Generally speaking, to burn paper money for deceased relatives, it is best to go to the cemetery to burn it, there is no need to draw "ten characters" or "circle symbols", and the relatives will receive it completely. If you are sacrificing to a loved one who is far away and burns paper money, you can choose to burn paper money next to an intersection or in an open and quiet place.

If a woman burns paper, she should first draw a large circle, and this circle should also open an opening, and the direction of the opening should be in the direction of her hometown or grave. The worshipper should kneel in the direction of the grave of the deceased at the back of the circle, bow three times, and then say a few words of sacrificial wishes, and then start burning paper money. Drawing an "opening circle" is a symbol, which is an important step for a woman to burn paper for her loved ones. In Taoism, the "circle" is a kind of charm, if you burn paper money on the circle, no wild ghost or yin spirit can snatch the money.

Men burn paper money for their loved ones and draw a cross on the ground first. Drawing a cross is a Taoist mantra. You can also draw a big circle outside the "cross", and you must also open an opening, which is called a double charm, burning paper money in the center of the charm, and other lonely souls and wild ghosts can't snatch it.

Burn paper money to draw symbols, women draw circles, leaving a small gap in the direction of the cemetery, and men draw crosses to burn paper money, no matter where the deceased are, they can receive this spiritual money. The purpose of drawing charms is to prevent other lonely spirits and wild ghosts from stealing money from their relatives. Therefore, when officially burning paper money, we must set aside more loose paper money, and first incinerate it outside, which is called "sending away foreign worship".

Lao Wang burned paper, did not draw a cross only a big circle, sat cross-legged in the center of the circle, his mouth was still chattering, his expression was solemn, he took out an antique incense burner from the baggage, inserted three tail finger-like thick incense and lit it, the incense mist was swirling, and he saw Lao Wang take out a stack of red and yellow paper money.

The yellow paper burned by the countrymen is made of straw and wheat straw, although rough, but it is very easy to burn, Lao Wang's stack of yellow paper, beautifully made, is made of good paper, the above is a spell drawn with dansha, and Lao Wang's method of burning paper is very special, just see him between the chatter, a piece of yellow paper flew up in his hand, to the three incense sticks, boom! It burned with a bang, and then there was a gust of wind on the flat ground outside the circle, and it rotated around the circle to leave, and then raised its hand, and then it burned again, and there was another gust of wind on the flat ground...... And so on and so forth.

The strange thing is that there is no law at all in this wind, it does not rotate in one direction, but in all directions, and the yellow paper burns not as the usual red flames, but in the color of faint green and green, and the ashes that are burned are not scattered around, but all fall in the circle.

Lin Laoshi while boiling water, while looking at Lao Wang, secretly speechless, not because of Lao Wang's special method, but burning paper money ignited a yin fire, burning paper for their ancestors, the flames are swirling up, and the flames are all on the body of the person who burns the paper, one is the yang energy on the living person, yin and yang attract, and the other is that the paper money will be contaminated with the information of the paper burner before it becomes a dark coin, so that relatives can receive it, but the paper money burned by Lao Wang, the flames are outside, and the ashes that fall are not leaning on the old king.

When the incense in the incense burner was completely extinguished, the paper was burned, Lao Wang patted his ass and stood up, picked up his baggage, walked straight to the house and asked, "Is the water boiled?" ”

"It's almost open." Lin responded honestly, but couldn't help flashing to the side, for some reason he just felt uncomfortable being close to Lao Wang.

Lao Wang hummed, picked up the water scoop, stirred in the pot, saw that the water was about to turn over the flowers, took out some dry wood slag from the cloth bag, and sprinkled it into the water a little bit, it is strange to say, the water that had begun to roll down after the wood slag was sprinkled, it slowly fell silent, so it took a long time before it gradually boiled again, Lao Wang saw that the water was going to turn over the flowers, and sprinkled some wood slag, so repeated three times, and waited for the water to boil before he said to Lin honestly: "Bring the wooden barrel at home." ”

Lao Wang ordered down, Lin Laoshi dared to be lazy, hurriedly brushed the wooden barrel at home and carried it back to the house, Lao Wang scooped the boiling water in the pot into the wooden barrel, and sprinkled something like medicinal herbs into it, the water vapor in the wooden barrel was steaming, with a faint fragrance, and then he took out a box of cinnabar from the cloth bag, bit his index finger, and quickly drew a talisman in the wooden barrel with cinnabar.

This talisman is bright red like fire, condensed but not dispersed, just so quietly floating on the steaming wooden barrel water, after doing all this, Lao Wang breathed a sigh of relief, took out two peach wood villains from the baggage, and instructed Lin Laoshi to hang them on the door of the house, Lin Laoshi took a look, these two peach wood villains were ugly and fierce, and there was a vicious tiger lurking at his feet, his eyes were round, like a living thing, as if he was staring at Lin Laoshi.

Lin Laoshi had never seen such an ugly statue before, his hand trembled and almost didn't fall to the ground, and asked softly, "Brother Wang, is this ...... What is it? ”

"It's a peach charm. With these two gods, the house can be safe, and the demon fox can't enter. ”

Lin honestly sighed, still didn't quite understand, and hurriedly hung the two peach wood gods on both sides of the door of the house, but he didn't know that these two peach wood villains were actually the earliest door gods. According to ancient legends, there were two gods standing on both sides of the gate of the Ghost Gate, named Shen Tu and Yu Lei. If the evil spirits do something unreasonable at night, Shen Tu and Yu Lei will immediately catch them, tie them up with ropes, and send them to feed the tigers, so all the ghosts are afraid of Shen Tu and Yu Lei. In this way, the folk spread the custom of using the ghosts to descend the great immortals, the gods, the Yu Lei and the peach wood to drive away evil spirits and avoid disasters. They carved the shape of gods and gloom with peach wood, and hung them at the door of their homes to ward off evil and prevent harm. This kind of peach wood board is called "peach charm".

After Lin Laoshi hung up the peach talisman, Lao Wang walked to Li's side and said, "Sister-in-law, I have to put the baby in the water, so that the demonic spirit will not continue to harm the baby, don't worry, it's okay." ”

He said it was okay, but Li felt uneasy, the water in the wooden barrel was boiled three times, and each time it was boiling hot, how could such a young child be okay if he put it in? She didn't speak, but she held the child tightly and didn't let go, and she didn't mean to give it to Lao Wang, who saw that she didn't trust herself, and sighed: "If you don't believe it, go and touch the water." ”

Li came to the wooden bucket with the child in his arms, stretched out a free hand, and teased the bucket, thinking in his heart that he would rather burn me than the baby. There comes to mind. She touched the steaming water with her hand, but there was no hot feeling, the heat of the water was neither lukewarm nor hot, it was very comfortable, she was stunned for a moment, and said, "It's really a god!" He no longer had any worries and handed the baby to Lao Wang.

Lao Wang took the child and said softly: "He is also my baby, I will not harm him." As he spoke, a pair of eyes looked closely at the child in his arms, his eyes were full of love, his eyes were seen by Li, knowing that he loved the baby, his heart suddenly warmed, and he felt that Lao Wang was not so terrible.

With the child as a bridge, Li immediately felt a lot closer to Lao Wang, and some people who didn't understand dared to ask: "Brother Wang, I saw that you sprinkled a lot of things in the pot when you boiled water, what are they?" ”

"It's not something unusual, it's just some peach sawdust, incense ash for the gods, and some herbs with full yang energy."

Lao Wang replied lightly to Li, and gently put the baby in his hand into the wooden barrel, which is strange to say, the cinnabar that condensed but not dispersed, suddenly dispersed at the moment when the baby entered the water, completely integrated into the water, a bucket of water became pink, and what made Li even more unexpected was that when the child's chest also invaded the water, the calm water surface immediately boiled, as if boiling, Li was suddenly startled, and wanted to reach out to fish the child up, but was stopped by Lao Wang and said to him: "Don't worry, it's okay." ”

In this instant, the child in the barrel suddenly screamed, and a pair of small eyes also opened, but the eyes were blank and empty, and the black hair on his body faded little by little.

This Lao Wang took three talismans, pasted one on the left and right shoulders, pasted one on the heavenly spirit, and took out a stack of clothes from the cloth bag, shook it open, it turned out to be a robe made of white paper, Lao Wang carefully put on the paper clothes, stood in the corner of the east of the house, and asked Lin Laoshi to bring a bowl of water at his feet, and instructed Lin Laoshi and Li: "I'm going to find the baby's soul, you two look at the baby carefully, don't move him, listen to me, no matter what happens, I won't come back, don't take the baby out of the bucket!" Don't touch me either. ”

After speaking, he slowly closed his eyes, and Li saw the child in the tumbling water, his face changed a few times, and he suddenly spoke: "Brother Wang, you take me with you to find the baby's soul." ”

Lao Wang hadn't gone away at this time, and when he heard her, he opened his eyes and asked coldly, "It's not where you can go." ”

Li hurriedly said: "Brother Wang, you have arranged everything at home, I am a woman's family, there is no use except waiting, but waiting like this is really painful, take me, I can't say that I can still use it, there is honesty in the family, he is a sincere person, he listens to everything you say, and he dare not disobey, but I can't see the child suffering, if I can't bear it, take the child out of the water, wouldn't it be a bad thing, it's better to take me." ”

Lao Wang's brows were furrowed, and he looked a little impatient, but what Li said was also reasonable, and he was not afraid of anything else, he was afraid that she would not be able to see the child suffer, and she would not understand anything, and it would be really bad to take the child back in the barrel.

After a deep groan, Lao Wang said in a deep voice: "It's not impossible to take you, but you have to listen to me everywhere, don't talk nonsense and move, otherwise it will be a catastrophe." ”

Li listened to what Lao Wang said solemnly, and she was also scared in her heart, but she was a mother, and she always wanted to cure the child as soon as possible, or help something, so that her heart could be considered stable, just watching the child suffer, it was even more uncomfortable than her sin, and when she thought of the torment of waiting, she gritted her teeth and said: "Just listen to Brother Wang." ”

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