The so-called clean house has a long history in traditional customs. Cleaning means to clean up and clean up, that is to say, to clean up the dirty and clean things in the house that are invisible to the naked eye. If the home is "unclean", there will be some unlucky things, which will affect the safety and health of the family and also affect luck, and some may even have diseases or disasters.
In some places along the southern coast of our country, there are still very complicated house cleaning ceremonies. When moving to a new house or buying a new house, prepare incense, candles, paper, sacrifices, whole grains, bowls, chopsticks, wine and vegetables, and then invite a priest.
Among the general public in other regions, the most common house cleaning methods are as follows.
One is the Five Grains Method. This method is the oldest and the least used. You need to prepare five kinds of grains: rice, millet, sorghum, soybeans, and corn. Some people say that you can replace them, as long as they are grains that can satisfy hunger and keep you full. Then prepare half a bowl of edible salt and three sticks of incense.
Put a chair in the middle of the house, place a bowl filled with grains on it, light three pillars of fragrance facing the east, and recite words such as the date of moving, please kill evil spirits and retreat, and please bless the immortal family. , After chanting, insert the three sticks of incense into the bowl filled with grains. Why three sticks of incense? Because it is the door god, the kitchen god and the house god to be warned.
When the incense burns out, mix the incense ash with salt and grains, and spread them evenly on the ground in the room. Remember to sprinkle from the inside to the outside, and wait until the room is full, just as people back out of the room.
Then wait for half an hour, and use a new broom to sweep out the grains, salt, and ash on the ground from the inside out.
The reason why this method is used less and less now is also very simple, waste.
People in ancient times had little food and salt, so it was expensive and costly to use this method. Although people today are not short of these things, this method is not irreplaceable, so gradually no one uses it.
The house cleaning method commonly used by the ancients is actually the willow branch method.
Three days before moving into the new house, the doors and windows of all the rooms were opened for ventilation, and then a willow branch was inserted in each room to raise water. Wait until the day before moving, take the willow branches, dip them in nectar, and sprinkle them all over the house.
The only troublesome point in this method is the nectar.
Manna water can be rootless water that descended from the sky, it can be purified water that has been offered to Buddhas and gods, or it can be water that has just been drawn from a well.
The ancients often used it because most people wanted to find a well nearby, and it was not difficult to bring a bucket of water up, and willow branches were not a rare thing.
But in the eyes of people nowadays, rootless water does not have that much time to spare, and well water is even more difficult to find in cities. Therefore, the more common and common way for people to purify their houses is the method of offering incense.
Use an incense such as sandalwood that has effects such as calming the nerves or repelling insects, and light a stick in each room. In the first three days of moving, do this once a day in the morning and evening, and you can easily complete house cleaning and deworming. Wait until the day of moving to clean out the incense ash.
The method of respecting incense is more suitable for the cleaning method of contemporary lazy people. It's not so much metaphysics, it's better to say it's science, to get rid of unpleasant smells in the house, and drive away small mosquitoes, so that the comfort level will naturally be maximized after check-in.
But these are not the house-cleaning methods that the horse celestial beings would use.
If you go out and move, you must move with the hall, and you are not alone, there are also a group of immortals in the hall. In this case, it is faster to clean the house, and let the fairy house of his own family go to clean up.
If it is a good guest, it is better to send it away. If it is a bad guest, there will be a gang fight.
Miyou's choice is group fights.
"Otherwise, I was bullied for nothing, and my eyes were swollen from crying for nothing?" Miyou said.
Mi You knelt on the futon in front of the entrance of the hall and lit five sticks of incense.
She hasn't set up the whole hall yet, it's only halfway through the hall, and she can't recite the mantra of inviting immortals. Her body and practice are not yet to the point where she can invite immortals at any time, so naturally she can't light incense for the whole hall, after all, the fairy family in the hall has not yet arrived Qi it.
After she lit the incense, she silently thought about what to do.
"Old fairies, please help me, drive out all the idlers in this room, and beat up those who threw emotional induction at me before driving out..."
Afraid that the silent recitation would not be effective and could not be conveyed properly, Miyou thought that since she was the only one at home, and the master could see it from a distance, and no one else knew about it, she simply read it in a low voice.
While chanting, she held the incense high above her head and began to turn the incense on top of her head.
There are also many sayings about turning incense. In some places, the object of consecration is to turn it on the incense burner for a few times to be considered as consecrated. Some say that the way of heaven is left-handed, and the authentic way is right-handed, and some say that it is only for the sake of incense to be conveyed. The specific reasons cannot be tested, but the rules of turning incense in different places are also different.
According to the method taught by the master, Miyou turned the incense three times to the left and four times to the right on top of her head.
After spinning, she inserted the incense into the incense burner one by one.
With the action of her inserting the incense, the ghost incense burns a lot faster in an instant, as if someone took a sip on the incense head, the incense burns a lot, and then this ghost incense is much shorter than the other incense few.
Miyou felt a chill all over her body, and then lightened. As if some fairy family grabbed something from her body and took it away, she roared away.
"My Xian'er is awesome." Thinking happily in her heart, Miyou reached out to grab the bowl she had prepared earlier.
As if hearing her inner voice, there seemed to be someone giggling next to her ear, so lightly that Miyou almost thought she had heard it wrong.
She picked up the white porcelain bowl and poured high-strength white wine into it. Then, with the bowl in hand, he walked to the innermost room of the house, and began to dust the corner with white wine, cursing angrily while dusting.
The momentum of the horse fairy is very important.
There is a saying that ghosts are afraid of evil people. Not only ghosts are afraid of evil people, but also immortals. If you have a good temper, you can easily be bullied. It's like ordinary people raising cats and dogs. If they don't educate cats and dogs well, the little pets at home will turn upside down and bully them.
Xiao Yining also suffered this kind of loss because of his soft temper in the early years. Now that it's Miyou, Miyou, who subconsciously thought that all the ghosts of the fairy family can discuss and communicate reasonably, also stumbled here.
People have a lot of nonsense, unreasonable or illogical or unreasonable things, let alone ghosts
According to the master, swearing and swearing are all right, Mi You gritted her teeth and worked hard for a long time before she said: "Is your meow sick?"
Daoist Xu almost spit out the tea at the other end of the video, he laughed and shook his head.
Now that she had opened her mouth, Miyou didn't force herself, and while she was dusting off the white wine, she began to spout ghosts aggressively: "Toasting is not a punishment! Did I knock on the door when I moved? Ah? Did I tell you?" Yes, I moved here, just watch, don’t make trouble with me? Ah? Isn’t it?”
"It's fine to watch the excitement. It's noisy all day long. Waves of people come here, making the atmosphere in the house non-stop. I can't sleep well, and I didn't say anything. I just changed jobs, don't I want to take a break? ?”
"I'm already bored at work, and you still come to make things difficult for me! Don't you know how to say it properly? Do you have a begging attitude if you ask me to do something? Did you say hello and you jumped on me? You wronged you If you want to cry, cry yourself! Why do you want me to cry? I don’t need money for beauty treatment?”
The more Miyou talked, the angrier she became, and the movement of dusting off the wine became more vigorous, and the mellow aroma of white wine wafted throughout the room.
"Old fairy, help me beat me harder, I'm so mad. Smelly shameless!"
After dusting the whole room and finally reaching the door, Miyou lowered her volume and said in a low voice, "Let's roll the ball!"
She opened the door and poured out the little liquor left.
There was a soft "crash", and the smell of white wine wafted in the corridor. In a trance, Miyou seemed to feel that some immortals around her were walking back happily after exercising their muscles and bones. It seemed that someone had left. When he passed by, he patted her on the shoulder lightly, and someone came up to stick with her.
Miyou waited until all the immortals had returned to the hall and everything was clear before closing the door.
She let out a long breath, feeling that since she moved, the house has never been so quiet and peaceful.
"I should have done this long ago," she murmured.
The clean house is complete.