Explore the top ten weird folk customs in rural China

There are many weird and terrible folk customs in China. Many of the most special customs and habits are in rural areas and have been passed down since ancient times, and many elderly people in rural areas have also been following them. Now that we are in the 21st century, many unreasonable customs have been abandoned, but some still exist in very remote places we do not know about.

A Taiwanese forest ranger couple holds a ghost marriage TOP1 matchmaking ghost marriage ghost marriage has been cited by American Geography magazine as the most evil folk custom. Americans cannot believe that this horrific black magic actually exists. And what I want to tell them is that this custom not only happened in the past, but also in the present. For example: 1. A mentally ill woman died after being sold, and her body was sold to marry a female marriage; 2. A 15-year-old boy was beaten to death, and the compensation was used to buy bones for a ghost marriage; 3. A pregnant woman in Yan 'an was killed because the reason was actually a female marriage; 4. A mentally retarded woman was transferred by many parties and finally became a victim of a ghost marriage. and many such news.

Not the distant past, but the yesterday that has just passed. This horrific custom is still spreading in rural areas of China, and even profit-making methods of providing one-stop services for female marriages have emerged. There are specialized ghost marriage matchmakers, professional ghost marriage hosts, and even unscrupulous corpse sellers and corpse thieves.

TOP2 Insect-raising Gu network widely rumored that the Miao people in western Hunan raise Gu and use Gu. They have superb skills and magical powers. A small insect can make you go crazy and even your whole body fester. After Jin Dynasty, there are records of cat insects, spider insects, etc. After the Song Dynasty, some people conducted a systematic analysis of Gu and divided the types of Gu into: snake Gu, golden silkworm Gu, Nanpan Gu, stone Gu, loach Gu, middle harm Gu, cuo Gu, swelling Gu, epilepsy Gu, Yin snake Gu, raw snake Gu, etc.

There is a true story here. The protagonist is an educated youth who went to the countryside to support. When he was young, he cut the queue to Miao Village and picked up a Miao girl. At that time, getting married was nothing more than inviting villagers to drink, and there was no legal formalities. Later, when the reform and opening up came, the policy was that educated youth who got married could not return to the city. But he must return to the city. I don't know the details, but I finally came back, but I was drugged by the Miao people. A moment of clarity and a moment of madness. He told me this when he was sober. I personally think that the so-called poison is a biological agent.

Website photo location TOP3 Spilling Bed is a natural and mysterious traditional folk activity in Zhanjiang City, Guangdong Province. It is to tie thorny branches into a bed. Brave villagers strip off and roll on the bed. Those who roll are often stabbed and injured. The table must be a long-standing Eight Immortals table. The thorns on it must be grape thorns from the previous year. During the process of turning the bed over, women are not allowed to watch. The villagers believe that if women pass by during the performance, they will be scared and attached to the performer. The gods attached to the performer caused injury to the performer. Therefore, female tourists visiting the local area are also casually reminded to remember to "do as the Romans do when in Rome". The folk skills of "turning the thorn bed" and "wearing the order" have been passed down since the Xianfeng year of the Qing Dynasty and have been passed down to the present. They have a history of nearly 300 years, and are intended to drive off the slope, chase out the epidemic, and pray for blessings.

Top 4 rice originated in rural China and is a magic used to cooperate with the spirits of deceased relatives and friends and their families. Through the goddess, she brought the ghosts of the underworld to the world, possessed the goddess, and talked with the people in the world. Because this ceremony was performed, a bowl of white rice was placed next to her. The locals called it Wenmi. Wenmi already existed in ancient China thousands of years ago. At that time, people called wise men claimed to be able to communicate with gods or ghosts and understood divination, astronomy and geography. Women were called "witches" and men were called "wizards."

As for whether it is true or not, Xiao Bian does not comment. Some people say that it was the goddess who first inquired about good customers and then performed subtle and subtle performances, but others firmly believed this.

This custom can still be often seen in rural areas. There is a relatively famous goddess basically a few villages away. There will be fairs in rural areas, that is, going to markets. There will be several tables placed on the edge of the market, and the person sitting there is the fairy lady. The fairy women sit there, and incense burners will be placed on the table.

When I go on the streets in my hometown, I can see some middle-aged and elderly women going there to ask about immortals. I have never been there myself, but I probably know what the questions are. It is usually family illness, marriage, and children. Moreover, people who ask immortals generally have a characteristic. Very few people are over 30 years old, but they must be adult women.

TOP5 Bone picking In rural areas of Fujian, Taiwan and Guangdong, there is a very mysterious and strange funeral custom, that is, secondary burial. The custom of "picking bones" is commonly known as "picking up feng shui" and also known as "secondary burial". It means that the first funeral is relatively streamlined, and some even do not erect tombstones and only use trees instead of logos. Five to seven years later, the tomb will be opened on an auspicious day, the remains will be picked up, and the official burial will be re-established. The professional who completes this ceremony is the bone picker.

Some bodies that have not yet completely decomposed need to be cremated again. However, instead of being sent to the crematorium, the bone picker builds a gas stove on the spot... Imagine the rest for yourself. Therefore, in some mass graves in rural Fujian, you can often see an inexplicable enclosed open space with a gas stove in the middle.

There is also a situation where family members choose not to have a secondary burial. That is, the old man has passed away and the sons have been promoted and rich! According to feudal thinking, the graves of my parents are treasures of feng shui and are effective! Don't move! There are often stories of brothers falling out over a second burial. Why? Because the eldest brother made a fuss, but the second brother did not. The second brother was unwilling and paid attention to changing the feng shui of the ancestral tomb all day long, but the eldest brother naturally disagreed.

TOP 6 Lao People's Cave "Death Kiln" is also known as "self-death Kiln","Death Cave","Old People's Cave", etc. It refers to the excavation of caves the size of one person on mountain walls or in bushes to house elderly people who are unable to work. The discovery of this custom of abandoning the elderly is undoubtedly a satire on the history of respecting filial piety in China since ancient times.

In fact, this absurd rural custom has also existed in other countries. In rural areas of Japan and South Korea, there have been cases where old mountains have been abandoned, and elderly people with unproductive homes have all carried their backs into the mountains to fend for themselves; in rural India, there is still an elderly country. In rural China today, naturally no such inhuman old man's hole can be found. However, are the elderly who stay in the village the next victims of the custom of abandoning the old? Worth pondering.

Website photo location Top 7 Tuozu China is now urbanizing rapidly, and people are gradually shifting from large families to small families. But in rural areas, people's sense of clan relatives is still very strong. So what is the most important thing in a family? -- Genealogy. Genealogy records the genealogy of a family and the deeds of important people. It is also an important basis for determining whether this person is a member of the family. It is a kind of qualification and identity. As a sacred symbol of the clan, the genealogy has always been hidden among the people and hidden from others. Genealogy is a precious book that a family should defend to the death, because it records your family precepts and your blood.

In ancient times, wars occurred frequently, and people often had to move their families. They should not forget their roots when traveling long distances. Before leaving, they could not forget to visit the graves of their ancestors and burn paper. The family members went to the temple to invite them home. Today, Shandong people seem to be called Zhu Zi) Roll up and carry them across the shoulders of the family members. This is what we call carrying ancestors, which continues to this day. To show respect for our ancestors, you cannot hold it in your hand like a roll of calligraphy and painting!

Top 8 paper binding when the person wrote about paper binding, the editor suddenly shuddered. I think of every time I pass by the door of the shroud store and see those paper cows, paper figures, wreaths and the like in the store, I feel terrible. The paper-made thing is okay and looks ordinary, but the paper-made little person always feels gloomy and intimidating, especially the one with painted eyes. He never dares to stare at it, for fear that it will suddenly "come alive" and blink or smile.

The art of paper binding in China originally originated from funeral customs. It is a folk art that integrates techniques such as binding, pasting, paper-cutting, clay sculpture, and painting. Paper-binding is also called pasting paper, bundling paper, bundling paper horses, bundling covers, etc. To put it better, it is a traditional China folk art, and to put it worse, it is a craftsman who eats dead people's food.

Speaking of which, let me tell you a true horror story about the paper-making man that happened in Hong Kong. The protagonist of the story is a Hong Kong journalist. Once he went to a funeral home to run the news. When he returned home, it was nearly dusk. He was a little panicked and wanted to go home quickly. There were usually paper-bound shops in those places. He passed by one of them and there were two paper-bound people at the door of the shop. It seemed that the customer had ordered them to be burned. Perhaps because of fear, he accidentally stepped on a paper-bound maid.

An elderly woman heard the sound and immediately ran out of the house,"Young man, why are you so careless? This was ordered by a guest to burn it." The reporter immediately said,"Sorry, I'll compensate you." The mother-in-law said,"Then take the money." It happened that the reporter didn't have much money with him that day and had to take a car home, so he said,"I don't have enough money today, so I'll just send it over another day.""Young man, keep your word, otherwise it won't be good."

After the reporter returned home, he went on to do other things, and gradually forgot the paper-binding man he had trampled on... One night a few days later, the reporter came home from work and pressed the elevator. As he entered the elevator, he suddenly saw a girl behind him from the corner of his eye. He turned around and saw that there was no one. With the reporter's rich experience, he knew he had met her. He didn't care much and pressed the button on the nearest floor. As soon as the door opened, he rushed out. Unexpectedly, at the corner of the stairs, he met the mother-in-law who said,"Young man, do you want to repay my money?" The reporter was so scared that he couldn't speak.

TOP 9 Drinking Fu Shui I believe that many friends must have been filled with Fu Shui for no reason when they were young... It smells like ashes.

The Taoist saying about Fu water: Painting talismans or burning talismans in water means that drinking it can cure diseases. The process of making talisman water is called sound performance. The artist must have enough magic power to communicate with the energy of all things in heaven and earth, gods, ghosts and senior masters, and change the water crystal in the form of sound waves to make it orderly. When applied, it can change the nature of another object, such as making qi evil spirits, driving away internal evil spirits, etc., the power depends on the level of the artist's magic power.

Taoism calls water a "spiritual object". Wudang Mountain in the central area of my country has always been named after the worship of the water god Zhenwu Emperor, and its incense has flourished throughout the dynasties. Taoism believes that water is an important medium for obtaining information about the human body. This idea is in line with biology. Through the medium of water, the magic power of Fu Shui is spread to the human body.

However, the words on the talismans in Fu water are written in cinnabar and contain toxic substances such as mercury. A few years ago, there was a person in the news who drank Fu water and died of poisoning. So don't blindly believe it!

TOP10 Painting Dragon Eliminating Fish Bones I believe that everyone has a time when their throat is stuck by fish bones. In my rural hometown in Fujian, there is a small spell passed down from the older generation-Painting Dragon Eliminating Fish Bones, which is specially used to treat stuck fish bones.

Specific method: When someone at home is stuck by fish bones, pour a cup of hot water, draw a dragon in the air, then throw it into the hot water and give it to the patient to drink. My mother used this method several times when I was a child, and it did recover, but it couldn't be ruled out that it was washed down with hot water. I wonder if there is such a custom elsewhere.

There are also some rural folk prescriptions for eliminating fish bones that are also very strange, such as stuffing garlic into your nostrils and orally taking a spoonful of sugar to dissolve the fish bones; drinking the saliva of live ducks to melt the bones.