Once upon a time, there was a very beautiful young girl. Her name was Psyche. Psyche is the most beautiful girl in the whole kingdom. Everyone envies her beauty, but no one pursues her. All the girls about psyche's age are married and have their own families, but psyche is still single. For an ordinary person, psyche is really perfect. ? Later, psyche's parents invited people to the temple in Delphi to pray for the Oracle. But when the man brought the Oracle to her parents, they all cried. Because the prophet said psyche must die. ? When reading a story, people usually don't ask why, because everything in the story seems to be like that, and it happens naturally. The revelation of the Oracle is that if the old life does not die, the new life will not be born. If you want to get it, you must first learn to give up. ? So people dressed psyche in mourning, held a death ceremony, and then abandoned her on the cold and desolate top of the mountain. Psyche lay there, her whole body numb with fear, and she fell into deep despair. Just then, Cupid passed by. He was deeply attracted by Psyche's beauty and couldn't help falling in love with her. He hurried to find Fengshen. At the foot of the mountain, there is a palace hidden by Cupid. Cupid asked Zai Feng to help him take Psyche there. ? When psyche woke up, she found herself lying in a mysterious and beautiful palace. Here is everything she needs: food, water, beautiful clothes, fragrant shower gel, everything except her partner. When night fell, psyche found that she even had a partner. In the dark, Cupid came to Psyche and stayed with her. Every night since then. Sometimes, they talk all night; Sometimes, they make love; Sometimes, they eat together and then go to bed immediately. Psyche couldn't ask any more questions, so she felt very happy. ? Usually, the end opens the way for a new beginning. In the story of Cupid Mudanjiang and psyche, manpower didn't play much role, and everything happened naturally. Many changes are really like this, and everything goes with the flow. However, when everything changes naturally, people cannot ignore other problems. The external environment has changed, but people's hearts have not changed. At that time, the life at dawn, the old self-image and the old values still existed. Although the external transformation of people's democracy has been completed, the real transformation process is far from beginning. ? But psyche began to feel dissatisfied with his life. Everything is wonderful, but she misses her friends and family more and more. This palace hidden at the foot of the mountain is really beautiful, but it also gives people an unreal feeling. It exists outside the real world, outside human time, and there is no interaction between people. Psyche told her mystery lover how she felt. Psyche told Cupid that she wanted to see her family. Can her sisters come here to visit her? Qiu Jingte refused psyche's request at first, but his heart softened when he saw how much psyche missed her family. Cupid said Psyche's sisters could visit her while he was away. But before he comes back, they must leave. Psyche was very happy to agree to do as he asked. ? Fengshen took Psyche's sisters to see her, just as he took Psyche to the palace. Psyche's sisters were stunned by what they saw, so they began to envy Psyche. Who is psyche's mystery lover? They asked. Psyche knew nothing, but he made up a story (because Cupid always appeared in the dark, he never let Psyche see his face). Psyche tried her best not to let her sisters know that she had never met her lover. Even before long, there were many contradictions in her answer. "You have no idea what he looks like!" Psyche's sisters shouted, "Oh, my God! He may be a monster, hiding his ugly face with darkness! You idiot! Let an evil and disgusting monster be his lover. " ? When her sisters left, psyche was full of confusion, and she felt very happy and desperate. Psyche's lover impressed her as a very gentle and lovely person, but he really never let himself see his face. The suspicions of her sisters filled psyche's mind, and she vowed to find out the truth. That night, while Cupid was asleep, Psyche got up secretly and found a candle and a dagger. Psyche will sneak a look at Cupid, and if he is really a monster as your sisters say, she will stab him to death. ? Psyche lit the candles in the hall and tiptoed to Cupid's bed. She bent down with a candle in one hand and a dagger in the other. He lay there quietly, so handsome! Her lover turned out to be Cupid! Excited, psyche's hand trembled, and the hot wax oil dripped on the sleeping Cupid's shoulder. He woke up. After a while, Cupid realized what Psyche had done. Cupid told psyche that she would never see him again because she violated the principle of their living together. With these words, he disappeared. Psyche stood there alone, stunned by what she had done and her departure. ? In daily life, people should keep their promises. But in the mythical world, events always happen for one reason: to make the story go further. Lost something, but now it's time to break old ties. Psyche has lived in the dark for too long, and now she should see the world. However, this change was completed in the form of psyche breaking the old rules, which made psyche lose her original living environment. Now, it's time for Psyche to make a change. She needs to grow up, deepen her personality, take responsibility, go where she should go and do what she should do. Now, it is time to change the inner world in order to seek unity with the ever-changing external world. ? So psyche left the palace that brought her so much happiness and embarked on a long journey to find her lover alone. Sad, psyche cried to the gods and asked for their help. Cupid's mother Aphrodite appeared. She said, "If you want to find my son, you must accomplish several things. But I don't think you are strong enough. I'm afraid you can't accomplish your mission. " Psyche said she would do anything to find Cupid? "Well, then, you must complete four extremely difficult projects." Aphrodite said: "First of all, you should separate out a room full of seeds and put each seed in a pile in one night." Aphrodite said, open a door. There is a pile of seeds in the house, piled high on the roof, and all the seeds are mixed together. Psyche was too shocked to breathe. Only then did she know that it was impossible to separate them in one night. Aphrodite didn't give psyche any breathing time, and then he said, "The second thing is that you must find a fire-breathing ram, which is covered with golden fleece-you must bring me back some golden fleece." The third thing is that before Psyche recovered from the isosceles triangle, Aphrodite went on to say, "At the junction of Yin and Yang, there is a river-Styx, which is the only way to hell. You have to bring me a glass of water from Styx. " Aphrodite looked at psyche and admired the desperate expression on her face. ? "The last and fourth thing is," Aphrodite said. "Do you want to go to hades and ask Persephone (the wife of Zeus who was kidnapped by hades and married as a ghost) for a small box of her magical ointment, which can make people more beautiful. When you get it, bring it back to me. " With these words, Aphrodite disappeared. ? Psyche was dumbfounded. Sadly, she pushed open the door and stared at the first task she had to complete. The pile of seeds is higher than her head, and its bottom covers the whole room. Psyche bent down and grabbed a handful of seeds. Small, big, dark, light-even if it takes a year, no one can pick these seeds and separate them, but she must finish them in one night. Psyche was crushed. She fell on the seed pile and began to cry. Sometimes, she will raise her weak hand and pick out one or two seeds, but she is tired and desperate and soon falls asleep. ? Psyche's life changed for the first time, but she was only in a passive position. It just happened. There was no alternative route open to her. Now, she is going to take action, but what kind of task is that? ! There is no way to finish it. Psyche tried to do this, but later she had to give up. But then, she found ...? While Psyche was asleep, a swarm of ants climbed into the house. Under the command of the ant king, they began to pick seeds. Ants have been busy all night by the huge seed pile. Slowly, the big seed pile is divided into many small piles. This pile is wheat and the lucky pile is rye. This pile is beans and that pile is mustard seeds. At dawn, Aphrodite opened the door and awakened the sleeping soul. They were both surprised to see the separated seeds. Psyche said nothing. Aphrodite only said, "You have three more tasks." ? The same thing happened in the process of getting golden fleece and Mingshui River. When taking golden fleece, psyche was desperate and wanted to give up. At this time, the reeds on the river bank quietly told psyche that when the sun goes down, the rams will go back to their homes to rest, and psyche can climb to their side and find golden fleece in the bushes there. While walking along the Ghost River, Psyche almost gave up again. At this time, a giant eagle fell from the sky and took the cup from Psyche. Styx flowed high above psyche's head, and the giant eagle flew up and filled the cup. Aphrodite was very surprised every time Psyche came back successfully, so she just said, "Let's see how you get to Hades!" " " ? Psyche stood by a pagoda, and just as she wanted to give up again, the pagoda began to talk. It tells psyche what to do-take money and use it to buy the right to cross the Styx; Bring some biscuits to appease the guarded animals; Reject everyone's help to her. So Ji hit the road again. Coins and biscuits are still a piece of cake: there was a poor man whose donkey left some loans; A woman wants psyche to help her spin. There is also a dying man, crying sadly behind Psyche, begging her? Give a helping hand Psyche ignored their sad request, overcame resistance and trudged. Along the way, no one helped psyche again. Psyche is totally on her own. After refusing the temptation to give up her mission, she finally succeeded. Kindness and advice of historic pagodas! ? Talking pagoda? Refuse people who need help? A trip to hades? What does all this mean? Oh, the most important transformation-psyche's internal transformation-includes a journey like purgatory. You must go through purgatory to go to heaven. Besides, this journey can only be taken by one person. Our habit of helping others will only be self-defeating in this process. We must overcome our habitual impulse to help others. On the contrary, at this moment, we should focus on what we are doing and why. If we obey God's command, we must go where we belong. While abandoning the old life, we must find our new life through the process of transformation. ? So, what about the pagoda? After all, it was insects, birds and plants that helped psyche before. Why is this a lifeless pagoda built by people? It seems that at the last critical moment, this is the help people really need-at this time, people's inner ambiguous intuition becomes extremely important. In addition to the ultimate goal, at this time, everything should be ignored. When embarking on the dark road to hades, people should have a sober plan. This sounds contradictory-I told you to trust your intuition first, and then I told you to have a clear plan. That's true. These two points are very important. When you are in the dark, people don't remember anything, but what you warned yourself before will flash in your heart and guide you forward. ? Fairy tales always have their meaning. Psyche's initial impulse to peek at her lover led to her pursuit and a deeper understanding of herself, so it can be said that this glimpse opened a wide world for her. It's like being in a transitional wilderness: you are faced with endless natural things, where you will gain energy and insight into life, but you can only rely on yourself because no one can help you. This is one of the reasons why those ancient tribal rituals are very important. Just like that pagoda, they can guide you and make you feel at ease. This is also the importance of this book, because without the help provided in the book, people often feel uneasy and at a loss when facing change. So when psyche opened the lid of the treasure she brought back from hades, it wasn't that she was too curious. She is completing the last step to know herself and gaining a new life and a new image. Like everyone else, after a major change in life, psyche is completely different from before. ? As soon as psyche landed, Cupid appeared. He picked up psyche's soft body and took her to Olympus. There, after deliberation, the gods gave Sage immortal life. Psyche and Cupid got married, and they lived happily ever after ...?