The words of the old man who tied the paper were incomprehensible, and Leng Qi also found that there were many figures on the riverbank that he didn't know at all, and they seemed to be busy doing something, but he was very idle. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

The night had already begun to fill, and it was too far away to see the face. Li Mengkai probably went to the river to pick up his used dog teeth, although he didn't know what Li Mengkai wanted it for.

I haven't asked Chen Yuanhou and Uncle Du what they are going to do tonight, but after looking around, they didn't see anyone, Leng Qi simply caught up with the old man, he had a hunch that all this tonight was definitely related to the water stiffness. Leng Qi knew for the first time that Shui Jian was stiff, and a rotten body could withstand the thunder, which made him a little puzzled.

The old man's ears seemed to be very good, and when he heard Leng Qi's footsteps, the old man smiled and found a piece of wood and sat on it.

The old man smiled even more happily, and pointed at Leng Qi: "Little brother is a casual person!" ”

"I'm used to it, by the way, I haven't asked the old gentleman how to call it! Look at the old gentleman's age, it's not a small age! Leng Qi lowered his head and took the withered grass in his mouth.

"Little brother Mo didn't forget that our line of work can't be good-looking, the paper man industry is no better than anything else, there are many strange things, and people are easy to get old! It's not as good as your true Taoist family! The old man took out a large kettle from his waist, unscrewed it and gave off a strong smell of liquor, and took a big sip with his neck tilted.

Seeing that the old man didn't want to say, Leng Qi didn't want to ask again, so he just said: "How many years has the old gentleman been doing this!" ”

"It's been years! I can't remember! The old man didn't know what he was thinking, and said to himself: "Little old man, my life is hard, Yuan Datou just died when I was born, the big warlords fought hard, my father and mother died early, my grandfather was a color maker, and I inherited this craft." I have been doing it for many years, and now it is a traditional Chinese folk art to say that it sounds good, and it is a craftsman who eats the food of the dead if it is unpleasant. ”

The craft of tying paper recorded in historical records can be traced back to the Northern and Southern Dynasties, and these cold seven are known, and later gradually evolved into an indispensable thing for sacrificial burials. And in a way, some of the people who tie the paper are almost similar to people like Leng Qi.

Paper people, paper horses, paper houses, paper sedan chairs, these things are very attractive in the house, and some things that cannot be seen or touched are liked, so the craftsmen who tie the paper will more or less encounter some strange things.

In ancient times, there were "all kinds of flowers", which were tea sellers, Lang Zhong who treated people, restaurant singers, jugglers, and porters. The eight doors are: fortune tellers, herb sellers, tricksters, entertainers, storytellers, street singers, people who build tents and tie paper, and high-stage actors. Tie paper is one of the eight gates.

So if you really want to divide it, although Leng Qi has the name of the mountain character, if it is put in ancient times, it can be regarded as a running of rivers and lakes, and it is inevitable to deal with these people when running rivers and lakes, and this is also the reason why many spells in the Dao Gate are similar to these various three points.

And listening to what the old man said, the old man's age is not very big, and the old man's words also confirmed Leng Qi's conjecture, the old man said: "When I was young, I did something wrong in the paper industry, I memorized the cause and effect, and I lost ten years of life!" ”

"The old gentleman is not like someone here, it was Uncle Chen who invited you?" Leng Qi looked at the old man, remembered the old man's words, and said, "The old gentleman hasn't said what the use of these four paper figures is today!" ”

The old man laughed, there was some surprise in the laughter, and his cloudy eyes were even more godless in the misty night: "Little brother doesn't know? Of course, the paper figure was tied to accompany the funeral, otherwise why did the little brother think? ”

"Funeral? Don't be kidding, old gentleman! What can be buried here......" Leng Qi said with a smile, smiled and suddenly froze, got up, ran to the four paper figures, and looked at the boat again, suddenly, where is the boat, but a coffin is in the shape of a boat.

I also saw the white incense candles and paper money spread on the ground, and Leng Qi also found that there was a big red-crowned rooster with its claws tied tightly, but the rooster's mouth was tied up with a rope.

"Ship coffin?" Leng Qi looked at the old man and said in a lost voice.

The old man's face was still unfazed, he took a sip of wine, and said with a smile: "Little brother also knows about the coffin burial? Oh yes, how could you not know! We are busy until now, but you are the only one who can provoke the beam, haha, do you want to rest for a while! The burden will be on you for a while! ”

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The reason why Leng Qi was surprised was because the so-called ship coffin burial will always be a mystery in Chinese history, because no one knows how the ship coffin burial was formed until now, and it can be traced back to the Warring States Period.

Leng Qi is also the first time to see such a coffin, the coffin is huge and bulky, with the whole section of Nanmu chiseled or with 6 whole boards put together, the middle is the same as the ordinary coffin for the corpse, there is a wooden board for the cover.

My master once said that boat coffin burial is a burial method with a large size, because the people in the real sense of ship coffins found from ancient times to the present day are all important figures in their lifetimes.

The reason why we say boat coffin burial in the real sense is because there is also such a custom in some areas of southern China, but that kind of boat coffin burial is divided into open air and earth burial. It is not a boat coffin in the real sense, the real ship coffin must see water, from the moment the body enters the coffin and covers the coffin board, the coffin can no longer see the sunshine, air and popularity, and even the land can not be touched.

The real boat coffin burials are held in the big river or by the sea, Leng Qi once asked his master, people have always paid attention to the soil after death, but why do some people still use the boat coffin to bury themselves after death to let themselves drift on the surface of the river and the sea and never see the land?

My master said: "Since ancient times, the ship coffin burial is not the power of one person, why the body buried in the boat coffin is adrift in the rivers, lakes and seas, no one knows, I just know that this boat coffin, the old and dead cannot be buried, the sick and dead cannot be buried, the dead cannot be buried, and the mediocre people cannot be buried!" ”

And Leng Qi was very puzzled at that time, he really couldn't think of any other ways to die in the world besides the old man said.

Old man Liu said with a smile: "People are born, old, sick and die, and those who can live must be people who can die!" There are many people in the world like this, life and death are in the cycle of heaven, but Qiwa, you remember, there is a category of people who do not belong to this, they should not have been born in this world, so if they are buried according to the burial method of entering the earth after death, something will happen! The real ship coffin burial is specially prepared for these people! ”