Vulgar Master

Blindly pretending to be dirty, please go all the way to the gods.

Filling with viscera is a custom in traditional Chinese sacrificial ceremonies.

Many traditional folk customs and religious beliefs in history have the application of statues of gods and Buddhas, such as the rituals and music ceremonies of the royal court to worship the sky and ancestors, the golden statues of Buddha statues in temples and Taoist temples, and asking the gods to ward off evil spirits and attract wealth to seek child protection in the house. , The town tomb after the death of the person is buried and so on.

The manufacturing process of **** statues is complicated, and the ceremony of inviting gods to consecrate them is complicated.

The statues of gods are usually made of stone, clay, brass, wood, etc., and are carved and formed by craftsmen. According to custom, the statues at this time can only be regarded as a handicraft product, an empty shell, and it will not work if you worship and eat incense. To go through the consecration ceremony, including withdrawing from Luban, pretending to be dirty, putting on robes, inviting eminent monks and old Taoists to do the practice to invite the gods, and inviting the aura of the gods into the statues, it is considered spiritual.

Among them, the filling of viscera refers to the process of filling the interior of the idol with various instruments, scriptures, medicinal materials, treasures, incantations, utensils...the process of imparting internal organs and spiritual energy to the idol, among which there are many ways, according to different religious schools, Invite the gods and gods of different paths, and invite different gentlemen, and the content of the dirty content used is also different.

For example, gold, silver, copper and iron, five-color grains and ropes, yellow table Tibetan talismans, mountain materials, Chinese medicine, bronze mirror scriptures, etc. are often used in Taoist dirty clothes. Buddhist dirty clothes often include Dharma body relics, five Dharanis, Twelve medicinal essences, etc., and a special book "Buddha's Commentary on the Measurement of Statues" is the regulations for statue statues. In addition, there are many feudal superstitions and folk customs of wild gods and gods.

Because it is mostly related to the theory of cows, ghosts, snakes and gods, there are many related folklore legends in the folk.

It is recorded in the "Song Barnyard Notes" that during the reign of Emperor Huizong of the Song Dynasty, ancient mausoleums were excavated in the Lianghuai civil engineering site, and many bronze wares were unearthed from the tombs, especially a group of animal head statues. ".

According to historical research, the animal head statue is made of bronze, with exquisite craftsmanship and good quality. A complete set of twelve were unearthed. According to the astronomical twelve earthly branches, they are all animal heads and human beings. Textual research on the emblem and seal of auspicious patterns is at least the sacrificial vessels before the Han Dynasty, and the specific dynasty year is unknown.

At that time, during the Battle of Huashigang in the Northern Song Dynasty, Song Huizong was arrogant and extravagant, and sought strange things in the world. Knowing that this beast head was unearthed, he was overjoyed and ordered Suzhou to be transported by the bureau to Kaifeng to be presented to the Holy Spirit, but unexpectedly encountered soldiers and bandits during the transportation. Looting, Gangyun was stolen, and the head of the beast was also lost, whose whereabouts are unknown.

Huizong was furious, and then it was the bandit suppression and the many people in the Yingfeng Bureau came out to take the blame. These are after events and have little to do with this story, so I won't go into details, just talk about the stolen beast head statue, a history book At the end of the middle, I also said a loss, and it ended hastily, and there is no other record.

However, the history is long and broad, and the official historical records are only general events and chronology, which is only a drop in the bucket. More stories that happened in every corner of the country and cities in China in that era have to be researched and explored in the unofficial history and local folk rumors.

Although the stolen animal head statue is no longer recorded in the official history, there are always stories circulating in the local area of ​​Kaifeng, Henan Province. During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, some fragments of the suspected bronze animal head statue were leaked out of the local antiques and toys market. It is said that they appeared on the market. The animal head part of the bronze Yinhu statue was bought and collected by a salt merchant in the two Huai Rivers at a high price.

I don't know if it's true or not, but there are many rumors in the market that point to one point. It is said that the bronze beast head statues of the twelve earthly branches were filled with valuables and dirty, full of buried gold and silver treasures. After the wealth was sold, the shell fragments of the animal head statue flowed into the Wenwan market, and the bandits who got the treasure had already changed their bodies, washed their hands with gold plates, and became local tyrants with this windfall.

There are even some more rumors about cows, ghosts and snakes and folk rumors. The head of the beast was unearthed from the tomb. It was an ancient sacrificial vessel. It was stained with unidentified ghosts and dirty things. Greedy bandits, let the scourge come.

There are also many local superstitions of ghosts and ghosts, such as the Tai Sui who eats the urinal at night, the donkey that has been dead for half a year crawling out to pull the mill, and the old lady crying and mourning in the belly of the eldest girl... They are all linked to it, feudal market well The broken mouth of the common people is the most bragging, and the second is gossip, which has spawned many local customs and superstitions.

The rumors and rumors in these places are definitely not true, but not all of them are false. Without Feng Shui, there will be no waves, and if there is no soil tree, there will be no roots. There are rumors about the appearance of dirty bronze animal head statues of the twelve earthly branches. There are also some sayings.

Therefore, after consulting and researching relevant unofficial history and local folklore rumors, the author compiled and summarized, sorted out and polished it, set up a stage, and wrote this story, "The Secular Master".

The story of "The Secular Master" is guided by the whereabouts of the "pretending to be dirty" of the stolen bronze beast head statues of the twelve Earthly Branches, combined with various local folk stories compiled by the author, true historical facts, some of which happened in history, and some of them are There are hearsays, some of which are artistic processing required for the wonderful story, so I can say it, I can listen to it, don't take it seriously, and it's a pleasure to be curious.

The age and personnel affairs of the story can’t be researched, and it doesn’t need to be studied in detail, it’s all fictional.

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