Ancient Chinese magic tricks

Chapter 1

Exploring the secrets of slender hands (the secret method of raising nails)

Yang Zhenyuan was a strange woman in Guangxu period.Born to like to keep nails, after more than ten years of maintenance, the nails are more than two feet long, and can be bent and folded into several inches.It is said that there are four methods for her to maintain her nails: first, she bends her fingers all the year round instead of straightening them, and protects them with silver armor, which must be one inch longer than the nails, and is changed every year.Second, when washing, wipe the soap foam with a towel, and wipe the nails frequently to make them as bright as rhinoceros.Third, in summer, the silver armor should be removed to prevent the nails from rotting; in winter, the nails should be soaked in oil so that they will not lose their warmth and be broken by the cold wind.Nails should be straightened when removing silver nails; bent when caring for nails; straightened when washing, and bent when bathing and sleeping.[-]. Nails should not be used to pick ears and scratch itches. If they are accidentally damaged and white marks appear on the edge of the nails, they should be trimmed immediately. It is not a pity.If the weather is dry and the edges of the nails curl, soak the nails in warm water.Well-maintained nails have many unique effects, and there are four main types: [-]. Growing nails can eliminate the violent spirit in the heart, because the most important thing is to protect the nails on weekdays, and no longer care about the violent temper.[-]. It can be used to predict weather changes. If it will rain, the claws will be yellow and white; if it will be sunny, the claws will be completely white; if it is hot, there will be water vapor in the armor; if it is cold, the skin at the root of the armor will appear. It is dry and white in color.[-]. Storing claws can test diseases.When a person is about to get sick, the color of the claws gradually withers; when sick, the bases of the claws are white and bloodless; when the disease is about to recover, the bases of the claws are pink; when a person is healthy, the color of the claws is shiny; In one section, the serious disease is obvious, and the small disease is slight.Fourth, accumulating claws can account for misfortune and fortune.If the nail is accidentally broken, it is a sign of disaster.One year, Yang Zhenyuan's ring finger and claw were broken, and her youngest son died.Another day, the middle finger claw was broken and met a robber.The mysteries of these slender fingers are all contained in the nails, who can't believe it?

"Qing barnyard banknotes"

Naked Swimming (Imperial Getaway)
In the third year of Chuping in the Eastern Han Dynasty, Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty traveled to the West Garden and ordered the construction of thousands of naked pavilions. Green moss and vegetation were collected and spread on the stone steps. Aqueducts were built around it, and water was diverted around it. The flowing water was crystal clear.The emperor took a boat to swim along the canal, and asked the maids to take a boat to swim together. He chose the jade-colored and light-bodied maids to paddle and paddle in the canal.In midsummer, the boat was deliberately sunk to watch the maids swimming in the water.He also played the song "Attracting Merchants" to cool off.The song said: "When the cool wind blows, the sun shines on the canal, and the green lotus leaves during the day and leaves at night. But the days are not enough, and there is more than joy, and the clear silk flows through the singing of the jade fu. The joy of thousands of years and long lives is hard to exceed." Later, lotuses were planted in the canal, and the leaves were as big as a cover. It is called Yeshuhe, and because the leaves stretch out when the moon comes out, it is also called Wangshuhe.

When Emperor Ling arrived in the midsummer season, he spent all day in the naked swimming pool to escape the heat, and held banquets, drinking and having fun all night long.The emperor sighed and said: "If you can live for ten thousand years and do this every day, you will be better than the gods in the sky!" He ordered all the maids in the palace to dress up beautifully, take off their coats, take off their inner clothes, and enter the water together. Naked bath.The Yinchi incense offered by the Western Regions is boiled in water to make a bath soup, and after the maids take a bath, the remaining juice is poured into the canal, which is called Liuxiang Canal.In addition, the Chicken Mingtang was built, and many chickens were raised in it.Whenever the emperor was drunk and fell asleep until dawn, all the waiters in the chicken crowing hall actually made chicken crows, which confused the sound of real chickens.At the same time, throwing a lit candle in front of the hall, the emperor was shocked.

"Clouds and Smoke Passing Eye Record"

It's hard to separate people from jade (Jade people flatter)
The former master of Shu was called Empress Gan, who was from Peizhou.Ben was born in a humble family. When she was young, the physiognomist said, "This girl will definitely live a rich life when she grows up."Arrived, the jade is soft, the body is extremely beautiful, the face is charming, and it is very moving.When she was called into the palace by the former master, whenever she sat in the white silk tent and stood outside to look inside, it was like snow gathering under the moonlight.At that time, someone in Henan presented a three-foot-high jade figure made of white jade. The first lord ordered the jade figure to be placed on the side of Queen Gan.As the saying goes, jade is a very precious thing, even more noble than a benevolent gentleman, let alone carving jade into human form?Empress Gan and the jade man are equally white and smooth, and at first glance, the onlookers really can't tell which is the real person and which is the jade man.Therefore, those concubines in the palace who were favored by the former master were not only jealous of Empress Gan, but also jealous of the jade man.In fact, the one who really won the favor of the former master was the one who presented the jade.

"Gui Xin Miscellaneous Knowledge"

Fragrant Woman (Aura of Musk Orchid)

The Yao family in Tongcheng gave birth to a daughter, which caused a sensation in the whole city.This woman is as fragrant as orchids all over her body, with a strange fragrance that makes people intoxicated.People call this woman "Xianggu".After Xianggu grew up, another boy with a strange fragrance was born in Tongcheng.This boy's appearance is no different from ordinary children, but the strange fragrance on his body is incomparable to anyone except Xiangu.When the weather is fine, the fragrance of his body is particularly strong; when the weather is gloomy, the fragrance is slightly weakened.Doctors once went to visit, but they couldn't explain a reason.It is not surprising that people in the Han Palace blow their breath like orchids.

"Qing barnyard banknotes"

Opening and closing of the trap (floor moisture-proof method)
When building a house and laying the floor, the floor should be higher than the ground, and a raised floor should be made for opening and closing, and some charcoal should be piled up from time to time to absorb the damp air.

"Fu Shou Zhen Jing"

Chicken Feather Poison Test (poison well exhaust stunt)

The gas produced in deep holes such as mound wells can kill people in summer and autumn.The way to get rid of this gas is: first throw chicken feathers into the grave well, and the chicken feathers will drop straight down, indicating that there is no poisonous gas in the well. .

"Youyang Miscellaneous"

Cooked Ai Bao Ink (Tibetan ink secret method)
Cooking Aibao ink and plum moon into charcoal are the best ways to store ink. Otherwise, the ink will crack in winter, and it will warp and break in the rainy season of Huangmei.

"Fu Shou Zhen Jing"

Scraping powder and planting stones (repairing broken inkstones)

If the inkstone is damaged, you can use a knife to scrape off the powder at the bottom of the inkstone, and then use yellow wax fire to calcine it evenly, adjust and bake it on the damaged part of the inkstone, and the inkstone will be as good as new.

"Fu Shou Zhen Jing"

Lianpeng Rang (washing inkstone method)
If the inkstone is not cleaned frequently, the ink will be stagnant. When washing the inkstone, it is best to gently scrub it with a lotus pod dipped in warm water.

"Fu Shou Zhen Jing"

Soak Tibetan Pepper in Sulfur
Soak the brush in sulfur water before storing it, and the brush will not be bored; if you store peppercorns in the pen case, the brush will not be bored either.

"Fu Shou Zhen Jing"

Snow-soaked rush grass (lighting lamp without lamp moth method)

When lighting the lamps at night, it is the most disgusting thing for the lamp moths to extinguish the lamps.Not to mention harming living beings, if there is an important matter at home and the lights are suddenly extinguished, wouldn't it be a major event.How troublesome is it that the lights are turned off and then turned on overnight, and then turned off after being turned on?Although there are many ways to get rid of moths, few are effective.Only in the twelfth lunar month, soak the lamp grass in snow water, dry it and store it well, and use this kind of lamp grass to light the lamp, and there will never be lamp moths.The lights will not be extinguished, and many little creatures have been saved. Wouldn't it be a virtue.

"Fu Shou Zhen Jing"

Bubbling River (Predict the Storm)

Before the storm comes, there will be many omens in nature, such as the sky is dim, and various birds and geese are flying up and down in the air; most of the floating clouds are embedded with golden borders; The moon is dizzy, and the Taibai Venus can be seen rising in the sky during the day, and the southwestern Ginseng is shaking; the lights in the house are bright and jumping and bursting; the texture of the stone veins on the ground is wet and slippery; the juice from the branches of the tree flows out; ; fish jump out of the water, poisonous snakes walk through the grass; ants move, earthworms pass by;Generally, there are many storms in spring and summer. If the weather is hot, dark clouds or thunder appear in the afternoon, there must be a storm.Most of the big storms start in the afternoon, so those who cross the river should behave well early.

"Fu Shou Zhen Jing"

Look at the sky at five o'clock (avoiding the wind)

When sailing in the rivers and lakes, I am afraid that there will be strong winds.The wind in winter tends to get stronger gradually, so you can prepare first, but the wind in midsummer is a matter of a moment. At this time, boats in the rivers and lakes often die.I once heard that a merchant who smuggled goods in the river had a way to avoid this danger.Generally, the strong wind in summer rises in the afternoon, and those who want to sail get up at five o'clock to observe the sky. If the stars and moon in the sky are bright and clear and there are no clouds around, they can sail and stop at noon.That way you won't meet the storm.Li Yuangui, a doctor of Guozi, said: "I have never encountered a storm in all my travels in the rivers and lakes. This is the method I adopted."

"Mengxi Pen Talk"

Scorched with fire (the secret method of planting lychees)

Among the lychees produced in Fujian, there is a kind of lychee that is as small as a clove. The flesh of this kind of lychee is delicious. When the local people cultivate it, they first take a section of lychee stalk, cut off the big root, burn the bark with fire, and then sow the soil. In the process, use big stones to press down its roots to allow side roots to grow.Because this variety of lychee has a large core, it is not easy to germinate and survive with the core.Just like pigs, sheep, cows, horses, donkeys, dogs and other six livestock, after being castrated, they can grow more meat, but lose their fertility.

"Mengxi Pen Talk"

Smell the smoke and die (chicken feather drive snake secret technique)

An excerpt from Suiyuan old man's "New Qi Harmony" "Chicken Feather Smoke Prevents Snakes": "Li Jinji said that when chicken feathers burn smoke, all poisonous snakes will die when they smell it, and the same is true for all jiao mirages. It belongs to yin, and the chicken is originally a symbol of accumulating yang in the south. Its nature belongs to fire, and it is the ultimate yang. Not in shape." When I was an official in Guangxi, I was familiar with this matter, but I think that if you encounter snakes, you only need to burn chicken feathers to drive them away, and they must be killed, and it seems unnecessary.

"Wandering Three Talks"

Nanshan Tiger Roaring (Strange People and Heterogeneity)
In ancient times, there was a man who could understand the speech of birds and beasts.Liang Tingweiqing said that Seng Zhaoxian was the county magistrate of Shanyin.Once, he went hunting with Wuling Wangji, the prefect of Kuaiji, and returned suddenly on the way.The entourage asked him why, and replied: "There is an urgent matter on the border of the country, you should go back and deal with it immediately." Asked how he knew, he said: "I heard the roar of the tiger in Nanshan, so I know." After a while, the messenger really came to report fighting.

"Xiangzu Notes"

Dung of Birds of Prey (Diamond Secret Obtained)

Diamond diamonds are shaped like rat dung and black in color like iron stones, so they are also called diamonds. They are produced in various countries in the Western Regions, and they are taken from the feces left by the bird of prey, Haidongqing. "Qi Dong Ye Yu" records: Funan King Kong can cut jade, and it can be separated by tapping with the horn of a black ram.According to Zhang Hong's "Records of Envoys to Burma", it is mentioned that there is a kind of tree called Jingangzuan in the Burmese and Manchurian areas. It is shaped like a palm, with bent branches and no leaves. If a person is thirsty to drink this water, if he eats the meat of cattle or horses after drinking this water, he will undoubtedly die.This is a poisonous tree, and diamond and diamond have the same name.

"Xiangzu Notes"

High five (stunt for taming otters)

At the end of the Yuanhe period, there was an old man in Yunxiang County, Junzhou, who was seventy years old. He raised more than ten otters and fished otters. He released them every other day. , make it hungry, and then let it go.Fishing with otters can make a considerable profit without the labor of lowering and collecting the net.When the otters went fishing, the old man saw that the time was almost up, and as long as he clapped his hands and shouted, all the otters would come.

"Youyang Miscellaneous"

Fur Wrapped Meat (Ability to tame a fighting bird)

"Zhuangzi" said: "People who raise tigers do not feed tigers with whole animals, nor do they feed tigers with live animals." This sentence is indeed very reasonable.

Once there was a person who was especially good at training mountain partridges. When the mountain partridges he trained were used to fight other people's birds, none of them could beat it.Later, someone discovered that he used a special feeding method: when feeding the birds every day, he would wrap the meat with mountain partridge skins for the birds to eat.Over time, as soon as this mountain partridge saw other mountain partridges, it wanted to fight and eat them.This is how the method of feeding changes the nature of the animal.

"Mengxi Pen Talk"

Crab Hair Killer (Forbidden Secret Art)

The two noses and two pedicles of wild rice are poisonous, and eating them kills; the dripping vegetables under the eaves are poisonous; yellow flowers and red mustards can also kill.

The seedlings trampled by cattle are bitter, and the anvil dirt can corrode the soles of people's shoes.

The fish has eyelashes and eyes that fit in the abdomen, and the two eyes are different from the beaded beads. The scales are connected to the white bun, and the dan character is placed under the belly, and it kills people.

The eyes of the turtle are white, and there are five characters under the abdomen, one is called Dan, and the other is called Cross, which is not edible.

Those with hair under the belly of crabs kill people.

Beasts with tails, deer spots like leopards, and sheep with holes in their hearts are all harmful to humans.

After five days, the horse Yeyan eats it and kills people, and the meat of the dog's hanging hoof is poisonous.

The flesh under the saddle of a white horse hurts a person's internal organs.

The well water is boiling and cannot be drunk.

Those who have no trace of wine can't drink it.

"Youyang Miscellaneous"

Burning Ashes and Drinking (Miscellaneous Notes of Eunuchs)
A man whose genitals have been cut off is called an eunuch. According to legend, an eunuch put the cut off genitals in a lime liter and hung them on the beams of the house, telling people to put them in the coffin with his body after his death. Therefore, most eunuchs are taboo to say " The word "sheng" cannot be used, and the word "sheng" which is homonymous with the word "sheng" cannot be used. For example, instead of saying Mr. X, say X first.However, according to "Stop Farming Records", after Shen Sheng cut his genitals, his wounds were not menstruating. The eunuch taught him to burn the cut off genitals into ashes, pound them into powder, and drink them with wine to heal them. Shen Sheng took them according to the law. Therefore, the fruit will heal.Therefore, the above-mentioned hanging beam seems to be not the case.In fact, there are those who are compatible with the sores and those who are not. It is not necessary to subdue your own genitals.In the Ming Dynasty, the eunuchs had their own names, but in the Qing Dynasty they were called apprentices, just like a marketer.

"Antique Trivia"

Ditch jumping (sheep raising stunt)

The method of raising sheep: You should use an earthen jar to store a liter of salt and hang it in the sheepfold.Sheep like to eat salt, and often go back and forth to eat it automatically, without the need for people to drive it hard.After sheep are sick, it is easy to infect.The method to isolate the sick sheep: Dig a pit two feet deep and four feet wide in front of the fence. If the sheep can jump back and forth, it means that they are not sick; isolated.

"Household Law"

Hundreds of large tanks (fire extinguishing method)

There are many water tanks in the streets and alleys, which is a major feature of Yangzhou City.According to legend, in April of the 59th year of Qianlong, there were frequent fires in the area of ​​Duozi Street in Xincheng. Every time there was a fire, it burned day and night.A man named Yu Huande, with a bold personality, was very sad to see this situation, so he created a water tank.In densely populated places far from the river, buy a house with a couplet in the front, a large courtyard in the middle, and a hundred water tanks.The river is full of water, and there are hundreds of buckets and one or two water dragons (commonly known as water cannons in Yangzhou).At the same time, set up a fire reporter and a fast destroyer nearby to watch the fire.Once a fire occurs, the bucket can be quickly concentrated, and the gunner can act immediately.Sun Chunzhou made a door couplet for this: "Things are prepared to avoid danger. Although the door is set up, it is always closed." I have been to Pishi Street and saw a place called Guangji Water Cang. There is a stone plaque on the door, and the calligraphy on the plaque is excellent.After questioning, I found out that it was Bao Chongcheng who did it.The beauty of its font and calligraphy is very similar to Chengxuan's calligraphy.Therefore, one person is invited to engrave his name on the tablet and include it in Sui Anshi Shulu.According to Luo Mingxiang, the upper couplet of the Shuicangmen couplet was originally "Use the well to draw blessings", and later it was changed to "Prepare for things to avoid trouble".I changed it to "predetermined rules do not slacken".And another couplet is written as "Why does Yuzan bother to help the stove, and the golden lotus will be safe from disaster forever".

"Wandering Conversations"

Three-inch coffin (self-motivation technique)

During the Jiaqing period, Yuan Shouzhong, a Taoist priest of Suzhou City God Temple, lived in the Yuezhu Mountain House.On his desk, there is often a small red sandalwood coffin.The coffin is three inches long and has a lid, which can be opened and closed at will.Seeing this small coffin on file, Qian Meixi, a celebrity, was quite surprised, and asked, "What's the use of making it?" Yuan Shouzhong replied, "There must be death in life, and death is here. I really can't figure it out. People only know about wealth and fame but not about death. What they do is immoral and judgemental. If they knew about death, would they still be like this? Every time something unsatisfactory happens to me, I take this small coffin and look at it. Fan, as the admonition of the strict teacher and the motto of the motto."

"Qing barnyard banknotes"

Wild monkey show (juggling stunt)

Han Qi from Fengyang has become addicted to monkeys.Generally speaking, people who play monkeys only raise one or two monkeys.And there are more than ten monkeys in Han Qi's livestock.Regardless of old monkeys or young monkeys, male monkeys and female monkeys, there is no need to restrain them with restraints, let alone rattan whips and iron chains.Whenever a theater is brought out, the group of monkeys will appear on the stage in a well-behaved manner. They are all alike, and they have never been confused; There was no chaos, and no monkey was ever seen running away.The actors in the market were full of praise for Han Qi's unique skills, but they couldn't find out how he tamed the monkey.Many years later, someone learned that Han Qi was a drug addict. Every time he got a wild monkey, he would lock the monkey next to the cigarette couch, lay down on the couch with an ounce of old opium ointment and a lamp, and smoke slowly.Unable to get away, the wild monkey danced wildly for a long time, and then got on the couch to fiddle with smoking equipment.Han Qi saw this opportunity, and immediately sprayed smoke on the monkey's face.The monkey was startled by the smoke at first, but after spraying it for a long time, it was fine. It followed Han Qi's example and lay down on the couch, whistling and swallowing, and Han Qi taught it how to burn and suck.Within a month, the wild monkey became addicted to smoking, so Han Qi unchained it, suddenly raised his stick and hit the monkey violently, causing the monkey to run away in pain.After a while, the monkey got addicted to smoking, so he ran back and peeped at the cigarette couch from the corner of the room.Han Qi lured the monkey out of the house, made it smoke, and then hit the monkey's head with a stick.At this time, the monkey would no longer run away, and was taught to act like a human being.

"Selling Different Records"

Kicking Gold (Alchemy)

Weng Fengchun of Wu County was a laid-back and uninhibited man who became addicted to drinking.Once, I brought a huge sum of money to Hangzhou for fun. I parked the chariot carrying more than [-] gold in the corridor of the inn, and went out to drink alone.In the middle of the night, he came back drunk, walking staggeringly, shaking three times.Unexpectedly, he kicked on the cloth bag containing gold and kicked his toe until blood flowed out.Weng Fengchun was furious, picked up the gold bag that fell out of the car, and cursed: "If I don't use you up tomorrow, I won't be a hero!" More than a hundred people are scheduled to gather in the West Lake after dawn.On the second day, he hired a huge boat to moor at the Xiling Bridge. People poured in, opened urns and drank wildly, until the wine was like a stream and people were as drunk as mud.When he was dead drunk, he took out the remaining gold and gave it to everyone one by one.Then he went away laughing wildly.When it was dark, he asked his slave how much gold was left, and the slave replied that all the gold was used up.So Weng Fengchun laughed out loud, pointed to his swollen big toe, and said, "Quickly reduce the swelling, and kick it a few more times when you are in good spirits."

"Selling Different Records"

See the door and stop (gossip)
Outside the three city gates in the south of the capital, from east to west to the base of the city wall of the two gates, there are many people riding donkeys. Because the distance between each city gate is three miles, some people rent out donkeys for people to come and go. Among the three schools, the hiring price is only a few pennies.When the donkey reaches the end, it will automatically stop.In the winter month, the moat is covered with thick ice, and people travel on the ice bed.If you encounter a river gate in the middle, you have to change your bed, unlike the small roads along the river in the countryside that can go directly to somewhere. 20 years ago, my old friend Guo Weigong came to the sub hall every year to run a small business. Every time he brought hares and other things, he came to my house on an ice bed to talk about it.There used to be such a poem: "One year old and one year old, Ling Crawling wears a pheasant rabbit. The two temples are frosted, and the respect is late." In the countryside, the ice bed is called the bed, also known as Ling Crawling.This is exactly: the water in the corner of the city has been flooded for a few days, and the solid ice has been flattened like a mirror.Set up a couch as stable as a boat, and watch the flying boats get more and more difficult.When I arrived at the gate, I suddenly became a Land Rover, and I was lucky to meet Lianghu when I moved the bed.The straw sandals were frozen and the rope was broken, and I earned half a pot of money and wine.

"Country Talk"

Use a coffin instead of a bed (self-deprecating technique)

People live in this world and don't know when they will die. This is what is meant by the so-called "one-year-old to a hundred-year-old".There was a man named Cheng Zhengfu, who was extremely optimistic by nature. He made a coffin and named it "resting nunnery". He also made an inscription on the coffin. The purpose of the bed is that once you die from drunkenness, you don't have to be bothered to carry the corpse in the coffin.In his poems, there is such a poem: "The board house is surrounded by Xiao Ran, and the fools are restless, and the saints are restless. A hundred years of trance, doubts and dreams, everything has come to an end. When will Guangliu urge you to drive, and Yilan will sing leisurely this evening." Sorrow. If you want to be an elegant guest to appreciate it, don't wait for the distant pity of the earth."

"Elegant Words and Customs"

Mother of Swordsmen (October Records)

There was a widow in Shaoxing, named Sun, who was in her fifties.There is an old man named Xu next door, who is alone.After a long time, Sun had an affair with Xu old man and gave birth to a son.It is extremely difficult for a widow to hide her son. She wants to keep her son, but she can't;Sun's daughter, who was also widowed and childless, can adopt this child.The daughter obeyed her mother's words and brought the child very happily, claiming that she had picked up an abandoned baby and raised her at home, loving her as if she were her own.When the son was five years old, he was still unable to speak, and his temperament was particularly strong.As he got older, he often used a knife to tease his mother, scaring her into a frenzy.At that time, the child's biological mother came to visit, and the daughter told all these things. Unexpectedly, the daughter's husband's relatives were also guests, and reprimanded: "This child was not born by you, so rude and unreasonable. Raising tigers and wolves is not a good thing after all, it is better to drive him out!" After hearing this, the biological mother quarreled with these angry relatives, and her words were very ugly.Suddenly, the dumb boy opened his mouth and said to his mother: "I am your younger brother, why do you treat me like a son?" Shocked and questioned again and again, the dumb son stopped talking.The tribe knew the reason, so they stopped asking, so they left the mute child to raise for several years.As the mute gets older, his temperament becomes more violent.At this time, his biological mother had already lived with Xu old man, just like a married couple, so the clan returned the mute child to the two elders.The second elder took the mute child home so that he could raise him.Soon, the mute child was able to speak, just like ordinary children, without any strong appearance or harsh words.When he grew up, he became a well-known carpenter. He was good at building boats and houses, knocking coffins and repairing beams.As time passed, no one remembered his past anymore, and no one called him dumb anymore.

"Huaiji Jiwen"

The most afraid of chicken feathers (evil obsession)
It is human nature to be afraid of dogs and geese. If a dog chases a goose, it is not afraid but also disgusting.What Zeng Wenzheng was afraid of was not dogs or geese, but chicken feathers.In the army, he didn't dare to tear apart any letter paper with feathers on it.One year, when he was parading in Shanghai, the magistrate of Shanghai warmly entertained him, set up a banquet, and invited him to the banquet.Zeng Wenzheng sent people to inspect it first, and sure enough, he saw a feather duster behind the seat, and hurriedly ordered to take it away, and told the county magistrate: "Marshal Zeng is most afraid of seeing chicken feathers. If this broom is not taken away, he will be killed by the magistrate." Shuai bumped into me, needless to say, all the hairs on my body will be pulled out, and yours may also be lost."

"The nunnery"

Spittoon (Evil Obsession)
The traitor Yan Shifan of the Ming Dynasty had a habit when he spat.If there is phlegm to spit out, the beautiful maidservant is asked to accept it with her mouth, and never spit it into the spittoon.Whenever there was a whirring sound of phlegm in his throat, the maid immediately crouched down, pressed her cherry lips against Yan Shifan's, skillfully inhaled the yellow phlegm into her mouth, and then spit it out.This method of accepting phlegm is called "fragrant spittoon".In Yan Shifan's eyes, the maid's mouth is just a spittoon.Shangshu Wang Tianhua flattered Yan Shifan by weaving colored wool into a chessboard-like carpet called "Shuanglu Tu". 32 beauties were selected, and they wore black and white clothes. piece.When the two play chess, each command the black and white teams, and when the beauty hears the voice of the order, she immediately stands at the designated point.Such extravagance is rare in ancient times.Later, when Yan Shifan's property was confiscated and someone was ordered to deliver the proclamation, he found piles of white silk sweat towels piled up under the couch where Yan was sleeping. He didn't understand why, so he took out one and asked everyone.Someone who knew this scarf covered his nose and said: "This is a very dirty thing. The old thief of the Yan family uses one every time he has sex with a woman, and then throws it under the couch. A bargaining chip for obscenity." All the listeners were annoyed.

"Qing barnyard banknotes"

Widow Chen washes her face (evil obsession)
The widow of the Chen family in Haining is rich and obsessed with cleanliness.Once, Widow Chen took a small boat to Dengwei Guanmei. After traveling several miles, she saw a neighboring boat outside the window was dumping excrement into the river, and her own boat happened to be drawing water for cooking, so she ordered the boatman to return home.The accompanying maid argued vigorously that the water used for cooking was not river water, but snow water brought in, and the rice had been cooked for a long time.Widow Chen ignored the maid's explanation and forced the boat to return.On weekdays, Widow Chen's diet is indifferent, and all fishy and greasy things never touch her lips, because she thinks these things are too filthy.She hated nothing more than midwives.Seeing the midwife approaching from a distance, she hurriedly avoided it; if a midwife came to sit at home, the teacup used must be thrown away, and no stains were allowed to be left in the house.If the things she uses are straddled by a woman's crotch, they will be discarded and not used, because they think it is too dirty.If this thing is used to cover other things, she will cry out that it is more filth than filth.When I get up every morning, I don't use cloth to wash my face. It is said that these cloths come from the women's crotch when weaving, and they must not be used on the head and face. The only thing I use to wash my face is bamboo paper.What she ate was mostly lotus seeds, yams, and fragrant rice porridge.Widow Chen's obsession with cleanliness was widely spread during the Kangxi and Yongzheng years.

"The nunnery"

Red cat (spoofing)

In the alley on the west side of the North Gate of Lin'an, Sun San, a commoner, lived with a wife and no children.Every day when I go out to sell cooked meat, I never forget to tell my wife: "Take care of the cat at home. There is no such domestic cat in Kyoto. If it goes out, it will be stolen. I am old and childless. Treat it like your own child, and you must take care of it." Neighbors often heard him say this, but they had never seen his cat. Someone said: "It is probably a tabby cat. It was rare in the past, and it is not surprising now. It's too ridiculous for this old man to be so cautious." One day the cat ran out of the door, and the wife hurriedly hugged it back.Everyone who saw it was amazed and sighed at the deep red fur of the cat.Sun San came back and beat his wife.This matter reached the ears of the palace servants, who sent someone to buy the cat with generous rewards, but Sun San refused: "I, Sun, was poor all my life, and I was satisfied with food. Too much money is useless. I love this cat as much as I love it." How can you be willing to sell your life?" The servants of the servants insisted on buying it.Finally, the cat was exchanged for three hundred thousand dollars.Sun San wept and took money while weeping. Afterwards, he beat his wife severely and sighed until late at night.The servant was really excited to get this cat, and wanted to take care of it, tame it and present it to the emperor.Unexpectedly, only half a month later, the red fur of the cat had all faded away, and it became a completely white cat.After careful inspection, it turned out that the cat was dyed to become a red cat. The servant was furious and sent someone to arrest Sun San, but Sun San had already moved the house away, and he did not know where he was going.Only then did the neighbors realize that Sun San warned his wife before and then beat his wife angrily, all of which were schemes to get rich.

"The Ruling and the Wild"

43 beards (spoofing)
Songjiang Gu Weiming's great-grandfather, the official at least participated, the family was rich and well-mannered.He once gave out more than 43 taels of silver and set up more than [-] mu of righteous land. All the people in the county praised his great kindness and virtue.However, due to the turmoil in the officialdom and the decline of the family, by Gu Weiming's generation, it was already destitute, and it was difficult for the whole family to eat porridge.However, the imperial court took notice and suddenly ordered the return of all the family property, and the Gu family suddenly became rich again.This Gu Weiming is gambler by nature, and he also loves to go to theaters.One day, actors from all over the world were hired to perform "The Story of the Peony Pavilion".There was an actor who already had a beard and asked him to play Du Liniang, so he said to Gu Weiming: "As the saying goes, if you remove a stalk of beard, you will be rewarded with seven stones of rice. If the master is generous, I will obey." After hearing this, Gu Weiming clapped his hands and said with a smile: " There are such elegant things in the world!" Immediately ordered a Qingyi to count the beards by the side, cut off [-] beards, and immediately fetched three hundred stones of white rice, and sent them to the famous actress's home.Such a feat spread throughout Baili counties.Four or five years later, he was imprisoned for inducing jealousy and hanged himself in prison. The [-] mu of ancestral land has since been lost to others.

"Spring Merchants Talk"

Alum water painting (peony color-changing stunt)

There are many wonders in the world, but it is amazing to make the peony change color as you like: soak the white peony with comfrey juice, and the peony will bloom purple flowers; soak it with safflower juice, and the peony will bloom red flowers.If the white peony just blooms, use a new writing brush dipped in alum water to paint on the petals as you like, after the water dries up, use Tenghuang and powder to make a light yellow color and paint it on the flower, the painted place will turn yellow. Then add clear alum water again, and the color on the flowers will not fall off.When the peony sprouts, irrigate its roots with blue tripod water, and when it blooms, the flowers will turn blue.Put some Atractylodes atractylodes powder under the peony root, then the peony will bloom colorful flowers, which is a feast for the eyes.

"Flower Mirror"

Embedding sulfur (peony giant technique)

In the ninth month of the lunar calendar, find some horny sulfur, grind it into powder and mix it with fine soil, remove the cover from the root of the peony flower, dig a small pit one inch deep at a place three inches away from the root, and bury the powdered sulfur , When spring comes, when the veins of the earth become warmer, flower buds will appear on the peony, which are as big as millet grains. At this time, the surrounding flower buds should be removed, leaving only one stamen in the middle, so that the medicine gas can gather on one flower bud, and the flowers that bloom The flowers are particularly fat, even as large as the mouth of a bowl, very graceful and luxurious.

"Flower Mirror"

Drop into rouge water (white chrysanthemum turns purple secret technique)

When the stamens of the white chrysanthemums just appear, cover the stamens with longan shells, open a small hole on the top of the longan shells, and pour indigo water or rouge water into the center of the flowers every morning. When the flowers bloom, the white chrysanthemums will turn blue-purple .

"Secret Garden of Ancient and Modern"

Buried charcoal in pots (orchid flowering in four seasons)

In hot weather, take some clods to dry in the sun and put them away.When planting orchids, first put a few pieces of charcoal under the flower pot, then use honeysuckle [-] qian and Fangfeng [-] qian, spread them on the charcoal, and then spread the collected clods of dog-weather soil. The orchids produce fragrant flowers throughout the year.

"Secret Garden of Ancient and Modern"

Pruning into the well (morning glory blooming day and night)

Morning glory often only blooms in the dry morning. If you want it to be moved into a vase and open at any time, you can cut off the flower that will bloom the next morning together with its basal leaves in the evening, and then hang it upside down in the well. Don't let it open, so that after two or three days, if the owner wants the morning glory to open, he can take it out of the well at any time and insert it into a vase, and the morning glory will open immediately, bright and delicate.

"Fragrant Spectrum"

Filling holes with glutinous rice (the secret technique of planting Ganoderma lucidum)

Ganoderma lucidum is a rare treasure, a rare herb that can prolong life and rejuvenate people after eating it.So how to grow Ganoderma lucidum?Here is a method: in winter, take some glutinous rice and mash it, add boiled yellow and deer head blood, mix it thoroughly and dry it, wait until the winter solstice, bury it in the soil, and the ganoderma will naturally grow.Or pour the glutinous rice prepared above into the rotting place of the old tree, and after the thunder and lightning in the coming year, you can get all kinds of Ganoderma lucidum.

"Festival Mirror"

Cutting the Hole in the Salt (Picking the Olive Method)
Some olive trees are tall and big, and it is very difficult to pick olives. However, you only need to carve a small hole one inch square at the root of the olive tree, put some salt in it, and after a night, all the olives on the tree will fall off. The trees were not damaged in the slightest.

"Secret Garden of Ancient and Modern"

One maggot, one fruit (orange tree multi-fruit method)
If you want the orange tree to bear more fruit, you can find a big mouse in the twelfth lunar month, soak it in the dung tank to make it swell, and then dig a hole next to the root of the orange tree, so that the root of the tree can be seen, and put the swollen mouse Bury it in the hole, and then cover it with the original soil, so that the rats will produce maggots, and each maggot will produce a fruit. The more maggots, the more fruits will be piled up like beads.

"Secret Garden of Ancient and Modern"

Bamboo hoop tree (cleanly picking ginkgo)

The ginkgo tree is very tall, with elegant branches, and it is difficult to climb the tree to pick the fruit by hand.In fact, we only need to use bamboo strips to bind the roots of the tree tightly, and then tap the strips with wood, and the fruits on the tree will naturally fall down, which is really a labor-saving method.

"Sense of Objects"

Rope twisting tree (jujube self-detachment)

Jujube trees often have many dense branches and many thorns, so it is very difficult to pick them.When the jujube is not ripe, it is difficult to knock it off even with a stick. When it is fully ripe, the flesh is often rotten, and when it is half-ripe, the flesh is not full. The jujubes are tied with ropes at a height of about a foot, and then twisted very tightly with sticks so that they sink into the bark. After one night, all the jujubes will fall off.

"Sense of Objects"

One day in the sun (bonsai tree resurrection secret technique)

No matter what kind of tree it is, as long as you pull it out, remove all the mud on the roots, put the tree in the sun for a day, then put the roots of the tree in the sludge, take it out after a night, and plant it with mud again. The tree must be resurrected, and it will be better if it is done in June and July.

"Sense of Objects"

Hen hatching (lotus quick opening stunt)

If you want to make the lotus bloom instantly, you can put seven lotus seeds picked in the past into the hollowed out eggshell, and seal the small hole with paper.Let the hatching hens hatch for 21 days and take them out, then wash the lotus seeds with cold strong tea and store them in a cool place.When waiting for use, the lotus seeds can be buried in the sludge mixed with sulfur powder. After 10 minutes, the lotus will bloom instantly, but the flowers will be smaller than ordinary lotus.

"Sense of Objects"

Garlic on fish lips (the method of saving fish from death)
Take a carp to visit relatives and friends, in case the journey is far away, it may die.When the carp is about to die, it is desirable to mash the garlic and apply the garlic juice to the mouth of the carp, and the carp will be alive and kicking.If the carp is dead, you can use garlic juice to mix it with powder and apply it on the fish. Then the taste of the dead carp will be the same as that of fresh fish after cooking, and the taste will never change.

"Guang Ya"

Banana Leaf Dipping (Pearl Washing Skill)

When scrubbing pearls, you can put the pearls in the milk and soak them overnight, then use motherwort to burn ashes to filter the juice the next day, add a little flour, then put the pearls into a silk bag, soak them in water, and scrub them gently with your hands , The color of the pearl is as bright as new.If the pearl is stained with oil, it can be dried and burned into ashes with goose and duck dung, filtered with hot water or put the pearl in a silk bag, and then immersed in water for scrubbing.If the color of the pearl is burnt red, you can soak the skin of Sapindus chinensis in water, then marinate the pearl in water overnight, and it will turn white.If the pearl is red, it can be scrubbed with plantain juice and soaked overnight, and it will turn white.Generally, pearls are most forbidden to be close to musk, otherwise pearls will become dull in color.If the pearls are close to the corpse, they will burst into pieces one after another.Pearls should also avoid getting close to silverware and cypress woodware.

"Cooking Collection"

Flour kneading (de-pearl corpse gas technique)
Use ordinary grass to boil the thick juice, put the pearls into a silk bag, add a small amount of flour and grass juice, and rub gently with your hands to remove the dead gas on the pearls, and the color of the pearls will be as new.

"Cooking Collection"

A bowl of onion juice (jade soft special skill)

If you want to make jade soft and easy to make, you can use one or two burnets, a bowl of onion juice, and a bowl of garlic juice, put them on the fire together with the jade and cook for an hour or two, then take out the jade, and the jade at this time can be carved.If the sculptor knows this method, it will save a lot of effort when making it.

"Cooking Collection"

Cleaning the fire and heating (replenishment jade secret technique)
Use [-]% real rosin, [-]% white wax, [-]% bletilla striata, and [-]% alum. Find a clean pottery, boil the rosin to remove the dross, and then mix the other three medicines thoroughly. If it is too dry, you can add a small amount of water. Then put the jade on a clean fire and bake it extremely hot, and then use the above-mentioned medicinal crystals to melt the glue.In this way, the broken crystal jade can be as strong as before, but we must pay attention to it. When drying it with fire, it should be clean to avoid discoloration.

"Cooking Collection"

Boiled pepper skin (ivory softening technique)

Ivory is extremely hard, and it is extremely difficult to make. If you want to make the ivory soft, you can cook it with sansho peel, and the ivory will become very soft. You can make all kinds of fine handicrafts as you like.Or boil it with vinegar oil, which will also soften the ivory.

"Cooking Collection"

Boiled Stones with Shallots (Pebble Softening)
Take the small white stones from the stream or stream, mash shallots or burnets, and put them together with the small white stones in a casserole with cold water to boil. When the water in the pot decreases, add some hot water and cook until the stones become Until it is soft, you can use these stones to make utensils as you like.After the utensils are made, boil them with licorice water, and the stone will be as hard as usual again.People often lament that other people's works are uncanny, but they don't know the mystery.

"Compendium of Materia Medica"

Crab shell smoke (collection of rats)
If you want to drive out the rats, you can grind the crab shells into powder, put them in an iron cage or a net bag made of ropes and ignite them to make smoke. Come, scramble around the cigarettes, people will not notice.At this time, as long as the iron cage is closed or the net bag is closed, the entire army of rats can be wiped out.

"Compendium of Materia Medica"

Burn all night (the method of burning candles)
According to the usual candle burning speed, let alone a one-inch candle can burn overnight, even a long candle can't burn for an hour.There is a method that can make a one-inch candle burn overnight: Take one catty each of beeswax, turpentine, and Sophora japonica, and four liang of pumice, and melt it into a liquid.Then pour it into a candle. Although this kind of candle is lit all night, it only consumes one inch.

"Cooking Collection"

The most afraid of alcohol smell (portrait smells wine and blush secret technique)

Take one qian of cinnabar and three parts of flame nitrate, mash it and mix it evenly, make it into a mud with aged wine, put it in a pot and cover it, bury it in the soil of Xiangyang Mountain, and take it out after a month.If the smell of wine is completely dry, add a little more wine and mix well with a stone tool. The paper for painting is first coated with hu powder made from scale shells, and then coated with cinnabar powder on the paper, and dried in the sun. Then use ink to paint portraits. After the painting is finished, put the wine glass in front of the person in the painting. When the painting smells the alcohol, the face of the portrait turns red, as if really drunk. When the alcohol disappears, the face changes. Red turned white.

"Cooking Collection"

A handful of raw peach kernels (method for treating cloudy well water)
When the well water is turbid and unbearable to drink, just crush a handful of raw peach kernels and raw almonds and throw them into the well, the turbid water will dissipate immediately, and the well water will become clear again.

"Cooking Collection"

Winter plum skin dipping juice (ink word flashing secret technique)

The ink is ground with the juice extracted from the bark of wintersweet, and no matter what paper it is written on, it will have a dazzling brilliance, which is amazing.

"Sense of Objects"

Old goose gall painting (painting dynamic stunt)

Use an old goose gall, with no visible water, pour a penny of alum powder into the gall, hang it in the wind and dry in the shade, and then use the gall to grind the juice to adjust the color and paint.In this painting, it is invisible during the day, but obvious at night; invisible when it is sunny, but obvious when overcast.The characters in the painting can walk slowly and are lifelike.

"Secret Garden of Ancient and Modern"

Buried in the soil for half a year (firewood-burning smoke-free secret technique)

During the dog days, the pine trees are cut down, and the pine firewood is buried in the yellow muddy water. After the pine bark falls off, it is taken out and dried in the sun. When the fire is lit in autumn and winter, there will be no smoke coming out.

"Yimen Guangdo"

Filled with dew (egg flying stunt)

Open a small hole in the egg, remove the yolk and protein, pour dew, and use oiled paper to seal the small hole.After being exposed to strong sunlight, the egg shells naturally rise up to three or four feet off the ground.

"Secret Garden of Ancient and Modern"

A pot of mung bean soup (Xinju deodorization technique)

When the new house is completed, the smell of wood and paint is pungent. You can boil the mung beans, put them in front of the utensils with peculiar smell and smoke them for a while, and the paint smell will gradually decrease.

"Multiple Possessions"

Half Red Walnut (Fire Inextinguishable)

Use a walnut, burn it half red, and bury it in the hot ashes. After three to five days, the fire will never go out.

"Liangming Collection"

Saponin Water Mixing Ink
Whenever red or black characters are written on the stele, soap water must be adjusted to silver vermilion or soap water to adjust ink, so that the handwriting will stick firmly to the stone and will not fall off for a long time.

"Mo'e's Little Record"

Green light shining (fishing stunt)

Fishing with fireflies is a secret skill of fishermen.Soak one piece of sheep urine, rub it to make it soft, then blow it up and dry it in the shade. At night, go to the grass to catch more than [-] fireflies, put it in the dry sheep urine bubble, and then tie the opening tightly so that it is shining with green light. In the middle of the fishing net, sinking the net into the water.After a while, all fishes, big and small, from far and near will rush towards the light, and they will gather light in the net without moving.

"Secret Garden of Ancient and Modern"

Schools of fish arrive (Chunyan fishing stunt)

There are various methods of fishing, and fishing with Chunyan is also one of the unique skills.Catch swallows in spring, pull out their feathers, simmer them over charcoal fire, and put them in fishing nets. The fish will swim into the nets one after another when they smell the fragrance.

"Secret Garden of Ancient and Modern"

Body like an egg (secret method for feeding miniature chickens)
If you raise chickens to eat their meat, you always hope that the chickens will grow fat.If chickens are raised for ornamental purposes, or to amaze the world, there is a special skill that can prevent chickens from growing up and look like chickens for life.The trick is this: select a pair of male and female chickens with bright coats, and raise them alone in a small courtyard. No mixed chickens can be mixed in the courtyard, and they are still fed as usual. After the female chickens grow up and lay eggs, they are still hatched.The hatched chicks can be mixed with poppy seeds (opium smoke) and realgar, and fed to the chicks, and they are not allowed to drink water or touch the ground.In this way for three years, the chicken is only the size of an egg, but its feathers and red crown are no different from that of a big chicken.

"Secret Garden of Ancient and Modern"

Bibimbap with tung oil
Most people who keep dogs like dogs not to grow up, they are as small and exquisite as the things in their palms.There is a unique skill that can make the dog not grow long, but as small as a mouse in the alley.Mix a few drops of tung oil into the rice and feed it to puppies two or three months old. In less than a month, the dog will be the same for life and will never grow up again.On the contrary, hunters like dogs to be tall and mighty, so there is a way: find a small amount of tiger bones and mash them, mix them with beef, sesame seeds and rice, and feed them with rice. In the mountains and forests, no beast is not afraid of its power.

"Secret Garden of Ancient and Modern"

Cut off its evil thoughts (the secret art of keeping cats from catching chickens)

If you have chickens or pigeons at home, you are most afraid of cats coming to catch them.But there are also ways to prevent cats from raging against chickens and pigeons.Cover it with chicken feathers, light it, and smoke the cat's nose. The cat screamed and struggled, and never dared to catch chickens again.The same is true for pigeon guards, who use a ball of pigeon feathers to smoke the cat's nose, so that the cat will avoid the pigeons from now on, and will never have any evil thoughts of catching food.

"Mountain Changsi Research"

Be friends with cats

Since ancient times, only cats can catch mice, and dogs can watch the house.It is absolutely impossible for dogs to catch mice like cats.However, in the affairs of the world, there is a way to make a dog catch rats like a cat.After drying with mugwort leaves, burn the dog's nose to make it sneeze again and again, and then let it go.Smoked several times in a row, the dog will not hunt cats, and can be friends with cats, learning the skills of cats to catch mice.This technique is not passed on to others, so you might as well give it a try.

"Secret Garden of Ancient and Modern"

Falling Shadow in the Water Basin (Taming Parrot Skill)

Parrots can be fed, but improper feeding can result in death or injury.It is said that there is a unique skill: do not touch its back when raising a parrot, if you often touch its back, you will be shocked and dumb.The parrot is afraid of the cold, and if it is slightly cold, the whole body will tremble and die. It can be treated with sugarcane juice.If you have a cold and do not eat, there must be a round bead on the tail, which is as big as a soybean. After piercing it with a needle, it will heal immediately, and there is no need to inject another medicine stone.If you want to train it to speak, you should start when it is young.Every morning, hang the baby bird above the water basin so that it can see its own shadow (you can also use a large mirror). Violation.The person stands behind or on the side, and must not let it see the shadow of the person. Teach it to speak according to the person's needs, and it will soon learn the human language.

"Yimen Guangdo"

Curing diseases with molten iron (breeding peacocks)
Among the birds, the peacock is the most expensive.This bird lives in wild forests, and can also live in cottages.If you get a peacock egg in the forest, you don't have to worry about hatching it.Put the egg into the nest and let the hen hatch it.After the peacock chick hatches, it can be fed with chopped green vegetables and pig liver, and raised day by day.If the peacock is sick, there is no need to be afraid, and there is no need to seek medical treatment. You only need to feed it some molten iron to cure its disease.

"Mountain Changsi Research"

White hair for green hair (chicken into parrot stunt)

Parrots are wild birds, how can chickens become parrots?There is no change in the technique of not passing on.Take five or six pure white chickens in pairs, put them in a cage, and stop feeding for two to three days.Take four to five catties of mung beans, add sulfur, cattail, turmeric, realgar, and orpiment, three or two each, add a little water, boil the beans (preferably cooked), feed them to chickens, and drink bean juice, but do not feed them clean water.In this way, after seven or eight days, all the feathers of the chicken will fall off.After the hair is gone, string its nose with a thread to prevent its head from drooping.After four or five days, green feathers can grow on the original chicken body.After that, they only need to feed raw mung bean powder, and then moisten the mouth and feet with cinnabar.In this way, a chicken becomes a huge parrot with green feathers all over its body.Among the large parrots sold in the market, there are many fakes cultivated with this technique.

"Yimen Guangdo"

Goose feather drawing blood (featuring cockfighting skills)

If the domestic chicken is tall and big, brave and aggressive, with a flat crown and sharp mouth, it is the most aggressive chicken, and every time it fights, it will not give up until it dies.For such chickens, after each fight, a long goose feather should be inserted into the chicken's beak to squeeze out the congestion in the chicken's throat, and it will be safe for five or seven days before fighting, and there will be no worries about damage.Even a victorious chicken cannot be allowed to fight continuously.If chickens fight continuously, they will not live long.Another method is to mash aconitum head and apply it on the cockscomb, so that the chickens can fight without defeat.

"Flower Mirror"

Can't see males (chickens lay eggs all the year round)

Use half a catty of raw sesame seeds and three taels of pig suet, mash them together, raise a baby chicken, wait until the egg is born, hide the egg, and then feed the chicken with the prepared sesame pig suet, without giving the chicken water. In this way, eggs can be laid every day, and eggs will never hatch.In addition, female hens cannot be mixed with roosters. If you feed more grains to the hens, they will often lay eggs. This is the best way to raise chickens for family consumption.

"Nongsang Collection"

Sprinkle porridge to raise insects (chicken fast fat secret technique)

Knead the noodles with oil, knead them into fingertip-sized pieces, and feed the chickens twenty or thirty pieces a day.Or use sulfur powder and mix it with rice, and feed the chickens for several days, and the chickens will grow up quickly.Divide a large garden into three parts, put chickens in the middle, pour porridge on the left garden every ten days, and cover it with grass, and after two days countless small insects will be born. Eat the insects on the left garden first, and then drive the chickens to the right garden after eating. In this way, the chickens will grow fat quickly, and the hens will lay eggs for a long time.

"Enhancing the Record of Sensibility of Objects"

Fish Belly Stuffed with Sulfur (Chicken into Phoenix stunt)

Take a black grass carp weighing half a catty, take out the viscera, fill it with sulfur, and then put it in the earthenware tank and cover it. After five to seven days, take out the grass carp, chop it up, and feed it to the chickens that have been starved for two or three days in advance, and the feathers of the chickens will all fall off.After a few days, the chicken will re-grow colorful feathers, and when the feathers gradually grow and plump, a domestic chicken will become a very beautiful golden phoenix.

"Secret Garden of Ancient and Modern"

Soak in vinegar for seven days (a special technique for making square duck eggs)

Take a duck egg and soak it in white vinegar for seven days. The egg is as soft as a cotton ball. Then put the egg in a square box and immerse it in water. Take it out after a quarter of an hour. The shell becomes as hard as an ordinary duck egg. Became a square brick shape.

"Secret Garden of Ancient and Modern"

Clothes on the head of a horse (a trick to make a crazy horse)

If you encounter a galloping horse on the way, you can quickly take off your clothes and put it on the horse's head, and the galloping horse will stop immediately, so that disasters can be avoided. This method is simple and feasible.

"Flower Mirror"

Three piles of dung (Astrology of Cows)

There are the following essentials for a cow: the eyes of a cow should be large, the whites of the eyes and the pupils of the eyebrows should be connected, the neck is long, the feet are big, the thighs are wide, and the hair is short.The hair is sparse and not resistant to cold, the horns are slender and the waist is long, the neck is thick and the tail is fat, and the tip hair is curly and messy. It will die in less than three years.Cows with white fur and red milk have many offspring; those with sparse and black milk have no offspring.A cow sheds three piles of manure overnight and gives birth to a son a year.There is only one pile of dung in one night, and one son in three years.

"Xiang Niu Jing"

Dissipate courage (stunt for treating mad cows)

Some young and middle-aged bulls have a violent temperament and often like to touch people with their horns. If they are not careful, they will kill children.We usually call this kind of cow a mad cow.In fact, it is not the case. There is a method to subdue this kind of cattle, and the effect is very good.Heavy doses of rhubarb, berberine, reed root, rice wine, etc. can be poured into the tripe to dissipate the heat from the gallbladder channel of the cow, and the temperament becomes gentle and lovely.

"Bo Wen Lu"

Cook red bean porridge (the secret method of raising pigs quickly)

If you want to make pigs fatter quickly, you can castrate piglets first. After the castration is healed, mash two grains of crotons, mash hemp roots and mix them with sugar chaff to feed the pigs. After half a day, the pigs will have diarrhea. After the pigs have diarrhea, feed them with more fine materials. After that, the pigs will become fatter and bigger every day. After a hundred days, they can become big fat pigs of three hundred catties.The second method is: use one or two each of Guanzhong and Polygonum multiflorum, one catty each of malt and soybeans, grind them into powder, and then stir them evenly. Feed four or two of this kind of feed every day, and pigs are prone to fat.The third method: Take one catty each of Guanzhong, Polygonum multiflorum, and barley malt, mix well and feed, four taels a day, wait for half a month after the piglets are out of the pen, after feeding this kind of feed, the fat pigs can be slaughtered.The fourth method: cook red bean porridge and feed it. After ten days, it can double the fat. This method is very secret and the effect is very good.If the pig does not eat at night, it is sick. At this time, you can use pig tooth saponin to grind it into powder and blow it into the pig's nose, and the pig's disease will be cured immediately.If the pig has leprosy, you can use tobacco tendon decoction and rub it warmly, several times a day, and it will heal after a week.

"Four Seasons"

Cut off its tail (Dog Taming Mystery)
Dogs are most afraid of the cold. When lying down, they must cover their noses with their tails to sleep soundly.If you want it to wake up at night, you can cut its tail short and have a cold nose without covering it, so that it can be alert all night to prevent others from approaching the house or warehouse.Such a dog can become a helper in housekeeping and gardening.

Gui Xin Magazine

Lazy Cat with Big Tail
In terms of cats, pure yellow, pure black, and pure white cats are the best. Cats with white belly and black back are called Wuyungaixue, and cats with white body and yellow tail are called Xueliduogun. These two kinds are also very good.Those with patterns on the body, four feet and tail are called "wrapped", and they are also good cats.Its body is like a fox, its face is like a tiger, its fur is soft and its teeth are sharp, there are several hard whiskers at the corners of its mouth, its tail is long and its waist is short, and its eyes are like Venus.A cat with a multi-ridged upper palate is an excellent cat.If there are three hurdles in the cat's mouth, it can catch mice for one season; if it has five hurdles, it can catch mice for two seasons; if it has seven hurdles, it can catch mice for three seasons;A cat with bare claws can turn over roof tiles; a cat with a waist can run away from other people’s house;

"Mountain Changsi Research"

Burning smoke with realgar (secret technique against poisonous snakes)

Plant fragrant Angelica dahurica in the courtyard of the house, and all kinds of poisonous snakes will avoid it far away when they smell the fragrance, and will not come again.Another method is to plant unipedal lotus grass at the door of the house, so that poisonous snakes and scorpions will not dare to pass by.Realgar can also be used to burn smoke to smoke clothes, bedding and other things, and poisonous snakes dare not approach them.

"Ordering Huai Rope"

Avoid flowers at the head of the bed (anti-centipede secret technique)

Use your hair to burn and smoke under the bed or in the kitchen.When the centipede smelled it, it buried three feet into the ground and dared not move.You can also use silver beads to roll in paper tubes to burn cigarettes, which is better.Most women love flowers, and often put fragrant flowers and jasmine flowers on the bedside, but they don't know that these two kinds of flowers are most likely to attract centipedes.Once bitten by a centipede, you can burn the ashes of your hair and wash it with water, and you will be safe.

"Odd Recipe"

Hair burning (anti-bedbug technique)
If you make a bed with buckwheat stalks and pour water with the buckwheat stalks, the bedbugs will die immediately, and no one will be spared.Or boil the bed board with ginkgo peeled juice, which can also cure bedbugs.You can also put a pair of eel skulls and half a catty of Qin pepper into the brazier together, burn the smoke with sawdust, close the doors and windows tightly so that the smoke will not disperse, and all the bedbugs in the room will die.You can also ignite it with silver beads coated on the incense sticks, and smoke it to the place where the bedbugs are dense, and the bedbugs will die immediately.Smash gastrodia elata and fumigate where there are bedbugs, then there will never be bedbugs again.

"Cooking Collection"

Turn mosquitoes into water (mosquito repellent secret technique)
Use two liang each of Angelica dahurica, Panmujiao, Chuanxiong, dried duckweed, mugwort leaf, white eel bone, one liang each of realgar and atractylodes atractylodes, make coarse powder, knead them into pills with rice soup, add one liang of camphor wood, and burn the smoke together. Mosquitoes turn into water.

"Jen An Tang Sutra"

Peach leaf soup (secret method to repel fleas)
The eel bone can be dried and ground, mixed with sawdust and rolled into a paper tube to burn smoke, so that lice dare not approach.If you water it with peach leaf soup, the lice will die.Or burn the jujube core and smoke it on May [-], and the lice will become extinct.If you put papaya or calamus on the bed, it can also prevent lice.

"Xian Nian Collection"

Willow branches dipped in wine (fly repellent)
At the turn of spring and summer, pick reed stalks to cook soup, soak the coarse cloth with the soup, and wipe the soup on various tableware, so that the flies will not dare to come. Store the snowflakes from the first snow in winter until the next summer, and then take them out and sprinkle them on the tableware, and the flies will also avoid them far away.You can also use willow branches dipped in wine and stick them on the side of the banquet, and all the flies will gather on the willow branches, and the banquet will be peaceful.This method is a last resort, temporary emergency.

"Secret Garden of Ancient and Modern"

Charcoal and wood demarcation (ant-repelling stunt)

Smoke it with cinnabar or silver vermilion to drive away ants. If you use red pepper to dry it, it is even better to add silver vermilion to burn it. It can keep the woodware free of ants for ten or eight years.People often raise bamboo chickens to control termites. In fact, this method is not appropriate, because the chickens often shed their feathers, and the feathers are very easy to produce ants.The second way to control ants: Harvest mustard greens and crotons on Qingming Festival, and dry the kitchen stove and tableware, all kinds of ants will disappear.The third method: collect shepherd's purse flowers and spread them on the stove and sitting and lying places, so ants dare not enter.The fourth method: use fir charcoal to draw an ant path, so that the ants dare not cross it.The fifth method: wipe the table and various utensils with a soapy soup rag, and the ants will not dare to climb.The five methods of preventing ants are all effective.

"Seven revisions"

Putting reeds into boxes (moth repelling technique)

Every fifth day of May, put the lettuce in various boxes to prevent various moths from damaging food or clothing.On the seventh day of the lunar new year, put the reed fence in the blanket bookcase, which can prevent insects well.Or pick reeds and put them in all utensils, which has a particularly good insect-proof effect.Or use camphor to smoke clothes, etc., to prevent bedbugs and other moths.

"Story of Lin Guangji"

Ox gallbladder painting paper (secret technique for silencing frogs)

Living next to the mountains and fields, I originally wanted to seek peace, but every spring and summer, the sound of frogs is like a tide, and it does not stop all night, which is really annoying. There is a wonderful way to find peace.Grind wild chrysanthemums together with stems and leaves into powder and scatter them down the wind, and the sound of frogs around will stop immediately.You can also grind sesame seeds and scatter them with the wind to stop the sound of frogs.You can also paint paper with ox gallbladder, put the paper in the water where the frogs are, and the frogs will no longer dare to bark in a day and a half.

"Book of the Rough God"

Plant neem by the pool (fish farming fast growth technique)
Now there is a wonderful way to make fish grow rapidly.The first method: Put the large fish fry in the pond and feed them with chicken and duck egg yolks, or barley crumbs and soybean powder. In autumn and winter, you can get big fish weighing four to five catties.The second method: when feeding fish fry, you should know that it comes from mud, do not eat other food, and only eat mud.In the mid-spring season, fish fry that are one inch long are caught, and when they are raised in autumn, they can grow to a foot long, and the belly and back of the fish are very fat.The third method: This is the general requirement for fish farming. The fish pond should not be too deep. If the water is too deep and the water is too cold, the fish will not grow up easily; stones should be used to build various holes in the pond to adapt to the characteristics of fish playing everywhere; there are many kinds of plantains beside the pond. Dropping dew can keep the fish healthy; plant neem trees beside the pond, neem seeds fall into the pond, and fish eat neem seeds can be quickly fertilized.If the fish produces roe, it is usually produced at the water mark. Even if it has been dry for ten years, once there is water, the roe will naturally come back to life.

"The Book of Getting Rich"

Distiller's grains mixed with bran (secret method for producing shrimp)
Mix the dried distiller's grains with rice bran and sprinkle them into the pond, and after three to five days, they will become shrimps, and the shrimps are delicious.

"Guang Ya"

Fish mouth filled with tea powder (live fish immortal stunt)

There is a method that can make carp run for ten days and travel thousands of miles without dying.Fill the mouth of the carp with good tea powder, then soak the paper with water, wrap the fish with several layers of wet paper, and then put it in a box, so that the carp is still alive after 20 days.After arriving at the destination, put the carp in the box into the water to raise them. The fish are still very lively and taste far more delicious than ordinary fish when cooked.

"Guang Ya"

The wonder is amazing (storage fruit is not bad stunt)

The method of storing pine nuts: put a small amount of windproof and pine nuts into the bag together to ensure that oil will not leak out for a long time.If the oil has gone bad, spread them on the mouth of straw paper and bake them with fire to make them the same as fresh ones.

The method of storing peaches: put peaches in loose cloth bags and hang them at the air outlet so that they are not easy to deteriorate.

The method of storing jujubes: Use millet grass and jujubes to store them layer by layer, so that they will not be eaten by insects.

The method of storing lotus root: Put the fat and white tender lotus root in wet soil or mud for storage. No matter how long the time is, the lotus root will be the same as the fresh one.If you want to transport the lotus root for a long distance, you can spread a layer of mud on the outside of the lotus root, and it will not be damaged.

How to store oranges: Use a thin blade to lightly draw a circle on the handle of the orange, so the fruity taste will last for a long time.

The method of storing oranges: fill oranges with mung beans for storage, which can last for a long time.Wrap it with pine hair for storage, and it can last for three or four months without drying water.

The method of storing tangerines: Put the tangerines in a basin and cover them with dry damp sand, so that they will not deteriorate for a long time.

The method of storing loquat and bayberry: use a handful of wax water and mint, add a small amount of alum, put it into a small bottle, put the small bottle into the fruit pile, and it will not change the taste and color for a long time.

How to store pears: After early summer, you can harvest the pears and dig a deep ditch, but pay attention not to wet the bottom of the ditch, put the pears in the ditch, and keep them until summer without covering them, or pay attention Don't damage the peel, hide it between the radishes, and keep the pears from touching each other, so that the pears will not rot for years, and you can also sharpen the pear stems and insert them into the radishes, and the pears will not rot either.

The method of storing olives: choose a tin altar with better texture, pick out the complete olives and put them in the altar, and then seal them with multiple layers of paper, and put the olives in the summer solstice of the next year.

The method of storing pomegranates: put the pomegranates together with the branches and leaves in a new tile urn, and seal with more than ten layers of paper, the pomegranates can be stored for several months without rot.

The method of storing lychees: Harvesting lychees should start at dawn, choose bright red lychees, and pick them with dew.Then choose some big bamboos in the bamboo forest to chisel out Confucius, put lychees into the space of each bamboo, and then wrap the mud with bamboo hoops to seal the small holes.In this way, the lychees are nourished by the vitality of the bamboo, and can be stored until winter without changing the color and fragrance.

The method of storing cantaloupe: choose the cantaloupe in the dog days, wrap it with cloth, and seal it in the box, so that it cannot be ventilated.In this way, the cantaloupe will not rot after being stored for nearly a hundred days.

The method of storing apples: select good apples, dry the moisture on the apples, spread a layer of fine sand on the bottom of the bucket, put the apples on the fine sand, then spread another layer of sand, and put another layer of apples, so that Repeat this many times until the bucket is full, then close the lid and store it sealed, so that even if it is stored in the second year, the color, aroma and taste of the apples will not change.

The method of storing persimmons: choose persimmons that are not yet fully ripe, wrap several layers with persimmon leaves, then tie them tightly with straw, and then put them in a container woven with straw for storage, so that they will not deteriorate for a long time.

The method of storing green plums: choose unripe green plums, and then choose some large green bamboos, break the long bamboo into two pieces, put the green plums into the bamboo tube, then close the bamboo, coat the cracks with clay, and tie them with ropes. Bury it in the soil, so that even after several months, the color and taste of greengage will never change.

The method of storing grapes: select the grapes that are just a little bit ripe, pick them with branches, and then apply a layer of wax on the incision, put some grape leaves on the bottom of the barrel or tank, put the grapes on it, and then spread a layer of wax on the incision. Layer leaves, repeat this many times, and finally seal the lid. The grapes can be stored for several months. Effect.

"The Book of Getting Rich"

Turtle back painted with ginger juice

In summer, common turtles are caught, and ginger juice is applied to the back of the turtle. After a short period of time, the back of the turtle will grow green hair. When the green hair grows as long as human hair, a thousand-year-old green-haired turtle will be cultivated. up.

"Secret Garden of Ancient and Modern"

Five-inch ash (the method of making felt free from insects)

The way to keep the felt free from insects: in summer, spread the felt under the mat, and people sleep on the mat, so there will be no insects.If there are too many felts, and not everyone sleeps, collect some burned firewood ash in advance, and in May, spread the ashes all over the felts, with a total thickness of more than five inches; roll up the felts, tie them up, and put them away. Put it in a ventilated, cool place, and it won't get insects.If this is not done, all felts will become infested with worms.

"The Art of Qimin"

Soaking seeds in snow water (seeding without insects)
Put the snowflakes in the twelfth lunar month into pots, bury them in a cool place, and use them to soak the five grains in spring for sowing. The seedlings grown from the soaked seeds will not suffer from diseases and insect pests even if there is a severe drought in the future. And it can harvest better than ordinary seeds.

"The Art of Qimin"

Duck eggs mixed with lime (sowing germination method)
Take a hatched duck egg, mix it with lime and grind it into fine grains, dry it in the sun and store it.When you want to use it, apply this powder on the bottom of the box, and put the seeds of various melons and fruits to be sown on it. The seeds will germinate soon after they are put into the soil. This method is extremely magical.

"Compendium of Materia Medica"

Soak branches in honey water (the secret technique of flower vase)
There is a saying: "All flowers need dew to grow." That is to say, all flowers and plants must be moistened with rain and dew to grow. Even flowers in vases should be replaced with rain and dew in nature every day. The flowers in the vase will bloom for a long time.If there is no rain and dew for three or four days, the flowers will fall off and the stamens will wither.Therefore, you should choose a place where there is no wind and dew floating every night to place the vase, so that the flowers can bloom for a longer period of time.The method of defloration cannot be ignored.It is necessary to choose the most prosperous place among the flowers and trees, and take off the flower branches that have just opened and are elegant. After cutting off the flower branches, put the cuts on the fire and roast them for a while to prevent the juice in the branches from leaking, so that the flowers will bloom for a long time. .Some flowers are not suitable for planting in clean water, so you must pay attention when planting them. For example, plum blossoms and daffodils are suitable for planting in salt water, especially plum blossoms are more suitable for planting with water from pickled pork to remove the oil, so that the bottle of water in winter It will not freeze, and it can make every pistil in the flower branch bloom into flowers.If it is an ancient bottle, it must be planted with light salt water, and the plum blossoms can still bear seeds and leaves.To grow begonias, you must wrap the cut place with mint leaves, and then soak it in mint leaf water, so that the stamens can be fully opened. Add water, and the gardenia will bloom and draw leaves naturally, and the salt in the bottle can still be used after the flowers fade.When the peony is just cut off, it will bloom and draw leaves, and the salt in the bottle can still be used after the flowers fade.When the peony has just been cut off, it should be burned with fire. Instead of raising it with water, it should be soaked in honey. The flowers will naturally prosper and look good, and the honey can still be used after the flowers fade.After pruning a bunch of peonies, the flowers will naturally prosper and look good, and the honey can still be used after the flowers fade.After pruning a bunch of peonies, burn the cuttings with fire and put them in a bottle. Take them out at night and immerse them in a large water tank, and put them back into the bottle in the morning, so that the leaves will be green and the flowers will be fresh.To insert lotus, you can first use cotton to block every small hole in the fold, then wrap it with hair, put it in a bottle first, then pour water into the bottle, and put it in a place where there is no wind and dew at night. Every one is beautiful and open.Hibiscus, bamboo branches and buttercups, etc., should be planted in boiling water.Hollyhock, okra, peony, day lily and other flowers and plants should be burned before inserting, and other flowers should not be burned.

"Fragrant Spectrum"

Horse rescue thaumaturgy (constipated horse)
The way to treat horses that are unable to move due to urinary obstruction and almost die: After smearing the hand with oil, insert it into the anus until it reaches the rectum, and dig out the stagnant feces in the intestine.Put the salt into the urethra, and after a while, the urine will come out, and the urination will be smooth.

"The Art of Qimin"

Egg white smeared pistil (secret technique of slow blooming of flowers)

If there are good guests at home, the main hope is that the flowers will bloom a few days later and wait for the guests. You can use egg white to smear the stamens, so that the flowers can be delayed for two or three days before opening.

"Flower Mirror"

Watering the roots with horse manure (the secret technique of urging flowers to bloom early)

If you want the flowers to bloom early, use a greenhouse to increase the fire to force them. Although the flowers bloom, it will also damage the flowers and trees.Now there is a better method: paste a secret room with paper, dig a hole in the secret room, tie a frame with bamboo strips and put it on the hole, put the flowers on the bamboo frame, and use dung, cow dung, horse urine under the bamboo frame Sulfur, etc., plus fertilizer and water to help ferment, let this smell smoke the flowers and trees, add some boiling water into the pit, fan slightly with a fan, the flowers will be full of heat, and the flowers will bloom naturally in a few days.But sweet-scented osmanthus is the opposite. It blooms by the cool and dry air of autumn wind. Therefore, if you want sweet-scented osmanthus to bloom early, you should put sweet-scented osmanthus in the middle of caves and caves, where the heat cannot invade.Add some cool breeze and feed with dew, and the branches and flowers will open in advance.Another way is to irrigate its roots with sulfur water, and it can also bloom overnight.You can also water the roots with horse manure, and the flowers will all open after three or four days.

"Secret Garden"

Artemisia annua coloring (special technique for preparing face oil)

Use ox bone marrow oil, if there is not enough ox bone marrow oil, you can add some butter; if you don’t have ox bone marrow oil, just use butter. In the copper pot, put two parts of sesame oil, one part of lard, and add some Artemisia annua for coloring.After boiling several times, boil it slowly with a slow fire.After the water in the pot is boiled dry, use silk cotton cloth to filter the thick juice into small containers such as porcelain or lacquerware, and let it cool and solidify.If you want to apply it on your lips as a "lip balm", you can mix it with some cooked cinnabar and wrap it with a layer of green oil.Those who travel far away through frost and snow often bite garlic and rub it on their lips, which can prevent their lips from chapping and avoid evil.The child's face is wrinkled. Cook the pears at night, wash the face with bran soup, and then apply warm pear juice to prevent the skin from cracking.Squeeze out the juice from the cloth dyed with red pomegranate, and apply it on the face, which can also prevent cracking.

"The Art of Qimin"

Complete with five internal organs (bronze man's absolute system)
When Zhang Shugong was serving as a deputy in Xiangzhou, he received a bronze statue of a doctor for testing needles.This bronze statue is made of fine copper, and it has all the viscera inside.There are all kinds of small holes for displaying the acupuncture points of the human body in vitro, and the names of the acupuncture points are marked beside the holes with gold.This is used for trial needles before treatment.Mercury is contained in the depth of the hole, and yellow wax is coated on the outside.When the acupuncture point is stabbed, the needle will go in and the mercury will come out, and if there is a slight deviation, the needle will be blocked and not go in.In this way, it is used for needle testing or practice, so that the doctor can identify the acupuncture points, choose the depth, and inject needles according to the acupuncture points.This is really a miracle.It was later acquired by Zhao Nanzhong and returned to the collection of the Inner Palace.

"Song Barnyard Banknotes"

Mirror sound is long (strange technique)

I got an ancient mirror in Bozhou, and I stroked the surface of the mirror slowly with my hand. When I touched the center of the mirror, it made a sound like burning a tortoise shell.Some people say: "This mirror has interlayers." However, interlayer mirrors cannot be cast, and the two sides must overlap.The mirror is so thin and there are no traces of welding. I am afraid that this mirror is not welded.Even if it is welded, the sound should be dull.Hitting it now, the sound is so clear and long.Since the sound can only be heard after being pressed, the steel and copper cast should be broken, and soft copper cannot be so clear and smooth.I have interviewed all the mirror-casters, and none of them can explain it.

"Mengxi Pen Talk"

Two Flying Cranes (Messaging stunt)

When Lin Bu lived in seclusion in Gushan, Hangzhou, he raised two cranes all year round. After he let them go, they flew high into the sky, hovered in the air for a long time, and then flew into the cage.Lin Bu often drove a small boat to roam around various temples in the West Lake.If guests come to Lin Bu's residence, a boy will go out and open the door to greet the guests, take the guests to their seats, and then open the cage and let the cranes out.After a while, Lin Bu must have come back in a boat, probably because the crane flew out as a signal for the guest.Lin Bu is bold, elegant, arrogant and versatile, but he can't play chess.He once said to people: "I can do everything in the world, except I can't pick shit and play chess."

"Mengxi Pen Talk"

Steamed wheat

The way to raise chickens so that they grow fat quickly, do not go up the roof, do not damage the garden, and are not afraid of crows, owls, foxes, and wild cats: build a wall to form a square frame.Open a small door to make a small factory house, and let the chickens hide from the sun and rain inside.Both the rooster and the hen cut off Zhiling so that they could not fly out.We should often collect more grains, barnyard wheat, and peas, and feed them.We also need to make a small trough to hold water, and use thorns as a fence to make a chicken perch, one foot above the ground, and only need to put grass in it in winter.If it is not wrapped in grass, the chicks will freeze to death.In spring, summer, and autumn, you don’t need to put grass in, just put it on the ground, and let the hens lay eggs and hold eggs in it; and if you put grass in it, worms will grow.The newly hatched chicks are taken out and placed outside, covered with cages.When it grows to the size of a quail, it is taken back and placed in a square frame factory house made of walls.Feed the chickens for food, build another wall frame, and feed them after steaming with wheat.Thirty-seven days later, the chicken will grow fat.

"The Art of Qimin"

Golden Words

In the past, there were three methods of delivering documents by carriage and horse, namely step delivery, horse delivery, and urgent foot delivery.Among them, the urgent delivery is the fastest, walking four hundred miles a day, and only when there is a war, the urgent delivery is used.During the Xining period, there was another kind of gold-lettered plaque, which was similar to the ancient Yuxi. A wooden plaque was painted with red lacquer and painted with golden characters, which looked dazzling.People with a license plate walk as fast as flying lightning, and everyone who sees them gives way in a hurry, and they can travel [-] miles a day.When encountering an order that needs to be sent to the army for emergency execution, the emperor will issue this card, and even the three provinces and the Privy Council have no right to participate.

"Mengxi Pen Talk"

A good poem (tattoo art)

There was a street wanderer in Jingzhou named Ge Qing who had more than [-] tattoos of Bai Juyi's poems all over his body from the neck down. People called him "Bai Sheren Walking Poems".This is much rarer than calligraphy and painting on round fans and embroidery on bow clothes, and it is even more rare if it comes from the market.

"Xiangzu Notes"

Guizhi is the most ruthless (weed killing stunt)

"Yang Wengong Tan Yuan" records that the empress of the south of the Yangtze River hated the grass growing in front of the Qingshu Pavilion. Xu Kai asked people to spread the broken pieces of cinnamon twigs in the cracks of the bricks, and all the old grass died.According to "Lu's Spring and Autumn Annals", "There are no other small trees under the osmanthus twigs." That's why the osmanthus twigs smell very pungent.But it is its nature for Guizhi to kill plants, not because of its pungentness. "Lei Gong Pao Shao Lun" says: "Use osmanthus twigs to make a wooden nail and nail it into a tree, and the tree will die immediately." A nail is very small, and it may not be able to kill a big tree, just because their attributes restrict each other. That's all.

"Mengxi Pen Talk"

One liter of salt

Pigs will grow fat if they eat hemp and salt.The specific method is: take three liters of pockmarked seeds, pound them with a pestle more than 1000 times, and then cook them into soup.Then add one liter of salt, mix it with three dendrobium bran, and feed it to the pigs. After the pigs eat it, they will grow fat quickly.

"Huainan Wanbi Book"

When the rooster crows (wellhead insect repellent method)

In summer, the way to keep the mouth of the urn and the side of the well free of insects: two days before the Ching Ming Festival, when the rooster crows at night, cook the rice, and wash the area around the mouth of the well and the side of the urn with hot water from the pot. There are no ants, and other kinds of insects do not come close to the well and urn, which is very effective.

"The Art of Qimin"

Only old pots can be used (cooking glue stunt)

The method of cooking glue: cooking glue should be done in February, March, September and October, and it cannot be done in other months. (In hot weather, if the glue does not solidify, you cannot make rubber cakes; in cold weather, the glue will freeze and crack, and there is no stickiness.)
Sand cowhide, buffalo hide, and pigskin are all high-quality materials for making glue; donkey, horse, camel, and mule hides are slightly inferior. (Although the stickiness of the glue made is not far behind, donkey hide and horse hide are thin, hairy, and contain less glue, so several times more firewood should be used.) Broken leather shoes, shoe soles, lattice hammer leather, Boot soles, broken livestock collars, as long as they are raw hides, regardless of the length of time, and they are not rotten, they can be used for cooking.It's just that the glue cooked from the new skin is brighter, cleaner, and better in texture, while the skin that has been left for too long is suitable, but it is not as good as the new skin.The kind of fat and ribs are salted, but the cooked skin cannot be used. (It's like once pig iron has been hammered and turned into wrought iron, it can never be melted and cast again-because it can't be tempered.) Only old pots can be used, and the pots must be large and not fade.When a new pot is burned, the skin will stick to the bottom of the pot; if the pot is too small, it will waste firewood; if the pot loses color, the glue will turn black.

"The Art of Qimin"

Cucumber Frost (Washing Zhumishu)

There is also a secret technique for washing away the traces of vermilion, which is roughly the same as washing ink characters.Use a cucumber, cut a small hole next to the melon pedicle, pour one or two official borax, hang it for seven days, remove the melon frost with feathers, and then sweep it again on the seventh day, and accumulate the frost for later use.When in use, moisten the Zhuji and pour on melon cream.After it dries, sweep away the frost, and the traces of vermilion will be washed away without any trace.

"Stowe"

Watermelon Frost (Secret Art of Washing Ink Words)
It is really not easy to wash off the ink. The secret technique is as follows: use a watermelon weighing about three catties, half-cooked is better, make a small hole on the side of the melon, pour in official borax for three cents and five cents, arsenic for three cents and five cents, Grind four coins, grind them into fine powder, and put them into the melon holes.Hang the melon for seven days, and the hoarfrost will come out by itself. Use the feathers to sweep the hoarfrost off the skin of the melon; after another seven days, it will still be swept as before.When using it, first wet the characters with clear water, dip them in white frost, and when they are dry, wipe off the frost with feathers, then the ink characters have been washed away, and the paper is as white as new.

"Stowe"

Crane Flying Butterfly Dance (Mei Die)
Cranegrass, creeping in the wild, has green flowers with a light purple base band, leaves are slightly shorter like willow leaves, and blooms in summer.The southerners call it "Mei Cao". After picking it, it is dried in the sun to treat the face. It is shaped like a flying crane, with wings, tail, beak and feet.When the grass spreads to spring, there will be twin insects between the leaves, and the insects only eat herbivorous insects.The Yue girls often catch the worms, store them in the dowry, raise them like silkworms, and feed them by picking crane grass every day.After the insects are old and do not eat, they molt their shells and become butterflies.The butterfly is red and yellow, so women keep it with them and call it "Mei Die".

"Records of Different Ridge Tables"

Shrimp silk curtain (moth prevention technique)
The precious hand scrolls collected in Baoji will be eaten by moths if they are not stored properly.There are secret techniques hidden in the palace, which can prevent insects: in the box where the hand scroll is hidden, there is a small curtain, which is smooth and yellowish, and is woven with shrimp whiskers.The hand scroll is protected by this shrimp silk curtain, so there is no worry about moths.

"Xiqing Notes"

A Han Bronze Horse (repairing precious jade vessels)
Inspecting Chang Zhongfu, he once obtained a strange technique, which was able to boil copper into platinum. Whenever a treasure or jade vessel was damaged, he used it to mend it, and the vessel was as good as new.After this operation, it was known by the palace, and Chang Zhongfu was promoted to be a doctor of the Ministry of officials.Every time this unique skill is used, it must be brought into the hall to disperse the left and right people, and even relatives, wives and concubines cannot peep.Lu You recorded in "Yanbei Magazine": Zhou Gongjin's house has a bronze horse of Han Dynasty, which was broken into several sections, and the casters welded it with medicine, and it was restored as new.

"Gao Po Different Compilation"

Store fire in the belly of the inkstone (deicing the surface of the inkstone)

Excellent pen and inkstone is a great pleasure in life.However, the ice in the inkstone is really a disaster for the inkstone.Whenever you are proud of writing quickly, the surface of the inkstone will become wrinkled and ice, and the licking of the pen will be blocked. Wouldn't it be frustrating?However, there is a unique skill of warming inkstone, which is widely spread among merchants.The inkstone for keeping accounts in the shop can be made of iron inkstone, and the inkstone can store fire in its abdomen, and it can be deiced in cold winter.In the palace cabinet, tin inkstone is used, and hot soup can be stored in the belly of the inkstone.There are also copper buckets and warm inkstones.The copper bucket is two inches wide and about two inches high, so it is very convenient to carry around.There is also a method of warming inkstone, which has been secretly passed on among many students: grinding ink with fire and wine.The inkstone does not freeze, although the color of the written characters is whiter, not as shiny as Qingjiang, but after all, I can lick the pen freely.

"Country Talk"

Chrysanthemum Heart (Charcoal Knowledge)
To choose good charcoal, it is not necessary to choose animal charcoal, walnut grain, and partridge color, etc. These charcoals are only for scraping off the skin of raw smoke.There are many types of charcoal in the capital, such as charcoal and semi-cooked charcoal, which are specially used for lighting stoves; willow charcoal, which is easy to ignite but does not burn, and there is inevitably smoke; Unavoidable.There is a long strip of charcoal called "chrysanthemum heart", and another white lump charcoal called "silver charcoal".When asked about charcoal burners, they often don't say what their kung fu is, for fear of losing their secret skills.Therefore, there are fewer and fewer good charcoal in Kyoto.

"Country Talk"

Things follow the heart (moving things)

Chen Siyu of the Wei State has supernatural powers. He can use his thoughts to make inanimate objects and utensils move according to his thoughts. People call him Shensi.For example: when he made a wine ladle with a duck head engraved on it, floated in the Jiuqu wine pool, sent out an idea to persuade the duck head to come back, and the duck head turned back and swam towards him.Another example is the magpie-tail spoon, which has a long and straight handle. Wherever Chen Siyu's mind goes, the magpie-tail spoon can be rotated on the wine.

"Three Kingdoms"

Magpie's Nest Stone (Anecdote)

Once Li Fang was in Panyu (now Guangzhou) during the Dragon Boat Festival.The street was full of noisy people, and occasionally I heard the voice of selling lovesickness medicine, which made me feel ridiculous and curious, so I stepped forward to find out what happened among the crowd.It turned out to be an old woman who took out strange herbs and leaves picked from the mountains from her backpack, and sold them to women from rich families, saying that this herbal medicine is called male medicine, and that taking this medicine on the Dragon Boat Festival can make you look like a fairy happy.It is also said that two small stones, called magpie pillows, can be obtained from the magpie's nest, and it is best to get them on the day of the Dragon Boat Festival.When some women encounter these medicines on the road, they often pull out gold hairpins from their heads or untie earrings from their ears immediately, and buy back these medicines according to their value.

"Taiping Guang Ji"

Wood otter fishing (made wood otter)

Wang Ju, the governor of Chenzhou, carved an otter out of wood, and sank into the river to catch fish. After a while, he led his head out of the water and opened his mouth to spit out the fish he was holding.Why is it so dexterous?It turns out that there is a mechanism in the wood otter's mouth that is connected to the bait. After installing the bait, a stone is dropped under the wood otter's belly, which is also connected to the mechanism. Then hold the fish, and at the same time, when the stone falls, the wood otter will surface.The sophistication of this skill is really the work of gods.

"The Ruling and the Wild"

Monk Qijie (wooden monk)

Yang Wulian, a master craftsman, is clever and dexterous, and is good at making all kinds of ingenious playthings.Once, a monk was carved out of wood and placed on Qinzhou Street.The wooden monk holds a bowl, and he can beg for alms by himself. When the bowl is full of money, the mechanism inside will burst out, and the wooden monk will thank everyone for their donation. The money is put into the bowl, and everyone gives alms, and the daily surplus is thousands.

"The Ruling and the Wild"

Wooden Girl Drinking (Wooden Girl)

Yin Wenliang from Luozhou used to be a county magistrate.Naturally well-behaved, likes to drink.He can carve human figures out of wood, put clothes on the little wooden figurines, and the little wooden figurines can act like real people, drink wine for people, and behave in an orderly manner.They are also carved into wood to make prostitutes, who can sing and play the sheng, very rhythmic.If the drink is not finished, the little wooden man will not continue to drink; if the drink is not finished, the wooden prostitute will continue to sing and play the sheng, urging him to drink again and again.The stunt of this wooden man is really inscrutable.

"The Ruling and the Wild"

Nasal drink (brain refreshing stunt)

Minorities in Yongzhou (now Guangxi) and people in villages in Qinzhou often drink water through their noses.The method of nasal drinking is to use a gourd to hold a little water, put a few drops of salt and ginger juice in the water, the gourd has a small hole, insert one end of the small tube into the gourd hole, and the other end into the nostril, absorb the water to lift the brain, and then go down the brain. throat.The rich use silverware, followed by tinware and pottery, and lastly ladles.When drinking through the nose, one must chew a piece of adult fish, then the water can flow into the nose safely without being agitated with the air.Be sure to sigh after drinking, feel cool and refreshed, and feel very comfortable.With this method, you can only drink water. When you drink alcohol or drink with your hands, you don't need to drink through your nose.

"Answers Outside the Ridge"

Xiao Zhijue (ventriloquist)

There is an entertainer in Kyoto who is good at ventriloquism.He can use only a piece of wood as a prop, through the barrier, to produce various foley sounds, and everyone outside the barrier listens, and as soon as the sound is made, various sounds gradually come.He can make the noise of the market, from the opening of the market in the morning and the opening of the doors of the stores, to the evaluation of buyers and sellers, the discussions in the streets, the brokers explaining the business experience to both sides, until the market gradually becomes cold in the evening, and everyone slowly disperses Go to the store and close the door.He can also perform hunting scenes, from the crowd hunting birds and animals, bows and horses neighing, birds singing and animals whistling, to the end of hunting.Sometimes there is a performance of geese flying south in autumn, and the sound passes across the night sky, and sometimes there is a performance of thousands of troops and horses, noisy and chaotic, and the listeners are all shaken by it, as if they are on the scene.Suddenly, snap!Only Chimu slapping the table was heard, the whole hall was silent, and there was no sound.When the barrier is opened, there is only one person, one mouth and one ruler.Mr. Wu Nancun once said: "There are three ancient methods that are not handed down to the present, and 'Xiao' is one of them." The play of onomatopoeia (that is, ventriloquist) is a skill inherited and improved from "Xiao".Now, that entertainer is no longer alive, and his skills have not been handed down.

"Gu Sheng"

Covet those boots (theft)

There was a passerby walking around the street wearing a pair of new boots.Suddenly someone came towards him, bowed deeply, saluted and greeted him.The man wearing the new boots was baffled and said, "I don't know you before, why do I salute you?" go up and go.The man with the new boots thought that this man was drunk, so he didn't care about it. While he was hesitating, another man came to him with a smile and said to him, "How could the man in front do such a wicked thing? His head was exposed to the scorching sun. And why don't you go up to the house and get your hat?" The man with the new boots said, "How can I go up without a ladder?" The man said, "I always like to do good things. I use my shoulder as a ladder, and you step on my shoulder. Take your hat!" So he squatted on the ground, shrugged his shoulders and said, "Get on!" The boot wearer was very grateful, but when he was about to put on his shoulders, the man said angrily, "You are so impatient, your hat is a pity , wouldn’t it be a pity for my clothes? Although your boots are new, there is a lot of mud on the soles of them, do you have the heart to stain my clothes?” The person wearing the new boots apologized, thanked the person again, and He took off the new boots and handed them to him, and stepped on his shoulders wearing only socks.When the man waited for him to get his hat on, he ran away with his new boots.Although the tile climber got the hat, he was so high on the tile that he couldn't get down. Seeing this, passers-by on the street thought the two of them were good friends joking around, and no one cared about them.The person who lost his boots begged the neighbors on the roof tiles, explaining the reason. Some kind-hearted people found a ladder, and the person who lost his boots was able to get down.

"Zi Bu Yu"

Washing water with water (taking good water technique)

According to legend, the cold water in the Yangtze River is the best water in the world.Emperor Gaozong of the Tang Dynasty once made a water bucket out of silver to taste the water in the world.Judging the quality of water is based on the water quality. Therefore, Dingyu Spring Water is the first, followed by Zhongleng Water, and Huiquan Hupao Water is the second.In addition, only the snow water is the lightest, which can be tied with Yuquan. However, the snow water falls from the sky, not from the ground, so the snow water is not good.When the courtiers inspected, they often carried jade spring water back to Beijing for the emperor's use in a cart with a Luan bell.However, due to the long distance, the color and taste of the water will inevitably change due to the turbulence of the boat and vehicle after a long time, you can wash it with spring water from other places, and the color and taste will remain the same after washing.The method of washing water with water is: use a large container to store jade spring water, engrave it on the scale, inject a certain proportion of other water, and after stirring, all the dirt will settle down, while the water above is still clear and clear.This is because the water quality of other water is heavy, so it sinks, and the water quality of Yuquan water is light, so it floats up, and the water on it can be scooped into another container.The method of washing with water is little known in the world.

"Yong Xian Zhai Notes"

Guo Maoer (ventriloquist)

Guo Maoer in Yangzhou was good at oral skills, and his son was proficient in drama. The celebrities and gentlemen at that time loved to associate with them.When Kang Shenyu was in Yangzhou, a friend and Guo Mao'er stood up and asked the master for permission to show a little skill to add to the fun.On the right side of the banquet, several screens were set up, with no lights and candles, and Guo sat behind the screen.The host and guest listened quietly for a long time.Suddenly, I heard two people meet on the way, bowing and saluting, exchanging greetings, their voices sounded like an old man and a young man. Said he was drunk and wanted to leave, but the old man refused, and urged him to drink a few more glasses, the young man then staggered out, thanked each other, and the old man closed the door.The young man staggered, walked for two miles, and fell drunk by the side of the road. Suddenly a man came over and tripped over something. He saw a drunk lying on the ground.So he was sent home half-supported and half-tucked away, but the street gate was closed, and then he called the gatekeeper to get up and open the gate.At this time, a dog came and barked, which immediately caused several dogs to bark.After a while, there were more and more dogs barking. Among them were the old, the young, the far away, the near ones, and the roaring ones.After a long time, the gatekeeper came out and opened the street gate to let the two of them pass.Not long after, when I arrived at the drunk's house, I knocked on the door of a Jiangxi man by mistake. I only heard the Jiangxi man swearing in dialect and the dogs barking again.At this point, the wife of the drunk man went out and opened the door in response to the sound, and the sender said goodbye solemnly.After the wife expresses her gratitude, she helps the drunk to bed, and the drunk asks for tea. When the wife goes to make tea and turns around, she is already snoring loudly and breathing like thunder.Then the wife scolded her husband, muttering and scolding non-stop. After a while, the wife fell asleep too, and the two of them snored like two mouthfuls.Suddenly, in the middle of the night, a cow was heard, the husband got up and vomited, called his wife for tea, muttered, and the husband fell asleep again.The wife got up to urinate and put on her shoes. Fang felt that the shoes were full of the filth spit out by her husband.At this time, the flock of chickens crowed chaotically, and their sounds came out at the same time.After a while, the father of the drunk called his son to get up and said: "It's almost dawn, don't get up yet to kill pigs and sell them." Only then did he know that it was the butcher's house.His son, already sober from drunk, got up and went to the pigsty to feed the pigs. Then he heard the sounds of the pigs snoring, chewing, and fighting for food, and the sound of his father boiling water and pouring water into the fire.His son then tied up a pig. The sounds of the pig being tied up, the neighing, the sharpening of the knife, the sound of the pig being slaughtered, the sound of the pig being slaughtered, the sound of bleeding, and the sound of scalding the pig and shedding its hair, were all vivid and vivid.The father said to his son: "It's dawn, you can go sell it." He also heard the sound of meat being filed, some buying pig heads, some buying pig offal, and some buying pork, there were bargaining sounds, and there were sounds of buyers and sellers counting money.When they were arguing endlessly, there was an uproar, the four were silent, and Guo Mao'er walked out from behind the screen.

"The Unofficial History of the Qing Dynasty"

Disfigured face (cosmetic surgery)

There was a man, surnamed Yan, named Su, styled An Gong, who married the Xing family in Henan and lived in the capital.A malignant sore developed on Xing's cheek, which could not be cured for a long time. After a long time, the cheek, chin and lower teeth all fell off, as if they had been cut by a knife.Xing knew that he was about to die, so Yan Su visited famous doctors for treatment.A doctor said: "This disease is easy to cure. If you give me hundreds of thousands of dollars, I can cure it." Yan Su asked where to treat it. " Yan was very scared, thanked the doctor and went back.When they got home and told about this matter, the sons, daughters, servants and servants thought that since there was hope for a cure, they might as well give it a try, so they secretly bribed the doctor and asked the doctor to try medical skills.That night, the doctor wrapped something in a cloth and came to Yan's house. When he opened it, it was a woman's cheek.The doctor smeared medicine on the joint and sealed it up, ordered the family to pour porridge and soup, half a month later, the sore was healed.Later, he lived in Kuaiji to escape the war.There was a man named Tang Dao Dao who was related to Yan's family. He went to pay a visit and saw a faint red line between the corners of Xing's mouth, connecting his cheeks, so he knew it was stitched.The only thing that is unknown is what kind of thing this object that resembles Xing's chin is, let alone what special technique was used to sew it into shape.

"Yi Jianzhi"

Black Dove White Dove (Heart Technique)
Prime Minister Han Yuru likes to eat exquisite delicacies, and every meal must be perfect and strive for excellence.He is especially fond of pigeon meat, and must eat pigeons with white feathers.Sometimes because there are no white pigeons, he cooks them with pigeons of other colors and eats them. He can always tell that the meat is not white pigeons, and the world finds it strange.However, the ancients have long had this matter.According to the "History of Jin": Fu Jian followed his brother Zilang, and because the country was broken and returned to Jin, Sima Daozi hosted a feast for them. He tried his best to serve all the exquisite delicacies from Jiangyou on the banquet. Can the same be as exquisite as ours?" He replied: "They are all delicious, but the food in Jiangyou is a bit weaker." Later, I asked the cook about cooking, and it was indeed as he said.Sometimes, someone killed a chicken for them to eat, and Lang said while eating: "This kind of chicken is often half-exposed." He sent someone to inspect the chicken shed, and it was true.They were also invited to eat goose meat, and immediately after eating, they knew whether it was a white goose or a black goose. Some people didn't believe it, so they marked it secretly to try it, and every time they tried it, there was no difference.At that time, it was called Zhiwei, which is exactly the same as Han Yuru's ability to distinguish white pigeons.In fact, those who know the taste do not have any wonderful method to pass on, but the way is uniquely obtained in the heart, so they can understand it tacitly.The truth of the world is indeed uniquely obtained from the heart, and only one sage who can achieve tacit understanding appears in 1000 years.It can be deduced from this that there is no doubt that even the sages cannot achieve a tacit understanding of everything at all times, so there are very few people who believe in it.

"Old News of Qu Wei"

Spiritual things (returning to life incense)
Juku Island is located in the eastern part of the West Sea, with a radius of three thousand li and Kunlun in the north. A beast with teeth, a bronze head, and an iron forehead.There is a big mountain on the continent, because it resembles the image of a man and a bird, so it is called the man and bird mountain.There is a huge tree on the mountain, which is very similar to maple. The fragrance of its flowers and leaves can be heard for hundreds of miles.The root heart of this kind of tree is put in a pot made of jade, the juice is boiled, and then the juice is decocted with low heat into soft sugar, and made into pellets.There are six names for this kind of pill, people call it Jingjingxiang, also known as Zhenlingwan, Huishengxiang, Zhensandalwood, Human Bird Jing, Qushixiang.It is a kind of spiritual thing, and its fragrance is hundreds of miles wide.The dead can be resurrected by smelling its fragrance on the ground and will not perish, and it will be more miraculous to smoke the dead with its fragrance.

"A Tale of Ten Continents in the Sea"

Wall Dragon (light skill)

In the Tang Dynasty, Chai Shao's younger brother was known as "Pilong".He is quick in action and superb in martial arts, especially good at flying over eaves and walls.He can raise the rafters, or jump up, as if flying, and stop more than ten steps away. Emperor Taizong of Tang ordered him to fetch the objects from the saddle of Zhao Gong's grandson Wuji, and first sent someone to inform Wuji , make it pay attention to precautions.That night, Wuji didn't sleep and sat on guard when he suddenly saw something like a bird flying into the house, quickly cut off the two pedals on the saddle, Wuji chased it out immediately, and disappeared without a trace.Emperor Taizong of the Tang Dynasty sent him to fetch Princess Danyang's engraved letter pillow.At night, he secretly flew into the princess's room, and sprinkled the princess's face with dust from his hands. As soon as the princess raised her head, he immediately replaced the carved gold letter pillow with another pillow and left.The princess didn't realize that the letter pillow was missing until dawn.He once wore Jimo boots and walked directly from the bottom of the city wall to the top of the brick city without using his hands, and even walked up the low wall of the city wall.He can also walk along the pillars of the Buddha Hall, walk to the eaves, and cross the hundred-foot-high pavilions, easily and without obstacles.Emperor Taizong once said in amazement: "This person can't stay in the capital, you can ask him to be an official in other places."

"Taiping Guang Ji"

Squid juice (dispelling words)
In the old days, there was a folk saying that squid is a small official of Hebodu. Once it encounters a big fish, it will immediately release a black juice, with a radius of several feet, so that it can hide itself and facilitate escape.There is a kind of people in Jiangdong who also write contracts with squid ink to defraud others of their money. When they write, they are written in black and white. After a year, all the words disappear, leaving only a blank sheet of paper.There is a legend in the East China Sea that when King Qin traveled eastward, he threw a counting bag into the sea and it turned into a squid. Therefore, the squid is shaped like a counting bag, and its two whiskers are extremely long.It is also said that there is an anchor (a stone pier for mooring the boat) in the belly of the squid. Once it encounters strong winds and waves, it shakes one of its whiskers to take down the anchor to temporarily fix the position.

"Youyang Miscellaneous"

Anal Practice (Miscellaneous Notes)
In the former Qing Dynasty, there were various household departments in the imperial court, and the bank doctor was the best.Once every three years, after the expiration, the greediest person can get 20 gold, and even the most honest person can get 40.It works from top to bottom, and its subordinate treasurers and book servants are all fat and fat.Especially the soldiers in the warehouse, whose main duty is to carry gold and silver, can directly enter the silver vault, which is a beautiful job that the soldiers envy and yearn for.Kubing is dispatched once every three years, and only 4 people are needed each time.After serving, each person can steal 7000 to [-] taels.Before dispatching officers, the soldiers always find acquaintances, build relationships, and bribe the minister and his officials. Each person must spend at least six to seven thousand taels of silver.When the ceremony of counting and dispatching soldiers was held, Shang Shu sat high in the lobby and rolled the names and counted the dispatches.After the dispatch, all the soldiers bowed their knees and touched the ground with their foreheads to express their heartfelt thanks, just like acting.When ordering to leave the hall, each soldier must have a number of boxers around him to protect him from going out, lest he be hijacked, because some soldiers who are unable to bribe and local villains always gather dozens of people at the steps of the hall, see the soldiers Come out, take advantage of his unpreparedness, rob him and imprison him at home, but do not harm him. After the third or fifth day or seven or eight days, he will be released after the first work date is missed. Point pie.The robbed had no choice but to intercede and give thousands of gold to serve.When Jing Lian was the head of the household, one time, when he was being promoted to the school, a soldier was robbed suddenly. Jing turned a blind eye to it and didn't dare to say a word. He immediately withdrew from the hall.This is not only a leeway for the robbed, but also a trick to get more bribes for yourself.

After the warehouse soldiers sign in for work, they will go into the warehouse to serve the transportation every time the warehouse is opened.The silver treasury is opened fourteen or five times a month, with a total of ten million taels of gold and silver in and out.Each warehouse can have three or four rounds of soldiers, and each round can enter and leave the warehouse seven or eight times at most, and at least three or four times.Calculated by entraining 50 taels of gold and silver each time, you can get 200 taels for four times a month, and 600 taels for three rounds a month, not to mention more than that.When the soldiers in the warehouse enter the warehouse, no matter whether it is cold or hot, they are all naked in front of the court official's case.After entering the warehouse, change into official clothes and pants.It's hard to carry, so you can come out and take a rest.After finishing the work, they still go to the public office naked. They have to raise their arms to the left and right to expose their ribs, squat their legs slightly, open their mouths and let out a goose cry, and then go to the lounge to change their clothes.All the silver stolen from the treasury was hidden in the anus and carried out.It is said that each time a master among them can hide ten Jiangxi round ingots, it is worth a hundred taels.According to legend, these Kubing soldiers have skills passed down from generation to generation.When I was young, I was sodomized first, or stuffed into the anus with a prostitution tool, and then stuffed with eggs coated with sesame oil, and then replaced with duck or goose eggs. If you stuff ten iron pellets with a weight of ten taels, it will not be difficult to get a hundred gold.But it is very rare to be able to pack ten pieces, and it is very common to stuff six or seven pieces.Therefore, Jiangxi round ingots are mostly stolen by the Kubing soldiers. Because Jiangxi ingots are cast smooth and without edges, they are so-called powder poured ingots.Some people have immature anuses, so they are wrapped in pig urine soaked and stuffed in.Therefore, in general, there is no one who does not suffer from anal prolapse and hemorrhoids in old age, which is caused by too much silver in the anus.

"Four Dynasties"

Emperor Xiang (demolition)

During the reign of Xuanhe in the Northern Song Dynasty, there lived a man from Chengdu whose surname was Xie Mingshi and whose style name was Runfu.After a while, he came to the capital, where he specialized in tearing down characters, and could predict people's misfortunes and fortunes.As long as the seeker writes a word at will, Xie Shi can separate and analyze the words and predict the future of the seeker, which is amazing.Therefore, it is very famous in the capital.Soon the fame spread to the court.The emperor wanted to try.I personally wrote the character "Chao" and asked the nobleman to take it for a try. After Xie Shi saw the writing, the nobleman looked at it carefully and said: "This character was not written by you. I can only speak from the words. However, my academic knowledge is limited. , Insignificant, if this word is dismantled, my misfortune and fortune are hard to predict. The chance of development lies in this word, and the distribution of frontiers also lies in this word. Therefore, I really dare not say it." The nobleman was secretly surprised, and said: "You don't have to be afraid , as long as you have something to say, go ahead.” Xie Shi said, “If you take apart the word ‘chao’, it’s October [-]th. The person who wrote this word wasn’t a celestial being born on this day in this month, who else could it be?” ?” Everyone in the audience was shocked.The nobleman immediately galloped back to play.The next day, Xie Shi was summoned to the back garden, and ordered the left and right sides and the concubines to write for him to be separated. Xie Shi discussed disasters and blessings according to the words, and his reasoning was very incisive, so he was ordered to be Cheng Xinlang.

Since then, there have been even more crowds of seekers from all directions.There was an official's wife in the imperial court who was pregnant beyond the due date and wrote the word "Ye" in handwriting, so that her husband could ask her about luck.Xie Shi asked: "This word was written by Mrs. Zun. Isn't it?" The court official asked: "How do you see it?" Xie Shi said: "The words that help understand the predicate are Yan, Zai, Hu, Ye. So it is the help of the public. Write. Mrs. Zun is 31 years old in her prime, isn't she?" The official replied: "Yes." Shi said: "Based on the word 'ye', the upper part is 'thirty' and the lower part is 'one'. The official sent it to It's been a long time, do you want to try to move and change to a local official, but it's not available?" Answer: "I'm worrying about this!" Shi said: "That's because the word 'also' means water means pool. ', if you have a horse, you'll gallop. Now there is no water in the pool, no horses to gallop, and no water and land. Then it is the word "he". Now, I see only "ye" but not "person". In addition, the family property of Mrs. Zun's hometown is also gone, because the word "ye" means "land", and now it is the only I see 'ye' but not 'soil'. Is that right?" The official said, "It's all right. But these are not what I want to ask. Chinei has been pregnant for a month and has not yet given birth. I am worried about this." Shi said: "It must have been thirteen months. Because there is a word 'ten' in the middle of the character 'also', and there are two vertical lines next to it, and a stroke below it, which is 'thirteen' in total. There is another strange thing, I don't want to say more , but the public is asking about this matter, I don't know if I should say it or not?" The court official asked him to say it.Xie Shi then said: "'Ye' means worms are 'snakes' (a variant of snakes). Your wife's pregnancy is probably a snake demon. However, if you don't see insects, you can't do harm. I have medicine, and I can verify it for the public." Surprised and dubious, he invited Shi to his home and ordered his wife to take the medicine, and she gave birth to more than 100 small snakes with a flat belly.People all regard Xie Shi as a god who came down to earth, but they don't know where he learned this unique skill.

"Yi Jianzhi Replenishment"

The Battle of Life and Death (Cock Fighting Cheats)

People in Panyu (now Guangzhou) love cockfighting, especially people from ethnic minorities.Panyu chickens are very brave and aggressive, with sparse and short hair, firm and small head, straight and big feet, sparse and long body, deep eyes and thick skin. wooden chicken.This kind of chicken must win every fight, and the way the locals raise chickens is very special.Make a pier of grass, let the chicken stand on it, and its feet will stand still without tilting; put the rice at a place higher than the head of the chicken, so that the chicken will peck high, and it will bounce high, with its head always erect and its mouth sharp; Trim the upper and lower cock combs to make them short and small, and avoid enemy chickens from pecking and biting; trim and brush the tail feathers to make it easy to hover when fighting; often stir the feathers into the chicken throat to remove its saliva, and wash rice for feeding.In addition, water is often sprayed on its two armpits.There are ways to adjust feeding one by one.Its purpose is to make it fight to the death.The outcome is determined at first sight, and life and death can be decided.Because the chickens that are defeated in the fight are seriously injured, and they can no longer fight for life, so they can only be slaughtered for human consumption.However, a victorious chicken will also age prematurely, and every time it wins a fight, it is bound to be closer to death.

Cockfighting is a form of entertainment as well as a form of gambling.The spectators are blocked, each has its own tricks, betting with gold and silver treasures, the winner wins, and the loser loses.

There are also rules for cockfights, which are generally divided into three games.In the first match, the fighting time is relatively short, if the chicken loses, the owner will hold the chicken for a short rest, remove the saliva, and give water to nourish its energy; in the second match, if the other chicken loses, the owner will hold the chicken for a while Resting and nourishing the breath is the same as before; the third match is the final fight that determines the outcome of the two roosters, and there is no rest in the middle, and the two roosters fight each other, life or death, and they have to fight hard to the end.At the beginning of a cockfight, two roosters meet each other with their heads facing each other, sometimes high and sometimes low, waiting for an opportunity to jump up and attack each other with their claws, and when they are tired, they will circle and peck at each other. The one who pecks, bites and grabs the enemy chicken will win. The chicken owner is very happy when he sees this.

In ancient times, there have been cockfights since the Xia, Shang, and Zhou dynasties. The so-called "mustard shoulder and golden distance" in "Zuo Zhuan" refers to cockfighting.Mustard shoulder is to spread mustard seed powder on the shoulders and armpits at the root of chicken wings. When two chickens are tired from fighting, they will circle around and wait for an opportunity to stab each other's head and armpit, turn over and peck each other. Because mustard seed powder can confuse the eyes of the enemy chicken, it can win .The distance between the golden distance is the claw, which is made of extremely thin metal in the shape of a claw, which is inserted into the chicken pitch. When the chicken jumps up and fights against the enemy chicken, it can stab the neck or even break the head with a single swing of the pitch.Therefore, the golden distance wins at the beginning, and the mustard shoulder wins at the end.

"Answers Outside the Ridge"

Giant snail (snail shell incense)
There is a record in "Materia Medica": the snails born in Yunnan are as big as palms, blue and yellow, and the snails are taken to burn ashes, and those who combine them with incense are often used, which is said to be fragrant.

"Valley Poetry Notes"

No cypress, no fragrance (cutting musk)
It is not for mediocre people to harvest musk.Musk deer is like deer, after eating cypress leaves, there is musk.Ji Kang said: "The musk deer eats the cypress, so it is fragrant."If there are no cypress trees in the mountains, there will be no musk to cut.People who don't know their skills often kill the musk deer by mistake and return without success.

"Materia Medica Notes"

Gamble with your life (take a gecko from your belly)

Among the five poisons, the gecko is also a poison.Geckos are also known as lizards, geckos, and spinosaurs. They like to live between damp walls. The larger ones are two or three inches long, and their tails are several times longer.There is a tofu shop in Pinghu County, and the shop assistants often eat this tofu to bet on the food and drink money of idlers.One day, someone caught a plump gecko, bet with the shop assistant on anchovies, and invited him to another banquet.The store clerk usually swallows it with a tofu wrap when gambling, but this time it is not allowed to wrap it.Seeing that the bets were quite rich, the shop assistant resolutely agreed.As soon as the gecko was brought to the mouth, before the teeth could be raised, the thing was lively in nature and swallowed suddenly.A few days later, there was no illness.Unexpectedly, a year later, the shop clerk gradually became weak and dying.Fang Langzhong, a Jianghu walker, saw it and asked in surprise, insisting that there must be a foreign object in his stomach.The shop clerk's wife recalled: "Maybe the swallowed gecko is in the belly?" Hang the person upside down and apply the powder around the throat.After a while, something protruded from the throat, and I was eager to extract it, but because it was too slippery, I was caught off guard for a while, and suddenly retracted into the abdomen.The doctor sighed: "It's difficult! People will get dizzy if they hang upside down for a long time. If they sit up, the thing will not come out again." The family begged repeatedly, and the doctor put more medicine powder on the throat, and the thing came out again, and immediately used iron tongs Clamp.Everyone looked around, but seeing this gecko was red and bloody all over, it was very frightening.The doctor said: "This thing is not dead after being swallowed, it is conserved in the blood. When a person's blood is flourishing, he can't shake it. Occasionally, the blood is dry, shake it immediately. Fortunately, this thing is male. If it is a female thing, Sanzi In the blood, it is already beyond salvation." Everyone looked at each other in amazement, and they all praised the doctor's exquisite methods.

"Yong'an Notes"

People's traces are gone forever (foot disease cure formula)

Taoist Xu Wenzhen, who claimed to be from Weizhou, haunted wine shops, drank to excess, and ate raw onions and fresh fish.Using fingers as needles and soil as medicine is very effective in curing diseases.Duke Ouyang Wenzhong, governor of Qingzhou, suffered from a foot disease, a rare disease that no doctor could cure.It was only when Xu Wenzhen was called to the mansion that he was saved.Xu Wenzhen taught him the method of attracting qi and blood, so that the blood qi can circulate.Ouyang did what he said, and he recovered from the disease without treatment.Su Dongpo was once taught the formula, and later met Zhou Xiaosun, the county magistrate of Huanggang, who suffered from foot disease. He taught him the formula and healed in seven days.On November [-]nd of the sixth year of Yuanyou, Su Dongpo sat down for a long night with Uncle Bi's father and Ji Mo's father. At this time, they all called Xu Wenzhen a stranger.It's a pity that he possessed a unique skill and disappeared forever.

"Dongpo Zhilin"

Insect collection by dripping urine (urgent collection of cat urine method)
There are worms in the north called gnats, which are similar to centipedes and thin, and are easy to enter the ears and eat people's brains. Zhang Zihe Shixing has three treatments: put gnats into the ears, pour them with cat urine, and they can come out of the ears immediately.The method of taking cat urine: rub cat ears with ginger to get cat urine.

"Stowe"

Male and female pair (humanoid Polygonum multiflorum pseudoseed technique)

Polygonum multiflorum is grown in the Yaoshan Mountains around Liuqing.However, it is rare to see the human form of Polygonum multiflorum in ten years.In order to make huge profits, the Yao people have the unique skill of controlling the human-shaped Polygonum multiflorum.The technique is: use pottery clay to make human figures, divide them into male and female shapes, and then plant yams in them. After a few years, plant the vine leaves of Polygonum multiflorum on the top of the pot holes, expose them to the sun until they are dry, and take out the "human-shaped Polygonum multiflorum" from the pottery clay. ", sold to passers-by.Each pair is worth tens of thousands.The buyer is trustworthy because of his simplicity, but he has fallen into the Yao people's tricks.

"Stowe"

Soil slurry mixed with feces (stop laughing method)
The fungus on the maple tree is not edible, but if you eat it, it will make you laugh.The cure method: You can mix soil slurry with excrement juice and drink it to heal immediately.

"Natural History"

Tell the truth (the secret technique of carving ivory)

Ivory carving, non-knife skills can work.Ivory is strong in nature, but craftsmen who make utensils have to carve landscapes and figures on the ivory, which are as thin as a hair, and if a mistake is made, all previous efforts will be wasted.There is a secret method passed down by the craftsman, which can make the skill of carving teeth, and everyone can learn it.The technique is: first use a tooth saw to decompose the ivory into the carved embryo shape, and then soak the ivory in vinegar overnight, and the ivory will be as soft as tofu.Since it is soft, it can be carved, and the knife is light and quick, so you can do whatever you want.After carving, it is most critical to restore the texture of the ivory to its soft texture.The secret technique is: boil and burn the carved teeth with horsetail grass, and the teeth will be as strong as before.People who don't know the technique often marvel at the miracle of tooth carving, but they don't know that they have been lied to.Of course, to have a superior product, kung fu still lies in the skill of handling the knife.If you are not familiar with the knife technique, even if you carve a radish, it is difficult to finish it.

"Stowe"

White Lime (Hair Dye Secret)

Take hu powder, white lime, etc., and mix them with water evenly, and apply them on the hair and sideburns to keep them black and not white.The method is to apply hufen lime water to the hair first, then apply a layer of hair oil, then wrap it with a scarf to keep it warm, and wash it off with warm water when it is about to dry.If the water is too hot, the medicine cannot adhere to the hair, and if it is washed too late, the hair will easily break.If you want to dye white hair black, you should wash it with hot water, because if the hair is greasy, the medicine will not adhere to it.Before dyeing, the hair or beard should be rubbed to make it hot and dry.

"Natural History"

Leaf of pine and cypress

In the years of famine and chaos, when there is no food, you can chop the pine and cypress leaves and send them down with water, but you can only live without hunger.It is best to serve it with thin porridge and rice soup.When using five combinations of cypress leaves and three combinations of pine leaves, it should not be excessive.

"Taiping Royal View"

Coconut cup (anti-poisoning secret)

Coconut shells are used to make cups and other utensils, which will have cracks when they touch poison, so Lingnan people mostly use them to make food utensils to avoid Gu and prevent poisoning.

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