Strange ghost story: Ce Shen Zigu

Yesterday, we said that Zi Gu was not only Ce Shen, but also a ghost. Besides being in charge of the toilet, she can also predict good and bad luck. Help basket? .

What is this? Basket? The dustpan here refers to the dung dustpan, which is an indispensable tool for ancient toilets. Therefore, when offering sacrifices, you should take a new dung dustpan, decorate it with a hairpin, insert flowers, insert chopsticks, and insert a silver hairpin on the dustpan mouth. At this time, the dung dustpan is the embodiment of Zi Gu.

That's right. At that time, there was no image of Zigu, but they were all dressed as dung dustpans as the embodiment of Zigu. Sacrifice to Ce Shen was done by women. Packed up the dung dustpan, two women carried the dung dustpan to the edge of the dung pit, put it on the confession, and lit candles to burn incense to worship. In addition, there is a sand table on the incense table, with two women on each side. The woman with the dustpan aims the dustpan at the sand table. It is said that when the charm of God is burned, the woman holding the basket will feel it and involuntarily write some words on the sand table. This is the Oracle of Zi Gu.

Later, Fuxi evolved into Fuxi. In modern times, Fuxi evolved into Cheng Bi Fairy?

Ask the spirits not to come. Elder sister's official account on WeChat wrote an article called "Can't Play the Pen Fairy". As for whether ghosts and gods can invite Zigu, to be honest, this thing is not orthodox Taoism. Many Taoist sects don't allow disciples to do this, but if a Taoist does, it will probably be Zi Gu.

There are too many stories about Wisdom Fofo Agbo and Bi Xian. Let's talk about an unusual one, how Zigu appeared.

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It is said that Ce Shen generally likes to appear on the fifteenth night of the first month, and most of the worshippers of Ce Shen are women. This is mainly because Ce Shen's daughter-in-law is a woman, so can men worship her? The answer is yes. I know such a story.

There was a man named Zhang, whose family was an ordinary peasant family, and the dynasty in which he lived could not be verified. The man surnamed Zhang especially believes in Zigu and worships every day. He is very religious. As a result, one day when he worshipped Ce Shen as usual, a woman suddenly appeared in front of him. This woman is beautifully dressed. The woman took out a medicine bottle and said to him, I am Ce Shen. I am very grateful to see you so pious. In another month, a middle-aged woman in a green skirt will pass by here. There was a big party around her, and all the maids and pages were dressed in green. When you see her, take out this bottle, put it on your eyes, drop two drops in your ear hole, and then you will have unexpected gains.

The man was particularly surprised. When he woke up, he found a small bottle on the altar. He put it away carefully and waited at home. In this way, after a month, I heard the noise outside. The man opened the door and saw a lady outside, about fifty years old, dressed in green satin, sitting in a sedan chair, which was carried by eight pages, all dressed in coarse green, and the maids and maids behind her were all dressed in green.

A group of people passed by his house. The man quickly took out a small bottle and wiped it on his eyes, then dropped two drops into his ear hole. When he opened his eyes, he saw that there were no wives and servants. They were all green locusts, and one of them was particularly huge. He stared at the man surnamed Zhang and said savagely, Zi Gu betrayed me. Has her first wife Cao Shi gone out again?

Then the big locust spread its wings and flew away. The rest of the locusts followed, and only a few of them were still talking. One of them said, It's a pity that there is such a big jar of treasure under the big willow tree at the head of the village. The other said, I saw it, too There are yellow and white ones. Another said: There are also round ones.

After the locusts flew over, the man surnamed Zhang rushed under the willow tree at the head of the village, dug with a shovel for a long time, and finally dug out a jar full of gold and silver ingots. When he went home and poured it out, there were round pearls at the bottom of the jar.

This man named Zhang made a fortune, and he believed more from then on. His family sacrificed for Ce Shen from generation to generation until the Republic of China.

Huh? Why did you tell stories in the Republic of China? What happened afterwards? There has been no record since. I saw it from a mutilated manuscript left at home, which recorded the rules of worshipping Ce Shen and attached the story. I don't know which ancestor wrote it during the Republic of China, so I can only talk about it here.

But after finishing, I found that the willow tree appeared in another calligraphy. It turned out to be a refined willow, and its story will be written separately later.

Author: Lin Qing Mo Hui

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