Yue Guanchao and they saw that the bull's head was lifelike, and their eyes widened, this kind of animal slaughtering technique has long been lost!

Heaven and earth are unkind, and all things are used as dogs!

It is also called a dog and a dog, which refers to the six animals made of straw and bamboo strips, which are used to sacrifice ancestors and sacrifice the dead.

As early as in ancient times, Xia Shang often used slaves to sacrifice to the gods, after the Zhou Dynasty destroyed the Shang, with six animals instead of living sacrifices, and gradually changed the sacrifice of folk customs to be more civilized, among which the Zhou rites also stipulated, the king worshiped six animals, the public worship five animals, the Hou sacrificed four animals, the Bo sacrifice three animals, the son worshiped two animals, the male sacrificed one animal, and the common people replaced it with the following animals.

In other words, except for those with knighthoods who can sacrifice real livestock, the poor people are not qualified to sacrifice live livestock at all, and can only use straw to make sacrifices to sacrifice to their ancestors.

This ritual regulation seems to discriminate against the common people, but it is also in line with the productive forces of the time, the common people are poor, once they raise livestock, they must be used as production tools, and they cannot be killed easily, if the people are allowed to kill livestock during the year of ancestor worship, it is definitely a waste of production tools.

Simply use the provisions of the ritual to directly prevent the common people from privately sacrificing live animals.

In ancient times, most of the animals were scribbled and straw-woven animals, which did look like a look, but they were definitely not a real portrait, until the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, Lu Ban improved the cattle and fabricated the "Six Styles of Animals", which made the animals from scribbled to portrait animals.

Even, according to Lu Ban's "Six Styles of Cutting Animals", once the internal mechanism is activated, it can move naturally like a real animal, just like a real animal.

After the world returned to Qin, Qin Shi Huang regarded this kind of animal slaughter as the ghost and god skill of the monk and burned it, only hid the real book in the Xianyang Palace, and later, at the end of Qin, the Xianyang Palace was burned by Xiang Yu, and those lonely books were not known to be burned, or stolen by the palace people when they fled, and their whereabouts have long been unknown.

It can be said that since the Qin Dynasty, the "Six Styles of Cutting Animals" has been in a state of loss, and the animals created by the people have no shape but no essence, just like ordinary dead things.

In later dynasties, the cattle were replaced by paper ties, and they disappeared and could not be traced.

Right now, everyone saw Tang Baoguan doing a fake and real thing, and they really felt that the world was wonderful and unpredictable.

"Old man, is this the art of cutting animals?"

Song Siyuan looked at it for a long time and already had this question in his heart, Tang Baoguan made persistent efforts to make up the other five animal heads, and waited for the mechanism to be made and then stuffed with dry straw before stopping and continuing to speak: "Woman, you are still knowledgeable, this is the lost art of cutting animals, I heard that there is such a sacrifice from the beginning of the sacrifice to the Soul Palace, I think this is where the Tang Dynasty got Lu Ban's only book, so that we can inherit it to the present, to be able to get the skills of Lu Ban's ancestors, it is already a high incense." ”

After finishing speaking, Tang Baoguan put together the heads and bodies of the six animals, all of which were half a meter wide and half waist high, and they were placed in a row with their backs to everyone, which was very majestic.

"Dayang, you bring the forehead color plate, and you have to paint them with flowers!"

This is a folk custom that has disappeared, Song Siyuan did not wait for Tang Dayang to act, personally brought the paint plate, took the egg white and began to mix the dry ingredients, and when the color was moist and clear, the five-color pigment had been conditioned.

Tang Baoguan picked up the big and small brushes and held the plate again, and with the support of Song Siyuan, he began to render the colors and outline the lines of the rows of slaughtering animals, and after attaching the white paper of the silkworm cocoon, the sauce-colored appearance was quickly covered by oily colors, just like the animals in the door god prints, which are very gorgeous and smart!

While Song Siyuan picked up the camera to take pictures of these things, the old man said while drawing: "When I was young, I was a good hand at cutting animals, and I thought that my hands would not be good over the years, but now it seems that practice makes perfect, and even if I am half-blind, I can do things well." ”

For the first time, the old man felt that he was still a little useful, his face was so happy that he even said a few more words, and talked a few words with Song Siyuan about the customs of cutting animals.

Then, Tang Dayang picked up a small porcelain plate, poured the animal blood that had been dried and ground into powder inside, poured egg white, tung oil, and reduced it to a blood-red color like cinnabar, and when the color on the six animals was completely dry, Tang Baoguan picked up a mouse pen and dipped it in animal blood, and began to outline mysterious runes on the outside of them, which looked a bit like early oracle bone inscriptions.

When the whole body of these animals was covered with runes, Song Siyuan pressed the shutter and put all the images of these finished products into the film, and then put down the camera with satisfaction.

"Now, what time is it?"

After doing all this, Old Man Tang wiped off his hands.

"It's about two o'clock in the afternoon."

Song Siyuan looked at her pocket watch and said with a pinching of time.

"Woman, that fog can be dissipated!"

Yue Guanchao and they only cared about looking at the animal cutting process, they didn't pay attention to the Ten Thousand Eyes Cave at all, and now they were looking into the distance by leaning on the battlement, the sun had deviated from the east to the west, and the clouds on the cave were illuminated by golden light, and even the last bit of chaotic fog was dispersed.

With the help of telescopes, you can see even more distant holes, and the clarity of your vision has reached its maximum.

"Uncle Tang, the fog has cleared."