The corpse driver is a mage in cassock. No matter how many bodies there are, he will drive them away alone. The mage is not behind the body, but leads the way in front of the body without playing lanterns. He shook the mastermind clock by hand and struck the gong as he walked, so that the night walkers could avoid it. Dog owners lock them up. When there are multiple bodies, connect them with straw ropes, one every six or seven feet. When walking at night, the bodies were wearing tall felt hats and some yellow papers with symbols on their foreheads.
There is a "dead body inn" on the road. This mysterious "dead inn" only lives in dead bodies and corpse drivers, which ordinary people can't live in. Its gate is open all year round. Because behind the two door panels, it is where the body stops. The corpse driver rushed to the "corpse shop" before dawn and quietly left at night. The body leans neatly against the wall behind the door panel. When it is difficult to walk on rainy days, I will stop in the store for a few days and nights.
China people love their motherland very much. In any case, leaves must return to their roots. A wanderer who dies in a different place must be buried in his ancestral home; The dutiful son and grandson will be sent back to their hometown, and relatives and friends have the obligation to support this matter. In the upper reaches of Yuanjiang River in western Hunan, the place is barren, and the poor mostly go to eastern Sichuan or eastern Guizhou to be hawkers, collect medicines or hunt for a living. There are many mountains in those places, malaria is very heavy, falciparum malaria is often prevalent, and the living environment is extremely bad. Except for the local Miao people, outsiders seldom go. None of the Han people who died in those places were rich. The Han people traditionally have a deep concept of transporting corpses back to their hometowns for burial. However, even if they have money, it is difficult to transport them by vehicles or stretchers on rugged mountain roads thousands or hundreds of miles away, so someone has created this strange economic way to transport the bodies back to their hometown.
According to legend, thousands of years ago, the ancestor of the Miao nationality, Apu (Miao language: father-in-law), led troops to fight against hostile forces along the Yellow River until corpses were everywhere and rivers of blood were flowing. After the battle, we had to retreat to the rear. After the soldiers carried all the wounded soldiers away, Apci especially said to the Apu military adviser around him, "We can't leave our brothers who died here. How about using some magic to get these good brothers back to their hometown? " Apu said, "All right. You and I will change our clothes. You take' Jeff' to lead the way, and I will supervise later. "
So Mr. Apu dressed up as Mr. Apu Chiyou and stood among the bodies of the brothers who died in battle. After chanting a spell and praying to the gods, he shouted to the body, "dead brothers, this is not where you died." It's really sad to die for nothing. My parents in my hometown are looking forward to it, and my wife and younger son are looking forward to going home. Do not hesitate your soul. Urgent as a law, get up! " All the bodies lying on the ground immediately stood up and followed the "Jeff" held aloft by Apchiyou, and walked towards the south in a polite way. The enemy's pursuers came, and Apci especially joined hands with Apu's strategist, which attracted the "fog of the Five Watches" and trapped the enemy in the maze. Because it was the spell "Si" (implementation and operation) of Apu Military Academy that saved everyone, everyone called him "Lao Si" from now on; Moreover, because the essence of Mr. Apu's last defense against the enemy is "fog", there are too many strokes of "fog" to finish, so he rewrote it into a word "witch" instead. In fact, this witch character is also a hieroglyph: the upper horizontal represents the sky or fog, the lower horizontal represents the ground, and the middle vertical represents "Jeff"; There is a figure on each side of the vertical, the one on the right represents Apchiyu, and the one on the left represents Apchiyu, which means that two people must unite to do witchcraft.
According to relevant literature, there is a saying of "three drives and three no drives".
Those who are beheaded (their heads must be sewn together), hanged and put to death in cages can be driven away. The reason is that they are all forced to die, and they are not convinced. They miss their hometown and their loved ones. They can hook their souls with spells, put them in their bodies with spells, and then use spells to drive them to climb mountains and mountains, or even board a boat and return to their hometown.
Those who died of illness, those who voluntarily hanged themselves in the river, and those who were mutilated by thunder and fire could not be driven away. Among them, the dead soul has been hooked by Yan, and the spell can't call back the soul from the gate of hell; However, the souls of those who threw themselves into the river and hung their necks have been "replaced", and they may be handing over. If a new soul is introduced, the old dead soul will be irreplaceable, and will it affect the old reincarnation? In addition, those who died of thunder were sinful people, and those who died of fire were often mutilated, and these two kinds of bodies could not be driven away.
At first, the body was only driven to death on the battlefield. Later, the old company also helped those who were killed by the government to drive the bodies back to their hometown.
The geographical scope of "Chenzhou House" is only as far north as Langzhou (Changde), not Dongting Lake, east to Jingzhou, west to Fuzhou and Wuzhou, and southwest to Yunnan and Guizhou. Legend has it that these places are under the jurisdiction of the ghost country of Miao ancestors. If they are far away, even the old company can't catch up with those zombies.
Before the Qing Dynasty, after the autumnal equinox every year, all state and county government offices would execute prisoners on death row with the approval of the Ministry of Punishment. After the execution, local death row inmates have their own families to collect and bury their bodies. However, if they want to carry the executed prisoner back to their hometown, they usually need four people to carry a corpse, which is very expensive, while the old company needs to drive the corpse home, which is relatively cheap, and it can be guaranteed that it will not rot halfway, and the carried corpse may rot in a day.