In the darkest and coldest night in the early morning, Zhao Haipeng stared at the pig-headed demon corpse that gradually turned into a pool of blood, motionless. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

After taking another puff of cigarette, Zhao Haipeng pulled out the cigarette from his mouth and extinguished the cigarette butt.

He pointed to the pig's head of the pig-headed demon and said: "This head, called 'chopping ear sacrifice', I heard that since the end of the Yuan Dynasty, the folk Bon festival has been used to sacrifice the 'living master' of evil ghosts!"

"Born master?" I repeated, puzzled, "What is a living master?"

When I asked, Zhao Haipeng asked me rhetorically: "In reality, have you ever seen a ghost?"

I scratched my head and said, "Have you seen it in dreams and hallucinations?"

After listening to my answer, Zhao Haipeng smiled and said: "Ghost is just a concept in people's imagination, not to say no, even if there is, it is impossible to put it out for sacrifice!"

Continued, Zhao Haipeng said to me in detail: "Therefore, the ancients sacrificed gods and ghosts, and mostly used the lord and idols to replace those sages and spirits. ”

The things that represent the worship of the lord, on the whole, are divided into three categories, namely "the wood master, the idol and the living master", among which the wood master is easier to understand, that is, under the premise of not knowing what the sages or ghosts look like, write down the names of the sages on wooden and paper to sacrifice. Because it is the wood instead of the master, it is called the wood master.

Compared with the wooden master, the idol is better understood, that is, the gods and spirits of the sacrifice are directly painted in a similar appearance, and then the process of worship and sacrifice, the Buddha statue we see in the temple, is like this.

In addition to the above two points, there is also a thing called "living master", which is rarely used in rituals, and it is also ...... Relatively bloody.

"Born master" is the most complex of these three types of folk sacrifices, because it has no specific form, and generally speaking, it is actually a thing that even the worshippers themselves do not know how to describe or what it looks like, and it is represented by something similar.

In this regard, Zhao Haipeng said, for example, just like the nine-tailed fox fairy in Chinese mythology, in the northeast, often write the name of a red fairy to be sacrificed, counted as the owner of the wood, but on our side, the old generation of people say that because the red fairy does not know words, you write it in vain, so in the past, a cover of "wood broken" wrapped in papyrus and then put on a fox skin instead.

In this way, the four dissimilarities made of wood and fox fur are the "living masters" mentioned by Zhao Haipeng.

When talking specifically about the pig's head in front of us, Zhao Haipeng told me that this is the typical owner of a starving ghost.

Because after all, the three words "starving ghost" are really not good, and it is not easy to write them with a brush, so the ancients used pig's heads instead of pig's heads when they spent their souls in the Yu Lan Festival.

After all, in the eyes of the ancients, pigs were animals that were easy to eat, eat and sleep more, and finally had to be stabbed, and their behavior was exactly the same as that of the legendary hungry ghosts.

However, in addition, the pig is also a symbol of the prosperity of people and animals, and many blessings and treasures, so the connection between a hungry ghost and a pig's head is naturally everyone's hope that after surpassing these hungry ghosts, they can get a good return and reincarnation.

...... Zhao Haipeng said that at this point, I understood eight or nine points, but after thinking about it, I felt that it was not quite right.

So, I asked Zhao Haipeng again: "I said Lao Zhao, how do you know that this pig's head must be the owner of the starving ghost? In my opinion, this is just an ordinary pig's head! There are more than 100 on the street, and some of them also send spices!"

Seeing this, Zhao Haipeng stretched out his hand, pointed to the nostrils of the pig's head and said, "What do you see there?"

With Zhao Haipeng's words, I looked down curiously, endured the feeling of nausea, and looked at the pig-headed demon's gradually "melting" nostrils.

At this time, the wood that the pig-headed demon had pierced the bridge of his nose was still there, but when I looked in from my nostrils, I couldn't see the bright white wooden break, but only the ...... Two black jujubes.

"Jujubes?" I asked Zhao Haipeng in amazement, "There are two jujubes stuffed in your nose?!"

Asking, Zhao Haipeng nodded and said: "My brother told me that this is used to sacrifice to the owner of the evil spirit, which is different from the pig's head that is usually sold, it must be the pig's head of a white pig, and it must be specially treated......"

According to Zhao Haipeng's recollection, this kind of pig's head used to be used as a ghost, in addition to the general actions such as bloodletting, hair removal, etc., must be stuffed with jujube in the nostrils, longan or cinnamon in the ears, and finally the neck into the knife, burned with pine fire to be completed.

After that, the "living master" of the hungry ghost will be placed for three days before and after the festival and will be offered with a variety of delicacies.

Later, after the worship was over, the good men and women bought the head in the cemetery and left it free to corrupt.

...... Speaking of this, Zhao Haipeng told me with great interest: "The living masters of the evil ghosts can't be burned with fire, because according to records, they originally came from the Flame Mouth Hell, and they suffered from the fire of the earth, and you use fire to burn them, which can only make them more angry!"

After listening to Zhao Haipeng's words, I nodded.

To be honest, I really don't know if this thing in front of me can be burned with fire, or whether it can be eaten after burning, but after listening to it...... I somehow felt a little hungry.

With that strange feeling of hunger, I asked Lao Zhao, "Brother Zhao, you said so much...... I kind of get it! We're not going to get caught up in the hungry, are we...... How could such a thing come to us?"

Listening to my inquiry, Zhao Haipeng did not answer me directly.

He just shook his head and motioned to the corpse of the pig-headed monster, "Then you...... Look at this corpse again!"

Following Lao Zhao's words, I once again looked far away and looked at this pig corpse that had basically turned into blood.

Under the street lamp, we looked carefully at the corpse that had been eaten by the three corpse insects, and I found that the pig's head and body were ...... It turned out to be stitched together with some kind of thin thread.

To put it simply, among the rotting bones of the pig-headed demon, in addition to many small insects the size of rice grains that keep coming in and out, there are also many small white and black threads, which are very carefully shuttled between the flesh and skin of the pig-headed monster, and most of them hit the joints of its arms, neck and spine.

With the continuous erosion of the three corpse insects in Zhao Haipeng's hands, these thin threads are also rapidly decomposing and melting, but the traces of their stitching are still there, so I can also understand the "origin" of this pig-headed demon.

Looking at all this, I replied to Lao Zhao in a cold sweat: "Everything is pieced together?! With the pig's head of the living master, with special sutures, every part of the body is a combination of bits and pieces! This is not a human being, let alone a demon ......."

I took a long breath and said, "This is a puppet made of flesh and blood!"