The exploration of the ancients of the dream

Our country the ancients to dream once there are a lot of accounts, one of the most well-known is the story of "chuang tzu's dream".Zhuangzi falls asleep one day and found herself turned into a butterfly, fly freely.Wake up just know is a dream.So thinking, "I don't know (zhuang) Zhou Zhimeng for butterfly wipe?The butterfly dream of (zhuang) weeks wipe?"

The idiom "dream" is from a story about a dream.The tang dynasty legend novel biography of south ko satrap about such a story:

One day, a man named a surname FenThe birthdayHem, he in front of the big pagoda tree drinking feast and friends, and drank himself into a stupor, napping helped by a friend into the porch.Trance, as if there are two purple angel asked him into the carriage, carriage toward the big pagoda tree a tree hole under the Mercedes Benz.He came to the big tree on sale ".The country's chengA blind dateSince out greeted with tao, the king will be the princess betrothed to his, recruit a surname Fen for xu, and appointed him "south KeJun satrap".

Indeed not barrels, a surname Fen after arriving, he his diligence, the south KeJun logical administration and governance.After twenty years, before and after the Kings esteem, the acclaimed by his people.Unexpectedly, neighboring country of wingceltis she suddenly daxing heat, invasion of the big tree on sale.A surname Fen rate soldiers struggled to enemies, but the result is often war often hurt.Is it never rains but it pours, and his beloved wife died...A surname Fen king lost his from now on.His heart and asked the king allowed him back to the home visit, the king listened to, and send the original two purple clothes angel escort and back.A surname Fen returned home, saw his body to sleep in the porch, not startled, wake up.It's "only half day in the world, dream twenty years".

According to a report in the records, the Book of Jin Cao Caozeng dreamed of three horses with feeding trough, cao cao doubts, fears SiMaShi father and son rob around the world.

Whether we were willing to, every night dream.Life, always be lots and lots of dream to follow.Because a dream, life is colorful, passion ripples;Also because of a dream, life is unpredictable, elusive.So, what on earth is dream?

The mystery of night vendetta, for thousands of years, with the human all the time, its mysterious attracted more people to dream, to dream., so to speak, in the human all the mysteries, there is no better than those from the mystery of the heart makes people fascinated.

China, we dream the same as Chinese civilization, has a long history.From huangdi XuanYuanShi is the author of "oneiromancy classics".In the pre-qin period, some famous scholars began to dream of rational thinking.Then, all previous dynasties were respectively from different aspects to explore the dream, it is for these people to dream constantly debate, to make our country the study of dreams on the lateral gradually expand, on the longitudinal gradually deepened.In the exploration of dream, we Chinese have their own ideas and ways, and put forward some theory.Like huangdi neijing "wise dreaming", and said, "rites" of the "six dream", and said, "example" of "reciprocation" said, and "brain gas block" Wang Qingren said, and so on.

Although generations people continue to dream, but also made some achievements, but the dream is so mysterious, people still can't fully realize it, there are a lot of things by the book's theory is not, some people think that dream is then the soul from the body and outside, is the spirit of independent activity, it is also a oneiromancy superstition and even influence the root cause of the thousands of years of Chinese history.Oneiromancy has a long history in China, in the era of YanGuo slavery, oneiromancy is to observe good or ill luck, decided to a major tool for the affairs of state, thus oneiromancy superstition has become a major part of the official religious theology.But in the spring and autumn period, oneiromancy gradually became a kind of secular superstition, oneiromancy remain the own characteristics on the one hand, on the other hand, with other religious theology penetrate to each other.

About the exploration of dreams can be traced back to primitive society, when the primitive the dream and the souls together, this is inseparable with low productivity condition at that time, as to what they put the dream associated with the soul of this problem, now I'm afraid it is difficult to find direct evidence.But if we according to the primitive level of intelligence and original national religious practice to speculate that can be found that the primitive concept of dreams is such.

When primitive people lie in their cave inside when sleeping, their bodies did not leave the cave.But why the dream, he and his companions together into the wild go hunting?According to the imagination of people at that time, the dream the itself out hunting, certainly not be lay in the cave that has the body itself, but should be a no body itself, not by their physical bondage.The primitive dream will certainly dream of those they haveThe dead relatives.But their loved onesThe bodyBurying is not early?Not already rotten?The kind of person who was not physical, bound to a body, is a kind of what kind of things?

After a long time of thinking, gradually formed in the primitive mind such a concept: in the human body, there is a dominant body rather than the things of the flesh, this kind of things can leave the body during sleep, dreaming something outside activities, they continue to exist after physical death, still can.So, people still can go to the wild hunt in a dream, will still be able to see the dead relatives.Then they put this stuff is called "soul".

The primitive through to the dream of thinking, form the concept of the soul;They, in turn, with soul concept to explain the dream and dream.In this way, the primitive concept of dreams, is inextricably linked together.On the basis of the concept of dreams, and the concept of ghosts and gods, and then formed the dreams superstition.

Initially, these dreams superstition is not conscious, they only care about those who have close relationship with their own life dreams, only then along with the human activities become more and more complicated, people need to foretell things are becoming more and more increase, so the dream that are attached to the 16-month also is more and more.Then divination superstition by spontaneous superstitious some dreams into conscious to find all kinds of dreams, from habitual interpretation of dreams into complex analysis of dreams.

According to the existing literature, the yellow emperor is the first mention of divination.Huang-fu mi on the "imperial century", said: "the yellow emperor dream winds blow all the grime to, and dream of the fateful crossbow drive sheep group."Wake up the yellow emperor self analysis: "wind as call to arms, rulers also;After the scale to soil, also.The world is there wind name the latter zai?Jun crossbow with different force person also;Can drive the sheep group, herdsmen for good also.The world is there force name shepherd zai?", and "in accordance with the second of o", after the wind force, pastoral two together.

About the yellow emperor and YaoShunYu era oneiromancy activity, is the ancient legend, but until the Yin, Chinese history of dreams and oneiromancy is a reliable written records.Many historical records about Yin Wang Zhanmeng we find in the oracle bones.Did Yin mr.wong said, is the dream, the dream is there.This explains on the one hand, YanWang have been much concerned about the dream of the good or ill luck, on the other hand also shows that oneiromancy in YanWang occupies an important position in the life.

Dream legends and oneiromancy, however, at the time of the activity is very frequent in zhou Yin before.Did a lot of dream, it was said that king novel and ji fa sign the weeks will replace the Yin.

The "imperial century" said: Wen Wangzeng dream "the sun of its body.The moon is the symbol of the emperor, said this is obviously the king of the text for the day.The journal, shifu book process may solution, recorded too far dream: "too far (featuring mother) by court made spines, dream prince hair (Zhou Ting catalpa, Lawrence w.) in fault tree, pine, cypress, Shen, tussah catalpa.Insomnia sleep to tell the king, the king of the text is with the prince of Yu Mingtang, king and prince and worshipped his dream, the business of life from god god."

According to the interpretation of dreams division, spines are shrubs, the dream represents the shells.Catalpa tree, the dream represents the week.Catalpa between spine into pine, cypress, Shen, oak trees, such as the meaning of this dream is very clear, is to make people think that is god to god to "business of life" for weeks.

Also written in the history · too oath, of the Lawrence w. zhou cut up when once said: "I dream of I, attack in Hugh auspicious, our business will be grams."Featuring what made a dream, "too oath" did not speak.In the mozi, not under the attack it this way: "featuring practice 阼, dreamed of three god said, 'to the already heavy stains DE yi zhou ying in wine, the valley of, will bring you big Kan.Featuring and attack."

Visible, in zhou oneiromancy political life, has been one of the very main Zhou Wang attitude to dream more than YanWang YanJing.YanZhou era, every state affairs must be decided after a divination, Zhou Wang rule, no full-time oneiromancy officer.

YanZhou age superstition of dream also is not very deep, in the spring and autumn period, people's attitude toward the dream very seriously.Zuozhuan, zhao public records: seven years WeiQing blastholes child dreamed of patriotic ancestors Kang Shu said to him: the yuan for the emperor.The history also dreamed Kang Shu said to him, "if I will order and take to fu ren yuan.Just because two people in dreams, WeiXiang after death, blastholes appointed monarch from the yuan, he is WeiLing male.

Zhao also written in seventeen years, duke wen took XunWu Han Xuanzi dreams, and give him land muddy, so he decided to let XunWu spearhead of led the troops.XunWu out muddy after lu, he devoted the captive exile in the state of the temple.

Blastholes appointed monarch and the lives of Han Xuanzi commander in chief, they are all as according to the dream, think Kang Shu said in a dream, is the ancestor of command, and the state activities in the dream, also is the will of the ancestors.When people dream deep superstitions.

In the warring states period, however, due to the development of productivity, people got fully shows that atheism thoughts also unprecedentedly active.At that time, oneiromancy market sharply reduced in the ruling class.Seldom see this period of literature about which monarch and its change with oneiromancy decided to political and military activities.In ideological circle, both mencius and xun zi, Confucian representative or representatives legalism shang Yang, everything is done, and family, town, and the yin-yang school, etc., are not about their account of the oneiromancy superstition.Nonetheless, but oneiromancy is very profound the influence of the folk.

Oneiromancy after the spring and autumn period and the warring states period of the market is more and more small, but because of the mystery of the dream itself has not yet opened, so this kind of superstition still on from generation to generation.But one thing is different, superstitions in along with the change of the era has changed accordingly.Compared with the pre-qin, qin and han dynasties later oneiromancy have changed dramatically in three ways:

First is oneiromancy has officially a religion, gradually became a secular folk superstitions.As stated earlier, oneiromancy in YanZhou period, the ruler is first and foremost a belief, oneiromancy is used as a kind of system on the stage.As long as meet, Yin Wang Hezhou king will seriously for divination.Even if no dream, dream they also praying to god.Oneiromancy officer or dream, they belong to the state government officials, have certain political position.After the qin and han dynasties, along with the oneiromancy shrinking market in the upper ruling class, oneiromancy generally already of the not appeal, also no longer a dream officer in the system.Since oneiromancy is mainly popular in folk, gradually become secular superstition, such as: divination, fortune telling, one of the feng shui, face reading, etc.

Followed by oneiromancy, as a kind of superstition, between it and other religious beliefs to each other, mutual penetration and mutual use.Monastery in the period of Taoism, it started without oneiromancy content, but later in the 5th, Taoism began to constantly absorbing oneiromancy superstition, to serve its purpose.The holding tastes such records, Fang Shili Andrew died before, "song mountain dream of emperor wudi, and half way there, a messenger lapras hold section, from the cloud.Cloud too b Andrew, please.Emperor sleep to language about yue: "as I dream of, Andrew will give me to.'a few days, but Andrew said to die."Ge hong recorded this dream, apparently by dreams of superstition, immortal dies, can ascend to heaven.

Tang dynasty "unitary Yang miscellaneous him" pointed out: "door dreamer soul demon, or" three corpse."At this point, Taoism has its dream dream theory."Soul demon", derived from the traditional concept of dreams;"Three resin act", belongs to a kind of creation of Taoism.The Taoism, the so-called "three body", refers to three worm in the work of the human body, known as the "three dead god".Yue peng Ju handsomer, peng, peng, or called blue gu gu, Bai Gu, of blood."Three body", it is said, can remember the person's fault, the date of each to GengShen, take people were asleep, and the god of "false"."God of the false", that is, dozen small report to the jade emperor.So the Taoism always pushed the precious "to people without dream", "reality no dream".So whenever the Taoist GengShen, sleepless, just in case "three body" god "god of the ancient".

Derived from Indian Buddhism, dreams and oneiromancy start superstitions.When Buddhism was introduced into China, and China's traditional oneiromancy superstition join hands.But Buddhism oneiromancy superstition is mainly to promote Buddhism, of good and evil karma.Such as "good see law" the so-called "dream" nature and man, think good is day is a good dream, in order to make good the root growth;The wicked do evil day is now a nightmare, make an evil from good by fear.The so-called "dream" is that often want to good good dream now, often think evil is a nightmare.

Oneiromancy superstition in in Buddhism, Taoism, and at the same time, itself also is under the influence of Taoism, Buddhism.In dunhuang note some of the existing dream as well as a book, have "the dharma", "buddhist music chapter" and related signs of resign.But some precious Taoist, some precious buddhist, which also tortuously reflected the Buddha's path two struggle.For example, "dream of Lao zi, is reading", "dream of the monks and nuns, do not ask", clearly reflects the tendency of Taoism and its denigration of Buddhism.And, as the "dream of the monks and nuns, hong fu fine", "dream of the big pagoda, great riches and honor", "dream of the bodhisattva, the long life", these is obviously promote Buddhism.In addition, the curse of Buddhism, Taoism, are unconsciously into oneiromancy.

The last change is oneiromancy as a kind of magic, gradually become complicated, delicate and smooth.From zuozhuan and materials provided by the "book of songs" as you can see, the pre-qin oneiromancy USES is "straight" solution way to explain the dream, and the good or ill luck of later generations is plot with a dream fulfilled directly.Such as zhao seven years, MuZi "dream days pressure has, eph wins", more than an ox to help to help, was met with more than help.That same year, zheng man dreamed that he has to kill kill segment, segment was brought and subsequently killed.

Again is a way to turn "interpretation", but mainly is the solution to "symbol".Think the dream like this way is not the direct expression of dreams, and content as the symbol of dreams is the real dream.As a male 16 years Lv Qi month dream, seventeen years "wade huan dream, two dreams doesn't mean they are going to" shoot the moon ", "wade huan", "month" and "for huan only" the meaning of the symbol.Bear Pi dream in the book of songs and't snake dream, also do not indicate that the dreamer is going to see a bear Pi,'t snakes, bears Pi and't snake is a symbol symbolizes the boy or girl.But whether the two ways are very simple, efficacious, the dreamer is easy to judge.But some dreams are bad for release, such, oneiromancy superstition to exist and develop, oneiromancy way also appears in a new way.

After qin and han dynasties, in addition to the "solution" and "turning the interpretation", derived from "symbol" and many of the new solution, like what "law", "analogy method", "crack method", "the method of Chinese characters", "homophonic method" and so on.In addition, there is a "say that" new method."Against", just as its name implies is fierce for the dream, the dream is bad, the dream like, in turn, to illustrate meaning.In this way, a dream is "straight", or turn "release", so "counter said," for there is a lot of initiative and flexibility.So, for it is easy to according to the needs of the random lines, can deal with should not be fulfilled.