What is the palace guard sand?

Palace sand has nothing to do with chastity.

In ancient times, it was common to point a bright red mole on a girl's arm like Bai Lianhua to verify women's chastity, which was called "palace sand". People who don't know how to do things think that "guarding the palace" is to keep the beauty of the sacred side. In fact, "guarding the palace" is a kind of scorpion. Its body is slightly flat, its spine is dark, it has millet-shaped protrusions, its abdomen is white and yellow, its mouth is big, its tongue is thick, its four feet have five toes, and its toes are wrinkled. It is a common "gecko". It is good at absorbing other things and can travel on a straight wall. ...

It is said in ancient times that geckos were raised with crocodiles and things like that, and cinnabar was fed every day. When it ate about seven kilograms of cinnabar, it was mashed and used to light a woman's body. It is a little deep red, as long as it doesn't have sex, it will last for life, and once it does, it will disappear without a trace. But it can only be used on unmarried women, and married women are absolutely invalid. This method became popular with the rise of Neo-Confucianism in Song Dynasty. In the Song Dynasty, due to lack of experience, many jokes were made, which caused a lot of right and wrong, among which there was a famous unjust case in Sichuan.

Things have to start from after the destruction of Shu. Wang Quanbin led the army into Sichuan, and Song Taizu earnestly warned: "You don't have to burn down houses, expel officials, develop graves and cut down Santo." However, Song Jun's conquest of Shu was arrogant and illegal, killing thousands of innocent people. The people's sentiments are passionate, and people's uprisings break out one after another. While severely punishing the relevant personnel, the Song regime sent Mao's younger brother to Shuzhong to comfort him, while promising to reduce taxes and promote talents to be officials. The so-called promoted talents, since they are appeasing, are naturally dominated by rich and powerful people or prominent people, while real talents and practical learning are given a secondary position.

Lin is a rich man in Wanxian County, Sichuan Province, surrounded by buildings, mules and horses, and naturally he was promoted. So, he packed his bags, came to Bianjing to appear before the emperor, accepted the interview with Song Taizu, and waited for appointment. Besides his wife, Lin Mi has five beautiful concubines. The youngest concubine is He Fangzi, who is only 18 years old. She was originally the daughter of He Jiong, the historical commander of Lantai in the post-Shu regime. After the destruction of Shu in Song Dynasty, He Jiong refused to surrender to Song Dynasty and was killed by Song Jun. The poor butler He Fangzi became the fifth concubine of Lin Mi, a local rich man in Wanxian County. Lin Mi is going to Bianjing. Everything at home has been taken care of, but he can't worry about the beautiful young concubine, so he revealed his worry to his good friend, the real person in the cool breeze view outside the city. This is a piece of cake for Shang Yi. He quickly bought some palace sand from the charlatan, so he explained the usage to Lin Mi. Lin Mi got a treasure and lit it on the arms of his wife and concubine after returning home.

He Fangzi is a good girl, beautiful and has many books. In her life blueprint, she hopes to find a Mr. Right and fly with me. In the end, she unexpectedly married a rich man in the countryside in his early decades and had to compete with a group of fat and vulgar powder every day. She has no intention of this boring fight, but because she is young and beautiful, she is polite and has a noble temperament, which makes Green.

After He Fangzi and Lin Mi got married, everything went wrong, and her nest caught fire every day. It was He Fangzi's turn to order palace sand, and she reluctantly refused this kind of humiliating behavior. She believes that from beginning to end, chastity and chastity are duties that women should abide by. Why should there be any formal constraints? If you are forced to keep your virginity, it really makes no sense. He Fangzi is eloquent, but it is just that a scholar met a soldier, which is unreasonable. Lin Mi's rustic mind wouldn't listen, and the housewives and gossips looked at He Fangzi suspiciously at this moment, with a gloating expression on their lips. He Fangzi couldn't help it, and her white and tender arms were a little red.

Since Lin Mi left home, those women have carefully protected the mole on their arms, which is as big as a red bean and dare not wash it. Dare not touch. He Fangzi hated it as if it were a stain on her body. She is indifferent, taking a bath and washing. Soon, the palace sand disappeared without a trace. So, those tacky women finally found an excuse to attack, satirizing her, laughing at her, even publicly calling her cheating, and even taking pains to hide under He Fangzi's window every night to eavesdrop, ready to catch the adulterer and see how this little bitch seduces men.

Half a year later, Lin Mi was sent to work in Bianjing, and sent someone to Shu to take his wife and five concubines to Beijing. That night, Lin Mi couldn't wait to check the palace sand moles of the concubines one by one under the lamp. When she saw He Fangzi, she had a smug smile on her face. In a rage, he immediately slapped He Fangzi and asked her if she was like this. He Fangzi lowered her head, without any expression on her face, and her teeth bit her lips tightly. Lin Mi flew into a rage and ordered torture. He Fangzi admitted that he didn't cheat not only in action, but also in emotion, and refused to admit that he had any lover. That whip, one by one, shattered He Fangzi's heart of hope bit by bit. She was completely desperate, leaving a suicide note intertwined with blood and tears and hanging herself.

Lin Mi still thinks that He Fangzi died of shame. It is true that He Fangzi was ashamed when she died. Her delicate body fell into the hands of such people. Lin Mi didn't care too much about He Fangzi's suicide note, so she hastily buried He Fangzi. Lin Mi is rich in Wanxian County, killing slaves or concubines. As long as he spends some money to settle his family and all kinds of related people, it will go away. However, at the foot of the son of heaven, Bianjing City is a matter of human life and is serious. Fu died with a concubine, and it spread with great fanfare the next day. Kaifeng government heard the news and took the initiative to reconnaissance. The first step was to open the coffin for autopsy and found that He Fangzi was raw and covered with whiplash. Then Tallinn was interrogated. Lin Mi couldn't conceal it and told the story in detail.

So the judge lit the cinnabar left by Lin Mi on the arms of three women, and then put a live gecko on one of the women's arms, and instantly licked up the sand of the palace guards. In fact, Gongbao cinnabar is spotted on the virgin's arm, and it can penetrate into the skin without washing for a few days, and it can't be wiped off or washed off. It is more and more vivid, but once you have sex, the color will automatically fade. Kaifeng Yin acquitted He Fangzi, Lin Mi abused lynching, forced his concubine to death, removed her official position and aggravated the punishment.

Because this case involves Sichuan, to comfort the people of the post-Shu regime, even the Dali Temple, which is in charge of the central prison, moved. Just when Dali Temple was severely sentenced, Lin Mi died mysteriously, and the real person on B also committed suicide by throwing himself into the lake. People are very sympathetic to what happened to He Fangzi. She came to Bianjing from Wanxian County, Sichuan Province, but she wandered in a foreign land with grievances, so someone initiated the construction of the "Notre Dame Temple". This temple has been rebuilt since the Song Dynasty. After thousands of years, it still exists in the south of Kaifeng, Henan Province, and sometimes people call it "Shougong Temple".

According to the Natural History of Jin Dynasty, if you feed the gecko with cinnabar, the gecko will turn red all over. Eat seven pounds of cinnabar, mash the gecko, and then use it to point the woman's limbs, the color will not fade. Only after sexual intercourse, its color will fade, so in legend, this wonderful and simple way to express women's "chastity" is called "palace sand". No matter whether it is true or not, some dynasties put women elected to the palace on the "palace sand" as a sign of adultery or breaking the precepts. To spread the truth, there will be many later martial arts novelists who use "Zhen Gong Sha" to make a fuss.

Since "palace sand" is artificially added, not born to women, looking for so-called "palace sand" among unmarried women can only show their boredom and ignorance. Similarly, whether there is "palace sand" has nothing to do with chastity. If modern people regard traditional myths as treasures, the degree of ignorance can be imagined. (Sohu Culture)

Palace sand is a medicine used to verify women's chastity in ancient China. It is said that as long as you put it on a woman, it will not disappear all year round, but once you have sex with a man, it will disappear immediately. Because of this feature, China used it to test virginity in ancient times.

According to Zhang Hua's Natural History, the method and usage of "keeping palace sand" are as follows: It is said that Dong Fangshuo once told Emperor Wu of Han Dynasty that keeping palace sand is an effective prescription to test women's chastity. In addition, there are two descriptions of different prescriptions. The main drugs are used to guard the palace, but the drugs mixed together are different and the preparation methods are quite different. In ancient China, there was even a saying that women were "childless", which was recorded in Huainan Wanbi Book:

Guarding the palace is decorated with female arms, and there are articles. Take a yin and a yang from your new home, put them in an urn, dry them in the shade for a hundred days, decorate the female arm, and then publish an article, combine yin and yang with men, and die.

This prescription only needs one end of uterine contraction, and no other drugs are needed. It seems that it can't be called "palace sand".

There is also a cloud in the same book:

Take the seventh day of July to keep the palace, dry it in the shade, treat it with flowers and water, and smear the woman's body. If there is an article, smear it with Dan. If you don't go, you won't be raped. If you go, you will be raped.

According to the formula, this recipe is also slightly different. In addition to the main medicine, it is necessary to use "Jing" and "Dan". "Dan" or "cinnabar" are things with the same function. The difference is that the former uses "cinnabar" to guard the palace, while the latter uses "Dan" to draw the female body, but the three have the same effect in testing female chastity; However, although the latter two are Huainan people, their practices and medical skills are also very different.

Pharmaceutically, Western medicine is afraid that it is unnecessary to keep the palace, but in Chinese medicine, it is mainly used for infantile umbilical wind, prolonged epilepsy, infantile mouth pinching, guilty epilepsy, paralysis pain, wind pain, traumatic injury, furuncle and furuncle, infantile malnutrition, scorpion injury and so on.

Li Shizhen's Compendium of Materia Medica has an endorsement under the explanation of "guarding the palace", and there are also words about guarding the palace and doing one's best for virtue. Tao Hongjing, a famous doctor in Liang Dynasty, said:

Watching the palace and enjoying the fence wall, feeding it with Zhu, with a foot of three pounds, killing the woman at the end, and taking off if there is a handover; No, it looks like a red ambition, so it's named Shougong.

The producer of Tang Herbal Medicine once said:

Shougong, also known as Toka, is named Shougong because it often appears on the palace wall, also known as the wall palace. It's ridiculous to feed Zhu some women.

Su Gong's opinion has not only the explanation of naming, but also the life significance of "guarding the palace" mentioned by Zhang Hua and Tao Hongjing. He also decided that there was no such thing as feeding Zhu Dian women, but it was just a "fallacy." However, in the Ming Dynasty, Li Shizhen, who collected the family background of Bai family, visited all directions, and thought that what was said in Huainan Wanbi Book, Zhang Hua's Natural History and Cheng Peng Mo Ke Swings Rhinoceros was generally untrue, so I'm afraid it was not passed on. He is a general assumption, using the word "lost" as an activity, and then looking at his Compendium of Materia Medica, there is no suspense prescription for guarding the palace and feeding Zhu Diannv. The utility of keeping the palace as medicine and the judgment and summary of chastity by doctors in previous dynasties are just as above.

Now let's briefly describe the recent folk customs and the legend of how to try to lose your virginity.

Shaoxing once had such a legend-once upon a time, a royal family had 36 palaces and 72 courtyards because there were too many concubines. How could he cope! Therefore, it is inevitable that Chun Qing will be spared in the cold palace, so the so-called "preservation" sometimes happens without opening it.

Although the emperor lived in seclusion, this forbidden riot was soon known to him. He thinks that not only eunuchs who come to power can't rely on him, but also people who go in and out of the palace gate can't rely on him. He should always be vigilant. Therefore, paying special attention to testing his taboo as a sign can make ladies-in-waiting afraid from the existence and absence of the sign.

It is said that the medicine used in his mark test is also used to protect the palace-to protect the palace during sexual intercourse; The medicine added is also cinnabar; As for how to make medicine and how to use it, I didn't mention it, but the reaction of this medicine can also make women have tricks, and intercourse with people will naturally disappear.

It is said that there are two kinds of palace sand: one is the same as that in natural history; There is also a natural red sand under the fingernails of the four paws of the palace guard, which is as red as cinnabar and the same shape and size as the fine sand. Some people think that this is Zhengong sand, which can be used to test virginity and treat acute convulsions in children.

Palace sand is a shackle imposed on ancient women by savage men. They ask women to be chaste, but they are bohemian. This is an absurd fact! In the Middle Ages outside China, men invented the cruel method of closing the vulva with metal locks. Even in the Bible, there is a record of the test of suspecting a wife's adultery: sending her to a priest. Offer barley flour as an offering, and do not pour oil and frankincense as a grain offering; Later, the woman was forced to swear, and then the priest did. She was asked to drink bitter water. It is said that the unfaithful woman's stomach swelled and her thighs became emaciated after drinking it (see Chapter 5 of Numbers in the Old Testament).