Are there ghosts in the world? This question has always been bothering people, and even in today's advanced technology, the natural and social sciences cannot fully explain it. In the late Qing Dynasty more than 100 years ago, there was an unbelievable case**, even if the county government tried to investigate for several months, it failed to find any clues, and finally became an unsolved case. In that superstitious feudal era, many people regarded this incident as the work of ghosts and gods, and there is still no solution to this day.
China is a cultural country with a long history, and countless legends have emerged in it, many of which are about "ghosts". In the local religion and Taoist culture, the existence of "ghosts" has been elaborated in detail. Legend has it that after death, the body gradually decays, and the soul is led by black and white impermanence to embark on the road to the Yellow Spring, and eventually turns into a ghost. In the Senluo Palace, the judge will judge the good and evil in life according to the book of life and death, and decide the whereabouts of the soul, whether to reincarnate or stay in the underworld to be punished, all determined by the deeds before death. But there is a situation, if the deceased dies due to a sudden accident, the resentment is so heavy that black and white impermanence cannot introduce it into the underworld, and he will stay in the world and become a lonely ghost. In this case, the ghost will rest in peace only after the wish has been fulfilled and the resentment has been dissipated.
Time came to the late Qing Dynasty, in a remote rural area in southern China, a strange ** happened. The head of a family was killed in his own well, and the county government's investigation was fruitless, and two months ago, a boy with whom he was related was also killed. In the superstitious notion of reincarnation among the locals, the tragedy can only be explained by the theory of ghosts and gods. However, with the continuous development of technology and the changing times, superstition has disappeared in modern cities.
In the late Qing Dynasty, the trend of social thought gradually became enlightened, and the Westernization Movement led to the modernization of large cities, which was not widespread in the isolated countryside. In a family surnamed Wang, because there was no land, the male owner could only go out to work to earn a living. There are three sons in the family, two of whom are precocious and sensible and help the family, while the youngest is spoiled. As time went by, the life of the Wang family gradually became richer. But then comes the concern about the issue of future generations, and the contradiction of the question of inheritance. When Wang Laosan and Han Ruoyun gave birth to a biological son, the balance within the family began to collapse.
In order to give the third child's first biological son a serious business, his two older brothers pooled money to fund him to open a grocery store. Although the third child used to be lazy and lazy, he showed a surprising mind in business, the grocery business was prosperous, and his family's fortune improved rapidly. However, as the family prospers, he begins to develop ambivalence towards the stepson he raises. Thinking that Dongdong would be an outsider who would take over the family property in the future, this idea led him to look for a way to eliminate Dongdong. He took advantage of Han Ruoyun's ignorance and treated Dongdong as free labor, but did not let him touch the core of the store. This caused conflicts within the family, which eventually led to Dongdong's death.
As the Wang family gradually lost its tranquility, Han Ruoyun's condition began to deteriorate, and disputes within the family continued. And Wang Laosan also began to fall ill, and the ghost of his dead son seemed to haunt him. Eventually, he was found dead in his home's well. The tragedy of the whole family is like a legendary cycle of cause and effect.
Modern understanding has given rise to new interpretations of such legends. Perhaps, the religious concepts of the past seem outdated in today's scientific and technological progress, but in that era, superstitions about fate and reincarnation were real. Wang Laosan finally fell into inner distortion and illness, and finally chose to self-destruct. And this superstitious story is undoubtedly a projection of people's reincarnation of life and death and family conflicts at that time.