The alchemy of Daogong Lao

There are many kinds of tricks. Some people pray for peace. There are plagues, natural disasters, and desire to fight; A reward for a bumper harvest; If there is a funeral, please ask Daogong to do it for you. During the war, there should be a fasting ceremony, Taoist drumming and chanting, and even a performance to entertain the gods. The purpose is to pray and sacrifice.

In western Guangdong, it is mostly from the twelfth lunar month to the first lunar month, and the custom of hat-fighting has always prevailed. Almost every year, every village has a ritual activity. Tents and altars are set up in the ancestral hall, and Taoist priests are invited to preside over the ceremony and March along the street to pay homage to the land gods in the neighborhood and village. Rich families hold weddings or celebrate birthdays because of their great wealth, and some families also set up altars in front of their own doors or halls. Generally, a mean person waits for one day and one night, while Luo Tian makes trouble for seven days and seven nights. There is a main altar and Dojo in the village.

All those who fought evil dedicated themselves to the Jade Emperor, Guanyin, Taishang Laojun and Cai Bo Xing Jun, praying for disaster relief and happiness. He also offered sacrifices to the Tibetan king and temple bodhisattvas in the village, praying to deter wild ghosts and evil spirits and protect world peace. At the same time, a recommendation ceremony (also called recommendation attachment) is set up to pay homage to the ghosts who belonged to the village before their death; Some people pay the gods' money to Daji Value Council in recognition of the dead souls of their families, and hold mourning ceremonies for them, so that they can go beyond and safely reach the "mysterious celestial pole in the west and the eastern world" and so on.

Draw a magic figure/spell

Painting is a popular witchcraft in Lingnan alchemy. Dong Xuan, the History of the Song Dynasty, said, "Or Yunman walks in the South and fears elephants". Qing Zhang Qu: The article "Good Witch" in the book "Guangdong Wen Lu" said: "Books and magic water, around the clock". Daoguang's nine-year "Xinning County Records": "Common diseases ... learn the calligraphy symbols of witchcraft and water." Until the early years of the Republic of China, there was also a book in Lingnan devoted to the study of symbols, namely "Secrets of Symbolism in Gongcaotang, Province". The author claimed that his book was handed down by the founder. During the Guangxu period, "Yangcheng epidemic prevailed in May, and was specially taught by the founder of Mongolia", and the book was given as a symbol, "for reference." Lingnan curse, which means old people are big and believers.

The well characters of Han folk Taoism in western Guangdong are composed of Chinese characters such as well, heaven, earth and fire, which are used to collect evil spirits. Jingzi mainly comes from Taoism, and it originated from the witchcraft of "painting the land as a prison" in Qin and Han Dynasties. As a Lingnan symbol, it is not a complete copy of Taoist symbols, and it still retains its own characteristics in the process of implantation. Lingnan runes originated from the imitation of bird tracks, so their runes are unique; Secondly, the written materials of Lingnan symbols also have different items from Taoist symbols.

God bless (you)

There is a saying that there are temples in western Guangdong. Descending to the temple means descending to the gods and inviting them. In the past, the activities of offering sacrifices to gods, divination and treating diseases were often accompanied by ceremonies to invite them. The word "well" written in Yuan Mei's Record of Praying for God is actually the word "well", and the so-called "around it" is also the common "cloud foot" in Fuxi. "Symbol, this is the essence of the operator's movement itself? Induction with god.

Every village has a main temple, and the statues made are different in beauty, ugliness and green. Those who have learned the method of descending the temple will succeed in learning, and then go to the temple to ask the gods for divination. When I first came, I put a sword at the temple gate. When God came, he drew his sword and came back. If God does not fall, he will fall with his feet. Follow your feet and you're born. If you can't afford it, you will be punished by God. The method is to fill a bowl with water and write a tic-tac-toe circle around it; Also write a tic-tac-toe around it on the ground; In the middle of the square table, a tic-tac-toe circle was written around it. Call four boys, write "Go" on each hand, put the table above the bowl, and the four boys lift the table with their fingers. Its residents repeatedly chanted a mantra: "The sky turns and the earth moves. Left is called left, right is called right. Grandfather, you are in a hurry. No turning, copper fork turning, iron fork turning. If you don't turn, the land god will turn. " After reading, the table turned. Then I asked for a prescription, and there was no test.

Eight characters (birthdates) and any of the twelve animals (Zodiac).

The so-called "fate" is a kind of knowledge to understand life, reach the laws of nature and improve human life by reasoning about fate. The main works used to push fate are Wei Zi Dou Shu, Zi Ping Push Fate, and Xing Ping Hui Hai. Its way is based on the time of birth and the theory of five behaviors. "Fate" is to infer people's fate, and then achieve the need to avoid misfortune. The so-called "phase" generally includes five kinds: "seal, name, person, home and tomb (feng shui)", which is the way to determine fate by looking at people's seals. Printed in China, it used to be a certificate of power. Fame is a method to infer the development of good or bad luck through five paragraphs, combined with numerology, employing names or store names. Human physiognomy can be divided into two categories: physiognomy and palmistry. By observing the lines and colors of the face and hands, we can get a way to know the good and bad luck and pathology of people. Home image is also the geomantic omen of Yang Zhai, in order to observe its pattern, analyze and infer the good or bad living. Tomb phase (geomantic omen) is also a shadowy house, which is a magical way to bury ancestors by choosing a place to shade future generations.

divine

Tang's Panyu Miscellaneous Notes contains: "There are many divinations on the mountain surface, such as rat divination, bamboo divination, ox divination, bone divination, snail divination, chicken egg divination, bamboo divination and common ghosts." Now we turn to bamboo sticks, Yin-Yang cups, astrology and other means and signs to infer the good and bad luck in the future. There are:

Before Guanyin, Lu Zu, Guan Di, Wong Tai Sin, as required, praying for the Holy Grail, the God of Wealth and so on.