Zhu Huan's encounter reveals the disappeared nation
In 200 AD, in the fifth year of Jian'an in the Eastern Han Dynasty, Sun Ce was assassinated, and Sun Quan, who was only eighteen years old, inherited the will of his father and brother and sat in Jiangdong. He was listed by Cao Cao as a general and a guard, but the situation in Eastern Wu was very severe, with mountains and more secluded, thieves raging, and endless wars.
It was against this background that the 23-year-old Zhu Huan began to play under Sun Quan and was appointed as the head of Yuyao.
Because of his outstanding military achievements, Zhu Huan was quickly promoted to the captain of Dangkou, recruited soldiers to conquer Shanyue everywhere, and won many victories, which opened his rise as a famous general. In the Battle of Wet Whiskers, he killed Chang Diao, captured Wang Shuang, severely damaged Cao Ren, and assisted Lu Xun in defeating Cao Xiu in Anhui City, and was finally promoted to former general, Qingzhou Mu, Fake Festival, and was named the Marquis of Jiaxing, which can be called the important minister of Eastern Wu in the later period of the Three Kingdoms.
All this happened during his conquest of Yamagoe. At that time, he succeeded in exterminating a mountain warrior near Poyang, and selected a beautiful mountain barbarian woman from among the captives to offer to him.
Although Zhu Huan is not a good woman, he still gladly accepted this woman for the sake of reassuring the people. When his class returned to the court, he also brought the woman home and made her a maidservant in the house, also to give her a place to live.
However, since this woman entered Zhu Huan's mansion, the atmosphere in the mansion has become tense, and a terrifying atmosphere is spreading.
Zhu Huan's mansion was shocked by a mysterious female ghost! Slaves and maidservants watched as the head of the long-haired woman floated in the dark night, flying past dog holes, outside the fence, and between open windows. In the quiet of the morning, a piercing scream detonated the panic in the mansion, and the slaves and maidservants fled in all directions.
Zhu Huan hurried to the place of the incident, the staff dormitory where the two maidservants lived, and the scene in front of him made him gasp, even though he was a fierce soldier on the battlefield.
The head of a long-haired woman hovered in front of a servant girl's bed, covered with a quilt, and appeared to be lying under it. The head kept hitting the quilt, and there seemed to be an invisible barrier on the quilt to stop it, and even the head was knocked to the ground, but it still continued.
The body in the quilt fluctuated violently, like a serious patient gasping for breath before dying, almost dying. Suddenly, the head spun in a circle in the air, revealing a twisted and hideous expression, staring at Zhu Huan viciously, and then showing a panicked and pleading expression.
Zhu Huan, this brave general, can still remain calm at a critical moment, his eyes are like torches, and he recognizes at a glance that the beautiful woman on his head is the mountain barbarian woman he brought back.
He immediately understood the meaning of the skull, and without fear walked to the bed, lifted the covers, and found a headless body. The woman's head happily flew back into place, and it didn't take long for her breath to settle down.
She opened her eyes and thanked Zhu Huan for saving her life, and in the face of Zhu Huan's inquiry, she no longer hid her secret.
It turned out that this woman came from an ancient tribe and existed as early as the Qin Dynasty. As the sacrificial rites of the tribe are called"Insect falls", so they are known as wormfalls to the outside world.
And because their heads can sometimes fly out of their bodies, they are also called "flying head fangs"! The day before their heads flew away, a red silk thread would appear on their necks, and their families would prepare in advance.
By the end of the next night, when they fall asleep, their bodies will feel extremely weak and uncomfortable as if they were seriously ill, and then their heads will suddenly leave their bodies and fly away.
The heads that fly away usually go to the mud by the river and stream to dig up crabs, earthworms and other food to eat, and must fly back before dawn and replace on the body. Otherwise, the head leaves the body forever and becomes a corpse.
This is also the reason why after the head flies, the family must be there to guard it. When the head returns and wakes up, they will be surprised by the experience of flying and foraging for food at night, as if they had a strange dream, but they can feel the feeling of fullness after eating.
Last night I went out to forage for food as usual, but when I got back to my accommodation, maybe the maid in the same room helped me cover my neck with a quilt, so my head could not return to my body.
If it weren't for you, General, I would have died. Zhu Huan asked the maid who was in the same room with her and was also the first to scream, and she admitted that when she got up last night, she saw that her roommate didn't seem to have covered the quilt properly, so she took the initiative to help pull the quilt up.
However, when she woke up the next morning, she found a floating head in the house, which frightened her to death, and she was lucky not to die on the spot. ”
When Zhu Huan heard this, he couldn't help but be secretly surprised. He made a special inquiry, only to know that among the generals of Wu who conquered Shanyue, many people had encountered this kind of flying fang. Some colleagues even experimented with a copper basin to cover the head and neck that flew away, but the flying head could not return to its original place, and eventually became a corpse with a separate head.
Deng Xi, the general of the border area, also had a pig killing sacrifice, and hung the pork after the sacrifice. Suddenly, a flying human head appears and wants to eat the hanging pork. Deng was furious, and immediately took a bow and arrow and shot it, hitting the man's head.
Zhu Huan once received advice from a colleague that it was best not to provoke this kind of flying head fang tribe, because they might be accused of rebellion, and as a result, the lord would kill the whole family like General Deng Xi before.
Although Zhu Huan was not afraid of flying fangs, he was still worried that he would get into trouble. He chose to send some gold and silver to the flying fang-girl and sent her away. He didn't think of the Flying Heads as monsters, just a unique tribe that was nothing special except that its head could fly off its body.
Even though he had saved her life, he was still a little uneasy, wondering what she would eat after her head flew away at night, whether it was a crab or an earthworm or something else.
Ganbao of the Eastern Jin Dynasty recorded the strange things that Zhu Huan encountered in the "Sou Shen Ji", and Wang Jia, a scholar of the former Qin Dynasty in the north, also mentioned the flying head fang in his "Collected Memories". Sa Sheng was a monk from Tianzhu who claimed that there were also such people who could fly their heads in the overseas kingdom of Java, and these people had a lot of whites of their eyes and did not look like they had black pupils.
It is said that the country of Java is now the island of Java or Sumatra in Indonesia, or collectively known as the two islands. Until now, in the area of Malaysia next to Indonesia, there is still a legend of flying head landing.
Flying head drop, the secret technique of this Southeast Asian head descending technique, it is said that when practiced, the head that flies out will suck blood every night, from cats to dogs to people, and suck it clean. It doesn't come back until the stomach is filled with blood, or when it's dawn.
In this process, you must not be tripped by things, otherwise the head descender will turn into a pool of blood, and he will never be able to be reborn. In order to prevent the attack of flying heads, the Malays usually planted thorny plants on the walls and roofs, and in the event of a blood-sucking incident between humans and animals, the villagers would go out to find the head descender and beat him to death.
Cultivating flying head descent is too dangerous, and only people who have incomparable confidence in their own abilities, or who have a deep hatred in the sea of blood, will try it. Even if you do, what can you do?
Is it still possible to bowl with your own head?
In the Book of the New Tang Dynasty, a mysterious tribe - "Nanping Fang", one of its characteristics is the flying head fang. According to the "New Tang Dynasty Book: The Biography of Nanping Fang", the head of the flying head fang will suddenly fly away from the body, and there is a thin trace around the neck.
This peculiar phenomenon has aroused curiosity and speculation about this tribe. In the notes of Zhiwei such as "Sou Shen Ji", "Collected Relics", "Naturalist Chronicles" and "Youyang Miscellaneous Tales", there are many descriptions of flying head fangs, but they can be recorded in the official history, which shows the mystery and peculiarity of this phenomenon.
According to records, the location of the tribe of the flying head fang is about the south of present-day Chongqing and the junction of Sichuan, Yunnan and Guizhou, with Zhizhou in the east, Yuzhou in the south, Nanzhou in the west, and Fuzhou in the north, with more than 4,000 households.
The characteristics of this tribe are simply described as "those who have flying heads and fangs, their heads want to fly, their necks are like wisps, their wives keep them together, and the night is like illness, and their heads die suddenly, which is worse than Dan." The legend of the Flying Head Fang is a marvel to reveal to us the history and culture of this mysterious tribe.
Chen Fu of the Yuan Dynasty sent an envoy to Annan and recorded the legend of the local strange people who "drank like a pot and flew like a wheel". Fei Xin of the Ming Dynasty was proficient in Arabic, and once accompanied Zheng He to the West, and wrote "Xingcha Shenglan", which recorded the customs and customs of 40 countries, including the Champa Kingdom, Jiaolanshan, and Siam.
Together with Yingya Shenglan and Western Fanguozhi, Xingcha Shenglan has become an important historical material for the study of Zheng He's voyage to the West.
It is recorded in the "Xingcha Victory": "The people of the city of Zhancheng, there are people who fly with their heads, and they are women, and they fly at night to eat people's dung." In Shaoxing Ren Ma Huan's "Yingya Triumph", he renamed this "flying head man" as "corpse head man", and described their behavior from eating small animals to eating feces, which makes people feel ...... incredibleMa Huan also mentioned that the only way to deal with the flying head is to move, cover or hide their bodies when their heads and bodies are broken, otherwise they will "die if they can't get together".
In addition, the local law stipulates that if there is a flying head in the family and does not report to the official, "the crime will be the family". It shows that the locals are afraid of flying heads.
According to historical records, the Flying Head Fang tribe existed as early as the Qin Dynasty, and despite its peculiar appearance, it was still self-sufficient in a sparsely populated and harsh environment. However, in the Three Kingdoms period, with the large-scale development of Eastern Wu and the encirclement and suppression of the Shanyue tribe, the Feitou Fang tribe came into contact with the outside world for the first time.
Despite their terrifying appearance, they were in fact weak in combat, so they suffered heavy losses in the conflict and had to migrate south, eventually settling in Yunnan, Guizhou, Fujian, and even spreading to Vietnam, Indonesia, and Malaysia.
However, no matter where they go,"Flying heads"Both are a symbol of horror and abnormality, and people regard them as demons. Therefore, since then, the terrifying flying head fang and the fallen people of the Qin Dynasty have suffered a devastating blow and finally disappeared into the long river of history.
The legend of the flying head fang is still circulating in the southern border areas of the Qing Dynasty. Xu Zhongyuan recorded a ** caused by the fear of "flying heads" in his "Three Different Writings".
The parents of a three- or four-year-old child in a village in Yunnan Province were overwhelmed with grief and thought it was a "corpse". They suspected that the newly married daughter-in-law of a certain family was a corpse, so they used the power of the clan to force her husband to be buried alive.
Although my brother has left the rivers and lakes, there are still legends of my brother on the rivers and lakes.
It is a universal legend that has a common story in China, Southeast Asia, and other countries such as Egypt, Japan, South America, and Poland.
That's a monster whose head can be detached from the body and look like an ordinary person during the day, but at night, the head detachs out and does something bad.
For example, in the early Kamakura period of Japan, that is, during the Southern Song Dynasty, there is a legend about the "Hundred Ghosts Night Walk" in "The Tale of Uji Relics", which mentions the long-necked ghost of the flying head fang, which is called "flying head man" and "reel".
Ishikawa Kosai adapted the story of a son of a wealthy merchant from the Edo period who married a "flying man" and "a reelhead" in "Ghost Talk of the Night Window".
It is said that there are 56 nations in the world, each of which has its own uniqueness, and some even have magical legends. For example, there is a legendary people called the "Flying Heads", and this claim is not unfounded.
Ancient and modern scholars have explained this tribe from various angles. There is an explanation that the "Luotou people" are captives recorded in ancient historical sources, and these ethnic minorities are usually demonized by the ancient ** miscellaneous records.
In fact, the "Taktou people" may simply be a small tribe with long necks, such as the Karen (also known as the Kayah), an ethnic minority living in northern Thailand on the border with Myanmar, who are known to the world because of their particularly long necks.
Since ancient times, this nation has long necks for beauty, so girls from the age of five, they must put copper rings around their necks, one a year, in order to lengthen their necks. According to records, the longest neck has a neck of up to 70 centimeters!
Such special physical characteristics are naturally strange in the eyes of normal people, and it is likely to be the source of the legend of "flying head fang" and even "wheel head". As for the head being able to leave the body, it may be that in the face of the physical characteristics of these aborigines, people exaggerate and spread falsehoods.
At present, this statement is the most mainstream view of the "flying head fang".
Do you know? There is a mysterious phenomenon called"Sleeplobbying", also known as:"Flying heads"。When a person wanders in a dream, his body seems to remain in bed, while his soul goes somewhere else.
This state of separation of body and soul in the middle of the night is like the head flying off the body. Although Li Qingchen in the Guangxu period was in his "Drunken Tea Zhiwei"."Head fly"Attributed to"Kitsune's illusion", guessing that this is only present in consciousness and not a true head and neck separation.
But in any case, this mysterious phenomenon is still surprising and curious.
Third, some people believe that the so-called "flying head fang" may be a rare disease or a special genetic constitution. This is a niche claim, but if confirmed, it could upend our existing beliefs.
However, even if there is no answer, there is no need to worry too much, because the value of the Legend of Chikai is not to prove history, but to satisfy our imagination and curiosity.
After all, it's the blending of fantasy and reality that is the most interesting.
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