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According to legend, thousands of years ago, the ancestor of the Miao nationality, Apu (Miao language: father-in-law) Chi You, led his troops to fight against the enemy by the Yellow River, until the corpses were scattered all over the field, and blood flowed into rivers.After the battle, we had to retreat to the rear. After the soldiers carried away the wounded soldiers, Apu Chiyou said to the Apu military adviser beside him: "We can't leave the brothers who died here, you use some magic to make these good brothers How about returning to your hometown?" Army division Apu said: "Okay. You and I will change our outfits, and you will lead the way with the 'talisman festival' in front, and I will supervise you in the back."

So Army Master Apu dressed up as Apu Chiyou, stood among the corpses of the brothers who died in battle, and after silently chanting incantations and praying to the gods, he shouted loudly at the corpses: "Brothers who died in battle, don't let me rest here." The place where you were killed, your death in vain is truly mournful. My parents in my hometown look forward to you, and my beautiful wife and young son look forward to your return to my hometown. Your soul should not wander. Be as urgent as a law, get up!" All the corpses that were lying on the ground suddenly disappeared. Standing up, he followed Apu Chi You Gaoqing's "Fu Jie" and walked south in a regular manner.The enemy's pursuers came, and Apu Chiyou and Apu's military division joined hands to attract the "five greater fogs" and trapped the enemy in the formation.Because it was the "si" (implementation, operation intention) spell of Apu's military division that saved everyone from the danger, everyone called him "Old Si" since then; ", and "fog" has too many strokes and is difficult to write, so it was rewritten into a "witch" character instead.

In fact, this witch character is also a pictographic character: the upper horizontal line represents the sky or fog, the lower horizontal line represents the earth, and the vertical line in the middle represents "Fu Jie"; Pu Chiyou, the one on the left represents Apu Laosi, which means that two people must unite to perform witchcraft.

Xiangxi people have had the industry of exorcising corpses since ancient times. To learn this industry, you must meet two conditions: one is courageous, and the other is good health.Moreover, you must worship a teacher.The mortician never randomly recruits apprentices.The parents of the apprentices first set up a written certificate, and then the mortician must be interviewed.Generally speaking, it needs to be 16 years old and over 1.7 meters tall. At the same time, there is a very special condition, which is to look ugly.The mortician first asked the candidate to look at the sun in the sky, then rotated, and then stopped suddenly, asking you to immediately distinguish east, west, north, south, if you can't tell, you can't be hired.Because you don't distinguish between east, west, north, and south at this time, it means that you can't tell the direction and can't drive the corpse at night.Then, the mortician asks you to find things and carry burdens.Because the corpse is not a living person after all, when encountering a steeper slope, the corpse cannot climb up.To drive the mortician, he had to carry and carry them up the high slope one by one.Finally, there is another interview, which is that the mortician puts a tung tree leaf on the cemetery in the remote mountain, and asks you to retrieve it by yourself in the dark. Only in this way can you prove that you have the courage to be a mortician.If you successfully pass these three levels, you will have the possibility to become a mortician's apprentice.

The home of the mortician, like ordinary farmers, still "works at sunrise and rests at sunset."Only when they received the business of expelling corpses, did they dress up and go to exorcise corpses.Although they drive away corpses, they taboo the term drive away corpses.Therefore, when experts ask them to drive away the corpse, they all say: "Master, please go for a walk" or "Take a walk".If the mortician agrees, he will take out a special yellow paper and ask you to write the dead person's name, date of birth, date of death, gender, etc. on the yellow paper, and then draw a talisman and paste it on the paper. On this yellow paper, finally hide this yellow paper on yourself.