Who has the story of not believing in ghosts, not afraid of ghosts and breaking superstition?

In the description of customs and events, almost all the county chronicles of past dynasties held a negative attitude towards superstition. "Records of Haiyang County" in Guangxu period of Qing Dynasty said: "The rich and the poor believe in ghosts and gods, and diseases rely on witches. There are even people who say that they can find the dead. They are called stone drums and tell this story before they die. The stupid woman cried when she heard it. ... its temples, temples, temples, temples, temples, temples, temples, temples, temples, temples, temples, temples, temples. Every time you do something, you need to ask for a sign to make up for it. Some people call themselves disasters and curse the charm of water ... to climb the knife ladder, lie on the bed of nails, escape from the fire, and so on. "

Chronicle of Chaozhou Cong Tan Zhi records several events of removing demons and ghosts in Song and Ming Dynasties. As recorded in Burning the Temple to Worship the Fierce, during the Song Dynasty, Shen Zao was sentenced to smell the Hanshan God when he took office, and both men and women had to make sacrifices. Shen Zao burned his temple, destroyed the idol, got a giant snake, killed it, and sacrificed it severely. And Kill the Snake. According to records, during the Song Dynasty, there was a big snake in a Buddhist temple in Chaozhou, and officials who went to Chaozhou before and after offered sacrifices to it. A satrap doesn't believe it. There was a drought, and the locals said it was because the satrap didn't believe in the snake god. The satrap went to the snake temple to worship, and the "big snake snaked out" scared him to death. Hu Ying, the peace envoy of Guangdong at that time, heard about this incident, ordered the monk to carry out the snake and kill it, destroyed the temple and condemned the monk.

The most well-known story is that two Chaozhou magistrates in the Ming Dynasty broke superstition, both of which are recorded in the above chronicle. One is to get rid of strange stones for Roy, and the other is to exorcise ghosts for Guo. During Xuande's reign, Wang Yuan was the magistrate of Chaozhou and built Guangji Bridge. When he heard that there were two monsters in West Lake Mountain, one was a toad stone and the other was a human bone stone. Roy didn't believe in ghosts, so he ordered the stonemason to smash the stone, "chisel for Guangji Bridge", and wrote a book "Chaozhou Magistrate Roy Dismantled the Strange Stone" to erect a monument where the strange stone was broken. It can be seen that the so-called monsters are all rumors and legends. On his way to his post, Guo, another magistrate of Wanli County, heard that there was a ghost in Chaozhou City and went whoring at night. Guo knows this is a gangster. After he took office, he wrote an article asking the God of the Town God Temple to drive away the solitary ghost and went to the Town God Temple to ask the priest, "What is the shape of the solitary ghost?" Si Zhu said, "The ghost knew that the magistrate was going to ask the city god to bind him, so he left quickly." It is not difficult to infer what a ghost is and what it has to do with the four pillars.

In the Qing dynasty, there were also many cases in which officials broke the superstition of ghosts and gods. The most determined is Lan Dingyuan, who served as Puning and Chaoyang magistrate during Yongzheng. He is an orthodox Confucian scholar, who advocates that everything is regarded as deviant except worshipping the ancestors of Confucian sages and loyal heroes. In his Examination of Chaozhou Customs, he criticized Chaozhou customs in many ways, including listing superstitious things such as "being fond of geomantic omen" and "believing in witchcraft", saying that "ghosts flourish and evil spirits flourish". So whenever superstition harms people, he resolutely removes it. Lin Miaogui, a witch in Chaoyang city, claimed to be the master of the day after tomorrow and was called Xiangu. She colluded with the adulterer Hu, who claimed to be a fairy, and built a temple in the north of the city. She said that she could serve ghosts to drive away gods, cure diseases and beg children, and let widows die again. There are many people who ask for relatives in counties far and near, and hundreds of people who ask for marriage respect their teachers. It is immoral to fool around day and night, and even for a few days, with great fanfare. After hearing this, Lan Dingyuan urgently ordered the arrest of officials. Unexpectedly, these officials were also afraid of "immortals", and gentry and officials all took refuge as soon as possible. As a result, no one was caught. Lan Dingyuan personally led a team to Yin Tang, and now he has captured more than 10 people from the Yin bed in the secret room, and seized a number of material evidence that can easily make people drunk, such as stuffy incense (ecstasy). Knowing that he was harming others and deceiving himself, Lan Dingyuan tied the principal criminals Hu and Lin Miaogui to death in the street, and later confiscated Yintang and converted it into Mianyang Academy, which became the cultural and educational center of Chaoyang County.

At the end of the Qing Dynasty and the beginning of the Republic of China, Chaoshan accepted more and more scientific knowledge, and some advanced intellectuals and officials no longer believed in ghosts and gods and resolutely eradicated superstition. Xiao, the chief teacher of Dongshan Middle School in Chaoyang County in the late Qing Dynasty and the first principal of Chaoyang Middle School in the early Republic of China, is one of them. When Xiao Chu was the head teacher of Dongshan College High School, there were many temples near the school site and superstitions prevailed. At that time, the former site of Wang Xianqiao was in front of Dongshan School. There are two big locust trees, which are regarded as tree gods by some kind men and women. People come and go, and fireworks are in the air. So he ordered the school staff Wei to take away the incense burner and clean the place. Awei is superstitious. He said to two locust trees, "I am instructed by the headmaster to ask the tree gods for forgiveness." When I got home at night, I felt uneasy, shouting, headache, nausea and fatigue. The family asked President Xiao for leave. Xiao Feng gave some money to delay the doctor's taking medicine, and then shouted at the locust tree with a cane: "If you do something wrong, I will dig you up by the roots tomorrow." Awei's family was shocked and told awei about the situation. The next day, awei was conscious, doubts were eliminated, and the colonel worked as usual. Then, the statues of "Narcissus Adult" and "Zhu Shengniang" in the temple near the Dongshan historic site "Qushuiliu" were moved out and burned, which caused a sensation in the county. At that time, some local ruffians and hooligans in Miancheng often used idols to blackmail wealthy businessmen. In the middle of the night, they often take out the "Jujube Pear" statue in the Town God Temple and put it in front of the rich or shops. Rosty Yi extorted money from the owner. On one occasion, the local ruffians and hooligans moved two statues of "jujube pears" and placed them at the door of Xiaofeng's residence "Naixuan". Rosty Yi and Xiaofeng found out that they were going to burn the statue and contacted the public security department at that time to punish the hooligans, thus ending the local abuse. Once, a child in a small family got measles, and the family asked God to worship Buddha and set up a "mother's stove". Zhu Feng Jr. dissuaded him, scientifically warned his family to seek medical treatment, and destroyed the "mother's kitchen" at home. As far as the influence is concerned, many relatives and friends have followed suit. Zhu Feng Jr. thinks that after death, according to the family's financial resources, there is no need to delay the monk's confession. He believes that chanting Buddha is illusory, a waste of human and financial resources, and a meaningless move. He warned his family to follow this lesson. It is said that after his death, the descendants of his family members did not deal with the matter of delaying the monk's chanting.