Whenever there are Miao people in film and television dramas, most of them are Gu people.

or if someone is tricked in the detective drama, the final source must be Gu from Miao Jiang.

Gu art is actually not uncommon in the history of the Chinese nation, and it first appeared in the ancient Jiangnan region.

Gu worms originally referred to insects that multiplied from rotting food, and they also grew mostly in utensils.

In ancient times, science and technology and medical technology were not yet developed, so the ancients always believed that Gu worms could enter the human body through food and disturb people's bodies and spirits.

It makes people have a kind of confusion, like the effect of evil,

That's why I can't wake up from this dream when I keep shuttling in and out of a mess.

Therefore, as early as the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, some people used Gu art to harm people, and even began to study, transform, and improve this Gu art, and then spread it.

Therefore, the Gu technique began to spread to the gods, and the types of Gu gradually increased.

From the beginning of the insect Gu, followed by the scorpion Gu, spider Gu, snake Gu, toad Gu, etc., as long as it is an animal, it seems that it can enter the Gu.

The ancients stuffed many poisonous insects into their vessels, and let them fight each other, bite and devour each other's bodies.

The object who wins through this method of "layer by layer selection" is the ultimate Gu King. It is said that the user of the Gu can remotely control the heart of the Gu King by driving the Gu King through spells.

Or even kill people directly.

There has always been a saying among the people that "the Miao people have Gu, and Gu things poison people", which shows that this culture is still deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.

However, to be able to leave such a deep impression on everyone, mainly because Miao Gu witchcraft is a very terrifying thing in people's eyes.

People who are tricked often suffer misfortune or even tragic deaths.

The Miao Gu witchcraft in Xiangxi actually existed very early, and it was rumored to be "extremely mysterious" at that time.

In fact, Gu magic and witchcraft are actually two different concepts, but it is no problem to talk about them together under certain conditions, but here I will explain them separately for everyone.

Wu actually originated from a matriarchal society, and it is written in "Shuowen Jie Zi", "Wu, Zhu Ye."

Women can do invisible things, and those who dance to séance are also. Like a man with two coats, dancing shape, agreeing with the worker.

"Literally, the job of a witch is to act as a medium of communication between humans and the gods.

Just like the medieval teachings in Europe, it has the ability to interpret the will of the gods.

Therefore, witchcraft in ancient times was extremely mysterious, not only to cure diseases but also to convey God's will and prophecy, and witches among ethnic minorities generally occupied an important position. In fact, there are witches not only in the Miao people, but also in the Dai people, the Oroqen people, the Zhuang people, the Li people, etc., but the names are different, for example, the witches in the Oroqen people are called "shamans".

Compared with Wu, Gu appeared a little later, and its original meaning was to put many poisonous insects in a vessel to kill and devour each other, and the "strongest poisonous insects" that survived could be called "Gu". And the "Gu poison man" in everyone's cognition also refers to the behavior of using Gu insects to poison others, generally speaking, people believe that Gu things are placed in food, and their toxicity is indeed very terrifying.

The Republic of China's "Guizhou Tongzhi Tumin Zhi" describes Gu as follows:

Gu includes snake Gu, lizard Gu, centipede Gu, and golden silkworm helmet. There are different types, and all of them die immediately.

It can be seen that Gu poisoners can indeed be used as a means to kill people invisibly. In ancient times, the economic and health conditions in Xiangxi were very poor, and there was relatively little communication with the outside world due to the geographical environment, so it maintained a relatively "superstitious thought" and did not look at some problems comprehensively.

The climate in Xiangxi is unusually humid and hot, and this environment is very suitable for the growth of poisonous insects, snakes and ants, and people are often infected with some parasitic diseases when they are active in the local area. Some diseases can be quickly cured under modern medical treatment, but at that time, they became a "threshold of life and death" that the locals could not cross. Therefore, everyone will blame these parasitic diseases and some other diseases whose causes cannot be explained on the "Gu poisoners", and Miao Gu witchcraft has become more and more mysterious in this situation.

The Tang Dynasty poet Bai Juyi also described in his poem "Sending Guests to Lingnan in the Spring Twelve Movements" that "you need to guard against Gu in your arms, and don't accept the treasure in your pocket", pointing out that Lingnan has the custom of letting go of Gu. At this time, the art of witchcraft was still only mysterious, and it did not reach the realm of "harming people and putting people to death", but with the Ming and Qing dynasties, the contradictions between the Han and Miao people who migrated to the southwest region continued to intensify, and Miao Gu gradually became a kind of witchcraft that harmed the enemy, which made people frightened.

And Miao Gu is a version of Gu art that began to evolve from the Gu art that originated in the Jiangnan region. In the Miao area, Miao Gu is called "grass ghost", and most of the people who release Gu are women, so the women who release Gu are also called "grass ghost women".

This originated from an ancient legend, a grass mower raised by a Gu wanted to eat her son, the grass mower was confused by the Gu heart, and really decided to sacrifice her son to the Gu King, so she put Gu in the food her son ate. The daughter-in-law, who witnessed all this, decided to prevent the tragedy from happening, and when the son came back from cutting the grass in the field and wanted to eat, the daughter-in-law instantly threw the food into the boiling water and boiled it. I only listened to the strange stirring sound in the pot, and when my daughter-in-law opened the pot again, I saw a big snake floating out of the pot.

In this way, Miao Gu unswervingly occupies the hearts of the Miao people through various mythical legends. It is said that as long as it is a Miao person, there will be varying degrees of belief in Gu. And because the status of Miao women was not high in ancient times, the behavior of objectifying women was produced, and most of the people who released Gu were women.

There are many types of Miao Gu, including love Gu, crazy Gu, fear Gu, live Gu, hatred Gu, golden silkworm Gu, etc., its effect is peculiar, and even the "invisible" of killing people is also "chaotic flowers gradually charming eyes", which is unheard of and unseen.

Love Gu is unique to the Miao people, and it is also known as Love Flower Gu. Because most of the Miao girls will marry at the age of fifteen or sixteen, there are some women who have not yet married when they are old will begin to look forward to the arrival of their lovers, and love Gu also came into being in this situation.

The production of love Gu is very difficult, and legend has it that the Gu is fed with the unique "heart blood" or "menstrual blood" of Miao women, and the production time is as long as three to ten years before you can get a love Gu.

And the way of this love Gu is very simple, even imperceptible. Just put it in the lover's food, or on the clothes and touch, so that the lover will be tempted by himself. Legend has it that the love Gu needs to be matched with an antidote, and it attacks once a month, and the heartache is unbearable and heartbreaking, comparable to the pain of love.

As the opposite of love Gu, Hate Gu is also very worth mentioning. In ancient times, men always had three wives and four concubines, and what they couldn't keep the most was a man's heart. And women, as a vulnerable group less powerful than men, it is almost impossible to protect their rights to "start from the beginning". So Hate Gu is applied in this situation.

After Miao Nu gave her husband a hatred Gu for her changed mind, if her husband didn't change his mind, he would be slowly mutilated by Gu worms. Therefore, hatred Gu is actually a bad medicine, and it also completely shows the hatred and helplessness of women after a man changes his mind.

In the thousands of years of inheritance, Miao Gu is really too evil. As soon as the ancient folk heard the evil effect of Miao Gu, they would rather believe it than believe it. I'm afraid that if I say that I don't believe it, I will be eaten by Gu worms in the next second.

But in modern times, when our minds are more open-minded and our knowledge reserves are richer, we will begin to have doubts about Miao Gu. After all, seeing is believing, and hearing is false. Moreover, although Miao Gu has existed since ancient times, no one has ever seen it, so Miao Gu has also become an existence like a UFO. You think it has, but it doesn't. You think it doesn't, and it spreads like it's real.

Moreover, the terrain of Xiangxi is complex, mostly lofty mountains and mountains, relatively backward and poor, and various technologies are not as good as those in the Central Plains. Poor mountains and bad waters not only produce the people, but also many strange things. Folk customs like chasing corpses were created at the beginning just to allow people who died in a foreign land to be buried in peace, so everyone can always see it in the movie, but is there a scientific basis in reality, at least, there is no so far, and the same is true for Miao Gu.