Thorn bed is a folk custom in western Guangdong (Zhanjiang City, Guangdong Province). It is to tie the thorny branches into a bed, and the brave villagers take off their clothes and roll on the bed. People who roll are often stabbed and scarred. The traditional folk culture in western Guangdong is formed together with the folk customs such as stabbing the bed, climbing the knife ladder, crossing the stairs and setting off fireworks.
2. Sacrifice the dead kiln
"Dead Kiln", also known as "Dead Kiln", "Dead Cave" and "Old Man Cave", is a custom in Wudang, Hubei. It refers to digging a one-person-sized cave on the mountain wall or in the bushes for the elderly who have lost their ability to work.
Pull the donkey's sleeve
Although the sacrificial kiln has been abandoned with the development of the times, there are donkey pulls of similar nature in modern versions.
At the wedding, the parents of the newlyweds dress up as donkeys and pull the wedding cart forward, which is the custom in yanshi city.
Drive away the body
The corpse driver is a custom in western Hunan, and it is a legendary magic that can drive the corpse driver to walk. It is a kind of Taoism, a kind of Maoshan. Corpse removal belongs to white witchcraft, that is, a series of bodies from other places follow the corpse remover and cross the state line to return to their hometown. However, driving the corpse is not to drive the corpse all the way back to the hometown, but to lead the corpse through the desolate and rugged mountainous area and return it to the plain, and give it to the relatives in the countryside who came to pick it up, so that they can put the body in a coffin and transport the coffin back to the countryside for burial by other means of transportation.
5. gold silkworm Act
Gold silkworm law is a custom in Fujian. Many poisonous insects, such as poisonous snakes, centipedes, lizards, earthworms, toads and so on. Put them all in an urn and seal them together so that they can kill each other and eat them. After a year, there is only one left, and the shape and color have changed. It's gold silkworm. Others said that twelve kinds of poisonous insects were put in a jar and secretly buried at a crossroads. After 7749 days, it was secretly taken out and put in an incense burner, and it was offered with green tea and incense in the morning and evening. The gold silkworm thus obtained is invisible and exists in incense ashes. When casting magic, take gold silkworm excrement or incense ashes and put them in food for passing guests to eat.
If the drugged person is not treated in time, he will feel pain and swelling in his chest and abdomen, and eventually he will bleed to death through the seventh hole. When you die, hundreds of insects will gush out from between your nose and mouth. Even if the body of the deceased is cremated, the heart is still there, in a honeycomb shape.
poison
Poisoning is a horrible custom of Miao nationality, which refers to witchcraft poison prepared in a mysterious way. In the old Kunming's mantra of "rolling eggs" for people who are fascinated by Chinese magic, a long list of magic names have been mentioned, such as golden magic, silver magic, long worm magic (snake magic), short weaving magic, butterfly magic, female magic (dragonfly magic), domestic magic, and all kinds of magic in five places. It is reported that there are other kinds of ancient books or folklore, such as gold silkworm, toad, centipede, snake (water), sheep, fish cup, cow, dog, chicken, goose, grass, fungus, scorpion and so on. Not only are there many kinds, but they are also varied and endless, which makes people hard to prevent. As Gambao's "Searching for the Gods" said: "If there is a demon in the box, if it is a ghost, its demon shape is different and its hybrid is different. Whether it is a pig or a dog, or a worm or a snake, everyone knows its shape. " If you always do what you do to the people, you will die. " )
7. Celestial burial (this is a custom, not a bad habit)
Celestial burial is a traditional way of funeral for Mongolian, Tibetan and other ethnic minorities. After death, people take their bodies to designated places for eagles (or other birds and animals) to swallow, thinking that they can take them to heaven. Like burial, water burial and cremation, it is a belief, a way to express condolences to the deceased, and a social and cultural phenomenon in essence. Its origin, form, content and the implementation of the ceremony are all influenced by natural geographical environment, business methods, foreign culture and other factors. Therefore, different historical periods, different countries and regions, different nationalities and even different social classes will form different celestial burial ceremonies.
(I heard from a professor of Chinese Academy of Sciences who went to Tibet that it is to chop up the meat, smash the head until the brain marrow flows out, and then mix all kinds of things together, as if they were called Ciba, waiting for vultures to eat. )
In addition, this is only the custom of ethnic minorities. I respect it, but I think it's scary enough to say it.