Chapter 324: Miao Jiang
For Miao Jiang, Qin Feng himself has not seen it.
But Qin Feng knew very well that this was due to the old man's knowledge and the classics he left behind.
Entering the hotel, the two did not act that night, but took a temporary rest.
In folk legends, there was a Tusi Dynasty that existed for 800 years in the history of Xiangxi, which practiced a very cruel feudal serfdom.
The common people are oppressed, and the fate of women is more bitter than that of men, and they have no rights to life. Women in Xiangxi, especially Miao women.
For the sake of the minimum right to life, they are forced to take measures to protect themselves.
They caught dozens of smaller, poisonous animals from the mountains, put them together in buckets and covered them with lids, and did not feed them, forcing the hungry animals to kill each other.
The remaining largest animal has the poison of dozens of poisonous small animals all over its body, becoming highly poisonous animals, which are dried and ground into powder by people and stored in bottles, which is "Gu poison".
If a woman in Xiangxi is violated, she will quietly pour the Gu poison hidden in her fingernails into the enemy's teacup, wine cup, or meal, or water tank, which is called "releasing Gu". Only those who release Gu have a unique antidote.
This rumor is actually a statement about the art of Gu worms.
Qin Feng knew that in the feng shui world, Xiangxi's "Gu Technique" and Thailand's "Head Lowering Technique" were known as the two major evil arts in Southeast Asia.
Xiangxi's Gu technique is the same as Xiangxi's corpse chasing, and unlike the corpse, Gu release is almost all left in Xiangxi, and the corpse is mainly spread in the four counties of Yuanling, Luxi, Chenxi, and Lipu in Xiangxi.
Gu is commonly known as the "grass ghost" in Xiangxi, and according to legend, it is only attached to women and harms others.
Those so-called women with Gu are called "grass ghost women".
The so-called Gu release method and what Gu looks like, except for the saying that has been passed down from generation to generation, no one has ever seen it, but it is deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.
In the conceptual world of the Miao people, Gu has snake Gu, frog Gu, ant Gu, and so on.
Gu multiplied too much on people with Gu, and if they couldn't find anything to eat, they would attack the Gu person himself, ask for food, and make the Gu master uncomfortable, so he would release Gu out and harm others.
In fact, this kind of formidable Gu is not the patent of the Miao people.
Gu art has long been widely spread in the Jiangnan region of ancient China. Originally, Gu referred to insects that were born in utensils, and later, moths and other objects born after grain decay were also called Gu.
The ancients believed that Gu had mysterious properties and great toxicity, so it was also called poisonous Gu, which could enter the human body through diet and cause diseases.
The patient seems to be bewitched by a ghost and is delirious.
Most of the pre-Qin people mentioned Gu worms referred to naturally occurring mysterious poisonous insects.
The long-term poisonous superstition has developed the concept and practice of creating Gu people.
According to scholars' research, during the Warring States Period, people in the Central Plains had already used and taught the method of creating Gu and harming people.
The Miao people are located in many remote areas, and in the old days, medicine was backward, and many diseases could not be effectively treated.
Therefore, every time the medical treatment is ineffective, it is often blamed on Gu.
With the popularization of scientific and cultural knowledge in the Miao area and the improvement of the medical level, the influence of Gu superstition in the Miao area is now getting smaller and smaller.
Putting Gu, in Xiangxi Miao District, is a woman's patent, called Gu Po.
Although no one can come up with concrete evidence, outsiders and even locals are convinced of the existence of Gu Po, and there is even a saying that "no Gu can not be a village".
A certain poor and ragged elderly woman was pointed and pointed by the villagers and recognized as a Gu woman, and she couldn't turn over for a lifetime, and finally died of old age and illness in poverty, the reason may be that a child who ate a piece of her sweet glutinous rice cake came home many years ago and died of an inexplicable illness, so it was determined that she put Gu in the food.
There are many miasma in the seedling field, many poisonous insects, and there are not a few people who die suddenly inexplicably, so Gu Po has a solid foundation for making something out of nothing in the gossip.
For travelers from outside the mountains, the mystery and horror of Gu are even more irritating to people's nerves.
It is rumored that many of the Gu women are young women, living alone, if they fancy a foreigner, they will put Gu in the tea he drinks, and the stranger then got a strange disease, and he couldn't start from the hotel, and it was useless to delay the doctor and ask for medicine.
Gu Po used this to control this unlucky offspring and honestly keep him by his side.
The role of releasing Gu is not all about taking people's lives, but also about controlling people and blackmailing people, which may be a more frightening thing than death.
This kind of Gu is a woman who catches a very poisonous insect in the mountains, sometimes a centipede, sometimes a scorpion, and goes home and feeds it with her own menstrual blood in a crockpot, and recites spells and casts spells on it every day.
After being raised, the poisonous insect is extremely fat, baked and ground into powder, hidden in the nails, and flicked to people's tea bowls very secretly, and the Gu is put away.
It is said that the technique of this bullet is also very exquisite, with one finger and two fingers, the symptoms of the poisoned person are relatively mild and can be cured; and the Gu released by the three or four fingers is very sinister and belongs to an incurable disease, and the middle one will die.
Of course, Gu Po can solve it herself, and her own Gu Po can solve it by herself, even if she asks for other Gu Po, it won't help.
Walking in the Miao cottage surrounded by mountains and green water in Xiangxi, looking at the old mills, the stone steps that have been polished by the footboards, the mossy wooden walls and black tiles, the thin dogs, and the dirty children, the huge waterwheel that rises abruptly on the ground of the big river valley creaks and turns, seems to be overwhelmed, but it has been running smoothly for hundreds of years.
After watching for a long time, people become obsessed, and it seems that everything can tempt people, so that the traveler's footsteps are stagnant, and he just wants to stop and blend into the slow rhythm. Deep down, I may be really looking forward to meeting Gu Po, and I can't tell you clearly.
The smoke of the cottage rises, the grass and trees in the mountains seem to be "demagogic", a Miao woman looks at you, and it also makes you feel excited for a long time, and there is a mother-in-law with long nails next to you, your scalp is numb but you don't know how to avoid it, and your legs and feet don't look like your own.
You drank a bowl of tea, and your mind was trying to figure out if the person who served the tea had a small movement of his fingers, but his mind was completely blank.
There are people shouting in the paddy fields, and the cowbells are gradually moving away, just think about it.
The small people of the city are forever helpless in the face of the long years.
There are many types of Gu productions: most of the Gu acupers are women, and they are women's specialty.
"Yunnan Magazine": "Yunnan people accumulate Gu... People fight for hiding, children worry about what they eat, and Gu keepers don't be a secret room, so that the woman feeds it, and when she sees a man, she will be defeated, and she will be gathered by pure yin. Zhou Qufei's "Lingwai Answer": Gu poison is "a woman's naked hair and hair night sacrifice", "Yunnan Xinyu": It is pleasing to Yi women. There are many types of Gu, usually including: Golden Silkworm Gu, Chancre Gu, Mad Gu, Swollen Gu, Loach Gu, Stone Gu, Slice Gu, Snake Gu, and so on.