Every Qingming Festival, there is a peak of tomb sweeping and memorial in various parts of China. In the past memorial activities, some were extravagant and wasteful, some burned the coins and polluted the environment, and some even hired gods and witches at high prices to engage in feudal superstitious activities. Some operators also took the opportunity to sell paper money, paper figures, paper cows and horses, paper refrigerators, paper houses, and even jade carved articles for boys and girls. In the sixties and seventies, these things were criticized as the root of feudal superstition and fought hard for many years, but with the reform and opening up, extensive contact with the outside world, and began to advocate the protection of ancient culture, this funeral custom has revived again, and it can be said that it is even bigger than before.

Since it comes to this paper man and paper cow horse, then we must be able to see it when we go to see the folk funeral, in fact, there are still many Taos in this paper work, and it is not so random, otherwise it will inevitably be chaotic.

In our old tradition, some way of communicating with the dead was by burning paper products or offering food that could be used. Although the paper objects look almost the same, there are a lot of taboos and exquisiteness in it. Just say that after the woman died, the age was different, the girl's family or daughter-in-law, whether she had children or not, then the paper tie had to be arranged according to this situation. The funeral of a young woman cannot appear a paper person, especially the kind of paper woman daughter-in-law, because this person is heavy after death, and the paper person acts as a companion on the Huangquan Road, so it has to be matched with yin and yang, so this female paper figure will not appear at the woman's funeral. But you can't use male paper figures, you just don't have to appear in human form.

If anyone is still impressed. When you go to the woman's funeral, there will basically be an old scalper tied with paper, and the deceased must hold a handful of grain in his right hand before entering the museum for burial, and a handful of broken cake crumbs in his left hand.

It is said that in the old days, women were washing clothes, cooking, taking care of children, and had to go to the fields to farm, which was far more difficult than men, so after the woman died, she had to burn the paper ox that could plough the land and lead her, so that she would not have to work all day long before her death, and let the old ox work for her.

Then why hold grain and bread in your hands? Those who like folklore will know that the dead will pass through a village on the Huangquan Road. There is no one in this village. There are only a lot of old and dilapidated houses, but there are many big black dogs blocking the road in this village, and they are called unusually fierce when they see people, and they are called the village of evil dogs. It is a hurdle on the road to Huangquan. Generally, men with heavy yang energy are the so-called men. They can easily pass through the Vicious Dog Village. But this woman can't, the yin qi is too heavy, and the vicious dog likes to eat things with heavy yin qi the most, so he holds grain and cakes in the hands of the female deceased. When they passed through the Vicious Dog Village, they threw out a cake in their hands, and the vicious dogs were competing for food, so they could pass through the Vicious Dog Village.

But there is a huge rooster behind this vicious dog village, if it finds someone passing by, it will neigh and crow, summoning the sun of the underworld, and the soul of this dead man will be destroyed in an instant, and he will not be able to live forever, so the food in his other hand is to feed this rooster. Scattering grain all over the ground, the rooster will naturally bow his head and peck at it, and will not see if it has passed, and it will pass this hurdle.

Each place has different funeral customs, but many of these taboo things about funerals are similar, just like this paper man and paper cow horse, although it seems to be just a superstitious legend, but there are some things hidden in it that science can not explain, the funeral of the widow of the king of Nanpo Village is a terrible example.

The widow has always killed people, and the people in the village still say that she is a monster, but we pay attention to the death of people, no matter what happened to this person in life, then after death, it will have to be written off, and everything is based on the dead. Therefore, a few people who used to be very rare widows raised money to buy a coffin for her, and held a simple funeral, which lasted for half a day, and they had to carry the coffin of the widow of the king out early in the morning after the night, and put it together to bury him.

Originally, there were many things that the widow of the king had not yet figured out, and a few days ago, the cow of the Wang family gave birth to a monster, and the man of the Wang family fell to his death, these things together cannot be said to be a coincidence, but a chilling horror event.

No matter how lively the people in the village are, this white event is not a lively thing after all, especially children and young women are the most suitable to participate in the white event. So there were only a few men who arranged it that day, and one person acted as a deacon, and after fooling around, he didn't change into a shroud or anything, and directly put the widow Wang, who had a big opening in her neck, in the coffin, and did not cover the coffin lid first, but waited for the night in the morning before nailing the coffin lid.

Those people are all erhu eggs, that is, they are not too shrewd and transparent, and they are simple men in the mountains at first glance. Among them, there is a man who is responsible for getting paper cows, and he wants that kind of paper cattle. But when he found a white man who could tie paper, he found that this paper cow was very big, and he couldn't carry it by himself, and this paper cow was also very expensive, and it could be harvested for half a month. So he asked the white man if there was a cheaper paper tie, even a simple funeral without anyone, just go through a traditional process, don't be so particular.

The white man squatted on the ground and knitted the bamboo strips, and without raising his head, he directly Nunu mouthed, pointing to the paper figures on the wall that had just been tied with only one outline, and said that it was cheap. When the man saw this, he wanted to take a few paper figures back, but he found that the paper figures didn't even have a face, and this thing would definitely have to be told if he took it back, so he saw that there was a red thing pressed into those paper figures. He curiously brushed aside the pile of paper figures on his face, pulled out the red things inside, and looked at it to see that it was a female paper figure wearing a red wedding dress with clear eyebrows, and the quality of this paper figure was obviously much better than the others, and he couldn't see the gaps in the paper paste, and he was going to buy this paper figure at that time.

Bai Shiren was busy with the work in his hands, how did he know that these people didn't even understand the most basic funeral taboos, so he thought it was a funeral for the elderly, so he didn't care too much, just let the man put the money on the table. Waiting for Bai Shiren to finish his work, he raised his eyes and looked at the pile of paper figures on the wall, he suddenly found that something was wrong, he clearly remembered that the person seemed to be carrying a thing out, why did he tie up the paper man without a single one? And there are no less other things, he is wondering, but this man is carrying the red-clothed female paper figure back, and it is to be used for the funeral of the widow Wang, but he doesn't know that he has committed a big taboo! (To be continued......)