Writing-Writing for the Dead The Shui people who worship ghosts and gods are a people who worship ghosts and gods. Shui people believe in all ancestors, animals, plants, natural objects and natural phenomena, including mountains, rocks, caves, water, wind, rain, thunder and electricity. Have souls because of the possession of some kind of "ghost" or "god", and these souls will never die. When an object does not exist, its soul will be transferred to other objects. From a macro point of view, the worship objects of the Shui people can be divided into two categories, one is a ghost and the other is a god. Dark, backward and negative souls that are unfavorable to the people are ghosts, while bright, advanced and positive souls that are beneficial to the people are gods. Generally speaking, God can not only benefit mankind, but also punish those who make mistakes, and ghosts are often harmful to mankind. Shuishu is the fusion of all kinds of ghosts and gods, all kinds of taboos and all kinds of methods to ward off evil spirits. The funeral, sacrifice, marriage, architecture, tourism, divination, festivals and production of the Shui nationality are all restricted by the Shui script. Therefore, in the social life of the Shui people, Shuishu has a wide range of functions and a decisive position. The dates, directions, omens of good or bad luck and methods of exorcising ghosts and evil spirits recorded in Shui Shu are mostly based on appropriate years, avoiding the date of the month and using omens of songs or things to express their good or bad luck, so they are often used as tools for wizards to perform rituals. It is only because Shui people believe in ghosts and gods that Shui calligraphy is widely used. The unique function of Shuishu promotes the inheritance of the worship of ghosts and gods of Shui people from generation to generation. In the areas where the Shui people live in compact communities, the Shui people (all men) who can read water books are called "ghost teachers", which have a high status among the people and are worshipped by people. Shui Shu is an extremely precious treasure handed down by the ancestors of the "Ghost Master". It is only passed on to men and not to women, and it is generally not easily passed on to outsiders. Shuishu has been passed down from generation to generation through oral and handwritten forms for thousands of years. All the worship activities of ghosts and gods of Shui people, whether judging the good or bad of things, identifying ghosts, exorcising ghosts and sending them away, eliminating disasters and seeking happiness, are based on the water book of the ghost master. Therefore, all the worship activities of ghosts and gods in the Shui nationality must be carried out through the media of ghost teachers (using water books). Therefore, in the phenomenon of worship of ghosts and gods in the Shui witch culture, water books are textbooks and ghost teachers are teachers. The combination of ghost teacher and water script is the link to maintain the primitive religious belief of the Shui people-the world of ghosts and gods, the material factor of the inheritance of witch culture, and the long-term maintenance of this mysterious world. Apart from a large number of primitive religious beliefs, Shui Shu also contains astronomical phenomena, calendar data and ancient Shui Shu characters that need to be excavated and deciphered urgently. The astronomical phenomena and calendar data reflected in Shui Shu are extremely precious historical and cultural heritage. Some of its basic theories, such as Nine Planets, Erbasu, Eight Diagrams and Nine Palaces, heavenly stems and earthly branches, Sun, Moon, Five Stars, Five Elements of Yin and Yang, Sixty Jiazi, Four Seasons and Five Formulas, Seven-element Calendar System and the First Month of Water Calendar, are the crystallization of advanced wisdom and art of Shui ancestors. It contains scientific philosophical ethics and dialectical historical materialism, and has a glorious page in the history of Chinese culture. Ghost Painter divides water calligraphy into two categories from two aspects: use and function. One kind is "white character", which is mainly used for funeral, sacrifice, production, tourism, building, business, marriage and divination. The other is the Black Book, also known as The Secret of Water Book, which few ghost teachers can master. Black books will be used for "releasing ghosts" and "returning ghosts". Where is the mystery of Shui Shu? Who created the water book? Legend has it that the word "water" was created by a man named Luduogong. In Shuidong Village, Shuiyan Township, dushan county, Guizhou Province, the local Shui and Buyi people sang an ancient folk song in Buyi and Shuiyu, which translated into Chinese as follows: "Once upon a time, there was an old man named Luduo who lived in a cave all the year round. Make words on the bluestone board, and make words to measure the quality. Give up all the good times until you build your own house. There is no good life in books, so I have to live in a cave. If you ask where the deep hole is, it is in the water rock and water hole. " How many words are there in Shuishu? 1986 A Brief History of the Shui People claims to be more than 400 words, and A Study of the Shui People's Culture in China claims to be more than 500 words. In more than 2,000 water books consulted by experts, it is found that variant characters are mainly concentrated in 12 earthly branches, spring, summer, autumn and winter, heavenly stems and nine stars. For example, there are currently more than 30 varieties of "Yin" and "Mao". As for the variant forms of ancient Shuishu characters, it is conservatively speculated that if each Shuishu character has at least 1 variant, the total number of Shuishu characters is about 1 600.