When my great-great-grandfather returned home, the sky was already dark. He hurriedly prepared chicken blood sticks to seal the windows and then found the bronze mirror that my great-great-grandmother had given him as a dowry.
When I write to this point, some nitpicking friends will definitely say that if the entire village prepared chicken blood sticks, how many chickens would they have to kill? Actually, the population of Sanwang Village at that time wasn't considered large. There were less than a hundred households. Killing a few chickens and draining their blood was enough for the entire village. "Also, my great-great-grandfather's family has long prepared chicken blood sticks. After all, our family is in this business. We don't lack willow branches and chicken blood.
Back to the main topic. When my great-great-grandfather took the bronze mirror in his hand, he was stunned. He thought of my great-great-grandmother and my great-great-grandfather when he saw the object. He thought to himself that after this matter was over, he would bring them back.
At this moment, all the villagers in Sanwang Village were busy. The village chief found a few crowing roosters from the villagers 'homes and slaughtered them on the street. The other villagers surrounded them, each holding a white coarse cloth in their hands, waiting to be dipped in chicken blood.
At this time, my great-great-grandfather, after getting everything ready, took out an axe from his house and stuck it in his waist. He went out and walked towards the river bank.
When he came to the riverbank, he looked at the row of willow trees on the riverbank. At this time, the color had already darkened. Every willow tree looked like a swaying tree, baring its fangs and brandishing its claws. It felt quite scary.
His great-great-grandfather came to a large willow tree and looked up at it. Then, he held the axe in his hand, tightened his belt, and climbed up the tree trunk.
After standing firmly on the tree, he aimed at a thick branch as thick as a calf. He grabbed the branch with one hand and swung the axe with the other. After a dozen hits, the branch snapped off the tree.
At this time, there were still a few villagers waiting to be dipped in chicken blood on the main road in the village center. The village chief was also there. My great-great-grandfather put the willow branch aside and called the village chief to the side. He asked him to find six women who were born during the Yin period in the village. There was no limit to their age, but they had to have children before, and each of them had to bring a pair of scissors.
The village chief didn't ask my great-great-grandfather why and went straight to find him. After about an hour, they found six women. All of them had taken care of children before, and their ages ranged from twenty to forty.
At this time, the sky was completely dark. The village chief got a few torches and lit up the road. Many people in the village stood by the roadside and watched curiously.
My great-great-grandfather took advantage of the time when the village chief was looking for someone to go home. He brought a few pieces of white paper, a bowl of paste, and a small bundle of hemp rope from home.
At this time, my great grandfather had those people who were watching the fun stand far away. Then, he gave each of the six women a piece of white paper, which was the kind of large white paper used to paste windows. He asked each of them to use the white paper to make a soul-guiding banner. My great grandfather taught those who didn't know how to do it, but he was only limited to using his mouth and not his hands. He would never touch the white paper in the women's hands.
As everyone knew, the Soul Guiding Coils allowed ghosts to attach themselves to them. They could not be stained with Yang qi, or else the ghosts would not attach themselves to them. It was also for this reason that women born in the Yin era were made into Soul Guiding Flags. A woman born in the Yin period had a lot of Yin Qi, so the soul-drawing flag she made had less Yang Qi. Ghosts generally wouldn't reject it. At this time, if my great-great-grandfather touched it, this Soul Guiding Flag would be considered useless.
There are many styles of soul-guiding banners in our folk, such as flag banners, flower banners, door banners, noisy banners, etc. The soul-guiding coil here is in the shape of a tube, called a tube banner. The method of making it is very simple. First, roll the white paper into a tube shape, paste it with glue, then cut out a row of paper ears about half a foot long with the white paper strip, stick the paper ears on one end of the paper tube, then use a hemp rope to pass through the other end of the paper tube, and finally use the hemp rope to pick up the hemp rope with the bamboo stalk. "Of course, I'm talking about the simplest tube flag. Ordinary families nowadays don't make such simple soul-drawing flags anymore. However, my great-great-grandfather asked a few women to make this kind of simple and crude Soul Guiding Coils. The main reason was that time was too short and there was no time to pay attention to it.
After the Soul Guiding Banner was completed, my great grandfather had these women pull out a long strand of hair from their heads and tie it to the hemp rope of the Soul Guiding Banner. Finally, he had these women tie the Soul Guiding Banner to a willow branch with the hemp rope. It was casual when tying it up. There was nothing particular about it. It was fine as long as it was tied tightly.
The reason why the Soul Guiding Banner had hair was mainly because these were child ghosts. The biggest characteristic of child ghosts was that they were " Oedipus." It was easier for women who had given birth to children to tie their hair to the Soul Guiding Banner to make the child ghosts submit.
After doing all this, the rest was up to my great-great-grandfather. He asked the village chief to remove the torch and let the surrounding villagers disperse. He also instructed them not to make a sound no matter what they heard or saw at night, and they were not allowed to go out.
After the villagers dispersed, my great-great-grandfather returned home and took out a few things from home. Then he carried the willow branches to the row of willow trees by the river bank. He put the willow branches on his shoulders aside and sat down against a willow tree. He took out Master Wang Shoudao's tobacco pipe from his waist and smoked.
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