Let's talk about immortals first:
It is said that clothes were invented under his leadership. In Seven Stories on the Cloud, Hu Cao made clothes, and Apollo made clothes (clothes above, clothes below). Supposedly, the right to invent clothes should belong to two people, and the Yellow Emperor can at most play a guiding role as a leader. However, because his name is so loud, everyone would rather believe that he invented it. Nowadays, the ancestor worshipped by many garment factories is the Yellow Emperor, who burns incense every day and enjoys his own patent rights.
The Yellow Emperor was so powerful that Taoism borrowed his name from the beginning, calling him Huang Lao with Laozi and respecting him as the ancestor. But later Taoism invented more and more gods, such as the Jade Emperor, who was not only an emperor, but also an emperor in heaven. In charge of the three realms, ten squares and six roads, the power is far greater than that of the Yellow Emperor. Moreover, he came from the illusory "catastrophe (probably the Big Bang)" before the Yellow Emperor. If we analyze these myths carefully, we will find a loophole. Our common portraits or sculptures of the Jade Emperor are all wearing crowns, crowns and luxurious royal professional clothes. If he was earlier than the Yellow Emperor, where did he get clothes to wear? Maybe the Yellow Emperor crossed back to send clothes to his old man's house.
In fact, this question is not difficult to refute. The Jade Emperor is the boss in the sky, and the Yellow Emperor is the boss on earth. When you invented clothes on earth, it had nothing to do with heaven. Even on earth, the rich and the poor wear different clothes. The rich wear Versace, and the poor wear cheap goods. Besides, the gods are high above, and looking at the clothes of ordinary people on earth is estimated to be similar to that of the rich looking at the clothes of the poor. Princess Yunluo, the fairy in Strange Tales from a Lonely Studio, wears a thin silk gauze every day, whether in winter or summer. Her husband, Uncle An, had a good luck and made her new clothes. Princess Yunluo put them on for a while and then took them off. She said, "A dusty thing is too hard to dry!" It can be seen that this kind of dressing on earth is not only dirty but also heavy in the eyes of immortals, and the immortals completely despise it.
It's not hard to understand why many people who cultivate immortality end up with cicada slough, but the plot of many strange notes that introduce mortal longevity is basically the same: a person died first and was put in a coffin, and then a strong wind blew, opened the coffin lid, and the body disappeared, leaving only clothes inside, and the clothes were neat and the buttons were puzzled, just like cicada slough skin. When Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty paid homage to the Mausoleum of the Yellow Emperor, he was puzzled: "Didn't the Yellow Emperor finally become an immortal?" How can you die when you become a fairy? Where did you find the grave? "His alchemist explained to him:" After the death of the Yellow Emperor that year, his body turned into a fairy, leaving his clothes, and his clothes were buried here. "This shows that this dress is undoubtedly a chain on their way to immortality on the earth, or the last level in their immortal transformation. Only by breaking through this chain can you become a butterfly and fly directly to the sky. Even if you invented this dress, God won't let you take it away.
Except ghosts:
The famous Wang Chong explained the absurdity of ghost stories through clothes in Lun Heng. He said: "If a person has a spirit and is a ghost after death, then this spirit should be naked, because clothes have no spirit."
This question may be too difficult for the deists to answer. In the Jin Dynasty, there was another atheist, Ruan Xiu. He also took clothes as an example: "People who have seen ghosts say that ghosts wear old clothes. Are clothes haunted, too? " When the deist was speechless, he became more proud and even began to cut down the tree of society.
The boldness of materialists has endangered the existence of ghosts and gods. Finally, in the Tang Dynasty, the famous Duan appeared. He wrote in Youyang Za that "Yi Gui has a very strange name." And in this sentence, there is no superfluous words, concise and clear, as if there is no doubt, do not need any excuse, immediately blocked Wang Chong's suspicion. However, Ji Xiaolan later elaborated on this in the Notes of Yuewei Caotang: "The essence of human beings will become ghosts if they are not scattered, and the essence of cloth and silk will naturally become ghost clothes." In other words, some people see ghosts wearing clothes, which is the essence of cloth and silk. In other words, ghosts in clothes are "very sultry". In his note novels, two people who can see ghosts are mentioned, Hu Taichu and Luo Liangfeng. According to these two people, ghosts look like smoke, and clothes are "clothes are like fragments hanging on the body." I guess this is the scene after the clothes rot.
If the clothes worn by ghosts are tattered and smelly patches, Pu Songling will definitely disagree, because the female ghosts in his works are all beautifully dressed, but Pu Weng also manages tattered patches. ...
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