So, I think the Five Poisons visualization diagram in the Five Poisons Shengong is a bit inappropriate for us. You think, although we have discarded the part of taking the Five Poisons, the five viscera gods in the visualization diagram in the secret book look like what is it?
Gao Jingfei thought back for a while, taking the visualization of the Lung God Haohua that he was most familiar with and visualized for the first time, although this thing looked like a human-shaped god, it looked a little weird.
Seeing that Gao Jingfei seemed to understand but did not understand, Guo Shihu took a portable notebook, opened a drawing board, drew a dozen thick dots on it, and then connected these dots in a straight line according to a certain pattern.
Seeing the formed pattern, Gao Jingfei said in surprise:
Which constellation is this? No, this is
Guo Shihu smiled and said:
That's right, you can see, the five-zang-shen visualization map of the five poisonous magic is actually combined with the acupuncture points on the corresponding meridians, doesn't it look like some animals?
Like a four-legged snake, a lizard?
That's right, it is indeed a gecko, also known as a gecko.
Guo Shihu nodded, and then drew four similar patterns respectively, and then drew outlines on the periphery of these patterns. At this time, even a child who did not go to school could recognize them.
This is, centipedes, snakes, scorpions, toads, these are the five poisons!
Gao Jingfei did not expect that the visual map of the five zang-gods and the acupoints of the meridians and acupuncture points of the Five Poisons Magic Art was actually a five-poison pattern similar to a constellation map.
Guo Shihu pointed to the five patterns and said:
Due to the vast territory of the Xia Kingdom, numerous ethnic groups, and the influence of many stories and legends, the customs of the Dragon Boat Festival are not the same in different places. In the south, due to the humid and hot climate, the poisonous insects are more severe. Some local folk customs believe that at noon on the Dragon Boat Festival in the fifth month of the summer calendar every year, the five poisons begin to arise, so there is a custom to avoid the five poisons.
According to folklore, the five poisons refer to centipedes, poisonous snakes, scorpions, geckos and toads, which are the collective name of these five poisonous animals. It is also said that geckos should be removed from the five poisons and spiders should be added. After all, geckos are actually not poisonous in science.
Geckos are nocturnal animals that feed on insects such as mosquitoes and flies. And it won't attack humans either. It will open its mouth to attack you unless you are catching it, but geckos don't have teeth in their mouths, so they don't do any harm to humans.
Gao Jingfei nodded in agreement when he heard the words, thinking it was reasonable.
Guo Shihu then changed his words and said:
However, the inner strength and the heart method have come out, and there is no science at all, so the gecko among the five poisons cultivated with the secret method recorded in the Five Poison Secret Guide is poisonous, and it also has small but sharp teeth, similar to Komodo giants. Like a lizard, if you bite it, you will be poisoned and die.
In fact, it is quite scientific to think about it. Geckos are nothing more than lizards, and many of their close relatives are poisonous and have teeth. It is not impossible to cultivate and catalyze them with some kind of poison secret medicine, so that they can mutate into poisonous lizards. This should be a biochemical or genetic modification of the martial arts version, right?
These principles are a little unclear to Gao Jingfei, but he feels that as long as he can use it, it is not necessary to understand everything.
That's too tiring, isn't Zhuge Liang just so tired?
Of course, he didn't dare to compare with Mr. Kong Ming, as a scumbag he was still very self-aware.
Chapter 52: Five Poisons, Five Elements, and Five Spirits
Guo Shihu continued to explain:
In addition, the five poisons can also be divided into five elements. The ancients believed that the five poisons correspond to the five elements. I looked through the ancient and modern fairy tales and found that the five poisonous geckos, poisonous snakes, toads, scorpions, centipedes were recorded in an article belonging to the Taoist priest of Maoshan School. , which correspond to the five elements of metal, wood, water, fire, and earth, respectively. This is somewhat different from the statement found in the online encyclopedia, but I think the description in this article is more accurate, or more in line with the Taoist practice theory.
For example, it is believed that among the five poisons, poisonous snakes belong to wood. Among them, green snakes are the best, because green snakes can be called small green dragons, and they also inhabit trees and grasses all year round, so green snakes are wood. Toad belongs to water, and gold generates water, so there is a saying of golden toad. Golden toad has always been regarded as auspicious animal and fairy.
Scorpions are highly poisonous, especially when their tail needles pierce people, which can cause severe pain, such as burning with fire, and scorpions prefer to live in arid areas, especially in desert areas. So the scorpion corresponds to the fire in the five elements. Centipedes are prolific in the rocky soil, and it also makes sense to correspond to the soil.
As for geckos, there are not many legends in this regard, but because some geckos are golden all over, as if they have golden scales, and pure white like white tigers, they prefer to live in the eaves, and they usually eat and drink dew in addition to preying on flying insects. It is also justified to be considered as gold.
After he described the five poisons, he opened another page with five new visualizations.
Leaving aside the controversy over the attributes of the Five Poisons and Five Elements, Xiaofei, take a look at this five-spirit visualization from the Shangqing School.
Gao Jingfei looked intently, and saw five visualization pictures representing the images of the five spirits.
The Five Spirits are the five divine beasts believed by the ancients of the Xia Kingdom to be the five spirits of heaven and earth. They are Qinglong, Baihu, Suzaku, Xuanwu and Qilin, which are the auspicious mythical beasts representing the central soil and the Qilin beasts on the basis of the four spirit beasts. The ancient Confucians of the Han Dynasty said that the "Zuo Shi" all believed that the five spirits are matched with the five directions, the dragon is wood, the phoenix is fire, the lin is earth, the white tiger is metal, and the turtle is water.
It can be seen here that in the Han Dynasty, Xuanwu also had two views. One was the state of turtles and snakes. For example, "Jingbarn" records that "the bullfighting girl has a turtle and snake body in the seven places of the house, so it is called Xuanwu". It is in the form of a tortoise similar to a dragon tortoise. For example, in the legend, Long Bo fished for the ao, and Nuwa cut the four legs of the giant ao to become the pillar of heaven, and so on.
Hearing this, Gao Jingfei pointed to this five-spirit visualization and asked:
Brother Hu, I know the five spirits, but you don't think it's right to see the image of the green dragon and the unicorn in the middle? And the one marked here is not a unicorn but a yellow dragon.
The statement about the Five Spirits is actually controversial.
Guo Shihu explained:
In addition to the usual sayings of Qinglong, Suzaku, Baihu, Xuanwu and Qilin, in Huainanzi, there is another record of five spirits, namely Qinglong, Baihu, Suzaku, Xuanwu, Huanglong five mythical beasts, also known as Tianguan Five beasts. There is no unicorn here but a yellow dragon, and this dragon is not the panlong or long snake shape