"Meng Po Tang" is an ancient legend in China, which was recorded in an ancient book of Zilan family. In that legend, people repeat it from generation to generation. The end of this life is only the beginning of the next life. People who have experienced life again and again can't have memories of past lives, just because everyone drinks Meng Po Tang on Naihe Bridge before being reborn. Therefore, walking on the Naihe Bridge is the last time a person has memories of this life. At this moment, many people still cling to the unfinished wishes of their previous lives, but deeply understand that these wishes can not be realized after all, so they sigh. This is also the reason why this bridge connecting generations is named Naihe Bridge.
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It is said that Meng Po was born in the Western Han Dynasty and studied Confucian books since childhood. When he grew up, he began to recite Buddhist scriptures.
When she was alive, she never looked back 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 underworld and built a platform for her to forget.
According to the Book of the Prince of Yan, after each temple was punished, the ghost was sent to the next temple in turn, and finally transferred to the tenth temple and delivered to the king of the wheel.
The tenth hall is responsible for the incarnation of ghosts. All ghosts sent here to be reborn will be taken to the forgetting stage under the control of Meng Po, so that ghosts can forget their past lives.
According to legend, the practice of Meng Po Tang is to send ghosts to all parts of the Ten Halls, and then add herbs collected from the secular to make a soup similar to wine, which is divided into five flavors: sweet, bitter, pungent, sour and salty.
All ghosts who are going to be reborn have to drink Meng Po's ecstasy soup. If a sly ghost refuses to drink, a hook knife will trip his foot at once, and a sharp copper pipe will pierce his throat and force him to swallow it. No ghost can be spared.
Meng Po has a Meng Po shop in the underworld, and his place of residence is Meng Po Zhuang. In volume 8 of Shen Qifeng's "Harmonious Front" in Qing Dynasty, there is a story about Meng Po Zhuang:
If Ge Sheng doesn't drink psychedelic soup, he will be reborn.
Once upon a time, there was a geisha named Lanrui. She has a sister as beautiful as flowers and pure as jade, Yu Rui. Yu Rui and Ge Sheng fell in love, but because Ge Sheng was poor, she had no money to marry Yu Rui. Later, LanRui died of illness, and Ge Sheng was double suicide because he could not spend his life with Yu Rui.
Ge died and went to the underworld. Seeing his innocent death, Yan Luowang sentenced him to reincarnation. When Ge Sheng heard the order, he was ready to be reborn again.
Ge Sheng was walking alone when he suddenly came to a hut full of vines. I saw hundreds of men and women scrambling to grab the ladle and hurriedly scoop water from the stove.
Ge Sheng felt thirsty, because he was tired from walking, so he also wanted to drink water from the spoon. At this moment, a woman came out from behind the shed. Ge Sheng looked carefully, and it turned out to be Lanrui.
LanRui asked him why he came here, and Ge Sheng told her in detail. LanRui know, then gently said to Ge Sheng ear:
"You don't know this is Meng Po Zhuang? Fortunately, Meng Po went to celebrate Mrs Kou's birthday today, and let me take charge of the ladle for the time being. If you drink the ecstasy soup in this ladle like those people, you can't come back to life. "
Hearing this, Ge Sheng couldn't help feeling happy. Later, under the guidance of Lanrui, Ge Sheng found his old way and returned to the world.
Meng Po Zhuang has beautiful women to drink tea with.
In addition, in the "Meng Po Tang" in Wang Youguang's Interpretation of Wuxia Proverbs in Qing Dynasty, there is also a description about ghosts being drunk with ecstasy soup:
After death, the first thing you pass through is Meng Po Village. The soldiers escorted the ghost through the walls of Meng Po Village and went to hades for interrogation. After the decision, the living Dan L will be recorded in the transfer register. Every ghost sentenced to reincarnation will come back from Meng Po Zhuang.
At the entrance of Meng Po Zhuang, an old woman stood there to greet the newcomers, walked up the stairs and entered.
The village is full of carved beams and painted buildings, and the pillars are made of stone; There are exquisite and gorgeous lines in the room, curtains made of pearls and jade, and a large table carved with jade in the hall.
After the couple entered the room, the old woman called out three girls, namely Jiang Meng, Meng Yong and Meng Ge. All three were dressed in red skirts and jackets hung down by greensleeves. They all looked beautiful as flowers and pure as jade. They also called Lang Jun softly and brushed the mat with their hands, inviting guests to sit down.
After the couple sat down, the servant girl brought tea. Three beautiful women were around, all offering tea with delicate fingers, and the jade ring was crisp and fragrant. Under such circumstances, it is really hard to refuse not to drink.
I get dizzy as soon as I hold a teacup. I took a sip lightly, but I felt very cool. It can quench my thirst and I can't help swallowing it. After drinking, I suddenly saw a spoonful of muddy mud at the bottom of the cup. I looked up and found that the original beautiful and charming beauty and old woman had become a frozen skeleton.
Walking out of the gate, I saw the original carved beams and painted buildings, all of which were dead wood, as if I were in the middle of nowhere and forgot everything before my death.
In panic and pain, he suddenly fell to the ground crying and became a little baby who knew nothing.
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Tang legend
Meng Gu cooks soup, listening to the sound of insects and the rustling of dog tail grass ... When it floats like gold sand, its temples are stained with silver, the soup is as old as before, and people are as old as before, Meng Gu becomes Meng Po.
Crossing the Naihe Bridge, Meng Po leisurely carried a bowl of soup. Newcomers have all kinds of faces, such as cold, calm, ferocious, fearful and even smiling at the corners of their mouths ... The soup is swallowed, half-finished, and trembling slightly ... After all, no one can escape, and after all, they have to drink a little, not much. Meng Po has a big bowl of soup, and Meng Po has a big bowl of soup ~
No matter how much I loved in my last life, walking on this Naihe Bridge is also taking steady steps. Calm as a mirror, heavy as a stone. This side of the bridge is silent, because my heart is dead and I have lost the memory of my previous life. On the other side of the bridge, I feel sad and suffocated, because of my heart, I can't forget the entanglement.
"In the afterlife, we will continue our friendship." "I will give you a heart and a thousand tears in the afterlife." ... Meng Po occasionally heard the words of the afterlife floating to his ear and smiled with his eyes. Looking down at a pot of soup, it is an ordinary soup. Just because that seasoning called forgetting has reached the bottom of my heart.
The boat of memory is stranded, a drop in the ocean, and the storm is over.
Occasionally, I feel familiar with things I have never done in my life. In my mind, it is like weeds and stars, but I will never remember it. For example, grass seeds will never grow into towering trees.
There is no stone that does not move. The cruelest thing in the world is waiting. As Xiliang said, if you can't remember Anita Mui's "The Heart", will it be too late to wake up when the world is dying? How many people didn't swallow Meng Po Tang with tears in their eyes at the moment? Regret or hate?
In this life, hold his (her) hand and live well. This leaf grows on this tree, and when it falls, it has become someone's flower protection mud ~ In this life, if we love each other, we must be firmly close and don't lose each other in the vast sea of people.
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It is said that Meng Po Tang was made by an old woman named Meng in the underworld. After drinking Meng Po Tang, you will forget everything in your previous life.
It is said that the raw material of Meng Po Tang is very simple:
A bowl of river water under Naihe Bridge
Two girls without a sad tree.
Three white roses
However, the soup made by others can't forget things, and only the old woman can make it effective.
Many people find it strange that the same material can't make the same soup.
They don't know that Meng Po Tang is effective because it contains Meng Po's tears!
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