In China, a country with a vast land, there are various ecosystems, and the number of animals living in the ecosystem is also counted in the millions. Among them, the gecko is a very common animal in our country, whether it is in the countryside pillars or on the smooth decoration walls of the city can be seen in his figure, he shuttles through the cracks, usually by eating some mosquitoes, flies, moths and some locusts to survive.
In the long history of ancient China, the people divided geckos into the traditional five poisons. So what do these five poisons mean besides geckos? According to the oral accounts of the people and some historical records, they are scorpions, poisonous snakes, centipedes, and toads. Geckos look harmless to humans and animals, why are they classified into such a terrible five poisons?
According to the Shennong Materia Medica, geckos' urine, although scarce, contains high toxicity. Gecko urine entering a person's eyes will cause blindness; entering the mouth will make people dumb; entering the ears will make people deaf; entering the nose will make it difficult to breathe; dripping into the skin will fester and be hopeless.
Gecko is the name of the people, in the academic circles and industry tycoons called "weir fly". Earlier about this title is from the Han Dynasty dictionary "Erya", in fact, the people of the Qin and Han Dynasties are very clear about "weir fly", some foreigners can not distinguish between geckos and lizards, Han Dynasty naturally everyone Xu Shen has clearly instructed: in the wall "weir dragonfly", in the grass lizard.
Gecko's special guardianship role
From the various historical materials of the pre-Qin and Han Dynasties, it can be seen that the Chinese at that time had a clearer understanding of the living habits of geckos. But in the Chinese female prostitution industry, geckos have another name called Shougong, which is a special role derived from geckos. In ancient China, most people believed that the shougong sand used to test whether a woman's virginity was still preserved was made from geckos.
The earliest known record of the specific production of shougong sand in ancient China is said to come from the "Natural State of Things" written by Zhang Hua in the Western Jin Dynasty. It is recorded that geckos are kept in captivity in vessels, fed with cinnabar and water, and when the geckos turn red and weigh seven pounds, they are pounded with a mallet hammer. Moriya Sand is completed at this point.
As for the role and use of shogun sand, it is different. Put this shogun sand with incense or chopsticks on the woman's limbs, the color will not be extinguished from birth to death, only one thing will make the color of the shogun sand fade, that is, the affairs of men and women, so the gecko is also called the shougong, the reason for which is derived from this.
This statement seems very absurd to people today, but in ancient society, it has been spread from the pre-Qin to the Republic of China, until now there are still some ethnic minorities in remote areas have this habit, when they went to school in the seventies and eighties of the last century, some female classmates had this red mole on their hands, but how can not be shaken off, in fact, it is the palace sand. But why is such a good tool for identifying chastity extinct in modern society?
The elimination of shougong sand in China today
Many people of the older generation have actually seen the shogun sand, which is one of the two most important means of verifying the virginity of women in their marriages in that era, and another means is the "falling red" on the wedding night. Compared with the use of falling red to test chastity, the role of shougong sand is more obvious, because falling red is really inconvenient, relatively conservative in ancient times, can only wait until the wedding night, and shougong sand is on the arm or foot, a glance at the past to wipe it will know.
This convenient shougong sand and falling red have disappeared in today's China, some people say that because of the needs of ecological environmental protection, geckos, although not national protected animals, but today is also more and more rare, many children have only seen geckos in books and animal worlds, they have never seen before, and the production of shougong sand needs to consume a lot of geckos, so this way of testing chastity is gradually eliminated.
There is also a view that the use of geckos to make shougong sand to test a woman's chastity, this view is completely unscientific, many women think that geckos in the folk is one of the five poisons, itself has a lot of toxicity, and then used to make shougong sand is simply harmful to women's physical health, and the process of feeding geckos to eat cinnabar is too cruel, can't bear to do this kind of thing.
Sociologists are opposed to this ecological environment and the protection of geckos, and today in China after decades of ecological construction and national projects such as afforestation, the environment has long been restored a lot, and the number and species of geckos are distributed throughout the country. There is no such thing as saying that the production of Shougong sand will lead to the extinction of geckos, in fact, Shougong sand is not popular in China today, mainly because young people are becoming more and more open-minded.
Geckos aren't actually scary
The terrible thing about the gecko in folklore is his urine, but the gecko itself is already a very small animal, how much urine can he have, and what he uses to collect the gecko's urine has not been mentioned, on the contrary, even if enough gecko urine is collected, can people really try to verify the efficacy?
Presumably, no one dares to take their own life to see jokes. But geckos are authentic herbs in Chinese medicine. Li Shizhen of the Ming Dynasty said that geckos used to be used to make shougong sand in the past, but since the Ming Dynasty began to be used as a medicine to treat diseases, the "Compendium of Materia Medica" records that the gecko taste is salty, there is a small poison, mainly used to treat stroke and paralysis problems. Gecko's medical role is obvious, and it hopes to better serve human beings under the joint efforts of traditional Chinese medicine and Western medicine.