Lisa said, "It is said that many of the grass ghost women are young women. They usually live alone and widowed, and if they see a foreigner, they will put Gu in the tea he drinks.

The stranger was sick with a strange illness because of this, and he could not travel from hotel to hotel. Seeking a doctor and asking for medicine can't cure it, and finally through the guidance of a clear-eyed person (a local person in the village who knows Gu techniques), you can know that you have been hit by Gu.

The only way to save oneself is only known to the Gu Releaser himself. The grass ghost woman used this to control this unlucky stranger and kept him by her side honestly.

The role of Gu release is not all about taking people's lives, and many of them have evolved into means of controlling and blackmailing people, which is a more frightening thing than death. ”

"I'm X, it seems that I need to be more careful when I travel in the future. If you meet a ghost woman, wouldn't it be the end? Also, when I go to these ethnic minority areas to eat farmhouses, I have to be careful! ”

"Haha......" I heard the old ghost say this, and I was immediately happy: "If you are so afraid of death, just don't travel again." It's safer that way! ”

"Hahahaha...... "The rest of the people were amused by the old ghost.

I joked to the old ghost again: "Even if you fall for the Gu, it's okay!" You can stay in the Miao nationality comfortably, be your son-in-law of Changmen, and the Miao girl will take care of you and serve you every day, how good! ”

"Get out!" The old ghost said, "Why don't you stay?" What's the difference between this and being in captivity? Besides, I have the old and the young...... Ahh ”

"When did you 'get down'? Haha......" The crowd burst into laughter again.

At this time, Qian Cheng said: "In the history of Xiangxi, there was a Tusi Dynasty that had survived for 800 years, and it was a very cruel feudal serfdom.

The common people are oppressed, and the fate of women is more bitter than that of men, and they have no rights to life. Women of Xiangxi. Miao women, in particular, are forced to take measures to protect themselves for the most basic right to live.

They caught dozens of poisonous critters from the mountains and put them together in buckets and covered them with lids. After that, they are not fed, and the hungry critters are forced to kill each other.

Hungry critters eat big and small. The last of the largest animals remained. And the remaining largest animal, the poison of dozens of poisonous small animals has gathered all over the body, becoming a highly poisonous animal.

And this highly poisonous animal is dried and ground into powder and stored in a bottle, which is called 'Gu poison'. If a woman in Xiangxi is violated, she quietly pours the Gu poison hidden in her fingernails into the enemy's teacup, wine cup, meal or water tank, which is called 'releasing Gu'.

Only those who release Gu can have a unique antidote. After the liberation, this law has ceased to flourish.

But in the world of Miao ideas. However, the Gu technique is enduring: there are snake Gu, frog Gu, ant Gu, caterpillar Gu, sparrow Gu, turtle Gu and so on.

Gu multiplies a lot on people with Gu, and if they can't find anything to eat, they have to attack the Gu person himself. Asking them for food, the Gu master felt uncomfortable, so he let the Gu out and endangered others.

When releasing the Gu, the Gu Master said in his mind: 'Go find someone to eat, don't pester me!' Gu would automatically go to that person. Or dozens of meters away, a flick of your fingers. The Gu would fly towards that person.

Some people even say that if Gu falls in love with someone, he falls in love with whom. Tell its owner to put the Gu to. Otherwise, Gu would want the life of its master.

Most people know: 'Gu' is only available to women, and it can only be attached to women. Then, it is passed on to the next generation of women, not men.

For example, a young man's 'You Fang' met a girl with Gu who was in love. And marry without the consent of their parents. Then, their next generation, all women, will have to pass on the Gu from her mother and pass it on from generation to generation.

In the Chinese classics. 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, in the process of matriarchy being replaced by patriarchy, the remnants of cultural gender antagonism are much stronger.

And it is precisely this opposition in the belief in witchcraft, that is, the male shaman, who occupies the orthodox position, becomes the party that maintains the social order. And the witches, who once dominated the matriarchal society, became the destroyers of order.

In Miao areas, retaliating by swearing or venting 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 marry, both parents must secretly and strictly scrutinize each other (commonly known as "clear needlework"). It depends on whether their family and relatives are clean or not, that is, whether there are Gu or not.

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 opened one-line marriages and opened marriages among their relatives. This leads to getting closer and closer to blood relatives, and people's prima zhì getting lower and lower.

In view of the strict and dangerous effects of Gu art on Miao society, many Miao scholars feel that the superstition of Gu has reached the point where it must be eradicated. They raised their voices and called for the change of customs and the eradication of bad customs. ”

"It's because it should be abolished!" The old ghost said, "I'm the first to stand up and support it!" ”

"You're standing up for a?" Qian Cheng said, "Isn't people's Gu art still passed down from generation to generation? It's just that I don't want to be as upright as before.

Xiangxi's 'Gu Technique' and Thailand's 'Head Lowering Technique' are known as the two major XIE techniques in Southeast Asia. And Xiangxi's Gu technique, like Xiangxi's corpse expulsion technique, has not been able to point out its true situation until now.

Different from the corpse, Gu release is almost all left in Xiangxi, and the corpse is mainly spread in the four counties of Yuanling, Luxi, Chenxi, and Lipu in Xiangxi.

The so-called Gu release method and what Gu looks like, except for the saying that has been passed down from generation to generation, no one has ever seen it, but it is deeply rooted in the hearts of the people. Almost all the Miao ethnic groups believe in Gu, but the severity is different in different places.

In fact, this kind of formidable 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 referred to worms that were born in utensils. Later, moths and other objects that were born after the grain spoiled were also called 'Gu'.

The ancients believed that Gu had mysterious properties and great toxicity, so it was also called 'poisonous Gu'. It can be eaten through guò and enter the human body to cause diseases.

The patient seems to be bewitched by a ghost and is delirious.

According to scholars' research, in the Central Plains during the Warring States Period, there were already people who used and taught the method of creating Gu and harming people. (To be continued......)