What is the ancient Jin Lan sticker?

Generally, Jin Lan stickers are filled in with the number of worshippers, each person's name, date of birth, place of origin, time of worship, vows and names of three generations of grandparents (parents, grandfathers and great-grandfathers), and then folded into envelopes with red paper, with "Lanpu" or "Jinlanpu" written on the cover. This book is collectively called "Jin Lan's Spectrum" or "Lanpu" for short.

After Jin Lan's Yi Jie, exchanging golden balls was a social custom in ancient China, so there was another saying called "changing stickers", which also meant that two people became sworn brothers and tied Jin Lan.

After writing the Jin Lan Spectrum, people became sworn. Before the memorial tablet of heaven and earth (another way of saying it is that brothers worship Liu Bei, Guan Yu and Zhang Fei, and sisters worship Guanyin or swear to heaven), incense sticks and offerings are prepared, and the pre-filled Jin Lan score is also enshrined on the incense table with them. Burn incense and worship in turn according to age. Among them, elderly people read the oath on Jin Lan's score.

After the ceremony, * * * had dinner with the drinkers (at first, chicken blood was dropped into the wine to show blood alliance, and some drinkers read vows while drinking), and became brothers. Parents called each other "Yu Lao" and "dopted mother". After the banquet, the group worships again, withdraws the incense table, and scores Jin Lan. In the future, if Jin Lan turns against him, he must first burn "Jin Lan Spectrum", which is called "Duan Yi", also known as "the leader of incense pulling".

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Ancient Jieyi Jianghu culture;

Become sworn (hereinafter referred to as "sworn"), nicknamed "sworn Jin Lan", commonly known as "sworn", exchange posts, become sworn brothers, etc. , is a brotherly relationship between peers in China. Originated from the story of "Three Marriages in Taoyuan" in the Three Kingdoms Period, Liu Bei, Guan Yu and Zhang Fei became brothers.

Later, people worshipped it, and then imitated it, that is, people with similar interests and similar personalities hit it off with each other and formed a brotherly relationship through certain forms, caring for each other, supporting each other and helping each other in life, and taking care of each other when encountering difficulties. Over time, it has evolved into a kind of etiquette custom with humanistic color.

This is the sublimation of friendship, the freezing of social relations, which runs through the Confucian thought of "righteousness" and fills the relationship between family and friendship. It is a special social interpersonal relationship in which friendship sublimates into family affection. There is a standard etiquette procedure for the conclusion of righteousness, that is, on a voluntary basis, through consultation and agreement, choose an auspicious day and a beautiful day in a place that everyone thinks is more suitable, such as the ancestral temple.

There are three kinds of offerings, namely, pork, fish and eggs (one for each person according to the number of people), a live chicken (the male is the rooster and the female is the female), a bowl of red wine and the Jin Lan Spectrum (also known as the keepsake, the content is attached). Everyone sends out a copy of Jin Lan Spectrum, writes down everyone's name in chronological order, and presses their fingerprints. After the ceremony, everyone will bring a wick and "Jin Lan Music".

Then, kill the chicken, drop the chicken blood into the red wine, pierce the middle finger of everyone's left hand (the woman's right hand) with the needle tip, drop the blood into the red wine, stir it evenly, sprinkle three drops on the ground first, and finally take a sip in order of age, and put the rest in front of the statue of Guan Gong. This form, some are also called "blood alliance". This relationship is generally not advocated now.

No matter men, women and children, the number of people wishing is not limited, but it must be odd in ancient times. In the same year, the same sex became sworn, with men called brothers and women called sisters. It is usually carried out in adolescence, and most of them are like-minded, or in the same boat, or have their own needs.

In the old society, there were many rituals and customs of becoming sworn: First, people did not become sworn; Second, the in-laws do not become sworn; Third, those who have a generation gap do not become sworn; Fourth, those who do not agree with the eight characters do not become sworn; Fifth, those who break the clan rules do not become sworn. With the progress of society and the improvement of civilization, people think that as long as they get along well, they don't have to stick to a certain form.

References:

Baidu Encyclopedia-Jin Lan Spectrum