Chapter 610
The Salem Witch Trials took place in 1692 in the town of Salem, Massachusetts, northeast of Boston, while Salem, Oregon was founded by Americans in 1842.
Salem is the same as the biblical name of the holy city Jerusalem, which means peace in both Arabic and Israeli Hebrew. It may be for this reason that many cities take this name. Mr. Lin compared Salem with That Salem got mixed up.
Just like the name of this store, "Hu" and "WU" are not the same character, but there is no difference in the eyes of the British. The character "Hu" is a Chinese character, which is pictographic like the Egyptian characters. Looks like some kind of symbol.
The Eye of Horus is the same as the Peverell badge of the Deathly Hallows. They both look like eyes and have the meaning of resurrection. Among the three Deathly Hallows, the resurrection stone can be said to be the most inconspicuous. It is only as big as the ring surface. However, in Albus's letter, he said that he could see ghosts with the resurrection stone, and it was that stone that took Albus' life.
He couldn't resist the temptation it brought. He had met many people and attended many funerals in his life, but perhaps the one he regretted the most was Arianna's death.
She was attacked by three Muggle children, she didn't even invite them to play with her, she just used a little "trick" in the garden, and the Muggles got scared out of control and rushed into the yard to kill her. Put her head in a bucket and use the "water test" to see if she's a witch.
At the end of the Salem Witch Trials, 19 people were hanged, and 1 person was crushed to death by a pile of stones. When some phenomena exceed people’s known common sense, and people do not have the ability to solve them, what the unknown brings is not curiosity. But pure fear.
Frightened and helpless people face out-of-control situations and the only thing they can control is the life and death of those who are weaker than them. Those "witches" who were killed said before they died, "God knows, I am innocent, I'm not involved in witchcraft."
In Europe in the 16th century, most poor people could not see a future in their hometown, and they hoped to start anew in that new continent.
Darkness is not really dark, but caused by ignorance. Printing can bring knowledge that illuminates people's darkness and ignorance, and it can also bring information with ulterior motives. Not all knowledge is harmless, and not all education is harmless. Can make people change their own destiny.
The habit of Chinese characters is different from that in Europe. There are thousands of Chinese characters in common use, while there are only 26 English characters, but the order of arrangement is different. This can be done with movable type printing.
Chinese characters are not suitable for printing with movable type. It takes a long time to select commonly used characters, plus typesetting and picking mistakes, it takes more time.
There is a gap between theory and practice. For a long time, Chinese character writings have been combined with letterpress printing and woodblock printing. The earliest published woodblock printing technique found so far is the engraving of the Diamond Sutra in the Tang Dynasty. Mr. Lin believes in Buddhism, and he is a vegetarian. He didn't touch any of the dazzling array of snacks on the table, and he kept talking about "things" with Severus.
There are murals not only in the Mogao Grottoes in Dunhuang, but also in many tombs. Most of the people who can build tombs for burial are rich people, and rich people often have connections with wizards.
The ignorant are fearless, and the more they know, the more fearful they become. The London Underground is the oldest subway in the world. There are many forgotten and abandoned platforms deep in the city, as well as facilities secretly excavated by the government. It is full of graffiti, which is actually a kind of mural.
Those ghostly stations are sometimes thought by passengers as the stations they are going to get off. After getting off the train, those people disappear.
Every city has its own urban legends. New York has underground crocodiles, as did Chang'an and Luoyang in the Tang Dynasty.
According to legend, there is a "ghost market" near Wubenfang near Chang'an Guozijian. Whenever it is windy and rainy, someone will be heard talking, but there is no one on the street.
In Luoyang, Yin soldiers borrowed the way. In the notes "Youyang Zazu" written by Duan Chengshi in the late Tang Dynasty, it was recorded in the summer of June when Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty was in Luoyang, the eastern capital, as the "Emperor Chasing Food". Suddenly one day the people in Luoyang became restless, running around in the workshop, and even a stampede occurred. It turned out that in the mid-air, a group of Yin soldiers suddenly appeared, reaching tens of thousands of people, with noisy horses and overlapping shadows, it was very scary.
And this kind of thing happened many times in the future, every time it appeared at night, walked all the way from the south bank of Luoshui, and disappeared on the north bank of Luoshui, it was not at all explained by the meteorological spectacle of mirage, so Tang Xuanzong asked someone to do it things, and placed offerings by the Luoshui River, and finally made those Yin soldiers disappear.
It is a custom of Chinese people to place tribute, sometimes it is rice, and rich people will also put food and wine, of course the dead cannot eat those things.
But the hungry people passing by can eat those foods. At the death day party, the ghosts put a lot of disgusting food on the dining table. They are all rotten and smelly. The living people will definitely not eat them, but the dead people lose their senses. To experience a little joy of being alive, even if it is a smell, he wants to try it.
In the famous Chinese story "The Blessing of the People of Qi", the man from Qi who had one wife and one concubine went to the cemetery to eat the tributes of others, and when he returned, he told his wives and concubines that he was treated to dinner by a rich man. The wives and concubines followed him to find out what he had lied about.
People ate the food, and the worshipers thought that the sacrificed person had come, and they would continue to sacrifice in the coming year. There was a certain spiritual connection between descendants and ancestors. ", so that those who enshrine themselves can have good luck. In order to obtain "good luck", from the king to the common people, "feng shui" is very important.
The south of the mountain and the north of the river are yang, and the north of the mountain and the south of the water are yin. After archaeological excavation, the tomb of Qin Shihuang was found to be in the north of Lishan Mountain and south of Weihe River, which is just suitable for burying the dead.
The mausoleums of the emperors of the Han Dynasty were reversed, in the north of the Wei River, where the terrain was higher, and in the Tang Dynasty, Tang Chang'an City was planned to be in the south of Longshou Mountain.
In history, in addition to the Yellow River, the Wei River was also a turbulent and changeable river. It had changed its course several times. Later, during the reign of Emperor Cheng of the Han Dynasty, rumors spread suddenly that the Wei River was about to flood the city due to its surge, and the people ran to the city wall. Asylum, the emperor also planned to escape.
The emperor couldn't just abandon the city and flee so easily, and the same goes for the nobles. The common people could run away, but they couldn't.
When Justinian wanted to run away, Theodora refused to run away. If she ran away, she would no longer be a nobleman, and no matter how rich she was, she would not be worthy of owning a purple robe.
She would rather use that purple robe as her own shroud.
When it comes to the aristocracy in the United States, the British will sneer. "Aristocrat" is related to money, but it is either rich or aristocratic. In the second half of the 19th century in the United States, emerging industries such as oil, railways, automobiles, and Wall Street finance pushed up the They have created a group of super rich people, and of course they want to have status if they have money, but the upper class in the United States look down on these people who get rich overnight, and laugh at them as "nobles born yesterday", "fat people who ate overnight", "Wall Street gamblers, liars” and so on.
The "aristocratic" class in the American society claims to be the first group of pioneers who first boarded the "Mayflower" to expand their territory. They have pure Anglo-Saxon blood, so the etiquette and behavior in the circle are all old-fashioned "British nobility" atmosphere.
In their eyes, those who have just landed to build bridges and roads, and get rich by panning for gold are "New money", and Molly Brown is one of them. The old-school circle is closed to the upstarts, and they do not invite or communicate with each other. , No intermarriage policy. But even they are not real nobles in front of European nobles, and nobles should not exist in the United States at all, so Americans will laugh when they say that there are nobles and British people.
Both Mr. Wen and Mr. Lin set their positions very accurately. One of them is a gangster and the other is a "small businessman". The new generation who have received pure American and British education are different.
They know more secrets than young people. Those are not the history recorded on paper, but the "stories" passed down by word of mouth, but sometimes the "stories" are as distorted as myths when they are passed on.
The California Chinese Exclusion Act, the owner of the Chinese laundromat fought for his legal rights by resorting to the law, but the Oregon Chinese Exclusion tragedy was different.
In 1887, in the Zhuoshuipeng Chinese gold mining area near Losthin, Oregon, 10 Chinese laborers were killed by white mobs and their bodies were drifted on the river. Three of the bodies were found and inspected by the magistrate on the spot, it was proved that they were all killed by knives, cannons and sickles. Thugs robbed gold powder worth 5,000 to 10,000 US dollars. Afterwards, the U.S. authorities only arrested four criminals. Except for one who died in prison, the other three were acquitted and released.
In the Godfather movie, the funeral home owner also wanted to get justice for his daughter through the law at the beginning, but this superficial judicial justice did not allow him to get "justice" because he was an Italian immigrant, even though he was white, and the same Believe in Christianity, and those who are acquitted are boys from rich families. Some of their ancestors may be poor people who ran to the New World to escape the Black Death, or they may be criminals who escaped religious trials. "Life, become a "successful person".
Don't think that eccentricity can really last for a long time. People have the instinct to seek advantages and avoid disadvantages. The taxes of California and New York are far ahead of other states. These two states have high prices and developed businesses. Oregon has no consumption tax, but that state is far inferior to California next door.
Driving the Chinese away does not mean that the business will get better and better, but it may become more and more depressed. The once prosperous Chinatown in Salem is gone, only the Chinatowns in New York and California are still there.
In fact, the biggest feature of Oregon is that there are many virgin forests, which are far less haunted than Pennsylvania. There is no need for the Chinese to leave.
Fear is only one aspect. When the white way fails, the black power will "justice". One of the four suspects died in prison. The power of formal channels is limited to the embassy. Outside the embassy, local laws must be obeyed. However, the law cannot give them justice, so they have to find another way.
Although ordinary civilians do not have force, they can pay money. Overseas Chinese and Hongmen have been in a symbiotic relationship for so many years. The Chinese left their hometowns because the Manchu Qing government could not provide judicial justice, and the Oregon courts could not provide "fairness", so they naturally followed those who could support them.
If the Americans drive away Hongmen in New York's Chinatown, there will be ABC, and if they drive away ABC, they will be replaced by Daquan Gang. Doesn't it matter who pays the protection fee? This is the same as the common people don't care who the emperor changes, it's rare and strange.
But some things have been deeply rooted. The "ghost" government cannot protect the interests of the Chinese. Gangsters are almost equal to civilian armed forces. Without force, they will be slaughtered at will. Everyone does not want to be a fish on the chopping board.
When the police wipe out a gangster, new gangsters will be supported. If San Francisco and New York cancel Chinatown, they will follow in the footsteps of Salem. Without Chinese business, there will be no vitality. "Business" needs competition to prosper , which politician wants a city with depressed business?
Chinatown is full of dragons and snakes, and it is impossible for the chief of police to drive away those "black sheep" and leave only law-abiding citizens to create wealth and political achievements for themselves.
There is a saying that when the water is clear, there will be no fish. There are many people who want to fish in muddy water. If there is no muddy water, no one will come. No one will be abandoned even in a once prosperous city.
Hongmen is no longer as good as it used to be. Many of the Daquan Gang are veterans. No matter how "organized crime" is, how can they be their opponents.
When Ivan and Valentina encountered problems they couldn’t solve, they asked Ma Youxuan for help, but Mr. Lin didn’t ask him for help. Instead, he asked the British wizard to solve the problem. "Ma" doesn't seem to be as kind as he looks.
In the Chinatown of London, the flower official of the punishment hall is enough to become the object of Mr. Wen's vigilance.
Ma Youxuan is a "painter", but even gangsters are afraid of him, let alone Mr. Lin who is in a legitimate business.
There are many differences between Western wizards and Eastern wizards. They are sometimes not very friendly to Muggles. Even George and Fred used fat tongue taffy to prank Dudley, making his tongue a foot long. .
Wizards thought it was funny, but Muggles didn't think so, and even if the Dursleys had bullied Harry, they would have gone too far to avenge Harry.
According to Severus, Ma Youzai seemed to know something about those subway disappearances. He called this phenomenon "Shen Yin". If you understand it simply, you can get off the wrong station and wait for the next subway to go up, or go out through the passage leading to the ground from the abandoned station. However, things really went so smoothly. ?
Some people say that the most beautiful stage of love is when there is ambiguity, when each other is testing each other's breath, carefully discerning each other's intentions, and responding to each other without fear and panic. Every little action seems to be full of deep meaning.
Because there are too many uncertain factors, it has a more adventurous and exciting meaning.
Pomona looked at Severus' profile, she was no longer interested in what Mr. Lin said, so her hand quietly touched his thigh...
He stiffened for a moment, but he didn't stop her, as if he wanted to see her tricks.
"Pranks" are not what a good boy should do, but she is quite a "naughty" witch, and she will not swear her "innocence" like those "witches" who were tried.
She loves magic and is involved in witchcraft, not to mention her hands are not clean anymore, because she likes to take care of those magic plants with dragon dung compost.
She doesn't need to be clean, because that kind of person really dies very quickly and is easily eaten as clean food.
