Western Chinese provincial religions and JiangNan culture

My practice of Ba gua Dao-yin Qigong is based on the Yellow Emperor classicals of internal chinese medicine and astrology . This led me to acquire the skills in Qi gong astral porjections and ghost dreaming . It is from my extreme fascination in the Chinese classical detective mystery paranormal fiction of Robert Van gulik Judge Dee Ren jie criminal fiction and Feng Meng Long's unorhdox recalitrant writings of the famous Ming dynasty Suzhou prefect Kuang Zhong that led me into a real life adventure that I was able to absorb the profusion of the local religious folklore of western China as well as the confluences of Suzhou-Hangzhou JiangNan culture. According to Dr robert Can gulik's Judge dee mysteries, Judge dee Ren jie served as a county magistrate in Lanzhou and it is a true historical fact that Judge dee at one time the governor of Gansu in the Ning prefecture . So I used my Qigong astral projection skills one day and projected my request to the lord in the way beyound and into an image of Judge Dee in Robert Van gulik's DEE gong Ann novel for a personal real life encounter of Judge dee's manefestion one day . When my prayer was answered, my parents and I undertook a silk road trip into China's western provinces starting from Sechuan and the estuary of the Yellow river . and it was true to my wishes in Lanzhou and one afternoon that I discovered an effigy of Judge dee in a local sovenoiur curio shop. There the locals weaved a beautifully crafted Judge Dee doll effigy made of cotton riding on a water bufflao and brandshing two chinese swords for protection and to ward of the spirits and I kowtowed promptly to it . It was there and then that I discoverd for myself that Judge Dee has been raised and dietified up in a local chinese folklore and custom in river dragon-king worship for auspicality, peace and protection of natinal welfare and happiness and ghost dreaming because Judge dee was the county prefect of Gansu and its local praton. Moving on with our Silk road trip to Sechuan , Gansu and Dun huang,other subsequent discovries I made on the silk road adventure were: 1.From western Sechaun provinces of Cheng du where local Daosit folklore is populary prasticed was the veneration of Zhu Ge liang, Xiang yu and Jade empeor who were the local boxer gods in the ninetheen century. -Zhu ge laing is tied up in Chinese astronomical calculations , naval arfare and strategy from the classcail stories if the Three Kingdoms. - Xiang yu is drawned as a local insparation from the tragic story of farewell my concubine and that he was a great adminstrator and the duke of the western China - Jade empeor worship was in relation to the evolution of a helio-centric society and rasid to almighty God from the Indian king indra in the Tang dynasty 2. The Gansu Buddist who are into vijiranna Buddhism when budhism spreaded from india into Western china in the northern Wei and Lioa dynasty and tea trade which extended from sechaun into the kyber pass into the Tibetan Himalayans, Sikkim and India 3. The phenomnal Du huang grotos in which enormous buddhst murals are well preserved that spreaded from the Pimar hills of Monk Xauan Zhang's prilgrimage to the west and from the Euro-Asians silk routes of Samrankan, Bukkara, Transoxnaia, Takikstan and Ubekistzan 4. Turkic Ugyger Manicheansim, Nestoranism , Islam and the comical Sufis saint of Narsidin Avanti from the Euro Aryan turkic of East Turkestan and the Tungus tribe of siberia and golden tartars who raised the towns of Kohtan, Talamankan, Mongolia and central asia of Kashgar , Tajikstan , Kazahstan and Ferghana of tody's Soviet Russsia Republic. 5. The Hui muslims of Gansu , Ningxia, Shanxi , Yunan provinces and Canton in which the is are the ancestral homeland of famed Turkic Arabian Admiral Cheng ho . The unorthodox confucion Scholar Feng Meng long is famed for the local folk ballad of a local coutesean Du shi Niang as well as the story of the local Ming dynasty prefect Kuang Zhong in the story 15 strings of cash. Projecting my Energies into Kuang zhong ,I again wished for an encounter of prefect Kuang Zhong . My wish was granted when in a family trip to Suzhou and it was in sigthing the famous Suzhou mystical temple of dreams that was dedicated to the Chinese God of literature temple. This Suzhou mystical temple of dreams specailsies in 1. the veneration of the three pure ones 2. pratice of Zheng yi Daoist monks I encountred prefect Kung zhong there . It was in the famous Suzhou memorail everlasting gardens that the elite intectuall officals of the Song and Ming dynasty were commenrated besdies prefect Kuang Zhong of Tiger Hills . Suzhou is thus an intellectual paradise of great intellectul cultural accomplished literates of Ou Yang Xun, Su Dong po,Liu Buwen, Wang Tian Xiang, Hai Rui , Zhang Ju zhen , Qi ji Guang , General Yue Fei and Qin hui, mad Buddhist monks of Dao ji and Feng bao and the worship of the Yellow Emepor and Leizu by the silk and shipping industy of Zheng zhou water towns who coalensed to contribute to the uniquely exotic flavours of JiangNan culture and folklore.