What do you mean by "keeping a corpse"? Is there such a place as "the land of the dead"?

The phenomenon of recognizing corpses and offering sacrifices in Southeast Asia and Hong Kong. Most of his enterprises are facing bankruptcy or life is extremely unsatisfactory. In the absence of any solution, he had to be invited to sacrifice.

It is said that corpse-keeping is the most powerful and powerful ghost-keeping. His practice is also very special, afraid of cloth.

The rest method is to take out a stillborn baby's body, and then soak the whole baby's body in liquid medicine for 7749 days. Ceremonies and spells are held for it every day. After 49 days, it will dry and shrink to the size of a palm, and then it will be brought back to the provider for support. Similarly, every night at 12 o'clock, the provider must drop blood to support it, and it cannot be interrupted, otherwise it will start all over again. After 49 days of bleeding, he can start asking "him" to do things.

In addition, the corpse carrier needs to drop blood once a month on the first and fifteenth nights 12, and provide nine sticks of incense each time. The power of raising a corpse is so great that it can even bankrupt an opponent or make a marriage fail.

However, the devotees of the corpse must be very careful, otherwise the consequences will be very serious. Even if the donor has children, put the children first and the children second, because he is very petty, but if you take care of him properly, everything will be smooth and happy. In addition, if there is any big accident, people who support him can help you out of danger. There is a long history of folklore about Yong 'an's "corpse-raising place". Some time ago, a man's body that never died in the Qing Dynasty was unearthed in Gongchuan ancient town. After this rumor was reported by the local TV media, it was heated up and there were different opinions. The so-called "corpse place" refers to the place where the bodies buried in it will not naturally rot and become zombies after a long time. According to Meridian Rain and Yuewei Caotang Notes, zombies have three nicknames: walking corpse, walking shadow and walking corpse. Moreover, Ziwuyu also divided zombies into eight varieties: purple stiff, white stiff, green stiff, hairy stiff, flying stiff, wandering corpse, lying corpse and boneless. There are many legends about this "corpse-raising ground" and zombies in China's note novels of past dynasties.

How exactly does the "morgue" raise zombies? According to the traditional burial theory of local people in Yong 'an, the choice of geomantic omen in Yin House emphasizes Long Mai's "cave spirit", which is simply the cave spirit of burial. In many books I have collected over the years, such as books in the Ming and Qing Dynasties and the Republic of China, there are many records about "vegetarian meals for corpses". Mountain-shaped veins such as "dead belly point", "dog skull point", "hard spear head", "broken face" and "soil is not soil" are all fierce places for the subject to practice. There is a poem in the secret book, "Distinguishing the Beauty of a Dark House", which says: "It is more difficult to know the secret, so look for dragons and recognize the stars carefully. Hair pulse pumping heart points show tenderness, hiding wind to avoid killing purple grass. If you want to know the golden color of bone and stone, there is a difference between yin and yang. This is a noble example of the tomb of Yin, which is left to future generations. " In many books and folklores about the Dragon Classic and other funeral theories, such as The Funeral Classic of Five Children in Qing Dynasty, The Funeral Book of Guo Pu, The Geography of Guanju, The Three Dragons Classic of Yang Junsong, etc., it is considered that the "corpse-raising ground" is the most horrible, dangerous and taboo cemetery in funeral geomantic omen. After the body is buried in the "corpse" by mistake, the muscles and internal organs of the human body will not rot, but the hair, teeth and nails will continue to grow. The body absorbed the essence of mountains and rivers because of the light of the sun and the moon, and some functions of the body were restored to life, just like turning the dead soul into a zombie, wandering around and feeding on human blood.

In the social investigation of local folk customs for many years, the boning season in Yong 'an is mostly around Tomb-Sweeping Day, the Double Ninth Festival and the winter solstice, and some people choose auspicious days for boning. Before picking up bones, a certain sacrificial ceremony should be held, mainly to pay homage to the dead and the landlord. According to the old man who once worked in geotechnical engineering in Yong 'an, when some coffins buried in the "corpse-raising ground" were opened many years later, the bodies inside were still as warm as life, and the clothes and clothes were as bright as new, and some of them were covered with knee-length hair, and their muscles and skin were elastic. The fingernails that have been long on both hands are curled, and the teeth are exposed outside the lips because they are too long-this is the so-called green fangs. Because there is neither enough oxygen nor sunlight in the coffin in the grave, these long-term intact bodies usually look blue or white. Therefore, relevant anthropologists believe that "a corpse without decay is a zombie".

A haunted "corpse" story is widely circulated in Gongchuan, Yong 'an: during the Qing Dynasty, a pregnant woman died during childbirth. The family was sad, so they buried it hastily. One day, someone went to a roadside restaurant in the country. The shopkeeper grabbed him, loudly demanded the debt, and told his wife that she owed the meal money for many years on credit in the shop, and added new debt before paying off the old debt! Two people quarreled, and one responded that his wife had been dead for many years, so why did he still owe money? Finally, the store asked him to wait behind the curtains in the store. Sure enough, it didn't take long for a woman to claim to be someone's wife with a bowl and come to the credit again. Seeing that a woman really looks like a married wife, she quietly followed her. The mountain road is winding and deep. While waiting for his wife's burial place, I saw a child running to meet him and wanted to join him in the grave. In a hurry, I called out my wife's name. I saw his wife plop on her back and suddenly lost her breath. The child knelt down and burst into tears. It is also a fact that the child is a difficult childbirth!

According to archaeological findings, there was a second burial custom in Yangshao culture period in China. "Second burial" is also the most common burial custom of Yong 'an Hakkas. The old local custom is "flat burial, thick burial for filial piety". The ancients believed that human flesh belongs to the world and must be formally buried after decay, so that the soul of the deceased can be reincarnated after leaving the body. Under normal circumstances, people's bodies will rot quickly when they are buried in the soil. This is because the human body is composed of protein, fat, compounds of carbon and water, phosphorus, potassium and calcium. After the body is destroyed by spoilage bacteria in the soil, it will soon turn into gas and evaporate, and the remaining substances will also rot due to the separation of various compounds, leaving only a pile of bones. "Where the body is", its soil is quite cold and dark. If it is dry land, it will only turn the body into a mummy. Therefore, people who know Feng Shui generally use the spirit to measure their orientation, or simply use the touch of their fingers or even test the soil with the tip of their tongue to judge. As long as the corpse is buried in the "corpse-raising ground", it is extremely unsuitable for the growth of organic matter because of the extremely unbalanced colloidal viscosity and pH value of the land. So the coffin will not breed ants and bacteria, even if the body is buried for hundreds or even thousands of years, the muscles and hair of the body will not rot.

Yong 'an Earthwork encountered zombies in the "corpse farm", and the salary paid by the tomb owner must be doubled. When carrying, the body should be placed outside the coffin to allow it to fully oxidize. From time to time, the mouth is sprayed with spirits to drive away the stench, and then a roll of thick paper (grass paper) is used under the oil-paper umbrella to wipe off the carrion that decomposes the hands and feet of the corpse. Finally, put the basically cleaned bones on the hip and coccyx, then arrange the sacrum, lumbar vertebrae and thoracic vertebrae vertically upward in turn, and then string all the vertebrae together with several bamboo cores to avoid scattering. Then, put the phalanx, tibia, leg bone and phalanx, radius and ulna in turn, and then put your head on it. In this way, the whole skeleton is clearly segmented into a small "golden bottle". The internal organs of the body were chopped into coffins, and the internal organs, clothes, dirty paper and other things were burned together. When the thick black smoke rises from the green mountain forest and reaches a huge pillar, the stench of oil even scares away birds and animals!

During the "Cultural Revolution", Yongan Luofang Commune also found a zombie in a "morgue". At that time, the commune cadres told me that there was an ancient tomb behind the commune when they made a field survey of the local folk burial society. Surrounding farmers often come to burn incense and worship, and they are denounced as "feudal superstitions" by township cadres. So, the armed militia and educated youth in the countryside were summoned, and a bunch of people waved hoes and danced sticks to destroy graves, dig out coffins and forcibly open them. I saw a female corpse in the coffin with bright red rouge on her cheeks, whisked green fangs protruding outward, and her clothes and other accessories were as good as ever. Slender legs are exposed from under the embroidered cover, and the tapering toenails on the feet irregularly penetrate the three-inch golden lotus. Everyone screamed and ran away in horror. Later, farmers buried the bodies and burned a lot of paper money. Speaking of it now, I have a lingering fear, which is terrible.

When the Discovery Archives crew of Fujian Satellite TV filmed the hanging coffin in Yong 'an, a young female directors who claimed to be brave screamed loudly when listening to Yong 'an's Earthwork, Vegetarian Meal and the introduction of zombies at Xiaoxiao Hotel. The poor beauty stared at the shaking ceiling all night. Her little heart beat all night, but she didn't dare to close her eyes at dawn. There are obviously exaggerated elements in the rumors of "vegetarian food for corpses" and zombies in Yong 'an. The reasons are profound historical factors and superstitious colors. Grave robbing has been rampant in Fujian, and this little-known mysterious profession has continued to this day. Miyagawa, a corpse found in the Qing Dynasty, successfully scared off grave robbers.

The ancient corpse of China is an important object of anthropological research. According to historical records, "1972 Xin Zhui, a female corpse unearthed from Mawangdui Han Tomb in Hunan Province, was the wife of Li Cang, the prime minister of Changsha in the Western Han Dynasty. She died in BC 186, about 50 years old. When Xin Zhui's body was unearthed from the tomb, the whole body was moist, the skin was covered completely, the hair was still there, the lines of fingers and toes were clear, and the muscles were still elastic. " This is the first time that a wet corpse with a long history has been found in the world, which shocked the world after it was unearthed! It is impossible for us to find such a famous body in Yong 'an like Mawangdui in the Western Han Dynasty, but it is also an important topic to study the local funeral customs and culture. According to China Ancient Bodies (Shanghai Science and Technology Education Press), ancient bodies are divided into four types: mummy (divided into artificial and natural subtypes), corpse wax, tanned corpse (also known as soft corpse) and wet corpse. The main features of the Qing Dynasty corpses found in Gongchuan, Yong 'an are: the body shape is complete, the skin has fatty wax-like substances, the body surface is greasy and elastic, the hair is well preserved, the joints of hands and feet are soft, and corpse wax has formed all over the body; At the same time, the tomb environment is humid, the coffin is well sealed and the air is well sealed. So it should belong to the type of resin wax.

China is a country of etiquette. Most of the residents of Yong 'an in central Fujian are immigrants from the Central Plains after the Tang and Song Dynasties, and the funeral customs are basically inherited from the Han system. However, it is of great research value because it has been in the mountainous plain of Fujian and Vietnam for a long time and its living customs are mixed. The 100-year-old body discovered in Gongchuan was discovered by the relevant departments three days after it was stolen, but it is still quite well preserved from the scene. Unfortunately, due to limited funds and scientific research ability, I gave up without in-depth research on decoding. Yong 'an's natural "corpse" is a well-preserved zombie, which is completely different from the relevant works of experts at present. A great deal of peculiar and valuable historical and cultural information reflects the unique Fujian-Vietnam historical humanities and Hakka migration culture in central Fujian. Yong 'an "corpse farm", Gongchuan hanging coffin, Shang Ping iron grave, Ansha sarcophagus, Baizhangyan cave burial, nail cave burial, Sanshi tomb and a whole set of funeral culture such as funeral, obituary, mourning hall, spirit tablet, funeral, confession and filial piety are gradually fading. As long as we understand the strange local funeral culture phenomenon of "corpse burial" with a scientific attitude, it will have very important practical significance.