Enjoying mystery

Divination method. Also known as Fu Ji and Fu Luan.

Fu Fu originated in ancient China and was first seen in He Liu's Different Gardens. At that time, people usually greeted Zigu God in the toilet or pigsty on the fifteenth day of the first month, and predicted the future sericulture industry with the beating of idols.

The summer season was also mentioned in Meng Qian's Bi Tan in the Song Dynasty. At that time, it was fashionable to welcome Ce Shen Zigu, and the date of coming to God was not limited to the 15th night of the first month.

In the Song Dynasty, there were not only immortal Taoist priests, but also ancient celebrities. The third volume of "Three Chapters of Jane Yi" and "Zi Gu" by Shen Chengwu wrote the method of welcoming Zi Gu: "Insert a pen with a dustpan, let two people help it, or write on the sand." Helping the dustpan has gradually become a leisure thing for literati.

Wisdom Fofo Agbo will prepare a wooden tray with fine sand. If there is no fine sand, lime soil can be used instead. Pens are inserted in baskets, and bamboo or iron rings are used in some areas, and a pen is fixed on the ring. During training, you people have been writing on the sand table with pens, saying that some god is attached to you. What was written was recorded by people nearby. It is said that this is an instruction from the gods. After finishing it into words, it becomes an effective scripture. Hua Fu originated from ancient divination and prayer for God. When people encounter difficulties, they pray to God through tortoise shells and prayers, ask God for instructions, predict good or bad luck, and then act according to God's instructions. After the Western Han Dynasty, a large number of divination books were produced, and Taoist masters inherited their skills. During the Wei and Jin Dynasties, a large number of Taoist classics created by immortals began to appear. During the Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties, divination became more and more popular, and the works of the ancients were falsely entrusted, occupying a considerable part in the existing Taoist scriptures. In Yuewei Caotang Notes, Ji Xiaolan recorded dozens of cases of Hua Fu. Ji Xiang: "Generally speaking, illusion is skillful in many aspects, but the matter of helping a daughter is actually incidental." However, all souls and ghosts can write. It is said that a god and a fairy are false offerings, but he does not deny that people who have helped others are "practicing the two-character formula."

While in Ji Yun, Yuan Mei, a talented scholar in the south of the Yangtze River, also had many stories to help scholars, such as A Tour of Guan Shenxia, which tells the story of Guan Dijun accusing scholars of not being loyal enough with a pen in a humorous style.

The place to help with dustpan can be a temple or a home. In the middle of Qing Dynasty, Ye, the father of the famous minister Ye, believed in Taoism and loved Fuxi. Ye specially built the Changchun Fairy Hall (now near No.2 Middle School of Yingyuan Road) to worship peace, and he had to ask everything. Ye Chenming personally helped the Anglo-French allied forces in the first battle, and got Lv Dongbin's mantra of "nothing in fifteen days", so he neither negotiated with the allied forces nor defended them, and was finally defeated and captured, and was ridiculed as "six princes without". Ji Xian not only predicted things, but also sang with the literati [6]. Ba Jin, a modern writer, wrote in "Home, Spring and Autumn": "The party's heart is comforted by missing his dead wife. Today, Fu Ying is almost lost. "

"Ci Yuan" said: "Fu Ying: [Fu Ji and Fu Luan] In the old superstition, in the name of ghosts and gods, two people cooperated to put pens in a dustpan, draw characters on the sand table, or sing with others to cheat money. It is named after the legend that immortals always ride the wind and ride Luan when they come. From the Tang Dynasty, Ming and Qing Dynasties prevailed among literati and officialdom. Dream of Red Mansions: I heard in the south that wonderful jade can be beautiful. Why not bother her to ask? "