Chinese Traditional Legends of Gods and Ghosts

1. Ghosts

Two magistrates in Lixing County, Jinan, were ordered by the county magistrate Han Chengxuan to go to other counties on official business, and returned at the end of the year. On the road, they met two people, dressed like a businessman, so they traveled together. The two men claimed to be county constables.

The officer said, "We know nine out of ten of the constables in Jinan City, but you two have never met." The two said, "To tell you the truth: we are ghost subordinates of the City God Temple, and we are going to Taishan Mountain to deliver an official document to the Great Emperor of Dongyue."

The magistrate then asked, "What official business?" The reply was, "There is going to be a great calamity in Jinan, and the official document to be delivered is the name and number of those who should die." The magistrate was horrified and asked the number of dead people, and the ghostly official said, "We are not quite sure, it is about nearly one million people." The magistrate asked again about the time, and the answer was "the first day of the Lunar New Year".

The two magistrates looked at each other in shock, calculating that it was New Year's Eve when they arrived in Jinan. I'm afraid to go back, delaying the return of the county magistrate for fear of chastisement, the ghost said: "violating the deadline is a small crime, the loss of life is a big disaster, should quickly hide elsewhere, do not go back." The magistrate listened to the advice of the ghost.

Not long after, the Qing soldiers came down south and slaughtered Jinan city, killing one million people and piling up dead bodies. The two magistrates were spared because they fled.

2, "Liaozhai strange women of the Xin fourteen niang"

Xin fourteen niang, red Li Ren, beautiful, because of the sins of the previous life is too deep, seducing a married man and led to the death of others, so after reincarnation was relegated to the fox demon. Although she is a fox fairy, she has a kind heart, and is dedicated to doing good deeds and helping people, with the ambition of becoming an immortal. She saved Feng Sheng, a scholar, who didn't mind her identity as a fox demon.

The two were married under the arrangement of her uncle's wife, and XIV Niang was touched by Feng Sheng's sincere love for her and was willing to give up her cultivation to become an immortal, and wanted to fall in love with Feng Sheng. In the meantime, jackals and wolves were rampant, causing harm to the world. When she died with the jackals and wolves, XIV Niang's good deeds finally touched heaven and earth, and she was finally immortalized.

3. Painted Skin

Toward the end of the Ming Dynasty, Taiyuan, a scholar named Wang Sheng, by chance, met a homeless girl on the road, the woman was born young and beautiful, Wang Sheng saw the color of the desire to bring the woman home to hide in a secret room every day cloud and rain. Unexpectedly, this woman is a specialized in eating the human heart of the evil spirits changed, in fact, "the face of the emerald color, the teeth of the northwest, the northwest like saw, spread human skin on the couch, hold the color pen and paint.

Has thrown the pen, lifting the skin like vibrating clothes, draped over the body, and then turned into a woman." Later, this demon was recognized by a Taoist priest, but the Taoist priest good heart, think "this thing is also good suffering, just can find a replacement, I also can not bear to hurt its life." Let Wang Sheng hang a duster in front of the house, want to scare her away. I was surprised that this demon spirit is more good face, and in anger, I dug out Wang Sheng's heart and fled.

The Taoist priest was furious, "I have compassion, but the demon dares to do it!" So he used his spells to easily finish him off. Eventually Wang Sheng also came back from the dead thanks to the efforts of his wife Chen.

4, the bandit households

Qing Shunzhi years, Shandong Teng County, the area of rampant banditry, an average of ten people in seven are bandits, the government are afraid to arrest. Later, these bandits were recruited to return to the imperial court, the county officials gave them another household registration, called the "thief household", that is, the meaning of the thieves account. Whenever the "robber households" had a dispute with the good people, the government would do everything possible to protect them. The government would do everything it could to protect them, for fear that they would rebel against the government.

Afterwards, when there was a lawsuit, there were always people who claimed to be "thieves", and finally, every time there was a lawsuit, both parties did not have to say anything, and they started arguing about who was the real "thieves", and the officials went to check the household registration.

This is ridiculous. As it happens, the county government office is haunted by foxes, and the magistrate's daughter was charmed by a male vixen. The magistrate invited a magician to catch the fox with a charm, put it in a bottle, and prepared to burn it to death with fire. At that moment, the fox was heard shouting in the bottle, "I am a thief!" Even the magistrate was amused.

5. Negroes

The chief town of Li in Jiaozhou once bought two niggers. Negroes are as black as paint, the skin on the feet is thick and thick, put the knife up into a road, the nigger can walk back and forth on it, not hurt in the slightest. The chief town of Lee matched the nigger with a whore, and the son that was born was white.

The chief town's fellow officers and servants joked with the nigger that the son was not his seed. Suspecting the same, the nigger killed his son and regretted it when he realized the bones were black. The chief town often ordered two niggers to dance against each other, and the dance was worth seeing.