I have a secret in my left eye

Chapter 44

To be honest, Xu Deng originally thought that he would not get anything in return for not completing the case.

Unexpectedly, a few days later, Zhuifeng congratulated himself first, saying that he wanted to celebrate her completion of her first case since entering the bureau, so why not come out and get together while everyone in the bureau is free? get together.

Only now did she know that Mrs. Wang had communicated with the bureau and said that she was very satisfied with her work attitude.

So far, another small profit has been made.The exhaustion in my heart was swept away.

Xu Deng secretly sighed in his heart, Mrs. Wang is really a good person.

During this time, Xu Deng didn't dare to sit idle in the shop.

Since she found out that her spirit fire didn't work last time, she has been trying other spells, so that in the next battle, she won't suffer so much and be led by others.

Fortunately, she studied hard and practiced hard, and she had a master like Cang Lan around her to ask, so she was quick to learn. It can be said that she is a good master of these spells.

Aside from being happy, Xu Deng did not forget about his shop business.

Thinking of rushing to deliver goods to the customers later, she hastily declined Zhuifeng's proposal, and wanted to have a meal together, and get to know other members of the bureau by the way.

He bowed his head and continued to do his usual work, making paper figurines.

Speaking of paper making shop, in fact, this business is far from as simple as everyone imagined. This ancient industry has many rules and taboos, and there are countless exquisite things. It is not the appearance of pasting paper to fool strangers.

After all, for this business, the things that are pierced are burned for the dead, and they cannot be as casual as the things used by ordinary people.

The first is the formation of paper figurines, which has a long history.It evolved from the burial system of the living in the slave society.

In a slave society, slave owners often killed a large number of slaves for burial and sacrifice.Slaves at that time were traded and killed at will like livestock.

Later, with the continuous progress of society, people thought it was too cruel to bury living people, so they changed to wooden figurines to bury in the Warring States Period.

In the Qin Dynasty, Qin Shihuang yearned for immortality. He believed that the perishable wooden warriors were not conducive to longevity, and the burial of living people was too cruel, so he invented the terracotta warriors, which is now the famous terracotta warriors.

But ordinary people have no way to make pottery figurines and tomb sticks, so they tie grass into the shape of human beings and bury them for their relatives.

After Cai Lun invented papermaking in the Eastern Han Dynasty, people gradually discovered that paper could be used to make human beings to bury the dead.

Make the paper into the shape of a human, use wooden sticks to prop up the inside, add color to the face, and a lifelike paper figurine is ready.

The key is that paper is cheap and the production cycle is short, so ordinary people can afford it.

In this way, the paper man replaced the grass man and became an indispensable part of the funeral culture, which continues to this day.

However, not everyone can make paper figurines. As the so-called art industry has specialization, workers who make paper figurines are called paper figurines.

Of course, most people would not choose to do this line of work.After all, it earns money from the dead, and it is more or less taboo to work for the dead.

It is recorded in ancient books that there are a lot of taboos and taboos in the group of fishing Yinmen, and if you are a little careless, disaster will come from heaven.

And the paper maker belongs to the Yinmen.In the paper-making line, there are many rules.

Take the paper figurines as an example, the paper figurines are nothing more than boys and girls, but the color of the boys and girls is very particular, the boys must use red, and the virgins must use green, this is the so-called red men and dolls.

Because red clothes represent official clothes, and green clothes represent beauty.Among them, the best wishes of the living to the dead are entrusted.

Or the "Three Do's", that is, shrews, pregnant women and people of the same kind are not allowed to tie paper people.

Because these three types of people have too much evil spirit, making paper figurines for them is prone to accidents.

But there is one rule, that is, "you can't draw eyes on paper figurines", which is the most important among many rules.

The weird-looking paper figurine, with the eyes painted on it, is like the finishing touch, it comes alive, and anyone who looks at it will be scared.

Of course, some people may wonder, how could the paper figurine come back to life? Isn't this just nonsense?

But let alone paper people, even the various animals made of paper have no eyes.For thousands of years, papermakers have followed this weird and peculiar rule.

Like other rules, as long as the price is high enough, there will be papermakers willing to do it.

But to draw eyes on paper figurines is not only the rule of the paper maker and his party, but also an insurmountable red line in the hearts of ordinary people.

With the development of the handicraft industry and the progress of society, paper making is not limited to sacrificial activities. Later, paper figurines gradually appeared on festivals and festive days.

The strange thing is that no matter how the paper dolls develop, the paper dolls used for sacrifices and funerals have never been painted with eyes.

And not all the paper dolls have eyes.

Some people think that paper dolls with eyes are complete, which can make paper dolls more complete, and only complete paper dolls can serve their masters better in the underworld.

Therefore, knowledgeable paper makers will use needle holes or small holes instead of eyes.

Why do paper crafters prefer to use needle holes and small holes instead of eyes instead of painting eyes on paper figurines?
Just because there is such a saying among the paper makers, "Paper figurines don't have eyes, if you don't remember the love of Hades."

It can be seen that drawing eyes on paper figurines will have serious consequences, even losing their lives.

As for the taboo of not drawing eyes on paper figurines, the paper maker and his party have two explanations.

First, draw eyes on the tied paper figurines, and the paper figurines will see everything in the yang world, so they will be greedy for the world and refuse to leave.

In the end, the paper doll burned to the dead has only one body, which will anger the dead, so that they will not protect the descendants, and even curse the descendants.

In this way, no one will draw eyes on the paper figurine.After all, they worship their ancestors in order to obtain their blessings.

Second, paper figurines are originally psychic things, and drawing eyes for paper figurines is called opening eyes.

A paper man with his eyes opened will have a human spirit.Lonely ghosts will think that the paper doll is a person without a soul, so they will possess it.

The possessed paper people cannot be burned, they will stay in the world of cholera.

The ancients believed in the theory of ghosts and gods, and papermakers knew the taboos in this business. Even papermakers who did not believe in ghosts and gods would not break the rules.

Not only paper makers, but also many stories about paper figurines being resurrected after opening their eyes.Even if they know it is superstition, most people will not commit this taboo.

With the progress of society, atheists appeared in large numbers, and they speculated that the saying that the paper figurines had blind eyes was made up by the paper maker.

After all, the paper figurines are red and green, with eerie smiles painted on their faces, with a strange and permeable expression.

The paper maker not only has to face these things every day, but also makes them by himself. After a long time, he will inevitably feel uneasy.

(End of this chapter)