Fangzheng saw the photo sent by Gao Shuhua, which was a shrine cabinet.
The shrine cabinet is made in the style of ancient pavilions, with gates and pillars...the shape is the same as that of ancient pavilions.
The place where the gods or ancestors should have been placed, but there is a door in the shape of a door.
It was a very old black-and-white photo. The shrine cabinet was already very dilapidated, as if it had been smashed and burned by fire, so it was pitch black.
Even the cabinet door in the shape of a gate is only one left, and the other one has disappeared.
The photo was taken in a village where the corpses of the villagers were lying on the ground. Looking at the clothes of the corpses on the ground, they looked like the clothes before the reform and opening up.
Although this is a black and white photo with a sense of antiquity, Fangzheng recognized the smashed shrine cabinet the first time he saw it. It looked like the shrine cabinet he encountered in Siam , There are seven or eight points alike.
Although not belonging to the same.
But it should come from one place.
"That's right, it's this thing." Fangzheng replied textually.
After Fangzheng finished replying to the text, he began to zoom in on the photo, trying to see what was in the shrine cabinet
He is still very curious about what is in the shrine cabinet, and he has not seen the true face of that thing until now.
However, in the era of black and white photos, the pixels of the photos themselves were not high. In addition, Gao Shuhua’s second photo shoot, plus network transmission, will more or less lose some pixels, which makes the photos look more blurred .
There was nothing to be seen in the shrine cabinet except darkness.
So, Fangzheng asked curiously: "What is this thing?"
Gao Shuhua: "This is the record of the Gao family that I found. This thing is called a dead man."
corpse
According to Gao Shuhua's next statement, the first time cadavers appeared was in the Xia Dynasty.
At that time, it was called 'Xia Lishi', and then it was renamed 'Yin Zuozie', 'Zhou Zuozie' and so on several times. The names were different in different dynasties, until later there was a unified name, Shifu.
In ancient myths and stories, incense and sacrifices have always been a very important link, which runs through to this day.
Most people only know that pigs, sheep, cattle, chickens and livestock are sacrificed, and even living people are sacrificed in a few places, but they don't know that there are sacrifices to dead bodies.
As early as in "Shangbo Bamboo Book VI. Ping Wang asked Zheng Shou", "Book of Rites. In ancient books such as "Qu Li" and "Historical Records? Gui Ce Biography", there are already records of words such as corpse temple and corpse blessing. In ancient times of feudal superstition, in addition to living sacrifices, there were dead sacrifices.
Therefore, in the era of the ancients, corpses were mainly used to worship deceased ancestors;
Or the corpse represents the main card of the god. Taoism is also called the god tablet, etc., and Buddhism is called the lotus seat, lotus seat, etc. It is a sacrificial activity in which the gods carry the corpse.
No matter which explanation it is, it is a kind of sacrifice by the ancients.
But later, someone came up with the idea of offering sacrifices.
Incense is burned to ancestors or gods, but living people are not blessed to enjoy this incense!
then what should we do
You can only make yourself into a dead person.
Gao Shuhua: "The recovery of the spiritual energy is reincarnated repeatedly. As time goes on, the difficulty and time interval of each recovery of the spiritual energy becomes longer and longer. Crazy many practitioners, such as the tomb guard who made himself into a paper piercing man alive, and continued to practice in another way. Another example is the corpse man, the same is true."
dead man.
Corpse means sacrifice by the ancients, and it is also a pseudonym, referring to the corpse of the dead.
Fu means a certain occupation, such as farmer, groom, coachman, master, soldier, etc.
Of course, cadavers dare not plunder the incense of gods, but they also dare not blatantly plunder the incense of ancestors on other people's temples. That is no different from digging someone's ancestral grave.
Therefore, the corpse man learned to hide himself, hiding himself as the owner of the incense candle shop, and selling incense candles, shrines, spirit cards, etc. as a cover. In fact, he was doing the business of cutting off the incense of other people's ancestors. Moreover, they are still focusing on those families who are prosperous and wealthy.
That's how the character "husband" in Shifu comes from.
Represents a profession.
Things like this that harm others, benefit oneself, and harm people's morality will naturally not be accepted by the world when it is revealed one day, especially offending the big and prosperous families such as princes and nobles.
Just like the Assassins, they were completely wiped out in the country and disappeared for hundreds of years.
Fangzheng was attracted by the story Gao Shuhua told.
Among them are Gao Shuhua's dictation, there are also the content deduced by Gao Shuhua combined with personal guesses, and there are also Gao's records from Gao Shuhua's photos.
Gao Shuhua continued to talk about the past of the dead man: "Just when everyone thought that the dead man had been completely extinct, but just before the reform and opening up, the dead man who had been extinct for hundreds of years appeared again."
Fangzheng continued to listen carefully.
Hundreds of years of hiding in Tibet and inner depression have made the descendants of these cadavers more cruel. They changed the way of incense to be more sinister and inhumane. No longer like the cadavers in the past, they will carefully hide their identities and only dare to practice secretly. When the descendants of these cadavers walk out of the mountain where they hide, they are like a long-suppressed volcano erupting, and they are directly from village to village. Tucun.
Replace the gods with corpses, first give ordinary people some small favors, and then let ordinary people burn incense and worship gods to them day and night, and then a village, a village polluted, regardless of the old and weak, women and children, pregnant women and children, all became their incense tool. Moreover, it is a vicious plunder regardless of consequences and casualties. People burn incense and worship without eating or drinking. Don’t say that people can survive for five days without drinking water. It takes only three days for people to burn out incense and die.
Who would have thought that there are survivors who have disappeared for hundreds of years and have been hiding in the depths of the mountain. When a Taoist priest accidentally passed by, it was too late, and the people in several nearby villages were all dead. It took several days to transport the corpses by truck... The villages and corpses in the photos are the same villages as before.
corpse
Hearing this, Fangzheng immediately thought of the shopping mall that was burnt to ruins. He found two kinds of corpses in the shopping mall.
One is the burned corpse of a living person.
Another kind is the corpses of the dead who were burned to death, and there are a large number of corpses.
These corpses had already been hidden on the ceiling in advance, and in the end they deliberately pretended to be burned to death.
Fangzheng has already confirmed it.
These corpses should have been fished by corpses, burned incense and worshiped gods continuously, and finally died of exhaustion of soul fire and hunger.
Gao Shuhua's story also made Fangzheng understand a truth.
In the future, regardless of buying shrines or incense candles, try not to buy them online, try to find local trustworthy and time-honored stores, and don’t buy shrines with unknown origins because of small losses.
After all, it is used to worship gods or ancestors.
Who knew that if you bought a shrine of unknown origin, even if you put the ancestral spirit card, would you end up worshiping your own ancestors or some filthy thing that hurt others
(end of this chapter)