Why Zhuge Liang asked for seven grains of rice in his mouth after his death?

Why did Zhuge Liang ask for seven grains of rice in his mouth after his death? Read also admire the author's brain hole!

Ancient people in the writing of the book is very conscientious, often refer to many rituals and customs, the Zhou Yi gossip, astrology and divination and other content. And the Zhou Yi is the earliest book that speaks more systematically about the art of prophecy. In the book "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", Mao Zonggang also used many ancient rituals and astrological techniques in order to increase the readability of the story, such as the story of Zhuge Liang's death with seven grains of rice in his mouth, as mentioned in the question.

It is well known that the ancients were fully experienced in the art of stargazing, Zhuge Liang is the art of stargazing used to the fullest extent and with ease, however, Zhuge Liang let people put seven grains of rice in the mouth of the meaning is very clear, because Zhuge Liang knows that Sima Yi also know the sky, if their mouth contains grains of rice, means that they can still eat food, Sima Yi stargazing is to see Zhuge Liang, the fall of this general star, and this also serves to deceive the people.

This has the effect of deceiving Sima Yi, thus deterring the Cao Wei army, and indeed scaring Sima Yi half to death.

The seven grains of rice in the mouth is one of the spells of Taoist magic. Its counterpart is the seven stars of the Big Dipper in the sky, the main life gate. The necromancers who drive corpses in western Hunan will also give the subject seven grains of rice in his mouth before releasing the ghosts he has raised, which will possess the corpse and then drive the corpse forward. This is a kind of soul fixing technique, which ensures that the soul will not break away from the body until the body is completely corrupted.

As for the need to elevate the bed and light oil lamps underneath it is a defense against such soul-locking yinmai of the ox-head and horse-face. Since these evil spirits are afraid of fire, they won't dare to come near when the oil lamp is lit. This prevents the soul from being locked up in the physical body by the evil spirits, which makes the soul fixing technique ineffective.

As for Zhuge Liang died scared Sima Yi is actually the Three Kingdoms author Luo Guanzhong fabricated! Zhuge Liang dying through the mouth of rice to stay soul fixing is possible, but can hang the stars in the sky does not fall is certainly not related to the person's life and death! Can't tell if someone is dead or alive by looking at the stars. Taoist soul-setting art is still a scientific mystery, and the stars in the sky will not fall has been scientifically proven. Those are stars much larger than our Earth.

George Liang stuffed seven grains of rice in his mouth, in addition to conforming to traditional Chinese culture, in fact, also to echo the "Acts", will not fall stars of the divine chatter of the plot. At the same time, deepen the Kong Ming this "know the sky, know the yin and yang" of the "demon" image.