What flowers can you raise to ward off evil spirits?

There is also a legend circulating in our country: Kuafu chased the sun before he died and threw the Shenmu out, turning it into a peach forest. The earliest Spring Festival couplets in China were all made of red boards, also called Taofu. Until now, people still believe that mahogany products can ward off ghosts and evil spirits. Peach, on the other hand, means longevity. Give the old people a birthday and give them a plate of longevity peaches to show that they wish them a long and healthy life.

Suppress the evil soul

The Political History of the Tang Dynasty, Volume III, said that the admonition doctor Ming Chongyan had spells. He once "wrote two peach charms, nailed them on them, and his voice became silent", nailed the peach charms on the wine cellar and stopped the performance of prostitutes under the wine cellar. Will nailing a peach charm really have this kind of magic? I won't. Therefore, it is a premise that the person who writes peach charms "has spells". Wang Fanzhi, a popular poet in the Tang Dynasty, wrote "Father-son blind date" in Dunhuang's suicide note: "The master plays a peach symbol and hangs a red rope in the west." Fu Tao and Red Lock were placed in front of the door to ward off evil spirits. In Song Dynasty, Hong Mai wrote the article "Siming Zhenjun" in "Yi Jian Zhiyi", which is about Fuzhou people's dream of surviving heirs, and it involves saying that they are tired of winning with peach charms: "When you go home, take down the peach charms on the door, break them with a sharp knife and store them in the net basket. On the night of the second watch, people went back to their homes a mile away and buried it three feet in the southeast cave. When the man left, he sat quietly. He swore,' Yellow Emperor, Three Cardinal Principles and Five Permanent Principles. As urgent as the law. "Once returned, it will stop."

Legend of Fu Tao

The story of Bao Gong's murder in Yuan Zaju "Garden Flowers" is an important clue to solve the case. The story is that in the capital of song dynasty, the second brother who runs a "lion shop" is going to be rude to a young woman who stayed alone all night. The woman refused, and the second brother threatened Cui Jia with an axe, which scared him to death. The second brother said, "There must be something strange about this sudden death. We ordered a peach charm at our door, put a piece in his sideburns, put it in his pocket and throw it in this well. " "Doors first" will be nailed down. The peach symbol is nailed to the door, which can be removed and pinned to the sideburns. This peach symbol should be made of wood. "People who die suddenly must be wrong", so this is the mysterious symbolic meaning of Fu Tao, which is used to suppress ghosts.