wedge mysterious coffin The Tianhe River is like a belt, hanging in the sky from the south to the north.People in Beijing say: The cowherd is in the east of the river, and the weaver girl is in the west of the river. We will meet each other in July this year, and wait until July 7th of the next year. July 7th has passed, and the Tianhe River, which is directly south and north, has changed its direction.People in Beijing said again: The Tianhe River has lost its corner!Tianhe drop corners, cotton trousers and cotton jacket.That said, it's getting cooler. Then came the fifteenth day of the seventh lunar month, which was Ghost Festival, and every family had to offer burdens.The burden is to go to the paper store to buy gold and silver foil, fold it into small ingots, match it with balls of burnt paper, and put it in a square paper bag.The paper bags are specially made, with patterns printed on them with woodcut blocks, and the living people write the names of the dead, put them at the door of the house, and then burn them.When burning, two additional pieces of burning paper should be set aside for postage.In this way, the living remitted money to the dead.

After serving ghosts on July 15th, people will be served on August 15th.During the Mid-Autumn Festival on August 15th, every family will steam reunion cakes.The cake is five cents thick and has six or seven layers. The materials used include grapes, longan, melon seeds, roses, sweet-scented osmanthus, brown sugar, white sugar, green silk, red silk, peach kernels, almonds, and flour. Only one steamer is steamed.After the Mid-Autumn Eve, it will be cut open the next day, and as many pieces as there are people in the family, it will be cut to represent reunion.Therefore, everyone has a share of reunion cakes, and if you don't eat it, you will not be reunion.

Every year during the Mid-Autumn Festival, reincarnation happens like this in Beijing.Time advances year after year, and customs repeat themselves over and over again.Reunion, reunion, great reunion, how many Chinese people have poured bitterness and tears into this dream in the wind and frost, under the flames of war, and in the separation of flesh and blood.Until the reunion turns into so many pieces, like a reunion cake into so many pieces, everything is short and easy, and it will end at the end. Except for bitterness and tears, everything is gone, except for a coffin. ☆☆☆☆☆☆ Painting coffins is a major event for Beijingers. The better the coffins, the more they need to be painted, even every year. Unpainted coffins belong to the poor.The Chinese pay attention to health preservation and death, and death is more important than health preservation, and Beijing is more particular about death than other cities.The characteristic of death delivery in Beijing is the pole room. The poles are logs of different thicknesses, which are overlapped and lifted by the pole bearer, and the coffin is placed on it.There are forty bars and sixty-four bars. The more bars, the more airy, and the more stable.It is so stable that a bowl full of water can be placed on it, and no matter how you lift the bar, the water will not spill out.The reason for not sprinkling is that the barman walks without knees, and his legs are always straight, like a zombie.The person who directs them is called Da Xiang Chi.Those who beat incense sticks are like chasing a bunch of zombies. Without saying a word, they only give orders by beating a mahogany ruler one foot long and two inches wide.Another characteristic of Beijing City Sending Death is a pinch of hair.A pinch of hair is a professional paper money dispenser. He tied a white belt around his waist and accompanied the bereaved family to wear filial piety to show respect.During the funeral, every time you pass by a crossroad or a government temple, a handful of hairs will come out and sprinkle dozens of white notes with square holes in the mouth of a bowl into the sky. Go up, as high as nine or ten feet, and then float down like a flock of white doves.Make passers-by look sideways, then applaud.

These characteristics all show that people in Beijing are serious about sending the dead, and the living are not ambiguous about the dead. ☆☆☆☆☆☆ It was August 16th, midnight on the first day after the Mid-Autumn Festival, a sturdy man in black walked cautiously to the West Siganshi Bridge in Beijing, approached the grass under the archway, and ran towards a wooden pillar.While running, he untied the big sack from his back, and put a dead body under the wooden post into the sack under the moonlight.He hastily checked the surrounding grass, picked up many scattered things, packed them together, then tied the bag tightly, got up and ran away.

He ran across a street, looked back, and seeing no one around, he hurriedly turned into the alley, and shuttled forward in the alley.At three o'clock in the morning, he had successfully escaped from the inner city of Beijing. The inner city of Beijing has nine gates, commonly known as Li Jiu, and the outer city covers the south of the inner city, with seven gates, commonly known as Outer Seven.The three gates between the inner city and the outer city are Zhengyangmen (Lizhengmen) in the center, Chongwenmen (Wenmingmen) in the east and Xuanwumen (Shunchengmen) in the west.The man in black carried a sack on his back, paid the bribe, got out of Xuanwu Gate, and walked towards the alley on the left.He turned and turned, turning into a dead end.There was an empty house in the dead end, and there was a small yard in front of the house. Two people were waiting for him, and there was a coffin under the ground, and the lid of the coffin was opened.Seeing him coming, the two helped him take the sack, untie the sack, and put the dead body into the coffin.The man in black carefully cleared out the odds and ends in the sack and put them into the coffin together.He took out the towel around his waist and cleaned the dead body's face.

That face had been cut to bloody flesh, but the outline was still there. It was a mighty and solemn face, and under the moonlight, it appeared in front of the man in black with a sad expression.The body of the dead body was naked, the whole body was cut to pieces, and all limbs were severed. He was executed by Ling Chi. Ling Chi is a type of death penalty after the Liao and Song Dynasties in China. It is a culture that makes criminals suffer as much as possible before death, and is specially used to deal with criminals who are rebellious.Lingchi, commonly known as "cutting", refers to tying criminals to wooden posts, and the executioner cuts them finely with a cutting knife, which is called fish scale breaking.The cutting knife is eight inches long, has a wooden handle, and a ghost head is engraved on the handle. The blade is extremely sharp.The Chinese swearing saying "a thousand cuts to death" describes this kind of situation.

The man in black cleaned the face of the dead body, made do with the limbs, and covered it with a thin quilt. The coffin was covered and the wooden nails were driven down.The man in black lit a stick of incense, stuck it on his head, knelt down and kowtowed three times.Then she threw herself on the coffin and burst into tears: Master!You died so badly!How miserable!he murmured.Hours of tension and numbness were dissolved with tears. The other two people were busy threading the rope around the coffin, passing through two rope loops, and using a wooden pole to pass through.This coffin has neither forty-eight bars nor sixty-four bars, but a horizontal bar lifted by two people.The coffin was unpainted, the cheapest kind, and the wood was light.

Two people, one behind the other, lifted the coffin.The man in black wiped his tears, took incense, and walked in front.The weather at four o'clock in the morning, Beijing is already very cold. ☆☆☆☆☆☆ They walked quickly and came to a large red wall.The red walls are covered with gray tiles and covered with plaster.They walked along the red wall, and at the end of the red wall were three gates.The middle gate of the gate is the largest, with a stone lion on each side.A monk stood in the middle and beckoned them in.There is a room on the right after entering. There are two long benches in the room, and the coffin is placed on the bench.

Are you ready?asked the man in black. All ready.The monk replied, we will start doing Buddhist work immediately. The sooner the better.Tonight we come to enlightenment. buried there? Buried in the east of Reclining Buddha Temple Street, Guangqumen.It's inconspicuous over there, and few people pay attention very good.The monk clasped together and said, Mr. She is really a righteous man!Mr. She's willingness to collect the corpse at such a taboo time is really a kindness and courage in the world, and we admire it very much. Speaking there, the man in black said that it is really admirable that the mages are willing to do this Buddhist ritual in secret to save the souls of the dead.The man in black made a bow, and then said: Now all the Buddhist affairs are entrusted to the mage, and I have to go out to do something to prepare for the spiritual enlightenment tonight.

Mr. She, please.Everything here, please rest assured. The man in black bowed again, and walked out of the temple gate with the other two.Stepping out of the door, one of the two asked the man in black: What is the name of this temple? The man in black turned around and pointed, there were three large characters on the main entrance｜Minzhong Temple.