Master Liang straightened his waist and said, "Okay, then I'll tell you about the origin of the word 'lian'." ”

Liang Shiyou said to Liang Youcai: "Do you know the name of my grandfather, that is, your grandfather?" ”

"Uh...... I really don't know this, I only know that my grandfather's name is Liang Liang......" Liang Youcai said.

"Cool? This name is interesting......" The jar interjected in a low voice, but was slapped by Jiang Jie on the side and swallowed the words back.

"Your grandfather's name is Liang Youde, although his name is ordinary, but his birth date is not ordinary. In terms of feng shui physiognomy, it is the four pillars that are pure and unmixed, and it is extremely rare to have a one-word life grid of Tianyuan, but it is the four pillars of yin, which is a fierce image. ”

"What are the four pillars of pure and unmixed, and what are the four pillars of yin?" Liang Youcai asked.

"The four pillars refer to the year, month, day and birthday, and the four pillars are pure and unmixed, which means that the stem and branches of the four pillars are exactly the same, for example, the heavenly stem is all Jia, and the earth branch is all 戌, that is, the year of Jiaxu is born when the month is Jiaxu and the day is Jiaxu, which is very rare; And the four pillars are yin, that is, the year, month, day and hour are all yin, that is, we often hear that we are born when the yin year, the moon, the cloudy day, and the yin day. I helped explain.

Master Liang nodded and said, "Whoever has this image will not die well." ”

"If a person with this kind of life is good, his life is really good, but if he is not good, he will get up...... Tut-tut, it's really miserable. "I also agree with what Mr. Liang said.

"Then how old did my grandfather live?" Liang Youcai asked.

"Seventy-something!" Mr. Liang replied.

"Isn't that a long life!" Liang Youcai said.

"What's the use of longevity, the body is weak, I've been sick for three days, and I've spent the rest of my life lying in bed." Master Liang said, "And he is still a conjuring physique, and it is very easy to provoke some dirty things." ”

"So what does he do?"

"Paper Tier!"

"Papermaker?" Liang Youcai asked.

"Yes, papermaker!" Master Liang said, "If he hadn't worked as a papermaker, let alone seventy, he wouldn't have survived seventeen!" ”

Liang Youcai immediately became interested and asked, "Uncle, what's the matter?" Talk about it, talk about it! ”

Master Liang then told the story of his grandfather, that is, Liang Youcai's grandfather.

"My grandfather was originally not surnamed Liang, but surnamed Lian, named Lian Yi. Since his parents died when he was a child, he became an apprentice to a local papermaker at the age of eleven. One is to have a place to eat and live, and the other is to learn a trade, so that he can have a skill to support his family when he becomes an adult. Master Liang said, "The paper craftsman industry is also a branch of the funeral industry, most of which are tied to some boys and girls, carriages and horses, houses, tables, chairs and furniture, as well as gold, silver and jewelry tied with paper." The business of the paper shop is quite closely related to the coffin shop and Mr. Yin and Yang. Of course, sometimes, these three businesses will also work part-time with each other, the coffin shop also sells paper, and the owners of the coffin shop and the paper shop also know some feng shui, and even some Maoshan techniques or something......"

"It's also a variety of operations, which is in line with the trend of business development......" Tanzi joked.

Then, Master Liang briefly introduced the craft of paper binding to us.

Paper-tying is a very ancient craft, and it is impossible to know when it began, but as early as 1500 years ago in the period of the Northern and Southern Dynasties, the folk already had a very superb paper-binding technology. Because there is a great relationship between paper binding and funeral, there are still many taboos in the craft of paper binding. It is said that the paper-binding craftsman will not draw the eyes of the paper-making figure after he has tied it up, and this is one of the taboos. Finishing touches - if you draw the eyes of the paper figure in advance, the paper figure will come to life. The so-called coming to life does not mean that the paper man can move by himself, because the paper man itself has no soul, so it is easy to call it a carrier, so that some unclean things such as lonely souls and wild ghosts are attached to it, and the body of the paper man is used to cause evil, and at this time, it needs to be suppressed with a charm or pricked with a needle.

In addition, the papermaker's requirements for the color of the paper man are still very strict, and they must use red men and green women. The so-called red men and green women mean that the paper figures of the boys must be red, and the virgins must use green, and the color must not be used wrongly. Legend has it that when a person dies, his soul returns to the underworld, and paper figures are used to serve the souls of the deceased until they are reincarnated. However, the underworld only accepts the soul of the deceased, and does not let other messy humanoid objects also enter the underworld with the soul of the deceased, except for the red virgin and the green virgin, and the red is yang and the green is yin, which is exactly in line with the male and female genders of the paper people. That is to say, when Yin Cha saw the two figures of a red man and a green woman next to the soul of the deceased, he knew that this was a paper figure burned for him by the deceased's family, and it was used to serve the soul of the deceased, so he would let it go, otherwise he would not be allowed to enter the underworld. Once the paper man is denied entry into the underworld, he will go back to the trouble of the papermaker, and he will be entangled endlessly. Therefore, the papermaker is very cautious about the color of the paper figure.

The person who is a papermaker, because he is doing life for the dead, and the dead are great, so this can be regarded as a kind of industry that accumulates yin virtue. However, it is said that anyone who has worked as a paper-binding craftsman knows that they also have a business that they cannot take, which is called the "four no-ties":

The first is that pregnant women do not pierce. Because this is not a life, the pregnant woman was pregnant with a fetus when she died, and the evil spirit was too heavy, so the papermaker did not dare to take the life.

The second type is shrews, the kind who can scold all over ten streets without finding a single opponent. It is said that others were afraid of this kind of life before they were born, and if you prick them, they will not forgive, they will always pester you, and they can't hide from you, so they must not be contaminated.

The third type is colleagues in the same industry, who are also doing paper-binding work. Although it is said that tying paper to the dead is a matter of accumulating yin virtue, after all, it is all out of the way, so the papermaker will not do it.

There is another kind, that is, the person who died on the day of the 15th Ghost Festival on July 15, because the ghost door was wide open on this day, and the person who died on this day had too much evil energy on his body, and the papermaker did not dare to touch it.

In addition to these taboos, papermakers also have a lot of particularities. For example, before being cremated, paper figures must be pricked with needles in their mouths, eyes, noses, and ears, which is said to be so that these paper figures can be obedient and serve their masters better. In addition, when buying paper, the papermaker will clearly tell you that there is also a saying about the mount used to burn the deceased. If the deceased is a man, he will burn a paper horse, if he is a woman, he will burn a paper cow, and he must not burn it indiscriminately, and they will also ask the buyer when he buys the paper. Because the woman was mainly a family before her death, she often washed and cooked, and used too much water, and it is said that there is a pass on the Huangquan Road that asks the woman to drink the dirty water used in her life, and the cow is the most drinkable water in domestic animals, so she rides a cow to drink water to wash the obscurity. And the man is outside the main, running around, used to riding a horse, burning the horse because the underworld is wide and far away, so that the man can hurry up and reincarnate as soon as possible, and there is a horse to do the foot power, when he sees the king of Hades, he will not be dusty and too embarrassed, and at the same time, he also took the color of a horse Pingchuan, hoping to shade future generations.