[Folk Horror] Ten Days of Mourning

Throughout the story, folklore is fused several times.

【Birth of the Yin God - the first fusion of folklore】

The beginning of the story can be traced back to the 11th and 12th years of Jiaqing.

See Chapter 22 - Seeing the Leopard in the Tube, Notes of Qian Lao (Qian Guihua)

In the 11th year of Jiaqing, the Yin God intended to change from a demon to receiving incense from people forever, so it appeared for the first time, borrowing the image of Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva (swallowing the head of a Buddha statue) and calling himself Tian Gong.Since then, rumors of snake demons have spread in the countryside.

In the 12th year of Jiaqing, the Yin God was dissatisfied with his reputation as a snake demon, so he carried out the first family disturbance, the first ten-day consecutive funeral, and the first time stealing life.He chose to kill the famous unworthy son in the village, not only stealing the deceased's life and prolonging his life, but also promoting his good reputation of punishing the wicked.

The villagers began to believe in the river god, built the river god temple, and then revised the village annals in the 11th year of Jiaqing to promote the good name of flood management for the Yin god, falsely claiming that the river god temple was built in the 21st year of Jiaqing. (See 28Chapter 27-Goodbye Cousin)

Then later, the Yin God punished the unfilial son many times to steal his life to extend his life, but soon no one in the village dared to be unworthy, so the Yin God began to carry out the first integration of folk customs, packaging the stealing of life as an act of promoting filial sons and daughters. (Chapter 25 - Unraveling)

①. In Chapter 2-Filial Sons and Filial Daughters, Goddess Zhao mentioned folk customs for the first time, only saying that the local folk custom is that filial daughters take their hearts and stop their spirits for ten days, and did not mention the ten-day continuous mourning (there will be living things and even people for ten consecutive days) die)

②. Chapter 22-A glimpse of the leopard in the tube, Qian Lao’s notes, Jiaqing’s 12th year of family troubles for the first time, mentioned that within ten days all living things died, but in the end it was the unfilial son who was not satisfied with the filial son’s heart

③. Chapter 30- Enlightenment, the last thought of the heroine, mentioned that the family disturbance in the 12th year of Jiaqing was the original and simplest life-stealing ceremony.

It can be seen that from the title to the full text, "Ten days of mourning, filial daughters choose their hearts" is actually a second-hand folklore that was fused by the Yin God to hide the stolen life.Family troubles = ten-day mourning = life-stealing ceremony, filial daughter (son) taking the heart is just a local custom of foolish filial piety and backwardness that has been circulating.

Through the first fusion of folk customs, Yin Shen quietly incorporated the ritual of stealing longevity into the local backward custom of taking the heart of a filial daughter, making him continue to steal longevity.

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[Entrance to the heroine's family - the second fusion of folklore]

With the passage of time to modern times, there are fewer and fewer people who will take the heart of a filial daughter (son) and mourn for ten days, and fewer and fewer people believe in the river god, and there are fewer and fewer opportunities for the yin god to steal life. , the strength is constantly weakening, and it is close to extinction. (In Chapter 25, the heroine and her friends analyzed the weakening of Yin God's power)

In order to extend his lifespan and strength, Yinshen carried out a second folk-custom fusion, or a scam: he disguised life stealing as borrowing his life, that is, in 1940, the heroine who deceived generations of long-lived numbers invited Yinshen .

From the timeline, the grandpa passed away in 1990, and he was 60 years old. It can be simply concluded that the grandpa in 1940 was only ten years old. In addition, the feudal ideology was strong, and the ghosts and spirits deceived him for generations. made a decision.

From the first part, we can know that the ten-day mourning and the filial daughter's heart were originally just a fusion of life-stealing rituals and local customs, and had nothing to do with borrowing life. Longevity binds the ten-day mourning of filial daughters to take the heart and borrow life.Why is this?

From the story (especially Qian Lao’s suicide note mentioning that he does not want Goddess Zhao to know too much about the Yin God), we can know that although Goddess Zhao and Qian Lao are both witches, they have different perceptions of the birthday ceremony.Goddess Zhao's cognition is actually wrong.

①. In Chapter 7-Cup of Heaven and Earth, Goddess Zhao mentioned that the ceremony of asking the Yin God to borrow a birthday is different every time, and she needs to check the account book of the money man many times to confirm the matters, so it can be known that she does not know much about borrowing a birthday. completely.

②. Chapter 14-The past, the heroine invites the spirit, I saw the conversation between the heroine's grandfather and the money guy in 1990, in which only the birthday ceremony was mentioned, and there was no mention of the ten-day mourning of the filial daughter. When conveying the content of the ceremony, he did not inform Qian Lao that there would be a ten-day mourning

③. Chapter 19-Three Questions to Mrs. Qian, a friend of mine, asked Mr. Qian a question. Mr. Qian mentioned "I have thought about why the ceremony failed", and for the first time pointed out that this is not borrowing life, but stealing life

④. Chapter 22-A glimpse of the leopard, Qian Lao wrote in his notes, "How could the ten-day mourning happen to me", it can be seen that although Qian Lao knew that his grandfather borrowed his birthday, he also knew that the ten-day mourning existed, but he did not connect them together. Borrowing life and ten-day mourning are not bound together, and the ritual of borrowing life is actually only the process of engraving a god card and recognizing the Yin god as an ancestor (During Chapter 30, the last thought of the heroine also thought of stealing life and borrowing life Ritual merged)

Qian Lao also wrote in his notes "No, this is not a ten-day mourning", and then collected the contents of two village chronicles in the 11th year of Jiaqing and the 12th year of Jiaqing, deduced the truth of the first part (the first integration of folk customs), and found that The ten-day mourning is actually stealing life, which is why Qian Lao guessed about stealing life when a friend invited Qian Lao to go to the body.

Closer to home, in short, using the lie of short lifespan as an introduction, the second fusion of folk customs turned stealing life into borrowing life, and the Yin God began to change from the river god who ruled the whole village to only draw from the heroine's family. Yin god of strength.

Then what happened was the same as the timeline before the decisive battle in 30. So I won’t say much.

In short, although Yinshen's calculation was good, the heroine's grandfather stopped inviting Yinshen in the generation of the heroine's father after finding out something was wrong, which made Yinshen very incompetent and furious for a while.Then Grandpa and Qian Lao carried out the ceremony of suspending the borrowing of life, but they didn't know the truth about the life stealing, and holding the wrong ceremony would only deepen the connection between Yinshen and the ritualist.So the Yin God was not driven away, but got the power to kill Qian Lao.Although Qian Lao almost deduced the whole truth and the ceremony to deepen the relationship before his death, he finally chose to commit suicide in 1990 because he cared about his daughter.

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[Heroine - main story]

In Chapter 15-Dove Occupies the Magpie’s Nest, the hostess and the old man in the village mentioned something in the clinic’s conversation. The River God Temple was demolished during the superstitious period, and the Earth Temple was built after 90 years. The River God no longer exists.Yinshen has no other way to gain strength, so he can only focus on the heroine's family.

So in 2000, after the heroine was born, although her strength was very weak, it could still affect the yin spirits of infants and young children, causing the heroine to die suddenly with jaundice and high fever. Became his third generation of descendants.

Afterwards, the heroine rarely returned to her hometown after college, and the Yin God began her last harvest, hoping to kill the heroine again after ten days of mourning, and complete the last life-stealing.

【solution】

As mentioned in the ending, it was mentioned as early as Chapter 5-Dark Spirit Tablet and Chapter 6-Tian Gongyu Qu, when the heroine and her friend first discovered the tablet, they mentioned that the tablet was engraved with the tallow ancestor Kao Tiangong Yuyu Among Qu Fujun's life-interest positions, the only weird one is the life-interest positions.The words of blessing here on the normal tablet should be Shengxilian, which means that the younger generation wishes the ancestors to go to the Western Paradise, which is a symbol of filial piety.However, the interesting part of life is actually to bring the ancestors back to the world.

Although engraving tablets is part of the ritual of borrowing longevity, it can be seen from the first integration of folk customs that although Robeshou did not make any agreement on engraving tablets at the beginning, as long as someone takes the heart of a filial daughter and a filial son, then it can be seen In order to carry out the ten-day continuous mourning automatically, it can be seen that the fusion of folk customs influences each other.Therefore, the requirements for filial daughters in the ceremony of borrowing life will also affect the ceremony of stealing life (it can also be seen that the Yin God entrusts a dream to blame the grandfather for being unworthy).

Although the heroine does not pass the law, with the help of the ritual provided by the money guy, she and Yinshen are equal in terms of ritual meaning before the final choice.In addition, in Chapter 14-The past, Taigong used a knife to carve the tablet, and the final solution is to use a knife to cut out the Shengrenqu place and engrave the Shengxilian place instead.

As a filial daughter, one should let the deceased elder reach bliss early, how could one force him to stay in the world?This is the final solution.

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In addition two small decryption

1. Why does Yin God borrow the image of Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva:

According to Buddhist scriptures, in the past life, Bodhisattva Bodhisattva has rescued his mother who was suffering in hell several times, and has been vowing to save all sinful beings, especially those in hell, so this Bodhisattva is considered to have The virtues of "great filial piety" and "great wish" are therefore generally honored as "great wish Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva"

In short, Daxiao ()

2. Why does Yinshen only give the heroine a 20-year lifespan, and will do it in 2020:

After all, Yinshen can still know some secrets of the future. First, the heroine is different from the previous grandpa and grandfather. She went to university in other places and has never stayed in her hometown since she was a child. The probability of staying in her hometown in the future is also very small. Yinshen Mobile phone opportunities are not many.The second is that the heroine is Lily, and she wants to post with her friends, so there will be no biological descendants for the Yin God to continue.To sum up, Yinshen had no choice but to take advantage of this rare opportunity to go fishing.

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