When I was young in the country, I once saw a painter who painted the symbol of Chenzhou, with a burden on his shoulder. A farmer came, his sick leg was swollen, and he sought medical treatment. He painted a shape under the eaves, took a knife to cut it, and blood dripped from the wall. Later, I learned that the blood flowed from the swollen leg. The blood flow is exhausted, the leg swelling is gone, and the disease is cured soon. How the blood on the leg came out from the wall is sincere and strange, but if it really happened, it must be reasonable. The reason is unknown, but it can't be called witchcraft. When I was a child, I heard from my father that in Suzhou, a man was bitten by a poisonous snake and fell to his death on the road. To draw the symbol of Chenzhou, draw a circle around the body and insert dozens of scissors, with the blade pointing to the ground, open and insert. After Peter finished reading the symbols, snakes came from all directions from under the slit of the knife. The wounds of the people killed by them did not match the size, so they retreated and left under the slit of the original knife. If there are ten snakes, the last snake will be the one that killed people. After receiving the wound of the deceased with his mouth, he was poisoned by his blood, but he still stayed under his original knife slit. The knife slit suddenly closed and the snake body broke, that is, he died. Moreover, the road shooter has gradually become a Soviet and can sit and stand. This is amazing.
-Qian Mu "On China Psychology (2)"