I was born in a super big city on the edge of Yunmengze, we used to call it Jiangcheng, but in fact, it is a city of Linze, this is Yunmeng Guze. When I was born and raised, this Qianli Guze has disappeared, leaving behind many small lakes, if you look at them from mid-air, they are just a few small dàngs. The history and myths and legends of Guzawa are slowly forgotten by people except for being hidden in the pile of old papers.
Today, after reading Mr. Feng Zhiming's long book "Yunmengze" (the overseas version of the book is called "Another Country in Life"), the story he told surprised me, Yunmeng Guze is still the land where the dragon lays eggs and hatches the dragon, and the growth process of the dragon is called cultivation, and their cultivation process cannot be calculated by the life span of human beings, but by dozens of centuries, and the time is extended indefinitely.
In the past, I imagined how amazing and great it was for the dragon to fly into the sky, but now I know that it has to go through a painful struggle before it soars into the sky. The dragon itself is a heavenly thing, its home is above the heavenly court, and the growing dragon wants to go home, every step is full of dangers, and it is even more difficult to live. It's tragic.
From the moment it decided to go home and set foot on the road home, it was a major test of life and death. Because it has to go through three tribulations – the human tribulation, the thunder tribulation, and the heavenly tribulation before it can return to its hometown. What presents us is a huge picture of the scene, in which it raises its proud dragon head to face the first catastrophe when lightning and thunder and torrential rain pour. It opened its blood-red eyes and spat out a dozen long letters, impatiently waiting for the arrival of the humans. The first tribulation is to need a reward from humanity. If the human race has no intention of rewarding it, or if the people from other places don't know about this reward, or if there are ** human beings who refuse to give it a reward with bad intentions, Jiaolong's thousands of years of cultivation will be wasted. Jiaolong is difficult to pass in the face of people's catastrophe, and must burst into anger, in addition to dying with those who refuse to be rewarded, but also to cause a big ** in Shuize.
Most humans are still kind. Seeing that Jiaolong straightened the dragon's neck and begged for a reward, Yunmeng Guze's standard singing method was like this:
"Oh yes!
The hidden dragon is in the abyss, and the flying dragon is in the sky.
The dragon sees the head but does not see the end, and it is rare to practice penance for thousands of years.
Counterattack soars Yunmengze, and the dream of heaven becomes a positive result. ”
After chanting, he pointed to the sky with his hand and sang loudly
"Listen to the gods on earth, there are dragons in my country who go to heaven.
Quickly help and bless the dragon through three tribulations.
The Jade Emperor chose the Dragon Day, and it was time to fly high and travel far away! ”
After the human beings have been rewarded, they have to chant and retreat. The big dragon even erected its body into the air, and nodded respectfully to the human because it had received the reward.
This dragon clan was rewarded, and when the dragon turned into a dragon, the thunder tribulation and the heavenly tribulation were waiting for them - on that night of lightning and thunder, the mid-air of the lake was endless, and under the light of lightning, the body of the soaring dragon condensed into a small elf body in the distant night sky. The rain was pouring down, and the thunder was rumbling. Thor struck at these dragons that flew against the sky, and the dragons that were hit flew in fragments, and thousands of years of cultivation immediately came to naught.
Seeing a large number of cultivating dragons turned into pieces like this, my heart was sad, how big the sky was, was there no place for Jiaolong to hide? Or is Thor too *** in the will of God not to let these dragons go home? Or was it shattered by lightning, which was originally the fate of the dragon?
I feel so sorry for these dragons flying backwards.
Mr. Feng Zhiming was born in the hinterland of Yunmengze, a place called Fen Lake, which is the deepest place of Yunmengze, the so-called Ze in Ze, the abyss in the abyss, and the last pitiful water area for dragon cultivation. When he was a child, whenever lightning and thunder roared, he would look at the sky from the window of his small farmhouse, hoping to get a scale from the dragon that had been struck by lightning. The old man in the family said that if he had such a dragon scale, he would ensure that he would not get sick for the rest of his life.
From this description, I decided that the dragon had passed the thunder tribulation was absolutely true.
From this point of view, the flying dragon** is such a life and death calamity, it is their own fate, but no dragon that has practiced for thousands of years will retreat and make themselves a heavenly dragon and a divine dragon, this is their mission; If they are struck by lightning and shattered to pieces, it is their fate. The dragon flew into the air, and when the thunder rumbled, it would chant loudly to announce that the heavenly court was going to pass the thunder tribulation, and to express its determination to die and become an immortal. It's just that I have a little doubt, I remember when I was a child, I walked through the dark places, and I would sing loudly, which was only for myself. Could it be that when the dragon roars in the sky, it also emboldens itself?
According to Mr. Feng Zhiming, the dragon chant is a song that women and children in the water town know, and all human beings dare not sing it openly, and only the blind and blind can sing it
"The wind howls and shakes the heavens and the earth, look at my sky.
My hometown is far away and cannot be seen, where is the end?
Thousands of lightning cracks in the sky, Qionglou Yuyu.
Piercing the clouds and fog to go home to the garden, the wind will be long.
The torrential rain roared like whip thunder, and the clouds resounded.
Burn the body without regrets, fix the rivers and mountains, and turn the soul into a rainbow. ”
**Ten Thousand Fans Incentive Plan If the lightning strikes do not die, when the dragon passes the thunder tribulation, the final catastrophe is even more tragic. When the dragon jumped up to the gate of heaven, the god of heaven rose and fell, the dragon head and dragon body were separated, and the dragon's blood was splashed, turning into the color of the rainbow, showing a stunning beauty to the heavens, earth and earth. In "Yunmengze", we see the majestic beauty of the dragon, but we can't appreciate its agitation, high-pitched and tragic after all the hardships and ups and downs. I want to recite "Dragon Yin Fu", look up at the sky, there are those lightning flashes, lightning strikes, heavy rain pouring in my eyes, and see a dragon flying against the sky, opening the monstrous dragon mouth, roaring loudly, so that the whole heavenly court is shocked by the "Dragon Yin Fu", I want to use the voice of the Chu people, but also think of the Chu overlord self-slaughtering Wujiang tragic pride, that is not the dragon of the Chinese nation? I realized that I was not in the middle of the qi, and the qi rhyme could not be achieved. Changed to recitation, tried many times, felt the dragon soul, it seemed that there was a blood in my chest, so I chanted loudly: "The wind howls and shakes the heavens and the earth, look at my sky......."”
I always thought that my hometown was a city located on a huge plain, but I didn't expect that its predecessor was a thousand miles away Guze, which was the place where Jiaolong cultivated. As the founder of the Radiant Choir and a ** person, when I watched "Yun Mengze", I captured the soul of my hometown for the first time. Thinking of the "Yellow River Cantata", it is to show us the indomitable mother river in the north, and in our south, the Yangtze River from the top of Kunlun to the East China Sea is the body of a dragon that soars against the sky.
One day, I will lead the Radiant Choir to sing a "Yunmengze Cantata"!
Sunday, March 5, 2023 Radiance Chen Ge.
About the author Chen Ge, the author of best-selling children's piano textbooks, and the founder of Wuhan Radiance Chamber Choir. Graduated from Wuhan ** College, served as Hubei Chutian ** Broadcasting FM1058. Program host, Universal Music Central China Artist Consultant, China Transmission Interactive Voice **CEO and other positions. He is the author of "Selected Piano Playing and Singing Songs Adapted from Popular Songs" (1-6 volumes), "Budong Children's Fun Piano Lesson Textbook" (1-4 volumes), "Popular Style-English Songs", etc.