旧时,木瓦工匠们在营造房屋时,出于某种原因,有时候会在所造的屋中暗下镇物,据说这样能使屋宅的主人致病招灾,祸殃不断。这种习俗叫做“魇镇”。“魇镇”术起于何时,今天已难于确考。不过晋代干宝所撰《搜神记》卷十八中有一条记载颇可注意。该条记魏郡有一名叫张奋的人,家中本巨富,但后来忽然人衰财散,于是把自己的屋宅卖给另一人程应;程应搬入后,不久也举家疾病,又将屋宅转卖邻人何文,后何文在该屋灶下掘得一杵,便取杵焚之,从此“宅遂清宁”。在这个传说中,虽然没有明说这根木杵是工匠造屋时所下的“镇物”;但在建筑物中暗藏的某一物 Old, the masons in the construction of houses, for some reason, sometimes built in the house secretly under the town, it is said that this will make the owner of the house disease catastrophe, disaster continue. This custom is called “nightmare town.” “Nightmare town” surgery began when it is difficult to confirm today. However, the Jin Dynasty dried up books, “God search” Volume 18, there is a record quite note. The article in Wei County has a man named Zhang Fen, home rich, but then suddenly people lose money scattered, so his house sold to another Cheng should; Cheng should be moved into the house soon after the disease, Then the house reselling Ho Ho, after He Wen dig in the house under a pestle, they take the pestle burning, from “house Suining Qingning.” In this legend, although it is not clear that this wooden pestle is a “town” under the craftsman’s house-building, something hidden in the building