What does it mean to use beans as soldiers?

Scattering beans on a soldier means scattering beans on an army. It is a legendary spell that can turn beans into an army. Scattering beans as soldiers is a common plot in China's fairy tales, which was invented and imagined by people. Regarding this idiom, Gan Bao of the Eastern Jin Dynasty also wrote a wonderful book "Searching for the Gods", which contains the story of a mutiny.

What is the soldier who scatters beans?

Sowing beans into soldiers is sowing beans into troops, which is the legendary magic. In the old novels and operas, it is very common to scatter beans to be a soldier, but this is a fictional story, and such a plot can only appear in China's fairy tales. Generally speaking, in novels, such an out-of-the-world master will be described as a god who scatters beans and turns soldiers into soldiers.

As for the story of "sowing beans to make soldiers", it is said that Guo Pu is a good fortune teller. He gave advice to Lujiang County through divination. Taishou quickly crossed the river and returned to the south, but Taishou didn't listen to his advice. Because Guo Pu likes the satrap's handmaid, she found some beans and scattered them around the family's house. In the morning, the satrap saw his house surrounded by people in red. Later, Guo Pu tricked the satrap into saying that his family was not suitable for keeping a maid. After the satrap sold the maid, he moved the beans from the satrap's house.

There is a saying that sowing beans into soldiers does not turn beans or grains into soldiers, but takes beans or grains as carriers and carries some auras on each grain. After the sacrifice of heaven and earth, the Yin soldiers in the underworld were invited out in a symbolic way. Legend has it that ghosts like to eat tofu, but tofu can't bring aura, so they will rob soybeans when they appear.