According to the Taiping Guangji, "In the twenty-third year of zhenyuan, in the summer of June, the emperor was in Tokyo. The people were startled by the ghost soldiers, all of whom ran away without knowing where they were, or bruised themselves. Its ghost soldiers initially passed to the south of Luoshui, and the market was noisy, and gradually reached the north of the water. Smelling its obsolescence, the air is like tens of millions of armored soldiers, the people and horses are noisy, and Russia is exhausted. ”
The above record is a terrifying legend in Chinese history, and the strange phenomenon of "Yin soldiers borrowing the Way" occurred. According to records at that time, the people saw a large number of ghost soldiers passing through the sky, and the reason why they were called ghost soldiers was because they were still wearing armor and clothing, and some even rode horses.
Similar records are not only recorded in the Taiping Guangji, and the same thing is recorded in the Taiping Guangji for several consecutive days, and even the emperor was alarmed.
This can't help but make people speculate, is there really a saying in history that "yin soldiers borrow the way"?
I. What is a "Yin Soldier"
First of all, let's first understand the historical saying about the Yin soldier borrowing the way.
Since the so-called Yin soldiers are often wearing armor, it seems to people that they should be the ghosts of the warriors who died in the war. Because of the death in the war and the result of their wronged souls, after turning into souls, they still regard themselves as soldiers, generally appearing on those ancient battlefields, or some remote and uninhabited places, plus they do not appear often, so the number of people who have seen them is very small.
In addition to the war theory, there is also the disaster theory. Similar to the theory of war, the ancients believed that the number of people who died due to natural disasters was very large, and they died for no reason, which made many victims feel very unwilling, and there was an obsession in their hearts that remained in the world.
So, what does the catastrophe theory have to do with armor? The ancients believed that people saw the "staff" of the prefectural government "performing official duties". People believe that if there are unjust souls, there is an institution that regulates them, that is, the so-called prefectural government, and the emissaries of the prefectural government will detain the souls of these unjust souls who have affected the normal reincarnation, and after being observed by the world, it has become a legend of the Yin soldiers borrowing the way.
Folk sayings related to the Yin Bing Borrowing Road can be described as endless, and their similarities can be summarized as generally occurring at night, and there are also the characteristics of bringing disasters, if people are curious or accidentally interfere with the Yin Bing Borrowing Road, they are likely to be taken away together, in short, it is a very ominous sign.
For this statement, modern people tend to think that the ancients knew too little about the natural world, and regarded some scenes similar to mirages as supernatural events, and in fact, similar events have occurred from time to time in modern times.
Second, the famous "amazing manger"
Beginning in the 1980s, in a deep valley in Yunnan, there was a suspected phenomenon of yin soldiers borrowing roads, and people called the valley a "manger".
The story that happened here is closer to the war. It is said that when the local villagers pass through the "manger", they can often hear the sound of weapons intersecting, accompanied by the sound of war horses hissing, which sounds very strange and makes people puzzled.
After inquiring into the history, the villagers "suddenly realized" that it was the legendary Yin soldiers borrowing the road, because the "Manger" was the battlefield between the Shu army led by Zhuge Liang and Meng Yu before 1800.
It is said that it was Meng Yue who was unable to confront Zhuge Liang's army, so in order to win, Meng Yue invited the mulu king who was proficient in magic to come to help, and the subordinates of this person named Meng Yue dug out a valley and lured the Shu army led by Zhuge Liang to come and force the Shu army to retreat to the vicinity of the valley by convening birds and beasts to help, causing the Shu army to suffer heavy casualties, which also led to the ghosts of many Shu troops for thousands of years.
This is the statement given by the villagers after combining history, which sounds very reasonable, but this is the premise that it is really from the Yin Bing. So, what is the explanation from a scientific point of view?
Third, what is the truth? Science has so far been unable to truly explain
The story of the "Manger" is real, experienced by many villagers, and is not as old as in ancient times, so there is no need to confirm whether the story really happened. So, what is the reason for the "manger" incident? In fact, for the "manger" incident, some experts have gone to the field to investigate.
The county where the manger is located is located in the largest basin in Yunnan, and experts have found that it is because of the flowing water in the mountainous area that will wash the hillside out of the gully, so the manger is also likely to be washed out by the flowing water, rather than the legendary digging out by the king of the wooden deer.
In the course of the crater expedition, experts made a major discovery, that is, there was a large amount of quartzite there. Quartzite is an ordinary mineral in nature, so why is this a major discovery?
Originally, because the main component of quartzite is silica, which has good conductivity, and it includes a tape recorder in the device produced, experts boldly guessed whether it is because of the existence of quartzite that the manger retains the sound of the ancient battlefield?
Of course, it is impossible to achieve the effect of recording by relying on quartzite alone, and magnetite is also needed, and to the surprise of experts, there is indeed magnetite nearby. So, is the so-called Yin Bing borrowing the road because of the large "tape recorder"?
Unfortunately, the number of local magnetite is not enough, not to mention, an expert also proposed that even if it really has the function of a tape recorder, after nearly two thousand years, it will inevitably be replaced by other sounds, and it is impossible to retain it, so the sound heard by the villagers should not be the result of the recording.
After the recording was rejected, other claims appeared, the wind said.
After observing the structure of the manger, some experts believe that the valley is very narrow, and its shape is similar to a wine bottle as a whole, and when the wind blows through the manger, it will make a strange sound. Its principle is, from a physical point of view, the principle of resonance.
What sound will be made, depending on the size of the wind and the direction of the wind, you can refer to the situation of blowing wine bottles, but the sound will be amplified. And the villagers will speculate that the yin soldiers borrowed the road, also because of superstition and the fact that this place was once a battlefield.
Nowadays, the wind and sound theory has not been able to fully convince the public, and science has not been able to truly explain all the legends about the Yin soldiers. But there is no doubt that the so-called "Yin Soldier Borrowing" must be an extremely rare supernatural phenomenon, but modern science cannot explain it.
brief summary
In fact, the legend of yin soldiers borrowing the road is not unique to China, and there have been similar rumors in many countries in the world. Mexico's Day of the Dead, for example, was designed for this purpose. People in Mexico believe that on the day of the Day of the Dead, many undead will return to earth.
That is to say, it has some similarities with China's so-called "Yin Soldier Borrowing Road". Unlike this, however, Mexico's Day of the Dead is not scary.
As a result, people in Mexico will wash the remains of their loved ones at this time, and the golden petals of marigolds can be seen everywhere in the city. At the same time, in order not to make these deceased people feel out of place when they return, people in Mexico will deliberately dress themselves up as skeletons on this day.
In this way, Mexico's Day of the Dead is still very warm, which is completely different from China's fear of yin soldiers.
The "wild hunting" circulating in the countries around Northern Europe is more similar to the Yin soldiers in China, and there are even legends of entering people's dreams to seize souls.
Although there have been similar statements in the history and legends of all over the world, but in this era of advocating science, such a statement is indeed difficult to get people's general recognition, and there are many natural phenomena in the world that we cannot explain clearly, and we also have reason to believe that with the development of science, these phenomena can have a reasonable scientific explanation in the future.
Reference: Taiping Guangji
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