The "repair ceremony" in "Preface to the Collection of Lanting": It originates from ancient witchcraft

Building ceremonies is an ancient custom and a legacy of wizards. Its history can be traced back to the Yin and Zhou Dynasties. "Zhou Li·Chunguan":"When the witch is in charge of the New Year, she removes evil customs." The Han Dynasty's "Customs Tongyi" listed Xi as a sacrificial ritual, saying: "Xi is clean." In spring, when everything grows and moves, it is easy to develop diseases, wash on the water to prevent and treat diseases. To put it bluntly, a group of people held a ceremony at the water's edge on March 3rd, learning from the ancient witches to "summon souls, use orchids to remove the ominous signs, dip aromatherapy grass in water and sprinkle them on their bodies, or take a bath to wash the dirt, feel the spring, and pray to eliminate diseases and foreboding.)" I hope to get rid of all the unsmooth, unlucky, and uncomfortable experiences of the past year and have a new start.

It's easy to explain why it's unlucky to remove the grass from the grass. Nowadays, people go home after being released from prison, cross the brazier, and bathe with fragrant grass or pomegranate leaves to boil water to dispel bad luck. This is still seen from time to time in some movies and television dramas. But why do you want to "summon souls"? It turned out that in the eyes of the ancients, the boundary between the world of the world and the world of the world was not as strict as it is now. As long as you have time, the souls of the dead can go to the world to play, and the souls of the living can also go to the underworld to see. It is said that there is no need to go through customs. On the third day of the third month of the lunar calendar every year, because it is Ghost Festival, the streets of the underworld are decorated with lanterns and colorful colors, and the streets and alleys are filled with gorgeous ghosts. Dragon lanterns, lion dances, stilts, and flower boats can be seen everywhere. Their excitement and prosperity are incomparable to the Spring Festival in the world, so people's souls go to ghost markets to play. By the time the rooster announced the dawn, most of the wandering souls returned to their bodies contentedly, but there were still a few wandering souls who were happy to leave. "Resurrection of souls" is to recall these organized and undisciplined souls. At night, every household in the Yangjian also set off firecrackers in every room of their home to blow up ghosts, in order to drive away those ghosts who go to the Yangjian but don't want to go home.

In order to "repair the ceremony", there were many places in ancient times where guests were banquets near the river, hiking, drinking wine in the winding water, and eating Ai Ci. However, the most famous ones left behind works for future generations should be the ninth year of Yonghe, Emperor Mu of the Eastern Jin Dynasty (AD 353)) Wang Xizhi's "Xi Tie" is also called "Preface to the Collection of Lanting". In Boluo, after 1450 (AD 1807), a famous Lingnan painter and painter named Han Xiao also improvised a "Painting of the Golden Lake" for "repairing the ceremony." Because his 14-year-old nephew Han Rongguang also improvised poems and poems at that time, his skills shocked everyone and made him famous in history. This Han Rongguang was the well-known Daoguang Ju in the future. He served as a member of the Ministry of Civil Affairs for more than ten years. He was good at poetry, calligraphy, and painting and the author of "Yellow Flowers Collection".

It is unknown whether the Han school's "Golden Lake Painting of Repairing Wedge" is still preserved in the hands of the Han family's descendants. However, as a sacred "repair site" that occupies a place in the annals of history, few people have covet building residential buildings on the lake at the foot of Boluo Hulu Ridge for 200 years. It is a fact that it has been preserved completely. Otherwise, today's "Hululing Beiqiu Ruins Park" would have nowhere to be placed.