The table was filled with bronze plates and metal bowls, large and small, of various shapes, almost all of which contained bugs.

All kinds of strange insects, including maggots, grasshoppers, scorpions, centipedes......

I was shocked - this is the food for the banquet? Kill me, and I'm not going to eat these things.

"Wow!"

Wu Yuhui ran directly to the side of the door and threw up.

Teacher Feng and Xiao He also opened their mouths in surprise, looking dumbfounded.

I forcibly resisted the feeling of gagging, looked around, and noticed that the people present were mainly women, especially the "C" position at each table, all of them were women, and they were all relatively young.

The man stood very respectfully on the side, looking like he was serving.

This makes me wonder even more!

As far as I know, no matter what country or nation, respecting the old and loving the young is a common virtue, no matter what the reason, the old stand aside and the young sit with reason, this should not be!

Do as the locals do! After all, this is their own business.

My mother gave me the black cane, but now she has replaced it with a brown one.

She raised the cane in her hand and said something in her mouth.

Suddenly everyone fell silent, hundreds of eyes stared at us, and after a few seconds, they all knelt down.

Grandma said a few more words, and everyone stood up in unison, staring at me.

I was a little overwhelmed by what to do.

Then two young girls approached.

The girl was very handsome, looking fifteen or sixteen years old, white and beautiful, with a pair of long legs that were particularly attractive, and they bowed to me very respectfully, and then "hijacked" me into the banquet one by one, and the crowd got out of the way.

As I walked forward, I scanned the "dishes" on both sides with my peripheral vision, without exception. There are all kinds of insects on the plates and bowls, in fact, I know that these are not ordinary insects, but Gu worms, which are directly called "Gu" locally.

Combined with what Bragu told me about the Miao Gu technique before, combined with the large amount of information about Miao Gu that I had consulted before this departure, I thought that I had a certain understanding of this thing.

To put it simply, in the eyes of the world, Gu is a kind of witchcraft that uses poisonous insects as a harsh to harm people, and it is a relatively ancient mysterious and terrifying witchcraft, which is mainly popular in all parts of southern China and some ethnic minorities.

If the millet is stored in the warehouse for too long, the outer skin chaff will turn into a flying insect, which the ancients also called Gu. Zuo Chuanzhao said in the first year of the first year: "Gu Zhifei is also Gu", "Gu Jiuji, it becomes a flying Gu, and the name is Gu". Flying insects that turn from chaff are different from rice bran: flying insects can fly, but rice bran can't. Kong Yingda's "Commentary on the Thirteen Classics" said: "Those who use poison to treat people, and people don't know it, are called Gu poison in today's law."

In the "Compendium of Materia Medica", it is said: The person who creates Gu catches a hundred insects and puts them in a vessel.

The big ones of these hundred insects eat the small ones, and the last big insect that lives in the vessel is called Gu. It can be known that Gu was originally a medicine for treating poisonous sores, and it was later used to harm people - "Take a hundred insects into the urn, and after years of opening, there will be a worm that eats all the insects, which is called Gu." ”

In remote Miao areas, if a child accidentally has a blood blister in his mouth, the mother will hurriedly find a needle to puncture the blood blister, and scold angrily: "Gu, Gu." I already know who put the Gu by cutting off the skull.

If she doesn't take it back quickly, I won't spare her! "If you accidentally eat the fish and the bones get stuck in the throat, the mother will tell the child to swallow a few large mouthfuls of rice without chewing and swallow the bones in his stomach.

Then he called the child to the gate and silently recited the name of so-and-so, and shouted loudly: "There is a Gu in so-and-so's house, she put me in the cup, I know, if she doesn't take it back quickly, I won't spare her: one day I will carry the dung to her door, pick stones and smash the roof of her house, so that everyone knows that there is Gu in her family, some children can't marry, and some girls can't marry!" The shouts were filled with anger and hatred.

It is said that through this way of shouting the village, the person who "released the Gu" heard it and was afraid, so he would automatically take the "Gu" back.

Gu is commonly known as the "grass ghost" in the Miao area, and according to legend, it is attached to women and harms others. Those so-called women with Gu are called "grass ghost women".

After investigation, some Miao scholars believe that almost the entire Miao nationality believes in Gu, but the severity is different in different places. They believe that in addition to some of the above-mentioned sudden symptoms, some chronic diseases that are difficult to treat such as long-term cough, hemoptysis, blue complexion and emaciation, as well as symptoms such as visceral discomfort, bowel sound, abdominal distention, and loss of appetite, are all caused by Gu.

If it is sudden, you can use the method of shouting to let the so-called Gu person take it back by himself; If you are a chronic patient, you have to ask a wizard to do "detoxification". This kind of intimidating 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 refers to insects born in utensils, and later, moths and other objects born after the grain ****** are 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. Starting point Chinese

Most of the Gu insects mentioned by the pre-Qin people refer to naturally occurring mysterious poisonous insects. The long-term poisonous superstition has also developed the concept and practice of creating Gu and harming 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 legendary method of creating poisonous Gu is generally to put a variety of highly poisonous poisonous insects such as snakes, scorpions, lizards, etc. into the same utensil, so that they can eat and kill each other, and the only remaining poisonous insect is Gu. There are many types of Gu, and the ones with great influence are snake Gu, dog Gu, cat ghost Gu, scorpion Gu, toad Gu, insect Gu, flying Gu, etc. Although Gu seems to be a tangible thing on the surface, since ancient times, Gu has been considered a mysterious thing that can fly, change, glow, and come and go like a ghost. Gu makers can use spells to remotely control Gu worms to bring various diseases to the target and even kill them.

The ancients were convinced of the spells that poison Gu caused diseases, and Song Renzong issued the book "Qingli Good Cure Prescription" in the eighth year of Qingli (1048) to introduce the method of curing Gu, and even the medical books such as "Treatise on Diseases and Diseases", "Qianjin Fang", "Compendium of Materia Medica" and other medical books have detailed medical prescriptions for the detailed analysis and treatment of the symptoms of Zhonggu.

In the conceptual world of the Miao people, there are snake Gu, frog Gu, ant Gu, caterpillar Gu, sparrow Gu, turtle Gu and so on. Gu multiplied a lot on people with Gu, and if they couldn't find anything to eat, they would attack the Gu person himself (Gu Master) and ask for food, and the Gu Master would feel uncomfortable, so he would let the Gu out and harm others.

When releasing the Gu, the Gu Master said in his mind: "Go find someone to eat, don't pester me!" "Gu will automatically go to that person. Or dozens of meters away, with a flick of his finger secretly, the Gu would fly towards that person. Some people even say that whoever Gu has a crush on, that is, whoever he falls in love with, he asks its owner to release Gu to.

Otherwise, Gu would want the life of its master. So there are Gu people who have to put it. There is such a story about Gu in the Miao people: Once upon a time, there was a mother who had a cup, and the cup fell in love with her son, and the mother of course did not want her son. However, the cup bit her very fiercely, and there was no way, so she agreed to let her son go. When the mother said these things to her cup, her daughter-in-law happened to be heard outside.

The daughter-in-law hurried to the edge of the village, and when her husband came back from mowing the grass, she told him about it, and said that the bowl of eggs that his mother had fried for him should not be eaten when he returned.

After finishing speaking, the daughter-in-law went home first and boiled a large pot of boiling water. When he came home in a while, his mother brought him the bowl of eggs and told him to eat them. The daughter-in-law said that the eggs were cold, and they would eat them when they were hot.

As he spoke, he lifted the lid of the pot, poured the bowl of scrambled eggs into the pot of boiling water, closed the lid and pressed it tightly, only to hear what was struggling and swinging in the pot. After a while, there was no movement, and when I opened the lid of the pot, I saw that it was a big snake that burned to death.

Of course, these so-called methods of releasing Gu are nonsense. As for what Gu looks like, except for the saying that it has been passed down from generation to generation, in fact, no one has ever seen it, and of course it is something that is nothing.

Although it is a non-existent thing, some women of the Miao nationality are deeply accused of this concept.

It is believed that "Gu" is only available to women, and can only be attached to women and passed on to the next generation of women, not to men. For example, if a young man "You Fang" meets a "Gu" girl who is in love and marries her without the consent of her parents, then their next generation, all of whom are women, must inherit the Gu from her mother and pass it on from generation to generation.

In the Chinese classics, the Gu casters are not limited to women, why do the Miao people think that only women have Gu?

This is related to the social and cultural traditions of the Han and Miao ethnic groups.

In the witchcraft beliefs of the Han people, there is only a distinction between good and evil, and there is no opposition between genders. In southern ethnic minorities such as the Miao, the remnants of cultural gender antagonism formed in the process of matriarchy being replaced by patriarchy are much stronger, and this antagonism is manifested in the belief in witchcraft, that is, the male shaman who occupies the orthodox position becomes the party that maintains social order. Witches, who once dominated matriarchal societies, became order-breakers and were falsely accused of being the inheritors of black witchcraft.

All the natural and man-made disasters that the male wizards could not explain or understand, were all held on the heads of witches. As a result, the absurd conclusion that women have Gu was deduced in this way.

Because Gu release is considered a serious criminal activity for money and death, it has been listed as a severe target in history. In the "Han Law", there is a clause that "those who dare to deceive people and fatamas abandon the market"; The laws of the Tang and Song dynasties and even the Ming and Qing dynasties listed the use of poison Gu as one of the heinous crimes and was punished by death.

The government's punishment of the so-called Gu practitioners is extremely cruel. Kuang Lu, a Ming man, said that after the "official of the Zhuang nationality" in the Zhuang area, Tituo caught the Gu woman, buried her body in the ground, only the head was exposed, and then poured wax juice on the Gu woman's head and set it on fire. In the Miao area, although women who are falsely accused of Gu may not all be afraid of their lives, they will be discredited, discriminated against, and will be discriminated against, causing great mental pain, and even dying unjustly.

Those who are considered to have Gu are discriminated against and humiliated, and even relatives and friends are afraid to associate with them.

No matter who is sick, as long as the wizard says that he has hit the Gu, then some patients will refer to Sang and scold Huaidi, who is scolding, people know it, and the scolded person himself understands, just like the shouting at the beginning of this article. The people who have Gu have no choice but to swallow their anger, because a defense is tantamount to disclosing that they have so-called Gu in their own family, so they have to suffer such humiliation in vain.

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. Every time the medical treatment is ineffective, it is easy to blame Gu. During the Republic of China, there was a Han man in Xiangxi, who had been an official in the army and was powerful. He had a strange disease of abdominal distention, whenever he swelled, he seemed to feel that something was wandering in his abdomen, because the doctors he invited were not highly skilled, and the medicine was ineffective, so he blamed it on being Gu by the neighbor's Miao woman.

After many attempts by the sorcerer, but there was still no improvement, the Han official was angry and tied up the neighbor Miao woman, hung her, insulted her in every way, tortured her to death, and almost tortured her to death. The husband of the Miao woman was afraid of the power of the Han officials, and dared not speak out, so he could only stand by and watch. Later, more than a year later, after being introduced, the Han official invited a wise doctor to diagnose and treat him, and after the doctor saw it, he said that it was some kind of bulging disease, not some kind of Gu poison.

Sure enough, after taking a dose of medicine, the illness was cured. The poor Miao woman was wronged for no reason and almost died. It was only after the doctor's confirmation that the Miao woman was restored to her innocence. And I don't know how many Miao women who can't wash away their grievances all their lives!

In Miao areas, retaliating by swearing or venting personal anger in the name of the cup woman can cause disputes. The Miao people "talk about Gu color change", especially in marriage, which is the most taboo.

If a child wants to start a marriage, both parents must secretly conduct a strict examination of each other to see if their family and relatives are clean, that is, whether there are Gu. If you find that the other party is suspected of being unclean, you will politely refuse under the excuse, which has caused many tragedies in marriage.

Some young women, suspected of having a trick, can only marry defective or poor men; Some young women have even committed suicide for this reason.

Due to the fear of marrying with Gu people, some Miao areas basically open relatives in a single line and open relatives with each other, resulting in blood relatives getting closer and closer, and people's quality getting lower and lower.

As for the types of Gu worms, they are simply varied.

The types of Gu described in ancient books or folklore include Golden Silkworm Gu, Toad Gu, Centipede Gu, Snake Ang (Water Gu), Sheep Gu, Fish Cup, Cow Gu, Dog Gu, Chicken Gu, Goose Gu, Grass Gu, Fungus Gu, Lice Cup, Scorpion Gu, Ghost Gu, Wasp Gu, Elephant Gu, Ant Gu, Pig Gu, Spider Gu, Turtle Gu, Frog Gu, Serving Mother Gu, Sparrow Gu, Turtle Gu, Rice Field Gu, Tree Gu, Annoyance Kick Gu, Anhui Mantis Gu, Picking Life Gu, Stone Gu, Fragment Gu, Dissolving Gu, Swollen Gu, Cowhide Gu, Plough Gu, etc.

In short, the magic of witchcraft is very mysterious, with the separation of raw seedlings and mature seedlings, and the gradual alienation of raw seedlings from the outside world, this kind of evil art ranked first in the folk has put on another mysterious hat.