When she was still alive, she never looked back on the past and never thought about the future. She just wholeheartedly advised people not to kill and be vegetarian. She remained a virgin until she was eighty-one. She only knew her family name was Meng, so she was called "Meng Po Laonai".
Later, Meng Po went to the mountains to practice, until the later Han Dynasty. Because at that time, people who knew the cause of past lives often revealed the secret, therefore, God appointed Meng Po Laonai as the god of the underworld and built a platform for her to forget.
In the Classic of the King of Yan, it is said that after being punished in each temple, ghosts are sent to the next temple in turn, and finally transferred to the tenth temple and delivered to the wheel king.
The Tenth Hall is in charge of ghost incarnations. All ghosts who are sent here to prepare for incarnations will be taken to the forgotten stage under the charge of Meng Po, so that the ghosts can forget their previous lives.
According to legend, the practice of Meng Po Tang is to take the ghosts who were judged to be sent to various places in the Tenth Hall, and then add the medicinal materials collected from the secular world to make a soup like wine, which is divided into five flavors: sweet, bitter, pungent, sour and salty.
All ghosts who are ready to be reincarnated have to drink Meng Po's ecstasy soup. If there is a cunning ghost who refuses to drink, a hook knife will immediately trip his feet under his feet, and a sharp copper tube 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 the place where she lives is called Meng Po Zhuang. In the Qing dynasty Shen Qifeng's "Harmonious Front" Volume 8, there is a story about Meng Po Zhuang:
Ge Sheng will be reborn if he doesn't drink ecstasy soup.
Once upon a time, there was a geisha named Lanrui. She had a sister as beautiful as flowers and jade, Yurui. Yurui and Ge Sheng fell in love, but because Ge Sheng was very poor, she couldn't afford to marry Yurui. Later, Lanrui died of illness, and Ge Sheng died of double suicide because she was unable to spend her life with Yurui.
After Ge's death, he went to the underworld. Seeing that he died innocently, Yan Luowang sentenced him to incarnate. After Ge Sheng heard the order, he was ready to reincarnate again.
Ge Sheng walked alone and suddenly came to a shed full of vines. I saw hundreds of men and women scrambling to grab the ladle, and hurriedly scooped water from the stove head to drink.
Ge Sheng felt thirsty because he was tired from walking, so he also wanted to drink the water in the ladle. At this time, a woman came out from behind the shed. When Ge Sheng looked carefully, 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:
"Don't you know this is Meng Po Zhuang? Fortunately, Meng Po went to give Mrs. Kou a birthday today and asked me to take charge of the ladle for the time being. If you drink the ecstasy soup in this ladle like those people, you will have no way to return to life. "
Hearing this, Ge Sheng couldn't help feeling glad. Later, under the guidance of LanRui, Ge Sheng found his old way and returned to the world.
Meng Po Zhuang is accompanied by beautiful women drinking tea.
In addition, in the "Meng Po Tang" in Wang Youguang's Interpretation of Wu Xia Proverbs in Qing Dynasty, there is also a description of ghosts being drunk with ecstasy soup:
After people die, the first thing they pass through is Meng Po Zhuang. The soldiers escorted the ghost through the wall of Meng Po Village and went to the Palace of Hades for interrogation. After the decision, the living Dan L will be entered into the transfer book. Any ghost who is sentenced to reincarnation will walk back from Meng Po Zhuang.
At the gate of Meng Po Zhuang, an old woman stood there to greet the newcomers, stepped up the stairs and entered inside.
The village is full of carved beams and painted buildings, and the pillars are made of stone; Inside the room, there are exquisite and gorgeous grains, curtains made of pearls and jade, and a big table carved with jade in the hall.
After the newcomers entered the house, the old woman called out three girls, namely Meng Jiang, Meng Yong and Meng Ge. All three were dressed in red skirts and jackets with green sleeves hanging down, all of them were as beautiful as flowers and beautiful as jade, and they looked beautiful, and they called Lang Jun softly, and they also brushed the mat with their hands and invited the guests to sit down.
After the newcomer sat down, the servant girl brought tea. Three beautiful women are around, all offering tea with delicate fingers, and the jade ring is crunchy and fragrant. In such a situation, it is really hard to refuse not to drink.
As soon as I took the teacup, I felt dizzy and dizzy. I took a sip of it lightly, but I felt extremely cool. It could quench my thirst and I couldn't help but gulp it down. After drinking, I suddenly saw a spoonful of muddy mud at the bottom of the cup. When I looked up, I found that the originally beautiful and charming beauty and old woman had become frozen skeletons.
When I walked out of the door, I saw that the original carved beams and painted buildings were all dead wood, such as being in the middle of nowhere and forgetting everything before my death.
Just in the panic and pain, he suddenly cried and fell to the ground, becoming a little baby who knew nothing.
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The legend of Meng po Tang
Meng Gu cooks soup, listening to the sound of insects and the rustling of dog's tail grass ... When it floats like a golden sand, the temples are dyed with silver, the soup is as old as before, and people are as old as before, and Meng Gu becomes Meng Po.
Crossing Naihe Bridge, Meng Po leisurely carries a bowl of soup. Newcomers have various faces, such as callous, calm, ferocious, fearful and even smiling at the corners of their mouths ... The soup is gulped down, half-finished, and quivering slightly ... After all, no one can escape, and after all, they have to drink a little, not much. Meng Po has a long bowl of soup, and Meng Po has a long bowl of soup ~
No matter how deeply in love in previous lives, walking on this Naihe Bridge is also a steady step. Calm as a mirror, heavy as a stone. There is silence on this side of the bridge, because my heart is dead and I have lost the memory of my past life. On the other side of the bridge, I am sad and choking, 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 I will give you a thousand tears in the afterlife." ... Meng Po occasionally heard the afterlife words floating to his ear and smiled with his eyes. Looking down at a pot of soup, it is an ordinary soup. Just because of the seasoning called forgetting, it has also reached the bottom of my heart.
Memory boat stranded, a drop in the ocean, wind and waves are a thing of the past.
Occasionally, I feel that something I have never done in my life is familiar. 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 rock that does not move. The cruelest thing in the world is waiting. As Xiliang said, if you can't remember Anita Mui's red peach, will it be too late to wake up when the world fades? How many people didn't swallow with tears at the moment of drinking Meng Po Tang? Is it regret or hate?
In this life, hold his (her) hand and live well. This leaf grows on this tree, and when the leaf falls off, it has turned into someone's flower protection mud ~ In this life, if we love, we will be firmly and firmly close, and don't lose each other in the vast sea of people.
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Meng Po Tang relieves all pain in one bite.
Some people say that forgetting is the best medicine.
And this medicine is nothing better than this Meng po decoction
I wonder how many times we have drunk this bowl of soup.
How many times have there been empty vows of eternal love?