Talking about corpse driving in Xiangxi

Many years ago, there was a declassified interview about this profession, which was told by a person who was still engaged in this profession before liberation. In our popular words, it is very similar to the "fresh-keeping and corpse-transporting" business we express now. In ancient times, China paid attention to "returning the fallen leaves to the roots and burying them in the ground". For those who died in other places, no matter what, we should try to transport their bodies back to their hometown and bury them in the ground. To this end, we also saw Zhao Benshan and Degang Guo.

There are several key points in this profession. One is to be mysterious and need to travel at night. There is a guide in front to drive away and remind other strangers. In fact, this is the most critical part of this profession. If you don't leave at this time, the ancients are convinced that ghosts and gods will haunt at night, so they will avoid it, which will make their transportation smooth. The second feature is that people engaged in this profession must be bold and single, that is, they can't afford to marry a wife. Of course, the uglier the better. The specific reason is to keep the mystery of the profession from being discovered by outsiders.

Ugliness means making others unwilling to see or afraid. If you are brave, you need to go at night. As for being single, you need to be afraid that he will tell his secret when he comes home. Going at night is to scare ordinary people, so as to avoid shocking the world during the day, and it is easy to lose its reputation. The temperature is relatively low at night and it is not easy to deteriorate.

Secret: In fact, the secret is very simple, that is, they wrap the dead with an antiseptic grass. Of course, in order to reduce weight and prevent corrosion, they will pretreat the corpse and remove the internal organs and fleshy parts of the corpse, so that the weight of a corpse will become very light. When they need to carry, they will string these bodies together, and then master and apprentice will carry them in tandem, which needs to look very scary and mysterious. The purpose is to keep people who don't know the truth away so that they can transport them. In the past, when there were no refrigerated trucks, this was probably the best way. Because people are afraid, they can only watch from a distance, and it is night. Unlike the street lamps we have now, they choose places with few people, so they look like walking dead. They control these "bodies" like magic.

Trick: There is also a key trick here, that is, after returning to China, family members can't walk around casually, and they must be operated by "corpse drivers". In fact, family members can only take a look at their heads. In fact, their loved ones are already very sad, but it is actually difficult to see them clearly. This is just to find out what they mean. After this, they should be put in coffins and buried in graves. This matter is considered to be all right and a successful conclusion.

The grass they use is also very particular, which can prevent mosquitoes and corrosion. From this point of view, we have to say that the wisdom of the ancients is really amazing and admirable. The principle of our present refrigerated truck is similar to this one, but the preservation method has changed, some use antiseptic water, and some use electric freezer.