Liangshan.

Located at the junction of Sichuan and Yunnan, it is the largest gathering area of the Yi nationality, and the capital of Liangshan is also an important town on the ancient Silk Road, but this time, Qin Yu and his party directly abandoned the capital and went towards the direction of the Liangshan mountains.

The car winds all the way, around several county seats, and finally, it stops at the foot of a mountain.

"After all these years, nothing has changed here. Xiao Yueyue got out of the car, glanced around, and said.

"What, you've been here before?" Qin Yu asked when he heard this.

"Of course, I stayed here when I was a child......" Xiao Yueyue stopped abruptly in the middle of her words, and said with a smile: "I'm a native of Sichuan, and I played with adults here when I was a child." ”

Looking at Xiao Yueyue's bone-spinning eyes, Qin Yu knew that the other party was not telling the truth, but it had nothing to do with him, and he just asked casually before.

"Mr. Qin, it's getting late today, and the tour guide asked us to stay in this village and town for the night, and then go up the mountain early tomorrow morning. Cao Xuan walked over and said to Qin Yu.

Qin Yu looked up at the sky, it was already dusk, because it had been delayed for a lot of time to find the safe, if it was on the mountain now, the time would indeed be insufficient.

"The tour guide is familiar with the people in this village, and can find us a place to live. ”

Hearing Cao Xuan's words, Qin Yu nodded, and at that moment, several people followed the guide towards the village.

The tour guide to find a few Yi people, the reception of Qin Yu and his party is very enthusiastic, and even killed pigs and chickens to feast, you know, in the Yi nationality, where there are guests coming, they will slaughter poultry to entertain, however, according to the preciousness of the guests, cattle, sheep, pigs and chickens, can be willing to kill pigs to entertain. For guests who are not related, it is already considered a high treatment.

Qin Yu and Xiao Yueyue, the two were arranged to spend the night in a Yi family's house, and Qin Haoran was Cao Xuan together. In another Yi family, there is no program at the foot of the mountain, although there is a TV, but looking at the several children of the owner's family staring in front of the TV, Qin Yu is also embarrassed to grab the remote control with the children.

Simply. After eating, I plan to walk around the village.

"Qin Yu, where are you going?"

"I'm going out for a walk. ”

"I'll go with you. ”

Xiao Yueyue also walked out, came to Qin Yu's side, and said with a grin: "The Yi clan has many rules, I'm afraid that you won't understand it when the time comes, and you will violate other people's rules." ”

Qin Yu glanced at Xiao Yueyue, ethnic minorities do have many taboos, and many times if they don't understand, they will violate other people's rules. Qin Yu remembered a joke he saw on the Internet before, about a joke about Mongolian drinking:

"Dude, we have a rule for drinking in Inner Mongolia. I'll introduce a few friends at today's table, and then let's have a drink. You can name them after drinking, that is, you recognize us friends, and we will have a drink ourselves. If you can't name it, it's just that the friendship hasn't arrived yet, so you have a drink by yourself. Start with the Garacang Baladan Zamu Suridan next to you, and then go down to Uljid Le Grezhtu Tu Tunba......

Although this paragraph is a bit funny, it is in some areas of Inner Mongolia. There is indeed such a rule, but the real name is not that long, usually five or six words at most. Mongolian men drink alcohol and play with their lives. If you don't drink, you don't give face, in Inner Mongolia, there is a proverb: the grassland eagle spreads its wings and flies, and a pair of wings hangs two cups.

This is the national culture and customs, some ethnic minorities, including the Yi people. They all like to use wine to entertain guests, and there is a saying among the people, called: Han people expensive tea, Yi people expensive wine.

Walking around with Xiao Yueyue in this village, Qin Yu felt that the influence of sinicization in this village was still quite great, and many Yi people walking around the village were dressed like Han people.

In fact, except for a few branches of the Yi nationality, they still retain their traditional culture, and some of the Yi people who are closer to the city are the earlier they are sinicized, and even now some Yi children are not much different from Han children. Xiao Yueyue seemed to see what Qin Yu was thinking, and spoke.

"That's a good thing, but it's also a bad thing. ”

Ethnic integration is the pace of progress in this era, this is the general trend, no one can change it, but the traditional customs and characteristics of these various ethnic groups are undoubtedly the first to bear the brunt, maybe dozens of hundreds of years later, these ethnic minorities belong to their own culture, and will disappear, the same as the Han people.

"However, there are still a few branches of the Yi nationality that still retain the pure national culture, and the status of these branches in the entire Yi nationality is very noble, a bit similar to the royal family of our Han nationality. ”

Xiao Yueyue showed a look of memory on her face, at the beginning, she lived in this traditional Yi nationality for nearly five years, it can be said that her entire childhood was spent there, but it is precisely because of this that the clan will arrange such a family trip for her, and also said that the two were childhood sweethearts, but she just regarded him as an elder brother, and she didn't have that idea at all.

The two continued to walk, and suddenly, they found a clearing in front of them full of people, with several torches in the middle, and even faintly accompanied by a few cries.

"What's wrong?" Qin Yu's eyes froze, and he walked over there.

"Someone must have died. This dead man is so unlucky, don't look at it. Xiao Yueyue stopped in front of Qin Yu, wanting to stop Qin Yu from coming forward to watch.

"It's more than that. Qin Yu could see that those people were performing some kind of ritual, and at that moment, he bypassed Xiao Yueyue and walked towards the crowd.

"Why is it so unlucky, but at this time, I hope it is not Bi Mo from the Ake clan, otherwise if it is recognized, it will be troublesome. Xiao Yueyue muttered a few words in a low voice, but finally kept up with Qin Yu's footsteps.

Coming to the crowd, Qin Yu pushed away the crowd, walked to the front, and looked at a clay pot more than six feet long in the open space in front of him, and when there was a corpse with a sallow face lying on a wooden board on the ground, the whole person was also stunned.

This is a kind of burial method of the Yi people, called clay pot burial, which is also "direct burial" and "cupola burial", seeing that the clay pot is not, the body of the deceased will be put vertically into this clay pot after a while, and then buried in the soil, because these people believe that people are standing and walking, and they must also stand and die, with the blue sky on their heads and the earth under their feet, so alive and so dead. ”

Xiao Yueyue's expression was a little complicated, this kind of burial method is not used by all Yi people, and the reason why Xiao Yueyue knew it was because she had seen such a scene, which was a unique burial method of the Ake clan.

The person standing in front of him was constantly reciting the syllables unique to the Yi nationality, Xiao Yueyue was already sure that it was definitely Bimo from the Ake clan, because, except for Bimo from the Ake clan, Bimo from other Yi branches would not be "directly buried".

I forgot to say that Bi Mo is transliterated by the Yi people, and it means in Chinese, which means sacrifice.

Xiao Yueyue's expression was complicated, but Qin Yu was staring intently, he had heard of this clay pot burial method, but it was the first time he had seen it with his own eyes.

I saw that after the priest finished reciting the incantation, he picked up a few black objects and threw them into the clay pot, and then took out a few more talismans, when he saw these talismans, Qin Yu's eyes narrowed slightly, because the runes on these talismans were obviously different from those in the Central Plains.

After half an hour of preparation, the sacrifice walked to the deceased on the ground, put the two fingers of his right hand together, pointed at the deceased on the ground and drew a rune, and then, with a low shout, the corpse of the deceased on the ground began to float automatically, and finally, slowly floated in the air at a height of two meters.

"Go. The priest waved his two fingers towards the clay pot not far away, and at that moment, the corpse took the initiative to float to the top of the clay pot, erected itself, and then slowly fell.

As soon as the body fell into the clay pot, the priest walked to the clay pot, snapped the lid on his hand, and then took out a few pieces of yellow paper similar to seals, which were engraved with various rune lines, and pasted them on the lid of the clay pot, sealing the lid of the clay pot and the clay pot together.

Qin Yu saw all these actions clearly, the so-called layman looked at the excitement, and the insider looked at the doorway, even if he didn't know about this clay pot burial method, but Qin Yu also deduced the meaning of each step of this clay pot burial from most of the actions of this sacrifice.

At the beginning, the black objects placed in the clay pot should be the same as the five grains and rice and copper coins in the coffin, and the later talismans are similar to the opening talismans of the burial, worshipping the gods of the four mountains, and after putting the corpse into the clay pot, the seals are to prevent the corpse from mutating and exposing the corpse.

The form is different, but the end goal is the same.

Knowing this, Qin Yu didn't have much interest in this clay pot burial, and besides, it was indeed not a good thing for the dead to be buried, so he was ready to leave immediately, but just when Qin Yu was about to leave, the sacrificial expression became panicked, and he kept chanting incantations in his mouth, and his hands were facing the clay pot.

Even, in the end, he knelt down directly towards the clay pot, muttering some ancient syllables of the Yi nationality in his mouth, and those onlookers, seeing this scene, all knelt down, and recited some words that Qin Yu and Xiao Yueyue couldn't understand.

As soon as everyone knelt, Qin Yu and Xiao Yueyue were standing very conspicuously, and the priest saw that Qin Yu and Xiao Yueyue were still standing, and roared a few words, but Qin Yu didn't understand.

He told us to kneel down and said that the soul of the dead in the clay pot was disturbed. Xiao Yueyue translated on the side.

"Are you disturbed?" Qin Yu squinted his eyes at the clay pot, and after half a sound, he walked towards the clay pot, and when the priest saw this scene, he muttered a lot of words in his mouth, wanting to rush over to stop Qin Yu, but he didn't dare to stand up. (To be continued.) )