Seeing off his uncle and his party, Huang Yixi began to prepare for the operation.

Doing this minor surgery is not something that can be done.

First of all, Huang Yixi's physique is too weak and her immunity is not good, according to the doctor's advice, in addition to strengthening her nutrition, she also needs to exercise more.

Time passed all of a sudden, and in a blink of an eye, it was the end of the sixth month of the lunar calendar, and the world in Baishui Prefecture began to increase.

From the end of June to July, in addition to the seventh birthday of the seventh mother in early July, and the Shangyuan Festival on July 15, there is also a very important folk activity in Baishui Prefecture--- Pudu.

In Baishui Prefecture, Pudu is much more important than Qi Niang's mother's birthday and Shangyuan Festival.

The origin of Pudu has nowhere to be examined, it is said to be a folk festival formed by combining the Taoist Zhongyuan Festival and the Buddhist Bon Festival on the 15th day of the seventh month of the lunar calendar, and the history records that when Baishui Prefecture in the Song Dynasty held the Jiao Festival in the Zhongyuan Festival, the Buddhist word "Pudu" has been transformed into a noun of local folk customs, Pudu sentient beings.

This is the definition of a cultural person, if you use Yu Meiqing's words, it is universal excess.

To explain it in the literal sense, general: large-scale, degree: excessive.

There's nothing wrong with this explanation, nothing wrong with it at all.

The time in Pudu, the community where Huang Yixi lived was not the same as that in Chongrenli.

In the area of Baishui Prefecture, the seventh month of the lunar calendar is called the Ghost Festival, the first day of the seventh month is to "open the door", and the July 30th is to "close the door", and during this month, everyone has to take turns to do "Pudu", worship the souls of the dead, and feast on each other.

According to historical data, in history, Baishui Prefecture began to divide its jurisdiction into eastern, southern, and western "corners" in the Yuan Dynasty, and the Ming Dynasty followed the Yuan system. In the Qing Dynasty, the north corner of the city was added, and 36 "shops" were set up under the four corners, and each shop was done Pudu according to the day, that is, from June 29 to the fifth day of August, except for July 15, there were villages doing Pudu.

On the fifteenth day of the seventh month, no one did Pudu because they wanted to worship their ancestors.

Huang Yixi's community is on the second day of the seventh month.

The population of the community is not large now, but Pudu is definitely more lively than the new community, because there are many elderly people and superstition.

Early in the morning, Lin Shufang went to the vegetable market to buy vegetables, and the price of fish and seafood this month was much higher than that in June because of Pudu, but even so, the old people were very willing.

At four o'clock in the afternoon, Yu Meiqing and Lin Shufang put the sacrifices on the table outside the courtyard, and they didn't burn incense, just waiting.

Huang Yixi consciously walked to the front of the houses, and saw that everyone was almost arranged, so he turned around and asked Yu Meiqing to start calling Pudu Gong with incense.

Shang Luoyu was a little surprised when he saw this custom for the first time.

"Who the hell is this Pudu Gong?"

Huang Yixi shook her head, she didn't know, Baishuizhou said differently, some people said that they respected the lonely soul and wild ghost, and some people said that they respected the head of the lonely soul and wild ghost, in Huang Yixi's opinion, the head of the head of the lonely soul and wild ghost should be the general on the fifteenth day of the first month of the month, and Pudu is the one who respects the lonely soul and the wild ghost.

Lin Shufang nodded in agreement with her daughter's point of view: "It should be for lonely souls and wild ghosts, so everyone has to greet and make sacrifices together, for fear that they will not be happy if the sacrifices are not enough, so no one in some new communities will start, so they will not do it." ”

Shang Luoyu felt that his wife was particularly interesting.

She is a person who doesn't talk much nonsense, but is particularly rich in mental activity.

For example, she is not superstitious, of course, she does not say that she does not believe, she thinks that whether there are gods and Buddhas, ghosts, it has nothing to do with her, she does not ask for it.

But when Lin Shufang asked her to cook a vegetable bowl as a sacrifice and burn gold paper, she would comply.

Even when she walked to the sacrificial table with a bowl in one hand, she secretly put the vegetables in her mouth with the other hand.

And now when she worships lonely souls and wild ghosts, she is very religious.

Again, no.

They don't even ask for merit in future lives.

He once asked Huang Yixi, and Huang Yixi replied that if there is really an afterlife, a person who has no memory of this life at all, is another person, and it has nothing to do with her.

Shang Luoyu found that Huang Yixi was different from people nowadays, and she cultivated to uphold her true heart, that is, humanitarianism.

Even if she is a lawyer, she respects the law, but does not worship the law and does not sanctify it.

So even if she was holding incense at the moment and didn't say a word, it didn't seem to be in harmony, but very down-to-earth.

Shang Luoyu can imagine that if a few elders leave one day, Huang Yixi will also have these rituals.

Because she will have him and her juniors by her side at that time.

This is what life looks like, seeking common ground while reserving differences.

Seeing that Shang Luoyu was interested, Yu Meiqing handed over the task of burning gold paper to her two daughters-in-law, and pulled Shang Luoyu to popularize the Pudu culture in Chongrenli.

A complete Pudu should look like this, the flag is erected on the same day of the previous month, Pudu is in July, Pudu is heavy in August, and the street lights are turned off. Pudu and Chongpu are very solemn, and to feast guests, the family needs to prepare a five-flavor meal and a paper lantern with the words "Respectfully Jizo King, pray for peace" or "Joy and respect Yin Gong, pray for peace".

In the afternoon, the street lamp is also lit at the door, also called "street lamp", so that the ghosts who swim into the world carry lanterns everywhere to watch Pudu opera and enjoy eating Pudu offerings. Until the afternoon from the first day of the eighth month to the fifth day of the first month after the King of Yama received the customs, the five-flavor meal was used to sacrifice the street lamp in the original place, and the street lamp was cremated, which is called "Xie Street Lamp".

Seeing his grandmother talking about what he was good at, Shang Luoyu asked funny: "The flag should be to inform those good brothers that they have something to eat today next month, if you are far away, you should come back early, and the street lights are not to tell them that it is over, and send them away?"

Yu Meiqing knows a lot about these folk cultures but doesn't know why, and when she heard it, she felt that it made sense, and slapped her thigh: "No wonder you say that you want to study, or my grandson, who is studying for a doctorate, is educated." ”

Other uneducated people "......."

Huang Yixi deliberately showed a look of jealousy: "Grandma, this is not the truth, the doctor didn't teach this." ”

Yu Meiqing looked like a fool: "Do you think that people are crazy like you, and they will only die reading......."

Well, you have a point in saying anything when you're old.

Shang Luoyu cheered seriously: "Look at how good our grandmothers are, they are so loving when they don't know, so that they don't ask where they come from when they are born, and they have sacrifices when they die." No wonder it is said that if you want to live, you will live in Suzhou and Hangzhou, and if you want to die, you will die in Minyue Baishui Prefecture. ”

This kind of world is said to be superstitious, but it has a human and ghostly taste, no wonder it will be passed down forever.

"They are not kind to the people in the city, just a Pudu is simple, bluffing people and bluffing ghosts, let me tell you, you go back with us on the fifteenth, and after eating Pudu on the seventeenth, you will know how real the people in our Chongren are. ”

An old man and a young couple started from burning gold paper to eating on the table, the two of them chatted happily, but someone next to them was uncomfortable, Lu Hui looked at Shang Luoyu with a dog's face, and coughed dissatisfiedly: "I don't look at what old yellow calendar it is, it's a waste of money, everyone has changed customs." ”