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Chapter 247 Empty Coffin (13)

The word Yiguanzhong can be traced back as far as the Yellow Emperor's time. There is such a passage in the Records of the Historian and Fengchan Book: "In the coming winter, the upper council said: 'The ancients first raised their troops and released the brigade, and then sealed the Zen. , more than [-] soldiers were reined in, and they also offered sacrifices to the Yellow Emperor's tomb on Qiaoshan Mountain, and the release of soldiers must be like. The above said: "I heard that the Yellow Emperor is not dead, so there is a tomb today, why?" Clothes.'"

What this means is that after the death of the Yellow Emperor, the body could not be found, so the officials erected a tomb for his old man.

Clothes tombs are divided into two types, one is like the Yellow Emperor, where the body of the deceased cannot be found, and the clothes of the deceased are replaced and placed in the coffin.

The other is some celebrities. To commemorate him, people set up a tomb in the place where he lived. Among them is Sun Yat-sen. His old man's dragon coffin is in Biyun Temple, BJ. In 1929, a tomb was erected in Nanjing to commemorate his contribution to China.

However, there are different understandings of the Yiguanzhong in rural areas. Some people think that the Yiguanzhong is an empty tomb, which means to curse the descendants to die soon, so as to fill the empty tomb; inside.

With regard to these two statements, from ancient times to the present, there have been constant disputes. The public says that the public is right, and the mother-in-law says that the woman is right. It has evolved to the present, and the tomb has become a kind of commemoration, which is exclusive to celebrities.

The reason why I proposed to build a burial is mainly because the father and son are very filial. If they are not allowed to do something for the deceased, they will probably feel guilty for the rest of their lives and live unnaturally.

It's a bit far away, let's get down to business.There are not many things that need to be prepared for the Clothes Tomb, just a coffin, some clothes of the deceased, and things needed for ordinary funerals.

These things are relatively common, and it only took us more than an hour to find them all and move them to the main room.During this period, Wang Xi led Qingxuanzi to come, and that Qingxuanzi greeted me and stayed in the bamboo garden.During lunch, Wang Xi went to call him, but he didn't come back for dinner, and said yes, things were a bit difficult, and he asked me to do the funeral first, and leave him alone.

After eating, I was holding a piece of yellow [color] paper and was about to be a 'dead person'. Fatty Guo walked up to me impatiently and asked: "Brother Nine, are we a little bit small when we make these fake ones?" Is it a big deal?"

I glanced at him suspiciously, and I didn't understand what he meant, so I asked him, "What do you mean?"

He said: "If you can't find the body, just go directly to the mountain and set up a clothes tomb. What are you doing in the main room?"

I glared at him and said, "Go directly to the mountain to set up a tomb. It's a commemoration. Our tomb is a little different. We have to do it according to the funeral. Take this yellow [color] paper in my hand as an example. It needs to be cut out. A human figure, and write the name and date of birth of the deceased with a cinnabar pen on it, and use it to represent the deceased."

He froze for a moment, reached out to touch the yellow paper, didn't say anything, just stood aside, took out his phone, and started playing.

I smiled wryly, shook my head, and continued to work on the task at hand.It is worth mentioning that in some places, paper-cut figures are not used in the tombs, but bamboo strips are used to make paper figures, and then the name and birth date of the deceased are written on them. Some powerful paper-making craftsmen can make paper figures. Lifelike, no different from real people, put the paper doll into the coffin, just like the real dead lying in it.

The paper figurine I cut is just a shape, about 30 centimeters long, and can roughly separate the head and limbs. It is completely different from the paper figurine that was cut out. Of course, their functions are the same, and they are used to replace the dead. .

After cutting out the paper figurines, we arranged the main room according to our Hengyang customs. First, we put two long wooden benches in the middle of the main room, then put the coffin on the wooden benches, and finally put a wooden bench at the front of the coffin. Zhang Eight Immortals table.

After finishing these things, I called all of Wang Xi's family over and asked them to prepare for the 'Encoffining' ceremony.

The burial of paper figurines is somewhat different from the burial of the dead. I asked them to kneel in front of the table of the Eight Immortals, burn yellow paper, and mourn. Please put the paper figurine into the coffin.

The paper figurine is too small and the coffin is too big, so it is difficult to find where the paper figurine should be placed in the coffin. I first used a red thread to draw it from the middle of the coffin's head to the middle of the tail, and then fixed both ends of the red thread with wooden nails.

After nailing the red line, I took the paper figurine and made three bows to the coffin, and placed the paper figurine in the middle of the red line, and let the paper figurine find its place in the coffin. Where the deceased would like to lie.

I don't know what's going on, but after I put the paper figurine on the red line, the paper figurine seems to be stuck to it, and there is no tendency to go into the coffin.

Seeing the situation, I was taken aback for a moment, and I gave Wang Cheng a look, and said, "Try blowing on the paper figurine."

He stood up tremblingly, did not dare to speak, and blew on the paper figurine. The paper figurine dangled twice on the red rope, but was still stuck there.

At this time, we all found that something was wrong. Logically speaking, the red rope is very thin. Let alone put a paper figure, or put some sticky things on it, as long as you blow one breath, it will definitely fall into the coffin.

"Ninth brother, what should we do? Or just tear it off and put it in the coffin?" Fatty Guo glanced at the paper figurine and said.

"Nonsense, how can you do this, the paper doll refuses to be put in the coffin, it means that the deceased has some unfulfilled wish." I cursed at him.

That’s right, the problem is, I just wrote the deceased’s name and date of birth on the paper man, but didn’t invite the deceased to the paper man. To put it bluntly, this paper man is just a paper man. A substitute has nothing to do with the deceased, but now the paper figurine behaves as if the deceased is attached to it.

Thinking of this, I said to Wang Cheng, "Old uncle, do you think about the deceased's unfulfilled wish?"

He was stunned for a moment, and then said: "Before she was alive, the old mother used to eat and drink in bed every day, besides eating and drinking, and usually seldom said anything. How can we know what her wish is?"

"She doesn't usually talk?" I was startled and asked in a low voice.

He nodded and said, "I just yell when I poop and urinate. At other times, the old mother is in a daze on the bed."

Hearing this, I was a little puzzled. According to normal principles, an old man who has been bedridden for many years should really want to chat with descendants, talk about some things about her when she was young, or talk about her wish. This is in line with the character of the old man.

"Did the deceased chat with you?" I asked Wang Xi and the others who were kneeling at the table of the Eight Immortals.

They shook their heads and said that the deceased rarely spoke to them during his lifetime, not even the most basic chats.

(End of this chapter)