There are two popular sayings about Naihe Bridge. It is said that there is a river in the underworld called Naihe, and it is said that it means "helplessness" in Chinese, which just corresponds to the regret and helplessness when people are reincarnated.
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Naihe Bridge in Fengdu Ghost Town, Chongqing: There are three stone arch bridges side by side in front of the famous Liaoyang Temple. These three bridges are all built on the flat ground, with the same size and shape. Each bridge is only four feet wide, with carved stone fences on both sides. The bridge deck is slightly curved and paved with bluestone, with two steps at both ends. There is a pond under the bridge, and the bottom and wall of the pond are inlaid with stones.
According to records, this bridge was built in the Hongwu period of the Ming Dynasty. It was built in front of Liaoyang Temple by Chun Zhu, the king of Shu Xian in the Ming Dynasty. More than 500 years ago, it was renamed Naihe Bridge by Buddhists, and the stone pool under the bridge was called "Blood Hechi".
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What's the point of crossing Naihe Bridge? Naihe Bridge is the only place that people must pass through in China Taoism and China folk mythology. There will be an elderly goddess named Meng Po next to Naihe Bridge, and every ghost will get a bowl of Meng Po Tang to forget the memory of past lives and be reborn in the next life.
There are two popular sayings about Naihe Bridge. It is said that there is a river in the underworld called Naihe, and it is said that it means "helplessness" in Chinese, which just corresponds to the regret and helplessness when people are reincarnated.
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In China folklore, after death, all souls have to cross the Naihe Bridge, so that the good ones can cross the bridge smoothly under the protection of God or Buddha, while the evil ones are thrown into the blood pool to suffer. The book Investigation of Religious Customs in Du Feng describes this in detail: "... the bridge is divided into three layers (or three layers), the ghosts of good people can cross the upper bridge safely, the ghosts of evil people cross the middle bridge, and the ghosts of evil people cross the lower bridge, which are mostly stopped by ghosts in the dirty waves under the bridge and bitten by copper snakes and iron dogs."
At the annual incense party, pilgrims rushed to throw paper money or copper coins into the pool and sprinkle fried rice into the pool, thinking that they could give it to hungry ghosts. Many elderly pilgrims like to walk on the bridge, thinking that they can avoid the pain of crossing the Naihe Bridge after death. "It can be seen that before the founding of the People's Republic of China, some kind men and women went to the bridge to burn incense and paper, and gave alms of piety. I hope that after death, gods or buddhas can bless Naihe Bridge!
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The story of Naiheqiao sighs on Naiheqiao, regrets three lives before three stones, the flowers on the other side are not there, but people on the other side are born.
According to legend, after the death gate, the last road is called Huang Quan Road, and the other side of the road is blooming, but there are no leaves. Flowers and leaves live and disappear, but they miss each other forever. At the end of the road, there is a river called Forgetting River and a bridge called Naihe Bridge. There is an earthen platform opposite Naihe Bridge called Wangxiangtai. There is a pavilion called Meng Po Pavilion near Wangxiangtai. A woman named Meng Po is waiting there, handing a bowl of Meng Po soup to every passer-by. There is a stone called Sansheng Stone by the Wangchuan River. Drinking Meng Po Tang makes people forget everything. Sanshengshi records the afterlife of past lives.
When people die, go to the gate of hell first. When they walked out of the gate of hell, they crossed Huang Quan Road and came to the bank of Forgotten River, which was Naihe Bridge. There is Meng Po on Naihe Bridge. If you want to cross Naihe Bridge, you must drink Meng Po Tang. You can't cross the Naihe Bridge without drinking Meng Po Tang. If you can't cross the bridge, you can't be reborn. Anyone who has drunk Meng Po Tang will forget all the obstacles in this life and present, and enter the road of reincarnation without attachment and start the next reincarnation.
Meng po Tang, also known as forgetful water or forgetful sorrow, forgets past lives as soon as you drink it. The dead have their own bowls here, and the Meng Po soup in the bowl is actually the tears that the living have shed all their lives. Everyone will cry when they are alive: because of joy, because of sadness, because of pain, because of hate, because of sadness, because of love. Meng Po collected their tears drop by drop and cooked them into soup. When they passed away, they walked onto the head of Naihe Bridge, let them drink it, forget their love and hate when they were alive, and cleanly re-enter the Six Roads, either immortals, people or livestock. Not everyone will be willing to drink Meng Po Tang.
Because in this life, there will always be people who love and don't want to forget. Meng Po will tell him that the tears you shed for her all your life have been boiled into this bowl of soup. Drinking it is equivalent to drinking your love for her. The last memory in the eyes of visitors is the person I love most in my life. After drinking the soup, the figure in his eyes slowly faded away, and his eyes were as clear as a newborn baby. In order to see the love of this life again in the next life, I don't have to drink Meng Po Tang, so I have to jump into the forgotten river and wait for thousands of years to be reborn. A thousand years later, you may see the person you love most in your life on the bridge, but words can't be connected. You can see her, but she can't see you.
For thousands of years, you have seen her walk across Naihe Bridge again and again and drink bowls of Meng Po soup. You hope she won't drink Meng Po Tang, but you are afraid that she can't bear the pain of forgetting Sichuan for thousands of years. After a thousand years, if you can't stop thinking and recall past lives, you can re-enter this world and find the person you loved most in past lives. There is a bluestone called Sansheng Stone near Naihe Bridge. Sanshengshi records everyone's past lives. The words on the stone are bright red as blood, engraved with four characters: "Go to the other side while it is early".
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Meng Po, a figure in ancient myths and legends, lives in Naihe Bridge. She provides Meng Po Tang for all souls who are reincarnated to erase the ghost's memory.
According to the ancient legend in China, Meng Po is the female emissary who is responsible for erasing the soul memory of the living in the underworld. There are usually three theories about the origin of Meng Po.
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When the HarmonyOS system was first opened, the world was divided into three areas: heaven and earth, and heaven was in charge of everything. This world is the so-called Yang world, and the earth is the underworld. The boundary of the three realms, whether in heaven or in the earth, the immortal and the yin official, each performs their duties. Meng Po was already on earth when he left the Three Realms. She used to be a scattered official in heaven. Later, because I saw countless grievances and hostilities in the world, I refused to let go even if I died. I came to the Forgotten River in the underworld, set up a cauldron at the bridgehead of Naihe Bridge, and refined the lingering thoughts of the world into Meng Po soup for ghosts to drink, thus forgetting the love and hate before my death, unloading the burden before my death and entering the next reincarnation. This statement first appeared in Taoist classics in the Spring and Autumn Period. In China's traditional thought, it means "people die like clouds", "die once" and "don't remember the kindness of the dead".
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The so-called Meng Po is Meng Jiangnv. When Meng Jiangnu cried down the Great Wall, she saw countless bodies under the Great Wall and never found her husband's bones. In order to forget these painful memories, Meng Po Tang was made to make people forget. Later, God missed her feeling of missing her husband and saved her from the pain of reincarnation. Let her cook Meng Po soup by Naihe Bridge, and let the ghosts involved in reincarnation forget everything in their previous lives. The so-called "past lives have passed, and good and evil in this life are only from the mind." Meaning. This statement has been widely circulated since the Yuan Dynasty, and it is often seen in the notes of scholars in the Ming and Qing Dynasties. It is also the most widely circulated statement among the people. In many legends about Meng Po, this statement is quite realistic.
In this legend, Meng Po is actually not an old woman, but a peerless beauty. The reason why Meng Po first made Meng Po Tang was to forget his past. Meng Po's only memory is to send a bowl of Meng Po soup to ghosts coming and going on Naihe Bridge.
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Meng Po was born in the Western Han Dynasty. He studied Confucian books since childhood and began to recite Buddhist scriptures when he grew up. However, Buddhist scriptures were translated into Chinese only in the Eastern Han Dynasty. When she was alive, she never recalled the past and never thought about the future. She just wholeheartedly advised people not to kill, but to be vegetarian. She was a virgin until she was eighty-one. She only knows her family name is Meng, so she is called "Granny Meng Po". Later, Meng Po went to practice in the mountains until the later Han Dynasty. Because at that time, people who knew the karma of past lives often revealed secrets, therefore, God appointed Meng Po Lao Nai as the god of the nether world and built a platform for her to forget.
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Poems about Naiheqiao? 1, Naihe Bridge, etc.
Author: Ma Biao Hyundai
Next to Naihe Bridge,
Loneliness,
Just waiting for a promise,
Forget the river,
Raise a glass and sigh,
Just because I can't give up my old marriage.
You used to be a water lily in front of the Buddha.
Inadvertently fell into the mortal world,
I used to be the flag of the world of mortals,
Never thought of meeting in the spring after the snow.
A prosperous world,
Tangled,
Just to relive the love of past lives,
Sansheng stone edge,
* * * Oath,
Just to have love in late spring.
You are saussurea involucrata on the plateau,
Don't want to be drowned in gossip,
I used to be a boy in Cangyang on the street.
And now the game is drunk.
Next to Naihe Bridge,
Loneliness,
Meng Po Tang Can will never forget the lingering feelings of the past.
Forget the river,
Tears rolled down my eyes,
Forgetfulness will wash away today's thoughts.
2. Random thoughts on Naiheqiao
Author: Spring planting and autumn harvest are all modern.
Random thoughts on Naiheqiao
Naihe Bridge is not a fairy mountain,
No one knows the true face.
You cann't peek after a thousand laps,
Invisible smoke clouds linger in my heart.
Time flies,
A drop in the ocean seems very small.
A moment of time changes endlessly,
Life is too short to bother yourself.
Dark clouds in the sky sway with the wind,
Underground rivers roll up waves.
No one, young or old,
It is inevitable that people and ghosts cherish each other.
Life will end one day,
No one can escape the iron law.
I feel that the sky will never wake up,
The less regrets, the better.
How many times have you been here in the morning and evening,
Flowers bloom and fall, much ado about nothing.
Leave your figure on the road of reincarnation,
Infernal affairs connects Naihe Bridge.
Naihe bridge is illusory,
Who knows what it looks like?
Legends from ancient times to the present,
There is an endless ballad in the world!
3. Naihe Bridge
Author: hit the wood-the missing modern
Naihe bridge
Yifei bridge
Seven inches wide
Ten thousand feet high.
The wind is swaying.
The breeze is swaying.
Meng Po road
The road ahead is foggy and rainy.
Drink it.
Ruthless and unrestrained
My soul is out of body experience.
Hesitate a little. Who knows?
Life and death
advance and retreat
Empty is the wind.
Empty without a trace
Yamaraja Palace
Eighteen sticks
The pain in my heart, blowing in the wind.
this evening
Hanjiangbian
When a person is drunk, he laughs at the sky.
4. Naihe Bridge
Author: Walking Three Mountains and Modern Times
Grow old slowly
On the endless streets
Waiting for another bright moon
Shengui hometown
Who do you work for in your life?
Who is sick?
calmly
A hundred years of loneliness.
Such as reincarnation
Just like the place of birth.
Who sighs?
Take the Naihe Bridge.
This life is unfinished.
5. Naihe Qiaotou
Author: The sound of birds flying is modern.
When the curtain falls, there will always be some rosy clouds.
In the dark, ghosts are everywhere.
Fly in the wind
Just enough to carve stars and lightning.
When night falls
I dressed up the moon beautifully.
Solo, broken dreams.
After tomorrow morning, and tomorrow morning.
Brilliant blue and white porcelain
Wait for me and gulp it down.
Through the mountains, every leaf
Everyone is laughing, just waiting for the idiot to wake up.
The scenery of this bridge
It's just a bird's trail in the air.
Every time I fly,
Eventually, disappear in the deep heart.
Question: What river is under Naihe Bridge? Forget the river.
In China's myths and legends, after death, people go through the gate of hell, the ecliptic, between the ecliptic and hades, and the forgotten river as the boundary. The forgotten Chuanjiang River is blood-yellow, and there are ghosts everywhere that cannot be reborn. Insects and snakes are everywhere, and the wind is blowing.
There is a Naihe Bridge on the Forgotten River. There is an old woman sitting next to Naihe Bridge. Her name is Meng Po. If you want to cross the forgotten river, you must cross the Naihe Bridge. If you want to cross Naihe Bridge, you must drink Meng Po Tang. You can't cross the Naihe Bridge without drinking Meng Po Tang. If you can't cross the bridge, you can't be reborn.
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From the perspective of China folk culture, bridges and their symbolic meanings are used by people to establish contact or form a transition and intermediary between people and ghosts, life and death. Compared with myths and fairy tales, there is another unique ghost story in China folk word-of-mouth literature.
Although we often use "nonsense" to describe someone's absurdity or lack of credibility, it is no accident that "bridge" appears repeatedly in folk "nonsense". In our opinion, this is not absurd. In Chinese folk beliefs, "ghost" is a negative supernatural existence caused by death.
In many stories circulating around China, ghosts often haunt bridges, especially those of drowning people. The ghosts of the dead who died in the water or fell off the bridge are always looking for their own body body double, so that they can be reincarnated.
In this sense, the bridge is not only the place where the ghost of the dead leaves the underworld to be reincarnated into the afterlife, but also the place where new dead people constantly appear and disappear from the world. The alternation and transformation of life and death is realized through bridges.
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