"Zhao girl," Old Man Song straightened his face and asked, "Have you made it clear to the store what you want to buy this bottle for?"

Zhao Jing was stunned, does it matter? The little girl reacted quite quickly, and here she already realized that the situation seemed to be a little wrong. But this little girl is also quite sincere, she didn't rely on the seller, just shook her head honestly, "I didn't say, I just said that I want to buy an antique, to be delicate and beautiful, and the years must be old enough, I will ask the connoisseur to help me, as long as the thing is okay and the price is right, the money is definitely not a problem." ”

As soon as he heard this girl's words, Old Man Song only felt that his head was three times bigger, and he saw how he said it...... , The old man wanted to hide his face and pretend that he didn't know her, if it weren't for the fact that this girl still knew the word "year", the old man thought that this girl was going to buy a little dress for the little girl. Suddenly, the old man had 120,000 sympathy for his old friend, and it was not easy to raise such a girl, especially for people like them who could be called a collector family, it was really "not easy" to raise such a girl!

However, Old Man Song quickly turned to the seller, nodded at him, and expressed his gratitude, although this offer was a little pitted, it was not outrageous, and he didn't give the "little white" girl of the Zhao family those "fake" things to fool, which can be regarded as having a conscience. And it's also to blame that the little girl herself didn't tell anyone what this thing was used for, so it was in line with the requirements for people to take out this bottle, and it was not to blame the seller.

At this time, the seller also realized that something was wrong, although the old man Song didn't know him, but the seller knew the old man, after all, S City said that it was not big, and it was not enough to say that it was small, the collection circle was so big, and ordinary people in the circle might not know each other, but the small group of people at the top of the circle would definitely be familiar to the people in the circle.

Although I don't know what the hell is going on, the seller is not overly worried, after all, his thing is here, and this thing is absolutely positive. Although the asking price is a little higher, isn't there a saying, that is, "ask for the price all over the sky, and pay back the money on the ground!" Who doesn't want to make two more money in this business? No one can say that he is not coming. But this one still couldn't help but ask, "Old Man Song, isn't there something wrong here?"

Zhao Jing, Zhao "Xiaobai" girl also nodded violently, yes, is there anything wrong with this? A pair of big eyes blinked, and their faces were full of innocence.

"This little girl bought it for her grandfather's birthday, the little girl's grandfather is estimated to know you, and he is also a person in our circle, that is, Mr. Wen. Do you think there's anything wrong?" said Old Man Song.

In a simple word, Zhao Jing still didn't understand the situation too clearly, but this seller woke up, ouch my dropping mother, aunt and grandmother, why don't you make it clear before you buy something, if you know that you bought it for the elders to spend their birthdays, no matter how much we drip, we can't get this thing for you.

So on the spot, he couldn't help but shout: "I said hello girl, can't I call you my aunt and grandmother? You, aren't you cheating on me!"

Who doesn't know this old man, he is also a well-known figure in the collection circle of S City, and his name is not under this old man Song, it can be said that he is also a character who has to follow the three shocks when he stomps his feet in the collection world of S City. If he let the old man know that he actually recommended this thing to her granddaughter as a birthday gift, the consequences would be ....... Although this is because you don't know, there are some things that you can't say "I don't know".

"That, Old Man Song, you see this thing is done, I really don't mean that, I really don't know, if you know me......" The seller was so anxious that he scratched his ears and cheeks, and the incoherent Old Man Song explained. At the same time, this person is also a yellow lotus in his heart, and even his mouth is bitter, hey, today's incident has been done, hey!

"Come on, it's good that this thing wasn't given away, and it didn't cause any bad effects, so let's stop here. Waving his hand, Old Man Song signaled that the seller didn't need to explain anymore, in fact, this matter really has nothing to do with this person, and the little girl of the Zhao family didn't make it clear.

At the same time, Old Man Song was also smiling bitterly in his heart, he finally understood why his old friend Old Man Wen always lamented that his granddaughter had become a "banana man" when she stayed abroad, such a mistake happened in a scholarly family like them and a collection family, which had to be known by outsiders to laugh off his big teeth.

"Grandpa Song, what the hell is going on, you can make it clear, I'm still confused. Zhao Jing couldn't help it anymore, she already knew that she was definitely doing something wrong, so she hurriedly asked, "Could it be that there is something wrong with this bottle? But didn't you just say that this thing is really fine?" and this era has also arrived, and it is still so beautiful, what is wrong?" Zhao Jing couldn't help but glance at the bottle with strange eyes,

Before Old Man Song could speak, the seller smiled bitterly and told the little girl the reason: "Hey, girl, our bottle is really fine, just like you said, the production is exquisite, but the problem is that if you give this bottle away at Old Man Wen's birthday banquet, there will be a big problem!"

"What's wrong? As long as you don't send fakes, what else can go wrong? "I really don't understand.

The seller looked at Old Man Song, he really didn't know how to tell this little girl, this is a complete layman among laymen.

"Girl, do you know that this bottle belongs to the funeral goods...... Old Man Song shook his head, opened his mouth to give the little girl of the Zhao family a literacy, and sighed at the same time, this lack of culture is sometimes really terrible (Zhao Jing protested: Who said that we are not educated, we are high-achieving students who got a master's diploma at the age of eighteen, and they are also A+ in all subjects, how rare it is, do you know?).

"I know this, but what does it matter, some of the treasures in the old man's hands are not dug out of the grave, and another is still bitten by a dead man. The little girl didn't care.

"That's a cicada, it's different. Old Man Song couldn't help but protest, you must know that the cicada in Old Man Wen's hand is the treasure that he also blushes on, he can't think of it, this girl actually dares to dislike it.

"What's the difference, aren't they all dug up from the graves of the dead??" Zhao Jing was still a little unimpressed, and in her feelings, she still felt that as long as it wasn't fake, it would be fine.

"Yes, they were dug up from the graves of the dead, but they didn't mean much. Looking at Zhao Jing's disapproving appearance, Old Man Song was dissatisfied, "Girl, do you know what it's for?"

Zhao Jing shook his head and said a little hesitantly: "Even if I don't know what it's for, but it's the same burial goods, it should be about the same." ”

"Almost, these two are far apart!" Old Man Song said angrily, "Although they are both burial goods, the cicada is placed in the mouth of the deceased to suppress the tongue, which means that the spirit is immortal and reborn and resurrected." But do you know what you're using this bottle for?"

"What are you using?" After a moment's hesitation, Zhao Jing gave the safest answer, "It's for loading things." ”

Old Man Song is almost happy with this person, and it is really a good answer to use things.

"Then do you know what this is for?" asked Old Man Song.

"I don't know. Zhao Jing shook her head.

"If you don't know, listen, I'll tell you about this carefully, and by the way, I'll give you a literacy sweep, so that you can understand why this thing should never be given as a birthday gift. After taking a sip of water, Old Man Song said, "Although it is the same burial item, this bottle is a spiritual vessel! This bottle is called the soul bottle, also known as the soul bottle, the five-pot bottle, the five-hole bottle, the five-grain bottle, etc. After touching the bottle, the old man continued.

As for how the phenomenon of the burial of the soul bottle appeared, what was the original concept that governed this custom, and what was the symbolic meaning of the shape of the soul bottle and its composition, etc., there have been various theories. After a pause and the language was organized, Old Man Song continued.

"In the literature of the Tang and Song dynasties, the custom of soul bottles originated from an ancient legend. At the end of the Shang Dynasty, the Boyi Shuqi brothers fled to Shouyang Mountain to live in seclusion because of the ineffectiveness of admonishing King Wu of Zhou, and vowed not to eat Zhou Su, and finally both starved to death. When the parents of the hometown buried the remains of the two people, they specially put "grain poppies" and "grain bags" into the tomb to soothe the hungry souls, thus forming the ritual of soul bottle burial. According to Song Gaocheng's "The Origin of Things" volume 9 quote, this matter is recorded in Wang Su's "Mourning Clothes Notes", in the Spring and Autumn Period, Lu Aigong held a funeral for his father, Confucius blamed him for not putting the five grain sacs in the burial objects, and the mourning prince defended: "The five grain sacs were buried with Boyi and Shuqi who starved to death without eating Zhou Su, and were afraid of the hunger of their souls, so they set up five grain sacs." My father died of eating preserves, what is the use of this?" It shows that this custom was popular in the Spring and Autumn Period and was approved by Confucius. ”

There is also a theory that some people think that although the custom of the soul bottle may not have been created from the funeral of Boyi and Shuqi, it originated from the concept of fear of starvation of the dead soul, which is proved by archaeological results. Archaeological data show that as far back as the Neolithic Age, people had the practice of putting grains, fish and meat in pottery for burial, and it has become a tradition in the Shang and Zhou dynasties. Around the time of the Qin and Han dynasties, this kind of grain poppy and grain bags for soul food developed into a special "pottery warehouse" modeled on the real thing, and almost all the Han Dynasty tombs that have been excavated have this kind of "pottery warehouse" unearthed. The pottery warehouse contains grains such as wheat, rice, millet, and soybeans, and some also have names and symbolic quantities written on them, such as "barley crumbs ten thousand stones" and "bean ten thousand stones", to show that the storage is abundant. ”

"The development of this soul bottle in different historical periods. The concept of this custom is based on the idea that after death, the soul does not die, and that food is still needed in the underworld, and that the living must prepare food for the dead. This not only reflects the concern of the living for the deceased, but also a self-protection measure to appease the soul of the deceased and prevent it from coming back to the world. The name of "soul bottle" is also named from this meaning. ”

Of course, there is another point of view that the soul bottle is not a daily necessities for the deceased to use in the underworld, such as food poppies and food jars, but a concrete image of things, which embodies the secular tendencies of witchcraft, mythology, and religion. In terms of the shape of the soul bottle, it is a kind of soul collecting magic tool. Hollow natural objects such as bamboo pipes, horns, bones, etc. are used to gather souls, which are witchcraft all over the world, and ceramic soul bottles are artificial soul-collecting witchcraft that appeared with the evolution of culture, and the holes in the mouth and shoulder of the jar are used as portals for the souls to enter and exit. Judging from the image stacking of the soul bottle, its composition is originally from the picture of the "fairy island and sacred mountain" in ancient mythology, and the function of the soul bottle is also contained in these images, that is, through those holes, the dead soul is sent to the "Elysium", without bothering the living, so as to achieve the purpose of requiem and life. ”

But on the contrary, some people believe that the original meaning of the soul bottle should be "soul suppression bottle", which is the magic object of witchcraft to cast spells to suppress the tomb, that is, to collect the soul of the deceased in the bottle, so that it will not jump out and make trouble. In some tombs and ruins, it is common to find "town tomb inscriptions" or talismans and seals and mud seals on clay vases, which reflect this intention. ”

There is also a point of view that the soul bottle is named after the five grains, taking the shape of the five grains, writing the words of the five grains, and the fact of the built-in five grains, reflecting the Chinese agricultural people's outlook on life and the belief and customs of sacrificing the soul and requiem with grain, this belief may be traced back to the distant primitive era, containing the grain is the main food to maintain the material life and spiritual life of human beings, is a thing to worship the gods, has the function of driving away ghosts and avoiding evil, and can be used to summon spirits and other rich connotations, and at the same time it is a symbol of life continuation and regeneration. ”

After saying this big string of words, Old Man Song stopped, took a sip of tea and moistened his throat: "Now the Zhao family girl, do you understand why this thing can't be delivered?"

"Ming, understood. In fact, when Zhao Jing only heard half of it, his feet were already weak, and his eyes were a little straight, my God, it's good that I invited Old Man Song to help with my palms, otherwise I would have almost really fallen into a catastrophe. This girl almost wants to give herself a treat, God, if she really takes this thing out at Grandpa's birthday party......

God, no wonder the seller just now called God, this Zhao Jing also wanted to follow suit, and taking out this thing at grandpa's birthday banquet was not just cursing the old man for early bliss. Thinking of this, Zhao Jing couldn't help but sit on the chair with a weak foot, unable to speak anymore. R1152