Quanzhou seven coffins things

Ming Dynasty "seven coffins" more than three hundred years unburied

April 05, 2007 Southeast Morning Post

Morning Post reporter Zhu Caiyun

Ching Ming Festival, talking about the past Quanzhou funeral rites, there are stopping the practice of coffins, some of which is stopped for dozens of days, years, or even decades, more peculiar! The more peculiar is that lasted for hundreds of years there!

Seven coffins a stop for three hundred years:

Quanzhou City Cultural Relics Protection Research Center Chen Pengpeng introduced, stayed in the Ming Dynasty seven coffins, to the victory in the war before burial, lasted more than three hundred years.

Turning over the "Quanzhou ancient city neighborhood Offer Tan" page 30, the reporter saw a seven coffins of the old photo, shooting location for the original Liufu's old place, the photo, a lot of people surrounded by the seven coffins. In Zhongshan Middle Road, Flower Lane and Xu Chu Cheng junction of the garden head, there is a place called Liufu Cheng, the House has been parked in the "seven coffins".

Allegedly, the owner of the coffin is the fifth generation of Jinjiang King stay from the effect of the descendants of stay from the spring and other seven people, in the late Ming and early Qing dynasty martyrdom, the coffin does not enter the Qing dynasty, until after the victory in the war was held after the fall of burial ceremonies, monuments buried in the park in Quanzhou Zhongshan.

A family of seven martyrdom rumors:

Yesterday, the reporter visited the old Mr. Gong Shuqun, Quanzhou literature and history, asked him to introduce the story of seven coffins.

Originally, as a Ming dynasty ministers to stay up spring, met with national change, vowed not to surrender to the Qing dynasty, a family of seven martyrs. Clansmen for the coffin, in order to escape the Qing army to capture, change their names, to escape the four sides. Seven coffins and thus "no master", long stopped not buried, which is the origin of the seven coffins stay Fucheng.

The seven coffins have been placed in the garden for about 300 years, and some people have created many creepy rumors. People always feel very eerie and scary when they pass by Liufu Cheng and do not dare to stay here for a long time.

In the 1920s, Quanzhou was a popular place to buy "flower stalls" (a kind of lottery ticket). Driven by the high profit of "one dollar and twenty-nine pads", many men and women were keen on it. In order to win the lottery, the public went around in a frenzy to pray to the gods and Buddha, and it was rumored that there was a 13-year-old unmarried lady in the "Seven Coffins" who was the most spiritual and would come out and buy flowers every day when the flower sellers came here. Many people came here to make sacrifices in the hope of getting rich overnight. It was said that one person won the lottery later and the flower stall owner went bankrupt as a result. The owner of the flower stalls, that is, with a silver needle to stab the coffin, and drench it with black dog blood to eliminate the accumulated hatred in the heart, after this to ward off evil spirits, this coffin will not work in the future.

In 1935, a huge flood occurred in Quanzhou, the end of the water up to the bell tower, stay in the House of the seven coffins floating around, after the flood receded, the legend says that they automatically return to their original places.

Liu Fucheng's seven coffins, according to experts, its owner is the end of the Ming and early Qing dynasty, the conclusion is that the whole family martyrdom. But for a long time, folklore has been.

The rumors are not credible, but a variety of bizarre rumors, coupled with people's superstitions, rumors that anyone who wants to Hatsuzui funeral, it is not dead that is sick, so that the seven coffins of the earth put off the matter of hundreds of years ......

Landing burial sensation:

Gong Shuqun, introduced in 1946, then the fourth in Fujian province District Administrative Inspector and Security Commander Luo Erzhan and Jinjiang County Mayor Wu Delu in all walks of life in the community under the urging, determined to move the burial of seven coffins.

Police chief Wang Yungong was instructed to choose the grave site and the workers who would construct the cemetery. It so happened that there was a contracted carpenter from Fuzhou, Zhang Chengyi, in the county government, and the county governor, Wu Delu, personally approached him to undertake this task. Zhang went home and mentioned this to his wife, who strongly objected. Zhang knew that this matter has been unable to put off, so to Tu Men Street Guan Di Temple to draw lots, the signature poem said "the price of the field of Guan is good to discuss, the matter of the public court hurt each other; even if the authorities to win, set up for future generations of children and grandchildren disaster. Originally fearful of Zhang Chengyi, drew this sign, but also worse, firmly refused to build. Commissioner Luo Erzhan repeatedly mobilized him, but he is dead not agree. In the end, Luo Erzhan put the pre-prepared sacrifice to show him, there is a line in the text that says, in the future, if there is an accident, I Luo Erzhan alone to bear the burden, do not get involved in other people.

The commissioner, the governor and the police chief of the tripartite appearance, carpentry finally hard to agree. Cemetery selected in the city Zhongshan Park, due to the fear of offending the ghosts and gods, he asked, to build a tomb purely voluntary, the wages do not take a penny. On the day of Feng'an, he had to prepare his own "three animals" to sacrifice, he made the request to be fully satisfied.

The cemetery was built, but on the day of the funeral, who will carry the coffin? Police chief Wang Yungong went to five dock unions in Jinjiang, but no union dare to undertake. Wang Yungong finally went to find five Fort dock workers, five Fort dock sent 80 people to carry the coffin. The workers' condition is that the move is purely voluntary, without pay, but lifting the coffin each person to give a piece of red cloth tied to the body, to take its auspiciousness. Because most of the five Fort dock workers surnamed Liu, the end of the Ming and early Qing dynasties, stayed in order to escape from the Qing army, fleeing, most of the survivors of the change of surname Liu, so stayed in the original Liu is a family.

On the day of the funeral, the Commissioner officiated, people from all walks of life in Jinjiang and stayed descendants also sent people to attend. After the public sacrifice, the foreign trumpet and drum to open the way, gongs and drums blowing in the back, the funeral procession from Zhongshan Road, Flower Lane, Xu Chu Cheng, through the Zhongshan Road to Zhongshan Park, along the streets of the viewers of the sea of people. More than three hundred years "long stop not Alcove" seven coffins, finally Feng An into the ground, all kinds of superstitious rumors also announced the end.

Yesterday, the reporter came to the flower alley, looking for the old gentlemen said the past seven coffins stayed in the direction. As a result, only to find the name of the place to stay Fu Cheng (Zhongshan Middle Road, Flower Alley and Xu Chu Cheng junction), there is now no trace of the year. It is said that the tomb of Liuxianyuan built in Zhongshan Park, sitting in the east and facing west, the granite tombstone is tall, engraved with "the tomb of the seven coffins of the loyal martyrs"; until 1958, the expansion of the stadium, the tomb by the Xiamen University Historical and Archaeological Team to excavate, some of the martyrs were taken away, and the cemetery was leveled. That's why we can't see the remains of the seven coffins in Zhongshan Park today.

Liu Fu Cheng and the seven coffins have remained in the memories of old Quanzhou people ever since.

Related books are: "Quanzhou Liufu Ting Seven Coffins Examination Certificate"

Author: Wu Koon Author

Publisher: Jinjiang County Literature Committee

Year: 1946

Pages and format: 34 pages : photographs ; 32 openings

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