Why can people's parents see underground bones?

Why can people's parents see underground bones? Turn to a short passage and look for clues from the forest ~

Soul Belonging: Chaoshan Common Men and Women

Last time, I wrote an article "Comfort of the Soul: A Night Crying Post", which I saw in Shantou. In fact, during the trip to Chaoshan in February, two new folk customs were discovered, namely, civilian parents and Hou Di.

On our trip to Chaoshan in February, we first went to Chaozhou, a city with "Zou Lu by the Sea". After enjoying the scenic spots and historic sites in Chaozhou, we went to the West Lake in Chaozhou with a group of friends. West Lake is all over the country. Among them, the West Lake in Hangzhou, Yingzhou and Huizhou is famous all over the world for exposing Su Shi and Ouyang Xiu in the Song Dynasty. One of the most famous is the West Lake in Hangzhou. Unfortunately, I have been to Zhejiang several times and stayed for a long time, but I didn't have a chance to go once. Fortunately, after coming to Guangdong, I have been to Huizhou West Lake.

At the West Lake in Chaozhou, we put what we saw aside. Only the custom of "parents" is mentioned here.

I haven't heard the word "male and female" before, but this time I saw it for the first time in the West Lake.

After climbing the mountain, we walked down the mountain, and we often saw stone carvings along the way. When we came to a huge banyan tree, we saw a clearing under it. A fortune teller greeted us immediately and asked him if he wanted to tell a fortune.

I never believed in fortune telling, but I was very interested in fortune tellers and started a casual conversation with them.

I said, this banyan tree is so big! The fortune teller accosted him. This tree has been around for hundreds of years. It was big when my grandfather was around. I am a good fortune teller. Many people come to this tree to tell my fortune! Our party scoffed at this. It seems that this fortune teller took away the aura of heaven and earth, gathered the essence of the sun and the moon, and absorbed the aura of this tree, so it was so accurate.

I stood under the tree and looked around. Suddenly, a stone tablet came into view. I saw a small stone tablet standing next to the stone steps, which read "parents of the ancients". I was curious as soon as I saw it. What is a man and a woman? I asked.

Hearing this, Mr. Bunyan quickly said that the male and female are the graves of ghosts. It gives me the creeps. Are all the bones buried under this man and woman? . . .

After that, everyone continued to walk down. On the way, I continued to ask about my parents, and my Chaozhou friend who accompanied me also talked about my parents.

It turns out that parents are unique customs in Chaoshan area. Most of the bones collected and buried by these parents are human bones, mostly nameless bones that have been exposed to the wilderness or lost for many years due to disasters such as war and famine. Over time, male and female parents have become a folk belief in God.

This not only reminds me of what Xiao Liang said in his field investigation that Chaoshan Mountain Pond has risen. Is this belief in Shantang in the same strain?

After coming back from Chaoshan, I was particularly interested in this custom. With questions, I consulted the relevant literature and wanted to find out its ins and outs. It turns out that there is a real relationship between them.

According to "Worship of Chaoshan Gods", "The Mid-Autumn Festival on July 15th is also a ghost festival, and the central theme is stone drums to do good ... On this day, people will collect lost bones, and concentrate on burying and erecting a monument, which is called' the graves of ancestors of past dynasties'. This gave birth to a new god, called' people's parents'. No matter what gods people worship, they will never forget to give them incense, which fully reflects the sympathy of Chaoshan people. " According to the "Grand View of Chaoshan Mountain Pond", when describing his good deeds, the mountain pond takes the corpse burial as an important duty, such as:

Yanchaitang, Miancheng, Chaoyang City: "Bury the bones, build a mound of 6,600 square meters, collect more than 2,700 bones, 1976, and collect 500 more bones."

Meixing Shantang, Li Town, Huilai County: "1987 has built more than 3,000 caves, and 5 caves were buried in the cemetery, which cost about 80,000 yuan."

Caideshantang, Caitang Town, Chao 'an County: "1950 helped the government to widen the berm road and buried more than 2,700 bones."

Shi Jue Mountain Pond, Meiyun Town, Jieyang City: "It costs 72,000 yuan to repair the ancestral bones of Yunwengcuo Mountain 1400, build three tombs, build more than 600 caves in the mountain ponds of Zhigang Town and Juezhen Town, and build General Cemetery."

We can see that the basic task of the good church is to receive the remains of these homeless people and collect and bury them, which is the same as the purpose of parents. From this perspective, the mountain pond should be the product of the influence of parents' beliefs.

Since modern times, Chaoshan area has been hit hard by wars, storm surges and famines, among which countless people have been displaced and died in a foreign land. Chaoshan is also a place where superstitions prevail. There are many different beliefs here. According to friends in Chaoshan, basically every household here has a god of faith, and the god of faith is different. Do Chaoshan people dare to treat immortals as their own?

Alas, the charity of this belief makes the bones of those who died in a foreign country, were displaced and could not find their roots, not abandoned in the wild, and allowed German shepherd animals to bite at will.

People in China often say that the soul goes home. If these ghosts who died in other places really know, are they attached to their hometown and abandoned it, or are they taken in and buried in other places?