Feng Ho's widow/book text; words hundreds of miles Qin Chuan, telling the story of Shaanxi, please pay attention to "open your eyes to see Xi'an"
Since ancient Times, Chinese folk taboos have stepped on the shadow of people, and legend has it that human shadows are human souls. In "Youyang Miscellaneous Tricks", there is such a story that the shadow can even predict the auspiciousness. The author of "Youyang Miscellaneous Tricks" is called Duan Chengshi, who is the grandson of Duan Zhixuan, the founding hero of the Tang Dynasty, and his father Duan Wenchang, who served as the prime minister and was the Duke of Zouping County. Duan Chengshi has a friend named Wang Shanren, this person knows the number of five elements, is a stranger, and always loves to see people's shadows under the lamp. Duan Chengshi felt very strange and asked Wang Shanren why.
【Shadow】
Wang Shanren said: On the day of your birthday, take a lamp to illuminate your own shadow, if the shadow is long, it indicates that I am long and rich, if the shadow is short, it indicates that I will have a short life and be poor. Therefore, the ancients were afraid to wander around by the river and the well, because the shadows in the water were very short. If the three dirty things of the beetle, the short fox, and the shadow of the devil step on the shadow of the person, the person will undoubtedly die. Today, Xiaobian will talk about what the three mysterious creatures of the dragonfly, the short fox, and the shadow clam are all about?
【Clipworm】
The human eye, the ancients believed, was particularly ominous if a person's shadow was struck by it in the light or moonlight. Common name: "earworm", most rural people have seen it, because its wings are fully open like human ears. Tianjin people call it fire clip, Jidong people call it clip worm, and Chongqing people call it clip bug. Legend has it that the salamander attaches itself to the human body through its claws. At midnight, when a person is asleep, the salamander will crawl into the human ear to lay eggs, and after the larva hatches, it feeds on the human brain, and the person will die madly.
【Hot Seeds】
The short fox, also known as the archer, is said to have produced a monster that secretly harms people in the water, with sand grains in its mouth to shoot people or shoot people's shadows. People who are shot by the sting will be infected with a poisonous substance and sores; even if the human body can dodge, and the shadow is shot by the sting, it will get sick. That's how the idiom "insinuation" comes from. About what it looks like. "Commentaries on the Interpretation of Texts": "Short foxes are also like turtles, three-legged, and shoot people with their breath." Jin Zhang Hua "Naturalist" Volume III: "There are shooters in the Nanshan Stream of Jiangsu, beetles and the like. One or two inches long, with a crossbow in his mouth, shooting at people with air, sores everywhere he is wearing, and killing people if he is not cured. "It should be the three-legged King Eight." Some people on the Internet say that the shooter is a daunting "hairy spicy".
【Wheat Cattle】
The name is only recorded in the "Unitary Yang Miscellaneous Tricks", and other books do not. Legend has it that this deceit specially trampled on the shadow of a person, and when he stepped on it, he could not live. "Clam" originally referred to the decay of grain and the moths of moths transformed by moths. It is equivalent to what rural people say "wheat cattle". Later, it refers to a harmful poisonous insect, and the legend says that various poisonous insects are placed in a closed container and let them fight each other in it, and the last one left is called a clam. The Ming Dynasty Li Shizhen's "Compendium of Materia Medica" says: "Those who make clams, put hundreds of worms in a dish, eat each other, and take their survivors as clams." So the word from the worm, from the dish. Vessels, utensils also.