Wednesday, March 25, 2009

Meat - Ghost Story

Me from a distant relative of the countryside there get a thick stack of information, our family who is said to be the ancestors of the Tang Dynasty relics left behind. Asked ten thousand thousand exhort relatives must not damage, but can not be lost, otherwise the memory of ancestors can not spare him.
I carefully opened one this pile of paper, a musty old year after year it straight strings of my nostrils, nauseating. Judging from the paper seems to have a history of thousands of yellow paper, as the kind of worship the dead on fire melting of the paper. This paper is very brittle, in one touch toppling powder should feel extremely carefullyme, and then my whole room was this ancient atmosphere of the haunted.
All correspondence, a further one, the kind of straight version of the top-down, right-to-left script. Very beautiful brush character is neither as Yan, Liu is not physical, but I have never seen a style, this style may be already lost you. But as the beauty of the script are written by a girl, not that my ancestors are now, perhaps are his wife, and even lovers? No, I39m careful to look not only to find that this is a Man Writing, and more than 30-year-old Man. His handwriting is soft yet another cool, but I can see a strange vague atmosphere, from between the lines of him, from him to each write, each Na, have a deeply hidden — - fear.
Yes, I was look for a whole day out, such a fear hidden in deep, I did not watch the specific content of the letter, I just from the middle of his handwriting, to realize what. I could feel as if he wrote at the time, all are filled with handmade jewelry a kind of panic, from his surroundings, but also from the depths of his heart. But his hand did not shake out as ordinary people, his brushwork is still strong, but hidden in the hair of the little nib on the cold, cold chill, maybe have not found himself.
This is not my ancestors who Writing is another person wrote the letter of my ancestors. All are classical Chinese, I will try to put the first letter translated into modern Chinese.
Jinde
Do not have one from Chang39an decade now. I now give you a letter from a sudden, please forgive. You know, give me a gift from the imperial court luxurious residence at Chang39an, as well as the clearance of 1000 ares fertile farmland, and Jianghuai Jiedushi official. I do not resign from the first day, I left the mansion with the fertile land and one person alone-kun returned to the states, living in my provincial governor was in residence. Flash decade passed, and my one person alone, lonely and wasted years. Back then I often think of an arbitrary historyfor the occasion of my state are Cishi kun, you will be at my command to you to defend my state three-year-kun, so that tens of thousands of armyhas been no settlement and the next state-kun Jianghuai. Us eventually to the reinforcement, etc., set a great service. Jinde brother, I miss you more and more, and then together with my officers and men of life. Give you this letter is to want to tell you one thing — my house is haunted. I do not think that my name Jinde The original ancestor of the Tang Dynasty, An-Shih Rebellion or a general, and the road above the provincial governor called together to defend the state-kun. But the problem is that my knowledge of history tell me, there is no state-kun this city, in the An-Shih Rebellion also never been above the state road-kun to defend such a sub-file thing. I have some doubts, they called me, another distant cousin, he is our family, most people have learned, the current study at graduate student in history.
He heard the phone at my question, and then he was silent for a long while before slowly said Yes, you may now watch this stack letter a year ago, I have also read, I immediately completely fashion jewelry into depression I search a variety of information, even to the northern part of Anhui and Jiangsu done fieldwork, but others are disappointed me, no, nothing, may be forgotten the history of our ancestors have for the road segment. but I ask experts, and these letters are indeedof artworks, are descendants never forged. listen to me not to look at you, and you will be stuck to, and these letters are horrible, there are blood, history of blood, you look out for themselves now, see you later.
I long to stay seated, careful pondering of the history graduate student, he from an early age, some mystery, likes to say something so others do not understand. What is the history of the blood, I look at are mystify him, this is just a pile of ancient communication only if those have already become thepeople will hurt me? But I still have to improve vigilance, I intend to begin these letters also put out. But I have to stop, the road may be because the last paragraph saying that my house is haunted.
I continue to open the second letter, put it into the vernacular. Jinde
To see your letter, I am very pleased that you have long demobilization, and this is a good thing. Last time I said that my house is haunted, yes, this ghost has been pestering me. My vague feel from a decade ago from my back-Kun Chang states that day on, the ghost on this at this years haunt the old house, but I did not realize that this is the ghost. But this year, it more and more frequent the activity, in fact, I have never afraid of ghosts, but this time I am really a bit of fear. You know, when Yunkun Cishi state House are a very dilapidated old house, after the war, the new provincial governor, a provincial governor new House, but I live in the building aloneLane. Thisgreat and very broke, you do not know, I do not have the employment of a servant, Connaught large house yard, I am the only one person, I relied on my clearance at 1000 ares that have good land to make ends meet every month, where my agent will give me food and money. I have been accustomed to a person, my friends advised me to resume a wife Kim, I also refused. Hyun you added it? Alas, now a ghost again, it afflicts me, I can not write, and on this bar.
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