Chapter 19 The Origin of Zongzi
The fat brother continued Zhao Tiesuo's words and said: "Green-haired dumplings, I know, I've seen them in books, they are zombies." ”
I still don't quite understand, isn't Zongzi a memorial to Qu Yuan, how can it be hooked with zombies? Then he looked at Yan Qiu suspiciously.
Yan Qiu seemed to understand, maybe she already understood, she explained to me: "The so-called zongzi is actually a dead person who has been transformed into a corpse. ”
I said angrily: "The corpse is the corpse, the zombie is the zombie, why do you want to call it zongzi?" Why aren't they called buns and dumplings? ”
Yan Qiu continued: "Zongzi is actually a folk name, which originated from tomb robbery. ”
As soon as I heard this, I had some knowledge, and immediately pulled Yanqiu out.
At the entrance of the spiral staircase, everyone found a place to sit down, surrounded Yan Qiu in the middle, and listened to her give us a historical analysis of what zongzi is.
Yan Qiu first told us about Bian Que, which is the content of "The Biography of Bian Que Canggong" in the "Historical Records".
She said that Bian Que was a native of Zheng Guo who lived in Bohai County, his original name was Qin Yueren, and he was the manager of a restaurant when he was young. There is a guest named Chang Sangjun who often stays in the hotel, and he has been coming and going in this hotel for more than ten years. Bian Que thinks he is a capable person and often treats him respectfully.
One day, Chang Sangjun asked Bian Que to sit beside him, and whispered to Bian Que: "I have a secret recipe, I am old, I want to pass it on to you, you don't leak it out." Bian Que agreed. He then took out a medicine from his bosom and gave it to Bian Que, and said, "Take this medicine with the dew on the grass and trees, and you will know many things in thirty days." After that, he took out all the secret recipes and gave them to Bian Que. Suddenly, the man was gone, probably not a mortal.
According to what Bian Que said, after taking the medicine for 30 days, he can see through the walls and see people. Therefore, when you see someone else's doctor, you can see their internal organs, know where the disease is, and then treat the disease according to Changsangjun's other secret recipes.
Hearing this, I shouted, "Ghost Eyes." ”
The fat brother also said eagerly: "Yes, yes, Ghost Eye, I have taken Nuwa's medicine." ”
Lu Shan and Sister Hua knew about the ghost eyes, but they didn't know what Nuwa's medicine was about.
Zhao Tiesuo and Yan Qiu looked puzzled, as if they didn't know at all.
Lu Shan said to Zhao Tiesuo at this time: "Do you remember the old man who saved you in the hotel?" ”
Zhao Tiesuo nodded.
Lu Shan said again: "That old man is a ghost eye. ”
Without waiting for Lu Shan to finish speaking, Sister Hua recited the mantra again: "Ghost eyes, also known as evil eyes, can distinguish between life and death and recognize patients." ”
Yan Qiu naturally didn't believe it, and asked: "What you said is too godly, there are still ghost eyes in the world?" Why is history never recorded? ”
Zhao Tiesuo said firmly: "Yes, I was saved by the ghost eye and came back from the dead." This ghost eye is good, it can save people's lives. ”
The fat brother scolded: "What a fart, ghost eyes are not good things, cause trouble in the world, don't be confused by appearances." ”
After listening to the fat brother's words, I began to think again, if the seven ghost eyes are causing trouble in the world, Dolgon and I believe it, Bian Que and I will not believe it, he still relies on the ghost eyes to save people more.
I asked the fat brother: "Do you think Bian Que is a ghost's eye?" The seven ghost eyes that Nuwa said, I don't think Bian Que is included. ”
The fat brother rolled his eyes and said: "It's true, Nuwa's medicine can't be left in Bian Que's hands, I guess it's the medicine of the Queen Mother of the West, anyway, the function is the same as the ghost eye, but it is not counted in the seven stars, he is also a ghost eye." ”
This started from Bian Que first to Nuwa, and then to the Queen Mother of the West, the whole ancient mythological story was talked about by the two of us as short as the parents, and the other people must be all kinds of crazy, inexplicable.
The fat brother couldn't explain clearly, so he pointed to the direction of the black jade carving and said, "Nuwa, that Nuwa has medicine and can turn people into ghost eyes." The Queen Mother of the West also has medicine, which she learned from Nuwa, and she can change it after eating it. ”
Whether everyone understands it or not, it's not the point, some time is to talk about it, and I'll write a memoir when I get back and let them read it slowly.
I urged Yanqiu to continue.
Yan Qiu continued to talk about several cases of Bian Que bringing people back to life, when talking about Bian Que's rescue of the prince of the kingdom of 虢 (guò), there was a dialogue between the concubine and Bian Que mentioned that there was a person named Yu Que (fū), who did not use decoction, acupuncture, massage and other methods to cure diseases, and knew where the disease was at a glance when he untied his clothes, and cut the skin and flesh along the acupuncture points of the five internal organs, which could dredge the meridians, connect the tendons, smooth the diaphragm, clean the stomach and intestines, and even treat the cerebral marrow, cultivate the essence, and change the patient's complexion.
Yan Qiu's focus shifted to this Yu Tar, she said that Yu Tar was a subordinate of the Yellow Emperor, and when the Yellow Emperor Chi You was fighting, Yu Tar treated the wounded soldiers, and he could bring the dead back to life, which was more powerful than Bian Que. But according to her own research from rare ancient books, this Yu Tarsus's method is actually similar to the method of turning the dead into zombies, so as to achieve the purpose of continuing to fight.
When the Yellow Emperor and Chi You were fighting, they used zombie troops, but I didn't hear Jiang Li say this, I don't know if the zombie troops were also suppressed in that well? The other three only listen to legends, but Fat Brother and I take it very seriously.
I asked Yan Qiu: "You mean, this method of turning dead people into zombies is really existing?" ”
Yan Qiu said: "If you don't have zài, it's too old, and it can't be verified now." But the green-haired corpse in the coffin is really hard to say. ”
Yan Qiu continued to answer Zongzi's question, she said that the so-called corpse transformation is when a person is in the transition period between life and death, that is, the stage called the "bardo body" in Buddhism, and is affected by some external force to lead to the corpse transformation. There are many kinds of external forces, and each type of corpse transformation is also different. For example, in the cold night, the cat jumps over the heart of the corpse, due to the induction of static electricity, the corpse will appear to deceive the corpse, and there are many examples of this among the people. There are also some that are realized under specific artificial methods, such as walking corpses, which appear in the Xiangxi area.
The legendary Xiangxi corpse, which is a kind of herb of the Miao family, is applied to the mouth and nose of the corpse of the bardo body, so that at night, you can continue to walk like an ordinary person, but you can't speak, you don't think, and you can obediently listen to the command of the corpse chaser. However, these are all folklore, there is no evidence to support it, and even if there is such an industry, it is carried out in secret, and it is extremely afraid of being known by outsiders.
And the name zongzi is also derived from the folk, and there are different opinions. The most reliable theory is that in ancient times, when people and animals were sacrificed, they were generally afraid that the unjust souls would not disperse and cause the corpse to change, so they used a kind of black twine made of plant stems to tie the corpse like a mummy, and then pasted it with a corpse charm. When the corpse decomposed, there were a lot of maggots inside, white like glutinous rice, and a layer of skin on the outside, which looked like human-shaped zongzi.
Tomb robbers are more taboo to talk nonsense, they dare not mention the words corpse and zombie in the grave, so they have formed a unique black incision, calling this kind of corpse zongzi, dry corpse is dried zongzi, ordinary corpse is called zongzi, zombies who deceive corpses and raise corpses are called big zongzi.
When I heard this, I suddenly realized that this was what the zongzi was, so I asked: "The zongzi in the coffin, with green hair, will be a corpse?" ”
Zhao Tiesuo said eagerly: "Yes, definitely." ”
"Why don't you listen to what you say, why is it going to be? I don't think so. Sister Hua said angrily.
Zhao Tiesuo said: "When my family Zheng Xi was alive, he told me that there was a legend in their hometown in the northeast that the landlord was very harmful, and after his death, the villagers bought off the gentleman who looked at feng shui, and set up a yin situation for the landlord, so that his corpse would change after his death, and he could not bless the descendants." At first, it was just a legend that one night when my wife was seven or eight years old, the tomb robbers dug up the landlord's grave, and the landlord turned into a big dumpling, running around the village and biting people. The villagers beat gongs and drums, and they all went to subdue the zongzi, when Zheng Xixiao was young, her father didn't let her go out. She looked through the crack in the door and saw that it was a green-haired monster, and she was so frightened that she was sick. When someone asked her father what was wrong with her child, her father quietly told the people in the village, which shocked the green-haired zongzi. Later, her father told her that she should not talk nonsense about this matter, as if it had not happened, and everything she saw was fake. The burial chamber of this skull is a yin game, and it must be a green-haired dumpling. ”