the last priest

Ghost marriage is an ancient custom. In the past, it was mostly for people who had a marriage contract but one of them passed away suddenly before getting married. In order to let the deceased party leave with peace of mind, they usually invite someone who understands to hold a ghost marriage for them, that is, The living marry the dead.

In a sense, this kind of custom is very despicable, and it is caused by backward thinking. People think that the person will turn into resentment because he is not married, that is, the evil spirit, and let the lonely tomb destroy them. Feng Shui has been managed for several lifetimes.Of course, there are also great love believers who, in order to keep their pre-marital promises, marry or marry the other half who have been separated from each other, and then spend their entire lives by the side of the ancient Qingdeng Buddha.

Love is great and that is selfish.Even if the building is empty, leave me your key; even if the tea is cold, leave me those two seats; even if your world is completely occupied by him, tell me the location of the boundary marker; Even if you agreed on eternity, leave it to me after eternity...

But there are very few people who match the dead with ghost marriages. First, this is not a good job, and if it is not done well, it will really attract evil spirits.Two, people are already sad enough after death, who would like to use such a naked way to recall, to just add to the coldness.

This is no longer a ghost marriage, but a ghost marriage, where the dead are allotted to the dead, but Cha Wenbin really wants to re-marry a corpse that has just died and a bone that has already rotted. process.

White is the main color of this special "wedding". Through the white paper flowers hanging everywhere and the streamers cut like catkins, the children's play can't drive away the tears from the women's eyes .The men gave up their favorite mahjong and poker, smoking dull cigarettes, their eyes were empty and dull.

Perhaps they were not familiar with Chen Fang at all, and some of them had never even talked to him. Children like us only thought that he was an old man who was almost crazy.The story between him and her should have come to an end on that night decades ago. As luck would have it, he failed to marry her after all, and she failed to wait for him after all.

The elderly and their daughters-in-law told stories they heard from the previous generation. After many changes, Xiaodie became Zhu Yingtai, and Chen Fang was Liang Shanbo.

Perhaps, in our rural area, a place where even car navigation can't be found, people's understanding of love is oil, salt, sauce and vinegar, which is plain but real. This yin marriage itself is not such a simple matter.

Although Cha Wenbin was already very popular that year, "Ruyi Book" is just a book after all, with only 72 characters, which records everything about the heaven and the earth. can be penetrated.

Just because a person knows the truth doesn't mean he is invincible to another world.This is like Wang Yuyan, who is full of knowledge and knowledge, but has no actual martial arts routines.

Tao is the understanding of nature and the pursuit of the spiritual level. It is not a talisman or a mantra that will make the sword sharper.

The reason why a Taoist can attain the Tao is not because he can catch ghosts, go to hell and go to heaven, but because his inner world can see far, see clearly, and see lightly.

What if you have ten copies of Wish Book?What it records is not to teach you how to draw symbols or how to form an array. What it wants to say is just a world view that most people find empty and boring.As for these talismans and incantations, they are just some things that these seekers have realized on the way of seeking Tao.

The existence of Tao is not for spells, and the existence of Taoist priests is not for catching ghosts!

The slaughter of pigs and sheep during the day is just a foreshadowing for this wedding that does not belong to the world at night.

Clearing the venue was the first thing Cha Wenbin did. Children like us had already been dragged home by adults. Before dark, the doors of every house were closed.The women hugged the children who kept poking out of their arms, just like that fun game of whack-a-mole, with their necks stretched out, sighed again, and the tearful mothers were stuffed back into the bed.

This is the most commonly used method for Chinese people to interpret and avoid fear. It is always the safest under the covers. As long as I can't see, then nothing happens.

After some calculations, who can stay and who must go, a notice has been clearly written and posted outside the gate.There is also a good thing. People who want to watch the fun climbed up the back mountain, the place where Dad shot countless shots without firing.

In any marriage, in Chinese customs, the most important person is the matchmaker.

Marriages in China have always focused on the right marriage by the matchmaker. Therefore, if the marriage is not done through a matchmaker, it will be inconsistent with the etiquette.Parents' order, matchmaker's words, only then can the wedding ceremony be performed.The matchmaker will play the role of a middleman from the proposal of marriage to the engagement and the promotion of marriage.

Because Xiaodie passed away a long time ago, and the scattered relatives from that era don't know where they are now, let alone Chen Fang, who is old and childless.If you insist on finding a matchmaker, I'm afraid those women in the village who love to talk the most will not dare to do it. Who would dare to be a matchmaker for a dead person?If the young couple doesn't get along well in the future and they want to find a matchmaker to mediate the conflict, why not scare two and a half souls away?

The matchmaker, in the end, Zha Wenbin managed to solve it. He asked the village bamboo craftsman to tie a life-sized shell, pasted paper on the outside, pasted some paper clothes, colorful gowns, and asked someone to make a shell. The wig was poked in the middle of the mourning hall, and it was specially painted with bright red cheeks and a big grinning face.

People who didn't know it at first glance really thought it was an old lady standing there.

There is no "Dian" character that is commonly seen in funeral ceremonies here, but the "囍" character cut out of white paper can be seen everywhere.

Because there is no elder in the family anymore, Cha Wenbin wrote the traditional "dragon and phoenix stickers" himself. After writing it in the name of Chen Fang, it was placed in the ancestral hall where Xiaodie's family used to worship ancestors. This is considered to be for Chen Fang. Proposal posted.

Of course, Cha Wenbin doesn't care whether the ancestors of Xiaodie's family agree or not, he just takes it as yes.Then they sent someone to bring in two paper boxes, which contained the betrothal gift from the man to the woman, that is, the bride price.

Among these betrothal gifts, half of the first box contained real silk and some common grain seeds, and the other half contained one piece each of papered leather, cotton, clips, and single clothes.

The second box contains two pairs of brocade boxes, which contain jewelry such as earrings, bracelets, rings and hairpins.Although they were all cheap, the people in the village didn't want their wedding to be too shabby. Xiaodie, who had been wronged all her life, would come up with such an outfit no matter what.

There are also some gold and silver ingots made of gilded tinfoil, with a thick layer of ghost coins under them. These are the betrothal gifts Chen Fang gave to Xiaodie's family.

Similarly, Cha Wenbin also prepared dowry things for Xiaodie, the content is not much different from this, they are all paper stuff, let a group of young people with high flames and no recoil carry these guys up Going around their coffins a few times was a comfort to both parties.

Except for the set of jewelry, the others were immediately carried to the open space in the middle of the ancestral hall. A fire was lit, and the two coffins reflected the trembling flames, and ashes scattered in every corner of the ancestral hall.

At this time, Zha Wenbin personally put two large white flower balls, which were also made of paper, under the two coffins respectively, with a small piece of talisman paper attached to it, on which were written "groom" and "bride". There are two birth dates.

In front of the two coffins was another tribute table. In addition to two bowls of toutou rice and raw eggs, there were also fruit plates such as dragon and phoenix wedding cakes on the table.

There are tributes in the four corners of the yard, including pig heads and fruits, and the incense candles cannot be broken. Cha Wenbin specially sent people to take care of these things.There is another table and two stools in each corner. There are two bowls of tea on the table. The table and stools are not for the busy living people, but for the ghosts who come to the wedding.

In ordinary weddings, the guests who are invited to eat and drink are relatives and friends, but in ghost marriages, the guests invited are naturally people from that world, and the "banquet" must be organized to suit the tastes of that world.

In front of each stool, some lime will be sprinkled, and the same is true on the table. Those who are timid will not dare to move, why?The messy footsteps in front of the stool and the dripping tea on the table are really not their fault, but "them"!

Zha Wenbin will naturally grasp this kind of measure. He is being polite and holds a banquet for Chen Da.

The most important thing in this ghost marriage is to worship the heaven and the earth, this is to see the real ability, only the couple who have worshiped the heaven and the earth, that is the real couple, how to worship?You have to worship under the witness of relatives and friends!That's why Cha Wenbin invited this group of lonely ghosts to the banquet. There must be someone to witness the marriage, and these guys are the witnesses.