What exactly does an ancient and mysterious professional "goldsmith" do?

Goldsmith? Perhaps literally, many people will think that this profession is specialized in picking up gold, or it is related to gold. In fact, although the name of this profession is related to gold, the content of responsibility has nothing to do with gold. Goldsmith is an ancient occupation in Guizhou. They didn't pick up gold, but human bones Why are they named? Goldsmith? In fact, it also represents a kind of respect for the dead, treating their bones as precious as gold, and another is taboo, because you can't call them corpse pickers, which is too scary.

As we all know, China people believe in Feng Shui, especially when something bad happens to their families or themselves, they usually think of finding some Feng Shui to calculate. If there is something wrong with the ancestral grave, they may find another place of feng shui and choose to move the grave. For moving ancestral graves, it is a very grand and serious matter. Usually, Taoist priests or monks are invited to do things first. In the past, the goldsmith was an indispensable role. This profession is generally family-based and handed down from generation to generation. Usually, after opening the coffin, the goldsmith will pick up all the bones, use his own antiseptic liquid, and then bring them back to the mourning hall for splicing. Finally, he wrapped them in silk floss, put them in a shroud, and then put them in a new coffin for reburial.

However, for the goldsmith profession, in fact, many people will avoid it. After all, they are dealing with the dead. Therefore, usually when moving ancestral graves, goldsmiths are often guests of others, and generally need to be respectful, because if we offend goldsmiths and cause them to make deliberate mistakes in splicing, it will do great harm to the family, and because of the horror of this profession, gold diggers need to drink some wine to be brave when working, so they are in a state of being half drunk and half awake, so it is actually terrible when working. Because of the particularity of this profession, few gold diggers dare to associate with it on weekdays, so they are generally only needed when moving their ancestral graves, and other happy events will basically not happen to gold diggers.

In addition to having jobs when moving ancestral graves, goldsmiths often starved to death in the streets during the chaos in ancient times, so in order to have a plague, some rich or kind people would pay goldsmiths to help bury the bodies, or some people in ancient times were beheaded after committing crimes, so they usually asked goldsmiths to help sew them up, leaving a complete body, and another was that no one took the bodies. The main reason is that family members may not show up enough for fear of being implicated or being too far away, so after a while, when they won't be implicated or the descendants of prisoners become rich, they will come to look for the bodies of their loved ones, so at this time they will also ask the goldsmith to help clean them up and take them back to their hometown for burial, so to put it bluntly, goldsmith is a profession dealing with the dead.