However, just as they were testing each other's bottom line, Tang Chen let out a low shout: "Found it!"

Zeng Lao turned his head to look, but saw Tang Chen holding another peach talisman in his hand. Tang Chen, who was beaming with joy, carefully looked at this peach talisman, only to see that the word "Yu Lei" was written on it, and the notes were scribbled, and he couldn't see it if he didn't identify it carefully.

"This little brother is really very patient, huh?"

The owner of "Jubao Zhai" was a little surprised, he couldn't remember when these two peach charms were thrown into the grocery pile and sold as groceries. Maybe it's because the surface of these two peach charms is black, and the handwriting on them is also scribbled, and it lacks beauty at all, so it didn't sell it and became the goods at the bottom of the box. No one expected that Tang Chen would actually be in the grocery pile that was piled up like a hill, and he was stunned to get these two peach talismans together. Even the guy thought that one of the peach charms had been sold.

Tang Chen naturally wouldn't tell them that he was able to find these two peach talismans entirely because of the "Qi Hope Technique".

Zeng Lao quietly walked to Tang Chen's side and asked in a low voice, "Master Tang, this is the magic weapon you are looking for?!" It's not that Zeng Lao doesn't believe it, but the appearance of these two peach talismans is really bad! It was black, as if ink had been spilled on it, and it seemed to have been burned by fire, turning into black charcoal. Zeng Lao couldn't have imagined that these two pieces of black charcoal-like peach talismans would actually be magic weapons?

Tang Chen smiled and said, "Elder Zeng, have you forgotten what I told you before? This peach talisman is also a kind of aversion to the prize! Disgusting things can not only make things bad, but also prevent others from making them bad, 'green worm money' belongs to the former, and the peach charm belongs to the latter. Since the 'Green Worm Money' can become a magic weapon, why can't the Peach Talisman?"

Hearing Tang Chen say this, Zeng Lao came back to his senses: "Hey, it seems like this? On the occasion of bidding farewell to the old and welcoming the new, the ancients used peach wood boards to write the names of the two gods, 'Shen Tu' and 'Yu Lei', and hung, embellished or posted them on the front of the door, with the intention of praying for blessings and eliminating disasters. It is said that peach wood has the effect of suppressing evil spirits and driving away ghosts, so the peach talisman has such a miraculous effect?"

Tang Chen nodded and said, "That's right, the peach wood has the breath of autumn, and it has the ** of slaughter and majesty." Peach wood, also known as 'dragon wood' and 'ghost wood', is the most widely used material for cutting evil spirits and making ghosts. Legend has it that Kuafu chased the sun, and before he died, he threw out the sacred tree and turned it into a peach forest. There is also a legend that Hou Yi was killed by his apprentice Feng Meng, Feng Meng's tool for plotting Hou Yi was a peach wood cane, and Hou Yi rose to the god after his death, and the god's name was Zongbu. Holding a tiger in his hand, he leads the inspection of ten thousand ghosts and is the king of ghosts. If there is an evil ghost in the ghost, it will be eaten by the tiger, and the peach wood can kill the ghost king, and it can avoid ghosts. For thousands of years, peach wood has been said to ward off disasters and evil spirits, and is known as a sacred tree. ”

"That's right, the prototype of the door god and the couplet is the peach charm, in ancient times, people made the peach into a wooden board, carved on the two gods of the gods, hanging on both sides of the door, so that the ghosts and evil did not dare to enter the ......" Zeng Lao is very familiar with history.

"What is the Divine Grove?"

Maybe it was because they were chatting happily, and the boss of "Jubao Zhai" also came up, and happened to hear the names of "Shen Tu Yu Lei", and asked with great interest.

Zeng Lao was a little surprised: "Boss, you don't know, these are the two ancient door gods!"

"Isn't it Qin Qiong and Wei Chigong?"

The boss of "Jubao Zhai" was taken aback, which subverted his three views a bit. After all, the story of Tang Taizong Li Shimin is too deeply rooted in the hearts of the people. Legend has it that Tang Taizong Li Shimin achieved the emperor's cause during the killing of countless people, after the throne was in very poor health, restless dreams at night, many nightmares, Li Shimin was afraid, could not stand the torture, summoned the generals and ministers to discuss, so that the marshal Qin Qiong and the general Wei Chi Gong guarded the door every night with weapons on both sides of the palace gate and did nothing. However, over time, Taizong read Qin Qiong, and the two generals of Wei Chigong worked hard day and night, so he asked the palace painter to draw the portrait of the two generals, with angry eyes, holding whips, hanging on both sides of the palace gate, and then the evil worship disappeared. According to this, Qin Qiong and Wei Chigong became the door gods, and they also spread among the people.

Zeng Lao said with a smile: "The door god is the god of the door worshiped by the folklore. Chinese folk worship of door gods has a long history. "The Book of Rites and Sacrifices" cloud: "The king sets up seven rituals for the group surname, the princes set up five rituals for the state, the doctor set up three rituals, and the suitable people set up two rituals, all of which have 'doors', 'the scholars and the people set up a ritual, or set up a household, or set up a stove.' It can be seen that since the pre-Qin period, from the Son of Heaven to the Shuren, they have all worshiped the door gods.

Legend has it that in ancient times, Shen Tu and Yu Lei were a pair of brothers, both brothers were good at catching ghosts, if evil ghosts came out to harass Bai Xing, Shen Tu and Yu Lei both ambushed and tied them up to feed the tiger. Later, in order to drive away the evil, people painted gods and gloom on the door, which also had the effect of driving away ghosts and avoiding evil spirits.

Shen Tu and Yu Lei are admired by the world because they specialize in managing ghosts and evil things, and can drive away evil spirits and avoid evil, so they are admired by the world. The earliest door gods are actually not paintings, but human figures carved from templates, and the templates are placed on the door, which is more three-dimensional, which can deter ghosts and gods, and the wooden boards used to carve door gods are made of peach wood, it is said that they can drive away evil spirits, and the ghosts and gods dare not get close, and peach wood is regarded as an evil plant, and the two match and have strong power. And this legend, which is also recorded in the "Sou Shen Ji", says: 'Today's common law, every time the Chinese New Year's Eve is ended, the peach man is decorated, the weeso is wee, the tiger is painted at the door, and two lamps are placed on the left and right, like a tiger sleeping, to drive away the ominous. Therefore, later people worshipped the gods and Yu Lei as the door gods, and the peach branches as evil plants, which were passed down from generation to generation.

Later, a variety of new door gods replaced the pre-Qin door gods such as Shen Tu and Yu Lei, and the meaning, form and content of the door gods underwent a series of changes with the continuation of history. In the later period, the newly added door gods mainly included 'prayer class', 'Taoist class', 'civil official class', 'military general' class and 'other miscellaneous categories' and so on. Blessings such as blessing heavenly officials, Taoist generals such as Zhong Kui and Wang Lingguan, civil officials such as Wei Zheng, Bao Gong and Wen Tianxiang, military generals such as Qin Qiong and Wei Chigong, etc., and even the fierce generals of the Three Kingdoms like Guan Gong and Zhang Fei have become door gods. ”

Tang Chen was a little like, since Zeng Lao knew the origin of the peach talisman, why didn't he link it to a magic weapon? In fact, Tang Chen also took it for granted, if he was an ordinary person, who would have thought that an ordinary antique would actually be a magic weapon?

There is a specialization in the art industry, and if it is, there is nothing surprising about it.

The boss of "Jubao Zhai" thought about it, and it seemed that this was really the case, so he asked again: "Is this peach charm very valuable?"

"No, quite the opposite. The historical value of the peach charm is good, but the appearance of these two peach charms is too poor, and the production is also rough, and the peach charm has not even carved out the statues of gods and Yu Lei, so it is not very valuable. Besides, there are a lot of peach charms handed down, and even in the Qing Dynasty, there is still a local custom of hanging peach charms during the New Year, which is not uncommon. Rare things are expensive, there are many peach talismans, and the price is not high......" Zeng Lao smiled, "If you don't believe it, you can just find an expert to identify it......"

(End of chapter)