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During the Republic of China, after the death of Chiang Kai-shek's younger brother Jiang Ruiqing, the Chiang family also held a secret marriage for him. book network . v o d t . c o m

Ghost marriage is quite popular in various parts of China, but the title is different in different places, Hebei calls it "Yin Kin", "Marrying Dry Bone", and some places in Zhejiang Province call it "Yin Match", Guangdong calls it "Ghost Wife", Guangxi calls it "Ghost Marriage".

In Beijing at the beginning of the Republic of China, the underworld marriage was called "bone corpse", and the in-laws of the male and female families were called "bone corpse relatives". As for other regions, such as Shanxi, Anhui, Jiangsu and other places, there is a custom of secret marriage, and it was once prevalent, but it was only after the liberation that it was curtailed.

The most recent large-scale ghost marriage was after the Tangshan earthquake, when the earthquake reconstruction work had just begun, and some parents of dead children in the family were looking around to marry their children, but the Cultural Revolution was not over at that time, and everything was carried out secretly in private.

Speaking of which, the original intention of the underworld marriage was only to find a spouse in the underworld for the deceased. "Zhou Li" has clouds, prohibiting the relocation of burials and marrying people. The "marryman" here refers to the ghost marriage. And the "relocation" here is not the usual sense of relocation.

There has been a commentary that it is said that when they are born, they are not husband and wife, and the deceased are buried in the same cave, and they are moved to follow each other. Kong Yingda further explained that if a person dies before marriage after adulthood, he is often reburied, that is, a ghost marriage ceremony.

In ancient times, China attached great importance to the rite of passage, men were crowned at the age of 20, and women were 15 years old, all of which were considered to be adults, but if they were not married, they could not enjoy sacrifices after death. Moreover, if the deceased dies without a marriage, in the eyes of the living, it is very pitiful to have no partner after death, which is probably the main reason for the popularity of underworld marriage. Of course, the ghost marriage also has practical interests, although the in-laws of the two parties to the ghost marriage are commonly known as the ghost in-laws, but they do not wait for them to become ghosts, but they come and go with each other like the real in-laws, so if the deceased's family is a rich family, the ghost matchmaker will naturally come to the door more.

In addition, at that time, the phenomenon of early marriage of the living was more serious, and the same was true of ghost marriage, which developed into rural areas, and simply married all the early dead regardless of age. Moreover, in the folk at that time, there were many young men and women who died for some reason after they were engaged. At that time, it was widely believed that if these men and women were not married, their ghosts would cause trouble and disturb the family.

Therefore, it is necessary to hold a yin marriage ceremony for them, and finally bury them together, become husband and wife, and bury them together. lest there be a lonely grave in the fields of the two houses of men and women. And if only one party dies early, if the party who dies early is a woman, then it is easy to say, but if it is a man who dies early, according to common practice, the woman still has to marry and marry. At the time of worship, the deceased husband's sister usually holds the "god card" and the bride to hold the wedding.

And if the bride keeps the empty house for the rest of her life, it is called door-to-door observance and filial piety for unmarried. Historically, the government has been rewarding this behavior. If some women are unwilling to come to the door to be widowed and marry another man, it will also be considered a woman's second marriage, and the folk call such a woman "disconnected woman", even if these women marry someone else after marriage, they also need to sacrifice the soul of her "ex-husband" for the New Year's holidays.

Of course, there are also some young men and women who have died before they are married, and the parents and elderly people at home often think that they have not been able to choose a mate for them before they die, and they must marry them after death, and fulfill their responsibilities as parents. Because it gave birth to the profession of "ghost matchmaker", to put it bluntly, ghost matchmaker is actually to help those deceased men and women who died early and have no marriage contract, and introduce yin relatives. In fact, no one knows whether burying a pair of men and women who have nothing to do with each other together can achieve the purpose of companionship in the underworld.

It's just that you have to understand that the vast majority of underworld marriages are based on people's emotional sustenance. Moreover, in the old days, people generally believed in the so-called "feng shui" of the cemetery, thinking that if there was a lonely grave in the ancestral grave, it would inevitably affect the prosperity of the future generations of the family.

In the ghost matchmaking industry, in addition to the people who make a matchmaker between the dead, there is also a type of person who is a matchmaker between the living and the dead, and this type of person is the so-called "living matchmaker".

As for the raw media, the people of the North Hellsan will never do it, because now they in the industry know how to play most of the raw media industry.

The craziest thing is that those people in the media circle will not look for some good women who are willing to observe the festival for the deceased and then bury them with their deceased husbands after their deaths, as they did in the old days, but the same blood as the buying and selling of human parts.

The people of Beimingsan are very familiar with the routine, and last time a friend recommended him to be a technical consultant for a company, he was hired at a high price. Because the annual salary is really attractive, and there are shares, the company's background is quite strong.

Of course, the conversation was very pleasant at first, because one of the consultants of this company suddenly left, and now the company needs to operate, so to find a master, Bei Mingsan is the best candidate.

In fact, the company's main business is ghost media, but not long ago, the technical backbone suddenly said that he would not do it, so this group of ghost media has not opened recently, and has been looking for a suitable replacement.

The boss of the company and the people of Beiming had a good conversation, so they planned to sign the contract.

Before signing the contract, the Beiming people were still more cautious, he declared to the company boss that he had the right to refuse the business he didn't want to do, of course, the business he was willing to do would find a way to solve it even if it was difficult, after all, the Beiming people were still quite confident in their own level.

The boss may be used to being flattered, his eyes drifted with a trace of displeasure, he lit a cigarette and took two puffs and asked, what does the master mean, what kind of work does it belong to the scope that I don't want to take?

The boss must have doubts about making money for himself, I dare to take the job, but the people below say not to do it, in case nine out of ten jobs are not done, then there is a high salary to ask for a ball!

The people of the Northern Underworld felt a little embarrassed, so they simply said that they would not do anything that violated their conscience.

As soon as he said this, the boss's face changed in an instant, he pressed half of the cigarette into the ashtray heavily, spat out and said, this way, you go back and think about what business is within the scope of your conscience.

Obviously, the straightforwardness of the Northern Hellsan has provoked this boss, and if there is no reason, this matter will be yellow!

In fact, the ghost matchmaking industry, like the matter of ghost marriage, already existed before the Han Dynasty, and it is also a special profession that has been passed down from generation to generation for thousands of years, so this industry naturally has its own set of rules and secrets that cannot be easily revealed.

If you think about it, in ancient China, even masons and carpenters had their own unique methods and rules and taboos, not to mention this kind of industry that was a matchmaker.

The Northern Immortal went back to talk to the great god friend about the contract, saying that it seemed to make the boss very unhappy. At this time, one of the great god friends said something, which made the people of Beiyin san gasp, glad that he hesitated for a moment and did not sign the contract immediately.

It turns out that this company started as a ghost matchmaker, and now some ghost media although they all claim to be in this business, but most of them are just some people who are responsible for captivity, transportation, and disposal of corpses, and there is only one person who can really go to the cemetery to round the grave, burn incense and burn paper, and be a matchmaker, and this person is the person who announced that he would quit the gang a few days ago, and this person is called "He Lao Wu" by this group of ghost matchmakers.

According to this group of ghost media, they don't know the real name of this He Lao Wu, but they heard that their ancestors helped people talk about yin relatives, and they also know a little Taoism, so things like this secret marriage can be regarded as his family learning. For He Lao Wu, in this gang that sells corpses as a mediator, no one is dissatisfied with him, after all, He Lao Wu is the only one in this gang who does "technology", those round grave work, if you change others, you really can't support it, not to mention the process of the underworld marriage, just when you do things, you will be scared to death if you are timid.

Because this kind of "ghost marriage" is basically held at night, in the old days, if you were suddenly woken up by the drums in the streets and alleys in the middle of the night when you were sleeping peacefully, then you must not go out to see the excitement, because nine times out of ten it is the team of marrying yin relatives.

Generally, this kind of welcoming team, are composed of relatives of both parties, there are very few outsiders, the number of people will not be too much, everyone is carrying a paper sedan chair through the streets and alleys, by a single drum, a single number, a single suona to play the lead, if it is bumped into by outsiders, auspicious not to mention for the time being, just this bad luck has to go to the temple to burn a few more pillars of incense to disperse clean, otherwise it may be contaminated with something unclean.

And when the team of yin relatives arrives at the cemetery, when they put down the coffin and bury the soil, when the ghost medium is doing things here, all the living people are not allowed to approach the site of the round grave, and they all have to wait for the instructions of the ghost medium here a hundred meters away.

And when the ghost medium is doing things, they will light two white candles, and three long and two short without root incense, only when they see that the two candles in the ghost medium are extinguished, a group of people can turn around and leave, no one can stop halfway, let alone look back. That is to say, in the whole process of the grave, basically the ghost medium is busy working in front of the grave, and the people next to him are also 100 meters away recently.

The second is that although He Lao Wu doesn't have much communication with the people next to him, and he doesn't like to talk much, he seems to really have some real skills, and he is not that kind of charlatan, because several times the disabled people in this gang or captivity have been sick, and all of them are He Lao Wu who drew a few talismans, burned them and mixed them in the water, and let them drink them.

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