Zishi, Wang Qingtuo Cemetery in Wuqing District.

The full moon hung high in the night sky, and the faint silver light shone obliquely on the cold stone tablet. The desolate wind whispers lonely, singing that old nursery rhyme, mourning for the dead who sleep here.

At this time, the cemetery was even more silent, and the wind swept by from time to time when walking on the stone steps, making people stand on their sweat and tremble. Today is the 14th day of the seventh lunar month, the first day of Halloween. July 15 is the first day of Halloween, and this is the day when the door of ghosts is wide open. At this time, the yin qi was the heaviest, and it was in the cemetery, so our group was extra vigilant to prevent ghosts.

Looking along the stone steps at the foot, the entire cemetery was shrouded in a vast white mist, and our group walked in this vast white mist. Teacher Yang walked at the front, carrying a paper bag full of red paper money. As he walked, he grabbed some red paper money and threw it into the air, singing the words of heaven from time to time, which translates to the meaning of "Yin people are happy to get married, happy money to buy this road, ghosts don't come closer..."

Walking behind Mr. Yang was Chen Wang's father and his second uncle, and the woman's parents and their relatives were walking side by side. They each held a picture of their children. Chen Wang's father held a photo in his left hand and his spiritual tablet in his right, and his second uncle held Chen Wang's urn. On the woman's side, the mother is holding the photo, and the father is holding the spiritual tablet. Relatives holding their urns. Their faces turned pale, and they could see that their bodies were trembling.

A large papier-mâché sedan chair followed them. Except for the yang people who blow suona on both sides of the sedan chair, the remaining eight people who carry the sedan chair are all "ghost servants". Each "ghost servant" has a yellow talisman attached to his chest, their faces are expressionless, their faces are as white as paper, their eyes are thick black, with blood-red lips, wearing melon skin hats, wearing dark red Tang costumes, in this gloomy and windy cemetery, stepping on the moonlight lightly, sometimes high and sometimes low, very terrifying and terrifying.

Because there will be a lot of ghosts in the cemetery, and when the ghost door is opened, Mr. Yang sealed my eyes with a charm before coming, and taught me a mental method, and when I want to see it, I can break the seal by silently. If I hadn't seen them when Mr. Yang recruited "them" before, I would have only seen a big red sedan chair floating in the air like ordinary people.

However, if there are other unaware Yang people in the cemetery, it is estimated that they will be scared to death when they see this scene.

Yin marriage, also known as ghost marriage, is the search for a spouse for the deceased. Men and women who have died unmarried for some reason should be buried together to become husband and wife, and buried together, so that there will be no lonely graves in the cemeteries of the men and women.

After the man and the woman are engaged, if the man dies before the marriage, the woman must also marry, and the deceased husband and sister will hold the "spiritual tablet" and the bride to hold the wedding during the worship. Since then, the bride has been guarding the empty house for life, saying that she will keep the festival and keep filial piety when she is unmarried. Some women are reluctant to go to the door to be widowed and marry another man, but people think that it is a second marriage, and they are "disconnected women". In the New Year after marriage, she sacrifices the spirits of her so-called "ex-husbands".

Out of love and missing their children, the old people think that they failed to choose a mate for them (her) during their lifetime, and they must marry them (her) after death and fulfill their responsibilities as parents. In fact, this is the sustenance of human feelings.

Just the day before, the two parties had completed the ceremony of the yin marriage. Teacher Yang used red paper to write the eight characters of the two people together and became a dragon and phoenix post. And according to the eight characters of the two and the location of the cemetery, a suitable yin house was selected with feng shui. Let the uncle prepare papier-mâché gold and silver treasures, and paste two brocade boxes, which contain earrings, bracelets and other jewelry as a dowry gift, and send them to the woman's original grave for incineration.

The dowry of the woman's family was also papier-mâché, sent to Chen Wang's house to be placed in front of the photo for half a day, and then sent to the intersection near his house for incineration. The photos of both sides and the god tablets were taken out and placed on the bed in the bedroom where Chen Wang lived before his death, and Mr. Yang tied the two photos together with a red rope, taking the meaning of the old moon and pulling the red line, and after bowing to the incense, the two families became in-laws and congratulated each other.

Tonight is the last part, called Hoping. Move the ashes of the two of them to the same yin house, and the "little couple" can live with peace of mind in the future.

Teacher Yang led the large team to the depths of the cemetery, when suddenly the wind blew up, and the red paper money scattered out was swept up by the wind and flew around the sky, drifting away to the middle of our group. At this moment, an accident happened, and the two people holding the urn suddenly leaned forward for some reason, and saw the urn fly out of their hands.

I thought to myself, it's broken! Throwing down the paper man he was holding in his hand, he quickly rushed to the front and caught one of them lying in front of the person, and the other was about to land on the ground, supported by Nalan with one hand, and the other arm blocked the two who were about to fall. I wiped the fine sweat on my head due to nervousness, it was really dangerous just now, and the ashes fell to the ground.

Hearing the sound, Mr. Yang turned around, frowned, "There are also those who block the marriage of yin, and the courage is not small" said and grabbed a large handful of red paper money from the paper bag, and said angrily, "The old man of the month tied the knot, took the happy money and left quickly, if you dare to disturb it again, don't blame me for letting your soul fly away!" ”

As soon as Teacher Yang finished speaking, the yin wind stopped, and the red paper money floating in the team slowly fell, and the cemetery returned to its previous silence again. It's as if those evil spirits never came...

We all breathed a sigh of relief, Nalan took the urn I was holding and handed it to them, helped me up, I patted the soil on my body, and ran to Mr. Yang, "Sister, today is the day when the ghost door is wide open, will there be trouble going back?" ”

Teacher Yang sighed, "There are a lot of taboos in running a yin marriage, there is no way, they are only suitable for today and this hour, let's see, the soldiers will block, and the ghosts will be driven away."

Fortunately, the rest of the road was quite peaceful, and it didn't take long for us to arrive at the Yin Mansion we had chosen before. The tombstone is made of granite, which is a better material and durable and not easy to damage. Above is a photo of the two of them, and below is engraved their names, hometowns and dates.

The tomb is full of wreaths, and the white flowers are piled up in this gloomy night, which looks abrupt and creepy. In the distance, scattered ghost fires, flickering in and out, seemed to be a pair of ghost eyes spying on this spiritual ritual.

Teacher Yang stood in front of the tombstone, first saluted heaven and earth, and then made a finger with his right hand, and drank coldly at the "ghost servants" who carried the sedan chair, and the words of heaven were recited to uncover the spells on their chests, and these "ghost servants" turned into a cloud of green smoke and disappeared, leaving only the big red paper sedan chair standing quietly in place.

As a gust of wind gradually rose, dozens of ghosts floated from the tombs everywhere, and they did not make any moves, but just quietly scattered around, looking like "neighbors" who had come to join in the fun...

A couple stood next to each other's loved ones. Chen Wang is still the same as before, but he has changed into a big red wedding dress, which was burned to him before, and he must be wearing a festive one when he gets married, with a big red flower pinned to his chest, but with his flat face, it is not only weird but also very infiltrating. The bride was also dressed in a red wedding robe and a phoenix crown, and her face was pale and stiff, and she could not see her expression or distinguish joy and anger. But this picture is enough to send chills all over the body...

Teacher Yang turned to them and said, "Give me the spiritual tablets of the two of them."

"Good" The two people holding the spirit position card hurriedly stepped forward and handed the spirit position card in their hands to Teacher Yang. Their hands were still shaking, and I knew it was because they were afraid. Although this is doing something for their own children, what has happened along the way has completely exceeded their cognition, and if it were someone else's business, they should have been scared away a long time ago.

After receiving the spiritual position card, Mr. Yang took out the yellow talisman prepared before, pressed it under the spiritual position card, placed the two spiritual position cards side by side in front of the tombstone, pointed to the spiritual position card with the sword in his left hand, and played the finger trick with his right hand, and recited in his mouth, "I respectfully ask the Bodhisattva Edict of the Earth, the soul takes the yellow charm as the guide, crosses the bridge and returns, and is as urgent as the law!" ”

People have three souls and seven souls, and the three souls are the main soul, the awakened soul, and the living soul. When a person dies, three souls return to three paths. The main soul returns to the sky, the awakened soul will enter the underworld, and the living soul will wander between the graves, so Teacher Yang was just luring their awakened souls from the underworld and sending them back again.

When the soul returns, the urns of the two people are placed side by side in the pit in front of the tombstone, the two people's photos are placed on it, the two photos are tied together with a red rope, and the red paper money in the paper bag is piled in front of the posthumous photo, Nalan and I moved the paper man and the sedan chair behind him to the tomb together, Mr. Yang held the charm and silently recited the heavenly language, raised his hand to throw the charm on the paper man and the sedan chair, and the sound of "bang" immediately burned.

Before the fire, which was burning more and more, Mr. Yang shouted, "The old moon pulls the line, the underworld gives marriage, great joy!" Then he turned to their relatives and said, "Cry! Then their parents wept and said to each other, "Great joy, great joy"

After the fire was almost burned, Mr. Yang said to them, "The yin marriage has been completed, you can come tomorrow and cover the stone cover, so let's go back today."

"Okay, okay, thank you, Mr. Yang, thank you" The parents of both sides thanked each other again and again, and then turned around and left.

After the matter was done, I also breathed a sigh of relief, packed up the rest of the things, glanced at the photos on the tombstone again, and followed Mr. Yang to the cemetery. As if I heard some slight noises, I looked back and pulled Teacher Yang beside me in horror, she followed my gaze, only to see the couple holding hands, standing next to the tombstone and waving to us gently, with two words floating in the wind "Thank you..."