There are many plants on and around my father's grave, which we locals call Rebecca thorn.

The thorn of the prince can drive away wild ghosts, so this grave is the owner's territory, and it is a good thing to grow this thing.

Legend has it that there was once a poor orphan who could not get a wife for twenty-four or five years. Every day he goes to the cliff behind the mountain to sing bitter love songs. Over time, a beautiful girl came to sing with him. Soon, he took the girl home and got married. After two or three years, the wealth of the family gradually increased and life was good, but the daughter-in-law had never been pregnant and felt worse and worse. He went to Bumo to tell his fortune. Bumo saw it and said he married a ghost as his wife. Ghosts don't have children. Besides, she absorbed his soul day after day. In the end, she will be possessed by two souls, and he will die because all the souls are absorbed. The young man said that his life with his daughter-in-law has always been wonderful, and she can't be a ghost. Bumo took a dry reed branch to the boy and said, "If you don't believe me, take this ignition handle and have a look at it at night." ? In the evening, the young man didn't come home until midnight. He lit dry reed branches and went into the room to watch. Sure enough, it was not a person who slept in the bed, but a terrible skeleton. The young man was so scared that he ran directly to Boomer's house and asked Boomer what to do. Bumo said that this ghost turned out to be a woman from a foreign country. She fled to the mountain decades ago and hanged herself under the cliff. Tell the young man to go up the mountain with a torch and cut many thorns and reed branches. After coming back, Bumo sprayed water while chanting, and divided it into small handfuls according to the number of doors and windows of the young man's house. Tell the young man to stick them on the eyebrows of the doors and windows when his daughter-in-law goes out to fetch water early tomorrow morning. ?

The next morning, as soon as the ghost girl picked out a bucket, the boy did as Bumo said and hid at home without saying anything. The ghost girl came back with water and swore: "You put a barbed cage on the door and window, and put a sharp knife and sword on the door and window to prevent me from entering the house. Then I'll go, and I'll come back to settle accounts with you when the stabbing knife rusts next year. " On July 15th, young people hung the thorns and reeds of the Prince of Yan. I did the same thing on July 15 of the following year. When the ghost girl comes back, she can't enter the house. She scolded, left again and never came back. Since then, in order to prevent wild ghosts from entering the house, the thorns and reed branches of the prince of Yan have been popular on July 15 every year, and it has still become a folk custom of the Mid-Yuan Festival. ?

So don't worry too much? Maybe the people in the grave used this way to protect you from nearby wild ghosts. It is said that after being hit by a wild ghost, where will it hurt?