The story of Taiwan Province's famous ghost forest head?

Lin Toumei is a popular folk story in Taiwan Province Province, which is said to be one of the four unsolved cases in Taiwan Province Province in Qing Dynasty.

There are two theories about the origin of this story. In his works, Lin Hengdao claimed that Lin Toujie's story was a series of "Legend of Wang Fu" from China.

Another way of saying this is that Lin Toujie's story is a folk story that happened during the land reclamation in Taiwan Province Province. During Daoguang and Xianfeng years, Tainan salt water went to the cloth bag area in Chiayi.

Sister Lin's identity and story ending are also different in different versions.

However, the main axis of the story is structure. The heroine hanged herself in Lintou forest after being cheated of money and color, so she was named after her death.

There are two main versions of Lin Toumei.

A series of stories believed to come from Wang Fu, China,

Another widely circulated story is the story of Broken Hearts.

The story of Wang Fu.

There is a woman near Anping, Tainan. Because her husband has been out to sea for a long time, she stands by the sea every day waiting for him.

After the New Year, because I couldn't wait for my husband to come back, I finally cried to death under the forest head tree.

Because of the presence of female ghosts, local residents often see female ghosts wandering under the forest trees by the sea.

Heartbroken story

At the end of Qing Dynasty, there lived a widow Li Zhaoniang and her three little sons in the southwest of Chilang Building (1).

Li Zhaoniang's husband, Chen, crossed the ocean to do business. Because of the big waves at sea, the boat capsized and died in the black ditch.

After her husband's death, Li Zhaoniang raised three young children on her own.

At this time, her husband's old friend Zhou (also known as Zhou or Zhou) often came to the house to be caring and attentive, and made out with Li Zhaoniang's Zhou for a long time.

However, due to the conservative social ethics and customs at that time, the intimate walking in the past caused criticism from neighbors and acquaintances.

But because Zhou swore to Li Zhaoniang that "if I leave you, I will be punished by heaven", Li Zhaoniang married Zhou and gave him the property of her late husband.

However, Zhou approached Li Zhaoniang only for her property. Zhou bought a batch of camphor and brown sugar with Li Zhaoniang's money and shipped it to Hong Kong. After selling for huge profits, he returned to his hometown in Shantou and married another wife, abandoning Li Zhaoniang who was still waiting.

In (5), Li Zhaoniang is still waiting for Zhou's return without knowing it, but there is no news from Zhou, and Li Zhaoniang gradually uses up her late husband's legacy and lives in despair.

After two children died of hunger and cold, Li Zhaoniang finally strangled her youngest son on a rainy night and hanged herself in a forest tree.

Since then, female ghosts often haunt the forest near Lintou Tree, and they buy meat buns with paper. For the sake of local peace, the villagers raised funds to build a temple, offering incense and honoring her as "Sister Lintou".

But building a temple can't eliminate the resentment in Li Zhaoniang's heart.

One day when it rained heavily, the fortune teller in Shantou went into the temple to hide from the rain, so the ghost of Li Zhaoniang appeared for help.

The fortune teller promised to carve a divine card for her and put it in an umbrella, so that her ghost could cross the black ditch with her and go to Shantou to find Zhou.

After arriving in Shantou, the ghost of Li Zhaoniang appeared in Zhou's house on the day of his second son's second month. Zhou was shocked when he saw it, then went insane, muttered remorse in the hall, and finally picked up a kitchen knife to kill his wife and two young sons, and then committed suicide.

Different versions have slightly different plots. For example, the person who brought Li Zhaoniang back to (6) was not a fortune teller, but a government official, and the role in Taiwanese opera was another person cheated by Zhou.

Cheating money and cheating color have different effects. One is a friend of Li Zhaoniang's late husband, and the other is a local ruffian.

The process of building the temple is also different, some say it was built by villagers, and some say it was built by gamblers sheltered by Lin Toujie's ghost.

The ending of crossing the sea and not crossing the sea is also different, but the same is that the heroines all jump under the forest tree and become ghosts.