My years as a fortune teller

The so-called superstition is the belief that indulging in something will bring benefits.In particular, some stereotypes and bad habits that have been handed down from ancient times to the present in our country are typical superstitious activities.

For example, Yin marriage!This is not only a stereotype, but also a typical superstition.I said in the previous chapters that only the human soul will remain in the world after death.But after a period of time, it will slowly die out.The so-called yin marriage for the dead is pure nonsense.It's just the wishful thinking of some parents, not only can't really express their grief.On the contrary, it will cause some resentment.

"Zhou Li", one of the famous "Three Rituals" in ancient my country, was written by Zhou Gongdan, a famous politician and military strategist in the Western Zhou Dynasty.It is mentioned in this book: "It is forbidden to relocate and bury and marry the deceased".A martyr means a person who died in infancy.That is to say, in the Western Zhou Dynasty, Yin marriage was strictly prohibited.

But this kind of thing happened again and again.The more famous one in history is that Cao Cao hired the dead Miss Zhen as his wife to his son Cao Chong who died at the age of 13.

In the Tang Dynasty, the trend of yin marriage became stronger and stronger. "Old Tang Book" Volume [-] "Chongrun Biography of Prince Yide" records: Tang Zhongzong married Prince Yide in the dark, and hired the deceased daughter of Pei Cui, the son of the state supervisor.During Tang Zhongzong's time, there was also a court marriage. Xiao Zhizhong's dead daughter married Wei Shuren's dead brother. Zhongzong was a male family, and later a female family. At that time, it was called "the queen married a daughter, and the emperor married a wife". The relocation of the bones has become the subject of ridicule in the society.

These are all recorded in the official history, and the folk ones are even more rare.For example, the famous Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai are also a typical yin marriage.After Liang Shanbo died of illness, Zhu Yingtai bumped her head against the tombstone. This is a typical yin marriage, but later the drama said that the two of them turned into butterflies.

Song Dynasty Kang Yu's "Yesterday Dream Record" records that when an unmarried man or woman dies, his parents must entrust a "ghost matchmaker" to talk about their marriage, and then perform divination. Sacrifice, the male and female bones are buried together.

In the early years, the wedding ceremonies of this kind of "wedding" were mostly held at night. Sometimes, when people were sleeping peacefully, they were suddenly awakened by the drum music in the streets and alleys.Carrying a paper sedan chair, played by the single drum, odd number, and single suona.Some don't use this form, still use eight big sedan chairs, full of golden lamp deacons, and originally only married a photo of a woman. After the 30s, there were also "civilized marriage" ceremonies imitated, with a western band leading the way, followed by four people carrying a funeral photo booth with photos of the "bride" inside.

Although yin marriage is regarded as a happy event, it is inevitable that the etiquette of red and white is mixed.Much depends on what the parties stand for.Therefore, the form of Yin wedding rituals varies greatly.

Generally speaking, dark marriages also need to be introduced by a matchmaker. The two parties go through the portal post, get married in the Mingguan, and get the dragon and phoenix post.Half of the betrothal gift from the man to the woman is real silk and satin rulers, gold and silver treasures; Jewelry such as hairpins.On the night of the scheduled day, it will be cremated at the gate of the woman's house or on the grave.The dowry accompanied by the woman is usually made of paper. After being sent to the man, it is only displayed for half a day in front of the "groom" photo or memorial tablet.

Although the cultural customs are different from place to place, the above-mentioned things are definitely there.It's just that some silks and satins are now replaced by clothes; gold, silver and treasures are replaced by cash.In addition, some regions may be ahead, and some regions may be ahead, which is different.

So the teacher would tell me to look carefully, there is a lot of knowledge about the differences here.Originally, the team was going to the grave at this time, and we shouldn't go again.But I didn't expect that my family would actually send someone over to invite us over.

In fact, needless to say, we all know that this is the meaning of the bald-headed "immortal".The teacher walked forward as soon as he heard the big strides, and my master, Lao Zhaotou and I followed.

Wang Haian saw that we had all gone, and quietly followed behind us.Everyone has a curious heart, who doesn't want to take a good look at new things at this time?

Not long after we had walked, the line stopped.It must have reached the grave!We are gathering together to discuss how to get there and see how it is done over there.I saw the bald-headed "Maxian", walking towards us slowly.

I hurriedly stood in front of Master and the others, looked at him and said, "Thank you, you invited us to visit this yin marriage ceremony!" My voice was not very loud, and there was a suona sound in front of me.So that's me and he can hear.

The bald head nodded and said: "Yes, thank you for letting me go that day. No matter what your purpose is, I still want to thank you. Just now I saw you looking forward with these experts you invited, I miss you I really want to know, so I asked my family to invite you over."

The teacher laughed and said: "We are not invited by this little fat man! It's just that we all know each other. He happened to pass by and asked us to come over to play. If we want to help fight, let's go home!" Master is leaving.

The bald head smiled and said: "Even if we go back home, we will wait until the Yin marriage is over, and we can talk about it after the wedding ceremony! Come on a few, and I will take you to the front to experience it. The customs here are different from those in the Central Plains." Go forward without looking back.

I looked at Master and Teacher, and for a while I didn't know what to do.Master smiled and pulled me forward as well.I immediately felt a trace of coolness coming from Master's hands.The temperature here is also 25 degrees now, but there is a trace of coolness coming from Master's hands.I knew it was Master, in order to keep my heart quiet.

We followed the bald head to the edge of the grave and looked inside.The geographer has already descended into the grave, and a man in his 50s is also inside.The earth master rang the soul bell with his eyes closed, and whispered a spell in his mouth.

I deliberately pulled my bald head and asked in a low voice: "What is the master reading in it? It can't be the "Three Emperors Sutra"! How long will he read it?" I asked this to put aside the conflict with the master. relation.

The bald "Chuma Immortal" smiled and said: "It's not the "Three Emperors", but you know a lot! This is a kind of requiem spell, and you orthodox Taoists don't like it. For the dead, after sleeping It can stabilize the soul."

At this time, I saw a section of coffin exposed behind the master.I immediately asked: "Behind the master is the coffin of another family! How many years have passed, why hasn't the coffin rotted?..." Just as I was about to say the following words, my master pulled me away.

The bald "Chuan Xian" ignored me this time, but jumped in directly.He chased the earth master straight up, and while shaking the soul bell and chanting a mantra, he drew amulets inside.

Master looked at a few talismans, and then whispered to me: "This is a well-known talisman of the Three Emperors School, which is used to calm souls and exorcise evil spirits. Some of the talismans he drew are still in use, and some have been lost."

At this moment, the teacher gave us a hand.We walked to the other side and saw some people started digging where we had just stood.It dawned on me that another coffin had to be dug out.

Master said to me softly: "Hold your breath and use mystic skills. When the coffin is opened later, there will be corpse and evil spirits coming out. Be careful not to be messed with." In fact, I know what Master said. After being buried in the ground, it will rot after a period of time.So when the coffin is opened, there will be a corpse smell.The smell is poisonous in it.Even if it doesn't rot, it will still have a corpse smell.

The teacher suddenly pulled us and Master back, and the old Zhao Tou also led Wang Haian back.I was about to ask what happened again.

I heard Master say to the teacher standing on the other side of me: "Old lunatic, did you see that too? I was going to call you? I didn't expect you to start first! Hehe, there is indeed a big problem here!"

What and what!They saw what was coming, even Old Zhao found out.Why didn't I see it?Am I really missing something?Impossible?What can I overlook?

The teacher patted me lightly on the head, and said in a low voice: "Little fat man, haven't you noticed that the surrounding environment is based on the situation of the snake rejuvenating on the Qimen Dunjia? If you read correctly, this It's a mortuary."

No way!I really didn't see this.Anyone who has been to northern Shaanxi knows that the terrain here is one ravine after another.One after another, if it is not broken, it is definitely one dragon vein after another.It is precisely because of this that I ignored the terrain here.

Master pulled my hand and said: "Don't underestimate the terrain here, there are many dragon veins hidden here. These dragon veins include broken dragons, small dragons, fire dragons and earth dragons. Because of the dry climate, there are no water dragons here. It is precisely this The reason is that this is a good place to raise corpses."

The teacher then said in a low voice: "Many dragon veins are trapped by various formations. Therefore, there are emperors and courtiers here. Some corpse breeding places are different from those in the south. They are dry and easy to dehydrate here, so it is good to raise corpses. But The difference between hot and cold temperatures is too great to control."

I nodded and saw someone running over with a piece of red cloth.Several people surrounded the excavated coffin with red cloth, and several people got into the red cloth.

Master pulled me and whispered: "At this time, we need to change the groom's clothes. Maybe some coffins need to be changed too! But why is there only one coffin? You should bring another one here! Could it be that two people should be put in one coffin? "

The teacher shook his head and said, "I really don't understand this. Do you think the coffin is new? According to the photos, it has been gone for a long time! How can it be new?"

While discussing, I saw the red cloth slowly withdrawing.A brand-new red coffin was exposed, and the patterns on it seemed to have just been painted.There is not a single crack on the coffin, except for some traces of being buried in the soil.

Not only were we surprised, even the people in the funeral procession were amazed.I saw a middle-aged woman running over staggeringly, threw herself on the coffin and howled loudly.

I broke away from Master's hand, walked to Wang Hai'an and said, "Find out how long the child of this family has been dead. How long has it been since he was buried! Ask more clearly, and who chose this tomb." Wang Haian responded and walked over.

Master patted me lightly and said: "You are too impatient, someone will tell us later. I will ask these questions, and I will not be able to bear it." Then he patted my head again.

I thought so too, this matter is indeed a bit anxious to ask.At this moment, Wang Haian trotted over and said to me: "It has been more than ten years since the burial, if you count it by age. This child is five years older than the girl. On the third day after his death, the geographer invited to choose this place. But I don’t know who the geographer is.”

As soon as I listened to Master and Teacher, Old Zhao came forward and said to us: "Don't think of the people in the Temple of the Three Emperors, they are the people in front of you. Think about it, they are the great immortals who are active here." ah!"

That's true, we all nodded.Without these people, there are basically no people who engage in such tricks.So what are they for?It can't be just for the sake of making a yin marriage in the future!

Thinking of this, I tilted my head back and twisted a few times.At this moment, I actually saw two children, a boy and a girl, standing on the hillside to the right of the teacher.Girls are bigger, boys are much smaller.But they were all wearing red padded jackets, and their hands were tied with a red string.Both of them were expressionless, looking at this side with a lifeless face.

These two children seem to have met somewhere and are very familiar, but I can't remember it for a while.And I always feel that there is something wrong with these two children, but I can't tell for a while.After thinking about it, he shook his head, and suddenly saw the photo.I yelled out...