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[Science Popularization Short Video Collection Series 7. ]

[30. China's weird theory of praying to gods, worshipping gods is equivalent to trading, useless gods are never worshipped! ]

[The Chinese nation seems to be the most special nation in the world. ]

[You say they have no faith, right? ]

[The gods of China change every day, and they are never the same. ]

[But you say they have faith, right? ]

[The Chinese don't worship useless gods. ]

[In China, being a god is much harder than working 996 every day. ]

[On weekdays, if the Chinese have a twitching left eye for wealth, they will definitely be happy all day. ]

[But if the right eye twitches for disaster, damn! This is definitely feudal superstition! 】

[In other words, gods belong to a service industry. As long as you are spiritual, we burn incense and pray every day to offer tributes, and that is not a problem. 】

[But if you don't do anything, then sorry, even if your own mother comes, we won't worship you. 】

[After all, in the eyes of the Chinese, believing in ghosts and gods is too deep. 】

[For example, in the Shang Dynasty, people still believed in gods very much at that time. It can be said that as long as there was something, they would come to offer sacrifices. 】

[People even think that the birth of the Shang Dynasty was all because of the black bird. 】

[Who knew that with the help of the fox spirit Daji, the Shang Dynasty was gone in a snap. 】

[With the lessons learned from the past, the Zhou Dynasty no longer dared to believe in ghosts and gods. 】

[But then, people became obsessed with other things - fortune-telling. 】

【Before doing anything, people would always calculate the fortune and bad luck. 】

【As a result, before a war, the hexagram showed that it was a great disaster, but what everyone didn't expect was that the war was won in the end. 】

【For a time, people knew about the belief in ghosts and gods. 】

【In this way, starting from the Zhou Dynasty, the Chinese thought gradually shifted from respecting ghosts and gods to valuing human affairs. 】

【And this state also led to a long period of time afterwards. 】

【Western theocracy could not develop in China at all. 】

【In the 19th century, Western missionaries tried to preach in my country, but after staying for a long time, the missionaries complained that China was the most difficult place for them to preach in their lives. 】

【At the beginning, this group of Chinese people would listen to the missionaries' lectures very seriously. 】

【But after listening, the people not only did what they should do, but even grumbled, why didn't they give out eggs at this lecture today? 】

【In short, you have to do something practical when you work in China. 】

【Otherwise, even if Tathagata comes, he will probably throw away the altar. 】

【In July 2021, a theft of a Buddha statue occurred in Dinghuo Town, Jiangdu District, Yangzhou. 】

【Soon, the suspect Zhang was arrested by the police. 】

【Afterwards, Zhang confessed that he had believed in Buddhism since he was a child, and because the restaurant he ran suffered serious losses, owed a large amount of foreign debt, so he had the idea of ​​stealing Buddha statues. 】

【At first, Zhang planned to bring the Buddha home first. 】

【Wait until he can turn over with these Buddhas. 】

【He will definitely bring these Buddhas back again. 】

【In this way, he sneaked into the temple at 11 o'clock in the evening of the incident. After seeing the Buddha statue making an OK gesture to him, he dismembered the Buddha statue into three pieces and put it into a sack. 】

【In the end, the police seized more than 50 tons of Buddha statues and land god statues in Zhang's home. 】

【However, this is not the most outrageous! 】

【In January 2022, a man in Lishui, Zhejiang Province, smashed 7 temples with his son in anger because he did not win the lottery! 】

【After being arrested by the police, the criminal suspect Jiang confessed. 】

【Half a year ago, he began to tell the Buddha about his wish to win the lottery. In order to prevent the Buddha from missing his wish, he took a sum of money from incense offerings and invested in four temples. 】

【And after each incense offering, he would buy a lottery ticket. 】

【Half a year has passed in a flash. 】

【During this half year, the man not only did not win a penny, but also lost thousands of incense money! 】

【At that moment, the man became more and more angry. 】

【Then he took advantage of the fact that no one was in the temple and took a hammer to smash all the Buddha statues in the temple! 】

【What's more, after smashing a temple. 】

【The man asked his son to ride an electric bike and took him to other nearby temples to launch a series of pursuits against the Buddha. 】

【You want to say that this guy is not superstitious? 】

[He worshipped Buddha statues in 4 temples in order to win the jackpot. 】

[But you say this guy is superstitious, he dares to smash the Buddha statues if he doesn't win the jackpot! 】

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"Hahaha, worshipping gods and Buddhas is to pray for peace of mind. If it's useless, then I definitely won't worship~. ～． ."

"That's right! No one even casts statues of useless gods, and you can't find them even if you want to worship them!"

"That's right. I kowtow to you and burn incense, but if you don't do anything, then why should I worship you! I must throw you out."

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It really hit the nail on the head.

The ancients discussed fiercely for a while, discussing which gods were useful to worship and which ones were ineffective.

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Tang Dynasty.

After reading this, Li Shimin couldn't help but raise his mouth slightly.

Isn't itIs that so?

The Chinese people are pragmatic!

Praying to gods and Buddhas is just like asking people to do things for you.

Look, I have kowtowed to you, burned incense, and made requests, and you did not object.

The deal is done.

But if the things are not done, then the gods and Buddhas are not kind, taking money but not doing things!

In this case, if I still worship you, wouldn’t it make me look stupid! A sucker?

Li Shimin nodded: "Yes, praying to gods and Buddhas is like doing business with them (Wang Qian's (Wang Qian's)), since business is all about credit."

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Ming Dynasty.

Zhu Yuanzhang was stunned.

"Hey, I also believed in ghosts and gods when I was a kid."

"Until my parents died, I went to the temple to pray to the gods, but they still drove me out to beg for food."

"I never believed again!"

Speaking of this, he got angry.

He went to the temple to worship Buddha statues and ring the bell in the temple in an attempt to have enough food.

Who would have thought that he would not only not have a good life.

He was bullied everywhere in the temple and almost lost his life.

Since then, he no longer believed in Buddhism.

"Humph, I still believe in myself more!" Zhu Yuanzhang said angrily. .