Chapter 900 Do you want to cultivate immortals?
Li Qiang is now a first-line star in the entire United States. There is no doubt that he is definitely a first-line star. After all, with the movies and TV series "The Lost Journey", it is difficult for Li Qiang not to be popular. In the writings of many American media, Li Qiang has become a mere star.
A Chinese star who is second only to, or even as good as, Bruce Lee. If he were to enter Hollywood directly now, he would have to start with a salary of at least tens of millions of dollars.
However, Li Qiang has almost no public appearances in the United States. This is also very simple. After all, even in China, Leng Zhiwen has never participated in any variety shows. Except for the programs produced by Jiangnan Group, other variety shows are
Basically don't touch it.
This may seem unbelievable in the industry, but in front of Leng Zhiwen, it is a natural thing. After all, Leng Zhiwen's status as a celebrity is no longer a tool for making money, but a simple way to
It’s just a job to enjoy life.
Leng Zhiwen only likes filming and experiencing the lives of different protagonists in dramas, but she has never been interested in showing herself in variety shows.
If Leng Zhiwen is like this in China, it is even less likely that she will go to the United States to entertain foreigners. Therefore, Leng Zhiwen has never appeared in any variety show in the United States. No one expected that she could actually be in Los Getto Group
We saw Leng Zhiwen's performance at the opening ceremony.
In fact, people in the United States don't know Leng Zhiwen's name, they only know the character Li Qiang she plays, so the entire New York Times Square chanted the name Li Qiang in unison, and the whole scene looked very magical.
And Li Qiang's next performance shocked the American people even more. Needless to say, many American people were stunned by just a set of swordsmanship performances that were almost like flying in the sky and escaping from the earth.
I don't know who was the first to shout the syllable "xian", and then the enthusiasm of the whole audience was aroused, and countless people began to shout the syllable "xian".
As mentioned before, when translating Piaomiao Journey, Boss Huang did not follow the opinions of experts and translate immortals into words such as gods.
Instead, the word "Xian" in Chinese pronunciation is directly used for literal translation. The purpose is to distinguish Chinese gods and Western gods.
There are many benefits to doing this. The first is to avoid conflicts with Western religions. After all, if you translate immortals into Western gods, you will inevitably have fierce conflicts with some religious fanatics, and you will directly use the pronunciation of "Xian".
If you translate it literally, you won't have such trouble.
Secondly, it helps the spread of Chinese culture and Chinese language. Just like now, everyone is shouting "Xian", which makes the few Chinese tourists at the scene confused, thinking that they are in China, not the United States.
What's even more magical is that some Chinese people even saw many Taoist priests wearing Taoist robes at the scene. However, these Taoist priests were not yellow-skinned and black-haired Chinese faces, but all tall, blond, white-faced, and high-nose.
, a Westerner who speaks English.
They wore Taoist robes, held fly whisks in their hands, held compasses in their hands, and carried peach wood swords on their backs. When they met people, they would ask, "Sir, do you want to practice and become an immortal?"
Therefore, most people refuse such invitations repeatedly. After all, they have firm beliefs in their hearts. But among the 10 people, there are always one or two guys who are not firm in their beliefs or have no beliefs at all. They are enthusiastic at the scene.
The atmosphere and yearning for immortals led to contact with these people.
Some Chinese people who knew English had the courage to come close to listen and found that the Taoist priest was telling these people sincerely.
There are indeed gods in this world, and even God does exist.
But all gods are born to be gods. Unless you have a god's father, it is impossible for a human being to become a god anyway. This is not what they say, it is what the Bible says.
But immortals are different. Immortals are created by human beings themselves. Although the chance of success is also very low. Only less than 100 people have been able to become immortals throughout the ages. But there is a chance after all. As mortals, as long as we work hard to cultivate,
Then you can become a god.
Moreover, after becoming an immortal, you can also take the people, chickens, and dogs around you to become immortals. This is the way for mortals to truly transcend life and death. Only Taoism from China can teach everyone how to become immortals. Now many big figures in the country have become immortals.
A Taoist cultivator.
These words may not make much sense to Chinese people, because in the new era, most Chinese people actually regard these things as feudal superstition, and they have never believed that there are gods or immortals in this world.
But in the ears of foreigners, it is completely different. Because most foreigners really believe that there are gods in this world, so they also dream of becoming gods and transcending life and death. They just feel that in this life, they
At most, he can only be a lamb. It is impossible to become a god.
But Taoism has given them another real and feasible way to become gods, which has a completely different impact on foreigners.
So these Chinese tourists were surprised to find that although only about 1/10 of them would accept the propaganda of these Taoist priests and start chatting with them, in the end, more than half of them expressed their willingness to go to the local Taoist experience center to experience it.
...Yes, these foreign Taoist priests finally said that if they still have doubts about everything, they can go to the nearby Taoist temple, which they call the Taoist Experience Center.
Follow the teacher to take a Taoist meditation class, experience the pleasure of meditation and practice, and see if you can become the seed of immortality... Yes, according to these preachers.
This cultivation is not something that anyone can just give up if they want. You must have talent. If you don’t have talent, you are blind!
Good guys, they can think that Taoism is fake, but they will never admit that they don’t have the talent to practice Taoism!
"This is ridiculous. I thought Americans were the smartest and best in the world, but I didn't expect that they still believe in such feudal superstition!" Seeing this scene, many Chinese people laughed on the spot and were very surprised at the same time.
Said disdainfully.
Well, the conditions at home for those who can go abroad at this time are generally not bad, and many of them are high-end intellectuals. They all think that cultivation and other things are completely feudal superstition, something that only ignorant people will believe.
Unexpectedly, Americans would actually start doing this now, which immediately made them feel very collapsed.
This shows that these intellectuals have not yet become fully publicized and do not have a deep enough understanding of Western universal values. They will understand that in fact, the vast majority of Westerners have faith, and only countries with faith
Only those who have faith and their people will become excellent countries and people. Those countries without faith will collapse sooner or later.
For example, a country like China that has no faith will definitely collapse or something!
Of course, these Chinese people would never dare to mock these noble white people in person. They would just mock them in Chinese in private. But what they didn't expect was that one of these white people actually stood out and said in fluent Chinese
"What are you talking about? You are not allowed to insult our beliefs!"
"Ah..." These Chinese people were stunned. They were accused by the noble white people. They expressed great fear. Have they done something that is harmful to nature and unacceptable to universal values?
However, there are also a few bold people among these Chinese people. They stand up and argue that all the things they say about cultivation and Taoism are fake. There are no gods in the world. These are all lies.
Being retorted in this way, this white man who spoke Chinese was not embarrassed, but asked very seriously, "Why do you say such things? Do you have evidence to prove that these are all false?"
"..." The bold man asked, and after thinking for a while, he said, "I have never seen anyone in the past who can really live forever. At that time, no matter how much the emperor pursued immortality, he died in the end. This is
It can prove that cultivation is all fake and it is impossible for humans to become immortals!"
The Chinese thought his answer was perfect, and the American could not refute it. Unexpectedly, the other party asked, "Have you ever seen with your own eyes that no one is immortal?"
"..." The Chinese man suddenly became mute, and the other party continued, "If you practice Taoism and eventually become an immortal, you must fly to the sky. This is a kind of spiritual and physical sublimation. It is like the sublimation of a solid into a gas.
, after human beings cultivate and become immortals, they will go to live in the immortal world, so they will definitely not be able to leave the legend of immortality in the world."
"But there are many records of people becoming immortals. From ancient times to the present, in the Spring and Autumn Period, there were Laozi, Zhuangzi and Guan Yizi who all became immortals one after another."
"In the Han Dynasty, there were Tianshi Zhang Daoling, Ge Xuan, and Han Zhongli! In the Northern and Southern Dynasties, there was Sun En. In the Sui and Tang Dynasties, there were Li Chunfeng and Yuan Tiangang. Later, in the Song Dynasty, there were Chen Chuan, Cao Guojiu, Wang Chongyang, and Ming Dynasty.
Zhang Sanfeng of the imperial dynasty, etc. These are all people who have become immortals recorded in history. How can we say that there are no records of becoming immortals, and becoming immortals is impossible?"
"Finally, you said that it is impossible for emperors to live forever. That's because as emperors, they are destined to be entangled in countless secular worlds. They cannot devote their energy wholeheartedly to the great cause of cultivating immortals. Naturally, the probability of success is very low.
Low!"
"It's like Zhang Jiao. He was about to become an immortal, but he wanted to be an emperor, got entangled in worldly things, and then became immortal."
"In addition, the emperor has gathered human luck. These human luck can ensure that the emperor is not affected by Taoism, but it also blocks the possibility of these emperors becoming immortals. These are all recorded in Tao Zang. The details can be
Look at "Ode to the Wonderful Sutra of Tai Shengxuan for Dispelling Disasters and Protecting Life" and "Biography of the Immortals of Dongzhenbu". In the end, the few Chinese people the foreigner mentioned covered their faces and fled.
Finally, the foreigner said to the people around him with emotion, "Look, the ancestral homeland of Taoism has fallen to this point. No one knows the classics anymore. Could it be that we in the United States have begun to promote and learn cultivation?"
This shows that the destiny of heaven and earth is indeed in our country, and our rice sword will have such destiny for hundreds of years.
Chapter completed!