up and sing and dance to pray for the blessings of their ancestors and to ward off epidemics and ghosts. The Jialing River is full of people picking up and sending off Nuo gods. Godly ship.
Whenever night falls, the incense boats are brightly lit and illuminate the statues, stretching for dozens of miles, making it even more mysterious, strange and bizarre.
The Nuo God Religion was born in such a soil where strange powers, chaotic gods, and witchcraft and Nuo culture prevailed!
Thirty years ago, when the Nuo God Sect was founded, it was just a guild in Nuo dance halls in various places. Just like a pear orchard guild, it played the role of coordinating disputes, formulating rules, and entertaining peers. Later, with the rise of the living corpses in Yinping, appeared, some rumors began to appear in Kawauchi.
The ancestors of Bashu Witch Kingdom are coming back!
"The ancestors of the Bashu Witch Kingdom?"
Everyone became curious, and Song Siyuan continued to ask: "Who is the ancestor referring to?"
The old Taoist priest stroked his beard and said slowly: "The past kings of Bashu Witch Kingdom and their soldiers!"
As mentioned earlier, the Sichuan-Shu region belonged to the Bashu shaman kingdom during the Qin and Han Dynasties. As early as ancient times, the ancient Shu region had not yet formed a feudal state, but only a few clan tribes. After these tribes were ruled by Cancong, Baiguan and Yufu for several generations, Because Xiang assisted King Wu in conquering Zhou, he was named "Eight Kingdoms" by the king of the Western Zhou Dynasty and jointly governed Shu.
In the early Western Zhou Dynasty, Du Yu, the king of Shu, abolished other kings and established himself as emperor, called Emperor Wang. He educated the people and opened up new territories, turning Shu from a scattered state into a large country in the southwest. It was called the Western Shu Kingdom by the Central Plains Dynasty.
From the Western Zhou Dynasty to the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, the Kingdom of Shu experienced more than twenty generations of monarchy and became a veritable land of abundance. Later, King Qin Huiwen coveted the paradise land of Bashu and sent generals to expedition to Bashu. The Kingdom of Shu was destroyed. The last monarch, Du Lu, died. The Shu royal family will either accept the surrender and become Shu lords, or they will be directly sentenced to death.
Du Lu once had a fable before his death: one day when the Central Plains dies, the ancestors of the Shu witch kingdom will be resurrected with the help of the people's bones, and will once again lead the people of Shu to create the Shu witch civilization.
It was precisely with this sentence that the Qin State sent a young man to Shu to serve as a Marquis of Shu, and changed the water veins of Dujiangyan, completely cutting off the atmosphere of the ancient Shu State.
In the thousands of years since then, although the Shu region was easy to defend and difficult to attack, it had become a country of its own, but it could never produce a unified emperor. Instead, it had to fight to the death with separate regimes.
Originally, this fable was only passed down as a myth by the people. It was not until the living dead appeared from Yinping Wild Mountain that the local people remembered Du Lu's prophecy before his death.
The Wu Nuo industry is inherently full of strange powers and chaos. When they smell the resurrection of the living dead, they deliberately deify this prophecy and tell the people that these living dead can rise from the graveyard because they have been summoned by the heroic spirits of the successive kings of Shu. If the time is right, they will Can lead the people to rebuild the Shu Kingdom.
In the next twenty years, as the number of living dead increased, more and more people in Sichuan believed in the Nuo God Religion. In addition, people in the Nuo God Religion had people from all three religions and nine schools, and they also knew how to use talisman water to cure diseases. During the Nuo opera sacrifices, they practiced medicine, gave porridge and dispersed wealth. Some people who looked down on the medical hall were really cured by the miraculous medicine of the Nuo god religion.
In the eyes of the common people, a person who can cure diseases is a good person, and a person who can help the poor is even more good, so much so that the memorial tablets of the Nuo God Religion are almost placed on the incense table. These people of the Nuo God Religion artificially mythologize themselves and directly portray the leader as Du Yu, the King of Shu. The reincarnation of the heroic spirit made the people even more convinced that the witch kingdom of Shu would be revived.
I heard that when the commotion was at its worst, some people left their homes to join the Nuo God Cult. Some people even sold their property and dedicated it to the leader of the Nuo God Cult, just hoping to get an official position after the revival of the Shu Kingdom. Half-time job, once this trend of surrender to the Nuo God religion started, it became out of control. Some people were so stupid that they dedicated their children to the Nuo God religion. There were some who sold their sons and daughters, and some who were crazy and crazy. How about you? After singing I went on stage, it was so lively.
At that time, it was the last year of the previous dynasty, and the government was busy suppressing the Boxer Rebellion. Bashu itself became an independent country and was easy to defend and difficult to attack. The previous dynasty had no time to care about the Nuo sect, and only regarded them as the Bai sect and suppressed them anyway. When you defraud money, you also defraud people's money. As long as it doesn't touch the government's pockets, they can just let them do whatever they want.
Later, when the Nuo God Sect saw the righteousness and fists spreading wildly in the north, the gang members felt a little itchy. After all, they simply launched the banner of resurrecting the King of Shu and annihilating the Northern Tartars, and many people wanted to gather together to cause trouble.
When it comes to conspiracy to rebel against the country, it is not a small fight between civil gangs. Rebellion has always been a serious crime of beheading. What's more, this is not the "annihilation of foreign countries" of the Boxer Boxer, but the "annihilation of Northern Tartars". The banner is annoying Royal family and government.
Originally, the Boxing of Boxing was sufficient for the front court, so the old queen took advantage of the juncture of the Western Hunt for Xijing and asked the Governor of Sichuan and Chongqing and the Governor of Shaanxi Province to jointly suppress the bandits. The target's head was taken off.
At this time, the Nuo God Sect finally stopped. It changed from preaching in the open to secretly preaching, and its forces also hid in the mountains and old forests. However, the foundation of the Nuo God Sect’s beliefs has not disappeared. They are still the saviors of the people, and there are still people who are willing to do so. Cover for them.
Even though the Nuo God Cult has disappeared, the living dead have not stopped and continue to wander in the wild mountains. Whether the government asks Taoist priests to do it, catch ghosts, or even use the soldiers to kill them, they are still endless, and the corpses are seen emerging from the underworld again. The provincial governor came to Bai Laodao.
The three strategies given by the old Taoist priest are only temporary solutions. As for how to make the living dead disappear, it is still unknown.
After the Republic of China, Jiangyou Pass was completely closed and no one could cross Yin Pass again. Corpses could only wander around Yinping. Sichuan was still peaceful.
"To this day, the Nuo God Cult is still active. I heard that many Nuo dance groups have traces of the Nuo God Cult. Although the Political Yuan did not support the Nuo God Cult in recent years, they did not find any signs of rebellion from them, so they had to turn a blind eye. I just close my eyes and don’t bother to deal with them as long as I don’t do anything against the capital!”
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