Gu, according to legend, is a poisonous insect cultivated artificially. Gu release is a mysterious witchcraft inherited from ancient times in our country. In the past, in the southern countryside of the country, there used to be a lot of trouble, and no one dared to think that it was fake. People and bachelors, passing on each other, and the Han nationality of the pen, also thought that there was something wrong. Some pharmacists also believe it. As a result, he came up with many famous halls for curing Gu or making Gu.

It is said that there are eleven types of Gu: Snake Gu, Golden Silkworm Gu, Slice Gu, Stone Gu, Loach Gu, Harmful God, Chancre Gu, Swollen Gu, Mad Gu, Yin Snake Gu and Raw Snake Gu. In the past, some people used Gu control to make money and kill people. Gu method: more than the Dragon Boat Festival day, take advantage of its yang energy to use medicine, is to cause people to get sick and die. It is also made by snakes, Gu, and centipedes, and can be killed with one touch. Some of the rest are as follows:

The legend is that most of the Zhuang people do it, burying snakes in the soil and taking fungi to poison people.

 chancre Gu, also known as putting eggs. It is more said to be a chancre; Putting bees. It is said that the people of the two Cantonese are good at this. The method is: on the Dragon Boat Festival, take centipedes and small snakes, ants, cicadas, earthworms, crickets, hair, etc.

The loach Gu is soaked in water with bamboo and Gu medicine, and the loach becomes poisonous.

 Stone Gu is made of random stones and Gu medicine.

 Slice Gu, the bamboo slices are applied to the Gu medicine.

 Golden Silkworm Gu, it is said that this Gu is not afraid of muskets. The most difficult to eliminate; Moreover, the Golden Silkworm Gu can also marry others with gold and silver.

 "Lingnan Health Prescription" cloud: The method of making Gu is to seal the hundreds of insects in a device, so that they can kill each other.

The harm of the golden silkworm can make people poisonous, and the chest and abdomen are painful. It was swollen like an urn, and the seven holes bled to death.

It is said that the piece of bamboo is about four or five inches long, and it is quietly placed on the road for pedestrians to pass by. Jumping on the feet and legs of pedestrians, making people hurt very much, and over time, jumping people's knees again, because the feet are as small as a crane's knees, and the people will be killed within four or five years.

The harm of stone Gu: Put a piece of stone on the road, mark it as a mark, but don't let others know. Pedestrians pass, and the stone jumps into the body or belly, and it is hard at first. Three or four months later. More able to move, crying, people gradually become constipated and thin, and can fly into both hands and feet, within three or five years, the person will die. The harm of loach Gu: boiled loaches and guests to eat, after eating, there seem to be three or five loaches in the belly walking, sometimes rushing up the throat, sometimes down the anus. If you don't know how to cure it, you will definitely die.

Harm to God: After poisoning, the forehead is burnt, the mouth is fishy, the mind is dizzy, the sex is irritable, the eyes are evil, the sound of evil ghosts is heard, if they commit a serious crime, if they encounter an evil enemy, sometimes they will have the idea of committing suicide.

The harm of the Gu is that the snakes and insects are not put in the meat, vegetables, wine, and rice, and are given to people to eat. Some are also placed on the road, and they enter the human body when they step on it. Behind the person, the medicine does not stick to the intestines, causing symptoms of bloating, screaming, pain, diarrhea, and impulsiveness.

The harm of swollen Gu: The old common name of the Zhuang people is swelling, after poisoning, the abdomen is large, the belly is loud, constipation knots, and even one ear is often congested.

The harm of epilepsy: After taking the fungus and poison, the heart is dizzy, dizzy, laughing and scolding, and when drinking, the drug poison is frequent, and the anger is fierce, like madness.

The Yin Snake Gu harms people: Those who are poisonous will die within 30 days. At first, vomiting, diarrhea, followed by bloating, reduced appetite, fishy mouth, forehead heat, and red face. On the heavy face, ears, nose, and belly, there is a sound of Gu action flipping, and constipation knots. Coupled with epilepsy medicine, there is no hope of cure.

 Guest of Raw Snake Gu: The poisonous situation is similar to that of Yin Snake Gu harming people, but there are also some differences. That is, the swollen object, two or three inches long, can beat, and stops eating meat; Gu people are formed, or snakes, or meat turtles, biting everywhere in the body, the head is also very painful, and it is even worse at night: there are external snakes into the pores with the wind to bite, internal and external attacks, it is really impossible to seek a cure.

Gu may be tangible or invisible, and the poison is very easy, but the method of identification should be paid great attention to. Identification method after poisoning: (1) Eat raw soybeans (black beans can also be eaten), and the entrance does not smell fishy, which is poisonous. (2) Chewing an inch of moxibustion licorice, and spitting out the throat juice is poisonous. (3) Insert a silver needle into a cooked duck egg, including in the mouth, and take it out after an hour.

The poison is very powerful and can cause people to get sick and die. Although there is a way to heal, it should not be tried lightly. It is said that the methods of prevention are: (1) Where the house is clean and free of dust and cobwebs, it is a house of Tibetan Gu, and do not associate with it. (2) Before eating tea, water, vegetables, rice, etc., those who must use chopsticks to move the cups and bowls are poisoning, and they urgently need to ask the master: Is the food poisonous? Once asked, it can be protected from poison. (3) Travel with garlic heads. Every meal, eat garlic first, if there is a Gu, you will vomit, if you don't vomit, you will die, the master is afraid of being tired, of course he does not dare to go to the Gu. (4) Large water chestnuts, no matter how much, slices are dried at the end, and the hollow white boiling soup is sent down every morning (with two coins as the degree), and it can also be avoided if it enters the Gu family. (5) Gu Zhi is poisoned by rice and alcohol, which is extremely difficult to treat, so it is advisable to go out on the principle of not drinking.

The most common way to remove poison Gu is to swallow it with boiling water with the three flavors of realgar, garlic and calamus to expel the viciousness. The golden silkworm is the most afraid of the thorns of the head and mouth like a rat and the body with thorny hairs like oysters and pig arrows, so the thorn is a special medicine for the treatment of the golden silkworm Gu, he is like a centipede, an earthworm bow, and he can also treat the Gu every time.

And again,

The so-called "Gu", according to Zheng Xuan's explanation in the Han Dynasty, is "insects and diseases that harm people". And by extension, all poisons. "Zuo Chuan: The First Year of Zhao Gong" Kong Yingda Shu:

"Yu, the dish insect is Gu. Gu Zhifei is also Gu. ”

The word "Gu" is composed of utensils, which originally refers to insects born in utensils or utensils that are damaged by insects. Gradually, moths born from grain decay and insects formed by deterioration of other objects are also called "Gu". Gu is called "Gu". Gu is believed to have unpredictable properties and extraordinary toxicity, so it is also called "poisonous Gu"

"Those who use poison to medicine people, and make people unaware of it, are called Gu poison in this law." Diseases caused by poisonous Gu are called "Gu diseases" or simply called "Gu". The pre-Qin, Qin and Han people said that Gu disease has two characteristics: Gu disease patients are like being confused by ghosts and are delirious; Poisonous Gu mainly enters the human body through food and attacks from the body, which is different from the bite of a scorpion stinger. This kind of witchcraft is not only harmful, but also widely spread, and has been repeatedly recorded throughout the ages. "Zhou Li: Autumn Official" records that the Zhou Dynasty had the position of "Shushi" and was in charge of eliminating poison Gu. In the Han Dynasty, drug Gu was prevalent, and Zheng Xuan's note in "Zhou Li, Qiu Guan, Shushi" quoted the Eastern Han Dynasty's "Law of Thieves": "Those who dare to deceive people and those who give orders abandon the market." "The Book of Jin: The Biography of Guo Po": If you use Gu as a demon Gu to deceive the commissioner, you should vote for the land. Liang Gu Yewang's "Chronicles of the Land" contains: "There are cattle Gu people in several counties in the south of the Yangtze River, and the master kills people. Eating and drinking, people don't realize it. "After the Jin Dynasty, there are dog Gu, Ao Gu, snake Gu, centipede Gu, cat Gu, spider Gu, etc. After the Song Dynasty, some people conducted a systematic analysis of Gu and divided the types of Gu into-

Snake Gu, Golden Silkworm Gu, Nanpian Gu, Stone Gu, Loach Gu, Harmful Gu, Cuo Gu, Swollen Gu, Mad Gu, Yin Snake Gu, Raw Snake Gu, etc.

Among all the Gu, the most famous one is the Golden Silkworm Gu

Golden Silkworm Gu: The legendary Golden Silkworm Gu is shaped like a silkworm (nonsense: P), and its whole body is golden and brilliant. The people of the Tang Dynasty believed that the golden silkworm Gu was "as bent as a ring, eating the scarlet brocade, like the food of the silkworm", so it was also called the "brocade eating insect", and some people said that the reason why it was named gold was because: "Every golden day, the Gu god dung is like a white bird arrow, scraped to poison people", so it was named "Jin", the naming of Gu art in ancient times was not consistent, such as the Qing Dynasty, Guangdong Xiangshan area used to call Gu art "ghost medicine" or "pick life". In addition to the influential Gu species analyzed above the headings, there are many Gu that only have their names and their contents are unknown, such as the "Compendium of Materia Medica" mentions centipede Gu, Ma locust Gu, and grass Gu; The Ming Dynasty's "Hun Ran" also has the name of rat Gu and dove Gu.

The ancients had a long saying that the categories of poison Gu and Gu art were difficult to enumerate.

Gu Method:

Some Gu makers emphasize the need to gather poisonous insects on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month (Dragon Boat Festival), which is influenced by the traditional belief that poisonous gas is at its peak on May 5. "Gu, more than the Dragon Boat Festival, take advantage of the Yang Qi when it is extremely prosperous, it is used to make medicines, so that it can cause people to get sick and die." Again: "It is mostly made of snakes, insects, and centipedes, and if it cannot be rescued, it can be killed with one touch." ”

Legend has it that the method of raising Gu is similar to that of the previous two years in the "Tongzhi". Recorded in the General Chronicles. A hundred kinds of insects were to be used, but only twelve were needed. Before raising Gu, the main hall should be cleaned clean, the whole family should take a bath, sincerely burn incense and light candles in front of the ancestral gods, and pray silently to the ghosts and gods of heaven and earth. Then in the center of the main hall, dig a big pit, bury a big tank down, the cylinder should choose a small mouth and a large abdomen, so as to be easy to cover. And the smaller the mouth, the less visible the situation of the tank, the more likely it is for people to be terrified of the things in the tank, and to be in awe of the horror. The mouth of the jar must be as flat as the earth. Wait until the fifth day of the fifth month of the summer calendar (Duanyang), go to the field and catch twelve kinds of reptiles at will and come back and ask E if the reptiles caught that day in Duanyang can not be raised), put them in the tank, and then cover the lid. These reptiles are usually poisonous snakes, eels, centipedes, frogs, scorpions, earthworms, large green caterpillars, praying mantises, ...... In short, there are no flying creatures, and no four-legged running creatures, just some poisonous reptiles. After these twelve reptiles were put into the tank, the owner prayed once every night after falling asleep, and once a day before people got up. Pray for a year, not for a day. Moreover, when cultivating Gu and praying, it must not be known to outsiders. If outsiders know about it, the Gu raised by himself will be collected by the wizard with a demon method and used by the wizard, and the owner will die as a family. Even if it is not taken away by the wizard, after becoming a Gu, it will harm the master.

In a year, those reptiles devour each other in the tank, the poisonous ones eat the less poisonous ones, the strong ones eat the weak ones, and finally only take one one, and after this reptile eats the other eleven, it also changes its shape and color. According to the legend there are many kinds. There are two main ones: one is called "Dragon Gu", which is similar in form to dragons, and is about the result of long reptiles such as poisonous snakes and centipedes. One is called "Qilin Gu", which is similar in shape to & , and is about the result of short-bodied reptiles such as frogs and lizards.

A year later, when the Gu had been cultivated, the owner dug out the jar and hid it in a secret room with no air and no light. It is said that the things that Gu likes to eat are scrambled eggs with lard, rice and the like, after three or four years of raising, the Gu is about more than a zhang long, and the owner chooses an auspicious day to open the cylinder head and let the Gu fly out by itself. After Gu leaves home, sometimes he can turn into a fireball and hover over the mountains and forests, and sometimes he can turn into a black shadow and go back and forth between the village houses. The time when Gu's magic power is at its most is dusk. Every time Gu goes home, he still lives in the tank. On the day when it eats a person, the owner does not have to feed it. It is said that the benefit of raising Gu is not that Gu directly steals treasures outside like thieves and comes back for the owner's use, but to borrow the aura of the Gu to make everything that the Gu raiser do smoothly. If the master wants to do business, borrowing the aura of the heavy Gu, he can make a lot of profits. If the master wants to be promoted, with the help of Gu's aura, he can go straight to the clouds. On the other hand, if you are accidentally and the victim of Gu knows about it, and you invite a special wizard to take the Gu away, the owner of the Gu will do everything and the whole family will die.

In addition to serving the Gu family on a daily basis, on the twenty-fourth day of the summer calendar month every year, they have to make a grand sacrifice to the Gu. This ritual lasts for three days, that is, the 24th, 25th, and 20th, during these three days, the master should cook a fresh pig, a chicken, and a sheep every day, and when the stars are in the sky at night, the whole family will move the pigs, sheep and chickens into the secret room where the Gu is raised, and prostrate and pray, and after the prayer is completed, the pigs, sheep and chickens will be chopped up and thrown into the tank. It is said that Gu eats a lot of food and has a high magic power. During the festival, outsiders are not allowed to participate, and the news must not be leaked, otherwise there is a danger to the life of the family. In addition to the method of polyinsect biting each other, various special poisonous Gu have special manufacturing methods.

Crazy Gu: Most of them are done by mountain people, who take snakes into the soil and take fungi to poison people.

Cuo Gu: also known as "putting eggs", more tune of "barren", "bees", people in the two Guangdong, good for this, the method is the Dragon Boat Festival, take centipedes and small snakes, ants, cicadas, roundworms, hair, etc. into powder, put in front of the statue of the five plagues engraved in the room or box, worship for a long time, it becomes poison.

Loach Gu: Soak it in water with bamboo and Gu medicine, that is, it will become a poisonous loach.

Toad Gu: Tang Dynasty doctors said: "The color is white and green, and the abdomen is full, like a shrimp toad; If the adult worm spits out like an oyworm, it is a toad Gu, and "the characteristic of a toad Gu is that the toad becomes a monster."

Stone Gu: Made by applying Gu medicine with stones.

Scorn Gu Piece: After applying Gu medicine to the bamboo slices, it will be made.

"Lingnan Health Prescription": The method of making Gu is to seal the hundred Gu placers and make them kill each other, and after a few years, they can be harmed by Gu if they are regarded as their only existence.

Lizard Gu and □ Mantis Gu: Lizard Gu is lizard Gu, which may refer to the lizard that survives only after the insects eat each other, and it is said that the lizard Gu patients have symptoms such as yellow complexion, heavy waist and back, and swelling on the tongue; □Mantis Gu" is green in color, and it is poisonous and spits out like □ mantis. ”

Both cases are relatively rare.

What is Gu:

It is a kind of witchcraft that uses poisonous insects as a haunt to harm people. It is an ancient, mysterious and terrifying witchcraft, which is mainly popular in various parts of southern China and some ethnic minorities. Gu, in terms of glyphs, is to put many insects in one container. Kong Yingda's "Commentary on the Thirteen Classics" said: "Those who use poison to medicine people, and people don't know it, are called Gu poison in today's law." Compendium of Materia Medica #8231;;;; "Insect Department Four" is explained as a kind of poisonous insect fed by people, "take a hundred insects into Weng, after years of opening, there will be a worm to eat all insects, this is called Gu."

Gu crafting and types:

Most of the Gu collectors are women, and they are women's specialty. "Yunnan Magazine": "Yunnan people accumulate Gu... People fight for hiding, children worry about what they eat, and those who raise Gu don't be a secret room, so that the woman feeds it, and when she sees a man, she will be defeated, and she will be gathered by pure yin. "Zhou Qufei's "Lingwai Answer": Gu poison is "a woman-shaped hair night sacrifice", and "Yunnan New Language": It is pleasing to Yi women. There are many types of Gu, usually including: Golden Silkworm Gu, Chancre Gu, Mad Gu, Swollen Gu, Loach Gu, Stone Gu, Slice Gu, Snake Gu, and so on. Its Golden Silkworm Gu is the most vicious. In the old days, in some counties and townships in Fujian, the superstitious activities of raising golden silkworms were more prevalent. It is said that the golden silkworm is an invisible insect spirit, it can do things for people, the most diligent in hygiene, and the people who are very clean in the room are considered to be the people who raise the golden silkworm. The production method of the golden silkworm is to select 12 kinds of poisonous insects such as snakes and centipedes, bury them at the crossroads, and take them out and store them in the incense burner after 49 days (or another mysterious day) to become a golden silkworm. In the minds of those who believe in the golden silkworm, the golden silkworm is spiritual, which can make the breeder rich, but the owner of the rich family must also inform the golden silkworm how much it owes, otherwise the golden silkworm will ask for money to buy people to eat it, otherwise it will be troublesome. If the family who raises the golden silkworm does not want to raise it anymore, they can pass it on, called "marrying the golden silkworm", the method is to use the silver tael, pollen and incense ash (on behalf of the golden silkworm), put it on the road, and the greedy will naturally pick it up. The golden silkworm can cause death to the enemy, usually by abdominal swelling and bleeding from the seven orifices. Chancre Gu, also known as "putting eggs, putting chancre, and putting bees", is popular among the folk in Guangdong and Guangxi. The preparation method is to catch centipedes, small snakes, worms, ants, poisonous bees, cicadas, earthworms, etc. on the Dragon Boat Festival day and add hair, dry and grind into powder, worship in front of the statue of the plague god, become a Gu for a long time, and put food and drink can poison people. Epilepsy hub is popular in the Miao people, and snakes are mostly buried in the soil to cause fungi to harm people; Swollen Gu makes the abdomen swollen; Loach Gu is to soak loaches with Gu powder and bamboo to eat with people to make them poisonous; As for the stone Gu and the sliced Gu are all brewed with Gu medicine, and put on the road to harm people, it is said that they can enter the human body and cause evil diseases.

The method of applying Gu is mostly to put in food:

Gu girl Shi Gu is mostly served in meals, "Chiya": "Gu Cheng is eaten first, and the taste increases a hundred times", and it is mostly placed on the first piece of food. Some of the lower Gu are the worms themselves, the advantages are the feces of the worms, and some are saliva foam. Sometimes Gu can also be applied without food. Liu Nan's "Miao Huang Xiaoji": "Miao's Gu poison is terrifying, and its Gu release does not need special food, and anyone who is angry and looks at it can pass on its poison to people; Those who use food, and those who use Gu are also. ”

Symptoms and verification methods of Gu sufferers:

Liu Xifan: "Gu, or the throat is swollen and can't swallow; or the face is green and yellow, and the day is barren; or there is a buildup in the chest, coughing; or chest and abdomen distension and numbness of the limbs; or a few days, or months." Verification method: It can be made to chew raw soybeans, no fishy smell is Gu, in ethnic minority areas is to contain a piece of duck protein in the mouth, insert a silver needle on it, if the duck protein and silver needle turn black, then Gu. Methods of prevention and reconciliation of Gu: All cobwebs and dust homes are suspected to be Gu homes, and they should not be contacted; Anyone who eats such as the master knocks the cup and bowl with chopsticks first, and then serves the rice, is suspected of being a Gu, and must be especially careful not to eat or break the way; Anyone who goes out to eat, carry garlic with him, it can prevent Gu, Gu is difficult to cure when he enters alcohol, and he can prevent Gu if he goes out without drinking. The method of detoxifying Gu and breaking Gu: take realgar, garlic, calamus decoction water, or pomegranate root water, which can be laxative; Youyun golden silkworm is most afraid of thorns, and it can be used to treat Gu. Most of the old medical books have medical Gu home remedies, and there are all kinds of them. The method of breaking Gu: Dao Po, in autumn, Miao women carry cloth bags to sell prickly pears for children to eat, and those who have many Gu have long been recognized by the group, and when they buy it, they call out and ask: Is there a Gu? Answer: No, it is not harmful. It is then available for purchase. In addition, it is said that Gu is afraid of saying, and it is said to be in the home of raising Gu, and its Gu is immediately captured. The purpose of releasing Gu is mostly to dissipate grievances, and sometimes it is also used as a protective measure, some people are afraid that others will steal food, so they will release Gu, and the thief will be killed immediately, on the contrary, "Those who kill a lot of people will benefit the spirit of Gu." ”