What are the three great evils?

Xiangxi is a very mysterious place, there are three major evil, one of which is "Xiangxi zombie", the second is "put compulsion", and the third is the "flower cave woman".

Xiangxi's "corpse driving", no one can point out its true situation to this day. According to the local people unanimously said: the person who drove the corpse is a priest wearing a Taoist robe, no matter how many corpses there are, all by him to drive. This is the same as the Hong Kong movie. Said "catch" the corpse rather than say "lead", because the master is not in the corpse, but in front of the corpse to lead the way, a side walk a gong, so that night walkers to avoid, there are dogs in the house to the dog shut up. When the body in more than one, that is, with a grass rope to link them, every six or seven feet.

This industry is very difficult to work outside of western Hunan. First, accommodation is a problem. Secondly, night walkers do not know how to smell the gong to avoid, but to come to see the hustle and bustle, not to scare people to death. Third, many villages, there is no road outside the village, it is necessary to go through the village, most places are not allowed to enter the village of the corpse, let alone jumping jumping corpse?

Why is there a "corpse" business? Because the western Hunan Yuan River upstream area, the place is barren, the poor people go to the east of Sichuan or Qiandong area, as a hawker, medicine or hunting for a living, those places are more mountains, mountain miasma is very heavy, malaria is often prevalent, the living environment is very bad to the extreme, in addition to the local Miao people, outsiders are seldom to go. Dead in those places of the Han people, none of the rich, and the Han people in the tradition, the concept of transporting the body back to the home country to bury the deep, but in the thousands or hundreds of miles of rugged mountain roads, even if the money, but also difficult to use vehicles or stretcher carrying, so some people have created this strange economic method of transporting the body back to the home country.

Listening to the tour guide, it is quite scientific, and the shaman who drove the corpse used a cat, which is like a magnet for the corpse, easy to suck up and make it jump around. I heard but I think not very credible, the weight of a corpse is less than 90 pounds, over the mountains, the cat that has so much energy, even if there is no wear and tear, the cat itself is not how much energy can be stored ah. So it's definitely not possible.

The Xiangxi "compulsion" and Thailand's "head-scratching" are known as the two major evil arts in Southeast Asia. The compulsion art in western Hunan is the same as the corpse driving art in western Hunan, and no one can point out the real situation of it even now.

The difference with corpse driving is that compulsion is practiced in almost all areas of western Hunan, while corpse driving is mainly practiced in Yuanling, Luxi, Chenxi and Xuipu counties in western Hunan. Compulsions are commonly known as "grass ghosts" in western Hunan, and it is said that they only attach themselves to women and jeopardize others. Those women who are said to have parasites are called "grass ghost women". The so-called compulsion way and compulsion in the end what is like, in addition to the saying passed down from generation to generation, no one has seen, but it is y rooted in the hearts and minds of the people.

The Hmong people believe in parasites almost across the board, but only in different places. In the Miao conceptual world, compulsion has snake compulsion, frog compulsion, ant compulsion, caterpillar compulsion, sparrow compulsion, turtle compulsion and other categories. The compulsion in the compulsion of the person who has more reproduction, can not find food, we must have compulsion to the person himself (compulsion main) attack, ask for food, compulsion main difficult, will be put out of the compulsion to harm others.

In fact, this daunting compulsion is not the patent of the Miao people. Compulsion has long been widely spread in the Jiangnan region of ancient China. Initially, the compulsion refers to the insect born in the vessel, and later, the moths born after the corruption of grains and other objects deteriorated and gave birth to the insect is also known as compulsion. Ancient people believed that parasites had mysterious and unpredictable nature and great toxicity, so they were also called poisonous parasites, which could enter the human body through food and drink to cause diseases. The patient is like being bewitched by ghosts and confused. Most of the parasites mentioned by the pre-Qin people referred to naturally occurring mysterious poisonous insects. The long-term superstition of poisonous parasites in turn developed the concept and practice of creating parasites to harm people.

According to scholars, people in the Central Plains during the Warring States period already used and taught the method of creating parasites to harm people. The Miao people are located in remote areas, the old medical backwardness, many diseases can not be effectively treated. Therefore, in every case of ineffective diagnosis, often blamed on the compulsion. With the popularization of scientific and cultural knowledge in the Miao region, the improvement of medical standards, compulsion superstition is now less and less influence in the Miao region.

Xiangxi's "flower cave woman" is the tribe has some unmarried women, can cry down the leaves; to the cave do not eat or drink, a few days do not die, and come back to do not drink do not eat, a few days after the death. Tribal people think she went and the tree god, well god married, so these girls did not get married during their lifetime, but after the death of people, others go to do funeral, and fell flowers cave woman's family to them not only do not do funeral, but also to do the wedding to show the wedding of the joy.