Chapter 53: Peach Blossom Forest suppresses Kuafu? Immortality and the world of the dead
"One step of the ancients during the Eastern Jin Dynasty is equivalent to 24.2 centimeters in modern times according to textual research."
"A peach blossom forest hundreds of steps long."
"That's about 72.6 meters to 241.758 meters in length."
Ye Zhen knew the contents of ancient books at his fingertips.
The peach blossom forest ranges from more than 70 meters to more than 200 meters.
You can imagine how big a peach blossom forest this is.
And it appeared suddenly.
Now the audience finally understands why Ye Zhen said that the ancient text "The Story of Peach Blossom Spring" is weird.
It’s really scary to think about!
"Could it be that this Peach Blossom Forest is sealing and suppressing something?"
"What kind of existence needs a large peach blossom forest to suppress it."
"This is too outrageous. Could it be that the person who sealed it is a god?"
Now everyone is starting to be interested in the content.
"At this point, we have to investigate why peach blossoms can suppress and ward off evil spirits."
Ye Zhen actually did not forget to popularize science during the ghost story program.
"Everyone only knows that peach wood has the effect of warding off evil spirits and suppressing evil spirits."
"But why? Has anyone ever thought about it?"
"Why is peach wood so special?" Ye Zhen asked another question.
Obviously the audience doesn't know.
There are a lot of things we just know to do sometimes.
But when it comes to the fundamental reason, many people can't tell a reason.
As mentioned before, why does it take three days before burial after death?
Most people would say that it is passed down from ancestors because of customs.
The same is true for Taomu. Everyone knows the Taoist practices and exorcisms.
They all use peach wood swords, but I don’t know why peach wood swords are used.
"I have to mention two mythical figures here."
god? Why is it related to the gods again?
"Do you still remember Kuafu Zhuri?" Ye Zhen mentioned this idiom story again.
Of course some viewers who watched Ye Zhen’s popular science program remember it vividly!
"Do you still remember how to write the last sentence?" Ye Zhen asked as if he were a real teacher.
Before he arrived, Tao died of thirst.
Abandoning his staff, he transformed into Deng Lin.
"That's right, Kuafu threw away his crutch before he died."
"And that crutch turned into a forest." Ye Zhen asked everyone to recall what they had said before.
But what does this have to do with today’s content?
An attentive audience will notice it.
"Can you say?"
"What is this Deng Lin? The teacher didn't tell me before."
"No way?"
Some people who guessed it felt a chill down their backs.
However, some viewers who watched Ye Zhen's show for the first time did not feel this way.
However, Ye Zhen's former fans felt that it was late at night.
Now at twelve o'clock in the morning, I feel cold air permeating my spine.
"You guessed it right." Ye Zhen smiled, which looked particularly scary under the dim green light of this ghost story.
"Deng Lin is the peach forest. Kuafu's crutch before his death turned into a peach forest."
The Denglin recorded by the ancients is what we now call Taolin.
Kuafu was a god from ancient times.
The ancients believed that the cane in Kuafu's hand transformed into a peach forest.
Has mysterious abilities.
"This is just a mythical figure."
"Yes, there is another one?"
"Is it also related to Taolin?"
"Who is it? Why can't I figure it out."
Everyone wants to know who is the remaining mythical figure Ye Zhen mentioned?
Only then did Ye Zhen begin to explain: "Everyone has read "Journey to the West," right?"
"What Monkey likes to eat most is the flat peaches in the flat peach garden."
"A flat peach can make a person immortal."
Ye Zhen's words awakened the dreamer. Yes, flat peach! Don’t these peaches just come from the peach tree?
The flat peach is the legendary fairy peach.
If you eat one, you can live forever, and you can even live as long as heaven and earth!
What an exaggeration.
"Naturally, it is not surprising that the peach tree that produces flat peaches is considered by everyone to be a fairy tree."
Can a peach tree that can bear flat peaches be an ordinary tree?
But of course it is impossible for us ordinary people to come into contact with the peach tree.
So it is understandable to use ordinary peach wood instead.
It turns out that there is such a connection here.
Fairy peach, immortality, human immortality.
Here we unexpectedly met again in a strange way.
Ye Zhen then recited: "The fisherman is very different. He keeps going forward and wants to exhaust the forest."
"Even the fishermen were very surprised by the appearance of the peach blossom forest in front of them."
"You can tell from this sentence that this peach forest is not a very common scenery."
"Even the fisherman was very surprised, and he just wanted to keep moving forward."
"I want to go to the end of the peach blossom forest."
After hearing this, the audience couldn't help but admire the bravery of the fishermen.
Because after Ye Zhen's analysis, everyone knew that this peach blossom forest was definitely not a good place.
It was most likely planted by the suppression of something.
"When the forest reaches the water source, there is a mountain. There is a small opening in the mountain, as if there is light."
"Let's leave the boat and enter through the mouth."
"You are very narrow at first, and then you can understand people."
"Retracing dozens of steps, I suddenly became enlightened."
"This is the key point." Ye Zhen looked serious.
"The end of the peach forest is the birthplace of the stream, so a mountain appears. There is a small cave entrance on the mountain, and there seems to be a little light in the cave."
"So he got off the boat and entered through the entrance of the cave."
"At first the entrance to the cave was very narrow, allowing only one person to pass through."
"After walking a few dozen steps, it suddenly became open and bright."
"Have you thought of anything?" Ye Zhen reminded.
Ye Zhen just said that this paragraph is very important.
This is also the description in the article when the fisherman enters the Peach Blossom Spring.
From one place to another.
The audience thought carefully.
"This scene seems like I have seen it before."
"I seem to have heard it somewhere, but I can't remember it for a while."
"What, isn't it just walking through a narrow passage? There's nothing strange about it."
In fact, if everyone has a better memory.
You can recall Ye Zhen’s last program not long ago.
"Look at this fisherman walking into a dark place."
“It was very narrow at first, and could only fit one person through.”
"It's like there's light at the end of a dark tunnel."
"Isn't this a similar scene that people who are dying have seen?"
Some old fans of Ye Zhen finally recalled it based on Ye Zhen's words.
"Yes, Teacher Ye mentioned this scene before when he talked about the soul and dying."
"Those who were near death had seen similar scenes when they were wandering in their minds."
"In a dark place, a light appeared not far away."
"It started as a small light, and finally turned into a big one."
“Isn’t this consistent with the content of the article?”
If it is just this description alone, it may be a coincidence.
After all, such a natural environment does exist in nature.
But when it comes to what happened to the fisherman before, it's not that simple.
What a fisherman sees is what a dying man sees.
Does this mean that the fisherman was also in a state of near death?
Through that passage, the fisherman crossed the line between life and death.
Go to the world after death?
He has gone to the kingdom of the dead!
(End of chapter)