Guide to traveling through the Northern Song Dynasty

Chapter 1244 Postscript 100·This ten-character phrase has rich connotations

(Damn it. All the religious content in this chapter is not made up, but just describes the basic situation of Nestorianism.)

(This is an extra postscript, don’t say I’m a slang writer. Those slang contents are all for presenting the world of Ming Dynasty and its time and space. I’m almost done.)

Winter has gone and spring has come, and it’s already a new year.

The chemists who were summoned by the Ministry of Rites to compile textbooks can only rest on New Year’s Eve and the first day of the first lunar month.

There is no way, compiling, proofreading, printing, and distribution... This series of steps must be completed before the start of school to ensure that public schools across the country can get the new version of chemistry textbooks.

It’s hard enough in remote areas.

Xie Yan wrote a compilation suggestion and threw it to the textbook group and didn’t care about it anymore. Colleagues had no objection to this, but felt that Prince Consort Xie was well versed in human relationships.

There’s no need to compete with everyone for credit!

Even if Xie Yan was to be named in the author column of the chemistry imperial examination textbook compiled in this way, he would definitely be the last one.

The grand court meeting on New Year's Day this year, as well as the first month of the lunar calendar, are all cancelled.

Especially the suburban sacrifice, which is very expensive. A sacrifice can easily cost millions of strings of cash.

Save as much as you can.

In two or three years, when the little emperor gets married, it won't be too late to hold the suburban sacrifice.

This year in another time and space, the Great Khan Mongke died in Diaoyucheng.

Today, Mongolia still exists, but it is only a few tribes in Mobei, and it has been divided into various places and cannot be connected at all.

Some Mongolian tribes have even given up the name of "Mongolia". Instead, they renamed their tribes after the river names of the migration sites or the names of the first chiefs who migrated.

Mobei is quite interesting now. Nestorianism has spread from the surrounding areas of Yanran to Beihai and Hulunbuir. Those grassland tribes believe in Nestorianism and Shamanism at the same time.

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At this moment, Xie Yan is burning incense in the church.

During the New Year, the princess took him to worship gods everywhere and pray for the child in her belly.

Then he knew that there was a Christian church in Luoyang, the capital of the Ming Dynasty!

But this church was extremely strange.

First of all, the priests were very unruly, with shaved heads and beards.

Secondly, there was no crucifixion, and there was only a bare cross in the church.

When the priests helped to pray, they did not hold the Bible and pray, but chanted scriptures like Taoist priests and monks.

Xie Yan even heard the priests chanting: "The supreme heavens are deeply respectful and sigh, and the earth is reciting peace and harmony..."

Does Christianity also have heavens?

Did Zhuge and his people reform Christianity, or did Nestorianism develop like this?

It was originally like this!

Since the Five Dynasties, one branch of Christianity has evolved in Xinjiang, and another branch of Christianity has evolved in Mobei. The former absorbed a lot of religions (mainly Buddhism and Taoism), and the latter absorbed the belief in Changshengtian in the grassland.

With the expansion of the Ming Dynasty, the two dioceses were connected and continued to merge with each other.

After the blessing, the priest gave the princess a blessed cross: "Wear the cross, chant morning and night, and you will be blessed by the gods."

"Thank you, monk!"

Zhu Tangxi took the cross with both hands.

During the New Year, she has worshipped many gods and collected a lot of Buddhist beads and talismans.

Xie Yan was shocked by this and couldn't help asking: "I wonder what your name is?"

The bald priest said: "My name is Baoling."

Nestorian monks had Buddhist names in the Tang Dynasty, and they have both Chinese meanings and Western transliterations.

For example, the Buddhist name "Baoling" is actually "Paul".

The Buddhist name "Shenshen" is actually "Samson" (the Jewish leader in the Bible).

"I am from Hebei and lived in Huangzhou before. There is no Christianity in those two places," Xie Yan asked. "I am very interested in Christianity. I wonder if you can teach me?"

The bald priest was very happy. He thought he could convert the prince consort to the Cross Gate: "Princess, prince consort, please come in and have tea."

Zhu Tangxi didn't care about it. She believed in everything. She would not stop her husband from converting.

The couple was taken to the abbot's room.

Yes, this Father Paul of the Cross Church was the abbot of the Luoyang Cross Temple.

Not only did they shave their heads, but they also ate vegetarian food and prohibited killing.

The couple came to the abbot's room and a monk made tea for them.

Father Paul sat cross-legged with a wooden fish in front of him.

Xie Yan looked at the wooden fish on the table and then at the cross on the priest's chest.

Nima...

"Can I see the cross of the venerable?" Xie Yan asked.

Father Paul smiled and said, "Of course."

Xie Yan took the cross and looked at it carefully.

There is no Jesus nailed to it, but there are many complex patterns and words.

At the intersection of the cross, there is a large ring with a six-petal lotus inside and four small circles outside.

At the bottom, there is a nine-petal lotus.

There is a flame on the top, and the inside of the flame is shaped like the sun.

There are eight small circles in the four directions.

"What does this cross represent?" Xie Yan asked.

Father Paul said: "To judge the four directions."

Xie Yan asked: "What god do you believe in?"

"Aloha, the God of Creation." Father Paul replied.

Aloha is the transliteration of "Allah" in the Tang Dynasty, which is the God in the West.

Father Paul continued: "The God of my religion is the Trinity. As the saying goes, pay homage to the wonderful body father Aloha (God), the response body prince Mishiha (Jesus), and the witness body Luhaningjusha (Holy Spirit)."

Xie Yan was stunned.

The three above have other names in Nestorian Christianity. For example, Tianzun, World Honored One, Jingfeng.

Xie Yan asked carefully and found out that the cross represented the four directions and eight poles. The sun flame on the top means they worship fire (Zoroastrianism), light (Manicheism), and the east (Taoism).

As for the six-petal and nine-petal lotus, they are naturally related to Buddhism. Some parish crosses have a "swastika" character directly in the middle.

The monotheistic religion is indeed still a monotheistic religion, but it has become one god who created the world and is the teacher and king of the Buddha, the Lord of the gods.

They even worshiped the Immortal Heaven of the grassland!

Xie Yan instantly felt that the cross in his hand secretly contained infinite divine power. There are so many gods and Buddhas from the East and the West gathered together.

If this cross were taken to Rome, His Majesty the Pope would probably be so angry that he would start another Crusade.

Xie Yan asked about the teachings again and was deeply shocked again.

There is no mistake in every song, one post, one content, one 6 one, one book, one book, take a look!

Father Paul declared to the Heavenly Lord, and said to Xie Yan, who stood up to say goodbye, "My consort has wisdom and is destined to our religion, so I will give you this Bible as a gift."

Xie Yan got a Bible inexplicably and took the princess out of the church to go home.

Halfway through, I couldn't help but sit in the carriage and read through it, and I quickly read the content of creation.

It doesn’t mean that there needs to be light, the world already has light.

Rather: "The cross is used to determine the four directions; the original wind is blown to generate two qi; the dark sky changes and the sky and the earth are opened; the sun and the moon move to make the day and night work; the craftsman completes all things, but then establishes the first man; bestows good harmony and calms the sea. The pure nature is empty but not full; the pure heart has no hope. "

Pope:? ? ? ?

"Which cross religion does Liu Lang believe in?" Zhu Tangxi asked.

Xie Yan shook his head: "This Bible can be read as a story book. Are there many Christian believers in Luoyang?"

Zhu Tangxi said: "Not many. Maybe only a few thousand believers. They are all settlers in Luoyang from Anxi, Gansu, Qihe, and Mobei and their descendants."

"No one stopped them from building the temple?" Xie Yan asked.

Zhu Tangxi asked back: "What's the purpose of blocking it?"

That's right, who can stop this kind of religion that integrates Christianity, Taoism, Buddhism, Zoroastrianism, Manichaeism, Shamanism... and even Confucianism?

The Christian religion has been united by Chinese civilization!

Also united in the battle were the Qihe Protectorate and the Desert Sect of the Mu sect of the Dawan Kingdom.

Zhu Tangxi wore the illuminated cross on his chest, a string of illuminated Buddhist beads on his wrist, and an illuminated talisman in the sachet around his waist.

With the protection of so many magical instruments, the child in the belly will definitely be born safely.

After returning home, Xie Yan flipped through the Bible for a while, then put it on the bookshelf to collect dust, and continued to learn piano from the princess.

He has learned the basic fingering techniques of Guqin, but he still lacks practice and his playing is not smooth.

I'm currently learning the Twelve Rhythms and Five Tones, which are quite complicated.

It wasn't until the past two days that Xie Yan knew that ancient Chinese music was not limited to the five tones of Gong Shang Jiao Zheng Yu.

Instead, these five tones are used as the backbone, and different partial tones are added to form different six-, seven-, eight-, and nine-tone modes.

As for the Western heptatonic scale, the concept of seven tones is found in "Zuo Zhuan" and "Guoyu". The unearthed chimes of Marquis Yi of Zeng and its inscriptions directly prove the existence of seven tones.

But Chinese ancient music is still dominated by five tones, because the remaining two tones are not harmonious.

Xie Yan actually thinks that it would be interesting to use those two sounds more and do something "alternative".

"What are Liu Lang thinking?" Zhu Tangxi saw Xie Yan in a daze.

Xie Yan said: "I'm thinking that the fingering of this guqin is too complicated, and the five tones, six tones and seven tones are too complicated. Can we simplify the many tones and create an instrument that can play various tones by just pressing them? ”

Zhu Tangxi smiled and said: "How can there be anything easy in this world? Even playing music has to be lazy."

Xie Yan said: "Being lazy is the ladder of progress. In order to be lazy, the ancients used boats and carts instead of walking. Now there are even trains. It is too difficult for me to learn the guqin. Wouldn't it be nice to make a music train?"

Zhu Tangxi was so amused by this statement that he couldn't help laughing.

So, how does a piano work?

Xie Yan's understanding of piano is limited to the black and white keys visible to the naked eye.

Forget it, let’s learn Lu Lu first.

After all, the piano was invented based on the twelve equal temperaments.

Xie Yan felt that he was a little lost in playing with things, so he did some work in the chemical world, improved cement, and invented the ball mill. Now I actually want to build a piano.

But what he told the princess was true. The fingering of the guqin was too complicated and difficult.

Lie down for a while and then talk.

Xie Yan yawned and lay down directly on the couch.

Alas, I only thought about saving people some time ago, but now I am addicted to enjoying myself.

Life is still too comfortable and there is no motivation to fight at all.

Zhu Tangxi lay down next to him, caressing her belly and said, "It's the Lantern Festival in two days. I want to see the Lantern Festival lanterns, but I'm afraid that there will be too many people squeezing around and scaring the baby in my belly."

"Didn't you agree to watch it from the wall of the Imperial City?" Xie Yan said.

Zhu Tangxi pouted: "You can only look at the city walls, but the lantern market is interesting only when you visit it. This is the first Lantern Festival that Liu Lang and I have spent. It's always a pity that we can't visit the Lantern Festival."

Xie Yan comforted: "Next year. Let's go shopping together with the child."

"Not even next year, the baby is only four or five months old." Zhu Tangxi was unhappy. Pregnant women have great mood swings.

Xie Yan said with a smile: "Leave the child at home and let us go to the lantern market together."

Zhu Tangxi stroked her belly and said, "My poor child, your father disliked you before you were even born."

Xie Yan didn't know whether to laugh or cry, and he got up and ran to listen to the baby's movements.