To tell you the truth, talking about this Laoshan Daoist in The Zai Zhiyi, I think that the brothers and sisters who rush to see the ghosts can directly skip it, and this Daoist, from the current point of view, has nothing to do with the kind of Daoist who catches ghosts.
It is about the son of a down-and-out big family, I heard that there are many cultivators on Laoshan Mountain, who want to change their family situation by cultivating spells, but they themselves are a person who cannot bear hardships, and it feels that in this, Pu Songling wants to express that he is a person who is good at eating and lazy, and wants to change himself by practicing spells.
Then met the Taoist priest on the mountain, the Taoist priest has some ability, the more brilliant place throughout is to describe a paragraph, Chang'e dancing spells, the Taoist priest and his disciples talk freely at night, and then one of the disciples said that this night is too dark, with a piece of paper cut into the shape of the moon, pasted to the wall, suddenly the glare is dazzling, like a bright moon, and then an apprentice said, at this moment there should be a pot of wine to help, some people think seven or eight people a pot of wine, how is it enough? But after secretly observing, he found that a pot of wine had been drinking, drinking all the time, without stopping, and sure enough, they were all people with some magic.
Another apprentice said that there is no song and dance in light drinking, how can it be done? Then take the chopsticks towards the paper-cut moon thrown over, trance, chopsticks suddenly turned into a human form, from the paper-cut moon down, began to be very small, and then after landing on the ground with the same size as an adult, everyone fixed their eyes on it, isn't this Chang'e? But when he saw Chang'e come down and dance, the man looked at it, immediately envious, and immediately asked the Taoist priest to teach her some spells.
The man told the teacher that I had come too, and for a while, why didn't you teach me some spells?
The Taoist priest turned around and thought, it has been a while since you have been here, and it is time to teach you something practical, and then he handed over the man the technique of piercing the wall, and told me that if you have a wrong mind, the spell will not be realized, and the person is very happy, and then he is very happy to go back.
As soon as he returned home, he couldn't wait to show his wife the spell he had learned, and the wife and everyone didn't believe that he could have this wall-piercing technique, and as a result, under the expectation of everyone, it was indeed a hard head that hit the wall deeply, and the head of the hit broke and bleed...
The story does have a postscript, which means that people should not try to take shortcuts to change themselves, as mentioned at the beginning, this one is the same, and has nothing to do with ghosts and foxes.
What do you think?