What jokes did you make in ancient times because you believed in the legend of Gongsha?

The legend of guarding the palace sand is often seen in martial arts novels or film and television works. There is a plot about guarding the palace sand in the TV series "The Condor Heroes": the little dragon girl who grew up in the ancient tomb had a cinnabar seal on her arm as a symbol of chastity, but unfortunately she lost her virginity. She rolled up her sleeves and said, "When we were introduced, Master lit a grain of sand guarding the palace on our arm ... but now it has disappeared ..."

(Little Dragon Girl in Film and Television)

This passage clearly explains the role of palace sand, which was a symbol to identify whether a woman was chaste or not in ancient times. So, what's wrong with keeping the palace sand? Can you really identify women's chastity?

In fact, "guarding the palace" originally refers to a gecko. As early as erya, it was named "Shougong". Erya Shi Yu said: "Newts, lizards, dragonflies and palace keepers are all alike. Hey, keep the palace. "

This shows that in ancient times, people classified "salamanders, lizards and cockroaches", and the "cockroaches" often moved between the eaves and walls, just like helping people guard the palace, so they were called "guarding the palace".

From here, we can see that the reason why the animal "dinosaur" is also called guarding the palace stems from its own living habits, which does not mean that it has special uses and is not necessarily related to the later guarding the palace sand.

Later, the animals guarding the palace were also used as medicine by the ancients. According to Bielu, keeping the palace is also called skink or pig snake. Chinese medicine can be used as medicine after hollowing out the internal organs and drying them or smoking them. It is cold and salty and has little toxicity. Has the effects of expelling pathogenic wind, calming convulsion, resolving hard mass and detoxicating. Indications: paralysis due to apoplexy, joint pain, wind-phlegm convulsion, epilepsy, lymphoid tuberculosis, malignant sores, etc.

It was not until the Han Dynasty that the efficacy of guarding the palace changed. According to the "Natural History", "Lizards or famous dragonflies are raised with utensils and fed with cinnabar, and their bodies are all red. After eating seven pounds, it was cured. A woman's limbs will never die, and only the things in the room will be destroyed. Therefore, they will guard the palace. Passing the cloud, Dong Fangshuo played the test of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty and had a test. "

That is to say, the ancients raised gecko with clay and fed it cinnabar every day until it ate seven kilograms of cinnabar and became reddish, so they broke it with a stone pestle and lit it on the woman.

As long as a woman can keep her body clean, this red cinnabar will last for a long time and will not fade even if she sweats in the shower. Once you have sex with the opposite sex, the palace sand will automatically disappear without a trace.

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So, does palace sand really have such an effect?

This is nonsense, of course. It is even more ignorant to judge whether a woman retains her virginity by observing the palace sand, which has caused jokes in history.

A few years later, Song Taizu and Zhao Kuangyin sent Wang Quanbin to lead twenty thousand people into Sichuan to attack and destroy Houshu. Before leaving, Taizu gave a thousand words of advice: "When going to camp, you must not burn down houses, drive away officials, develop graves or cut down Santo." The meaning is obvious. As the Great Song Dynasty has just been established, the imperial court needs the support of the people, and it must not kill innocent people and lose their support.

However, I didn't listen to Mao. After entering Sichuan, he indulged in arrogance and lawlessness, killing tens of thousands of people in Sichuan and even provoking rebellion. In a rage, Zhao Kuangyin sent Zhao Guangyi to Sichuan to hold him accountable, at the same time appeased the people of Sichuan, promised to reduce taxes for the people, and vigorously promoted talents to be officials.

There is a rich man named Lin Mi in Wanxian County. After hearing the good news, he thought it was time to honor his ancestors. So I quickly packed my bags and wanted to go to Kaifeng to see the emperor and accept Mao's interview.

However, Lin Mi is uneasy about the five beautiful wives and concubines at home. She was afraid that after she left, the wives and concubines could not bear the loneliness, so they cuckolded themselves. Especially the youngest concubine, 18 years old, is the daughter of He Jiong, commander-in-chief of Lantian in Houshu, whose name is He Fangzi. After the collapse of the post-Shu regime, He Jiong refused to submit to the Song Dynasty and was destroyed. Lin Mi stepped in, seized He Fangzi and took her as his fifth concubine.

Lin Mi, who has a lot on her mind, thinks of her true friend Shangyi in the view of breeze. Why not let him add it himself? Unexpectedly, the real person on B really thought of a way for Lin Mi. He told Lin Mi that as long as he sprinkled sand on his wives and concubines, he would know whether they adhered to women's morality or not.

He Fangzi was reluctant to accept this method in her heart, but she couldn't beat Lin Biao's rhetoric, so she ordered a little bit of palace sand on her arm.

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After Lin Mi left, the other four young ladies took care of Xiaohong carefully, for fear of an accident, and wiped off the palace sand. Only He Fangzi doesn't think so. She takes a bath and changes clothes as usual every day. Unexpectedly, a few days later, the palace sand on her arm was gone.

However, He Fangzi is not afraid. After all, she is a sensible girl and knows the truth from beginning to end. Even if it is occupied by Lin Mi, there can be no deviant behavior. It doesn't matter to her whether she keeps the palace sand or not.

A few months later, Lin Mi got an official position in Kaifeng as she wished, and sent people back to Sichuan to reunite with his wives and concubines. When Lin Mi couldn't wait to check He Fangzi's palace sand, she was furious and gave her two slaps on the spot, asking her to explain. Poor He Fangzi was annoyed. She is an open official, condescending to marry a bad old man for decades. She wanted to be wronged for no reason, so she gritted her teeth and said nothing.

Seeing this, Lin Mi became more and more sure that He Fangzi was deceiving her and torturing her. Stubborn He Fangzi still didn't explain and let Lin Mi whip himself. That night, after he fangzi left a suicide note, he ended himself with a white silk and hanged himself.

The next day, the news of the dead in Lin Mi's house spread like a raging fire. If this happened in Wanxian County, Lin Mi's reputation and wealth could have been easily settled, but now it is Kaifeng at the foot of the Emperor, and his life is at stake. The government has been involved in the investigation.

In order to verify whether He Fangzi had any misconduct, the government immediately found several women, put palace sand on their arms and put it in the official office until the next day to check the changes.

The next day, the palace sand on several women's arms did not change, but when the jailer washed it with clear water, the palace sand faded and then disappeared.

Since then, the secret of keeping the palace sand has been completely solved, and He Fangzi has also been wronged. Lin Mi was removed from his office and sent back to Sichuan for abusing lynching and forcing his concubine to death.

It can be seen from this story that this ancient practice of oppressing and hurting women turned out to be so absurd.