"Maybe it's because the heart hasn't died yet, and there is still a glimmer of hope for them!" the blind fairy said to herself. "If you continue like this, sooner or later you will hurt yourself. The nine-tailed cat said displeased.

The sword in the nine heavens took out the jade pendant, and with a stroke of his finger, a trace of blood appeared on the jade pattern. "Summon-up!" A faint light swept over the jade pendant, and there were a lot of unusually small words in the lines, this text is a ghost book!

Ghost books, also known as 殄文, water books, and anti-books, are words written for the dead. Legend has it that the "Water Script" was created by a man named Lu Duogong.

In a remote village, the local Shui people chanted an old folk song in Buyi and Shui, which translates into the lingua franca as follows: "There was an old man named Lu Duo, who lived in a cave in all seasons. The words are made on the bluestone slab, and the words are made to measure the good fortune and evil. All the good days are given away, and when they build their own houses. There is no good life in the book, so I have no choice but to live in the cave. If you ask where the deep cave is, it is in the water rock and the water east. ”

There are more than 500 characters in the water book, and people find that the variant characters are mainly concentrated in the 12 earthly branches, spring, summer, autumn and winter, heavenly stems, nine stars and other words, for example, there are more than 30 variant characters such as "寅, 卯" and so on. For the variant characters of the Aquarium script, it is conservatively speculated that if each Shui character is counted as having at least one variant character, then the total number of Shui characters is about 1,600.

Deep in the mountains of the primeval forest, nearly 40,000 people have lived in the water tribe for generations. When you walk into these water conservancy and water tribe townships, which are mainly distributed in the primeval forest area, you will enter a mysterious world of "water books".

Shui Shui is an ancient writing symbol similar to oracle bone inscription and gold inscription used by the ancestors of the Shui tribe, which records the cultural classics of astronomy, geography, folklore, religion, ethics, philosophy, aesthetics, law, anthropology, etc. "Shui Shui" is equivalent to the "Book of Changes" of the Chinese nation, the content is broad and profound, is the encyclopedia of the Shui people, is an important part of the treasure house of the Chinese culture.

"Shui Shui" is also known as "ghost book" and "anti-book", one of which refers to its structure, although some characters are imitation of Chinese characters, but basically these characters are written backwards, upside down or changing the writing of the text type. Why the "Shui Shui" script is different from the Chinese script, and its writing is the opposite, these questions make the world puzzled. The second is: in ancient times, the ancestors of the Shui tribe were persecuted by the ruling class, and according to legend, their ancestor "Lu Duogong" created the "ghost book" to oppose and retaliate against the ruler.

The Shui tribe is a people who worship ghosts and gods. The people of the water tribe believe that whether it is the ancestral spirit, whether it is an animal, a plant, or some natural objects and natural phenomena, including mountains, stones, caves, water, wind, rain, thunder, electricity, etc., due to some kind of "ghost" or "god" possession, they all have souls, and these souls will never die, and when a certain object does not exist, its soul will be transferred to other objects. The objects of worship of the water tribe are mainly divided into two categories, one is ghosts, and the other is gods. All the souls that are dark, backward, negative, and unfavorable to the people are ghosts, and all the souls that are bright, advanced, positive, and beneficial to the people are gods. In general, God can both bless and punish those who make mistakes, and demons often inflict harm on humans. Shui Shui is the integration of all kinds of ghosts and spirits, various taboo matters and various methods of avoiding evil spirits and exorcisms, and the people of the Shui tribe are subject to the restrictions of Shui Shui in their funerals, sacrifices, marriages, construction, travel, divination, festivals, production, etc. Therefore, in the social life of the water tribe, the water book has a wide range of roles and a pivotal position.

Most of the records in the Shui Shui are the dates, directions, auspicious and evil signs and methods of exorcism and evil spirits in terms of primitive religious beliefs, which are generally based on the year, the day of the month, the day of the month, and the time of the day, and the use of songs or signs of things to indicate its auspicious and evil belongings, so it is mostly used as a tool for sorcerers to perform rituals. It's just because the water tribe believes in ghosts and gods, so the water book is very versatile. This unique function of the water book has promoted the generational inheritance of the worship of ghosts and gods of the water tribe.

In the areas inhabited by the Shui tribes, the Shui people who can read and use water books are called "ghost masters", and they are all men, and they have a high status among the people, and are worshipped by the people. "Water Book" is an extremely precious treasure handed down by the ancestors of the "ghost master", which is only passed on to men and not women, and is generally not easily passed on to outsiders. Shui Shui is passed down by generations of ghost masters through oral transmission and hand-copying. All the activities of the worship of ghosts and gods in the water tribe, whether it is judging the good and evil of things, identifying ghosts and ghosts, or witchcraft rituals to drive away ghosts and send ghosts, disasters and beggars, are all found by ghost masters from the water book. Therefore, in all the activities of the worship of the ghosts and gods of the water tribe, it must be played through the use of water books as a medium by the ghost master. Therefore, in the phenomenon of ghost worship in the water witch culture, the water book is a textbook, and the ghost master is the teacher. The combination of ghost master and water book is the link that maintains the original religious belief of the water tribe - the world of ghosts and gods, is the material factor of the inheritance of witch culture, and maintains the endurance of this mysterious world.

In addition to containing a large number of original religious beliefs, the Shui Shui also preserves the celestial phenomena, calendar data and ancient water culture materials that need to be excavated and deciphered. The celestial phenomena and calendar materials reflected in the Shui Shui are an extremely precious piece of history and culture. Some of its basic theories, such as the Nine Stars, the Twenty-Eight Houses, the Eight Trigrams and the Nine Palaces, the Heavenly Stems and the Earthly Branch, the Five Stars of the Sun and the Moon, the Five Elements of Yin and Yang, the Sixty Jiazi, the Four Seasons and the Five Directions, the Seven Yuan Calendar and the First Month of the Water Calendar, etc., are the crystallization of the advanced wisdom and art of the ancestors of the Shui Tribe, which contains scientific philosophical ethics and dialectical materialist historical outlook, and has a brilliant page in the history of Chinese culture.

The "ghost master" divides the water book into two categories in terms of use and function, one is the "white book", which is mainly used for funeral, sacrifice, production, travel, house construction, business, marriage and divination, etc.; Black books are mainly used for "releasing ghosts" and "repelling ghosts".

According to legend, in the past, as soon as outsiders walked into the aquarium village, they had to abide by the law, fearing that they would be possessed by the ghost master if they did bad things. When a person is possessed by a "ghost", he must ask another ghost master to remove the ghost, which is called "repelling the ghost", and the spell of the ghost master must be higher than that of the ghost master, so that the ghost can be returned to the ghost master who "releases the ghost", and the ghost master who released the ghost will die because of the harm caused by the ghost he released. If the spell of the ghost master invited by the ghost is lower than that of the ghost master, then the ghost master will not be able to "get rid of the ghost", and will be harmed by the ghost and die.

The mysterious symbols of Xia Tao are found in the water book The same text is recorded, that is, there are more than ten identical text symbols found in the twenty-four Xia Tao water books, and some of the Xia Tao symbols are deciphered by the water script characters, which may be a vein of Xia cultural relics, and will help to solve the problem and identify the Xia Tao symbol as a primitive script. For a long time, people have believed that there are only more than 400 ancient characters in Shui Shui, but more than 800 characters have been found, including more than 1,200 variant characters.

The ancestors of the Shui tribe should have come from the north and then moved south. The aquatic villages in the primeval forest and mountainous areas, the mysterious water books, the living habits of the aquatic people who must ask the gods and ghosts first in everything and the relics of the primitive society, the hundreds of ghosts and gods, will make outsiders forget to return, and produce infinite reverie. The "Shui Shui" may reveal the origin of the Shui tribe and the Chinese people. At least in the Xia and Shang periods, the development of the Shui tribe was parallel to that of the Chinese nation, and the ancestors of the Shui tribe already existed in the primitive society.

Shui Shui has a "marriage relationship" with oracle bone inscriptions and Jin inscriptions, or it is said that the ancestors of the Shui tribe are included in the Chinese ethnic group. The mystery of the water book lies in the "ancient" and "anti". The water language calls the water book "泐緢", which originates from the Chinese language and is a relic of the mother tongue; Shui Shui, some people call it "anti-book", is not a rebellious book, the "anti" of Shui Shui is manifested in several aspects:

First, the structure of some water characters is opposite to that of the Chinese characters of the earth branch. For example: "Zi, Chou, Wu, Nine, Five" and other words, its wording can also be reversed, sideways, and reversed. Even many patterns are reversed.

The second is that the concept is opposite, and the sense of God-based is strong. The original intention of creating the water book is: to connect with ghosts and gods, explore mysteries, deal with ghosts and gods, and talk to ghosts and gods, with the purpose of "shocking the world and crying ghosts and gods".

The third is that the month of Shui Shui and the lunar calendar of the Huaxia people are misaligned. The year-end December and the first month of the new year in the water calendar correspond to August and September in the summer calendar.

Fourth, it is a reflection of the rebellious psychology of the aquarium. In ancient times, it was strictly forbidden to make a folk calendar. From the history of the forced migration of the ancestors of the Shui family, especially the legacy of persecution and cruel events, it will leave the painful traces of the struggle of the ancestors of the Shui family.

The Shui script and the Naxi Dongba script are the last "living" hieroglyphs in the world. Shui Shui is a kind of writing symbol system similar to oracle bone inscription and gold inscription, which is a classic book that records the ancient astronomy, geography, religion, law and other ancient cultures of the Shui tribe.

The structure of the Shui script is roughly divided into the following three types: one is pictographs, some of which are similar to oracle bone inscriptions and golden inscriptions; the second is imitation of Chinese characters, that is, the writing of reverse writing, reverse writing or changing the shape; and the third is religious writing, that is, various cipher symbols that represent the primitive religion of the Shui tribe. The writing form is written vertically from right to left, with no punctuation. The carriers of the ancient characters of the aquarium mainly include: oral transmission, hand-copying, inscription, woodcarving, ceramic forging, etc. Due to its pictographic structure, Shui Shui is mainly written and depicted with flowers, birds, insects, fish and other things in nature, as well as some totemic objects such as dragons, etc., which still retain the information of ancient civilization and are still widely used in the aquarium area.

Shui Shui is the inherent culture of the water tribe, Shui Shui has its own unique writing system, is an inseparable and important part of the ancient Chinese culture, although this writing system seems very "immature" and fragile, but can travel through time and space, spread in the world, itself seems very mysterious. The amount of information stored in the Shui Shui has far exceeded the scope of the Shui Society, and some of the information contained in the Shui Shui helps to unravel the connotation of ancient Chinese culture.

Shui Shui has a sacred and exalted status in the aquarium society. The inheritance of it and the ancient characters of the Shui tribe is generally carried out by hand-copying and inheritance, that is, ancestral transmission and selection of apprentices. Either way, it is only passed on to men and not to women. For the water book, even if it is a piece of broken bamboo, no one can step, sit, or step on it. The festivals, weddings, start-ups, travels, ancestor worship and other activities in the aquarium villages must invite ghost masters to be present. Ghost teachers are called "Mr. Shuishu", who can understand "Shuishu", "people who can talk to ghosts and gods", and are also called "teachers". People use the title of "sir" to show respect for them. Since Mr. Shui Shui mainly relied on Mr. Shui Shui to copy and pass down orally to this day, Mr. Shui Shui is an important carrier of his inheritance. It can be said that the mind of every "Mr. Shui Shui" is a "living treasure house" of aquatic cultural knowledge. After becoming Mr. Shui Shui, you have to rely on Shui Shui to serve the clan and divinate good fortune. As long as the clansmen ask for it, they must be on call, even if it rains heavily and snows heavily, they cannot be delayed, and they cannot ask for payment.