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Semi-Armor Black and White Impermanence What does it stand for

Black and White Impermanence:

What is impermanence? An impermanent is a messenger sent from the netherworld to pick up people who have died in the netherworld.

Why are the impermanent divided into black impermanence and white impermanence? The black and white impermanence is just a kind of yin and yang attributes, "black" and "white" represent one yin and one yang, that is to say, the black impermanence represents the yin body, and the white impermanence represents the yang body. This is also consistent with the contrasting colors of the yin and yang fish in the Tai Chi diagram (black for yin and white for yang). This shows that the theory of "impermanence" is also inseparable from the Tai Chi diagram, and the theoretical basis of "impermanence" is the doctrine of yin and yang.

Black and white impermanence hat have words, white impermanence "see the wealth", black impermanence "peace in the world" (also said white "see my wealth", black). "See my death", and other expressions, less common). According to the "Chinese ghost story" and "Chinese underworld gods" and other writings, the white Impermanence of the "see my wealth" is the origin, roughly, if people in the graveyard outskirts meet white Impermanence do not escape, throw masonry towards him, he will take the body of the gold and silver back to smash, and so smash the light will be ashamed and escape, and the other side can pick up the treasure, naturally! "The first sight of the wealth".

Black Impermanence's "peace in the world" means that if you see Black Impermanence, all the bad guys will be good. Because Black Impermanence is aggressive and straightforward. Evil people, traitors and ghosts are all afraid of him. There's a story that there's a very fierce and famous bandit who did all kinds of bad things in his life. One day he was robbing a poor man and he ran away. He chased after them and they both fell off a cliff. After they turned into ghosts, the thief was very angry and said that the poor man had harmed him, so he continued to chase the poor man, when Black Impermanence saw him. He was punched and kicked to get rid of him. Let him be punished. From then on, all the bad people see him, do not dare to do bad things in front of him, all become good, so the "world peace".