On May 7, 1947, three days after setting off from Wang's house in Peiping, we took two buffalo carts and rushed to Wushan, a mist-filled place with clear water, many peaks, and during this period, I couldn't help but ask the driver about the local customs.
Wushan, in terms of Feng Shui, is an excellent place. It can absorb the atmosphere of Chongqing, Hunan, and Hubei, and gather the abyss of water hidden in the Three Gorges. Most of the burials here are dry burials, that is, hanging the coffin on the cliff.
The purpose is to evaporate the water in the corpse to prevent it from decomposing.
However, this hanging burial custom can only be afforded by wealthy families, because it requires a lot of labor. For example, there are mountain kings on some mountains. It cannot be arranged without spending some money. Ordinary people are still buried in the sand. Therefore, the Yangtze River
In this area, corpse exorcism is also popular, driving the transformed corpses to dry places to settle down. When encountering troublesome blood corpses and drought demons, they must crush them with huge rocks.
For example, in the profession of driving corpses, there have been counterfeits throughout the ages. For example, those who returned to their hometown from a foreign land were not driven by people, but pulled by ox carts and horse carts. Some were simply smuggled by desperadoes.
During the Anti-Japanese War a few years ago, the nearby villagers had to hide in the mountains as a last resort. Some landowners did not hesitate to marry their daughters to the king of the mountain in order to survive. The poor ones simply packed up and joined the bandits.
But there are also more young people who have joined the army and sent their parents directly to the mountains. Those mountain kings can escape, but the monks cannot escape the temple. They dare not cause trouble and bully those military families. If they go into the mountains to crack down on bandits in the future, those intruders will
Children who went out to join the army might be able to bring a message back to remind them. Therefore, the parents of young people who went to the battlefield were given preferential treatment by the mountain kings and local snakes.
But in fact, there are still a majority of people who are afraid of death. Those who stay and die on the mountain will eventually be unable to be buried on the mountain, unless it is a hanging burial. But for the authentic hanging burial, the best technique is undoubtedly the mountain-moving Taoist.
Everyone within a hundred miles knew that the Banshan Sect was in Wushan, but no one had ever found it. They could only wait for them to come down the mountain to ask for help, and then they would do such a thing incidentally.
Poor families can only join together with their whole family to hire a cheaper corpse exorcist. The owner of the corpse exorcist is in Sichuan, and they sell salt and tobacco. They have to go to the Three Gorges Port to hand over the goods, and they must pass through the Wushan area on the way.
By the way, they drove away two wet corpses that had been raised, sealed their seven orifices and rushed to the place where the corpses were dead, and then built a jade-patterned sarcophagus to bury them in a grave.
Usually, when tomb robbers dig up a sarcophagus carved with jian patterns, most knowledgeable people will spit, indicating bad luck, and have to fill it back with soil.
When we got off the train, we all changed into local plain clothes in order not to attract attention and attract criticism. Unexpectedly, these two coachmen talked to each other and sang and talked about these things along the way.
I thought we would be scared, but I didn’t expect that the more we listened, the more energetic we would become. The two coachmen couldn’t help but look sad.
Zhou Tianling sneered and leaned close to my ear, "Hey, these two coachmen are not good people. They are probably the spies on the hills nearby. They saw that we were young and fair and felt that we were intimidated, so we retreated in spite of the difficulties.
, they can still make money again, if they dare to threaten later, leave it to me, after all, this is my territory, these dog teeth who usually occupy the top of the mountain and make themselves kings, and eat shredded meat in the soup.