The origin of Nai He Bridge Road Far Away .

From Chinese mythology, there is a similar description in Dante's "Divine Comedy", which reads: Lethe River, a thousand years of house, and the human face is not in vain.

Lethe water on the Lechuan River, drink it, and everything in this life will be forgotten.

Lethe is just a river in the underworld.

When the soul of the underworld crosses through it, it can enter the underworld, re-enter reincarnation, return to the world, and be reborn.

But crossing the Lethe River and drinking Meng Po soup, all the joys and sorrows of this life will be forgotten, and all the past will be turned into a cloud of smoke.

This "forgetting" is rare and even more difficult to give up.

There are all kinds of flavors in it, and the world can't taste it. Listen to me tell me about Lethe.

Life is only a hundred years in the world, and after this hundred years.

I'm going to have to go.

No matter what the name is in the world, after death, he will go to the ghost gate.

The people outside the gate are still singing and dancing, and the soul inside the gate crosses the Huangquan Road.

There is no other scenery on Huangquan Road, only the blood-red flowers on the other side, Manzhu Sahua.

She is the last scenery of the souls in this life.

Walking down further, at the end of Huangquan Road, in front of the famous mountain in the underworld, there is a river, and its name is Lethe.

There is a bridge over the Lethe River, and its name is Nai Ho Bridge.

However, under the bridge, the water of the Lechuan River is blood-yellow, and there are lonely ghosts inside, and the river is full of fishy winds, insects and snakes are everywhere.

However, looking back at the sky on the bridge, I really can't speak.

There is no way back in this life, but to go there.

After crossing the Nai He Bridge, there is Wangxiang Terrace next to the bridge.

Looking at the hometown on the platform and then looking at the hometown, this glance back, you can also see the world.

After reading it, I've cried enough, and then I came down from the lookout platform.

On the side of Wangxiang Terrace, next to the Lechuan River, there is also a three-life stone, on which your past and present lives are recorded.

Take a look at the Sansheng Stone, and the past and present lives of this reincarnation will be reflected in front of you.

But it's also the last look.

Walking forward again, in front of the Wangxiang platform, there was an old woman, she was Meng Po.

When she arrived, she had to drink the Meng Po soup made from the tears of her own life.

If you don't drink Meng Po soup, you won't cross the Nai He Bridge.

Meng Po soup is the water of forgetfulness, and if you drink it, you will forget this life and this life.

After that, these souls, who have forgotten everything, enter the underworld and enter reincarnation.

The right way is: Nai He Bridge, the road is far away, one step and three miles are free;

Lethe River, a thousand years of house, people don't know what to do.

The flowers on the other side bloom on the other side, and the grass is sad and sadBut what can be done in front of the bridge. Three lives before the stone is set for three lives.

But what's the pain, there is no way back to this side of the bridge and the other side.

Flowers bloom on the other side.

But what can be done in front of the bridge.

Looking at the countryside under the platform, the river is forgotten.

Sansheng stone side sells Meng Po.

Nirvana is in love with demons.

Floating life is like a dream.

Only the rest of your life dances the sun and the moon.

The white horse passes through the gap and the wind sings.

Butterfly love flowers, flowers on the other side.

The flowers on the other side bloom on the other side, crying alone and the darkness, and the flowers are not returned.

Who will read it again?

Huang Quan teared tears all the way.

The leaves fall and the flowers bloom alone, the world is reincarnated, and the flowers and leaves are empty and sad.

Don't sigh that the soul of the world is bleak, how do you know that life and death are far away!

The flowers on the other side bloom on the other side, but there is nothing on the bridge.

It is a couplet, which means that the Si people have passed away, and what can the living do if they are reluctant?

The flowers on the other side bloom on the other side, and the grass is sad and sadBut what can be done in front of the bridge. Three lives before the stone is set for three lives.

Legend has it that after death, the ghost will leave the body and walk on the Yellow Spring Road to the underworld. The starting point of Huangquan Road is the Ghost Gate Pass, and the end point is the Nai He Bridge. After crossing the Nai He Bridge, you will reach the underworld, so the Nai He Bridge can be said to be the gateway from the Yang world to the underworld, and walking on the Nai He Bridge is one thing that every ghost has to do.

The bridge should have been called "Nai River Bridge", which is a Buddhist saying. In the Buddhist scriptures, there is a river in hell, called the Nai River, in which blood and water gush, and there are many copper snakes, iron dogs, and evil spirits in it. There is a bridge over the Nai River called the Nai River Bridge.

The Nai River Bridge is divided into three layers, and it is safer for kind people to walk on the upper floor; Those who are both good and evil walk in the middle level, and there is danger, and if you are not careful, you will fall into the river; And the evil ones walk in the lower layers, and the iron dogs and evil spirits are often able to jump up and attack those who walk in the lower levels. Therefore, in the old temple incense festivals, pilgrims vied to throw paper money and copper plates into the virtual Nai River (ordinary pool), so that the evil spirits would not pull themselves when the time came.

Later, in Chinese folklore, the Naihe Bridge gradually evolved into the "Nai He Bridge", and its role was no longer to distinguish between good and evil, but to have another function. It is said that there was a woman named Meng Po who stood guard at the head of the Nai River bridge every day and forced every ghost who crossed the bridge to drink a bowl of "Meng Po soup". This soup has the ability to make people forget, so that the ghost can forget what happened in his life.

Therefore, every "person" walking on a short bridge will have mixed feelings, and all kinds of emotions will come to mind. After walking to the end of the bridge, you can see your past life on the Sansheng Stone, and you will have mixed feelings. Then after drinking Meng Po soup, the love and hatred of my life were completely forgotten.

Those who are concerned about this life, those who are hated, will be strangers in the next life.

In Chinese Taoism and Chinese folk mythology, the Nai He Bridge is a place where people must be reincarnated and reincarnated, and there will be an elderly female deity named Meng Po by the side of the Nai He Bridge, giving each ghost a bowl of Meng Po soup to forget the memories of the past life, so as to be reincarnated in the next life.

Note: Nai He has nothing to do with Buddhism, the Sanskrit word narakade is translated as "hell", and its transliteration is "Narakha", not "Naha".

There are two popular theories about the Nai Ho Bridge. One says that there is a river named Nai River in the prefecture, and the other says that because of the meaning of "helpless" in Chinese, it just corresponds to the regret and helplessness of people who wish to be born when they are reincarnated.

From the perspective of Chinese folk culture, bridges and their symbolism are even more often used by people to establish connections or form transitions and intermediaries between humans and ghosts, life and death. In contrast to "mythology" and "fairy tales", there is another unique type of "ghost tales" in Chinese folk word-of-mouth literature. Although we often use the phrase "ghost story" to describe the absurdity or unbelievability of someone's words, the "bridge" that repeatedly appears in folk "ghost stories" is not accidental, and in our opinion, it is not absurd.

In Chinese folk beliefs, "ghosts" are a type of negative supernatural being that arises from death. In many of the ghost stories circulating throughout China, bridges are often haunted by ghosts, especially the ghosts of the drowned. The ghosts of those who died in the water or fell from the bridge and died always went up and down the bridge or left and right to find a substitute for themselves so that they could be reborn.

In this sense, the bridge is not only the place where the ghosts of the deceased leave the underworld and are reincarnated into the yang world, but also the place where the new dead continue to emerge and go from the yang world to the underworld, and the alternation and transformation of life and death are realized through the bridge as an intermediary.