Chapter 331 sign

In the Five Dynasties, there was a prime minister named Lu Duoxun.When he was young, his father took him to Yunyang Temple to study with the children.Yunyang Temple is a Taoist temple. There is a tube of lottery on the abandoned altar in the temple. It is very old. I don't know when it was thrown there.Lu and the children competed to play with it.At that time, Lu was very young and could not read much, so he got a lottery and showed it to his father when he went home.Lu's father looked at it and saw the words on the signature: "When you come out of Zhongshutang, you must be because of the whiteness of the sky. When you become fifty-two immortals, you will eventually become a Penghai guest."

The father was very happy and thought it was a good omen, so he treasured the lottery.Later, Lu Zhen became the prime minister and accepted the "born in Zhongshutang"; but his failure was because he sent his subordinate Zhao Bai to contact Qin Wang Tingmei, and accepted the "must be because the sky is white"; after the incident, he was exiled to the south, Died at Zhuya at the age of fifty-two.It should be "fifty-two ascension to immortality, and eventually become a penghai guest".The words that were signed were not bad. Of course, this is just a legend. The lottery is the product of the superstition of the masses in an era when the productive forces were not yet developed.So, what exactly is the form of asking for a lottery, and when did it start?

Asking for a sign first originated in Taoist temples. In Taoist temples, there are often sign tubes with slender tags inside. The tags are usually made of bamboo and wood chips, with words and sentences written on them.The person who asks for a lottery can randomly select one of them, and judge good or bad according to the words and sentences on it, and experience the divine will. Before drawing, the parties should hold the lottery tube, pray before God, and then shake the lottery tube until one jumps out from it. Even if it is a lottery given by God, it can be taken by hand.Asking for lottery is an activity that ancient people often went to Taoist temples to ask about good and bad fortune.

Sign-seeking originated in Taoist temples in the late Tang Dynasty at the latest, and later spread to almost all temples, palaces and monasteries.When the visa-seeking activity started, the specific year and month are not easy to determine.But it should appear at the end of Tang Dynasty at the latest.The period of the Five Dynasties is very short. Lu Duoxun was born at the end of the Tang Dynasty. When he was young, there was an ancient stick holder on the abandoned altar, which shows that the stick appeared before that. The lottery produced in Taoist temples was later widely adopted. Buddhist monasteries and folk temples also placed lottery for people to draw.Later, the face-to-face and fortune-tellers who set up street stalls in the streets and alleys also brought a bundle of signatures.