What are the horrible folklore in China?

"Sending Death Kiln" is also known as "Self-Death Kiln", "Sending Death Cave", "Old Man Cave", etc. It refers to a cave dug on the mountain wall or in the bushes that can accommodate one person and is used to house old people who have lost their ability to work. It is a custom in our country more than 2,000 years ago, and like foot-binding, it was abolished a long time ago. Since 2000, in China's Sichuan, Shaanxi, Hubei, Henan junction of the Han River basin and its tributaries found a large number of ancient "send dead kiln", dedicated to the 60-year-old old man died of self use, but also confirmed the existence of the custom of abandoning the old.

(Thanks to a friend who added that you can now see these ruins at the pier below the old fertilizer factory on the other side of the river in Shiyan City, Hubei Province)

2. Donkeys pulling a set (still exists)

Donkeys pulling a set is a custom in the city of Yanshi in Henan Province, in which the bridegroom's parents dress up as donkeys or clowns pulling a wedding car (which usually has a driver who stepped on the gas pedal) to add festivity to the wedding, and in the process arranging a whip and other episodes of beating. Arrangements with whips and other episodes (but only acting, the elderly involved is happy).

Yanshi City Opera Troupe, the original director of the cattle Jianbo said this is a popular wedding custom in the rural areas of Yanshi City - "donkey pulling set", but this is not common in the city. There is a local saying: daughter-in-law want to hair, in-laws to pull home. Wearing costumes is mainly festive, at the same time, the folk have "ancient costumes to ward off evil spirits", and make-up means to give the bride and groom the future of the day to add color.

(The reason why I feel horrible is that people come up with this form of joking with their parents, but also some people think nothing, so it's just my personal opinion)

06 years in Henan Xinzheng City, and the town of a pair of new couples got married in this scene, is a donkey pulling a set of an extreme case, caused a large controversy:

The two newcomers sitting in the pack car with no rubber wheels, commonly known in rural areas as the "donkey pulling a set", and the "donkey pulling a set".

The two couples were sitting on a cart without rubber wheels, commonly known in rural areas as a "donkey plywood". The groom's parents in front of the pulling car, the two old people hanging around the neck of the neck of the animal hanging small bells, face painted with charcoal black, while struggling to pull the pannier forward, but also in the ground to learn the donkey rolls, next to the people in their body whip, some people into their mouths to stuff hay. These are not enough, the most dazzling is that the two old men have to learn the donkey "pulling dung balls. Of course they can not pull out that thing, someone with walnuts on the ground instead. At this time the bride and groom, in the pack car laughing happily, hugging and kissing from time to time, completely intoxicated in the sweetness of the newlyweds, completely ignoring the front of the two old men pulling the set has been sweaty.

3. Catching corpses (still exists, but not really "catch")

Catching corpses is a custom in western Hunan Province (the western part of Hunan Province, mainly in the area of the Yuanjiang River Basin, it is said that catching corpses is the most prevalent in the four places of Yuanling, Luxi, Cinnabar Creek and Xupu), which is said to be able to drive corpses to walk in the spells, and is a kind of Taoist art. It is said to be a kind of Taoist art, which belongs to the Maoshan art. Catching corpses belongs to white witchcraft, which means that a series of corpses that have died in other places will be followed by the body catcher to return to their hometowns through states and provinces. However, they do not drive the corpses all the way back to their hometowns, but only lead them through the desolate and rugged mountains and back to the plains, where they are handed over to their relatives who come to pick them up, so that they can put the corpses into coffins and use other means of transportation to carry the coffins back to the countryside for burial.

CCTV into the scientific version of the mystery of the so-called "drive the corpse", in fact, is "back corpse" only. The necrophiliacs find someone to split the body, and then sprayed special potion on the limbs to prevent the body's limbs from rotting. The scam of "corpse driving" is that one person pretends to be a dead person; the other person pretends to be a "corpse-driving magician". The roles of the two men change from one day to the next if the journey is long. "The dead" head wearing a big straw hat, the whole head cover nothing, even the outline of the face is difficult to call people see clearly; dressed in green robes and coats; arm draped paper money, yellow table. Walking paper money fluttering, living like the old drama played in the lonely ghosts; limbs bundled with bamboo gabions, like orthopedic splints, its role is to prevent the joints of the hands and feet to bend, so that lifting the legs across the hard branches of the stalks, just like a stiff dead body look! It was so horrible that people who saw it were afraid to avoid it. "Warlock" lead the way to walk in front of the form of God withered draft, full of smoke, walking alone, when turning around to take care of the back to follow the "dead", while walking and throwing paper money, called "buy money"; The "dead" are moving forward along the "road money", in fact, the paper money has become a signpost. Pilot also carries a lantern, the fire half bright half extinguished, flickering, which is also for the "dead" to indicate where to go the code. On the back of a towering back a clip back; full of dong dong holding paper money and incense and wax. In this way, one in front of the other, slowly, eerily, ghost-like, walking in the middle of nowhere trails, or secluded alleys. Before the night in the chicken feather store, lighting incense and wax, burning paper money, a moment full of gloomy atmosphere, so that people do not dare to get close to it.

4. Golden Silkworm Compulsion (folklore)

Golden Silkworm Compulsion is folklore, legend has it that there is a custom to raise golden silkworm compulsion in Fujian area (Fujian specific areas I did not listen to the anthropology class forgot to forget, sorry, it is in the talk about mediums (ji reads a sound) children's time to speak, interested in the medium can look at the _ Baidu Encyclopedia) will be a variety of venomous insects such as snakes, centipedes, lizards, earthworms, toad, and so on, together in a jar, and so on, in a jar. etc., together in a jar sealed up, let them kill each other, eat to eat, after so a year, and finally only one left, the form and color have changed, the shape of the shape like a silkworm, the skin of the golden, it is the golden silkworm. Some say, put twelve kinds of poisonous insects in a jar, secretly buried in the crossroads, after seven, seven, forty-nine days, and then secretly take out and put it in the incense burner, morning and evening with tea, incense offerings; so that the golden silkworms are intangible, exists in the incense ash. When the parasites are released, the feces or ashes of the golden silkworms are put in the food for the passing guests to eat.

If the parasites are not treated in time, they will feel pain and swelling in the chest and abdomen, and finally bleed to death. At the time of death, hundreds of worms will gush out between the mouth and nose, and even if the body of the deceased is cremated, the heart and liver are still there, in the shape of a honeycomb.

5. Compulsion (folklore)

Compulsion is a horrible custom of the Miao people, referring to the mysterious preparation of the witching of the poison. In the old Kunming people for the people in the compulsion to egg "roll compulsion" incantation, had mentioned - a long string of compulsion name, such as gold compulsion, silver compulsion, long worm compulsion (snake compulsion), braided short compulsion, butterfly compulsion, Ma Li'er compulsion (dragonfly compulsion), the compulsion raised by the family as well as a variety of compulsion of the five parties and five places. It is reported that the ancient records or folklore of the types of compulsion, and the golden silkworm compulsion, toad compulsion, centipede compulsion, toad ounce (water compulsion), goat compulsion, fish cup, cattle compulsion, dog compulsion, chicken compulsion, goose compulsion, grass compulsion, fungus compulsion, lice cup, scorpion compulsion, ghost compulsion, wasp compulsion, elephant compulsion, ants compulsion, pig compulsion, spider compulsion, turtle compulsion, frogs compulsion, service mother compulsion, sparrow compulsion, tortoise compulsion, paddy field compulsion, tree compulsion, annoyed by the kicking compulsion, Wan roach compulsion, the picking of the living compulsion, Stone compulsion, gabion compulsion, dissolving compulsion, swelling compulsion, cowhide compulsion, plow compulsion and so on. Not only are there many kinds, but also good changes to infinity, so that people can not be defended, just as Jin Ganbao, "Search for God" said: "The box has a monster, such as ghosts, their demonic shape changes, a variety of different kinds of... or pigs and dogs, or bugs.... Or for pigs and dogs, or for insects and snakes, their people know their shape. Often practiced in the people, where all die."

Compulsion (all compulsion, refers to 5, 6 two) and no scientific basis, anthropology will be as a kind of witchcraft to study, but can not prove that it really exists. So here's just folklore for you to look at and hopefully not be misled.

6. Sky burial (still exists)

The sky burial is a traditional way of burial for ethnic minorities such as the Mongols and Tibetans, where the body is taken to a designated location after death to be devoured by an eagle (or other birds, beasts, etc.), which is believed to be taken to heaven. Like earth burial, water burial and cremation, it is a kind of faith, a way of expressing mourning for the dead, and is essentially a social and cultural phenomenon, which is influenced by factors such as the natural geographic environment and the way of life, as well as foreign cultures, in terms of its origins, form, content and the implementation of rituals. Therefore, in different historical periods, different countries and regions, different ethnic groups and even different social classes will form different sky burial ceremony.

Listening to the professor of the Chinese Academy of Sciences who went to Tibet, it is to chop up the meat, smash the head until the brain marrow flows out, and then tsampa (in order to lure the vultures), and wait for the vultures to eat.