The reason and popularity of "guarding the palace"
"Shougong" is actually an ordinary gecko. It is said that the ancient people raised the captured gecko with Crocker and other things, fed it with cinnabar every day, mashed it when they ate seven kilograms of cinnabar, and used it to point on women's limbs. As long as they don't have sex, they will never die, and once they have sex, they will disappear without a trace. This method originated in the Song Dynasty, when the moral standards became stricter.
This kind of palace sand is said to be effective, but it can only be used on unmarried women. Married women are not effective. In the Song Dynasty, because this method just became popular, many people didn't understand all kinds of things, which led to many jokes and many right and wrong.
The girl He Fangzi suffered from this kind of "palace sand" and became a victim of this custom.
From a daughter to a concubine
He Fangzi was originally the daughter of He Jiong, commander of Lantian in the post-Shu regime. After Shu was destroyed in the Song Dynasty, He Jiong was unwilling to surrender to the Song Dynasty. He Fangzi, a young girl, was killed by Song Jun and suddenly demoted to Shu Ren by the pampered housekeeper, and later became the fifth concubine of Lin Mi, a rich farmer in Wanxian County, Sichuan Province. She was just 18 years old at this time.
After Song Jun entered Sichuan, Song Taizu Zhao Kuangyin ordered the selection of local talents as officials. Lin Mi, a local rich man, also bought an office with money. According to the regulations, he must appear before the emperor in the then capital Bianjing, receive an interview with Song Taizu, and wait for appointment.
In addition to his wife, Lin Mi has five concubines as beautiful as flowers and pure as jade. The youngest concubine is He Fangzi. He Fangzi is a good girl. She is beautiful, dignified and well-read, so she has a charming temperament. In her life blueprint, she hoped to find a Mr Right to fly with me. Unexpectedly, she married a country rich man ten years older than her and had to compete with a group of ordinary fat and vulgar fans every day. She has no intention of this boring fight, but because she is young and beautiful, knowledgeable and elegant, she never interferes with the rivalry of those women and makes no mistakes, which makes Lin Mi stick to her every day and neglect those women. So those women formed a United front and embarrassed her everywhere. After marrying Lin Mi, He Fangzi not only failed to live a relatively stable life, but everything was unsatisfactory and suffered a lot.
Die for a "court guard"
Lin Mi is preparing to leave for Bianjing at the moment, and everything at home has been taken care of, except these beautiful young maids. One of his Taoist friends gave him a bad idea. He bought some palace sand from charlatans and gave it to Lin Mi. Lin Mi got a treasure after listening to it, and when she got home, she lit it in the arms of her wives.
It was He Fangzi's turn to order palace sand, and she reluctantly refused this kind of humiliating behavior. She believes that loyalty is an obligation that a woman should abide by, and there is no need for any formal constraints at all. There is really no point in forcing her to be loyal. He Fangzi is eloquent, but it is just that a scholar met a soldier, which is unreasonable. Lin Mi wouldn't listen, and those malicious wives and concubines looked at He Fangzi with suspicion at this moment, showing a gloating expression. He Fangzi was really hard to overcome, so she had to order a little red on her arm.
Since Lin Mi left home, those women have carefully protected the red bean-sized mole on their arms, afraid to wash it or touch it. He Fangzi hated it as if it were a stain on her body. She didn't care, so she took a shower. Soon, the palace sand disappeared without a trace. As a result, those tacky women finally found an excuse to attack, satirizing her, laughing at her, and even publicly calling her cheating on others and raising Han. What's more, they take pains to hide under He Fangzi's window and eavesdrop every night, ready to catch the adulterer and see who the man He Fangzi seduced.
Half a year later, Lin Mi was appointed to work in Bianjing, so she sent someone to Shu to bring her wife and five concubines to Beijing. That night, Lin Mi couldn't wait to look at the palace sand of the concubines one by one under the lamp. When she saw He Fangzi, her smug smile suddenly stiffened. In a rage, she immediately gave He Fangzi two slaps and asked her why. 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 after another, shattered He Fangzi's hope heart bit by bit, and she was completely desperate. She left a suicide note mixed with blood and tears that night and hanged herself.
The careless and heartless Lin Mi thought that He Fangzi was ashamed to death. Without looking, he tore the suicide note of He Fangzi's confession to death into pieces and hastily buried He Fangzi.
government intervention
The news of the death of a concubine in Fu Lin spread in Kaifeng the next day. In the past, Lin Mi made a fortune in Wanxian County, killing a slave or a concubine unjustly. As long as you spend some money to settle down your family and all kinds of related people, you can go. However, now that he is in Bianjing City at the foot of the son of heaven, this life-threatening event is serious. Kaifeng, which is in charge of public security in Beijing, heard the news and immediately conducted reconnaissance. The first step is to open the coffin for autopsy. It turned out that He Fangzi was raw and covered with whip marks.
Next came the trial of Lin Mi, who couldn't hide it, so he had to tell 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 licked the palace sand in an instant. In fact, if you don't wash it for a few days, the sand spots on the virgin's arm can go deep under the skin, and they won't be wiped off after being wiped or washed, and they will become brighter and brighter. But once it is sexual intercourse, the color will fade, but it is useless to married women, and He Fangzi is greatly wronged. Yin of Kaifeng ruled that He Fangzi was not guilty, while Lin Mi was dismissed and severely punished for abusing lynching and forcing his concubine to death.
Later, the case became so big that even the Dali Temple, which is in charge of the central prison, began to do it. Just as Dali Temple was preparing for a heavy sentence, Lin Mi died mysteriously, and the Taoist priest who provided him with palace sand also committed suicide by throwing himself into the lake.
At that time, people who heard about this incident were very sympathetic to He Fangzi's experience, and she died in a foreign land, so someone initiated the construction of the "Notre Dame Temple". Since the Song Dynasty, this temple has been rebuilt in all dynasties. Thousands of years later, this temple still exists in the south of Kaifeng, Henan. People also call it "the temple of guarding the palace", which means to commemorate this innocent woman who died unjustly because of "guarding the palace sand" thousands of years ago.