the last priest

In our hometown, there are several ways to repair the grave.

The tombs before the 50s were mainly built of stone. The ground is semicircular, which looks like a bunker from a distance. There is a little loess on the top, and there will probably be some thatch.This kind of grave is a coffin half a meter below the ground. The coffin is covered with loess, and the loess is covered with stones. It is very recognizable and is the most common.

From the 50s to the late 80s, another type of tomb was popular, and there are two types of tombs.

The emergence and popularization of cement has directly upgraded the building of tombs. Cement and bricks are used to build tall buildings, and there are arched tunnels separated by [-] cm intervals. These tunnels are used to place coffins.The family tombs of rich families can be opened with a pile of characters, with the oldest elder in the middle, and then spread out according to rank, which takes up a lot of land. Later, these tombs were demolished or moved one after another.

As for small families, they generally choose another type of tomb construction, that is, adobe tombs.

The source of the adobe tombs is folk residences. Northwest Zhejiang is a mountainous area with few resources and difficult roads. Before the opening of the Youling Tunnel, this place was relatively scarce in materials.So the building here adopts the method of local materials, simply using yellow soil, straw, lime, wood and slate. Cha Wenbin's old house was built in that way, and the house I lived in when I was a child was also built with this kind of yellow soil. Blank room.

Although the appearance of this kind of house is simple, it has one advantage: it is warm in winter and cool in summer.Because the soil is rammed very hard, the insulation effect is very good. In summer, the sun can’t shine through, and the temperature of the soil cools down quickly. People who live in the west wing have to cover the quilt at night. I still miss it very much.Also with the upgrading of tomb buildings, this simple and practical construction method was applied to tombs.

Usually a Feng Shui master is invited to choose the site. After the site is selected, the grave is not repaired, but a piece of wood is used to engrave the surname on it and nail it down. People will know that this is a selected cemetery.

The selected cemetery will only be used on the day of death.

After someone in a family passed away, the villagers would gather at the owner's house as soon as possible, and someone with high morals and high prestige would be recommended to be the manager. The manager would divide the work among the representatives from door to door.Women are responsible for buying vegetables, washing vegetables and cooking, and men, apart from chopping firewood and setting up tables for funerals, have one more important thing to do is repair graves.

How to fix this tomb?

When they came to the cemetery chosen by the master before his death, the Taoist priests would first worship the land and the Tai Sui, and then tell the mountain god. After some priests, they would remove the wooden board and tie a live rooster to the wooden board and put it aside.

The Taoist would use quicklime to spread a shape on the ground, and the men would dig the soil along this line of lime. The depth of digging was half the coffin, and the front half of the coffin was lower than the back half.

After the pit is dug, the excavated soil is taken along the lime lines to build the wall. If the job is hard work in rainy days, the owner has to use a rain cloth to build a shed on it.The built wall was about half a meter high. After it was tamped firmly, it was baked with fire around it in order to let the earthen wall dry quickly. When the wall was almost ready, a layer of white lime was painted on the outside. That's half done.

On the day of mourning, the coffin will be put into the dug pit by the king kong who are in charge of carrying it. Half of the coffin is in the soil and half is on the soil.At this time, if the family has many children, they will probably give red envelopes to those who are carrying them. There is a trick here.

What is the point?It lies in the position of the coffin!

The Chinese pay attention to the virtues accumulated by the ancestors to protect the descendants. Generally, when they go to the priests, they will let the children kowtow to the old ancestors who have rotted into bones while burning paper money: I pray for my grandfather to bless my study and progress; Bless promotion and fortune and the like.

In fact, the ancestor sleeping in this grave may not know the juniors outside who kowtow to him. Besides, he was an honest farmer in his lifetime. He was poor all his life and walked away naked. sent.

However, this thing is extremely particular about the knowledge of Feng Shui.The position of the head of the coffin will directly affect the fortune of future generations. If the head of the coffin is aligned with the gate of a certain child's house, the family's fortune of being protected by the ancestors will be greatly improved.

After placing the coffin, the children cried and yelled and circled around the uncapped coffin, usually three times on the left and three times on the right. The surface is basically covered with soil, and these people can disperse first after kneeling and kowtowing.

At this time, the carpenters will complete the last process for the owner's house, that is, roofing.

Carpenters, like those murderous butchers, are regarded as objects that wild ghosts dare not approach, because their ancestor is Lu Ban.The ink fountains and rulers in their hands are sharp tools for exorcising evil spirits, even Taoist priests like Cha Wenbin need to use them, and they are also responsible for making coffins, they are the benefactors of the deceased, so the status of carpenters in past funerals is very high .

The carpenter will pull out the wooden stick inserted by the owner of the tomb as the "beam" of the new tomb, and then build tiles to cover the stone slabs. The rooster on the table will be taken away by the carpenter as a reward, which is a great respect for him.

As for this house, under the reminder of that "real horse", Cha Wenbin did see the clues.There are no windows in the tomb, and any tomb has only one door, which is the door of life and death, where the yin and yang are separated.

There are door gods at the gates of the Yangzhai, where ghosts cannot enter, so on Huihun night, windows are considered to be the main path for ghosts to enter the house.Although the yin house will also design various tomb rooms for people to use after death, but they will not build windows, which is taboo and basic common sense.

If it wasn't for the master's reminder, he might have died this time, and regardless of the crying of the children in the room, Cha Wenbin drew a circle on himself with the Seven Star Sword and took out two pieces of talisman paper.This piece of paper is red and green, and a talisman is drawn on it with red cinnabar. On this talisman, there is a word "Mu" lying horizontally, which looks a bit like oracle bone inscriptions.

The two talismans were lit together, a puff of blue smoke rose up, and when the talisman was about to burn your fingers, put it on the Seven Star Sword.The sword was raised above his head with the burning talisman, and Cha Wenbin shouted towards the room: "Hey!"

The Seven Star Sword was thrown forward fiercely, and two groups of flames flew towards the gate with scattered ashes. After a "poof", the two groups of flames emitted light on the door panel in an instant and gradually merged into one.

In the blink of an eye, the two talismans were completely burnt to ashes, and after a closer look, where was the word "囍" that was already white on the door? It was clearly two "Dian" written on white paper. Character.

Good guy, this time it has been revealed that this place is a grave prepared for him, Cha Wenbin felt very unhappy.What made him feel uncomfortable was not that he almost fell victim to Taoism, but that he actually used his family members here to deceive him. The sadness in his heart turned into anger, and he shouted towards the gate: "It doesn't matter what kind of god you are today, Use my pair of dead sons and daughters as an introduction, and I will definitely be at odds with you!"

Since this kind of house was built in imitation of the tomb, there is naturally a way to open it. If you walk through the gate, you will hit the head of the coffin directly. Maybe there is a big and fierce coffin facing you.Cha Wenbin thought, if you want to do something like this, then I'll take your top off.

This kind of grave has been moved in the past, and things are not difficult, but there are many people who have accidents, and the reason is that they have not mastered the tricks.To open this grave, the most important thing is to find the "beam". The beam is the backbone. If you remove it first, half of the evil spirit below will go away.

Cha Wenbin took a look, the height was only four meters, and he walked around the house to the back to have a look, it was built against the mountain.He climbed up the mountain in two or three steps, kicked his legs again, jumped on the way, and landed on the roof. The stone slab under his feet broke in two with a "click".

He picked up a stone slab under his feet without looking at it, and threw it to the back of the mountain, and it shattered with a "bang".After hearing the sound, Cha Wenbin began to slowly climb up the ridge of the roof. This photo is called "throwing stones to ask for directions".Going to the roof to change tiles was a very high rate of disability in rural areas in the past. Many people would fall off the roof inexplicably, but experienced people would grab a tile and throw it behind them after going to the house. If it is lost, this person will basically have no accidents.

The stone slabs are much smoother than the tiles, and there are no bayonets and tiles connected to them like tiles. Cha Wenbin was already angry in his heart. After walking to the top, he directly pointed his feet at the stone slabs without using his hands. kick.The stone slabs were originally stacked on top of each other, and after a movement, they fell one by one "crack, clatter", and fell to the ground with a "crackling" sound, and the crying was immediately covered up.

After this messy kicking, the tiles below were exposed in a short while, and a piece of wood with the thickness of the mouth of a bowl was located directly above. This thing was the "beam". This small piece of fire flashed to see the situation inside clearly:

There were only four coffins, two big and two small, evenly hung on the girder by finger-thick hemp ropes...