What is "witchcraft" like? What are the ancient laws and regulations about witchcraft?

How does Bian Xiao today bring "witchcraft and witchcraft" to everyone? I hope I can help you.

Speaking of witchcraft, it is the product of ancient ghosts and gods in China. The only way out is to point to the gods respected by ancient ancestors when the level of scientific medical care is limited and the problem of life and death cannot be effectively solved. I'm still a ghost in my heart Witchcraft is an extension of worship and fear. Witchcraft means that people like witches or their witchcraft. Witchcraft refers to the carrier of witchcraft. Witchcraft has caused great political tragedy in history, so it has become a strictly restricted behavior in past dynasties.

What is the art of witchcraft?

Scholars have been arguing about the study of ancient witchcraft in China. Some scholars pointed out that there was no witchcraft in the Central Plains civilization. It originated from shaman belief of nomadic people in the north. In addition, the poison research achievements of ethnic minorities in Southwest China, Fujian, Guangdong and other places have also been integrated into witchcraft in the Central Plains.

According to Zuo Zhuan, as early as the Spring and Autumn Period, Zheng Zhuanggong ordered the army to "beat dogs and chickens".

The curse of shooting Uncle Ingo's own spy is one of the manifestations of witchcraft. Therefore, the origin of witchcraft should be the local formation of the Central Plains ethnic group, while witchcraft is the combination of the southwest ethnic group's research on poison.

The original purpose of poison is not to harm people, but to cultivate the patron saint of poisoned people and their belief in a better life. This is similar to the practice of "raising children" in Thailand today. The most common record of making drugs is the Dragon Boat Festival, which is considered to be the most poisonous day in ancient times. Poisons are put in jars and kill each other. When the big poison devours the small poison, it becomes the last poison. According to historical records, the poison here usually refers to more than 100 kinds of poisonous insects, but foreigners only need 12 kinds of poisonous insects to make it, and it was caught during the Dragon Boat Festival. They are either the "dragon method" of reptiles, such as snakes and centipedes, or the "unicorn method", such as toads and lizards.

The production cycle of this method is generally one year. After the big poison swallowed all the small poison, the master began to eat. The feeding process is called feeding method. Generally speaking, it takes three to four years. When the method is mature, you can choose to take it out of the altar on a good day. Gu's parenting purpose is to pray for his family with his own aura and bless them away from diseases and disasters. Those who can do business can make a lot of money, and those senior officials can rise to the top. The nurse prayed devoutly and nursed every day. Every summer, pigs and sheep are slaughtered as big sacrifices. Therefore, raising and caring is not something that ordinary families can do.

"Miao women will kill people with witchcraft, which is called' weeding ghosts'." Ganzhou county annals

When we talk about witchcraft, it is by no means a worm method. Because there are records about insects in the famous compendium of materia medica, this form of method will be regarded as the only representative of this method. In fact, various historical materials also record the methods of plants and flowers, and the methods of insects also include the methods of golden cicadas and lice. No matter what these forms are, there are two aspects: blessing and harm. Some methods focus on slow killing, while others are unconscious. This method has not been eliminated since ancient times. Therefore, they have to rely on the development of medicine to fight it. This is more scientific than the witch's exorcism method.

Witchcraft control in history

Speaking of witchcraft, the most famous witchcraft in history is the witchcraft of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, which influenced the prime ministers Gong Sunhe and Liu Quli, Princess He and three grandchildren. It also involves many ministers and important people, totaling about 30 thousand. In the second stage, Gu Wu's misfortune was that he was in poor health in his later years and was used by his trusted minister Jiang Chong. He revealed to Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty that Prince Gu Wu cursed the emperor, which triggered a series of raids and genocide and changed the political pattern and subsequent historical trend of the Western Han Dynasty.

Throughout the witch disaster, the restraint of the Han dynasty was learned through the biographies of the victims, such as "the witch abandoned the city and fled;" The wife is a witch, a clan. "In fact, these legal restrictions also ruled out imperial power, that is to say, this clause was not written in the Han Law of, and no emperor broke the law and committed the same crimes as ordinary people. Therefore, witchcraft is still a good medicine for feudal emperors to pray for longevity, and it is also a ruling tool for them to control and restrain their subjects.

People who live with poison, parents, wives and children of poisoned people, and people who can't cook drugs can't sit. -Tang Law

Before the Sui Dynasty, the control of witchcraft was mainly reflected in two aspects. First, preventing folk witchcraft from harming local people and social order is a necessary means to maintain the stability of the ruling class. The other is to avoid the threat of bureaucrats or royalty with ulterior motives. For the first time in the Tang Dynasty, the control of witchcraft was incorporated into the law, and the law clearly stipulated the punishment measures for people to use witchcraft and other unorthodox means to compete for property. This shows that the evil of ancient folk witchcraft has developed into a universal phenomenon, and the state has to ignore the control of witchcraft.

Recorded a folk witchcraft story in Song Renzong period. Because folk witchcraft does harm to people from time to time, Lin Shiyuan, a local official in Fuzhou, invented a prescription to treat witchcraft. When Song Renzong learned about this, he ordered Lin Shiyuan's witchcraft prescription to be submitted to the court for review. This secret recipe, together with the secret recipe of witchcraft collected by the doctor too much, was compiled into a book, printed into a special volume, distributed to various places and circulated to local people. This shows that folk witchcraft in the Song Dynasty has become a field that the government attaches great importance to.

"Anyone who makes or hides poisonous animals can be beheaded as long as they are killed and made according to the instructions." -Darumin

The control of witchcraft was stricter in Ming and Qing dynasties, which was also the need for centralization to reach its peak. From the control of ancient officials on behavior, we can see that this kind of witchcraft can not only be understood as the product of feudal superstition. This form of witchcraft has a great influence, mainly because ancient medicine lacked the conditions for pharmacological experiments, that is, it could not prescribe the right medicine.

There are various cultivation methods in ancient times, which make the ancient pharmacological effects unable to be effectively treated. Whether it is chronic death or controlling people's hearts, it is a challenge to social stability, which is unacceptable to the central governments of past dynasties. During the period of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, the evil of witchcraft even threatened the inheritance right of the supreme ruler. These are the two main reasons why the feudal dynasty controlled witchcraft and witchcraft from top to bottom.

Gu Wu's technology was originally an ancient technology to pray for good luck, but in the process of evolution, it became a means of harming others and benefiting themselves. This method has the greatest influence on the history of Emperor Wu of Han Dynasty, and it is also the main reason for strengthening the technical control of Gu Wu in past dynasties. Today, it is said that this technology is still circulating in Xiangxi and other regions. With the progress of science, the harm of witchcraft is getting smaller and smaller. The spread so far can only show that the inheritance of traditional culture has not removed its dross. I just hope to develop in the direction of blessing and not hurt people's hearts.