What exorcism? I see it at the bedside every night and want to smoke tonight. What a terrible god to help me.

The magic weapon in China's mysterious cultural system, the seven treasures of ancient China to ward off evil spirits, generally refers to all "treasures" that can exert the so-called supernatural power through people's conditional manipulation and operation, which can be roughly divided into two categories: one is natural materials that can be made or directly used as magic weapons, such as water, stones, some plants and minerals, and the other is artificial and synthetic instruments, such as tools, weapons and ornaments. Among so many "treasures", I selected seven of the most powerful curses in ancient China according to their efficacy. Seventh, "water" is regarded as one of the "five elements" and one of the "three officials" (referring to the celestial officials, local officials and water officials served by Taoism). People's awe of water has almost reached the level of paying equal attention to heaven and earth. At the same time, besides providing people with the benefits of drinking, irrigation and boating, water is also one of the most widely used and magical magic weapons. First of all, water can bless and make money. It is believed that the water drawn in each specific season can bring happiness or wealth to the drinker. For example, the well water and river water extracted on the morning of the first day of the first month of the first lunar month in the summer calendar are called "silver water" or "wealth water"; On New Year's Eve in the summer calendar, people who stay up until midnight and play lanterns to quietly draw water from the river are called "water of heaven and earth", which can guarantee good luck in the coming year and so on. The water on special days also has its special function: the dew collected on Grain Rain Day is used to draw symbols and stick them on the wall, which has the function of expelling all kinds of poisons; The dew collected on the eighth day of the fourth lunar month is used to grind ink, write spells on red paper, and then stick them on the wall to plague locusts; Another example is barefoot dew at noon, which is a disaster; The dew collected from the "six gods water" on the first day of August in the summer calendar can be used to adjust cinnabar moxibustion and eliminate all diseases, and so on. Of course, these influences are not the subject we are going to discuss today. The theme of this issue is that evil water can cure diseases and evoke souls. It is believed that all kinds of water treated under certain conditions have magical effects on treating diseases. For example, after Wu painted a magical strategy on the water, he called it "Fu Shui", or offered clear water to the gods, and after praying, he called it "curse water", "divine water" and "holy water", all of which can cure diseases. When it rains in the sky, it is called "rootless water" after being connected with utensils, and it is effective to decoct with it. Besides. Popular belief also believes that children's illness is due to the loss of soul, and can also be recalled through the magic of water. For example, the method of "crossing the water" is to burn incense and pray in the middle of the night, and then secretly find a small river to cross it. When you go ashore again, your soul has returned to your body and your illness can be cured. Another way to "call the soul" is to wash a bowl of water at the end of darkness, call out along the road, soak in the water together, that is, the soul has joined, take the bowl home and put it on the pillow of the sick child, and the disease can be cured. Of all these, water naturally has its effect of avoiding evil spirits, but it ranks only seventh because of its strong superstition and low effect. Sixth: Ashes, Shuowen interprets "ashes" as "embers of dead fire", which undoubtedly refers to the residue after burning substances. However, in the mysterious culture of China, gray is also a magic weapon with a wide range of uses. The idea that ash has magical power can probably be traced back to real life: in ancient literature, there are many records that people sow ash as fertilizer, accumulate ash to stop water or raise ash to help fight. After accumulation, it is very likely that their skills will be widely tested. In addition, since the pre-Qin period, many people classified as Taoists by later generations have tried to prove implicitly or explicitly that after an object is burned into embers, its shape has only changed, and its spirit is still accumulated in the ashes. According to this concept, it is logical that ashes with spirit have some magic. In the past, the action of "rubbing bones and raising ashes" was often associated with the intention of "killing all the ashes". The original intention was to concentrate the ashes, so that the purpose of aggregation could be hindered after they were scattered. The effect of praying for happiness and safety with ashes is not introduced here. What we care about is how ashes exorcise evil spirits. As early as in the past, there have been systems such as "Red Dragon palm tearing down the wall house, attacking it with charcoal, sprinkling poison with ash" and "Ignoring Yan palm, burning tyrant, sprinkling it with ash", that is, attacking the rich with ash. Since then, scattering ashes in the house has become a very popular folk custom. Various names, such as "expelling five poisons" and "dusting dustpan", have been carried out more than before the second day of February and the fifth day of May in the summer calendar. Say a spell when scattering ashes, and some draw ashes on the ground to make birds and animals. Scattering ashes has also evolved from expelling poisonous insects to a wide range of methods of expelling epidemic diseases and evil spirits, even painting ashes on the road in the dead of night and making them into bows and arrows so as to shoot at disasters. In some places, there is also the custom of putting pot ashes on the tip of children's noses, which is said to suppress evil spirits and drive away ghosts. Fifth: Stone Ordinary stone can be a magic weapon, and its conceptual basis is the ancient people's spirit stone worship consciousness. This paper only introduces the scope of application and operation form of avoiding evil spirits. In Dunhuang manuscripts, there is the Law of Using Stones to Town Houses, which says: "Ordinary people live in unfavorable houses, escape from illness and waste money. It is auspicious to use 90 pounds of stone to town the gate of hell; When people came, the losers didn't gather, and the market was unfavorable. With 80 pounds of stones, the town is prosperous. " The so-called "town" is to bury a stone in the direction designated by Kan Yu's family. Town tomb. That is, when the tomb was built, the stone was buried as a sacrifice for the same reason as the town house, but the beneficiary was the relatives of the deceased and extended to future generations. To be true. If the door of the house is facing the alley (road), the bridge or the corner of other people's house, I believe there will be "evil rush". Fourth, the head of a chicken and the blood of a dog are domestic animals, but in ancient concepts, their origins are comparable to ordinary animals. Shu Wei's "The Fight in Spring and Qiu Yun" says that "Yu Hengxing is scattered into a chicken", while "The Spring and Autumn Examination of Justice" says that "dogs are born of quarrelling". This kind of endowment is directly related to people taking some of them as magic weapons. As a magic weapon to ward off evil spirits, dog blood has been recorded in history books. Qin Shihuang's four lessons of killing dogs and preventing fierceness are one example. Since then, killing dogs and smearing blood on the portal has always been a folk monarch.