Can mahogany really ward off evil spirits?

Peach is the essence of five trees, so people use it to suppress evil spirits. People often use mahogany to make peach swords, peach charms and other mahogany household appliances. It is said that it can avoid the invasion of evil spirits and has the effects of avoiding evil spirits, eliminating disasters, increasing happiness and auspiciousness. "Thousands of families always trade new peaches for old ones every day." 0? So, can mahogany really ward off evil spirits? ? 0? The author thinks: Yes. Theoretically, thoughts can give an object a certain amount of energy, especially the objects and methods that have been used by people since ancient times, which can radiate its unique energy. ? 0? I remember when I was a child in the countryside, it was said that there was evil somewhere. No one dares to pass there at night, even if I pass there during the day, it will give people a creepy feeling. But the pig killers in the village often walk there without fear at night. Adults say that he is not afraid of ghosts because he carries a pig-killing knife, but ghosts will shrink back when they see him ... Now that I think about it, it is people's rich imagination that gives the pig-killing knife an idea and supports the courage of the pig-killing knife man. ? 0? Peach wood can ward off evil spirits, which is a magical idea that people attach to it. ? 0? It is difficult to verify when the theory of peach wood can ward off evil spirits, but there are many records about peach wood in ancient books. "Ci Yuan" contains: In ancient times, Taomu people stood in the house to ward off evil spirits. In the Han dynasty, the carved peach seal was hung on the door, which was called the peach seal. "The Book of the Later Han Dynasty" "A midsummer moon, everything is prosperous, and the summer solstice is full of yin, and I am afraid of things" ... The peach seal is six inches long and three inches square, and the five colors are like the law, so that it can be applied to the portal. In the Song Dynasty, the statues of Shen Tu and Lei Yu were carved or their names were only written on two door panels, which were also called "Fu Tao" or "Door God" and "all ghosts fear them". ? 0? ② Huainanzi Yan Quan said: "Yi died in Taokou". Xu Shen's note in the Eastern Han Dynasty: "Mouth, big staff, kill it with peach wood, so ghosts are afraid of peaches." . This article says that Yi is famous for his good marksmanship and worships him as a teacher. He learned to bite and feed his hand, came from behind the teacher, raised a mahogany stick and hit him on the back of the head. After Yi died, he became an official in charge of ghosts in the world. People think that red wooden sticks can kill even the shackles that command ghosts, let alone cure them. ? 0? 2. In the fourth year of Zhao Gong (538 BC), Zuo Zhuan recorded a mysterious power of peach wood: "The ancients hid ice in the north every day, and ... it was also hidden in the dark to enjoy the cool; It also comes out, and the peach arc is a thorn to eliminate its disaster. " It means that in winter, the ancients hid ice cubes in ice rooms in deep mountain canyons. When storing ice, black male animals and black millet are used to sacrifice to the cold god, and when taking ice, a bow made of peach wood and an arrow made of thorns are used for disaster relief ceremony. ? 0? It is also said that in ancient times, in a ghost world, there was a big peach tree covering 3 thousand miles on a mountain, and there was a golden rooster on the top of the tree. Whenever the golden rooster crows in the morning, the ghost who travels at night will rush back to the ghost domain. The Gate of Ghost Domain is located in the northeast of Peach Tree District. There are two gods standing by the door, named Shen Tu and Lei Yu. If the ghost does something unnatural at night, Shen Tu and Lei Yu will immediately find it, catch it, tie it up with a rope made of Miscanthus and give it to the tiger. So all the ghosts in the world are afraid of Shen Tu and Lei Yu. So people carved them into peach trees and put them at their doorsteps to ward off evil spirits and prevent harm. Later, people simply carved the names of Shen Tu and Lei Yu on the mahogany board, thinking that evil could be eliminated. This kind of red board is the so-called "peach symbol". In addition, it is said that the Antarctic fairy who dominates the calculation of human life always holds a huge peach in his palm, so peaches are also said to ward off evil spirits and prolong life. ? 0? Among peach trees, several branches growing in the southeast can ward off evil spirits. Legend has it that there is a mountain, the famous Taotao Mountain, to the west of Gufeicheng (namely, Feicheng City, Shandong Province), located between Taoshan Mountain and Xiaotai Mountain. Around the top of the mountain are majestic and steep cliffs that stretch for dozens of miles. There are 72 holes in the cliff, and there are monsters in each hole. Ghosts come out of holes at night and break into Feicheng, making waves and harming the people. Two gods, Dushuo Mountain and Lei Yu in the East China Sea, were furious. They went to Feicheng to use local materials and used peach branches as weapons to subdue all monsters. From then on, the demon ghost saw the peach branch and was shocked. Because the East China Sea and Feicheng are from northwest to southeast, and the peach branches folded by Shen Tu and Lei Yu are southeast, the peach branches facing southeast have aura. Since then, people have broken peach branches facing southeast, or hung them indoors with swords, or carved them into peach charms and hung them on beams and doors, so that evil spirits dare not approach them. ? 0? Yi Tong, a custom in the Han Dynasty, said: "Peach people decorate with wax on New Year's Eve ... Sunflowers are used to resist evil." ? 0? Today, many people still use mahogany products to ward off evil spirits, such as using mahogany swords to ward off evil spirits "rotten peaches" in feng shui, using mahogany combs to enhance their emotional fortune, and using mahogany to make Spring Festival couplets to hang on the door. Peach wood has become a symbol of people's avoiding evil spirits and praying for happiness.